
UFO Religion : Inside Flying Saucer Cults and Culture.
Title:
UFO Religion : Inside Flying Saucer Cults and Culture.
Author:
Reece, Gregory L.
ISBN:
9780857717634
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (224 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One: Nuts and Bolts -- 1. Sightings -- 2. Crashes -- 3. Conspiracies -- 4. Abductions -- Part Two: Contactees -- 5. Scout Ships from Venus -- 6. Beam Ships from the Pleiades -- Part Three: History's Mysteries -- 7. Ancient Astronauts -- 8. Gods from Outer Space -- Conclusion: The New Gods? -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Lines laid across the plain near the Peruvian site of Nazca have been explained as ancient roads or features of a long-forgotten religious calendar. So why did Erich von Daniken interpret these markings as the contours of a huge galactic spaceport? In his assessment of the uncanny and frequently eerie world of UFO-logy, Gregory L Reece travels deep into a mindset which believes that the gods of mythology were really visitors from the stars. Venturing into the Mojave Desert to watch the night skies for flying saucers; exploring Nevada's top-secret installation 'Area 51'; and visiting Roswell, famous site of a supposed saucer crash in 1947, the author's quest for the truth brings him more than he bargained for. He has his atomic structure recharged in a machine supposedly designed by extraterrestrial technology, encounters a whole galaxy of alien life-forms, and meets those who claim themselves to have been abducted by UFOs. Along the way he tries to make sense both of the sinister 'Men in Black' and of lethal 'Tall Whites', deadly aliens who liquidate human beings without mercy. What is it about flying saucer culture that speaks to people with an apparently religious intensity and fervour? For those looking for the answers, UFO Religion is the definitive guide and handbook to one of the most extraordinary and compelling cults of our times.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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