After the flying saucers came : a global history of the UFO phenomenon / Greg Eghigian.

• Arrival -- Apparitions, airships, and aliens -- Spaceships, conspiracies, and the birth of the UFO detective, 1948-1953 -- From mystery to movement, 1947-1960 -- Journeys -- Science and UFOs in the 1960s -- Renaissance -- Intruders -- Conclusion: Where to, where from, wherefore?. 

• ""Greg Eghigian tells the story of the world's fascination with UFOs and the prospect that they were the work of visitors from outer space. While accounts of great wonders in the sky date back to antiquity, reports of UFOs took place against the unique backdrop of the Cold War and space age, giving rise to disputed government inquiries, breathtaking news stories, and single-minded sleuths. After the Flying Saucers Came traces how a seemingly isolated incident sparked an international drama involving shady figures, questionable evidence, suspicions of conspiracy, hoaxes, new religions, scandals, unsettling alien encounters, debunkers, and celebrities. It examines how descriptions, theories, and debates about unidentified flying objects and alien abduction changed over time and how they appeared in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Russia. And it explores the impact UFOs have had on our understanding of space, science, technology, and ourselves up through the present day."-- 

Ämnesord

Unidentified flying objects  -- History. (LCSH)

Human-alien encounters  -- History. (LCSH)

Ufon  -- historia (sao)

Möten människa-rymdvarelse  -- historia (sao)

Klassifikation

TL789 (LCC)

001.942 (DDC)

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