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A journalist searches for the truth behind one of the most enduring, amazing and controversial phenomenon of our time. More and more people--ordinary men and women--are claiming to have been abducted and examined aboard extraterrestrial spacecraft. This rich and serious book is the result of a 1992 scientific conference held at M.I.T.

"A central problem with many books about unidentified flying objects (UFOs) is the reliability of their authors....[Bryan] brings a rare combination of skepticism and open-mindedness to the tortured debate about the flying saucer phenomenon....[T]he book chronicles the way an astonishing body of data pushed Bryan to question his most deeply rooted beliefs about reality."

Keith Thompson, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review, 06/18/1995

"If nothing else, Bryan believes, the whole pehnomenon demads thoughtful attention....The author's conclusion in his final pages, that, contrary evidence lacking, he will keep an 'open mind' and be on the lookout for UFOs, in fact takes him a large step toward the realm of discourse represented at the conference."

James Wolcott, 07/31/1995

Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind: A Reporter's Notebook on Alien Abuduction, Ufos, and the Conference at M.I.T.: Search Results