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I might as well admit up straight away that I love a good UFO. Having grown up with the likes of Brad Steiger, Arthur Shuttlewood (and, indeed, Ed Straker), I’ve got a soft spot for flying saucers: from those animated by Ray Harryhausen in the 1955 film epic Earth vs the Flying Saucers to the more putatively authentic specimens that have allegedly offered psycho­therapy and free rides around the cosmos to willing recipients like George Adamski and Howard Menger.

But even those UFO reports that contain more gravitas find themselves consigned to being moot points somewhere between science, psychology, and the shadowy world of variant paradigms.