Watch the Skies! - Softcover

Peebles, Curtis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425151174 ISBN 13: 9780425151174

Publisher: Berkley, 1995

Synopsis

An unbiased history of the UFO phenomenon profiles every major UFO case since 1947 and provides investigation results and probable explanations as obtained by classified documents. Reprint.

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Review:

It's not your typical UFO book, though it is full of contactees, conspiracy plots, and cattle mutilations. With an in-depth, although skeptical scrutiny of the UFO phenomenon, Peebles doesn't address every case but tackles the most widely quoted incidents from Kenneth Arnold's sighting of flying disks in the '40s through the abduction trends of the early '90s. While the book is biased, Peebles' research is impeccable, and he brings to light facts which many pro-UFO authors tend to neglect.

From Library Journal:

The phrase flying saucer didn't come along until 1947, and since then it has come to connote many things in the sky people don't understand. Peebles ( The Moby Dick Project , Smithsonian, 1991) has compiled a splendid history of this modern myth. After a brief overview of the distant past, he begins an exhaustive and convincing study of the phenomena. "The flying saucer myth is a mirror to the events of post-war America--the paranoia of the 1950s, the social turmoil of the 1960s, the 'me generation' of the 1970s, and the nihilism of the 1980s and the early 1990s. As the flying saucer myth entered popular culture, images and ideas were created that, in turn, shaped the flying saucer myth itself." 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; recommended for all libraries.
- Dave Summers, Holly Twp. Lib., Mich.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0425151174
• ISBN 13: 9780425151174
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 1