Diana Pasulka describes in American Cosmic and Encounters that some individuals in high levels of aerospace and defense circles, including people connected to places like NASA, privately entertain the idea that non-human intelligences are real and technologically significant. She does not present this as official institutional doctrine, but as personal conviction held by certain scientists and engineers who treat anomalous materials, classified research, and unexplained phenomena with near-religious seriousness. In her framing, these figures are not fringe mystics but technically sophisticated insiders who see advanced aerospace research and the possibility of non-human technology as overlapping domains. The claim is sociological rather than theological: that belief in non-human intelligence exists within elite technical communities, shaping how some interpret space, secrecy, and humanity’s place in the cosmos, even if it remains unofficial and controversial.