Full Title: UFO Religion; Inside Flying Saucer Cults and Culture by Gregory L. Reece

Rating: 3/5

Writing Style: The book has a great format and historical accuracy, but the author’s comments usually come across bitter.

Summary:The author splits UFO culture into general groups; ‘Nuts and Bolts’ people and ‘Contactees’. Nuts and Bolts people collect photographs, wreckage, evidence to try and prove their claims. Contactees are more interested in aliens, ship rides, and spreading any alien message.  A final section covers aliens in ancient/current religions. 

Comments: The book is a good intro lesson in American UFO origins, conspiracy cover-ups, Men-In-Black stories, etc… Then at the end of each chapter the author throws in his own couple of sarcastic comments. He is probably justified in those comments with some of the unusual folks he is writing about, but it comes across a bit mean. Like he chose a book topic solely for the purpose of making fun of the people involved. (Or as a defense mechanism so no-one reading the book would ever associate the author with actually believing any of this stuff.) Scientology and Joseph Smith dealings with alien ideas are also briefly mentioned at the tail end of the book.

I do recommend the book for anyone not in the MUFON loop. This book is a great starter piece into current alien endeavors. It is strange that with a billion cell-phone cameras the ‘Nuts and Bolts’ people are not getting new/current UFO pictures more often. Or that could be the author’s cynicism wearing me down. You just gotta believe. 

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