Our contradictory reactions to the act speak to the conflicted hold it has on our imaginations: revulsion mixed with fascination, scorn leavened with pity.
For most viewers, the terror, genuine though it might be, was mixed with fascination.
My quest for the truth mixed with fascination with the people who live and breathe for this kind of weirdness led me two hours up the Hudson to the Pine Bush UFO Festival for a celebration of all things alien.
As everybody in there checked me out two young waitresses ran over, they always come in twos or threes, and breathlessly waited for me to say something, a look bordering on terror mixed with fascination in their eyes.
Yet there is a kind of pleasure and fascination, mixed with exasperation, in seeing how the game has been mangled and bent into the shape of the conventional animation narrative, with zappy little dialogue moments, funny characters and some sophisticated touches for the grownups (including a nod to The Shining, of all things).
This fascination, mixed with scientific curiosity and hard work, led to her current position at the head of an independent research team in her home country after nearly a decade of training abroad.
Then suddenly the whole of the French media turned up.' The interest was in part the result of a very French fascination, often mixed with fear and miscomprehension, with their own countryside.
The black-and-white photos depict the sordid underbelly of LA nightlife, mixed with Sothern's genuine fascination, concern and, yes, sometimes arousal.
This sense of revulsion is present in many fantasy films, but often mixed with, and balanced by, a fascination, reverence and awe for women's creativity.
When we look at them, fascination and repulsion uneasily mixed, we bow our heads to their contribution to knowledge, but it is hard to locate their humanity.
