E222 How the CIA Tried to Quell a UFO Panic During the Cold War

Published: Jan. 20, 2020, 9:13 p.m.

In the 1950s, when Cold War anxiety in America ranged from Soviet psychological warfare to nuclear annihilation, LIFE Magazine published a story titled \u201cHave We Visitors From Space?\u201d that offered \u201cscientific evidence that there is a real case for interplanetary saucers.\u201d A few months later ...