The Age of Flying Saucers: Notes on the History of Unidentified Flying Objects

The Age of Flying Saucers: Notes on the History of Unidentified Flying Objects
Author: Paris Flammonde
Publisher:
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2017-06-12
Genre:
ISBN: 9781542408301

Translated from the original French edition, this is a comprehensive history of the first 25 years of the UFO phenomenon in the United States, containing many actual case histories accompanied by the author's close analysis. Given the limited state of knowledge at the time of publication, the author's conclusions are startling. (Fans of John A. Keel's four-dimensional thesis will find much to chew on in these pages.)According to the author, Paris Flammonde, the Age of UFOs began on June 24, 1947 with Kenneth Arnold's famous sighting. It reached its peak in the late 1950s, when thousands of people came down with sauceritis and began meeting the space people face-to-face. Why? The author's theory is that it was partly mass psychosis, stemming from the demise of religion and the death of God. People were ripe for new and otherworldly messiahs, leading to the rapturous ""contactee"" reports about higher civilizations benignly watching over us - and guiding us. But that is just part of the puzzle, because the sightings and contacts were often accompanied by documented physical evidence. This comprehensive book is more than just a list of interesting sightings and encounters, however. It also provides a social history of the flying saucer culture that resulted from those incidents. Topics covered include saucer cults and religions, the evolution of government handling of the matter, conspiracies, and contactees. Flammonde also proposes a framework that sets the stage for the phenomenon to grow and propagate. This classic book is a must-have for all serious ufologists and UFO buffs.

The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects

The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
Author: Edward J. Ruppelt
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2022-05-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Edward James Ruppelt was a United States Air Force officer known for his participation in official administrative studies of unidentified flying objects. These reports go into a number of specific cases in considerable detail.

UFO FAQ

UFO FAQ
Author: David J. Hogan
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2016-09-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1495082873

(FAQ Pop Culture). Since the famed Kenneth Arnold "flying saucer" sighting of 1947, the world has been fascinated and unnerved by these mysterious objects in the sky. Millennia of recorded human history report UFOs, and everything from the extinction of dinosaurs to the origins of humankind have been attributed to them but what exactly are UFOs? Featuring material from a treasure trove of UFO/Project Blue Book archives declassified in 2015, UFO FAQ is an all-inclusive guide to UFO lore hard science and hoaxes, sightings and abductions, noted UFO proponents and skeptics, and sanctioned research and purported government cover-ups. Readers will meet cultists and explore worldwide UFO "hot spots." They'll learn about UFOs in World War II, the Cold War, and the age of terrorism. And they'll zip along with UFOs in movies, comics, TV, and other popular media. Also featured are an international UFO timeline and a valuable UFO checklist that includes step-by-step suggestions on how to prepare and make the most of your UFO sightings while ensuring your credibility. Dramatically illustrated with nearly 100 photographs and drawings, UFO FAQ combines historical accuracy, provocative speculation, and compulsive readability in one handy volume.

Phenomenon

Phenomenon
Author: John Spencer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 428
Release: 1989
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780380706549

A serious collection of essays and reports from many sources that tries to separate fact from imagination.

Unconventional Flying Objects

Unconventional Flying Objects
Author: Hill, Paul R.
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2014-06-01
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1571747133

Paul Hill was a well-respected NASA scientist when, in the early 1950s, he had a UFO sighting. Soon after, he built the first flying platform and was able to duplicate the UFO's tilt-to-control maneuvers. Official policy, however, prevented him from proclaiming his findings. "I was destined," says Hill, "to be as unidentified as the flying objects." For the next twenty-five years, Hill acted as an unofficial clearinghouse at NASA, collecting and analyzing sightings' reports for physical properties, propulsion possibilities, dynamics, etc. To refute claims that UFOs defy the laws of physics, he had to make "technological sense... of the unconventional object." After his retirement from NASA, Hill finally completed his remarkable analysis. This book, published posthumously, presents his findings that UFOs "obey, not defy, the laws of physics." Vindicating his own sighting and thousands of others, he proves that UFO technology is not only explainable, but attainable.

Flying Saucers, Fact Or Fiction?

Flying Saucers, Fact Or Fiction?
Author: Max B. Miller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1957
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN:

Max Miller edited a UFO magazine, "Saucers," in the 1950s. Flying Saucers was released in 1957 in a magazine format. It has many photographs and is very well written in a balanced manner. Miller held memberships in the British Planetary Society, the Association of Lunar and Planetary Observers, the Meteoritical Society, Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New Zealand, and the American Rocket Society. Chapter 1: Flying Saucer History - a succinct summary of pre-1947 UFO reports, drawing partly on research into vimanas by Desmond Leslie and Harold Wilkins. Chapter 2: World Opinion - investigates Project Blue Book. Miller states how he attempted to discover its then current statues and how many reports it was receiving, and of how he got no answers. Chapter 3: Space Travel and the UFO - Project Magnet, Project Vanguard, Einstein's Unified Field Theory and gravity research are covered, and there is discussion of the research of Morris Jessup, Aime Michel, Leonard Cramp, and T. Townsend Brown, plus William Lear's arguments on why UFOs exist. Chapter 4: Space Communication and Detection - covers findings of Francis Galton, Tesla, Marconi, and John Otto, who attempted space communication on air on the radio in October 1955. Wilbert Smith provides a lengthy statement on how and why Project Magnet went underground. Chapter 5: Mars, The Mystery Planet - investigates the findings from the likes of John O' Neill, Gerard Kuiper, and Robert Richardson concerning strange things seen on or over Mars. Chapter 6: The Worldwide Enigma - mention is made here of Leonard Stringfield's research, plus a detailed account of a sighting over White Sands in 1949, Operation Mainbrace sightings, British astronomer H. Percy Wilkins' sighting, the 1953 incident where a UFO reportedly damaged a sign board, and angel hair. Chapter 7: Contactee Stories - the 1950s was the era of the contactees, and some of these, such as Truman Bethurum, are discussed. Chapter 8: New Light on the UFO - key points of Edward Ruppelt's "The Report On Unidentified Flying Objects" are discussed. Also included is the report on how U.S. Navy pilots were ordered to "shoot to kill" if UFOs were encountered, in July 1956. There is more on Project Vanguard, a project to send twenty satellites into space to study UFOs, in response to Earth reportedly being under constant surveillance. Chapter 9: The Problems Today - correspondence between Donald Keyhoe and Air Force Major General Joe Kelly is included, in which topics such as Blue Book Report 14 and regulations to prevent public disclosures of UFO incidents. An indispensable publication for anyone wishing to research UFOs.

Times

Times
Author: Kenneth Arnold
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2021-03-10
Genre:
ISBN:

It is generally a good idea to return to the classics in any genre. This also goes for UFO literature. Rereading a book after ten or twenty years is a rewarding experience. You will discover new data and ideas you didn ́t notice before. The reason, of course, is that you are, in many ways, not the same person reading the book the second or third time. Hopefully you have advanced in knowledge, experience, intellectual and spiritual discernment. A good starting point is to reread the UFO articles of the 1950s in order to understand the deeper mystery involved in what happened during that era. More than half a century ago, reports of a "flying saucer" over U.S. airspace in 1947 caused a wave of "UFO hysteria" and sparked Federal investigation of unidentified flying objects. This time coincided with a tumultuous period in American history. The Korean & Vietnam War, Cold War, and the domestic unrest during the civil rights movement that had purred growing American distrust of the government. However, "flying saucer" landed in the Times Magazine news since the begining, in the summer of 1947.(See Time's articles in this anthology: The Somethings, July 14, 1947). The UFO phenomena can be traced back to June 24,1947, when Kenneth Arnold, an experienced civilian pilot and fire equipment salesman based out of Boise, Idaho saw a "tremendously bright flash" illuminated the surface of his plane. When he landed at the Pendleton, Oregon airport, Arnold described the object for a corps of eager reporters. Most famous was the term he used to describe the objects' flight-"they flew like a saucer would if you skipped it across the water." The press cited Arnold's description and created the phrase "flying saucer" to describe mysterious aerial objects. This collection of selected Time's articles covered from the first news of the socalled Foo-Fighters to the end of Project Blue Book (1942-1969) . Year 1952 is known as the year of flying saucer hysteria. As a result, in March 1952, Project Grudge was expanded and upgraded into Project Blue Book. This work is an authentic reproduction of the articles published in the Times Magazine during the years: 1942 to 1969. This work is an exact reproduction of these articles reprinted as facsimile edition. ______Copy and paste the link for our books: https: //saucerianbooks.blogspot.com/ _____