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Strangers from the Skies
Would You Believe … Swamp Gas?
If it followed your car down a twisting country road? If it hovered over your home for nearly an hour, creating intolerable temperatures and visiting a “tingling” sensation on members of your family? If you found your skin blistered with strange welt-like burns?
Would You Believe … Weather Balloons?
Balled Lightning? The Planet Venus? Not if you were a noted Jesuit Priest/Astronomer. Not if you were the American Astronaut who photographed a UFO while orbiting in a manned space flight. Not if you were the nine-year-old Brazilian girl who watched a saucer sink into a suddenly boiling river!
Do You Think Only Cranks, Kooks and Cultists Sight Flying Saucers or Accept the Possibility That They Originate on Other Planets?
Did you know that their number includes the German scientist who is the world’s foremost authority on space travel and heads America’s own Jupiter Space Program? Did you know that U.S. Air Force regulation 200-2 states that UFO’s are a “serious business”? Did you know that among others, Albert Einstein protested an Air Force order to “shoot down ” dozens of UFO’s converging on Washington?
Would You Believe That Flying Saucers Actually Do Bring Strangers from the Skies?
You might after you read the astonishing facts documented in this remarkable new book!
If it followed your car down a twisting country road? If it hovered over your home for nearly an hour, creating intolerable temperatures and visiting a “tingling” sensation on members of your family? If you found your skin blistered with strange welt-like burns?
Would You Believe … Weather Balloons?
Balled Lightning? The Planet Venus? Not if you were a noted Jesuit Priest/Astronomer. Not if you were the American Astronaut who photographed a UFO while orbiting in a manned space flight. Not if you were the nine-year-old Brazilian girl who watched a saucer sink into a suddenly boiling river!
Do You Think Only Cranks, Kooks and Cultists Sight Flying Saucers or Accept the Possibility That They Originate on Other Planets?
Did you know that their number includes the German scientist who is the world’s foremost authority on space travel and heads America’s own Jupiter Space Program? Did you know that U.S. Air Force regulation 200-2 states that UFO’s are a “serious business”? Did you know that among others, Albert Einstein protested an Air Force order to “shoot down ” dozens of UFO’s converging on Washington?
Would You Believe That Flying Saucers Actually Do Bring Strangers from the Skies?
You might after you read the astonishing facts documented in this remarkable new book!
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First published January 1, 1966
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May 11, 2024
AN “EARLY” BOOK BY STEIGER ABOUT UFOs
Brad Steiger (1936-2018) was an American author of fiction and nonfiction works on the paranormal, spirituality, UFOs, true crime, and biographies.
He wrote in the first chapter of this 1966 book, “Saucers have often been sighted along railroad tracks, and, recently, theorists have wondered if the discs and their crews might not be more interested in the high-power lines that follow the tracks rather than in the tracks themselves. In the Exeter, New Hampshire sightings in September of 1965 the UFOs were most often reported to be hovering above highpower lines. The 25-foor diameter of the saucers is commonly reported by those who have seen the flying disc. And as subsequent cases will reveal, the sighting of ‘robots’ or ‘men in shiny suits’ is by no means limited to the Pampas. Nor, regrettably, is the ‘tingling’ beam of light which the discs often direct at men, livestock, and machinery.” (Pg. 11-12)
He recounts, “At a meeting of the American Astronautical Society which took place… early in 1966, Dr. Carl Sagan of Harvard University suggested the possibility that superspacemen from far beyond ‘our tiny corner of the universe may have visited earth thousands of times in the past few billions of years. At least one of these visits may have occurred in historical times.’ … It is interesting to note that [Sagan] was a confirmed skeptic of the existence of UFOs back in the 1950s… Whether technical civilizations superior to ours flourish on these planets o whether the stage of social development is anywhere from that of the cave dwellers to the Greece of Pericles, it seems obvious to most astronomers that we earthlings are not alone. Other scientists are suggesting that not only are we not alone, but that we may have been ‘planted’ here a billion or so years ago by an extra-terrestrial expedition.” (Pg. 24)
Of a 1966 sighting in Michigan, he records, “The sighting of a Dexter patrolman… may well have killed the sheriff’s skepticism. The police officer reported an object with reg and green flashing lights which, at one time, hovered ‘within ten feet’ of the patrol car… As usual, official reactions were skeptical. Dr. Allen J. Hynek, an astrophysicist from Northwestern University and special consultant for the U.S. Air Force, dismissed the Michigan sightings as ‘swamp gas.’ … [Hynek] said that the photographs, ‘without any question,’ were time exposures of the rising moon and the planet Venus… Robert Lynn… associate director of NICAP, pointed out that Hynek’s statement about the photograph was untenable.” (Pg. 138-139) [Of course, Hynek later became a UFO ‘believer.’]
He concludes, “Hynek … was honest enough to add this disclaimer: ‘Scientists in the year 2066 may think us very naïve in our denials.’ … Dr. Hynek was wise in making his present judgment subject to reversal. British author Arthur C. Clarke has given an excellent rule-of-thumb in his book, ‘Profiles of the Future’: ‘When a scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.’” (Pg. 158)
Although ordinarily a 55-year old book on UFOs is of only limited interest, in this case, these ‘early’ statements of figures like Sagan and Hynek make this book quite interesting.
Brad Steiger (1936-2018) was an American author of fiction and nonfiction works on the paranormal, spirituality, UFOs, true crime, and biographies.
He wrote in the first chapter of this 1966 book, “Saucers have often been sighted along railroad tracks, and, recently, theorists have wondered if the discs and their crews might not be more interested in the high-power lines that follow the tracks rather than in the tracks themselves. In the Exeter, New Hampshire sightings in September of 1965 the UFOs were most often reported to be hovering above highpower lines. The 25-foor diameter of the saucers is commonly reported by those who have seen the flying disc. And as subsequent cases will reveal, the sighting of ‘robots’ or ‘men in shiny suits’ is by no means limited to the Pampas. Nor, regrettably, is the ‘tingling’ beam of light which the discs often direct at men, livestock, and machinery.” (Pg. 11-12)
He recounts, “At a meeting of the American Astronautical Society which took place… early in 1966, Dr. Carl Sagan of Harvard University suggested the possibility that superspacemen from far beyond ‘our tiny corner of the universe may have visited earth thousands of times in the past few billions of years. At least one of these visits may have occurred in historical times.’ … It is interesting to note that [Sagan] was a confirmed skeptic of the existence of UFOs back in the 1950s… Whether technical civilizations superior to ours flourish on these planets o whether the stage of social development is anywhere from that of the cave dwellers to the Greece of Pericles, it seems obvious to most astronomers that we earthlings are not alone. Other scientists are suggesting that not only are we not alone, but that we may have been ‘planted’ here a billion or so years ago by an extra-terrestrial expedition.” (Pg. 24)
Of a 1966 sighting in Michigan, he records, “The sighting of a Dexter patrolman… may well have killed the sheriff’s skepticism. The police officer reported an object with reg and green flashing lights which, at one time, hovered ‘within ten feet’ of the patrol car… As usual, official reactions were skeptical. Dr. Allen J. Hynek, an astrophysicist from Northwestern University and special consultant for the U.S. Air Force, dismissed the Michigan sightings as ‘swamp gas.’ … [Hynek] said that the photographs, ‘without any question,’ were time exposures of the rising moon and the planet Venus… Robert Lynn… associate director of NICAP, pointed out that Hynek’s statement about the photograph was untenable.” (Pg. 138-139) [Of course, Hynek later became a UFO ‘believer.’]
He concludes, “Hynek … was honest enough to add this disclaimer: ‘Scientists in the year 2066 may think us very naïve in our denials.’ … Dr. Hynek was wise in making his present judgment subject to reversal. British author Arthur C. Clarke has given an excellent rule-of-thumb in his book, ‘Profiles of the Future’: ‘When a scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.’” (Pg. 158)
Although ordinarily a 55-year old book on UFOs is of only limited interest, in this case, these ‘early’ statements of figures like Sagan and Hynek make this book quite interesting.
March 6, 2024
This is a very generic book on the subject, it seems like the author put together some interesting cases he collected from some newspapers. Some are not very well-known cases but many well know as well, then he does not throw a big thought on them, so it does not add much, to be honest, but to beginners might be interesting, you can find it for a good price, it is not an important book in any shape or form.
January 30, 2017
A really good overview of quite a number of the classic "interesting" cases. However, if you want investigative details, you'll need to look elsewhere as that information is not included in this book.
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