Volume 45, Number 11 · June 25, 1998
The Mindsnatchers
By Frederick C. Crews
The Threat
by David M. Jacobs
Simon and Schuster, 287 pp., $23.00
Confirmation: The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us
by Whitley Strieber
St. Martin's, 290 pp., $23.95
Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace
by Jodi Dean
Cornell University Press, 242 pp., $15.95 (paper)
According to a Time/CNN poll published a year ago, 64 percent of Americans now believe that creatures from elsewhere in the universe have recently been in personal touch with human beings.[1] One such mortal, Whitley Strieber, writes that he has 'received nearly a quarter of a million letters claiming contact' in the past eleven years alone. Indeed, many people, most of them mere students of the topic rather than 'experiencers,' think that the aliens, having subjected abductees to breeding experiments in parked spaceships or secret underground laboratories, have already produced a race of hybrids who will someday rule or even replace us.
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