Religion scholar David Halperin stops by to discuss his book Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO. David shares his own history as a young ufologist, and how he later came back to ufology as a scholar. Tangents include: the cover of Whitley Strieber's Communion, the Jungian quaternity, and "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel."

Links/sources mentioned:

David Halperin, Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO (Stanford University Press, 2020)

Carl Jung, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky (1959)

Gray Barker, They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers (1956)

Frank Scully, Behind the Flying Saucers (1950)

Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia (1969)

Whitley Strieber, Communion (1987)

David Halperin, "Judaism and the UFO," in Handbook of UFO Religions (Brill, 2021)

William L. Dawson leading the Tuskegee choir in his arrangement of "Ezekiel Saw de Wheel" (1942): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51rIXqGxLOk (this is the arrangement Bill sang in high school)

Ray Bradbury, "Way in the Middle of the Air," in The Martian Chronicles (1950)