Mapping 'UFO/ET' Research Across a Multidisciplinary Metatheory Framework

The above Metatheory Framework is based on Integral Theory.

Each of the four quadrants shows different ways of researching based on fundamentally different data and ways of knowing within objective (right hand quadrants) and subjective realities (left hand quadrants). 

In UFO/ET research there are very different sources of valid data within each quadrant of this Metatheory Framework. 

The following graphic attempts to position each of 7 UFO/ET books within this Metatheory Framework according to their dominant sources of data and research methodologies.

While all these books don't necessarily exactly fit the position allocated to them within the Metatheory Framework they do illustrate how UFO/ET research across multiple disciplines can help to present a bigger and fuller picture of the phenomenon. 

Metatheory frameworks help to recognise that focussing on only one or two quadrants is likely to give rise to only a partial view of the phenomenon - which may also give rise to misconceptions. Anomalies found within a quadrant can sometimes be resolved by considering research in other quadrants. 

By comparing assertions made across different quadrants we may increase or decrease our confidence in those assertions. 

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Mapped Books - Click images to go to Amazon Books link.