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ISBN-13: | 9788883980039 |
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Publisher: | European Press Academic Publishing |
Publication date: | 02/20/2002 |
Series: | Tessere |
Pages: | 232 |
Product dimensions: | 5.62(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.63(d) |
Table of Contents
Open Letter | xi | |
Foreword | xiii | |
Foreword | xv | |
Acknowledgments | xix | |
Chapter 1 | Introduction: UFOs and Philosophy | 1 |
Chapter 2 | Academic Community and UFO Interest in America | 9 |
Academic Smugness? | 9 | |
Examples of Scientific Complacency | 10 | |
The Need for a Proper Modesty | 11 | |
On the One Hand | 12 | |
On the Other Hand | 13 | |
The Roots of Extraterrestrials as Myth | 15 | |
Epistemological Totalitarianism | 17 | |
A Peculiar Backdrop for Aliens as Gods | 19 | |
The One Extreme | 21 | |
The Other Extreme | 22 | |
The Gods Must be Crazy | 24 | |
Creation and Metaphysics | 25 | |
A Supreme Being | 26 | |
A Metaphysics of Aliens? | 28 | |
Chapter 3 | Alien Anatomy and Technology | 37 |
The Claims of Adamski | 38 | |
On the Credibility of the Claims | 30 | |
Interpreting the Claims | 39 | |
Some Other Considerations | 41 | |
Subsequent Claims About the Anatomy | 43 | |
A First-Hand Report? | 45 | |
Descriptions by Abductees | 46 | |
Are There Many Alien Species? | 48 | |
Reports of Alien Technology | 51 | |
Various Case-Study Descriptions | 52 | |
Inner Features of Alien Craft | 54 | |
Reports of Additional Technologies | 56 | |
A Top Secret/MAJIC Report, April 1954 | 57 | |
Reasons the Technology "Cannot Exist" | 58 | |
Behind the Story of Why It "Cannot Exist" | 61 | |
Chapter 4 | Key People and Unusual Places | 65 |
Some Key People | 65 | |
Robert Achzehner's Pioneering Insight | 65 | |
R. A. Adair and the Press | 68 | |
Thomas Adams and Alien Cooperation | 69 | |
Hugh J. Addonizio and Congressional Inquiry | 71 | |
Captain Robert Adickes' Bizarre Sighting | 72 | |
Scientist John B. Ahrens on a Police Report | 73 | |
Leslie Ackhurst's Probe of an Unusual UFO | 75 | |
Daniel Fry and Aerojet-General Corporation | 77 | |
Valentin Akkuratov: A Soviet Report | 79 | |
John Acuff and Infiltration | 81 | |
Allen Franklin and the Saucer at Muroc | 81 | |
Dr. John Altshuler on UFO-Related Mutilations | 81 | |
Nobel-Prize Winning Physicist Luis Alvarez | 82 | |
Some Unusual Places | 83 | |
Afghanistan | 83 | |
Aerial Phenomena Office at Wright Patterson | 84 | |
The Alabama UFO Controversy | 86 | |
Alamogordo, New Mexico | 87 | |
Strange Lights in Alaska | 89 | |
Bizarre Places: Alien Bases | 91 | |
Chapter 5 | Official UFO Reports and Encounters | 99 |
Official UFO Reports | 99 | |
Reports of the Air Materiel Command | 99 | |
Reports of the Aeronautical Information Service | 104 | |
Reports of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations | 105 | |
Reports of the Air Force Special Security Service | 106 | |
Reports of the British Air Ministry | 110 | |
Reports of Colonel Corso | 111 | |
Encounters with Extraterrestrials | 114 | |
Claims of Abductees | 114 | |
Encounters of the Aetherius Society | 118 | |
Encounters at Alternative Landscapes | 119 | |
Akinesia in the Encounters | 122 | |
Chapter 6 | Organizations and Related Issues | 129 |
Some Organizations | 129 | |
Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) | 129 | |
Ad Hoc Committee To Project Blue Book | 130 | |
Aerospace Defense Command | 134 | |
Air Force Office of Special Research | 135 | |
Air Technical Intelligence Center | 136 | |
The Enigmatic Group: Majestic-12 | 139 | |
Some Related Issues | 151 | |
The Issue of A-9 Rockets | 152 | |
Above Top Secret | 154 | |
Above Top Secret and Ethics | 157 | |
After-Images and False UFO Claims | 160 | |
Age Factor and UFO Belief | 164 | |
Airglow, Photometric Data | 167 | |
Alpha Centauri | 170 | |
Altamira Cave Drawings | 173 | |
Alternative Space Craft | 174 | |
Altiplano Airfield | 175 | |
Chapter 7 | Military Projects and Moon Missions | 183 |
Project Sign Becoming Grudge | 183 | |
Project Sign | 184 | |
Project Grudge | 187 | |
Project Blue Book and Report 14 | 190 | |
Project Blue Book | 191 | |
Project Blue Book Special Report 14 | 195 | |
Project Snowbird | 197 | |
The Moon Missions: Apollo | 203 | |
Historical Outline of Apollo and UFO Issue | 204 | |
Extraterrestrials on the Moon? | 205 | |
Were Aliens Responsible for the End of Apollo? | 207 | |
An Afterword on American Culture | 208 | |
Chapter 8 | Since the Missions: The controversy over Religion and Science | 215 |
US Air Force Academy: Physics 370 | 215 | |
Unidentified Flying Objects | 216 | |
33.1 | Descriptions | 217 |
33.2 | Operational Domains | 218 |
33.3 | Some Theories as to the Nature of the UFO | 220 |
33.4 | Human Fear and Hostility | 225 |
33.5 | Attempts at Scientific Approaches | 226 |
Do We Share a Religio-Scientific Belief System? | 229 | |
A Final Sign of Hope? | 233 | |
Politics, God, and Science | 237 | |
Appendix I | For the Record | 241 |
Appendix II | Case Studies in Maj. Filer's Files | 259 |
Bibliography | 283 | |
Index | 291 |
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