They are already here : UFO culture and why we see saucers / Sarah Scoles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scoles, Sarah, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unidentified flying objects--Sightings and encounters.

Unidentified flying objects.

Unidentified flying objects--Social aspects.

Genre:

Informational works.

Physical Description:

248 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Pegasus paperback edition

Place of Publication:

New York : Pegasus Books, 2021

Summary:

"In They Are Already Here we meet the bigwigs, the scrappy upstarts, the field investigators, the rational people, and the unhinged kooks of this sprawling community. How do they interact with each other? How do they interact with "anomalous phenomena"? And how do they (as any group must) reflect the politics and culture of the larger world around them? We will travel along the Extraterrestrial Highway (next to Area 51) and visit the UFO Watchtower, where seeking lights in the sky is more of a spiritual quest than a "gotcha" one. We meet someone who, for a while believes they may have communicated with aliens. Where do these alleged encounters stem from? What are the emotional effects on the experiencers?"--Amazon.com

Contents:

Da Vinci's garage door opener

The politics of the UFO Congress

The black vault versus the rock star

The government's closet

The patron saint, or something, of saucers

The mutually supportive mutual UFO network

Riding the extraterrestrial hypothesis highway into Area 51

The moguls of Roswell, New Mexico

To the stars above telescope towns

All along the UFO watchtower

It was always you.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-240) and index.

ISBN:

9781643137650

1643137654

OCLC:

1226479896

Publisher Number:

99994263765