Author | Researcher | Expert on UAP Folklore and the Liminal

About

Joshua Cutchin is an author and researcher whose work sits at the border of UAP investigation and cultural anthropology — exploring what folklore, fairy tales, death symbolism, and liminal experience reveal about the phenomenon that decades of nuts-and-bolts research has missed. His books — including A Trojan Feast, Thieves in the Night, and Ecology of Souls — are meticulously researched explorations of how non-human intelligences interact with human culture across time, and what the patterns in that interaction tell us. His work on UAP metamaterials — the physical objects and substances left behind after encounters — is some of the most original thinking in the field. Cutchin is a quiet force: methodical, erudite, and consistently ahead of where the mainstream UAP conversation catches up.

Sessions at CITD 2026

[PANEL]

Voices from The Beyond: Near-Death Experiences and the Afterlife

Hosted by Alexis Brooks.

[WORKSHOP]

UAP Metamaterials: Souvenirs of the Imaginal?

A workshop on the physical materials associated with UAP encounters — their reported properties, the history of their investigation, and what they might tell us about where the phenomenon operates.

[LECTURE]

Beyond the Stars, Beyond the Grave: UFOs and Death Symbolism

An examination of the profound and consistent connections between UAP encounters and death, near-death, and afterlife symbolism — across cultures and across centuries.

[PANEL]

Strange Phenomena: From Legend to Evidence

Hosted by Ben Hansen.