"American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology" - Terra Obscura

Diana Walsh Pasulka's book on the religious aspects of ufology in the digital age is drawing a wide variety of appreciations. MJ Banias predicts the book will take "the UFO world definitely by storm." Emily Harnett is having none of that, viewing Pasulka as naively captivated by her Silicon Valley handlers' prestige into buying their bunkum. Harnett's Close Encounters of the Digital Kind expresses a vision of a ufology itself captivated by conspiracy theories and the national security state idea. While Harnett sees a truth underlying Pasulka's book, the truth definitely will not set you free. Jason Colavito joins Harnett in downplaying the book, his Imagining Space Aliens as Supernatural Versions of the 1 Percent maintaining that "When D.W. Pasulka published American Cosmic earlier this year, not much came of it." Colavito respectfully mentions the review by Clare Coffey Belief in Aliens Could be America's Next Religion as picking up "on the book's most important theme, that UFO belief has become a secular religion," and Jason and Coffey explore what they believe this means from the tome. (WM)

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