After the Flying Saucers Came: A Global History of the UFO Phenomenon

A Penn State historian spent nearly a decade in archival research to produce the first genuinely global cultural history of ufology, tracing how scientists, governments, media, and new religious movements across multiple countries responded to and shaped the phenomenon from 1947 onward — leaning skeptical in his own conclusions while treating belief itself as a serious historical subject worth explaining rather than mocking.

Author

Greg Eghigian

Published

2024

Library rank

#20