Non-fiction on SETI

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  1. Neil Badmington – Alien Chic: Posthumanism and the Other Within (2004)
  2. Debbora Battaglia – E.T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces (2005)
  3. Howard Blum – Out There: The Government’s Secret Quest for Extraterrestrials (1990)
  4. Bridget Brown – They Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves: The History and Politics of Alien Abduction (2007)
  5. C.D.B. Bryan – Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind (1995)
  6. Thomas E. Bullard – The Myth and Mystery of UFOs (2010)
  7. Susan A. Clancy – Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens (2005)
  8. Jerome Clark – Unexplained!: Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences, and Puzzling Physical Phenomena (1993)
  9. Jerome Clark – Strange and Unexplained Phenomena (1995)
  10. Jerome Clark – The Unidentified: Notes Toward Solving The Ufo Mystery (1975)
  11. Ardy Sixkiller Clarke – Space Age Indians: Their Encounters with the Blue Men, Reptilians, and Other Star People (2019)
  12. Roy Craig – UFOs: An Insider’s View of the Official Quest for Evidence (1995)
  13. Douglas Curran – In Advance of the Landing: Folk Concepts of Outer Space (1986)
  14. David Darlington – Area 51: The Dreamland Chronicles (1997)
  15. Jodi Dean – Aliens in America (1998)
  16. Brenda Denzler – The Lure of the Edge: Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs, and the Pursuit of UFOs (2001)
  17. Ann Druffel – How to Defend Yourself Against Alien Abduction (1998)
  18. Charles River Editors – The Robertson Panel: The History and Legacy of the Secret Government Committee that Investigated UFO Sightings in America (2020)
  19. Bill Ellis – Aliens, Ghosts, and Cults: Legends We Live (2001)
  20. Charles F. Emmons – At the Threshold: UFO’s, Science, and the New Age (1961)
  21. Charles Fort – The Book of the Damned (1919)
  22. Timothy Good – Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-up (1987)
  23. Irene Granchi – UFOs & Abductions in Brazil (1995)
  24. David Grinspoon – Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy of Alien Life (2003)
  25. Stefan Helmreich – Sounding the Limits of Life: Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond (2015)
  26. Allan Hendry, J. Allen Hynek – The UFO Handbook: A Guide to Investigating, Evaluating and Reporting UFO Sightings (1979)
  27. Al Hidell – The Complete Conspiracy Reader: From the Deaths of JFK and John Lennon to Government-Sponsored Alien Coverups (2003)
  28. Cynthia Hind – UfOs: African Encounters (1982)
  29. Ion Hobana – UFO’s From Behind The Iron Curtain (1975)
  30. J. Allen Hynek – The UFO experience – A scientific inquiry (1972)
  31. David M. Jacobs – The UFO Controversy in America (1975)
  32. David M. Jacobs – UFOs and Abductions: Challenging the Borders of Knowledge (2000)
  33. Anthony Joseph, Lauri Ramey – The African Origins of UFOs (2006)
  34. C.G. Jung – Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies (1958)
  35. Leslie Kean – UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record (2010)
  36. Jeffrey J. Kripal – Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred (2010)
  37. Susan Lepselter – The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny (2016)
  38. James R. Lewis – The Gods Have Landed: New Religions from Other Worlds (1995)
  39. Michael Lieb – Children of Ezekiel: Aliens, UFOs, the Crisis of Race, and the Advent of End Time (1998)
  40. John E. Mack – Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens (1994)
  41. Terry Matheson – Alien Abductions: Creating a Modern Phenomenon (1998)
  42. Michael A.G. Michaud – Contact with Alien Civilizations: Our Hopes and Fears about Encountering Extraterrestrials (2006)
  43. Christopher Partridge – UFO Religions (2003)
  44. Diana Walsh Pasulka – American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology (2019)
  45. Phil Patton – Dreamland: Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51 (1998)
  46. Curtis Peebles – Watch the Skies! A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth (1994)
  47. Jenny Randles – The UFOs That Never Were (2000)
  48. Andrea Pritchard – Alien Discussions: Proceedings of the Abduction Study Conference (1995)
  49. David G. Robertson, Craig Martin, James Cox, Steven J. Sutcliffe – UFOs, Conspiracy Theories and the New Age: Millennial Conspiracism (2016)
  50. Carl Sagan, Iosif Shklovsky – Intelligent Life in the Universe (1966)
  51. Benson Saler – UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth (1997)
  52. Kathleen Stewart – A Space on the Side of the Road: Cultural Poetics in an Other America (1996)
  53. Keith Thompson – Angels and Aliens (1991)
  54. Diana G. Tumminia – Alien Worlds: Social and Religious Dimensions of Extraterrestrial Contact (2007)
  55. Jacques F. Vallée – Confrontations: A Scientist’s Search for Alien Contact (Alien Contact Trilogy) (1990)
  56. Jacques F. Vallée – Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact (Alien Contact Trilogy) (1988)
  57. Jacques F. Vallée – Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception (Alien Contact Trilogy) (1992)
  58. Jacques F. Vallée – The Invisible College: What a Group of Scientists Has Discovered About UFO Influences on the Human Race (1975)
  59. Jacques F. Vallée – UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat (1992)

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