Raymond Radford and Carole M. Cusack, The Study of UFOlogy in Australia: The Final Frontier By Carole Cusack

https://www.academia.edu/169582917/Raymond_Radford_and_Carole_M_Cusack_The_Study_of_UFOlogy_in_Australia_The_Final_Frontier?email_work_card=title The study of UFO and alien-based religions as a subfield of new religious movements (NRMs) has been well-established in Europe and America since the mid-1990s, when James R. Lewis published the edited volume, The Gods Have Landed: New Religions from Other Worlds. This landmark book set the scene for much subsequent scholarly work; the most important chapter was John A. Saliba’s lengthy ‘Religious Dimensions of UFO Phenomena’, which sifted through a vast amount of primary data, asserting that while the majority of people fascinated by Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) had scientific, secular, subcultural, or other reasons for their interest, a distinct group among them had specifically religious reasons for focusing on extra-terrestrial visitors.