Word: sighter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...those unfamiliar with the jargon), but these people either do not believe what they saw, or are smiled at when they try to make others believe them. Director Steven Spielberg effectively makes the point early in the film that no one could possibly know whether a self-proclaimed UFO sighter was crying wolf or actually saw the real thing. This maneuver is designed to spur on your imagination and prepare you to accept the fantastical scenes coming...
...psychiatrists initially suspected, Grinspoon said, that a significant fraction of the sightings were related to the sighter's "primary process thinking," a kind of thought process more prominently exhibited in persons with certain kinds of mental disturbances...
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