Gray Highway: An American UFO Journey - Softcover

9780966604429: Gray Highway: An American UFO Journey
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Lots of books promise to tell the truth about UFOs. To finally reveal whether or not humans are being tagged and studied like elk, if aliens are preparing for a final invasion, or if the government is lying to us to pursue a secret research agenda. This is not one of those books. In this book, two guys drive across the country to visit famous UFO sites and meet the people involved in historic events and present-day commercialism. For whatever the real explanation may be, it's easy to forget that the UFO phenomenon is a distinctly human one. For every sighting there is a witness, and for every abduction a victim or willing participant. And then there are the UFOlogists, the psychologists, psychiatrists, and hypnotists, the entrepreneurs, the reporters, the cranks, and the crazies. Mix well, salt to taste, and scatter across America. Mark where they land, see where they live, and draw a route to connect them all together. Then drive. This is the Gray Highway.

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About the Author:
Matthew Holm works in New York City as an Associate Editor in the Copy and Features department of Country Living Magazine.

Jonathan Follett works in Boston as a Graphic Designer and Editor for the Massachusetts Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission.

Gray Highway is their first book.

Review:
The authors make an excruciating country-wide odyssey (in 1996) to "visit popular UFO sites, talk to people who had witnessed or been abducted by spacecraft (sic), and discover for themselves what all the noise was about." They hit Roswell, Unarius, Murfreesboro, Pascagoula, Wright Patterson, and Boston (in search of Dr. Mack), and have endless adventures between, only a few of them related in any way to ufology. It's all great fun, hilariously sophomoric, and (as if by accident) a marvelously telling, tragi-comic, funhouse mirror image of not only the UFO scene, but panoramic America as well. A great read. -- Arcturus Book Service, 1999

What makes this book such a novel treat is that neither author is a self-styled expert or ufologist. Both are simply two intelligent outsiders, struck dumb by the wondrous spectacle of UFO commercialism and "credophilia." Their comments on the loons, leeches, and luminaries of ufology are priceless--and refreshingly candid. This is the real charm of the book: its emphasis on personality, rather than on the dryness of raw data. Imagine a cross-country UFO tour with Hunter Thompson as your guide, and you'll develop a sense of the kind of fun house you'll be entering. -- Peter Jordan, UFO Magazine, May 1999

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  • PublisherToadspittle Hill
  • Publication date2005
  • ISBN 10 0966604423
  • ISBN 13 9780966604429
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages172
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