Free Astronomy Magazine November-December 2021

4 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2021 ASTRO PUBLISHING THE REALISM OF THE “UFO” TV SERIES half a century later by Michele Ferrara revised by Damian G. Allis NASA Solar System Ambassador F ifty years ago, a TV series of a genre halfway between soft science fiction and space opera reached the pinnacle of its popular- ity. The title of that TV series was simply “UFO”, a somewhat limiting choice if we consider the topics cov- ered by the writers. The reason why that title was chosen, however, is understandable: after the Second World War, spotting unidentified flying objects had become a real mass sport in the so-called Western world, and in the late 1960s, using