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The quest for extraterrestrial life doesn't happen only in science fiction. This book describes the startling discoveries being made in the very real science of astrobiology, an intriguing new field that blends astronomy, biology, and geology to explore the possibility of life on other planets. Jeffrey Bennett takes readers beyond UFOs to discuss some of the tantalizing questions astrobiologists grapple with every day: What is life and how does it begin? What makes a planet or moon habitable? Is there life on Mars or elsewhere in the solar system? How can life be recognized on distant worlds? Is it likely to be microbial, more biologically complex--or even intelligent? What would such a discovery mean for life here on Earth?

Come along on this scientific adventure and learn the astonishing implications of discoveries made in this field for the future of the human race. Bennett, who believes that "science is a way of helping people come to agreement," explains how the search for extraterrestrial life can help bridge the divide that sometimes exists between science and religion, defuse public rancor over the teaching of evolution, and quiet the debate over global warming. He likens humanity today to a troubled adolescent teetering on the edge between self-destruction and a future of virtually limitless possibilities. Beyond UFOs shows why the very quest to find alien life can help us to grow up as a species and chart a course for the stars.

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This is the most up-to-date, comprehensive guide to the study of UFOs and extraterrestrial contact in print today. With more than 5,000 entries, revealing photographs, diagrams, and commentary of experts in the field, The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia draws from a database of seventeen years' worth of articles, opinion, and research on such diverse subjects as:. Alien encounters, abductions, and eyewitness accounts . Theories of time and space travel . Psychokinesis, astral projection, and teleportation . Evidence of extraterrestrial presence on Earth, past and present . The possibilities of antigravity propulsion and interstellar travel . The new science of cloning, and the now-infamous Raelian cultAnd much more!Whether you consider yourself a hard-line skeptic or a true believer, or are simply fascinated by the existence of otherworldly visitors, this authoritative volume will prove to be an essential reference work for anyone wanting to learn about the still-controversial world of UFO and extraterrestrial investigations. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (6)

Informative, good introduction, but not perfect
This book can be used as an encyclopedia, but it is so interesting I just read the entire thing front to back. It looks good and as far as I know it is considered a reliable source of UFO-related information. The only problem I have with it is typing/writing errors. Would it have hurt to have someone check for mistakes?! I opened the book at a random page and immediately spotted one. That is the only reason for not giving it five stars. The book is still good, but not perfect.

UFO Magazine
The book came in excellent shape and received it in one day. Very happy with the service provided.

GOOD REFERENCE
I find this book very useful especially the short Bio's of numerous individuals listed, who I see refered to in other UFO articles & books.
Being new to UFOlogy, This book is valuable as a guide to many morebooks and interesting UFO incidents.

a very good,helpful UFO book....
"THE UFO MAGAZINE: UFO ENCYCLOPEDIA" SC
by William J. Birnes(editor).





This is a UFO book. It is an encyclopedia.

The entries are in alphabet order. For example, "A" starts with "A-12 Oxcart", then "Abduction Scenario, Physical Evidence", then "Abductions, indicators of", then "Abramov Alexander", so on and so forth(from A to Z).

This is a very good book. A superior encyclopedia. It is full of different entries. It is complete & helpful. Photos & sketches are also many.

There are also some shortcomings. First, some pages get easily loose, so you need to glue it back; Second, the writing style is a little dense, but it is still easy to read & understand.




These entries are very good(from the book). They are the followings:

. Aurora
. Belgian Triangles
. Bermuda Triangle
. Billy the Kid
. Bonilla, A.Y.
. Brooking Institution
. Canary Island case
. Cash-Landrum case
. Central Intelligence Agency(CIA)
. Central Intelligence Agency, History of UFOs in
. Children of Roswell - the longest, most exciting, & best entry of them all(23 pages).
. Clonaid
. Flight 9, Project Mogul
. Flying Triangles
. Hill, Barney & Betty
. Hypnosis, Abduction Memory Recovery
. Implants, Alien
. Laser Weapons
. Lockheed
. Mars
. Mind Control(MK-ULTRA)
. Philadelphia Experiment
. Ramey Telegram
. Roswell, New Mexico
. Roswell Crash Press Release
. Sarbacher, Robert
. Smith, Wilbert Brockhouse
. Voronezh, Russia
. War of the Worlds, the Radio Broadcast
. Zamora, Lonnie





"Alien Agenda"(by Jim Marrs) is an another very good UFO book. It is very informative & enjoyable.


The contents(some) are the followings.

. "The Aurora Crash of 1897"
. Chapter 1 "The Greatest UFO ?"
. Chapter 4 "The Roswell Crash" & "The MJ-12 Papers"
. Chapter 5 "Giant Artificial Satellites"
. Chapter 6 " The Scientist & The Saucers"(the Bob Lazar story)
. Chapter 7 "Over The Hills"(the Betty Hill abduction case)
. Chapter 9(entire) "Cattle Mutilation"
. Chapter 10(entire) "Crop Circles"
. Chapter 11(entire) "Remote Viewing"(very, very good chapter on the subject matter).






FINAL ANALYSIS:
"The UFO Magazine: UFO Encyclopedia" SC
4 of 5 stars
**** = a "must read"
Rating: A-



This is a brilliant, practical, & helpful UFO book. It should be on your bookshelf.

A must read!



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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!!


P.S. -- "UFO Photographs Vol. 1" HC(by Wendell Stevens) is also a good book.

ugh
This thing reads more like a Coast-To-Coast-AM who's who than it does a serious book about UFOs. ... Read more

Book Description
This is a thorough historical analysis of the national security dimensions of the UFO phenomenon. Getting past the official pronouncements on the one side, and unprovable assertions on the other, this study gathers together the facts that are known, providing a concise yet comprehensive narrative. Among its contents:

- Nearly 300 documented military encounters with UFOs.
- Activities of over 50 Air Force, Navy, and Army bases relating to UFOs.
- Analyses of the Roswell controversy, the CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel,the Condon Committee Report, and more.
- Description of the fight, and failure, to end UFO secrecy.
- Thoughts on what it all means. ... Read more

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UFO'S AND THE NATIONAL SECURITY STATE
A well written extremely well researched book relating to UFO and the Governments ability to hold the public at bay. I give this book my highest rating a must read for the novist as well as the professional UFO enthusiast.

hot air
Nothing really informative. This book it seems is a collection of sighting data. The sightings are strung together in a neverending number of paragraphs. No information, only data.

Check out Schnoebelen's book Space Invaders. Much more informative.

The truth is out there, and Richard Dolan has found it!
It is quite obvious that the research that went into this book was phenomenal.And this book not only uncovers the cover-up of the UFO scene, but uncovers the CIA, FBI, DIA, NSA, etc. clandestine operations such as Operation Often, Operation Paperclip, MKULTRA.A few among the many cover-ups that have been revealed.

Mr. Dolan has found records of UFO sightings and contacts from all over the world; from citizens to government official to military personnel and officers.

There is no doubt that something is happening and it has and is being covered-up for whatever reason.Mr. Dolan lays the facts all out there for all to see.

This is a truly amazing book!One that is a must read for those who want to know the real deal!

OUTSTANDING
I haven't finished this very comprehensive and spellbinding book yet, but I am 3/4 of the way through it. I was a fence sitter about UFO's and the governement - NOT ANYMORE! Everyone should read this book, even if you have no interest in UFOs, the realization about the way the government works - especially the military and CIA is a real eye opener. Richard Dolan has done his homework and I found it terrifyingly believeable. An investigation is truly needed.

Mind numbing detail....
This long, dry, chronological listing of sightings of UFOs would certainly benefit from a little more narrative snap.It is easy to believe the author's contention that UFOs are treated like a national security issue, and that the government doesn't want to share any information.Nothing suprising there. Still, the overwhelming quantity of sightings listed simply proves that a lot of people have seen a lot of unusual things.But the book doesn't offer any new definitive evidence. If the reader conflates quantity with proof or explanation, the book is compelling.If you're inclined to want more empirical proof, this book won't give it to you. ... Read more

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"Above Top Secret is a bible for UFO watchers."-The Wall Street Journal

Customer Reviews (17)

Need to Know.... UFOs...
Excellent book. Makes believers out of non believers! I have purchased additional copies for friends.

Rosetta Stone [of UFO Books]
Just finished "Need To Know" and feel like the man who decoded the Rosetta Stone must have felt. In other words, the first seventy-five or so books I read on this subject hadn't quite done the trick, but "Need To Know" removed any lingering doubts I might have had up till then. It has the best supporting anecdotes, the best corroborating witnesses, and the best scientific quotes. I wouldn't even knowwhere to begin in praising this book. Every single chapter is outstandingly phenomenal. I would defy any honest skeptic to read this book without becoming convinced that, indeed, the "flying saucers" are real.

Above TS recycled
I am glad that I purchased this book on Amazon and didnt pay full price.Mr. Good re-hashes the stories from his other books and then uses his other books as the majority of the references for this book as to give them third party credibility!. He also re-visits UFO history again and again and again but provides very very little new information.Perhaps worst is the author constantly uses innuendos (such as "somebody high up in the pentagon told me....") but doesnt back them up whats so ever with facts or even a story. Just random lines of sensational innuendos. While I enjoyed "Above TS", this book should be passed.

Dry but worth it
I liked the book and respected the research that went into it. Be forewarned, though, that it is a very dry read. The format of the book is thus: On this date, at this location, this official reported this incident. Repeat 500 times. Mr. Good never breaks in with a personal discussion, summary, or an emotional response till the last chapter. So, it reads like a reference book, but it is a good trade off. With less pages for personal discussion, the author can cram in more information. That information is scary; and that is what makes this book a great read.

Good reading, nothing new here though.
This book is basically just a review for anyone who's really interested in the subject and has already done their homework. I did keep reading thinking I might find something new, but never did. I was also disappointed because I waited almost a year and a half for this book to finally be released. What was the holdup? ... Read more

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In 1994, six people were simultaneously abducted from a hotel on Coronado Island, California. While most were able to recall their abduction by "grey-types,"one had retained actual physical proof an implant. MUFON field investigator Preston Dennett gives eyewitness reports and detailed information about this horrifying event, including medical effects and photographs. ... Read more

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Today, 46 years after the UFO abduction of Betty and BarneyHill, more and more people are convinced that UFOs are real and theirexistence is being covered up by the government. If you have doubts orquestions about the Hill case or alien experiences in general,Captured! will give you the answers you're searching for.

The 1961 abduction of the Hills stirred worldwide interest, primarilybecause of the book The Interrupted Journey, the subsequent mediacoverage, and a 1975 TV movie, The UFO Incident. The case ismentioned in almost all UFO abduction books. It also became a target fordebunkers, who still attack it today.

But the complete story of what really happened that day, its effect on theparticipants, and the findings of investigators has never been told...untilnow.

In Captured! you'll get an insider's look at the alien abduction,previously unpublished information about the lives of the Hills before andafter Barney's death in 1969, their status as celebrities, Betty'sexperiences as a UFO investigator, and other activities before her death in2004.

Kathleen Marden, Betty Hill's niece, shares details from her discussionswith Betty and from the evidence of the UFO abduction. She also looks atthe Hills' riveting hypnosis sessions about their time onboard thespacecraft. The transcripts of these sessions provide insight into thecharacter of the aliens, including their curiosity, their democraticdiscussions, and their desire to avoid inflicting pain.

In addition, co-author, physicist, and ufologist Stanton T. Friedman, theoriginal civilian investigator of the Roswell Incident, reviews and refutesthe arguments of those who have attacked the Hill case, including the starmap Betty Hill saw inside the craft and later recreated. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (15)

CAPTURED! is the best book on this subject
CAPTURED! is thoroughly researched and well written. Highly recommended.

I know it is faithfully based on the audio tapes that were made while Betty and Barney Hill were under hypnosis, because I am one of the two or three living people who listened to all of those tapes.

My notarized testimony of my involvement with Betty and Barney Hill is included at several places in this book.

Ben H. Swett
Colonel USAF (Retired)

Unbiased facts from a niece....
In this version of the Betty and Barney 1961 abduction, Marsden, with the help of Physicist Stanton Friedman, recounts the harrowing and bizarre abduction case of the Hills of New Hampshire.Marsden is Betty's niece, who adeptly recounts from a point of view only a living relative can make, Betty's personal experiences after the abduction, as well as the tragic death of Barney.Not for the faint of heart, this book is a great tutorial for anyone who is in training as a UFO investigator.

Laugh Out Loud fun!
It didn't take long for the relative of Mrs. Hill to cash in after Mrs. Hill passed away. She wrote this book with the "scientist" Mr.Stanton Friedman. Mr. Friedman appears on nearly every UFO "documentary" on the Discovery Channel, TLC, The Science Channel, A&E, etc.. giving his ideas of UFOs. He repeats the same things over and over, never has any new scientific evidence of visitors from space and collects his fee and then moves on to UFO conventions. In fact, making money off of UFOs seems to be his passion not finding out the truth. Ms. Hill has been shown to be a crackpot who took hundreds of photos of UFOs in her life which were nothing more than planes, light posts, car lights, etc. Even the UFO believers have hooted her off stages for her craziness. When she passed away her silliness was picked up by "scientists" like Mr. Friedman to make money off of. Even her psychiatrist, Dr. Simon, says she was imagining her abduction. I would believe him sooner than a man looking to make a buck off a poor woman's delusions like Mr. Friedman. FYI: the star map they praise so much in this book was shown to be worthless over 20 years ago since you can use any set of stars to fit the map. I guess they were hoping people who cared had forgotten.

New Evidence for an Old Controversy
Captured! - the Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience: The True Story of the World's First Documented Alien Abduction is an in-depth analysis of the first (widely reported) case of what would come to be known as "alien abduction."

The root of the story is that author John G. Fuller, worked with Barney and Betty Hill and Dr. Benjamin Simon to expand on an October 25th, 1965 Boston Traveler newspaper story, "UFO Chiller: Did THEY Seize Couple?"

The result of this effort was the best-selling book, The Interrupted Journey (1965).(Just as an aside, a lot of people forget that the original title was the more sensational, The Interrupted Journey: Two Lost Hours Aboard A Flying Saucer.The abbreviated title was obviously the more intriguing choice!)

Stanton Friedman, author of Top Secret/Majic: Operation Majestic-12 and the United States Government's UFO Cover-up, Crash at Corona: The U.S. Military Retrieval and Cover-Up of a UFO, and the forthcoming Flying Saucers and Science: A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs: Interstellar Travel, Crashes, and Government Cover-Ups, is probably UFOlogy's most respected, articulate and well known scientific defender.There are other credentialed academic investigators into UFO's, but Stanton is one of the relatively few to be degreed in what I would consider "hard science" - nuclear physics.His resume lists the names of some very "high-tech" organizations: General Electric, General Motors, Westinghouse, TRW Systems, Aerojet General Nucleonics, and McDonnell Douglas.

Stanton is given unique insight in the case by working with Kathleen Marden, the niece and close confidant of Betty Hill.Coming from such different perspectives, the reader gets an interesting, and entertaining, review of an admittedly controversial topic.

Despite the subject matter, and the fact that the incident being discussed is more than 45 years old, the book has a breezy presentation, very well illustrated (though what's being illustrated isn't always clear) and sprinkled with "pull quotes" and bordered boxes of additional material that, in the days before People Magazine, would have been relegated to footnotes.The style of the book reminds me more of "Entertainment Tonight" than Incident at Exeter: Unidentified flying objects over America now.The result is that the book has a very current flavor.This fact alone may make it more palatable for a younger generation of readers, educated through sound-bites and MTV.

The book goes a long way to make the Hills more "real" and their personal story is told in full for, so far as I know, the first time.As an interracial couple in the late 50's, early 60's, they would've been a remarkable couple entirely independent of their "missing time" incident.More than just victims of a strange event, they were pioneers in the fledgling civil rights movement long before such a struggle became a popular cause.Their contributions to equality were recognized on the national level by a personal invitation to President Lyndon Baines Johnson's 1965 inauguration.Also included in the book is a copy of Barney's appointment to the New Hampshire Civil Rights Commission.In phrasing quaint, or even condescending, to current sensibilities Barney is described as "eminently qualified to serve on the Human Rights Commission as a representative of the Negro Race" (page 298.)In reading the book I couldn't help but reflect that except for the "Interupted Journey" the Hills might well have been as renowned for their contributions to Civil Rights as they are (in some camps) as notorious as the first alien abductees.

In this book are three sources of data addressed in detail for the first time: a series of in-depth interviews between Ms. Marden and her Aunt Betty; analysis of the actual hypnotic sessions conducted by Dr. Simon (though the book, understandably, doesn't contain full transcripts); and a forensic analysis of the dress worn by Betty as the time of the encounter.

Without ruining the book for other readers by giving away too much detail, this evidence not only lends more credence to the Hills' account, but also provides Stanton the springboard to launch a passionate attack on the many detractors who've come forward over the decades to poo-poo the incident.Singled out for particular scorn is Susan Clancy's, Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens.You can tell that Stanton's been aching for the right opportunity to take on Susan's book and in Captured, he's found the perfect venue.

As to whether or not Captured "proves" that the Hills were abducted by aliens, well, that's going to be up to each individual reader to decide for themselves.But with this book, they're going to have a lot more evidence to consider.

not what I was looking for
I was dissapointed with the book because I wanted a book that is written like a story, describing the experience of obducted couple in detail.Instead the book offeres very little of that.Instead the book is mainly about analysis of the couple's story, wheather they were telling the truth or not.It deals with different people analysing their story, putting them under hypnosis, comparing their stories. Analysis, analysis, and more analysis.Very little of the actual story of their experience. ... Read more

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This book has everything, and it does not take a judgemental stand. It reports, discusses, and engages the reader in fruitful lines of investigation and independent thought. From time travel to UFO phenomena, from modern physics and the role of the astronauts and the military to blatant cover-ups and controversies, from the views of the most distinguished scientists and thinkers of our time to sceptics and scoffers, it simply covers the field in the most complete way one can hope to find in a single volume. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Fantastic Book! The real thing! BUY IT!!
A very serious book on extraterrestrials and UFOs well written by a trusted scholar. This is the kind of book ufologists and the general public should read to learn the real things about UFOs and these phenomena. Prof. Maximillien de Lafayette is a serious writer who approaches the subject from different angles: Science, physics, cosmology and real facts. This book is as informative and important as the book, Lafayette wrote previously: Extraterrestrials-US Government Treaty and Agreemeents. It is simply fascinating.

A Great Book by a Great and Unbiased Scholar.
FROM ZETA RETICULI TO EARTH: TIME, SPACE, AND THE UFO TECHNOLOGY is Great Book by a Great and Unbiased Scholar.

The book is written for the intelligent readers and all those who really want to understand the origin of aliens and extraterrestrial civilizations. It is both Ufology book per se, and scientific because it explains purely scientific subjects such as: Possibilities and limitation of time travel, Time travel paradoxes, quantum physics and parallel universes. The captivating part of the book are the chapters that they deal with statements given by US astronauts when they saw UFOS on the moon, and the public statements of Gordon Cooper, extraterrestrial politics in the White House, United States government way of communicating and working with aliens on bases on earth, description of the planet of aliens, and how they reproduce and live on Zeta Reticuli. explanation of interstellar travel and UFO gravitic propulsion, description of the interior of a UFO, and above all the detailed story of how aliens left their original planets (they are more than 46 planets and 46 different races of aliens) and came to earth with a particular plan for the human race. Many aliens according to researchers mentioned in the book refer us tomilitary bases when Aliens from Zeta Reticuli - stil-conducting genetic experiments on humans, and especially American pregnant women!! Great great book. Unique and explosive, as good as the other book written by Maximillien de Lafayette's "The Anunnaki's Genetic Creation of the Human Race".
If you want to understand what is really going on in secret military bases and how aliens are capable of traveling through this amazing universe in a fraction of a second, read this book.
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Not Much New Here
Maybe I was expecting too much, but I was looking for some recent reports from commercial and military pilots that might have been originally suppressed and were recently released to Mr. Clark under the freedom of information act.Instead I got a rehash of older reports, the most recent being around 1986, most, if not all of which I had read about before.Starting long before the Kenneth Arnold sighting on June 4 1947, the book talks mostly about sightings that occurred 40, 50, and 60 years ago.The only surprise was that Mr. Clark on several occasions reported on incidents that were ultimately determined to be a hoax or misidentification of natural phenomena, which he readily acknowledged.I couldn't understand his reason for including them.Similarly he left many apparently good sightings, questioning their validity. I couldn't really tell if Mr. Clark was approaching this as a believer, skeptic, or debunker or whether he was merely relating what he knew.In any case there wasn't anything new presented, any conclusions drawn, and no revelations.

As latest generation of UFO books go I'd give this one a C+.It's a quick study of important cases for anyone new to the subject.

Strange Skys
It seems logical that if your seeking truth about things flying in our skys that you would ask people who fly there and know what kind and shape our Earth craft are.Also when judging distance from the ground or another moving object or speed of some thing encountered people who fly have the basic knowledge to find the answers much more so than some grounded person like me... The book was more than interesting... maybe spell binding.Like a movie .. you see things the second time you look and I'm now going to read the book again... PLEASE READ IT

UFO's are real but what are they and where are they from?
I enjoyed the book it is well presented and edited. The book does not answer my question but that may not be possible.
Even if you don't believe that UFO's are from another planet it is interesting to see how others react to unexpected encounters with something that should not be there.
As a pilot, who once saw something I could not explain, I was fascinated by the book. If you think that UFO's are something made on this planet read the book it could change your mind, or even convince you that you are correct.
I have no doubt they are real I saw something that was impossible for me to explain. But that doesn't mean they were from another planet or galaxy. If we are making them then we have technology I've never even dreamed of.

Never really gets off the ground
As a believer in UFOs, I found this book in the library and thought that it would be a fascinating read about pilot encounters with UFOs. Well, yes and no. Some of the cases presented were truly fascinating and others were ho-hum. It could be due to Clark's writing style. He doesn't really appear to care about what he writes. His style of writing is lackluster and the reading comes across as such.

For example, he will tell the story of such-and-such pilot; this is what he/she saw; the USAF investigated and came to so-and-so conclusions. OK. So what? Other stories, in which he appears to be interested, come across much better and exciting.

Clark gives me the impression of trying to dismiss what he writes, so I wonder why write a book if you don't really believe in the subject matter.

I thought the book would be much more interesting but it just never really takes off for my tastes.

An important contribution to the field.
Well-known ufologist Jerome Clark's 'Strange Skies' provides a fascinating look at an important component of the UFO enigma.This work represents a unique contribution, much as the late Ivan T. Sanderson did with his seminal 1970 book 'Invisible Residents', which detailed UFO sightings associated with the oceans, seas and other bodies of water.
Beginning with such early phenomena as foo fighters and ghost rockets, Clark lays down a historical record of "the more interesting, suggestive reports..." (although they comprise a rather small percentage of the total on file).A large number of these pilot/UFO reports are from the 1940s and 1950s (including, of course, the famed Kenneth Arnold episode), although some are more contemporary, such as the Valentich case and the JAL incident of 1986.Regardless of the sightings' vintage, the author does a superb job in fleshing out the factual details of the events.Clark's writing style infuses his recounting with a hard-to-put-down sense of awe and fascination for the reader.
While Clark generally avoids analysis or speculation, there are some notable exceptions.He persuasively discredits the so-called 'Maury Island incident', and attempts to do the same regarding the 1948 Thomas Mantell case (where pilot Mantell was killed chasing an alleged UFO), although somewhat less convincingly. While he makes a plausible case that Mantell was actually pursuing a a secret, experimental balloon, Mantell's last words to ground control ("a metallic object...of tremendous size") leaves some room for doubt. The comments I had the most trouble with, however, were regarding a sighting in 1965 by Jim Cumber, detailed in the Dec. 2000 issue of The Mutual UFO Network's (MUFON) magazine.This sighting involved an alleged 'snatching' of a jet interceptor by a UFO.After more than 30 years of studying the UFO phenomenon myself, I cannot share Clark's conviction that "the Air Force could not hide a missing interceptor and its crew."He adds the rather puzzling comment that "Whatever Cumber's sighting was about, it cannot have been what he thought it was about."He offers no speculation as to what "it was about," but the inference is that it was a secret military exercise. Perhaps.
These quibbles aside, 'Strange Skies' is a well-written, absorbing book. It is a welcome (and overdue) addition to the annals of ufology. ... Read more

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Scientific inquiry?
This is written by a man who professes his belief in spaceships. He is already in trouble before he starts. This is not "scientific" at all. It is a pundit's paper on why UFOs exist as visitors from space. No real evidence that can be retested by others is presented which is an essential part of the definition of the scientific method.

UFO
PROJECT OF DECODING OF 'THE STORMER EFFECT'
© Henadzi Filipenka
Contact: filipenko@tut.by
http://home.ural.ru/~filip
Henadzi Filipenka, 6a-7 Boldina str. Grodno 230030 Belarus
The phenomenon is described by K.Stormer in his work 'The Problem of Aurora Borealis' in the chapter entitled 'The Echo of Short Waves, Which Comes Back in Many Seconds After The Main Signal'.
In 1928 the radio engineer Jorgen Hals from Birder near Oslo informed K.Stermer about an odd radio echo received 3 seconds after the cessation of the main signal; besides, an ordinary echo encircling the Earth within 1/7 of a second was received.
In July Prof. Stermer spoke to Dr. Van-der-Paul in Andhoven and they decided to carry out experiments in autumn and send telegraphic signals in the form of undamped waves every 20 seconds three dashes one after the other. On 11 October 1928 between 15.30 and 16.00, K.Stermer heard an echo 'beyond any doubt'; the signals lasted for 1,5- 2 seconds on undamped waves 31,4 meters long.
Stermer and Hals recorded the intervals between the main signal and the mysterious echo:
1) 15, 9, 4, 8, 13, 8, 12, 10, 9, 5, 8, 7, 6
2) 12, 14, 14, 12, 8
3) 12, 5, 8
4) 12, 8, 5, 14, 14, 15, 12, 7, 5.5, 13, 8, 8, 8, 13, 9,10,7,14,6,9,5
5) 9
Atmospheric disturbances were insignificant at that time.
The frequency of echoes was equal to that of the main signal. K.Stermer explained the nature of echoes by reflection of radio waves from layers of particles ionised by the Sun. But!
The Professor of the Stenford Electrotechnical University R.Bracewell suggested possibility of informational communication through space probes between more or less developed civilisations in space. From that point of view the information about decoding of Stermer series can be found in following journals:
'Smena' No.2 Moscow 1966 , 'Astronautics and Aeronautics' No.5 USA 1973, 'Technika Molodezi' No.4 1974 and No.5 1977 Moscow, etc.
The author of this work offers the following decoding: let the numbers in the series be replaced for chemical symbols of elements with corresponding nuclear charges:
1) P F Be O Al O Mg Ne F B O N C
2) Mg Si Si Mg O
3) Mg B O
4) Mg O B Si Si P Mg N B B Al O O O Al F Ne N Si C F B
5) F
It is easy to see that the second series is repeated at the beginning of the forth series with the only difference that in the forth series silicon is alloyed with boron and phosphorus, i.e. 'p-n transition' of a diode is created. The third series describes receipt of pure boron through action on boron anhydrite by magnesium: B2O3 Mg = B ...
The author of the above hypothesis wrote his degree paper on silicon carbide light-emitting diode, that is why the ending of the forth series is the most simple- it is a modern light-emitting diode. Silicon carbide is alloyed with nitrogen and boron with 'some participation' of fluorine.
Approximately the same way diamond is alloyed with participation of fluorine in laboratories of 'other civilisations', as can be seen at the ending of the first series. In the middle of the forth series corundum, the base of ruby, is also alloyed with boron, nitrogen and
fluorine.
In the fifth series simply fluorine is educed as a useful but very aggressive gas. Inert neon seems to divide optoelectronic devices.
In conclusion, some repeated applications should be noticed: fluorine favours in a way either diffusion of boron or electronic processes in forbidden zones of diamond, silicon carbamide; for some reason magnesium contacts are used.
In 1928 semi-conductor devices were not in use on Earth.
Publishing date: February 5, 2003
Source: SciTecLibrary.com

Perhaps the Bible of Ufology
Anyone interested in learning about UFOs must read this book. It is a primary starting point for understanding ufology.If you have already read a few other books on UFOs, you still need to read this book to gain a grounded foundation in the study of UFOs.

Everyone in the world should read this book at least once in his or her lifetime.

Perhaps the most important UFO Book ever published
It isn't often that any book can be considered the "most important" or "most influential" in the field that it studies, but Dr. J. Allen Hynek's "UFO Experience" probably does qualify as the most important study of the UFO phenomenon ever written. Why? Unlike most UFO books, which are written by "true believers" who look uncritically at UFOs and whose authors have little or no scientific expertise, Hynek's "UFO Experience" has both the credentials and the objectivity to be taken seriously. Hynek was a respected astronomer at Northwestern University in Chicago and spent over twenty years (1948-1969) as the chief scientific analyst for the US Air Force's Project Blue Book, the government's official study of the UFO phenomenon. What makes Hynek especially credible is that he started out as a debunker - he thought UFO's were "nonsense" and helped the Air Force to debunk most sightings. But as the years passed Hynek gradually became convinced that some UFO reports were not hoaxes or weather balloons or stars or some other "normal" phenomena and that they might represent something extraordinary - even ET visitation from other planets. In the late 1960's he became openly critical of how Blue Book's staff was handling the UFO reports it was receiving. (In many cases Blue Book's staff didn't make even a brief investigation of a UFO sighting - they simply made up an explanation and filed it away). When the Condon Report was published in 1969 and stated that the UFO phenomenon was "useless" to science, Hynek decided to set up his own organization - with as many credible scientists as possible - to continue to study UFO reports in a serious and scientific way. In 1972 he published the "UFO Experience" in part as a rebuttal to the Condon Report's dismissal of the UFO phenomenon. He points out that although the Condon Report claimed that there was no evidence that UFOs represented anything other than hoaxes and/or misidentifications of known aerial objects, the Report couldn't find "normal" explanations for nearly one-third of the UFO incidents it examined, and had to list them as "unsolved". The "UFO Experience" still makes what many people believe to be the strongest scientific argument that UFOs deserve serious study by qualified scientists. Much of the book discusses the "Close Encounter" UFO sightings which clearly fascinated Hynek. A "Close Encounter of the First Kind" was a UFO observed at extremely close range - within 500 feet. Hynek notes that the closeness of the object helps eliminate the possibility that the witness saw an "ordinary" object - an airplane or a star, for example. A "Close Encounter of the Second Kind" is one in which the UFO physically interacts with the witness - their car shuts off, the UFO leaves burn marks on the ground, etc. And a "Close Encounter of the Third Kind" is one in which the witness actually sees "UFOnauts" either inside or outside the UFO. This last category was used as the title of Steven Spielberg's famous 1978 movie - Spielberg was an admirer of Hynek and gave him a cameo role in the movie. The book is well-written, but it is a "scientific" work and the reader should know that it sometimes contains technical and scientific language and theories. Dr. Hynek pulls no punches in his criticism of the Condon Report or other scientists who choose to ignore the evidence he cites. In short, although nearly 30 years have passed since it was published, Hynek's "UFO Experience" remains one of the best-argued scientific examinations of the UFO phenomenon. If you're interested in learning about UFOs, then this book is a good place to start. (A good "companion" volume to this book is the "Hynek UFO Report", published five years after the "UFO Experience" and which discusses actual UFO cases taken directly from the files of Project Blue Book).

Credible
Another peoples champion with partial insider knowledge trying to work out why the establishment are covering up/avoiding the UFO issue.This ordered thesis is a slice of UFO investigation from 30 years ago - have we moved on?not really.Very much along the lines of Donald Keyhoe and his crusade to highlight the circus that was called the Condon Report. This is someone who sounds credible, more so than our governments. Another essential for Ufoligists ... Read more

Book Description
There are many events that shape our collective efforts to explain who we are and what our place is in the Universe. And there is no phenomenon that so aptly encompasses all the fear and wonder of our times than that of the Unidentified Flying Object (UFO). The Mammoth Book of UFOs provides the ultimate guide to the history and background of the phenomenon, and attempts to interpret the meaning through summaries and true-life accounts about alien abduction, crop circles, and cattle mutilations, as well as through the analysis of the many conspiracy theories that surround UFOs, from alleged Nazi-originated technologies to bizarre CIA plots. Further in-depth materials include classic stories and abductee interviews; weird occurrences such as the "breath suckers" of Brazil and poltergeist outbreaks following UFO sightings; examination of the troubled history of UFO contactees, from their harassment to physical illness, murder, and suicide; the influence of cults such as the Aetherius Society, the tragic Heaven's Gate, and infamous tales of the Men in Black. Illustrated with photographs, maps, and witnesses' sketches, The Mammoth Book of UFOs is thoroughly researched and presented as objectively as possible. It does not seek to convert or persuade, but to excite and provoke by providing an overview of a major twentieth-century phenomenon that both defies and challenges our theories about reality. ... Read more

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ok
Mildly entertaining, the author is against the ET hypothesis feels UFOS are co-habitants of earth trying to trick us to think they they are from another planet, lame theory.

UFO Reports That Stick To The Facts,Mam!
This book is simply fantastic.The author has documented so many UFO reports it will keep you wanting more and more.BTW,this book is as the title states;Mammoth.I keep going back to this book over and over again.

The Mammoth Book of effluvia
You might not consider it fair to write a review while I'm still on page 386, but this is after mammoth jumping, bypassing a lot of boring, hearsay-oriented tales.Yeah, someone's got to archive these tales, but why?There's a ton of books with similar content, all of them boring.I was impressed when I visited the library and saw a UFO title under Lynn's name, since I've read her other books and enjoyed what I read.But now she's dealing with a subject I got interested in back in 1957 and I'm quite knowledgeable about UFOs.This book is a disappointment 'cause Lynn behaves like a believer.It doesn't matter if it's hearsay, she buys it.This book is not like her previous books which seem to be the result of quite extensive research. This is one is not one of them.Yeah, she sort-of provides additional details to some old tales, but this book is not for skeptics.On top of this, regardless of what you read there isn't a single illustration or photo included.This bothered me 'cause when she talks about a case that provided photo/film/video there isn't a single frame shown to see what all the hoopla is about. Read it, but don't swear by it 'cause she quotes a lot of questionable sources.We all know that Travis Walton is a liar.We all know that Strieber is putting you on and getting rich at it.We all know that Hopkins, Jacobs, et al, are not qualified to mess with peoples' minds, but Lynn gives them airtime.And so it goes.If I had edited the book it might have been no more than 150/200 pages and even that might have included a lot of the crap one finds not only in this book but in almost every book written by non-qualified believers. I also would have corrected quite a few typos.Finally, this book is too "mammoth," making it slightly bigger would have produced a thinner, "better" book.Lynn, stick to the mysteries that you have dealt with in the past and leave UFOs to those who have a more open mind.Being a believer colors whatever you want to say. ... Read more

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UFOs Over California
This book was logically organized, and presented with a vocabulary that gripped your attention from the getgo.If even 1/20th of what the author says is true (and the evidence says it is), we are on the verge of being merged with societies of extraterrestials that we know nothing about, even if the military knows something about the equipment that they use.It is past time for the military to come clean and get our sociologists and psychologists to studying these societies.Otherwise, the human race has a disaster in the making.

More Going On In California Than Most Other Sources Let On
Mr. Dennett has compiled what is possibly the most exhaustive list of California sightings to date. Not that I can agree with the sources of origin, after years of reading volumes of literature, and a past involvement with occultic practices. My conclusion is they're all from the same source. Read my other reviews on the paranormal to see what that source is. But for the sheer history of occurrences in the state, in a league of its own.

Great Artwork and Lots of Information
Preston Dennett has done it again.This book contains a great deal of information on the full range of UFO experiences reported in California, including the Topanga Canyon wave, USOs (unidentified submersible objects), the Contactee Movement, abductions, landings and possible crash retrievals, Dr. Roger Leir's implant surgeries and more.The highlight of the book, however, is the art, and this book has quite a lot of it.

Kesara is a talented illustrator and this book contains many of her best illustrations of UFO sightings and alien encounters.To be fair, her artwork is somewhat stylized, which may be why some reviewers did not consider it accurate.However, the images do accurately evoke the feelings associated with the encounter experience, and by comparing her drawings of aliens with her drawings of humans (given that we all know what humans look like), one can "reverse-engineer" them to get a sense of what the aliens might look like without the imprint of Kesara's unique style.The UFO experience is primarily visual (objects and strange beings are *seen* and described by witnesses) so the use of art to convey the experience is important.

The book also contains several photographs of craft-like UFOs allegedly seen over California, including reprints of the famous Rex Heflin photos.

All told, the book is an important contribution to the UFO literature and although it doesn't really tell us much that is fundamentally new, it does flesh out a lot of information that any serious researcher of the UFO experience might have encountered elsewhere.

Positive feedback makes the world a better place
Dennis S. Smith is obviously a strongly opinionated individual. He appears to have images of movies and mainstream media burned in his brain. Dennis does not see and appreciate this 'true art' andit's dedication to illustration accurate accounts of abductions and/or UFO siting experiences. In addition, Dennis seems to have no idea as to the time it takes to revise these renderings to accuracy. If he was able look deeper into the images, he would have appreciated the feelings that is evoked out of the artwork. I absolutely do not agree with his opinion about the illustrations. They are sensatively done and offer the book meaningful and accurate examples of the stories behind them. They are truly haunting without any commerical influence what so ever. It is a breath of fresh air to see something so uniquely done. Kesara is an experienced artist. The History Channel do not agreewith Dennis either. Her illustrations are regularly seen on UFO programming on this station.

Art work in UFOs Over Califoriia
In the twenty years that I have worked as an artist I have never received such a humble oppinion of my work.I have worked with investigators, abductees, and experiencers and not one of them had a negative oppinion of the work I did for them.Yet I respect the veiws of our readers.Thank you for your expert and humble oppinion.I have over two hundred illustrations based on actual events.The history of these illustrations are extrodinary and each one very unique in that they translate themselves through the discription of the experience.I have watched the person who has been through the experience cry, turn white and nearly pass out when I drew a sketch of their discribed experience, simular to a police sketch artist.In some ways the picture seems to provide theraputic outlet for the person. I have seen many people relate to the illustrations drawn telling me about their personal stories.The artwork act as a trigger for other experiencers hiding their event afraid to share with others, afraid of ridicule. I just wanted others to know that read these reveiws that these pictures have a history and deep meaning for those I have drawn for.Thank you Kesara ... Read more

Book Description
During the evening hours of March 13, 1997, thousands of Arizona residents witnessed a mile-long, v-shaped formation of lights flying in the skies overhead. The UFO sightings garnered headline news, catching the attention of both USA Today and the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.One person, however, was not surprised by the appearance of the lights. Dr. Lynne Kitei was simply grateful that a phenomenon she'd been witnessing--and documenting--for months was being validated by the experience of thousands of people statewide. After the incident, Dr. Kitei preferred to stay in the background, anonymously feeding information and video clips to the many news organizations who wanted in on the story. Now, for the first time, Dr. Kitei comes forward to tell her own story. "The Phoenix Lights" is an exhaustively researched look at the phenomenon, including dozens of astonishing photographs and Kitei's own take on the wider implications of this remarkable event. ... Read more

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Took a left tun
The book was o.k. but took a left turn just over half way through.The first part of the book was good, but sometimes a little hard to follow the timeline.At one point she is writting about a year of two later and then she is writting about the next day.... About halfway through she goes into some history of UFOs.Then into connections with near death experiences and "its all love" explainations, which is the left turn I didn't see coming based on the first half of the book.

One technical statement is worded a little off, in my opinion. On page 162 she writes: "Just a few short years ago, we discovered that every living cell possesses electromagnetic energies.This revolutionary finding helped us develop the MRI (magnetic resonance imaging), which detects disease noninvasively."We've known that living cells possesses electromagnetic energies for a long time because they are made up of charged particles: protons, electrons as atoms. Also, MRI was developed based on the magnetic moment of the proton in the atomic nuclei.For me, the descriptions "Just a few short years ago" and "This revolutionary finding" are too dramatic for my tastes and a little off in accuracy.

A Sighting You Can't Deny...
The Phoenix Lights rates high on my list of UFO books that have hit the mass market in the past 20 years.Indeed, it is well-documented complete with references and footnotes so it can even be categorized under "UFO Research".Kitei does great justice to the UFO investigative community in this faithful documentation of a worldwide phenomena up close and personal from the author's own backyard (bedroom window, in this case).It takes a great deal of courage to risk one's professional reputation let alone one who is a member of the medical community.Dr. John Mack of "Abduction" fame would have been proud.There are only two camps in the UFO investigative/research community: those who see aliens as malevolent self-serving creatures and those who see them as advanced benevolent beings of light.If you fit the second category of UFO seeker, then this book is for you.

Seeing the light!
Great color photos on www.thephoenixlights.net. But more important than lights in the sky, this painstakingly researched work is a tribute (and consolation) to anyone who has ever experienced something out of the ordinary. I have recommended it to my students and friends since discovering it a couple years ago. Packed with compelling information, this true story is about "seeing the light" and the integrity, persistence and dedication of one human being's search for the truth. An inspiration for us all.

Waste of Time
This book is a waste of time.How many times can one say "I saw these lights.What are they?"There are a few pictures showing little bitty lights in the distance sky.You see the lights, but they're are no more than specks.This is really a "nothing-said" book.Save your money.

A MUST READ
Whether or not you are a believer in life beyond Earth, this book makes a substantial case that we are being visited by other intelligences - one that is a relief and comfort for those of us who have experienced an UP [Unexplained Phenomenon]. The author, who is a noted physician, educator and experiencer, shares her own journey of discovery, while helping the reader discover that we're not alone - and probably never have been. This book is a joy to read, as well as an intriguing guide, particularly for those searching for answers.

While I was searching, I happened on www.thephoenixlights.net and found the color photographs and footage on the site even more compelling than the black and whites illustrated in the book.

But make no mistake, this important story is a must read for young and old alike. ... Read more

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Good read!
This is a great book. There should be more like it, it opens the mind a little bit to the strange an possible, it kept me glued to the pages. You never know until you experience it!

WOW!!!
Once in a while a book comes along that really holds your attention.I can imagine times when I felt uneasy after I heard a creak in the night or the russle of leaves behind me when hiking.This book makes the hair stand up on the back of you neck, and to think, it was based on true stories. Great work Southerly.

UFOs: Physcial or more "metaphysical?"
Curt Sutherly's book is an excellent read. He places UFOs into their true context: Are we dealing with a phenomenon that is physical or "metaphysical" as he calls it. In his dandy forward he sets thetone of the book by noting, "....he dismissed the prevailing beliefthat UFOs are extraterrestrial spacecraft and began working under theassumption that something far more odd and complex is at work...What someof us failed to take into account was the potential for heightenedemotional and psychological stress. For Raymond and a number ofothers....the stress arising from the unrelenting (and other undisciplined)study of UFOs was worsened by a belief that the phenomenon was moremetaphysical than physical." UFOs, black panthers, Big Birds,Bigfoot, and aliens; Curt puts them all into the proper perspective. My owninvestigations in the Troup-Heard Corridor of westcentral Georgia andeastcentral Alabama have confirmed what Curt writes so well of. Aninformative page-turner. I recommend it to all.

Strange Encounters
Outstanding!This book has great stories and is a must read for anyone. I could not put it down until it was completely read. ... Read more

Book Description
For more than six decades we have been trying to unlock the secrets of the flying saucers. A third generation of investigators is now doing its best in this venture, but is using the same outmoded, ineffective methods as those that failed in the past. Since 1947 most have sought to establish that UFOs come from an extraterrestrial world in our universe, a few researchers have suggested the unknowns hail from other dimensions, a hollow Earth, undersea civilizations or that they are occult manifestations. Could it be that every investigator has been proceeding from a false assumption? Why does there have to be a single, all-encompassing explanation? Do medical researchers seek after a single strain of bacterium to explain all infectious disease? Do cryptozoologists search for just one unidentified genus to account for all sightings of mysterious creatures? Both of these disciplines seek various answers to account for the life forms they study. It is time for ufologists to follow this example and assign each case history to the category relevant to it.

Customer Reviews (4)

Examining and Re-Examining
Hate to be the only dissenter, but; I was totally disappointed in "Visitors: A New Look At UFO's" by Kelly Bell. The first 3/4 of the book is a collection of UFO sightings, many of which were chopped versions of the "classics."The entire time I am reading these pages; I could not help but wonder..."Why?"

Unfortunately, there was little "Shock and Awe" about anything.I agree that UFO Investigations should be looked at and categorized in different ways, but the constant interjection of religious ideologies prodded on by prophesy and an alien lead armageddon to destroy the concept of a supreme being was simply...just too much for me.

I mean no disrespect to Mr. Bell. He like all of us, has a divine right to their own opinions, but...that's all this book is, "opinions."

UFOs, Aliens, Men in Black, Communism, World War, Holocaust, Israel, Virgin Mary, Messiah, God and other dimension
Read and learn! Flying saucers are strange. Some aliens are nice, and some are not nice and could invade Earth. By the way, I think women on Earth are among the prettiest in the galaxy. So I stay here. Witness to Roswell by Thomas J. Carey is the most important book from 2007, I think. Visitors: A new look at UFOs is another good book.

good read
Very eye opening book. Would recomend to anyone who is on the fence about such topics.

Visitors - An Excellent Book
I highly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in the subject of UFOs. The author suggests various explanations for UFO. The book also includes the theories of another writer about Roswell. In addition, the alien plan for Earth is discussed. This book is very objective and well written. It gives excellent insights on the issue of UFOs and extraterrestrial aleins.

Wes Peyton ... Read more

Amazon.com
New Year's Eve 1982 marked the beginning of one of the most puzzling UFO cases in recent times: the Hudson Valley "siege." The siege begot over 7,000 sightings of a boomerang-shaped craft or crafts moving silently through the sky over New York and Connecticut between 1982 and 1995. Night Siege is the collaborative effort of Hynek, Imbrogno, and Pratt to report the data gathered from witnesses of this mystifying experience, without speculation of what it might be. If you missed the first edition of Night Siege, this is your chance to delve into the Hudson Valley mystery. If you have read the first edition, you may be interested in the additional data covering sightings from 1986 to 1995, the graphical analysis of the UFO's appearance, and the chronology of the sightings. Aside from the purely factual value of the catalog of reports in Night Siege, its coverage of an undeniable series of events that somehow went largely untouched by the local authorities and the national media invites speculation into the origins of these silent objects. --Brian Patterson ... Read more

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Night Seige
This is an update and comprehensive review of the Huson River UFO sightings from the 1980's to the present written by the team who did the investigation. The summary of different aspects of the case at the end of the book are invaluable to the study of ufolgy.
You will learn about the Hudson River UFO from its inception to the present and have the opportunity to examine the evidence.

The flying triangles
A nice fast read on an interesting subject.If you're into UFO's,you'll wish you saw one!

It's not until someone reads up on Nikola Tesla that one finds out that all UFO's are most likely experimental aircraft
A few years ago, I read this fascinating account about the famous "Weschester Boomerang" sightings of the Hudson Valley and whatmade this so believable was that it was coming from the type of people who were highly educated and were the type of people who laugh at people who claimed to have witnessed UFO's.The first time I had ever heard about these sightings was on an Unsolved Mysteries episode.A number of people thought this was a spaceship from another world and so did I at one time.However, it wasn't until I researched the life, times, and inventions of a brilliant genius named Nikola Tesla that I realized that all UFO's are most likely secret government projects that are still using his inventions to this very day.What is incredible about Tesla is that he invented a lot of technology that we use today back in the late 1800's!!Among his inventions were remote control, lasers, X-Rays, Alternating Current, Radio, Robotics, and Wireless Communication, just to name a few.What is amazing is that he had over 700 patents and a lot of his work he had to keep secret, for fear of being stolen from other people, which is why we haven't heard much about his inventions until years later.In fact, computers were actually already being developed as early as the 1940's, using Tesla's technical know-how, and Tesla was by far not the only genius who developed items that were way ahead of their time.When one sees how much technology was actually invented over 100 years ago, then it is not hard to believe that the government around the 1980's would have a huge metallic structure that could fly silently, especially when one realizes that technology is exponential.Also, in recent years there have been a number of articles written about the government experimenting with anti-gravity technology--no, not from aliens, but from geniuses like Nikola Tesla.

At any rate, this book is well-written and is surprisingly down to earth for being a UFO book and is fun reading.

night siege
great book on what went on in Hudson Valley, New York back in the late 1980's. Five stars! jim pianfetti

Plato's Cave Projected Onto the Hudson River Valley Skies
Despite its ominous title, Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, and Bob Pratt is a sensible, sober book on the subject of unexplained aerial phenomena. Witnesses to the events and active participants in the investigation during the period described, the authors have limited the book to examining the dramatic 13 - year UFO wave that took place over the Hudson River Valley from 1982 through 1995. During that period, the UFOs were seen by an estimated 7,000 people and reported to authorities by at least a tenth of that number.

The "boomerang - shaped," brightly - lit UFOs behaved like brazen tricksters and interactive provocateurs during their reign of the night skies. Most often described as "bigger than a football field," the silent objects flew less that 500 feet above heavily populated commercial and residential areas, stopped traffic on freeways, turned sideways and spiraled through the air like Ferris wheels, dived into and flew out of bodies of water, hovered over single homes and cars for minutes on end, responded to lights flashed in their direction with dramatic light displays of their own, and disappeared over the horizon in bursts of unbelievable acceleration. Several witnesses reported that the objects dematerialized - or "vanished" - right before their eyes.

On the night of July 24th 1990, an enormous, apparently nonchalant UFO hovered over the Indian Point Nuclear Reactor Complex and came within thirty feet of the only reactor in operation. Awestruck plant personnel had the object on camera for more than fifteen minutes, and were given tentative orders to shoot it down. Helpless police officers confronted the UFOs and repeatedly explained to panicked callers that they did not know what the objects were. The FAA reported that witnesses were seeing nothing more than small lightweight planes flying together in formation, an explanation few accepted. The national media ignored the sightings year after year.

However, identically - described objects were reported in the area as early as the mid - Fifties, and have been reported in subsequent decades from countries all over the world. Commonly known today as "black triangles," a number of theorists - experts and amateurs alike - believe the triangles are the product of United States "black operations" military programs. The most common theory is that the objects are enormous "solid dirigibles," or "stealth blimps," that function as transportation systems for large numbers of soldiers and masses of heavy equipment.

Were the Hudson Valley UFOs secret advanced - model solid dirigibles? If so, why did they repeatedly fly over areas where they would inevitably be seen by a great number of affluent, educated people? What practical purpose could their colorful, complex light patterns have had? If the objects were created to carry government troops, why has no soldier come forward to discuss his or her experience on such a vessel? If the United States has access to such incredibly advanced technology, why weren't these ships utilized in recent wars? Why are the United State's space shuttles still built with comparatively rudimentary and unreliable technology?

Though the presented evidence often seems highly credible, it is difficult to accept that the United States government, as it is generally understood to exist, can presently create and control objects like those reported here. Nor is there any sound reason to believe that the Hudson Valley UFOs were extraterrestrial craft. Interpreted imaginatively, the objects seem like nothing so much as highly advanced, unmanned investigatory probes or other scientific tools -- immense to us but tiny, perhaps even microscopic, to their creators -- from some greater plane of reality that were intermittently thrust into mankind's perception, and then removed from it with equal ease. Like objective correlatives to the allegory of Plato's Cave, the objects seemed like tangible, mocking proof that the universe is a much stranger place than mankind, with its dogmatic "consensus reality," wants to accept. This is true regardless of the genuine facts concerning their nature and origin.

The authors remain admirably restrained and objective throughout, hesitantly putting forth ideas but drawing no conclusions (except for one unfortunate slip in Chapter 16 when the UFOs are described as "something [that is] not of this Earth"). A number of witnesses of the phenomena-including police officers -- are quoted at length. Reports of alien abduction phenomena, what some witnesses called "telepathic communication" with the object, and CE - IIIs are noted but left purposefully undiscussed. As Jung concluded in his "Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies," "Something is seen, but what?" ... Read more

Book Description
This book contains 46 UFO cases and over 130 photographs. Many countries and hundreds of witnesses are represented for the serience student.This is a collectors limited edition book. ... Read more

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Pictures of dots and vague lights in the sky
This is not worth your money nor does it do the study of UFOs any favors. Use a microscope to if you want to see the hazy dots in the pictures that are certainly unidentified but boring.

UFO Photos Reviewed by a photographer
Brilliant......interesting and very well put together probably the best book in the world of actual pictures with analysis and explanantions of the background to the pics.....published by wendelle stevens ex USAF who loadedcameras on planes over the Acrtic tasked with searching for ufos and filmfiled in washington without been processed first?this is what startedWendelle on his lifes mission.....Book 2 equally good.....only wish somemajor publisher would publish the complete archive he has over 5000 of thebest pics taken and shown to be real...in colour would have been goodaswell........ Other books to read..Cosmic Crashes.Nick Redfern Tim GoodsBooks all of them Budd Hopkins..all books... Stanton Friedman...all booksby the very best in world res