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Little green men and all that

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  1. Eastern Michigan University, USA

    Ron Westrum (professor of sociology)

  2. the University of Hawaii, Manoa

    David Swift (professor of sociology, contributing editor of Astrosearch)

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where he is associate director of the Center for Scientific Anomalies Research. He is the principal author of Complex Organizations: Growth, Struggle, and Change,forthcoming from Prentice-Hall.

David Stupple, who died last year, was associate professor of sociology at Eastern Michigan University. Interested in all forms of popular culture, he specialized in the study of flying saucer groups and traditions.

His reports on space-related issues have appeared in Astronomy, Omni, Astronautics and Aeronautics,and other U.S. publications.

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Westrum, R., Stupple, D. & Swift, D. Little green men and all that. Soc 21, 37–44 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02695024

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