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    True alienation: when a person of color tries to fit in with UFO enthusiasts

    My dad has one passion: extraterrestrials. He joined a group of alien chasers, but being a black Dominican among mostly white believers was challenging
    by Olga Segura Mar 06, 2020 5 minutes
    ‘What if he my dad arrived in America sooner and had the resources my sister and I enjoyed? Would he have been an astronomer? Written sci-fi? Worked for Nasa?’ Illustration: Jackson Gibbs/The Guardian

    The first time my dad ever heard someone talk about aliens and objetos volador no identificados, or UFOs, was when he was 13. One day in high school, an older student described a sighting to my dad. “The first thing I thought was, ‘This man looked like an alien to me!’ He was so out of the ordinary: blonde hair, white skin, blue eyes, in a sea of black bodies like mine,” my dad recalls being told.

    The talk with the older student validated a curiosity first sparked by a walk to school about five years prior. On an empty road in Cristo Rey, a lower-middle class, industrial neighborhood in Santo Domingo, a ball of light the size of a car tire appeared about 80 to 100 feet above him. It pulsated, moved steadily, horizontally, away from him, then vanished.

    “I was paralyzed for

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