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Keith Thompson, 'Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination'
Writer Keith Thompson's interpretation of UFO encounters as a modern expression of the human imagination's encounters with the sacred and the other.
1991 CE · 42.53, -71.10 · status: account
The account
Following Jung, Thompson argues that UFO experiences resemble initiation, angelology and myth, and should be read as meaningful rather than simply true or false. It is a standard text of the psychosocial school.
The sceptical view
Like other mythic readings, it explains the cultural meaning of reports rather than their cause.