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020			_a9781503607088 _q(cloth)
020			_z9781503612129 _q(epub)
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049			_aAlfaisal Main Library
050	0	0	_aTL789 _b.H355 2020
100	1		_aHalperin, David J. _q(David Joel), _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aIntimate alien : _bthe hidden story of the UFO / _cDavid J. Halperin.
260			_c©2020
264		1	_aStanford : _bStanford University Press, _c©2020
300			_a292 p: _bill. ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aSpiritual phenomena
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 253-284) and index.
505	0		_aApproaching 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"--
600	1	0	_aHalperin, David J. _q(David Joel)
650		0	_aUnidentified flying objects _xMythology.
650		0	_aUnidentified flying objects _xPsychological aspects.
650		0	_aUnidentified flying objects _xSightings and encounters _xHistory.
650		0	_aSocial psychology _zUnited States.
650		0	_aUfologists _zUnited States _vBiography.
655		0	_2local _94 _aPrint books.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aHalperin, David J., _tIntimate alien _dStanford : Stanford University Press, 2020. _z9781503612129 _w(DLC) 2019033547
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