They Are Already Here

UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers

Unabridged

Published March 1, 2021 by HighBridge Audio (2020).

ISBN:
978-1-68457-859-7
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An anthropological look at the UFO community, told through first-person experiences with researchers in their element as they pursue what they see as a solvable mystery--both terrestrial and cosmic. More than half a century since Roswell, UFOs have been making headlines once again. On December 17, 2017, the New York Times ran a front-page story about an approximately five-year Pentagon program called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. The article hinted, and its sources clearly said in subsequent television interviews, that some of the ships in question couldn't be linked to any country. The implication, of course, was that they might be linked to other solar systems. The UFO community--those who had been thinking about, seeing, and analyzing supposed flying saucers (or triangles or chevrons) for years--was surprisingly skeptical of the revelation. Their incredulity and doubt rippled across the internet. Many of the people most invested in UFO reality weren't …

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EX-Mormon Take on UFOology?

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received this audiobook as Part of LibraryThing's Early review program.

I spent most of the book trying to figure out what the the author's deal was. Now that I've completed it, I'm still not completely sure. She's a Mormon turned atheist, and she seems to spend much of the book arguing that UFOlogoy is a modern day religion.

The book is more about the people who "study" UFOs than the UFOs themselves.

She doesn't really explain the "Why we See Saucers" mentioned in the subtitle of the book other than a flimsy argument that we see them because we want to see them.

I will say the version of an "official" story about the Roswell incident that she recount's here is the first one I have heard that holds any water.

As far as its quality as an audiobook: I was pleasantly pleased that they are still making CD versions …

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Subjects

  • Astronomy
  • Popular culture
  • Unidentified flying objects
  • Psychotherapy
  • Controversial Knowledge
  • Astronautics. Space travel