The invention of the flying saucers : Cold War, press and science in Brazil (1947-1958) / A invenção dos discos voadores : Guerra Fria, imprensa e ciencia no Brasil (1947-1958)

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2009

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This work analyses the history of the ideas related to the flying saucers, an expression used during the 1940s and 1950s to mean aerial unidentified phenomena and objects. Alongside the text, we follow the changes suffered by this concept and its crystallization into a complex symbolic system related to the extraterrestrial visitors idea. We also observe the specificities of this historical process in Brazil between 1947 and 1958 years. The main sources analyzed in this research were produced by the press. By reading texts from these sources, we could examine the behavior of the press, of the Brazilian scientific community and other actors from Brazilian society in the public debate related to this subject. In this manner, we reconstituted part of the struggles and tensions regarding the meanings attributed to the flying saucers at that time.

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guerra fria ciencia flying saucers in the press discos voadores - cobertura da imprensa - brasil cold war science

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