TY - BOOK AU - Gulyas,Aaron John TI - Extraterrestrials and the American zeitgeist: alien contact tales since the 1950s SN - 9780786471164 AV - BF2050 .G85 2013 U1 - 001.942 23 PY - 2013///] CY - Jefferson, North Carolina PB - McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers KW - Human-alien encounters KW - Unidentified flying objects KW - Sightings and encounters N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-246) and index N2 - "Since the 1950s, there have been men and women around the world claiming 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"-- ER -