2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
C.G. Jung's 1958 study of flying saucer reports — Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies — arguing that UFO reports, whether or not they describe physical phenomena, express a psychological truth: the mandala symbol of wholeness projected onto the skies in a time of global anxiety.
A book examining UFO phenomena through the lens of religious studies and consciousness research — arguing that UFO experiences share structural features with mystical and near-death experiences and may be evidence for a non-physical dimension of reality rather than extraterrestrial visitors.