Strange Skies Pilot Encounters With Ufos

by Clark, Jerome

• ISBN13: 9780806522999
• ISBN10: 0806522992
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-06-01
• Publisher: Citadel

Summary

For more than half a century, pilots all over the world have reported sightings of strange phenomena -- extraordinary flying objects exhibiting speed and power unmatched by the most advanced military aircraft. Jerome Clark has been investigating UFO sightings for over thirty years, and has compiled fifty of the most puzzling and compelling cases. With references to official "Project Blue Book" government documents, recent scientific discoveries, and firsthand eyewitness testimony, this one-of-a-kind volume traces the history of air-to-air UFO encounters. Thrilling, baffling, and all true, these neyer-before-divulged secrets will leave you wondering if we are really alone in the universe. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Jerome Clark is a board member and past vice president of the J. Allen Ilynek Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) and coeditor of its International UFO Reporter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
The Mystery Begins	p. 1
Terror and Mystery in the Sky	p. 2
Foo Fighters and Others	p. 6
Ghost Rockets	p. 16
The Size of Three Aircraft Carriers	p. 20
"There It Is"	p. 22
"It Seems Impossible,"	p. 26
Saucers from Mars	p. 29
Little Green-Suited Men	p. 32
Flights of the Pelicanists	p. 33
Believing It	p. 35
Mystery and Madness	p. 37
Farce and Tragedy	p. 42
Visitors	p. 48
Back from the Twilight Zone	p. 52
Killed by a Flying Saucer	p. 54
The Mantell Incident	p. 56
The Solution	p. 61
Mantell Redux	p. 65
Dogfight over Fargo	p. 66
A Dogfight in Cuba	p. 69
Estimation Extraterrestrial	p. 73
Estimate of the Situation: Extraterrestrial	p. 75
Flaming Cigars	p. 81
Grounding the Saucers	p. 88
A Month of Mystery	p. 88
Other Aerial Enigmas	p. 103
"Greatly Reduced ... If Not Eliminated,"	p. 104
Discs in Daylight	p. 108
July 6's Discs	p. 110
Muroc Discs	p. 111
Radio Interference?	p. 113
Elongated Ovals over Oregon	p. 114
In the Clouds	p. 114
Unsettlingly Close Encounters over Georgia	p. 117
Mini-Disc	p. 117
"No One Is That Stupid,"	p. 118
Main Brace Interloper	p. 119
Three Saucers over Gloucestershire	p. 120
Radio Intercept?	p. 122
Denmark Discs	p. 123
Utica Ellipse	p. 123
Salt Lake City's Phony Sun Dog	p. 124
Willow Grove's "Credible Observer,"	p. 130
Vertical Egg	p. 131
Illinois Approach, Swirling Compass	p. 132
Disc in a Thunderstorm	p. 133
Santa Monica Phenomenon	p. 135
Lake Michigan's Rolling Disc	p. 136
The New War of the Worlds	p. 137
Death at Walesville	p. 138
A Saucerful of Asparagus People	p. 142
A Vanishing in the Upper Peninsula	p. 144
Lost in the Bermuda Triangle	p. 151
"Stendec,"	p. 154
Gone to Maser	p. 158
Mystery over Bass Strait	p. 164
Vanished Without a Trace That They Ever Were	p. 169
High Strangeness	p. 177
A Glow on the Ocean	p. 181
Blinding Light	p. 186
In the Labrador Sky	p. 187
Blinking Pattern, Compass Interference	p. 190
RB-47: The Perfect Case?	p. 191
Violent Effects	p. 194
Hypnotized over Spain	p. 196
In the Ohio Night	p. 197
"Magnetized" over Mexico City	p. 201
Eerie Effects, Dire Threats	p. 202
One Evening over Tehran	p. 203
Terror over the Mountains	p. 208
Sphere over Texas	p. 210
"Mothership" over Alaska	p. 210
Afterword	p. 214
Notes	p. 219
Bibliography	p. 235
Index	p. 246
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