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How wealthy UFO fans helped fuel fringe beliefs

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Robert Bigelow has bankrolled a stream of pseudoscience on modern-day UFO lore since the early 1990s .

David Frum : It’s a good bet that if you name a UFO rabbit hole, the 79-year-old tycoon has flushed his riches down it.

He says the media and Congress are now solemnly discussing a supposed massive UFO cover-up by the U.S. government.

Frum says the legacy of plutocrat-backed fringe science comes as political partisanship and corporate propaganda continues to sow distrust in science.

Robert Bigelow received $22 million from 2008 to 2011 to investigate UFOs, werewolves and poltergeists on a Utah ranch.

Some of the people he contracted to write them, such as astrophysicist Eric Davis , have acknowledged speaking with Congress .

To say UFO enthusiasm has swept Washington D.C ..

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