Aliens and UFOs. Phenomena. By Sara Galbiati, Peter Helles Eriksen, and Tobias Selnaes Markussen.

Andre Freres Editions, 2016. Hardcover in orange pink cloth with silver endpapers, not issued with dust jacket. 176 pages. Near fine. Addresses the issue of extraterrestrials, especially in New Mexico, with portraits of witnesses and their statements, as well as photographs of sites claimed to be associated with aliens.

What is the nature of the UFO phenomenon? Are we dealing with a commercially profitable story, an illusion and its social consequences, a religious myth or a physical phenomenon? Through an investigative journey in the states of Nevada, New Mexico and Arizona, Tobias Selnaes Markussen, Sara Galbiati and Peter Helles Eriksen document this alternative religion and examine the human need for belief. This book attempts to interpret the eternal quest for substance of modern man and his terror in the face of the absence of meaning. The approach to the subjects discussed in this book are addressed without prejudice and are largely inspired by the anthropological method. Thus, the authors never sought to ask their informants to confirm their stories with evidence or a precise chronology, because according to them, it was not up to them to decide on the truth of the facts. This method thus leaves the reader the option of believing or not believing, and thus gives the story a fictional aspect, even though the work is purely documentary. "If the existence of UFOs raises questions, people who believe in aliens do indeed exist. We have met and photographed several of them, and we wanted to relate in this book some of the incredible phenomena they told us about: ancient Indian connections with "space brothers", open portals of new age interstellar communication, places of contact with extraterrestrials. Using photography to document the invisible seems paradoxical, but throughout the development of the book our desire to create deceptive images became for us the very driving force of our creativity."