# Science fiction, Project Blue Book, and the beginnings of the UFO craze

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Science fiction, Project Blue Book, and the beginnings of the UFO craze

> **[Science fiction, Project Blue Book, and the beginnings of the UFO craze](https://bigthink.com/books/ufo-craze/)**
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> Gabriel McKee explains how the combination of fantastical stories and obscure bureaucracy launched the “space age of the imagination.”