Ufos: Interplanetary Visitors : A Ufo Investigator Reports on the Facts, Fables, and Fantasies of the Flying Saucer Conspiracy

by Fowler, Raymond E.

• ISBN13: 9780595186945
• ISBN10: 0595186947
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-05-01
• Publisher: Iuniverse Inc

Table of Contents

Foreword	xi
J. Allen Hynek
Introduction	xv
Part I INCREDIBLE REPORTS BY CREDIBLE PEOPLE
It Started with a Hamburger	3	(5)
Collecting Specimens	8	(23)
Identified Flying Objects	8	(1)
A Strange Fishing Expedition	9	(3)
I Am Investigated	12	(19)
Examining the Catch	31	(7)
Establishing a Baseline for Comparison	31	(3)
A Comparison Against the Baseline	34	(2)
Back to the Drawing Board!	36	(2)
More Fishermen and Better Nets	38	(5)
I Will Make You Fishers of ---?	38	(1)
Have Subcommittee---Will Travel	39	(4)
The Goal: Scientific Recognition of a New Species	43	(14)
The Dilemma---No Hardware	43	(3)
The Alternative---Credible Software	46	(6)
The Result---Data for Analysis	52	(5)
Part II RIDING THE UFO WAVES
We Set Sail	57	(19)
An Encouraging Bon Voyage	57	(2)
Operation Hynek	59	(1)
A Storm on the Horizon	60	(6)
Swamped by IFOs	66	(1)
Separating Wheat from Tares	66	(3)
It's the Real Thing!	69	(7)
To Exeter or the Zoo?	76	(16)
Behind the ``Incident at Exeter''	76	(7)
The Saturday Review Calls	83	(2)
My Report Goes to Congress	85	(6)
What If?	91	(1)
The Northeast Blackout	92	(19)
The Build-up Continues	92	(2)
The Power Plant Sightings	94	(2)
What Happened to the Lights?	96	(8)
World-Famous Scientist's Warning	104	(3)
Congress Asks Why?	107	(4)
The Incredible Months	111	(27)
March Come in Like a Lion!	111	(14)
And Goes Out Like a Lion!	125	(2)
April Cloudburst!	127	(1)
The Sharon Saucer	128	(2)
The Beverly Affair	130	(8)
Assignment: Colorado Project	138	(28)
Close Encounter at Methuen	138	(6)
A UFO Attacks	144	(5)
Early Warning Coordinator	149	(1)
Signals from a UFO	150	(5)
Mystery Over Cape Ann	155	(6)
The Project Report	161	(5)
The Waves Subside---Temporarily	166	(33)
``Dr. Hynek, I Presume''	166	(6)
Menzel Versus Fowler	172	(5)
Here They Come Again!	177	(1)
Besieged by a UFO	178	(2)
The Priest and the Saucer	180	(5)
The Chicken Coop Caper	185	(9)
``Hello, This is the Dick Cavett Show''	194	(5)
Time to Take Inventory	199	(34)
A Decade of Fishing	199	(1)
Will the Witnesses Please Take the Stand?	200	(2)
Presenting the State's Evidence	202	(23)
The State Rests	225	(8)
Part III AN ESTIMATE OF THE SITUATION
The Situation---UFOs	233	(23)
Military---Treated as a Threat	233	(12)
Science---Gaining Interest	245	(5)
United Nations---UFOs Are a Concern	250	(4)
The Public---Just as Confused as Ever	254	(2)
The Estimate---Interplanetary	256	(30)
Alternate Hypotheses	256	(16)
Why No Contact?	272	(4)
Communication with Aliens	276	(10)
The Impact---Disintegration or Survival?	286	(30)
Military Implications	286	(11)
Political Implications	297	(4)
Sociological Implications	301	(2)
Scientific Implications	303	(2)
Religious Implications	305	(11)
1973---Year of the Humanoids	316	(12)
Abduction at Pascagoula	317	(1)
Burned by a UFO	318	(1)
UFO Tows Army Copter	319	(1)
Silver-Suited Somethings	320	(1)
UFO Roadblocks	321	(7)
Appendix I Summary Descriptions of the Local Sample	328	(32)
Appendix II A UFO Detector	360	(1)
Index	361