Wonders in the Sky

by Vallee, Jaccques

• ISBN13: 9781585428205
• ISBN10: 1585428205
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-28
• Publisher: Tarcherperigree

Summary

One of the most ambitious works of paranormal investigation of our time, this unprecedented compendium of pre-20th-century UFO accounts is written with vigor and color by two of today's leading investigators of unexplained phenomena.

Author Biography

Jacques Vallee is one of today's most widely respected researchers of unexplained aerial phenomena. He earned a master's degree in astrophysics while living in France and holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Northwestern University. Vallee is the author of several books about high technology and unidentified phenomena, including the seminal work Passport to Magonia, published in 1969. He lives in San Francisco.

Chris Aubeck has compiled the largest collection of pre-1947 unexplained aerial cases in the world. In 2003, he cofounded the Magonia Project, a remarkable network of librarians, students, and scholars of paranormal history on the Internet. The group has accumulated thousands of references, searched media archives in several languages, and scanned hundreds of hard-to-find books, scholarly journals, and magazines. Aubeck lives in Madrid, Spain.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 1
Introduction	p. 7
A Chronology of Wonders	p. 25
Chronology to 1000 AD	p. 27
Chronology: 1000 to 1500 AD	p. 83
Sixteenth-Century Chronology	p. 137
Seventeenth-Century Chronology	p. 177
Eighteenth-Century Chronology	p. 243
Nineteenth-Century Chronology	p. 279
Myths, Legends, and Chariots of the Gods	p. 353
Sources and Methods	p. 451
Classical sources	p. 453
Screening	p. 458
Rules for inclusion	p. 460
Hoaxes	p. 462
Explanations	p. 462
The special problem of crashed saucers	p. 464
The special problem of ôdragonsö	p. 465
Entities	p. 466
Biblical accounts	p. 467
Aerial phenomena in classical art	p. 470
For further research ...	p. 474
Conclusion	p. 477
Acknowledgments	p. 489
Index of Cases	p. 493
List of Illustrations	p. 503
Bibliography	p. 507
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