"If all reported encounters with UFOs/UAPs were the product of deception or misperception, we wouldn't have a problem. But that just isn't the case, so we have a problem. A big one. If you want to know just how big, read Kendall. He presents the cases evenhandedly, analyzes them critically, and then stands back to ask how we might put it all together. Occupying the space between wanna believe credulity and bar none skepticism, The Metaphysics of UFOswill force you to think hard, will compel you to contemplate possible impossibilites." --Dale C. Allison, Jr.

, Princeton Seminary "Reading Jonathan Kendall, a medical doctor and expert on physical visionary experience and the resurrection of the body, is itself an ontological shock, a bracing provocation that the new revelations of the UFO or UAP phenomenon do not fit our worldviews, whatever those might be--religious, secular, political, military, or materialist. Each gives us something, but we remain stuck on a few mythological tracks. The implications of this book and its 'best guess' (which is my own, too) are immense; cosmic, really. There is even the Mothman! Jonathan Kendall thinks impossibly." --Jeffrey J. Kripal, author of How to Think Impossibly: About the Soul, UFOs, Time, Belief and Everything Else "If The Metaphysics of UFOswere Kendall's closing argument to a jury, opposing counsel waiting their turn would be sweating. Kendall writes as an advocate for the evidence, bringing a commanding grasp of UFO cases and literature and a pointed critique of debunkers who wear the mask of open-minded skepticism while defaulting to dismissal. Drawing on historical government material with care and discernment, he opens the inquiry toward larger and more provocative questions, such as: Might UFOs, Mothmen, Men in Black, and other non-human entities be, in some sense, apparitions produced by the living? A serious, thoughtful work that stakes out its place in the evolving study of anomalous phenomena.

" --Keith Thompson, author of Anomalous Phenomena, Angels and Aliens, andThe UFO Paradox.