UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning FROM THE PUBLISHER
First published in three separate volumes, the UFO Encyclopedia, 2nd edition is now available in a newly revised two-volume edition. The definitive history and reference source on UFOs, the second edition presents 271 updated entries in a single alphabetic sequence. New entries have been added, and coverage for UFO organizations has been updated.
Detailed entries cover the cases, the theories, the organizations, the personalities, the government and media responses, the effects on popular culture, the hoaxes, the flying-saucer religious movements, the debunkers, and anything else that is relevant. Also included are profiles of the investigators, theorists, and other prominent individuals associated with UFO phenomena. Approximately 50 UFO organizations and contactee groups are included, with descriptions of their activities and full contact information.
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Details aspects of unidentified flying objects from ancient times to the present, with 273 entries on the cases, the theories, the organizations, the investigators, the theorists, the contactees, places, the government and media responses, the effects on popular culture, the hoaxes, the flying-saucer religious movements, the debunkers, and maybe even the kitchen sink. The entries tend to be several pages long, include specific references in addition to the overall bibliography, and are well cross-referenced. Lightly illustrated. The first edition was published in three volumes from 1990 to 1996, and is here updated and redivided. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.