# Has the UFO/alien mythos changed since the 1970s?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 27, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-ufo-alien-mythos-changed-since-the-1970s/710969 "2015-01-27T01:38:49Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 30, 2015, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-the-ufo-alien-mythos-changed-since-the-1970s/710969/21 "2015-01-30T03:38:26Z")

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A great exchange on **The Bob Newhart Show** :

Patient: "and this time, the aliens let me take my camera onto their spaceship’’

Dr. Hartley: _looking at photo_ ''and this long cigar-shaped object with the red glow at the end, is that their spaceship?"

Patient: ‘‘No, that’s what they were smoking.’’

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