{"id":21269,"date":"2026-03-17T08:51:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T12:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=21269"},"modified":"2026-03-12T11:53:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T15:53:30","slug":"elizabethtown-college-welcoming-author-ufo-researcher-dr-greg-eghigian-on-march-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2026\/03\/17\/elizabethtown-college-welcoming-author-ufo-researcher-dr-greg-eghigian-on-march-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Welcoming Author, UFO Researcher Dr. Greg Eghigian on March 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elizabethtown College is hosting author and UFO researcher Dr. Greg Eghigian on Friday, March 27, at 4 p.m. in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/map.concept3d.com\/?id=1180#!ce\/30188?ct\/76816,30188,30189,30190,30191?s\/?mc\/40.15142761342429,-76.59205946833947?z\/17.7316629044947?lvl\/0?share\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gibble Auditorium, Masters Center.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The event is free and open to the public. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/etown.us1.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=e967f70f5bef6b4602bfbe503&amp;id=37ccfde6c4&amp;e=5e015c5b55\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Registration is required.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sponsored by the Society for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Studies, \u201cThe History of UFOs, UAP Alien Encounters, and Abductions with Dr. Greg Eghigian\u201d will feature a thought-provoking conversation about the modern history of supernatural and paranormal phenomena.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eghigian will also discuss his latest book, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/global.oup.com\/academic\/product\/after-the-flying-saucers-came-9780190869878?cc=us&amp;lang=en&amp;#\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">,\u201d which explores UFO reports and claims of extraterrestrial contact throughout the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Professor of History and Bioethics at Penn State University, Eghigian researches how societies use science and medicine to define and respond to behaviors deemed problematic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">More recently, his work has focused on the modern history of supernatural and paranormal phenomena. He is currently working on two book projects that further explore these topics.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elizabethtown College is hosting author and UFO researcher Dr. Greg Eghigian on Friday, March 27, at 4 p.m. in Gibble Auditorium, Masters Center. The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required.\u00a0 Sponsored by the Society for Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) Studies, \u201cThe History of UFOs, UAP Alien Encounters, and Abductions with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":21270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1338,775],"tags":[1720,1350,2631,2630],"class_list":["post-21269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics-and-research","category-campus","tag-elizabehttown-college","tag-etown","tag-uap","tag-ufo-research","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21271,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21269\/revisions\/21271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}