The World of Flying Saucers: Scientific Examination Major Myth Of The Space Age

Description: ⭐ ONLY ONE EDITION ⭐VERY RARE 2022 PRINTED EDITION⭐ AS SEEN ON ANCIENT ALIENS ⭐ ⭐ FANS OF ANCIENT ALIENS LOVE THIS BOOK ⭐ The World of Flying Saucers: A Scientific Examination of a Major Myth of the Space Age BY ⭐ Donald H. Menzel & Lyle G. Boyd ⭐ SYNOPSIS‎ ⭐ Explanations By Air Force Investigators ⭐ Both as scientists and as devotees of science fiction, we have long been interested in space travel. When reports of unidentified flying objects began to increase in the years between 1947 and 1952, one of us (D.H.M.) collected and studied the limited information available about the sightings. He soon concluded (with a slight feeling of disappointment!) that the flying saucers were not vehicles from other worlds but were only mundane objects and events of various kinds, some of them commonplace, some familiar chiefly to meteorologists, physicists, and astronomers. At a conference with Air Force officials in Washington in April 1952, he presented his idea that planetary mirages, sundogs, reflections, and other astronomical, atmospheric, and optical phenomena probably accounted for a large percentage of the mysterious UFOs. This suggestion met with strong skepticism from some of the conferees who at that time were sympathetic to the interplanetary hypothesis and were, of course, better acquainted with military than with physical science. Other conferees, however, wished to consider and test the theories offered. Proof obviously required knowledge of all the facts of a given sighting, facts that often were not available to the public. The Air Force, therefore, granted access to the file of UFO cases. At the same time, since many of the cases were then classified as secret, the Air Force imposed the condition that security regulations must be strictly observed. D.H.M. was then preparing a book to present his explanations of flying saucers. Acceptance of the Air Force offer, with the accompanying restriction, would have prevented his publishing analyses based on material in the files. It would also have hindered any future public discussion of the UFO problem. For these reasons, he felt compelled to decline the opportunity. In the spring of 1959 as we began planning the present book, we again requested permission to study the Air Force records of UFO sightings. This time the officials generously opened their files to us without restriction. Thus we have been able to include detailed studies of particular incidents, to give the explanations found for most of them by Air Force investigators, to explain the causes of some hitherto unsolved cases, and to suggest highly probable solutions for several classic “Unknowns.” To discuss each one of the thousands of unidentified flying objects reported during the last fifteen years is obviously impossible. We have therefore chosen to describe the common types of sighting and to analyze some of the representative and most interesting cases in each category. In general we have avoided using the names of the persons involved; but when the names are well known to the flying-saucer public and have previously appeared in print, we have felt no obligation to disguise them. Many persons have contributed to the material in this book. Members of the United States Air Force have generously helped us to collect the basic facts, and have shown amazing patience in answering hundreds of small questions of detail. In particular, we wish to thank Col. Philip G. Evans, Col. Edward H. Wynn, Lt. Col. William T. Coleman, Lt. Col. Robert J. Friend, Lt. Col. Lawrence J. Tacker, Major Carl R. Hart, and Sgt. David Moody. Others who have helped us in various ways include Dr. Isaac Asimov, Mr. Carleton Atherton, Miss C. M. Botley, Mr. Wilfred J. Chambers, Mr. Albert M. Chop, Dr. Leon Davidson, Mr. Charles W. Dean, Mr. John F. Gifford, Mr. Richard Hall, Mr. Theodore Hieatt, Prof. Seymour B. Hess, Prof. J. Allen Hynek, Dr. Luigi G. Jacchia, Mr. Craig L. Johnson, Dr. Urner Liddell, Mr. Oscar Main, Prof. Charles A. Maney, Dr. Richard E. McCrosky, Mr. John W. McLellan, Capt. William B. Nash, Dr. Thornton W. Page, Dr. Vernon G. Plank, the late Dr. H. P. Robertson, Dr. Donald H. Robey, Dr. Carl Sagan, Dr. Clyde W. Tombaugh, Mr. John Walkin, Prof. Fred L. Whipple, and Mr. John G. Wolbach⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5 STAR TRUE BLUE REVIEWS ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5 STARS ⭐ Classic Debunking of Fake UFO "Phenomena" from a Respected Researcher ⭐ ⭐ Donald H. Menzel & Lyle G. Boyd ⭐ Reviewed in the United States on June 20, 2021 I first read this book in the mid-sixties, and I never forgotten it thru all these years of sensationalized UFO "sightings" and more recently, supposed Elvis sightings, UFO abductions, "Jesus-in-my-tortilla" and " Virgin Mary in my toasted cheese sandwich" phenomena and other patently FAKE and FRAUDULENT events which are sold to the general public as either "facts" or mere curiosities. The author patiently explains the natural events behind the "sightings" of the post World War II era, including natural occurrences, technical phenomena which explain these so-called UFO sightings, as well as the absurd fraud and lying behind some of the more notorious claims of the day. Should be a MUST READ for anyone interested in UFOology. The author was a respected researcher in his day who was criticized by some of his peers for giving unwarranted attention and publicity to these events, even as he was in fact DEBUNKING the more ridiculous claims. 5 STARS This is a very, very good book I read this book when I was a teenager and became hooked on UFOs/flying saucers during one of the peak periods. Whereas the other books I had read were sensationalistic with absolutely no critical thinking whatsoever, this one was very rational, very logical, going into the history of the phenomenon and giving examples of how persons could mistake unusual atmospheric phenomena for a spacecraft. Menzel was an outstanding, famous, astronomer who started investigating flying saucers during the 1950s and 1960s and was much criticized for it---by his colleagues for supposedly giving the subject respectability albeit skeptically, and by the true believers who swallowed any and every tale. Menzel had earlier written a book Flying Saucers which stated the same thing, but was blah; Boyd's strength is in making the same message very readable, particularly by citing classic UFO cases.

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Binding: PAPERBACK

Place of Publication: ⭐UFO Encounters & Official Investigations ⭐

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Publisher: Independently published (April 7, 2022)

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Year Printed: 2022

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Language: English

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Region: ⭐ Explanations By Air Force Investigators ⭐

Author: ⭐ Donald H. Menzel & Lyle G. Boyd ⭐

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Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Topic: Historical

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