Are we alone in the universe?
News headlines scream out stories of UFO sightings and encounters. Television shows film footage of an alien autopsy. Countless people have described abductions by aliens and the bizarre experiments performed on them.
What strange phenomenon are people witnessing in the skies? Is Earth being visited by alien spacecraft? Is our government holding the proof of alien encounters at a secret government facility?
The UFO Invasion allows readers to discover for themselves the truth about these mysteries. It will challenge and illuminate, anger and amuse. Both believers and skeptics will be fascinated by the many secrets it reveals.
Are we alone in the universe? Do we know intelligent life exists on distant planets in other solar systems in our galaxy or in galaxies light-years away? Is Earth being visited by alien spacecraft, and have these aliens made contact with human beings, possibly even abducting a few for reasons only they understand? Why do first-rate astronomers, making use of powerful radio telescopes and computers capable of sorting through millions of channels simultaneously, report that they have yet to find any definitive proof of alien life? Do those who believe in UFO sightings, contacts, abductions, crashes, and coverups know something that the scientific community does not?
The UFO Invasion will help answer these questions. For the past half century we have been bombarded by claims of UFOs, beginning with the 1947 Roswell, New Mexico, incident. These reports have been disseminated widely by the electronic and print media, too often with little, if any, critical analysis. Uncovering the truth behind these "sightings" and realted events is what this book is all about.
The UFO Invasion is divided into seven sections: UFO Enigma, The Crash at Roswell, Roswell and the Alien Autopsy, Other UFO Cases, Alien Abductions, Crop Circles, and Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Organized chronologically with each section, the selections give a sense of how such long-standing issues have developed over time, and provide solutions to these widely touted mysteries. Contributors include noted experts Robert A. Baker, Robert E. Bartholomew, Joseph A. Bauer, William B. Blake, Robyn M. Dawes, C. Eugene Emery, Jr., Zen Faulkes, John F. Fischer, Kingston A. George, Philip J.Klass, Thomas R. McDonough, Joe Nickell, James E. Oberg, Ian Ridpath, Robert Sheaffer, Armando Simón, Lloyd Stires, Trey Stokes, David E. Thomas, Richard L. Weaver, and Robert R. Young.
The UFO Invasion provides a fascinating glimpse into a subculture obsessed with visitors from outer space. Should we fear extraterrestrials? Can we trust our government to tell the truth about alien contacts? Somewhere beyond all the tumult lies the truth...
Kendrick Frazier is a noted science writer, a board member of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), editor of the Skeptical Inquirer, and former editor of Science News. He has edited Paranormal Borderlands of Science, Science Confronts the Paranormal and The Hundredth Monkey.
Barry Karr is executive director of CSICOP.
Joe Nickell serves on the editorial board of the Skeptical Inquirer; is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Inquiry; and is the author of Looking for a Miracle, Entities and Psychic Sleuths.