Chapter 6 traces the common elements of three field sites and research themes: Cuban espiritismo, Brazilian Umbanda, and Chilean ufology, to understand how cosmology is fractured, incomplete, emergent, and, in some cases, without an exterior referent. In Cuba and Brazil, not-knowing becomes a facet of a cosmology that is not entirely forthcoming, or of a cosmos of spirits that are simply unknowable in their essences, despite their overt appearances in cultural “clothes.” Unknowing here excites the cosmogonic, or world-producing impulse, very often through materials and objects. In ufology, instances of the “absurd” – where no sense can be made of visual perceptions or experiences – are attributed to the deceitful characteristics of their alien perpetrators who remain in a continuous conceptual dark. If in the first two cases it is the body and its cosmos which are negated as sources of knowledge, whereas in the third it is physical reality itself.