The Bait: UFOs, Contact Experiences, and Mistaken IdentityRODNEY HENSON

Forthcoming Christian nonfiction

The Bait: UFOs, Contact Experiences,
and Mistaken Identity

An experience can be real.
The identity behind it is another question.

A Christian examination of contact experiences, the claims they carry, and the distinction between an unexplained object and a claimed spiritual source.

Cover of The Bait: UFOs, Contact Experiences, and Mistaken Identity by Rodney Henson, with a UFO-shaped fishing lure and hook
By Rodney Henson · Forthcoming

The question at the heart of the book

Why the voice in the trance
is not the object on the radar.

An unexplained object in the sky is one kind of mystery. The identity claimed by a voice in a trance is another. They deserve separate questions.

The Bait: UFOs, Contact Experiences, and Mistaken Identity examines the contact practices that have become part of the UFO conversation—and asks whether the identities presented can be trusted.

Written from a Christian perspective, the book takes people’s experiences seriously while examining the interpretations attached to them.

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Inside the book

Table of contents

Thirteen chapters, followed by the Conclusion.


  1. Hidden Knowledge


  2. Mediums


  3. Channeling


  4. Remote Viewing


  5. Out of Body Experiences


  6. Psychics


  7. CE5


  8. Spirit Guides


  9. Spirit Healing


  10. Hitchhiker Effect


  11. Paranormal


  12. Consciousness Studies


  13. Internal Family Systems (IFS)

Conclusion

About the author

Rodney Henson

Curiosity. Careful distinctions.
A Christian perspective.

Rodney Henson is the author of The Bait: UFOs, Contact Experiences, and Mistaken Identity. His writing separates the study of unexplained objects from the spiritual claims that have become attached to the contact conversation.

He examines those claims while treating the people describing their experiences with respect.

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Reader’s companion

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