ALIEN MEDIA INFLUENCES
The interaction and influence of the media on how UFOs are reported and experienced is a cornerstone of the psychosocial hypothesis (PSH; see FT400:52-53) to explaining the belief in extraterrestrial UFO invaders.
Martin Kottmeyer, in the pages of , made a strong case for such factors, especially in his 1990 article “Entirely Unpredisposed: The Cultural Background of UFO Reports”. Kottmeyer disputed the claim by UFO historian David Jacobs that science fiction and popular culture in general did not feature anything like the UFOs of the early flying saucer era, and showed that the Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon comic strips depicted were very similar to those reported by his abductees.
