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UFO investigator Martin Plowman believes the truth about alien visitors is a matter of perception and interpretation, writes Conrad Walters...
Martin Plowman encountered his first alien spacecraft when he was four years old. Recovering from open-heart surgery, he lay on a Melbourne hospital bed and beheld their splendour: three pulsating metallic saucers zooming over Earth.
He still owns the book – yes, it was only a children's book – with its alarmist red letters screaming UFOs. The cover includes an engineer's drawing of one interstellar vehicle and an illustration of a bug-eyed alien that looks like the result of a breeding experiment that crossed Skippy with Yoda.
Now Plowman, believed to be the first Australian to earn a doctorate in UFO studies, has made his own contribution to the literature about alien visitors.
His book, The UFO Diaries, is listed as a memoir, although it could just as easily hover between travel and new age. It recounts the seven years of research for Plowman's PhD thesis as he investigated the experiences of people who believe the truth is out there, just beyond our ken.
His university thesis is a lofty work that examines the UFO phenomenon by applying the theories of the influential French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.
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