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True-Life Encounters Series
UFO Sightings
TV tie-in. Originally published: London: Orion media, 1997.
Every year thousands of people all over the world report seeing unusual objects in the sky. What are they? You be the judge.
Every year thousands of people all over the world report seeing unusual objects in the sky. What are they? You be the judge.
304 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1997
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June 3, 2021
I'm finding this book hard to describe. It has ALOT in it, no doubt. About 60-65% I already know from reading many, many other UFO & Alien books previously.
The 1st part covering sightings/reports split into the 4 different 'Close encounters' tag, covering some of the most well cases of each CE number - with the author at times inserting his own (sometimes quite humourous) ideas as to either the case itself or the offered up explanations. Some of these are perfectly reasonable, but I don't really like debunking straight after, at least assign it to a different part or something.
Things of interest were...
• Kenneth Arnold's sighting debunking - which I didn't really know was even considering being false or inaccurate.
• The "UFO wreck" somewhere above the Earth's atmosphere - this being completely new to me.
• The in-depth description of the Rendlesham Forest incident.
• The potential Earthly but still mysterious "Tomato Man" body photos (origin and story).
• The "Face on Mars" being apparently much more than it seems, and the apparent structures on Mars and The Moon.
The 2nd & 3rd parts of the book are dedicated to the organisations said to be involved either directly or indirectly with UFO studies and the covering up/suppression. It's nice that this is here, but I couldn't make a whole lot of sense out of it. Also later some alleged Alien base cases are described. Some sound pure fiction, trying to find a lost Cat and stumbling across an underground base being threatened by an Alien...?
That's some pretty lax security there ETs... The bases' incidents and a few other things felt a bit like filler to me (maybe they weren't, but that's what I felt.)
Later on some famous Alien photographs are discussed, as well as the "Roswell Autopsy Footage" although which one exactly? because there were at least 2 different ones to my knowledge? 1 "test" one and the more famous one, maybe this was not known to the Author at the time however.
What's left is abductions/Alien healing/MIBs & potential Earthly explanations.
This book really needed some photos of the things described. There was only one, and it was the "Templeton Photo" which to me was a no-brainer as to it's true origin, but maybe that's just me. But seriously it made picturing things hard without the internet on-hand.
This book probably is better for newcomers to the field rather than more experienced. Good for reference material, definitely a keeper, but not the most complete book I've ever read on UFOs.
The 1st part covering sightings/reports split into the 4 different 'Close encounters' tag, covering some of the most well cases of each CE number - with the author at times inserting his own (sometimes quite humourous) ideas as to either the case itself or the offered up explanations. Some of these are perfectly reasonable, but I don't really like debunking straight after, at least assign it to a different part or something.
Things of interest were...
• Kenneth Arnold's sighting debunking - which I didn't really know was even considering being false or inaccurate.
• The "UFO wreck" somewhere above the Earth's atmosphere - this being completely new to me.
• The in-depth description of the Rendlesham Forest incident.
• The potential Earthly but still mysterious "Tomato Man" body photos (origin and story).
• The "Face on Mars" being apparently much more than it seems, and the apparent structures on Mars and The Moon.
The 2nd & 3rd parts of the book are dedicated to the organisations said to be involved either directly or indirectly with UFO studies and the covering up/suppression. It's nice that this is here, but I couldn't make a whole lot of sense out of it. Also later some alleged Alien base cases are described. Some sound pure fiction, trying to find a lost Cat and stumbling across an underground base being threatened by an Alien...?
That's some pretty lax security there ETs... The bases' incidents and a few other things felt a bit like filler to me (maybe they weren't, but that's what I felt.)
Later on some famous Alien photographs are discussed, as well as the "Roswell Autopsy Footage" although which one exactly? because there were at least 2 different ones to my knowledge? 1 "test" one and the more famous one, maybe this was not known to the Author at the time however.
What's left is abductions/Alien healing/MIBs & potential Earthly explanations.
This book really needed some photos of the things described. There was only one, and it was the "Templeton Photo" which to me was a no-brainer as to it's true origin, but maybe that's just me. But seriously it made picturing things hard without the internet on-hand.
This book probably is better for newcomers to the field rather than more experienced. Good for reference material, definitely a keeper, but not the most complete book I've ever read on UFOs.
March 17, 2018
Most of the content in the book I already knew but if you’re curious about UFOs this could be reference material. It’s written for reference exposing different sides of each story, often exposing what the author feels like are hoaxes. I wasn’t happy with how the author covered the Betty and Barney Hill story and ultimately that’s why it received this rating on top of being super boring.
February 12, 2015
This is one of a myriad of books reviewing unusual events coming under the 'UFO' rubric. The author, a Britisher, is neither a true believer nor a committed skeptic, but handles many of the familiar stories, and a few less familiar ones, fairly, and often with a sense of humor. No conclusions, but lots of hypotheses. Like myself, the author evinces considerable respect for the works Jscques Vallee and Stanton Friedman.
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