UFO : the inside story of the US government's search for alien life here--and out there /
Graff, Garrett M., 1981-
UFO : the inside story of the US government's search for alien life here--and out there / Unidentified Flying Objects Inside story of the United States government's search for alien life here--and out there Garrett M. Graff. - Large print edition - 943 pages (large print), 22 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm - - Thorndike Press large print nonfiction. . - Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series. .
Includes bibliographical references.
War of the worlds -- Flying saucers -- The foo fighters -- The rocket age -- Project Sign -- The classics -- Project Grudge -- Captain Ruppelt arrives -- The mysterious death of Captain Mantell -- The Washington merry-go-round -- The Robertson panel -- Saucer-mania -- Frost's flying saucer -- The contactees -- The men in black -- Sputnik -- Briefing Capitol Hill -- The space age. Fermi's paradox -- Project Ozma -- Phantom signal -- The Drake equation -- The search expands -- The Socorro incident -- Exploring Mars -- Swamp gas -- The UFO gap -- The Condon report -- The Byurakan conference -- The Arecibo message -- Close encounters of the third kind -- The Dick Cavett duel -- The Tehran incident -- The wow signal -- Situation red -- Exploring the cosmos -- The alone theory -- Voodoo warrior -- MJ-12 -- Crop circles -- The Belgian wave -- Interrupted journey -- Sex with aliens -- Roswell revisited -- "Who killed JFK?" -- The Mars rock -- The Phoenix lights -- The interstellar age. Cometa -- Skinwalker Ranch -- StarChips -- The Tic Tac incident -- Life science -- Breakthrough listen -- The truth is out there. Prologue: Introduction -- Part 1: The saucer age. Part 2: Part 3: Epilogue:
"A thrilling story of science, Nazi research, secret spy planes, and the space race, UFO traces the history of the U.S. government's hunt for 'unidentified aerial phenomena' here on Earth, as well as the group of forward-thinking scientists who launched the search for extraterrestrial intelligence far from Earth. Drawing on original archival research, declassified documents and interviews with intelligence and military officials, Graff's book traces our quest to understand one of the most popular questions of all time: whether or not aliens exist"--
9798885797528
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Extraterrestrial beings--Research--History.--United States
Unidentified flying objects--Research--History.--United States
Life on other planets--Research--History.--United States
Life on other planets--Research.
Large type books.
United States--Research--History.
Large print books.
UFO : the inside story of the US government's search for alien life here--and out there / Unidentified Flying Objects Inside story of the United States government's search for alien life here--and out there Garrett M. Graff. - Large print edition - 943 pages (large print), 22 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm - - Thorndike Press large print nonfiction. . - Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series. .
Includes bibliographical references.
War of the worlds -- Flying saucers -- The foo fighters -- The rocket age -- Project Sign -- The classics -- Project Grudge -- Captain Ruppelt arrives -- The mysterious death of Captain Mantell -- The Washington merry-go-round -- The Robertson panel -- Saucer-mania -- Frost's flying saucer -- The contactees -- The men in black -- Sputnik -- Briefing Capitol Hill -- The space age. Fermi's paradox -- Project Ozma -- Phantom signal -- The Drake equation -- The search expands -- The Socorro incident -- Exploring Mars -- Swamp gas -- The UFO gap -- The Condon report -- The Byurakan conference -- The Arecibo message -- Close encounters of the third kind -- The Dick Cavett duel -- The Tehran incident -- The wow signal -- Situation red -- Exploring the cosmos -- The alone theory -- Voodoo warrior -- MJ-12 -- Crop circles -- The Belgian wave -- Interrupted journey -- Sex with aliens -- Roswell revisited -- "Who killed JFK?" -- The Mars rock -- The Phoenix lights -- The interstellar age. Cometa -- Skinwalker Ranch -- StarChips -- The Tic Tac incident -- Life science -- Breakthrough listen -- The truth is out there. Prologue: Introduction -- Part 1: The saucer age. Part 2: Part 3: Epilogue:
"A thrilling story of science, Nazi research, secret spy planes, and the space race, UFO traces the history of the U.S. government's hunt for 'unidentified aerial phenomena' here on Earth, as well as the group of forward-thinking scientists who launched the search for extraterrestrial intelligence far from Earth. Drawing on original archival research, declassified documents and interviews with intelligence and military officials, Graff's book traces our quest to understand one of the most popular questions of all time: whether or not aliens exist"--
9798885797528
2023948721
Extraterrestrial beings--Research--History.--United States
Unidentified flying objects--Research--History.--United States
Life on other planets--Research--History.--United States
Life on other planets--Research.
Large type books.
United States--Research--History.
Large print books.