Episode 88 – So…How Was Your Trip? UFOs and Making Small Talk with Space Aliens

The Two Humans put on their space helmets and probe humankind’s one-hundred-year-old obsession with space aliens.  Episode 88 – So…How Was Your Trip? UFOs and Making Small Talk with Space Aliens An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human. Website: http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 IG: @introtoanthrowith2humans Patreon: https://patreon.com/AnIntrotoAnthrowithTwoHumans Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@introtoanthrowith2humans Merch: www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=13619501 Resources: Albright, Thomas D. 2023 On Eyewitness Reports of Extraterrestrial Life. The Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony (ed. V. J. Ballester-Olmos and Richard W. Heiden). Cooperativa Iniziative e Studi UPIAR, Turin, Italy, pp. 241-256. Al-Khalili, Jim 2016 Introduction: Where Is Everybody? Aliens: The World’s Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (ed. Jim Al-Khalili). Picador, New York, NY, pp. 1-10.  Bader, Christopher D.  2003 Supernatural Support Groups: Who Are the UFO Abductees and Ritual-Abuse Survivors? Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Dec., 2003, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Dec., 2003), pp. 669-67. Becket, Stefan 2023 What are UAPs, and why do UFOs have a new name?. CBS News, September 14, 2023, www.cbsnews.com/news/what-are-uaps-unexplained-aerial-phenomenon-ufos-new-name/. Bialik, Carl and Taylor Orth 2025 Half of Americans believe aliens have visited Earth. YouGov (website), November 25, 2025, yougov.com/en-us/articles/53486-half-of-americans-believe-aliens-have-visited-earth. Bullard, Thomas E. 1989 UFO Abduction Reports: The Supernatural Kidnap Narrative Returns in Technological Guise. The Journal of American Folklore , Apr. - Jun., 1989, Vol. 102, No. 404 (Apr. - Jun., 1989), pp. 147-170. Bynum, Joyce 1993 Kidnapped by an Alien: Tales of UFO Abductions. ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Spring 1993, Vol. 50, No. 1 (Spring 1993), pp. 86-95. Campbell, Dallas 2016 Flying Saucers: A Brief History of Sightings and Conspiracies. Aliens: The World’s Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (ed. Jim Al-Khalili). Picador, New York, NY, pp. 35-46. Cleveland Clinic 2023 Highway Hypnosis Is Just Around the Bend. The Cleveland Clinic (website), June 9, 2023, health.clevelandclinic.org/highway-hypnosis.  Consolmagno, Guy and Paul Mueller 2014 Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?...And Other Questions from the Astronomers’ In-Box at the Vatican Observatory. Image, New York, NY.  Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Istvan 2007 Some Things We Know about Aliens. The Yearbook of English Studies, 2007, Vol. 37, No. 2, Science Fiction (2007), pp. 1-23. Dartnell, Lewis 2016 (Un)welcome Visitors: Why Aliens Might Visit Us. Aliens: The World’s Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (ed. Jim Al-Khalili). Picador, New York, NY, pp. 25-34. Dean, Jodi 1998 Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY.  De Pinto, Jennifer, Anthony Salvanto, and Fred Backus 2026 CBS News poll finds most Americans believe extraterrestrial life exists – and some think it's already here. CBS News, June 11, 2026, www.cbsnews.com/news/americans-believe-extraterrestrial-life-exists-opinion-poll/. Dewan, William J.  2006 "A Saucerful of Secrets": An Interdisciplinary Analysis of UFO Experiences. The Journal of American Folklore, Spring, 2006, Vol. 119, No. 472 (Spring, 2006), pp. 184-202. Dick, Steven J. 1998 Life on Other Worlds: The 20th-Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.  French, Christopher C. 2016 Abducted: The Psychology of Close Encounters with Extraterrestrials. Aliens: The World’s Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (ed. Jim Al-Khalili). Picador, New York, NY, pp. 58-69. 2023 Hypnotic Regression and False Memories. The Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony (ed. V. J. Ballester-Olmos and Richard W. Heiden). Cooperativa Iniziative e Studi UPIAR, Turin, Italy, pp. 283-294. Gregersen, Erik 2026 Fermi Paradox. Britannica, July 22, 2026, www.britannica.com/ science/Fermi-paradox. Gutierrez, Lisa 2026 Fictionalized Kansas City at heart of Spielberg’s new