The World of Flying Saucers: A Scientific Examination of a Major Myth of the Space Age
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The Project Gutenberg eBook of The World of Flying Saucers, by Lyle Gifford Boyd and Donald H. Menzel
PREFACE
Chapter V OUT OF THE SKY: METEORS AND FIREBALLS
Stones from Heaven
Meteor Streams and Showers
The Green Fireballs
Meteors in the Records
Fallacies about Meteors
Facts about Meteors
Unusual Fireballs
Great Meteor Processions
The Chiles-Whitted Sighting
Other Flaming UFOs
THE WORLD OF FLYING SAUCERS
Chapter I THE SAUCER WORLDS
UFO Reports and the Air Force
The Scientist’s View
The Question of “Evidence”
Various Types of UFO
Descriptions of UFOs
A “Baedeker’s Guide” to Saucerdom
Chapter VI LIVING LIGHTS
The Luminous Owls of Norfolk
Things That Glow in the Dark
Sea Gulls as UFOs
The Lubbock Lights
The Lubbock Pictures
Other Winged UFOs
The Tremonton Movies
Chapter VII PANIC
Growth of a Panic
The Scoutmaster’s UFO
Monster in West Virginia
The Panel of Civilian Scientists
THE WORLD OF FLYING SAUCERS
Chapter VIII PHANTOMS ON RADAR
Radar as a Reporter
The Principle of Radar
Weather and Radar Echoes
The Kinross Case
The “Invasion” of Washington, D.C.
Radar Experiments in Washington
“Simultaneous” Radar-Visual Reports
“Ghosts” and “Angels” on Radar
The Rapid City Sighting
Chapter IX E-M AND G-FIELDS IN UFO-LAND
Stormy Weather in Texas
The Phenomenon of Ball Lightning
E-M and Non-E-M Saucers
The Saturnian Visitors
Surveillance by Flying Eggs
Saucerdom’s Miraculous Electromagnetic Force
Effects and Causes
“G-Fields” and UFO Propulsion
The G-Field Myth
Electricity, Magnetism, and Gravity
Chapter X CONTACT!
Earthlings and Extraterrestrials
The “Contactees”
Adamski’s Travels
Photography and the UFO
The Isle of Lovers Hoax
The Trindade Island Saucer
The Brazilian Naval Ministry
The Icarai Submarine Hunting Club
The Trindade Photographs
Project Ozma
Chapter XI ANGEL HAIR, PANCAKES, ETC.
Angel Hair and Spiders
Other Varieties of Angel Hair
The Wisconsin Pancakes
The Moon Bridge
“Pieces of Saucers”
Silver Rain in Brazil
Other Mysterious Fragments
Chapter II LO!
Arnold’s Nine Disks
The Great Shaver Mystery
The Maury Island Fragments
Science Fiction Adopts the Saucers
Mirage or Wave Clouds?
Chapter XII SPECIAL EFFECTS
The Role of Unusual Coincidence
The Problem of Unknown Lights
Michigan’s Flying Bird Cage
UFOs from Reflections
Sundogs in Utah and France
Bright Spots on Films
Unfamiliar Lights on Planes
Inversions in California
The Chesapeake Bay Case
A Possible Explanation of the Nash-Fortenberry Disks
Other UFOs in “Stack” Formation
The Tombaugh Rectangles
Chapter XIII INVESTIGATORS: AIR FORCE AND CIVILIAN
Official Study of UFOs
Civilian Saucer Groups
NICAP
The “Conspiracy” Fantasy
UFO at Sheffield Lake, Ohio
“The Fitzgerald Report”
The Open Mind
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APPENDIX UFO AND OTHER INCIDENTS REFERRED TO
INDEX
Transcriber’s Notes
THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE
Chapter III AIR-BORNE UFOS: BALLOONS TO BUBBLES
The Mantell Tragedy
A Probable Solution of the Mantell Case
A Radiosonde over Virginia
Skyhook and Pibal UFOs
The Guantánamo “Dogfight”
The Wallops Island UFO
Weather Balloons and Saucers
Plastic UFOs and the “Stack of Coins”
Jets and Contrails
The Killian Case
... And Kites and Soap Bubbles
Acknowledgments
Chapter IV THE SPANGLED HEAV’NS: STARS AND PLANETS
The “Whipping Girl” of Saucerdom
The Ryan Case
Venus as a Morning Star
Venus as an Evening Star
The Rotating Lights of Japan
UFOs and the Opposition of Mars
The Gorman “Dogfight”
Only a Balloon?
Jupiter through a Jet Trail
A Mirage of Sirius
Earth’s Distorting Atmosphere
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