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Charles Bowen was a social worker, a banker, a software designer, and a systems engineer. He's from the country, lived in the city and mowed his way through suburbia. Now a New Englander, Mr. Bowen published fiction in Happy, Lynx Eye, Jackhammer, and The Tucumcari Literary Review. His novels include Apollo XXI, Ghosts Sometimes Bleed, Cowboy Carter, Sole Seeker, Horizon View, Mirror Mirror, and Moonview Trucker, along with a collection of furry minis called Ratfink Shorts.
Well-written ufology with a scientific approach. The author eliminates as much as possible the unsubstantiated cases and deals only with those landed craft whose occupants were visible or otherwise on the ground, most of which cases had multiple observers (e.g., the Kelley-Hopkinsville goblin) but included other famous "solo" ones such as the Bender mystery, Villa Santina sighting, etc. This approach was supposed to have eliminated possible mistaken UFO observations which could be explained away as swamp gas, venus, secret military projects, etc. Was an intriguing read whatever your take on the subject.