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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.