The UFO Invasion: The Roswell Incident, Alien Abductions, and Government Coverups - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1573921319 ISBN 13: 9781573921312

Publisher: Prometheus, 1997

Synopsis

UFOs and space aliens are visiting Earth?! Now it's time to get the facts!Did a "flying saucer" really crash near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, and have we been victims of a sinister government conspiracy to hide its alien occupants in a secret facility? Is there truth behind the swirled crops phenomenon? Have humans been abducted by aliens?In an effort to counter media misinformation The UFO Invasion offers definitive, behind-the-scenes accounts of each case of extraterrestrial visitations and paranormal claims. This fully documented look at sightings, encounters, the Roswell incident, "MJ-12" documents, crop circles, the "alien autopsy," and more will challenge, illuminate, anger and amuse. Included are revealing articles by Robert A. Baker, Robert E. Bartholomew, Joseph A. Bauer, William B. Blake, Robyn M. Dawes, C. Eugene Emery, Zen Faulkes, John F. Fischer, Kingston A. George, Jr., Philip J. Klass, Joe Nickell, James E. Oberg, Peter J. Reeven, Ian Ridpath, Robert Sheaffer, Armando Simon, Lloyd Stires, Trey Stokes, Dave Thomas, Richard L. Weaver (Col. USAF), Jeff Wells, and Robert P. Young. Also, SETI coordinator Thomas P. McDonough ponders searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.

About this title

About the Author:

Kendrick Frazier (Albuquerque, NM) is editor of the Skeptical Inquirer, former editor of Science News, and the editor of four previous collections, including Encounters with the Paranormal and Science Confronts the Paranormal. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

From Booklist:

This collection of articles from the Skeptical Inquirer examines the UFO phenomenon in a critical and conventional light. As one might expect, the Roswell UFO crash is found to be a weather balloon; the Fox-TV "alien autopsy" is a crude hoax (no surprise here to anyone who has seen it); famous UFO sightings are really space debris, meteors, reflections, hoaxes, and media exaggerations; alien abductions are all constructs of space-obsessed fantasies; and crop circles are prankster-produced graffiti in the grain. Much of what the authors say here is both valid and true. However, there is also a strong tendency to pick easy targets and to make dubious generalizations that will infuriate UFO proponents. An adequate but fallible counterbalance to pro-UFO literature. George Eberhart

About this edition

• Publisher: Prometheus
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1573921319
• ISBN 13: 9781573921312
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Frazier Kendrick, Karr Barry, Nickell Joe