- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: PROMETHEUS BOOKS (Dec 31 1990)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1573921319
- ISBN-13: 978-1573921312
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.6 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 581 g
- Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,092,968 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This collection of articles from the Skeptical Inquirer examines the UFO phenomenon in a critical and conventional light. As one might expect, the Roswell UFO crash is found to be a weather balloon; the Fox-TV "alien autopsy" is a crude hoax (no surprise here to anyone who has seen it); famous UFO sightings are really space debris, meteors, reflections, hoaxes, and media exaggerations; alien abductions are all constructs of space-obsessed fantasies; and crop circles are prankster-produced graffiti in the grain. Much of what the authors say here is both valid and true. However, there is also a strong tendency to pick easy targets and to make dubious generalizations that will infuriate UFO proponents. An adequate but fallible counterbalance to pro-UFO literature. George Eberhart
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UFOs and space aliens are visiting Earth! Now it's time to get the facts! Did a 'flying saucer' really crash near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, and have we been victims of a sinister government conspiracy to hide its alien occupants in a secret facility? Is there truth behind the swirled crops phenomenon? Have humans been abducted by aliens? In an effort to counter media misinformation "The UFO Invasion" offers definitive, behind-the-scenes accounts of each case of extraterrestrial visitations and paranormal claims. This fully documented look at sightings, encounters, the Roswell incident, 'MJ-12' documents, crop circles, the 'alien autopsy', and more will challenge, illuminate, anger and amuse. Included are revealing articles by Robert A Baker, Robert E Bartholomew, Joseph A Bauer, William B Blake, Robyn M Dawes, C Eugene Emery, Zen Faulkes, John F Fischer, Kingston A George Jr, Philip J Klass, Joe Nickell, James E Oberg, Peter J Reeven, Ian Ridpath, Robert Sheaffer, Armando Simon, Lloyd Stires, Trey Stokes, Dave Thomas, Richard L Weaver (Colonel USAF), Jeff Wells, and Robert P Young. Also, SETI co-ordinator Thomas P McDonough ponders searching for extraterrestrial intelligence.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
a total waste of money,
By A Customer
This review is from: Ufo Invasion (Hardcover)
This is the worst book I have come accross in many years. There are no original ideas, it's poorly written, badly edited and filled with half truths and crass comercialism. I should have known better when you see 3 editors. Each one, when confronted, can blame some error on one of the other 2
1.0 out of 5 stars
Irrational bluster from the "rationalists",
By A Customer
This review is from: Ufo Invasion (Hardcover)
One reaction of people who fear the unknown is to deny or belittle it in the hopes of closing it to careful scrutiny. Filling a book with half truths doesn't really do anyone justice. It may serve as therapy for people who have already made up their mind, but it does not help the cause of truth.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Outstanding Debunking of Nonsensical UFOlogist Claims,
By A Customer
This review is from: Ufo Invasion (Hardcover)
UFOlogists have flooded the public and the media (which have sucked it down, hook, line, and sinker) with outright lies and fabrications for the past 52 years (ever since the 1947 sighting by Kenneth Arnold of "nine flying discs"). On the other side of the story, Kendrick Frazier, Barry Karr, and Joe Nickell (but, most specifically in regards to UFOs, Philip J. Klass) have dedicated their lives to uncovering the truth about wacky pseudoscientific and paranormal claims. In contrast to the previous reader, I believe that this book was very well written (and concur on the point that it contains "good science," which is redundant). Anyhow, read it! See the light, all you UFO wackos!
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