Hank Stuever Quotes

I think the occasional appearance of the UFO is a very oblique pop-cultural reference that anyone who was alive and sentient in the late 1970s will get right away.

Hank Stuever

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• The fact that some religious fanatics might support a theory doesn't invalidate it, anymore than the concurrence of UFO abduction cults invalidates the notion of extra-terrestrial life.

  

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• I just wanna see a UFO, really

  

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• Well, I'm a painter, I was trained as a painter…I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done…But it didn't transcend the feeling of playing at UFO and those sort of places with the lights and that, the fact that the group was getting bigger and bigger.

  

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• This was no ordinary UFO. Scores of people saw it. It was no illusion, no deception, no imagination.

  

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• I think the occasional appearance of the UFO is a very oblique pop-cultural reference that anyone who was alive and sentient in the late 1970s will get right away.

  

  Hank Stuever
  • Ufo
  • Pop-cultural reference