Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-246) and index.
Contents:
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.
Summary:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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