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BookD. W. Pasulka
A religious-studies account of how UFO experience, secrecy, media, technology, and new forms of authority can generate worlds of meaning that resemble religious formation.
Podcast EpisodeGood Faith
Explores how Christians might respond theologically and pastorally if persuasive evidence of extraterrestrial life emerged.
BookAndrew Davison
A systematic theological study of how possible life elsewhere bears on creation, angels, the image of God, sin, incarnation, Christology, revelation, and salvation.
Ralph Blumenthal
A biography of Harvard psychiatrist John Mack follows his controversial study of people reporting alien encounters and the professional, ethical, and metaphysical questions that followed.
BookD. W. Pasulka
Explores contemporary reports of contact with nonhuman intelligence and the religious, technological, and cultural frameworks people use to interpret them.
Jeffrey J. Kripal
A scholar of religion asks what models of mind, imagination, and reality become possible when anomalous experiences are neither accepted literally nor dismissed in advance.
David J. Halperin
A scholar of religion interprets UFO stories through myth, memory, mortality, and his own youthful fascination with the subject.
Jacques Vallée
A historically influential study compares modern UFO reports with older accounts of strange visitors, folklore, and visionary encounter.
BookDavid Wilkinson
Brings the science and history of SETI into sustained conversation with Christian questions about creation, human significance, incarnation, and redemption.
Podcast EpisodeMayim Bialik's Breakdown
Diana Walsh Pasulka discusses parallels between religious experience, technological imagination, and contemporary UFO culture.
Podcast EpisodeScience Friday
Considers how people and institutions might respond if life beyond Earth were discovered.
BookGuy Consolmagno and Paul Mueller
A conversational Jesuit exploration of astronomy, extraterrestrial life, church history, and how scientific questions interact with faith.