The World of Flying Saucers

The World of Flying Saucers
A SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION OF A MAJOR MYTH OF THE SPACE AGE
Donald H. Menzel AND Lyle G. Boyd
i. THE SAUCER WORLDS
UFO Reports and the Air Force—The Scientist’s View—The Question of “Evidence”—Various Types of UFO—Descriptions of UFOs—A “Baedeker’s Guide” to Saucerdom
ii. LO!
Arnold’s Nine Disks—The Great Shaver Mystery—The Maury Island Fragments—Science Fiction Adopts the Saucers—Mirage or Wave Clouds?
iii. AIR-BORNE UFOS: BALLOONS TO BUBBLES
The Mantell Tragedy—A Probable Solution of the Mantell Case—A Radiosonde over Virginia—Skyhook and Pibal UFOs—The Guantánamo “Dogfight”—The Wallops Island UFO—Weather Balloons and Saucers—Plastic UFOs and the “Stack of Coins”—Jets and Contrails—The Killian Case— ... And Kites and Soap Bubbles
iv. THE SPANGLED HEAV’NS: STARS AND PLANETS
A Mirage of Sirius—Earth’s Distorting Atmosphere—The “Whipping Girl” of Saucerdom—The Ryan Case—Venus as a Morning Star—Venus as an Evening Star—The Rotating Lights of Japan—UFOs and the Opposition of Mars—The Gorman “Dogfight”—Only a Balloon?—Jupiter through a Jet Trailviii
v. OUT OF THE SKY: METEORS AND FIREBALLS
Stones from Heaven—Meteor Streams and Showers—The Green Fireballs—Meteors in the Records—Fallacies about Meteors—Facts about Meteors—Unusual Fireballs—Great Meteor Processions—The Chiles-Whitted Sighting—Other Flaming UFOs
vi. LIVING LIGHTS
The Luminous Owls of Norfolk—Things That Glow in the Dark—Sea Gulls as UFOs—The Lubbock Lights—The Lubbock Pictures—Other Winged UFOs—The Tremonton Movies
vii. PANIC
Growth of a Panic—The Scoutmaster’s UFO—Monster in West Virginia—The Panel of Civilian Scientists
viii. PHANTOMS ON RADAR
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
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!
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.
Angel Hair and Spiders—Other Varieties of Angel Hair—The Wisconsin Pancakes—The Moon Bridge—“Pieces of Saucers”—Silver Rain in Brazil—Other Mysterious Fragmentsix
xii. SPECIAL EFFECTS
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
Official Study of UFOs—Civilian Saucer Groups—NICAP—The “Conspiracy” Fantasy-UFO at Sheffield Lake, Ohio—“The Fitzgerald Report”—The Open Mind

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