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Diana Walsh Pasulka

Disciplines:
religion/religious studies
parapsychology/uap/ufo studies

Summary

American religious studies scholar who has analyzed the UFO/UAP phenomenon as a religious and cultural phenomenon — arguing it functions as a new mythology generating genuine belief systems.

Core Contribution

American Cosmic: the UFO phenomenon functions like a new religion — it provides transformative experiences, generates communities of belief, and shapes the identities of adherents. Analyzes the belief systems of tech entrepreneurs and government officials who engage with UAP through a religious studies lens.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • Was given unusual access to classified UAP programs and witnesses — including a visit to a facility she was told stored UAP materials — making her account unique among academic researchers in the field.

Notable Works & Achievements

American Cosmic

Believing

Historical Influences

Mircea Eliade William James

Intellectual Lineage

Religious Studies Sociology of Religion

Contemporaries & Peers

Jacques Vallée

Minds Influenced

No recorded minds influenced.

Intellectual Posterity

UAP Studies

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