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02003aam a2200337 i 4500 001 37825C723E3011E4861469EFDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140917010101 008 130603s2013 ncua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2013014988 020 $a 0786471166 (alk. paper) 020 $a 9780786471164 (alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)808421722 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d CDX $d SFR $d YUS $d OCLCF $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d ILC $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a BF2050 $b .G85 2013 050 00 $a BF2050 $b .G85 2013 100 1 $a Gulyas, Aaron John, $d 1975- 245 10 $a Extraterrestrials and the American zeitgeist : $b alien contact tales since the 1950s / $c Aaron John Gulyas. 264 1 $a Jefferson, North Carolina : $b McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, $c [2013] 300 $a x, 250 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-246) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: Meeting the saucer people -- The saucers arrive -- A brief history of flying saucers -- The dawn of contact: George Adamski -- Contactees in the Space Age: George Adamski's legacy in the 1950s and 1960s -- The new age: extraterrestrial contact since the 1970s -- Dark contact: men in black, demons and the end of the world -- Sex, gender and flying saucers -- Contact, humanity and the future. 520 $a "Since the 1950s, there have been men and women around the world claiming to have had contact with human-like visitors from space. This book explores how the "Contactee" subculture has critiqued political, social and cultural trends in the United States, Europe and elsewhere"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Human-alien encounters. 650 0 $a Unidentified flying objects $x Sightings and encounters. 941 $a 3 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718091154.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826082234.0 952 $l OIAX792 $d 20140917012828.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=37825C723E3011E4861469EFDAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search