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She has listened to and recorded people’s recollections of encounters with UFOs and abduction incidents for more than two decades. Susan Lepselter has written a book entitled The Resonance of Unseen Things: Poetics, Power, Captivity, and UFOs in the American Uncanny (University of Michigan Press, 2016) that gathers the stories together and tries to make sense of how they fit into the American experience and character. She takes no stand on the existence (or not) of extraterrestrial visitors to Earth but she respects and honors the testimonies of those who say they’ve had contact.
Host Michael Glab goes one-on-one with Bloomington’s most fascinating people every Thursday at 5:30pm.