Section E · Ontological-religious research · 1969–

Diana Walsh Pasulka

Primary framework: Psychospiritual Contact

PhD in religious studies + Professor, UNC Wilmington + former fellow, Vatican Library

Biography

Her book American Cosmic (Oxford University Press, 2019) was the first reference academic study of the phenomenon's institutional culture today: Silicon Valley, the Vatican, defense contractors. Encounters (2023) extends that work to the phenomenology of contact. She brings an ontological-religious lens that connects the phenomenon to pre-modern spiritual traditions.

Why they're here · 2 pieces

  1. 2019

    American Cosmic

    Ethnography of institutional UAP culture

  2. 2023

    Encounters

    Phenomenology-of-contact framework

Sources

  • D. W. Pasulka, 'American Cosmic' (Oxford University Press, 2019) — Academic study of the phenomenon's institutional culture.

Associated cases (1)

United States.

American Cosmic (impact site, New Mexico)· 2017

In 2017, religious-studies professor Diana Walsh Pasulka and Stanford immunologist Garry Nolan were taken —blindfolded— to an undisclosed New Mexico site presented as the location of a 1940s impact (explicitly not Roswell). They dug up lightweight, unusual-looking metallic material, of which Nolan took samples. Pasulka recounted the episode in 'American Cosmic' (Oxford University Press, 2019). The site was never disclosed or verified: the case is valuable as an ethnography of the crash-retrieval culture, not as a confirmed trace.

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Synthesized bio from the UAP disclosure ecosystem — categorized by epistemological section (A-F).