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03860aam a2200517 i 4500 001 5274BBF68E9811EAB83BD64B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200505011818 008 190802s2020 caua b 001 0deng 010 $a 2019033546 020 $a 1503607089 020 $a 9781503607088 035 $a (OCoLC)1110446587 040 $a CSt/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d OCL $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a TL789 $b .H355 2020 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23 100 1 $a Halperin, David J. $q (David Joel) $e author. 245 10 $a Intimate alien : $b the hidden story of the UFO / $c David J. Halperin. 264 1 $a Stanford, California : $b Stanford University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a 292 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Spiritual phenomena 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Approaching the UFO. Confessions of a teenage UFOlogist -- Scenes from Magonia -- Inside the UFO. The abductions begin -- The lure of the unremembered -- Ancient abductees -- The UFO, terrestrial. "Three men in black" -- Shaver mystery -- Roswell, New Mexico -- Epilogue : John Lennon in Magonia 520 $a "UFOs became part of our cultural landscape in 1947, and they've been with us ever since. Debunked innumerable times, they refuse to go away. Made the subject of great expectations by their believers, they invariably disappoint. They've been called a myth, both in disparagement and, more properly, in appreciation of their power and significance. This book argues that they are actually a mythology, as gripping and profound as the great mythologies of antiquity to which they're linked. The question it asks about them is not, "What are they?" nor "Where do they come from?" but "What do they mean?" Halperin begins his exploration with his own longish teenage foray into the UFOs that he began to believe in as his mother lay dying of cancer. Despite the fact that he was only a high school student, Halperin joined and then became the director of "New Jersey Association on Aerial Phenomena" (NJAAP), an organization of amateur observers with members across the States. He goes on to revisit a range of famous cases of UFO sightings and abductions while introducing his own approach, which is informed by the study of religion, folklore, and Jungian psychology. Ultimately arguing for UFOs as evidence of the inner trauma of individuals as well as entire societies, he posits that the rise of the UFO in post-World War II America coincides with that moment in the nuclear age when we first became capable of imagining our death as a species"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Halperin, David J. $q (David Joel) 650 0 $a Unidentified flying objects $x Mythology. 650 0 $a Unidentified flying objects $x Psychological aspects. 650 0 $a Unidentified flying objects $x History. $x History. 650 0 $a Social psychology $z United States. 650 0 $a Ufologists $z United States $v Biography. 650 7 $a Social psychology. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01122816 650 7 $a Ufologists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01896490 650 7 $a Unidentified flying objects $x Psychological aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01161315 650 7 $a Unidentified flying objects $x Sightings and encounters. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01161320 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Halperin, David J., $t Intimate alien $d Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2020. $z 9781503612129 $w (DLC) 2019033547 830 0 $a Spiritual phenomena 941 $a 2 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909060956.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200505015121.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5274BBF68E9811EAB83BD64B97128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search