science, anthropology, religion, and mysticism generally. For him, the crossovers are most salient in relation to the issue of race. “Put simply,” wrote Roth, “ufology is in one sense all about race, and it has more to do with terrestrial racial schemes as social and cultural constructs than most UFO believers are aware.” Ross argues that UFO discourse is nearly inseparable from existing but “older anthropological discourses that had legitimized a hierarchical racial and class order.”
