Examines collective behaviour, fallible human perception, deviance, religion, popular culture, history, the role of the media, and relationships to the paranormal. This work explores the power of imagination, group psychology, and the concept of 'fantasy prone personalities'.
A Scientist Explains What We Know (And Don't Know)
Robert Powell, a founding Board member of the Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies, has studied the UFO subject for 17 years. His work is encapsulated in UFOs: A Scientist Explains What We Know (And Don’t Know) which provides a scientific rationale for the reality of non-terrestrial craft that are intelligently ......
The UFO phenomenon is a controversy that gains strength with each report of strange happenings in the sky. This book gives an overview of the world of UFOlogy, dealing with most major cases and trends, while offering references and commentary. It also includes the Jimmy Carter UFO sighting and the "abduction" of Betty and Barney Hill.
UFO abduction claims have spawned a veritable cottage industry, providing the fodder for an explosion of magazine articles, television interviews, best-selling books, and movies. This book focuses on the invisible epidemic of UFO abduction claims. It traces the history of these claims since the celebrated Betty and Barney Hill case in 1966.
Since its emergence in the 1960s, belief in alien abduction has saturated popular culture. Drawing on interviews with alleged abductees from the New York area, this title looks at how the belief in abduction by extraterrestrials is constituted by and through popular discourse and the images provided by print, film, and television.
Looks at how the belief in abduction by extraterrestrials is constituted by and through popular discourse and the images provided by print, film, and television. This work contends that the abduction phenomenon is symptomatic of a period during which people have come to feel divested of the ability to know what is true about themselves.
UFOs and space aliens are visiting Earth?! Now it's time to get the facts!Did a "flying saucer" really crash near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, and have we been victims of a sinister government conspiracy to hide its alien occupants in a secret facility? Is there truth behind the swirled crops phenomenon? Have humans been abducted by aliens?In an ......
Did a 'flying saucer' really crash near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, and have we been victims of a sinister government conspiracy to hide its alien occupants in a secret facility? Is there truth behind the swirled crops phenomenon? This book offers accounts of each case of extraterrestrial visitations and paranormal claims.
