They Are Already Here, Sarah Scoles
They Are Already Here, Sarah Scoles
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They Are Already Here
UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers

Author: Sarah Scoles

Narrator: Suzie Althens

Unabridged: 9 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/03/2020


Synopsis

More than half a century since Roswell, UFOs have been making headlines once again. On December 17, 2017, the New York Times ran a front-page story about an approximately five-year Pentagon program called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program. The article hinted, and its sources clearly said in subsequent television interviews, that some of the ships in question couldn't be linked to any country. The implication, of course, was that they might be linked to other solar systems.

The UFO community—those who had been thinking about, seeing, and analyzing supposed flying saucers (or triangles or chevrons) for years—was surprisingly skeptical of the revelation. Their incredulity and doubt rippled across the internet. Many of the people most invested in UFO reality weren't really buying it. And as Sarah Scoles did her own digging, she ventured to dark, conspiracy-filled corners of the internet, to a former paranormal research center in Utah, and to the hallways of the Pentagon.

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 "anomalous phenomena"? And how do they (as any group must) reflect the politics and culture of the larger world around them?

About Sarah Scoles

Sarah Scoles is a science writer whose work has appeared in the Atlantic, Slate, Smithsonian, the Washington Post, Scientific American, Popular Science, Discover, New Scientist, Aeon, and Wired. A former editor at Astronomy magazine, Scoles worked at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, the location of the first-ever SETI project. She lives in Denver, Colorado.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Leo on August 25, 2020

I've always been bemused by the UFO cult and people who watch ANCIENT ALIENS. It goes back to when we were children in the late 70s and early 80s, watching Leonard Nimoy's IN SEARCH OF. Even then, my father laughed and said it was bunk, yet we watched it nearly every Saturday night during our cold,......more

Goodreads review by Emma Ann on March 14, 2024

A bit scattered, especially in the first half. This book is very much focused on people and their stories, not so much on presenting lots of research. That’s fine, but I think the book might have benefitted from choosing two or three people to follow and use as a jumping-off point.......more

Goodreads review by Caitlin on February 27, 2020

Granted, as someone who grew up obsessed with The X-Files, I was biased toward this book in a positive way to begin with. But Sarah Scoles surpassed my expectations with her lovely, clear writing, openness to presenting people's views/experiences, and ultimate reflections on faith and belief and how......more

Goodreads review by Kara on February 15, 2022

The authors “voice” kind of annoyed me for no reason but it was interested and I loved all the New Mexico stories 😍......more

Goodreads review by Kate on March 08, 2020

When I was a kid, just one look at the cover of Whitley Strieber's Communion was enough to throw me into little baby panic attacks and sometimes I would watch movies (ahem, Fire in the Sky) about aliens and then not be able to sleep for a week. As an adult, I'm a total skeptic, but I still love a go......more