The World of Flying Saucers: A Scientific Examination of a Major Myth of the Space Age — John Shaqi
The World of Flying Saucers: A Scientific Examination of a Major Myth of the Space AgeMenzel, Donald H. (Donald Howard)
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The World of Flying Saucers: A Scientific Examination of a Major Myth of the Space Age
Menzel, Donald H. (Donald Howard)
Unidentified flying objects
Radar as a Reporter--The Principle of Radar--Weather and
Radar Echoes--The Kinross Case--The “Invasion” of Washington,
D.C.--Radar Experiments in Washington--“Simultaneous”
Radar-Visual Reports--“Ghosts” and “Angels” on Radar--The
Rapid City Sighting
IX. E-M AND G-FIELDS IN UFO-LAND 172
Stormy Weather in Texas--The Phenomenon of Ball Lightning--E-M
and Non-E-M Saucers--The Saturnian Visitors--Surveillance
by Flying Eggs--Saucerdom’s Miraculous Electromagnetic
Force--Effects and Causes--“G-Fields” and UFO Propulsion--The
G-Field Myth--Electricity, Magnetism, and Gravity
X. CONTACT! 198
Earthlings and Extraterrestrials--The “Contactees”--Adamski’s
Travels--Photography and the UFO--The Isle of Lovers Hoax--The
Trindade Island Saucer--The Brazilian Naval Ministry--The
Icarai Submarine Hunting Club--The Trindade Photographs--Project
Ozma
XI. ANGEL HAIR, PANCAKES, ETC. 219
Angel Hair and Spiders--Other Varieties of Angel Hair--The Wisconsin
Pancakes--The Moon Bridge--“Pieces of Saucers”--Silver
Rain in Brazil--Other Mysterious Fragments
XII. SPECIAL EFFECTS 238
The Role of Unusual Coincidence--The Problem of Unknown
Lights--Michigan’s Flying Bird Cage--UFOs from Reflections--Sundogs
in Utah and France--Bright Spots on Films--Unfamiliar
Lights on Planes--Inversions in California--The Chesapeake Bay
Case--A Possible Explanation of the Nash-Fortenberry Disks--Other
UFOs in “Stack” Formation--The Tombaugh Rectangles
XIII. INVESTIGATORS: AIR FORCE AND CIVILIAN 271
Official Study of UFOs--Civilian Saucer Groups--NICAP--The
“Conspiracy” Fantasy-UFO at Sheffield Lake, Ohio--“The Fitzgerald
Report”--The Open Mind
APPENDIX 291
INDEX 295
_Acknowledgments_
PLATE I: a, The Seattle _Times_. b, A Shell Photo
PLATE II: a, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. b, Wide World
Photo
PLATE III: a, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. b, Gilberto
Vazquez, _El Imparcial_, San Juan, Puerto Rico
PLATE IV: a, Wide World Photo. b, Wide World Photo. c, David Atlas,
Air Force Cambridge Research Center, Bedford, Massachusetts
PLATE V: a, Bernd T. Matthias and Solomon J. Buchsbaum, Bell
Telephone Laboratories. b, Dr. John C. Jensen, Nebraska
Wesleyan University
PLATE VI: a, United Press Photo. b, United Press Photo
PLATE VII: a, C. L. Johnson. b, Mrs. William Felton Barrett
PLATE VIII: a, United Press Photo. b, Wide World Photo
Figure 18. Courtesy _True, The Man’s Magazine_. Copyright 1952,
Fawcett Publications, Inc.
_Drawings by Cushing and Nevell_
PREFACE
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