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Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults
Vallée turned from cataloguing sightings to examining the social and political machinery around UFO belief: contactee cults, disinformation campaigns, and the ways UFO narratives could be — and were — manipulated for psychological and intelligence purposes. It is ufology's most sustained warning against the field's own credulity.
- Author
- Jacques Vallée
- Published
- 1979
- Library rank
- #24
Why it matters
The first major work to treat UFO belief itself as a manipulable social and political phenomenon.