Gulyas A.J. Extraterrestrials and the American Zeitgeist: Alien Contact Tales Since the 1950s

McFarland & Company, 2013. — 261 p.Since the 1950s, men and women around the world have claimed 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. Not merely quaint relics of the 1950s Atomic Age, contactees have continued their messages of transformation into the 21st century. Regardless of whether these alleged contacts took the form of physical meetings or channeled paranormal psychic communications, or whether they actually happened at all, contactees have provided a consistently relevant source of commentary on this world and beyond.Acknowledgments
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
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index