Zen in the Art of Close Encounters, Edited by Paul David Pursglove

"Hey man, are UFOS real!?" is the wary question from anyone who's only recently discovered this mind-pretzeling, science-monkey-wrenching phenomenon. In today's vernacular the reply might be,
"Yep, sure are; if you can expand your meaning of
"real" to include what's beyond what you can imagine you can imagine - and then double that. An evocative, much older, but just as radical reply might be this from "The Practice of True Reality" by 12th Century Zen Master Hongzhi:
“If you accord everywhere with thorough clarity and cut off sharp corners without dependence on doctrines, like the white ox or wildcat, helping to arouse wonder, you can be called a complete person. So we hear that this is how one on the way of non-mind acts, but before realizing non-mind we still have great hardship.”
In that spirit, then, here is a large anthology including the best kinds of high and low strangenesses you may have heard of (and some you haven't imagined). These are the kind that present us with paradoxes on top of paradoxes. Our neurological relays pop - which may be exactly the point!
Everything from reports by people who've initiated successful contact, to serious psychiatric essays, to cartoons, to a disconcerting short story, to the connection with psychedelics, to a kid telling of being levitated out of his bedroom at night for a romp on the local swing set with several little gray UFOLKS - one of whom fell off a swing flat on his back.