They Are Already Here: UFO Culture and Why We See Saucers

Maybe the writing style was just not for me but it felt like the author took a fascinating topic and somehow made it extremely boring.

The subtitle of the book is “ufo culture and why we see saucers,” so I was expecting something of an anthropological study, personal stories and interviews with people and an in-depth analysis into why humans are obsessed with ufos. There certainly was some of that but a much larger percentage of the book is just essentially repetitive debunking of various ufology projects. The parts where she visits various ufo tourist spots are marginally more interesting.

Throughout the whole book the author is so openly smug and clearly believes she is smarter than most of the people she interviews.

Even in the parts where there are personal stories and descriptions of her conversations with people, she is often dismissive and flippant towards people's stories.

In one part, for example, she describes her conversation with a woman while the she and the woman eat at a diner. She continuously intercuts the woman's words with descriptions of how gross she (the author) finds the food the woman is eating. As if she wants us to know that she was so preoccupied with watching this woman eat something she doesn't like the look of, that she couldn't fully listen to her. And she wants to transmit that experience to the reader. Why??