Journalists & Investigators

Diana Walsh Pasulka

2018

Religious studies professor (UNC Wilmington); author of "American Cosmic" (2018) and "Encounters" (2023), arguing that modern UAP reports parallel historical religious "angel contact" accounts. Says aerospace-industry researchers sought out her historical data on injury patterns from religious apparitions after she published it, and later collaborated with Gary Nolan.

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Connections (5)

confirmedGarry Nolan

met him circa 2014; he shared his anomaly research with her

confirmedKarl Nell

shared a public panel on UAP and religious history at Hereticon 2026

confirmedJeffrey Kripal

fellow religion scholars studying the UAP/paranormal

Source: Rice Archives of the Impossible; academic religious studies

confirmedPeter Thiel

cited her research in a public discussion of UAP

reportedTim Taylor

widely believed by online researchers to be Tyler D., the anonymous insider in her book American Cosmic (2019); unconfirmed by Pasulka

Source: online UAP research (contested); D.W. Pasulka, American Cosmic, 2019

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