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...Year of the Dragon: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15. Copley Place: Copley Plaza, Boston, 266-1300. Wetherby: 10:30, 12:40, 3, 5:15, 7:45, 10:00; Bad Boy: 10:15, 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:30, 10:10; UFOria: 10:15, 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:30, 10; Goodbye New York: 10, 12:15, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 9:30; Prizzi's Honor: 10, 12:15, 2:30, 5, 7:30, 10; Emerald Forest: 7:30, 10; Cocoon: 10, 12:15, 2:30, 5, 7:45, 10:10; Gods Must Be Crazy...
...Mass UFOria. Bookstore browsers can testify that the FS imagination has been working overtime. Currently the best-read fiction science (more than 30 million paperback copies sold) is Erich von Däniken's Chariots of the Gods? and its sequels. Von Däniken, a former Swiss hotelman and convicted embezzler with no formal scientific training, professes the notion that the species Homo sapiens was created when astronauts from outer space descended to earth about 10,000 years ago and copulated with apes. It was a kind of one-night stand. According to the author, the satiated aliens...
...Mystery argues with some sophistication the likelihood that superior beings from Sirius visited earth between 7,000 and 10,000 years ago. Both books are squarely in a modern fiction-science mode that had its recent renaissance during the early '50s when the country was overtaken by mass UFOria...
...coronas but ball lightning, St. Elmo's fire and "Foo Fighters," the same luminous globs that tailed World War II military aircraft. Klass seems resigned to the fact that it will take more than his well-documented evidence to shake dedicated saucer believers out of their state of UFOria...
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