This no-nonsense guide to one of our most enduring mysteries presents a short history of the strangest encounters, looks carefully at explanations from the blunt to the truly bizarre, offers insights into the strongest evidence we are being visited by beings from another world, and sources the best skeptical arguments that all can be explained rationally.
Concise, balanced, and occasionally hilarious, this is a story that has as much to tell you about the human race as it does about aliens.
Neil Nixonis the author of more than two dozen books; a scriptwriter for screen, stage, and radio; a comedy writer; and a journalist who has published on subjects including sports, current affairs, and music. UFOs and the paranormal have been a mainstay of his writing work. For decades this work was combined with teaching those who wanted to work in the media industry and for the final two decades of Neil’s academic career he founded and ran the UK’s first full-time higher education course in Professional Writing.
Introduction
One of These Days We Might Be Smart Enough to Ask the Right Questions
We’ll get to UFOs in a few seconds but first let’s talk about the title of this book and how the book is set up. There is a ‘battle for the truth’ raging out there and there has been for most of the history of ‘ufology’. So, this book is partly a primer on the main stories and the history of UFO sightings but it’s also an account of the history of ideas, beliefs and the people who have made ufology what it is. In that context it makes sense to present a history of the whole subject and then examine key aspects (like the best cases) by re-presenting important bits of that history, so the unfolding of these stories and what we know to be true can be shown clearly. The subject is epic, and this book is far from epic in length, so the notes along the way and a lă]
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