Episode 178 - Aliens, Extraterrestrials, and UFOs

Book Club for Masochists: a Readers’ Advisory Podcast

This episode we’re talking about non-fiction books about Aliens, Extraterrestrials, and UFOs! We discuss unexplained aerial phenomenon, owls, exobiology, and aliens wearing hats!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Astrobiology: A Very Short Introduction by David C. Catling
• The Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens – and Ourselves by Arik Kershenbaum
• Death from the Skies! These Are the Ways the World Will End… by Philip Plait
  • Death from the Skies! The Science Behind the End of the World…
• Search for the Unknown: Canada’s UFO Files and the Rise of Conspiracy Theory by Matthew Hayes
• Aliens: Join the Scientists Searching Space for Extraterrestrial Life by Joalda Morancy, illustrated by Amy Grimes
• Picturing Extraterrestrials: Alien Images in Modern Mass Culture by John F. Moffitt
• Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO by David J Halperin
• They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers by Sarah Scoles
• Mirage Men: An Adventure into Paranoia, Espionage, Psychological Warfare, and UFOs by Mark Pikington
  • Mirage Men (Wikipedia) - The documentary

Other Media We Mentioned

• Chariots of The Gods by Erich von Däniken
• Chariots of the Gods? (Wikipedia)
• The X-Files (Wikipedia)
• Mars Attacks! (1996 film)
  • The yodeling scene ("Indian Love Call" by Slim Whitman)
• Mars Attacks (Wikipedia)
  • The trading cards
• Communion: A True Story by Whitley Strieber
• The Disappearing Act by Florence de Changy
• Disappearance of the Malaysian airplane

Links, Articles, and Things

• Barney and Betty Hill incident (Wikipedia)
• METI International (Wikipedia)
• Reptilian conspiracy theory (Wikipedia)
• ʻOumuamua (Wikipedia)
• Raëlism (Wikipedia)
• Martian canals (Wikipedia)
• Neon Squid Books
• U.S. judge says Penguin Random House book merger cannot go forward
• Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (Wikipedia)
• How Blink-182’s Tom DeLonge Became a U.F.O. Researcher

10 Non-Fiction Books About Aliens & UFOs (and other phenomena) by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) Authors

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers’ Advisory Podcasts chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• Aliens: The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life edited by Jim Al-Khalili
• Black Holes, Wormholes and Time Machines by Jim Al-Khalili
• More Encounters with Star People: Urban American Indians Tells Their Stories by Ardy Sixkiller Clarke
• Strange New Worlds: The Search for Alien Planets and Life Beyond Our Solar System by Ray Jayawardhana
• Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku
• Aliens: Join the Scientists Searching Space for Extraterrestrial Life by Joalda Morancy
• Mapping the Heavens: The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos by Priyamvada Natarajan
• Mondes d'ailleurs by Trịnh Xuân Thuận
• Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• Why Aren't They Here: The Question of Life on Other Worlds by Surendra Verma

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