UFO belief is a modern outlet for ancient spiritual yearnings:
By the time the first crewed mission to the Moon landed in 1969, a person who had been born when neither airplanes nor television existed could be sitting in his living room, watching Neil Armstrong leave his footprint on another world.
I have always been fascinated by these cults. I don’t fault anyone for having a difficult time processing the rate of change that has been asked of us in the 20th and 21st centuries.