Angels and Aliens: UFOs and the Mythic Imagination

(Ballantine Books, 1993), was praised by the San Francisco Chronicle as “magnificent” and recognized by Venture World as “probably the most profound book on the UFO controversy.” Harvard psychiatrist John Mack credited Thompson's work with sparking his interest in alien abduction reports.Thompson's influential 1982 interview with Robert Bly helped initiate the"men's movement" focused on contemporary masculinity.

His New book is "UFO Paradox", In case after case related to UFO encounters and other unknown aerial phenomena (UAP), the same impasse is reached: testimony from witnesses on one side, and dismissive responses from the authorities on the other. In the fertile void of this deadlock, however, lie extraordinary possibilities about the nature of mind and matter, spirit, and soul, transforming the UFO into a celestial, metaphysical event.