The myth and mystery of UFOs
By: Thomas E. Bullard
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lawrence, Kan
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780700617296
Subjects: Unidentified flying objects
Description: Bullard shows how ongoing grassroots interest in UFOs stems both from actual personal experiences and from a cultural mythology and also how UFOs have catalyzed the evolution of a new but highly fractured belief system that borrows heavily from the human past and mythic themes.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 375-398) and index.
Table of contents: title: Who goes there? The myth and the mystery of UFOs; title: The growth and evolution of UFO mythology; title: UFOs of the past; title: From the otherworld to other worlds; title: The space children : a case example; title: Secret worlds and promised lands; title: Other than ourselves; title: Explaining UFOs : an inward look; title: Explaining UFOs : something yet remains.