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- noun derogatory someone who attempts to
explain away UFO reports by ascribing to it any explanation, howeverillogical
Etymologies
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Pelican + -ist. Coined by Jerome Clark in reference to claims that Kenneth Arnold’s 1947 UFO sighting was pelicans.
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