Is this just another UFO media wave, like the one in the late ’70s and ’80s?

I’ve been wondering whether what we’re seeing today is actually unprecedented, or if we’re simply living through another UFO media cycle. Back in the late ’70s and throughout the ’80s, UFOs and extraterrestrials became deeply embedded in popular culture. Movies like Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., Flight of the Navigator, and many others kept the subject constantly in the public eye. There were documentaries, TV specials, books, magazine covers—there was a real sense that “disclosur...