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100 1 _aGraff, Garrett M.,
_d1981-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aUFO :
_bthe inside story of the US government's search for alien life here--and out there /
_cGarrett M. Graff.
250 _aFirst Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bAvid Reader Press,
_c2023.
300 _axxii, 518 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations (some color) ;
_c25 cm
336 _atext
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336 _astill image
_bsti
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 447-498) and index.
505 0 _aPrologue: The war of the worlds -- Introduction -- Part 1: The saucer age. 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 -- Part 2: 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 -- Part 3: The interstellar age. Cometa -- Skinwalker Ranch -- StarChips -- The Tic Tac incident -- Life science -- Breakthrough listen -- Epilogue: The truth is out there.
520 _aThis thrilling story of science, the Cold War, Nazi research, atomic anxieties, secret spy planes and the space race draws on original archival research, declassified documents and interviews to present a narrative history of humanity's hunt for alien life, including the military and CIA's secret, decades-long quest to study UFOs.
650 0 _aLife on other planets
_xResearch
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aUnidentified flying objects
_xResearch
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
650 0 _aLife on other planets
_xResearch.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xResearch
_xHistory.
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