By Curtis PeeblesOur Price: $6.99 Our Item Code: wts Postage Code: book1
342 Pages, Mass-Market Paperback |
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This is a skeptic's history of the UFO movement, offering a plausible - although often superficial - explanation for most of the major publicized UFO events since the 1947 Kenneth Arnold sighting. Anyone who has pursued any of these stories, like Roswell or the Travis Walton case, is bound to find grounds for argument, but it is still interesting to see the flying saucer phenomenon placed into an historical perspective. Anyone seriously interested in UFOs-both pro and con-needs to read this book. At the least, it provides a good synoptic overview of the UFO movement, as well as plenty of references. -- Glenn Campbell
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In Washington State on June 24, 1947, pilot Kenneth Arnold witnessed nine peculiar saucershaped aircroft flying in a line at incredible speed. His attempts to contact the authorities spawned front-page stories referring - for the first time - to "flying saucers."
Watch the Skies! chronicles the arrival and invasion of the UFO myth in American popular culture. From Air Force files to pulp magazines to popular movies, author Curtis Peebles recounts - in chilling detail - the record of sightings, contacts, and abductions that has shaped a new mythology over nearly fifty years. A mythology that has inspired our greatest hopes and deepest fears: That there is life out there...
"The many newly declassified documents detailed in these pages
make fascinating reading and a thoroughly enjoyable account
of modern beliefs, gullibilities, psychodramas, and mysteries
both solved and unsolvable." - Frederick C. Durant III, FAIAA, FAAS,
FBIS, Secretary of the Robertson Panel
"Peebles has undertaken a literally exhaustive investigation
of all signiticant 'saucer sightings'... The work is meticulously
organized, documented, and well thought out: a significant contribution
to the literature of the space age."
- Richard P. Hallion, Aviation Historian
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In Washington State on June 24, 1947, pilot Kenneth Arnold witnessed nine peculiar saucershaped aircroft flying in a line at incredible speed. His attempts to contact the authorities spawned front-page stories referring - for the first time - to "flying saucers."
Watch the Skies! chronicles the arrival and invasion of the UFO myth in American popular culture. From Air Force files to pulp magazines to popular movies, author Curtis Peebles recounts - in chilling detail - the record of sightings, contacts, and abductions that has shaped a new mythology over nearly fifty years. A mythology that has inspired our greatest hopes and deepest fears: That there is life out there...
"The many newly declassified documents detailed in these pages
make fascinating reading and a thoroughly enjoyable account
of modern beliefs, gullibilities, psychodramas, and mysteries
both solved and unsolvable." - Frederick C. Durant III, FAIAA, FAAS,
FBIS, Secretary of the Robertson Panel
"Peebles has undertaken a literally exhaustive investigation
of all signiticant 'saucer sightings'... The work is meticulously
organized, documented, and well thought out: a significant contribution
to the literature of the space age."
- Richard P. Hallion, Aviation Historian
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