The Whole Space Aliens thing is Crap
How Science, Technology, and Culture Created the UFO Mythos
Late 19th Century: The Observation That Started It All (1877–1897)
The story of modern UFOs and alien belief begins not with extraterrestrials, but with human perception and misinterpretation. In 1877, during a particularly favorable opposition of Mars, Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli carefully mapped the planet’s surface.
Through his telescope in Milan, he observed a network of faint linear markings across the reddish disk. He labeled these features canali.
In Italian, canali simply means “channels” or “grooves.” However, when the term entered English publications, it was widely translated as “canals,” implying artificial construction.
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