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Originally Posted by JayUtah
Perfect example at the time at the height of UFOlogy was the War of the Worlds broadcast.
The height of ufology was much later than this broadcast....
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October 30, 1938 to be exact. According to qualitative studies UFO interest peaked from the middle 1960s to the late 1970s, just about the same time that the first wave of New Age "thinking" occurred.
I'm pretty sure that at the time of
"The Panic Broadcast" the term UFO hadn't been coined yet (American Word Origins has it listed as from 1953), and "UFOlogy" was just a gleam in some proto-CTer's conspiratorial eye.
BTW, I've got a recording of the entire CBS broadcast. It's a fun listen. "Isn't there anyone on the air? Isn't there ... anyone?"