221: UFO Culture with Author Sarah Scoles

Published: Dec. 27, 2023, 7:21 p.m.

Whenever we talk about UFO\u2019s, there\u2019s a lot we can unpack. An entire UFO culture, really. And we\u2019ve got just the expert journalist and author to help us better understand why we see saucers.\xa0

Returning guest and friend of the show Sarah Scoles is back to discuss her new book, \u201cThey Are Already Here.\u201d Join us and let\u2019s unpack Sarah\u2019s trip out to Area 51, attending UFO conferences, alien pet parades and what surprises Sarah most when researching UFOs.\xa0

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Order your copy of They Are Already Here:\xa0https://www.amazon.com/They-Are-Already-Here-Culture/dp/1643133055

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Find Sarah and her other books here:\xa0https://www.sarahscoles.com/

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More about They Are Already Here:\xa0

An anthropological look at the UFO community, told through first-person experiences with researchers in their element as they pursue what they see as a solvable mystery\u2014both terrestrial and cosmic.

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In They Are Already Here we meet the bigwigs, the scrappy upstarts, the field investigators, the rational people, and the unhinged kooks of this sprawling community. How do they interact with each other? How do they interact with \u201canomalous phenomena\u201d? And how do they (as any group must) reflect the politics and culture of the larger world around them?

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We will travel along the Extraterrestrial Highway (next to Area 51) and visit the UFO Watchtower, where seeking lights in the sky is more of a spiritual quest than a \u201cgotcha\u201d one. We meet someone who, for a while, believes they may have communicated with aliens. Where do these alleged encounters stem from? What are the emotional effects on the experiencers?

\xa0Funny and colorful, and told in a way that doesn\u2019t require one to believe, Scoles brings humanity to an often derided and misunderstood community. After all, the truth is out there.\xa0