The subject was treated quite seriously and open by everyone until Roswell in July of 1947. After that, while the subject was treated seriously by some journalists, it was hushed up by the Army Air Force. It seems after the Summer of the Saucer in 1952 that UFOs were treated as jokes by the main stream media. For the five years and some time before the silence of the government, the subject was treated maturely by the mainstream media. After that, it did seem that the subject moved on to the usual rags (National Enquirer and Midnight Globe).