Description
Book SynopsisA seminal text which has redefined extraterrestrial encounters.
Beyond the familiar opposition between those who believe that UFOs are spacecraft from other planets and those who believe UFOs do not exist at all, lies a landscape of stranger and more rewarding topics.
This new edition of Greer's groundbreaking The UFO Phenomenon is a discovery of the nature of apparitions, the history of secret American aerospace technologies, the mythology of progress, and the role of popular culture in defining experienced reality.
Table of ContentsFOREWORD TO THE NEW EDITION
INTRODUCTION: A RUMOR OF OTHER WORLDS
PART I: TRACKING THE PHENOMENON
CHAPTER ONE - Before the saucers came, prehistory–1947
CHAPTER TWO - A mystery in the skies, 1947–1966
CHAPTER THREE - Waiting for first contact, 1966–1987
CHAPTER FOUR - Twilight of the saucers, 1987–present
PART II: EXPLORING THE POSSIBILITIES
CHAPTER FIVE - The barriers to understanding
CHAPTER SIX - The alternative hypotheses
CHAPTER SEVEN - The natural history of apparitions
PART III: SOLVING THE MYSTERY
CHAPTER EIGHT - Summoning the space brothers
CHAPTER NINE - The last secret of the Cold War
CHAPTER TEN - The end of the dream
GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
INDEX
