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UFO 1947-1997
Fifty Years of Flying Saucers
By Dennis Stacy and Hillary Evans
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272 Pages, John Brown Publishing (UK)
Date: 1997
Added to Catalog: 9/24/97
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Our Review |
Opinion of the webmaster, subject to debate |
Jerome Clark calls this "the best UFO book of the year."
Here are new
essays by 31 of the most important people in ufology about "what it
all means". Of course there's no one answer, but that's what makes
it all so much fun! There are some very entertaining pieces, such as
James Moseley (of Saucer Smear fame) recalling how wild
things were in the 1950s. Hector Quintanilla writes a rather surprising
story focusing on the Socorro case, and the infamous Michigan "swamp
gas" explanation. He also describes Dr. Allen Hynek as not very useful
and a considerable obstruction to critical investigation, an interesting
perspective! No matter how much you know about the subect, you will
find quite a few things you didn't know in this wide ranging
book.
Although this book is not yet widely available in the U.S.,
we have obtained it from England by special arrangement.
-- tm
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From the Book Cover
It has been fifty years since the first UFO sighting made headlines around the globe. In five decades, the phenomenon has grown from simple reports of strange ligts in the sky and flying discs to become the world's most complex and widely reported enigma, encompassing accounts of alien abductions, bizarre medical experiments, and rumors of crashed saucers and dead witnesses.
But what have we learned? Despite tens of thousands of eyewitness reports, blurred footage and dubious still photographs, the mystery remains. Here, in one volume, the world's leading authorities on UFOs gather to review the key evidence, assess the rival theories and summarize out current knowledge.
On June 24, 1947, pilot Kenneth Arnold spotted nine silvery crescent-shaped objects hurtling at high speed through the skies of America's Pacific Northwest - and the world changed overnight. The Arnold sighting not only introduced a new phrase - "flying saucers" - into the post-war lexicon, it unleased a flood of similar reports which remain largely unexplained to this day.
Reports poured in from all four corners of the world. In 1954, in France, UFOs landed in large numbers, and entities emerged. Next came accounts of alien abductions. In recent years, tales of animal mutilations, secret underground bases and hybrid human-aliens babies have also been associated with UFOs, making the phenomenon by far the most pervasive mystery or myth of the 20th century.
UFO 1947-1997 is the definitive guide to all 50 years of strange reports and close encounters - a landmark turn away from endless, idle speculation to get back to basics, to the times, people and places that made UFO history. It captures and encapsulates the first half-century of the UFO phenomenon in the words of those who initially experienced, investigated, and in some cases, created it, as well as offering explanation and interpretation from the world's leading authorities on the subject.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Eight Days That Shaped Ufology Dennis Stacy
THE 1940s
- 1947: Beginning of the UFO Era Jan Aldrich
- What Happened on June 24, 1947 Kenneth Arnold
- General Doolittle and the Ghost Rockets Anders Liljegren
THE 1950s
- The Best Hoax in UFO History? Karl Pflock
- UFOs Out West James Moseley
- Adamski and His Believers: A Reminiscence Marc Hallet
- Meeting the Extraterrestrials: How the ETH Was Invented Jerome Clark
- The 1954 UFO Invasion of Australia Bill Chalker
- Donald E. Keyhoe and the Pentagon Michael Swords
THE 1960s
- Days in the Life: Diary Entries from May 15 to July 26, 1966 Jacques Vallee
- A UFO Flap Area John Rimmer
- Project Blue Book's Last Years Hector J. Quintanilla
THE 1970s
- The Langenburg CE2 Case: When UFOs Left Their Mark Chris Rutkowski
- The Allagash Abductions Raymond E. Fowler
- Darkening Skies, 1979-1980: Of Dead Cows and Little Green Men David Perkins
THE 1980s
- Trans-en-Provence: When Science and Belief Go Hand in Hand Eric Maillot & Jacques Scornaux
- The Question Richard F. Haines
- The Belgian 1989-1990 UFO Wave Wim Van Utrecht
THE 1990s
- Declassification! Military UFO Records Released: The Spanish Experience Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos
- Ballet of Lights in the Carpathians Ion Hobana
- Car-stop Encounter in Denmark Kim Moiler Hansen
- UFOs in Africa: Changing Ways in Changing Days Cynthia Hind
ASPECTS
- The Best Kept Secret Patrick Huyghe
- Bridging 5O Years of UFO History Richard Hall
- Soviet Ufology in Its Human Dimensions Vladimir Rubtsov
- Public Opinion Polls and UFOs Robert Durant
- The Force of a Myth Marcel Delaval
- A Few Home Truths Jenny Randles
- Epilogue:A Twentieth-Century Myth Hilary Evans
Bibliography
Index
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About the Author
HILARY EVANS is one of Britain's most respected
authorities on strange phenomena. He has investigated UFO
sightings, written about ghosts and authored several acclaimed books, including
Altered States of Consciousness, Visions,
Apparitions, Alien Visitors and Gods, Spirits,
Cosmic Guardians. He helped to found the
Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous
Phenomena and in 1987 edited UFOs 1947-
1987: The Forty Year Search for an Explanation for the
British UFO Research Association. He lives and works in London.
DENNIS STACY has been involved in UFO reporting and research
for more than 20 years. Presently the editor of the monthly
MUFON UFO Journal,his articles, interviews and pictures have
appeared in Omni, Smithsonian Air & Space,and
New Scientist. Stacy is a columnist for Fortean
Times and co-editor and publisher of The
Anomalist, a twice-annual paperback series
devoted to the study of anomalies of science,
nature and history. Married, he lives with his wife
and son in San Antonio, Texas.
-- From the Publisher
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