Joseph Uscinski is a political scientist at the University of Miami and co-author of American Conspiracy Theories. Quoted in the May 2026 Christian Science Monitor PURSUE coverage, Uscinski argues that UFO belief has persisted for decades and that unidentified sightings do not justify an alien conclusion: “If you see something that you don’t know what it is, you don’t get to say it’s aliens.”
See src-csmonitor-ufo-transparency-debate-2026-05.