Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO

A retired religious-studies professor sets aside the question of whether UFOs are physically real and instead asks what they mean, tracing his own childhood UFO obsession (formed while his mother was dying) into a broader psychological and religious-studies argument that the phenomenon encodes humanity's relationship with mortality and cosmic insignificance.

Author

David J. Halperin

Published

2020

Library rank

#66