Belief in flying saucers grew in an age when fear of communism and nuclear war combined with optimism about the coming Space Age. My other YouTube channels: The Science Fiction Rock Experience ( the music show I produce): null Discover Maths (with Juan Medina): null Science World (with Emrah Polat): null My website: https://www.daviddarling.info/ My other videos on the history of science: Planck and the birth of quantum mechanics, 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAYy7EGKDFA Brief history of light part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU5KRevpGH0 Brief history of light part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biT7cptECdI Brief history of light part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAMcUKeNQLI Through the sound barrier with the X-1, part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vTAefEj4Kc Through the sound barrier with the X-1, part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VqJBXq90qE The strange history of the moons of Mars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq-v1AdPN5k The harmony of the spheres https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtiTSJQLEkQ Vulcan: the planet that never was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=088rxrmXBfQ War of the Worlds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9tvJRqEFCY The experiment that changed the world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyocnRvCKik Ernest Rutherford and the birth of nuclear physics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-vGMncXJw4 Percival Lowell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvmoKv1BOAw The canals of Mars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChJKQMiNC2c Pythagoras https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1N3N4cgHaM Music: www.bensound and www.purple-planet.com