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So the drone scare is the work of aliens stems from a decline in traditional religion like Christianity.

As Bader, a sociology professor, sees it, one of the main reasons behind the general American embrace of the strange and paranormal is the long-running and steady decline of religious institutions. Churches, he said, can often serve as a kind of dampener on paranormal beliefs: Part of the role of a denomination is to lay out a particular creed. That creed may be supernatural—God, after all, is beyond the realm of scientific proof—but institutional religious doctrine does not usually include any mentions of space aliens.

Now that fewer and fewer people attend religious services, “it’s common in surveys to find someone who says, ‘I believe Jesus is the one and only son of God, and also my house is haunted, and there might be a Bigfoot,’ ” Bader said. “People didn’t use to believe all those things. Churches would say, ‘Here is the correct package of supernatural beliefs you’re allowed to hold.’ ”

In recent years, faith has become more personal, idiosyncratic, and unpredictable. “UFOs and ghosts and psychic powers—as organized religion plummets, those are growing rapidly,” Bader said. “Once you no longer have your church telling you, ‘Here’s what you’re supposed to believe about the world,’ it frees you to explore other things.”

These changes in the American faith landscape help explain the public’s growing belief in the extraterrestrial—and presumably, the belief that the East Coast drones are exactly that.

https://slate.com/life/2024/12/drones-ne...trial.html

But the problem is that these kinds of hysterias existed in the past when Christianity was strong. Like in medieval times when people saw women flying on brooms, or the 19th century phantom airship hysteria when thousands of people across the United States claimed to have observed mysterious airships.