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Why are we obsessed with aliens? We'll find out on this edition of the paranormal podcast.

Music out on this edition of the Paranormal Podcast. Welcome to the Paranormal Podcast.

I'm Jim Harold.

So glad to be with you once again. I think we're

going to have a very interesting show. You know, UAP, UFO, it's on everybody's lips these days,

but it's been on everybody's lips for kind of like forever. We've been obsessed with aliens for

eons. And we're going to find out why our guest today is Becky Ferreira.

You see her there. And she has a new book out. It is called First Contact, the story of our

obsession with aliens. And we're so glad to have her with us today. Becky is a science writer

whose work has appeared in the New York Times,

motherboard vice, wired, and National Geographic, among others. She writes the abstract column for 404

media and lives with humans and felines in Ithaca, New York. Ithaca is a great place. Ithaca is gorgeous, I understand, and I've been there. I've been there before. So, yeah, great place, great place. Good to talk with you. Thank you for joining us on the show today. Jim, I'm so happy to be here. Thank you for having me.

Now, some people might not consider the UFO, UAP alien question as serious science writing.

They might kind of poo-poo it and those kind of things.

But you're a credentialed science writer.

Why did you decide to take this on?

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