Journalist or investigator

Diana Walsh Pasulka

2018-01-01year known, day not recorded

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.

In the UAP recordRuled into the unidentified-phenomena thread on 2 September 2026 from this entity's own name and role text, which contain: "uap". An editorial classification of what thread this entity belongs to; it rests on no page and does not claim to. Neighbours were not used - see apply-subjects-2026-09-02.mjs for why.

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← Tim Taylor names a source we do not hold

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

online UAP research (contested); D.W. Pasulka, American Cosmic, 2019
← Jeffrey Kripal names a source we do not hold

fellow religion scholars studying the UAP/paranormal

Rice Archives of the Impossible; academic religious studies
→ Garry Nolan nothing behind it

met him circa 2014; he shared his anomaly research with her
→ Karl Nell nothing behind it

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