This is my personal recommended reading list. It brings together foundational UAP research, experiencer testimony, selected consciousness and speculative material, biblical and Second Temple texts, and the theological works I have found most helpful for thinking across these subjects.

Foundational UAP Research

  • Jacques Vallée — Passport to Magonia: From Folklore to Flying Saucers
  • D. W. Pasulka — American Cosmic: UFOs, Religion, Technology
  • James T. Lacatski, Colm A. Kelleher, and George Knapp — Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insiders’ Account of the Secret Government UFO Program
  • David M. Jacobs — Secret Life: Firsthand Accounts of UFO Abductions
  • John E. Mack — Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens
  • J. Allen Hynek — The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry
  • Patrick Jackson — The Sphere Network
  • Beatriz Villarroel and collaborators — VASCO research and related studies of anomalous and transient sources in Palomar Observatory Sky Survey I (POSS-I) plates

Experiencer Testimony, High Strangeness, and Interpretation

  • Whitley Strieber — Communion: A True Story
  • Chris Bledsoe — UFO of God: The Extraordinary True Story of Chris Bledsoe
  • John Seer — Told: Messages from a Greater Conscious or the Ramblings of a Madman
  • Heidi Hollis — The Anomalies: A True Story of Medical Mysteries, Jesus Encounters, and Stigmata
  • Heidi Hollis — Jesus Is No Joke: A True Story of an Unlikely Witness Who Saw Jesus
  • Heidi Hollis — The Secret War: A True Story About a Real Alien War and Shadow People
  • Dan Sherman — Above Black: Project Preserve Destiny
  • John A. Keel — The Mothman Prophecies
  • Jeffrey J. Kripal — Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred

Consciousness, Remote Viewing, and Speculative Material

  • Courtney Brown — Cosmic Voyage: A Scientific Discovery of Extraterrestrials Visiting Earth
  • Lawrence R. Spencer — Alien Interview
  • “Ole K.” — The Lacerta Files (pseudonymous online interview transcripts)
  • Lyn Buchanan — The Seventh Sense: The Secrets of Remote Viewing as Told by a “Psychic Spy” for the U.S. Military

Science Fiction and the Cosmic Imagination

  • Arthur C. Clarke — Childhood’s End
  • Isaac Asimov — Foundation
  • Isaac Asimov — The Caves of Steel
  • Philip K. Dick — VALIS
  • C. S. Lewis — Out of the Silent Planet
  • C. S. Lewis — Perelandra
  • C. S. Lewis — That Hideous Strength

Biblical and Jewish Cosmic Tradition

  • 1 Enoch
  • Wisdom of Solomon
  • Genesis 1–11
  • Genesis 18–19
  • Deuteronomy 32
  • Job 1–2 and 38–41
  • Psalms 8, 82, 89, and 104
  • Isaiah 6
  • Ezekiel 1 and 10
  • Daniel 7–12
  • Zechariah
  • John 1
  • Romans 8
  • 1 Corinthians 15
  • Ephesians 1 and 6
  • Colossians 1
  • Hebrews 1–2
  • Revelation

Patristic and Early Christian Theology

  • Irenaeus — Against Heresies, especially Books III and V
  • Origen — On First Principles
  • Athanasius — On the Incarnation
  • Gregory of Nyssa — On the Making of Man
  • Gregory of Nyssa — The Life of Moses
  • Gregory of Nyssa — On the Soul and the Resurrection
  • Evagrius Ponticus — Praktikos
  • Augustine — On the Trinity
  • Pseudo-Dionysius — The Celestial Hierarchy
  • Pseudo-Dionysius — The Divine Names
  • Maximus the Confessor — Ambigua

Medieval Metaphysics and Angelology

  • Thomas Aquinas — Summa Theologiae, especially the Prima Pars on creation, angels, the soul, matter, and intellect
  • Meister Eckhart — selected sermons and theological writings
  • Nicholas of Cusa — On Learned Ignorance
  • Bonaventure — The Journey of the Mind into God
  • John Scotus Eriugena — Periphyseon (The Division of Nature)

Modern Theology, Biblical Scholarship, and Cosmic Metaphysics

  • Johann Christoph Blumhardt — Jesus Is Victor!: Blumhardt’s Battle with the Powers of Darkness
  • Rudolf Otto — The Idea of the Holy
  • Arthur O. Lovejoy — The Great Chain of Being
  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin — The Human Phenomenon
  • C. S. Lewis — The Discarded Image
  • Jordan Daniel Wood — The Whole Mystery of Christ: Creation as Incarnation in Maximus the Confessor
  • Michael S. Heiser — The Unseen Realm
  • David Bentley Hart — You Are Gods
  • Matthew Thiessen — Jesus and the Forces of Death: The Gospels’ Portrayal of Ritual Impurity within First-Century Judaism
  • David Bentley Hart — All Things Are Full of Gods
  • Sarah Hinlicky Wilson — Catechizing Sphinxes and Other Stories