{"id":108,"date":"2025-03-09T13:29:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T13:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/interest-followed-by-disinterest-in-this-topic-spans-decades-and-is-nothing-new\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T13:29:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T13:29:14","slug":"interest-followed-by-disinterest-in-this-topic-spans-decades-and-is-nothing-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/interest-followed-by-disinterest-in-this-topic-spans-decades-and-is-nothing-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Interest Followed by Disinterest in this Topic Spans Decades and is Nothing New"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Cycle of Interest and Disinterest in UFOs: A Timeless Pattern<\/h3>\n<p>Many individuals, who may not have delved deeply into the history of UFO phenomena, believe we are on the brink of a significant &#8220;Disclosure&#8221; moment, largely due to recent Congressional hearings. However, I would argue that this pattern is neither novel nor unique.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>1960s:<\/strong> Congressional hearings on UFOs captured attention.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>1960s:<\/strong> Public focus shifted to assassinations, the Vietnam War, and protests.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>1970s:<\/strong> The Watergate scandal dominated public concern.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>1980s:<\/strong> Major events like the Chernobyl disaster and Space Shuttle tragedies were more pressing.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>1990s:<\/strong> The dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Gulf War took precedence in public discourse.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>2000s:<\/strong> The Disclosure Project emerged, yet the focus soon shifted to 9\/11 and subsequent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq, along with a recession.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>2010s:<\/strong> The New York Times&#8217; coverage of UAPs sparked renewed interest.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>2020s:<\/strong> Recent UAP Congressional hearings are in the spotlight, but the pandemic, political strife, and increasing authoritarianism have captured most people&#8217;s concerns.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In summary, this recurring cycle of fleeting interest in UFOs is nothing new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nThe Cycle of Interest and Disinterest in UFOs: A Timeless Pattern Many individuals, who may not have delved deeply into the history of UFO phenomena, believe we are on the brink of a significant &#8220;Disclosure&#8221; moment, largely due to recent Congressional hearings. However, I would argue that this pattern is neither novel nor unique. 1960s:&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/09\/interest-followed-by-disinterest-in-this-topic-spans-decades-and-is-nothing-new\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Interest Followed by Disinterest in this Topic Spans Decades and is Nothing New&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ufos","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thataintnoplane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}