It is part of common US folklore that UFOs have landed at Roswell, NM, aliens were found, and that they are being stored in Area 51. Whether you believe any of this or not, it’s as much a part of the American backstory as anything we learn in school. Carl Jung proposed that people’s subconscious leads them to see spaceships because they want something to come down from the skies and save them in troubled times. I subscribe to the insight and hopefulness of this theory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_incident
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/us/politics/ufo-sightings-navy-pilots.html
