title: UFO Religion: Inside Flying Saucer Cults and Culture
author:  Gregory L. Reece 
description: Reece's highly readable inspection of ufologists who find religious meaning in their passion manages to be both insightful and humorous as it chronicles UFO sightings and purported alien-human interactions. Besides verifiable facts, Reece relays unverifiable conclusions that those who credit them believe because, he says, they are children of the space age as well as humans possessed of the usual existential hopes and fears that they're willing to have allayed by less-than-scientific reasoning. Reece travels to the Mojave Desert to join a group scanning the night sky for alien visitors, considers reports of the so-called Men in Black and Tall Whites identified by many ufologists, and visits the twin ground zeros of U.S. UFO culture, Area 51 in Nevada and Roswell, New Mexico. Bemused if not overtly skeptical, he examines his respondents' belief systems and combs their proofs and conclusions to come up with some truly amazing tidbits. Consider this is an excellent introduction to its genuinely spacey subject. Tribby, Mike
zlib_text: UFOs and Popular Culture
  
  UFOs and Popular Culture
  An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Myth
  James R. Lewis
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  Santa Barbara,California
  Denver,Colorado
  Oxford,England
  
  Copyright © 2000 by James R.Lewis
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  Lewis,James R.
  UFOs and popular culture : an encyclopedia of contemporary myth /
  James R.Lewis.
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  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  ISBN 1-57607-265-7 (hard : alk.paper)
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