American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology

A religious studies scholar conducted a six-year ethnographic study of Silicon Valley technologists and scientists who privately believe in extraterrestrial intelligence, arguing that UFO belief now functions structurally like a new religion — with its own scribes, relics, contact narratives, and canon — increasingly mediated by film and technology rather than churches.

Author

Diana Walsh Pasulka

Published

2019

Library rank

#16