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Watch The Skies

Cover Image By Curtis Peebles
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342 Pages, Mass-Market Paperback
Smithsonian Institution Press
Related listings: UFO Skeptics
Date: 1994   ISBN: 0-440-22306-7
    Added to Catalog: 12/11/96 (Revised 12/96)
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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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Table of Contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Prologue
    • Ghost Rockets
    • The Man Who Invented Flying Saucers
    • The Shaver Mystery
  3. The Age of Confusion Begins
    • The 1947 Flap
    • The Army Air Force Becomes Involved
    • The Maury Island Mystery
    • Project Sign
    • The Flying Saucer Myth 1947
  4. The Classics
    • The Death of Mantell
    • The Chiles-Whitted Sighting
    • Estimate of the Situation
    • The Gorman Dogfight
    • Rejection
    • The Green Fireballs
    • Factions
    • Project Grudge
    • Suspicions
    • The Flying Saucer Myth 1948-1949
      • Basic Beliefs
      • Beliefs Not Fully Accepted
  5. The Myth Defined
    • A Question of Methods
    • "The Flying Saucers Are Real"
    • The Questions Grow
    • "The Flying Saucers Are Real"
    • "Behind the Flying Saucers"
    • Flying Saucers and Hollywood
    • The Flying Saucer Myth 1950-1951
      • Basic Beliefs
      • Beliefs Not Fully Accepted
  6. The 1952 Flap
    • The Fort Monmouth Sightings
    • The New Project Grudge and Project Blue Book
    • The Death of Mantell‹Solved
    • Prelude to the Great Flap
    • The Great Flap of 1952
    • The Invasion of Washington
    • Aftermath
    • Investigation
    • The Crashed Saucer Con
    • Convictions and Belief
    • The Flying Saucer Myth 1952
      • Basic Beliefs
      • Beliefs Discredited
  7. The Robertson Panel
    • CIA Involvement
    • The Robertson Panel
    • Aftermath
    • "Flying Saucers from Outer Space"
  8. The Contactee Era
    • The First Contactee...
    • ...And His Skeptics
    • Adamski's Imitators
    • Outer Space Communications
    • Flying Saucer Clubs and Saucerian
    • Conventions
    • The Contactee Myth
    • The Flying Saucer Myth 1953-1956
      • Basic Beliefs
      • The Contactee Myth
  9. The Rise of NICAP
    • "The Flying Saucer Conspiracy"
    • Flying Saucer Movies
    • The National Investigations Committee on
    • Aerial Phenomena
    • Fall 1957
  10. The 1957 Flap
    • Levelland
    • The White Sands Sightings
    • The Flap Spreads
    • Reinhold O. Schmidt
    • The Air Force Investigates
  11. NlCAP's Battle for Congressional
    • Hearings
    • NICAP at War
    • NICAP vs. the Contactees
    • The Contactees Fight Back
    • NlCAP's Problems
    • Last Try for Hearings
    • NlCAP's Critics
    • Air Force Activities 1957-1963
    • The Flying Saucer Myth(s) 1957-1963
      • Basic Beliefs
      • The NICAP Myth
      • The Contactee Myth
  12. The Sixties
    • Prologue to the Flap
    • The Socorro Landing
    • The Socorro Investigation
    • Aftermath
    • The Sixties Flap Begms
    • Astronaut Sightings
    • The Wave of UFO Books
    • Interrupted Journey?
    • Interpretations and Meanings
    • Response
    • The Sixties Roll On
    • "The Big Breakthrough"
  13. The Condon Report
    • Swamp Gas
    • Dr. James E. McDonald
    • A Poor Choice of Words
    • The Battle of Colorado
    • McDonald's First Moves
    • Factions
    • The "Trick" Memo
    • The Roush Hearings
    • 1968: Year of Madness
    • The Condon Report and Atter
    • The End of Blue Book
    • The Fall of NICAP
    • The Death of McDonald
    • The Flying Saucer Myth 1964-1972
  14. The Flying Saucer Myth in the 1970s
    • The Aurora, Texas, Crash
    • 1973-The Last Flap
    • The Pascagoula Investigation
    • "Before the Year ls Out..."
    • Years of Drift
    • The Bermuda Triangle
    • UFOs in Space
    • Aftermath
    • Redefining the Myth
    • The Flying Saucer Myth 1973-1979
      • Basic Beliefs
      • Beliefs Gaining Acceptance
      • Beliefs Declining in Acceptance
  15. Dead Cows
    • The Network
    • "A Strange Harvest"‹The Myth Defined
    • Two Investigations
    • The Fading of the Mutes
  16. Abductions and Abductionists
    • "The UFO Incident"
    • The Travis Walton Abduction
    • "Gross Deception"
    • The Walton Investigation
    • Close Encounters of the Thircl Kind
    • The Growth of Abduction Reports
    • Budd Hopkins
    • Entirely Unpredisposed?
    • Questions about Hypnosis
  17. Cosmic Debris
    • Crashed Saucer Stories Grow
    • "Tomato Man"
    • "The Roswell Incident"
    • Roswell Analyzed
    • The Historical Context
    • Redlight, Stealth, and Crashed UFOs
    • Long and Sinister Shadows
    • The Flying Saucer Myth 1980-1986
  18. Aliens Among Us
    • Beginnings
    • William Moore, Richard Doty, and the Birth
    • Linda Howe and the Presidential Briefing Paper
    • Paranoia Strikes Deep
    • "Executive Brieting/Subject: Project Aquarius"
    • The MJ-12 Forgeries
    • Strawberry Ice Cream
    • Cosmic Debris - Continued
    • Aurora
    • Aliens Among Us
    • Milton William Cooper
    • "Wild Ravings"
    • Closing the Circle
    • The Alien Myth 1987-1993
  19. The Real Aliens
    • Old Secrets
    • UFO Flaps and Social Factors
    • Alien Nation
    • The Future
    • The Mythological Experience
  20. Glossary
  21. Source Notes
  22. Index

Promotional Material from the Publisher

"A splendid history of this modern myth. Peebles makes his case admirably. He gives a history of practically every major UFO case since 1947, along with a discussion of the investigation and the probable correct explanation. A thoroughly excellent book." - Library Journal

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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Watch the Skies! A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth "A splendid history of this modern myth. Peebles makes his case admirably. He gives a history of practically every major UFO case since 1947, along with a discussion of the investigation and the probable correct explanation. A thoroughly excellent book." - Library Journal

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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