Personal Statement:
My current research interests involve a delineation of the role of anomalous experiences in personal and cultural life. I have also been involved in research in anticommunism during the post-World War II era. My primary teaching interests are in the history of popular culture in the United States.

Representative Publications:
The UFO Controversy in America (1973).

"UFOs and the Search for Scientific Legitimacy," in The Occult in America: New Historical Perspectives, ed. Howard Kerr and Charles Crow (1983).

"The UFO Phenomenon in American Society," in MUFON Symposium Proceedings (1987).

Secret Life: Firsthand Accounts of UFO Abductions (1992).