Matthew Bowman
The Abduction of Betty and Barney Hill: Alien Encounters, Civil Rights, and the New Age in America
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023
The decade of the 1960s began with American society on a high. That high was reflected in the election of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, a presidency which came to be called Camelot. The American social narrative at that time held that all problems, especially “racism,” could be solved through laws, direct action, and technology.
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This was a great article until you decided to shoehorn Abrahamic supernaturalism into it.
Adamski was the most interesting figure in the early UFO community. Where Adamski saw Space Aryans coming to warn humanity about the evils of atomic weapons, Barney hill say Space Nazis who hated him because he was a Negro.
For the Negro, everything is always about the Negro.
This is some interesting cultural forensics on where UFO fever comes from. We mostly hear about the Left Coast New Ager variety, but there’s a rightist spin on UFOlogy as well. I write science fiction, so I’ve had quite a bit of fun with it!
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