The
Field
Guide to UFOs
by Dennis Stacy and Patrick Huyghe
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From the book...
The late J. Allen Hynek, Air
Force astronomy consultant for Project Blue
Book and founder of the Center for UFO Studies
that now bears his name, once referred to the
sheer number of UFO reports as an
"embarrassment of riches." The numbers would
certainly seem to bear him out. One Gallup
public opinion poll revealed that nine percent
of the adult American population, equivalent
to about 11 million people at the time, had
seen what they thought was a UFO. Extrapolated
worldwide and over time, the number of UFO
witnesses from the last half century alone
easily extends to the tens, if not hundreds,
of millions--only a minuscule fraction of
which are ever reported to the military, law
enforcement officials, or civilian UFO
research organizations.
This inherent embarrassment of numbers
includes an embarrassment of forms as
well.Obviously, if we had had, say, 37 million
reports of the same object since Kenneth
Arnold's landmark 1947 sighting, we would all
be more or less agreed that an invasion of
advanced and presumably extraterrestrial
technology was now well under way. But the
fact of the matter is that UFOs are routinely
reported in a vastly bewildering variety of
shapes, forms, and behavior. It's one thing to
contemplate that we're being visited on a
regular, if not daily basis, by
extraterrestrial visitors. But it's quite
another to posit the position that planet
Earth represents little more than a convenient
truck stop on some intergalactic highway, a
brief stopover between one edge of the Milky
Way and the other for every passing vehicle of
alien manufacture and its occupants.
Quill/HarperCollins,
2000
ISBN: 0-380-80265-1
Trade Paperback, 180 pages
51 illustrations
$13.00
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"This
book
is a welcome addition to the library of
those eager to know more about the subject
of UFO shapes. There is no question that
the authors are knowledgeable and have
done their homework. . . The numerous
black-and-white illustrations by Harry
Trumbore are well done, and add
appreciably to the book's interest and
value"
--The Explorer
"Stacy and Huyghe make some interesting
points. . . even if some UFO reports are
produced by something very exotic indeed,
it is unlikely that that something
is an alien technology, and more likely to
be something we currently have neither
concepts nor vocabulary to describe."
--Magonia
"Meaty. . . a detailed look at
representative cases of UFO sightings and
the varying configurations reported by
witnesses. . .The Field Guide to UFOs
delivers good value for its price."
--Fate
". . . the authors do a fine job in
organizing [UFO shapes]. . . [a] nicely
done guide by writers who know what they
are doing. . ."
--MUFON UFO Jourrnal
"An interesting introduction explains why
the authors decided on recognizing eight
and only eight basic UFO shapes. . .This
book is a fine piece of research"
--Saucer Smear
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