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Beyond UFOs: The Search for Extraterrestrial Life and Its Astonishing Implications for Our Future
 
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The quest for extraterrestrial life doesn't happen only in science fiction. This book describes the startling discoveries being made in the very real science of astrobiology, an intriguing new field that blends astronomy, biology, and geology to explore the possibility of life on other planets. Jeffrey Bennett takes readers beyond UFOs to discuss some of the tantalizing questions astrobiologists grapple with every day: What is life and how does it begin? What makes a planet or moon habitable? Is there life on Mars or elsewhere in the solar system? How can life be recognized on distant worlds? Is it likely to be microbial, more biologically complex--or even intelligent? What would such a discovery mean for life here on Earth?

Come along on this scientific adventure and learn the astonishing implications of discoveries made in this field for the future of the human race. Bennett, who believes that "science is a way of helping people come to agreement," explains how the search for extraterrestrial life can help bridge the divide that sometimes exists between science and religion, defuse public rancor over the teaching of evolution, and quiet the debate over global warming. He likens humanity today to a troubled adolescent teetering on the edge between self-destruction and a future of virtually limitless possibilities. Beyond UFOs shows why the very quest to find alien life can help us to grow up as a species and chart a course for the stars.

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Highly recommended
 
Review Date: December 19, 2008
Reviewer: Todd Neff, Denver, Colo., USA
Jeff Bennett is one of our great science communicators, an astrophysics Ph.D. with an uncommon gift for rendering opaque subjects in compelling, accessible prose. With "Beyond UFOs," Bennett has achieved something special. The volume spans seamlessly topics as diverse as radio astronomy, molecular biology, geophysics and science history, building a convincing case for his belief -- and clearly his hope -- that life is pervasive in the universe.

Though a scientist, teacher and bestselling textbook author (The Cosmic Perspective, the nation's top introductory astronomy textbook, is also his work), his tone here is conversational, that of a favorite uncle describing something about which he wants you to share his excitement -- in this case the idea that life teems throughout the cosmos. With as many stars in the universe as there are grains of sand on all the world's beaches, who's to argue with him?

The more of this book I read, the more I felt it should be required reading. A quick stop by the book's Web site (www.beyondufos.com) shows that it already is. In 2008, Miami of Ohio made it their pick for their Summer Reading Program for 3,700 incoming freshmen. Miami made a wise choice. This book, in addition to being a great read, will change -- I think for the better -- the way you think about creation and your role in it.
Excellent Book about the search for extraterrestrial life
 
Review Date: June 1, 2008
Reviewer: David J. Syzdek, Las Vegas, NV United States
This book details on a layman's level, the state of the science and technology being used to search for life beyond earth.

Bennett does an excellent job explaining the process of science and the development of scientific ideas starting with ancient ideas about the universe and how scientific though has progressed (in fits and starts) to the current day. He also explains how scientific thought and religious beliefs can coexist and do not inherently contradict each other.

The book continues by examining the question of "What is Life" and the process of getting life started. After looking at the requirements of life on a planetary and star system scale, the book looks at the possibility of life throughout the solar system and then beyond. Bennett looks at the probability of extraterrestrial intelligence arising an asking the question: "... If civilizations really are as common as it seems they ought to be, shouldn't we by now have some real evidence for their existence?" Finally, Bennett looks at the social and cultural changes that we could possibly face if we learn of intelligent life in the universe.

This book is easy and enjoyable, and I recommend it for anyone who has an interest in astronomy, UFOs, or science. Even non-scientists would find it interesting.
Great Book
 
Review Date: July 18, 2008
Reviewer: T. L. Chartier,
This book is very scientific in it's approach to the topic. I learned a lot of interesting facts about other worlds, the universe and biology. Very well written. Great book!
Beyond UFO's
 
Review Date: May 21, 2010
Reviewer: Reader, Newport News, VA
A readable and interesting explanation of the biophysics aspect of astronomy for the non-specialist. It was way "Beyond UFO's", which I thought was a slightly misleading title.
GREAT WORK!
 
Review Date: May 2, 2008
Reviewer: Benjamin Grossman, Ph.D., New York, New York
This book opens up your mind and takes you to other dimensions of discoveries. It adds 10,000 miles to the length of your knowledge. A treasure!!

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Gerry Anderson’s UFO: Technical Manual

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Gerry Anderson's UFO: Technical Manual
 
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Meticulous research and painstaking attention to detail have gone into these multiangle views and cutaways. Skydiver, the futuristic gull-wing cars, the SHADO interceptors, the Space Intruder Detector, and installations such as SHADO's Moonbase complex have never looked so exciting or so realistic. Nick Foreman's CGI illustrations—the first time this technique has been used in an official Gerry Anderson book—are accompanied by detailed notes on design, specification, and performance. Following in the footsteps of The Complete Book of Gerry Anderson's UFO, this book will be a must-have purchase for all true Anderson fans.

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UFO Sighting Report!

Leaving a parking lot at 7:45 a,m from work, I pulled onto Hiway 160 in Pahrump, Nevada, I heading south-east. At a stoplight I looked out my front windshield at the clouds that morning. I noticed a huge shape Straight ahead at the edge of a cloud and thought for a seconed it must be a military helo because it wasnt moving. Being ex-military and having worked with helos I became immediately confused because it was totally the wrong shape. It was rectangle. Then my mind took in the distance ahead of me and I knew it was larger than anything I had ever seen in the air and not moving. As I waited for the light to change I held my thumb up and measured it with my thumbnail pressed against the window, It was wider than my thumb. I drove toward it determined to get closer, My heart started pumping like crazy and as I got closer I could see more detail on the tailend and what I presumed the right side. It was grey/blue in color on the bottom and side and the whole horizontal-rectangle rear-end was darker to black and I could see tall verticle bars (Blue/grey) from top to bottom set within the dark area all along the back. The sides and bottom seemed smooth and its edges separating top, bottom and back were sharp. It was hovering about 1,500 ft above ground just below the cloud. (I’m an ex-sky diver and can judge pretty good)
As I drove closer it began to move southwest/west into the heavy cloud hanging there. It dissapeard into the cloud as I turned off Hiway 60 and Homestead Road. It had started moving down Homestead Road as it dissapeard. I parked the car and got out but it was no longer visable. It was a beautiful day that morning and it was clear except for that one darn cloud. As the cloud moved on I waited to catch a glimpse but saw nothing further. I still felt confused as to what I had just witnessed. I hesitated telling anyone, but eventually told my sister. I have not mentioned it to anyone until now. I saw something on TV about MUFON and decided to contact you.
I was so Intriged by it’s size that I set my odometer on the car to zero and drove back to where I originally saw it. It was exactly 3 miles to the stoplight to Homestead Road. This thing had to be gigantic! I would love to know if anyone else saw this as well. It never made the papers.


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Flying Saucers and Science: A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs: Interstellar Travel, Crashes, and Government Cover-Ups
 
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Flying Saucers and Science is a comprehensive look at the scientific data on the flying saucer phenomenon. Nuclear physicist and lecturer Stanton T. Friedman has distilled more than 40 years of research on UFOs, and shares his work on a wide variety of classified advanced nuclear and space systems. He answers a number of physics questions in layman's terms, and establishes that travel to nearby stars is within reach without violating the laws of physics.

Photographs of little known, far-out advanced propulsion systems, on some of which he worked, are included. Friedman also presents data demonstrating the ability to withstand high accelerations with some surprising results. He clearly shows that government policy on this subject has been to provide false, misleading claims and disinformation, and establishes that the subject truly represents a Cosmic Watergate.

Flying Saucers and Science presents intriguing data from a number of large-scale scientific UFO studies that almost no one, especially the noisy negativists, has discussed in detail. It deals with a host of "why" questions such, as reasons for the cover-up, reasons for aliens to come to Earth, and reasons for not landing on the White House lawn. Friedman unveils the SETI program, and details the antipathy of science-fiction writers to UFOs and other mysteries of the saucer conundrum. False notions about those who believe in the reality of alien visitors and the adequacy of coverage by the journalistic and scientific communities are reviewed.

In this book you'll discover:

* What type of energy and technologies could provide travel

* between the stars.

* The most likely locations in the universe where aliens come from.

* Why the aliens are here.

* Who believes in the flying saucer phenomenon.

* The government's motives to cover-up.

Readers of Flying Saucers and Science will never feel the same about UFOs again.

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REVELATIONS: Alien Contact and Human Deception
 
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In REVELATIONS, the final volume of a trilogy, Dr. Jacques Vallee presents startling evidence that well-constructed hoaxes and media manipulations have misled UFO researchers, diverting them from the UFO phenomenon itself. Vallee takes readers step by step into the tangled web of UFOlogy's dark side, in an effort to clear the ever-thickening underbrush that has obscured the real nature of the UFO phenomenon.

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UFO Sighting Report!

I took these fotos just south of Denver Colorado the night before last. 2/27/10. We got home around 10pm, and I looked up at the moon. The sky was rather overcast and there was a really cool ring around the moon, so I took a few pictures with my wife’s new Nikon camera. She says its 12 megapixels. When she showed me the fotos later there was this blue orb in the picture that I could not see at all when I was looking at the moon. Not at all. It appears to be in front of the moon in the foto, but it doesn’t seem to be one of those lens flares or something on the lens because it is out of focus in the second shot as much as the moon is out of focus. It seems to move up to the right in the last foto too. By definition this is a UFO to me, only because I just don’t know what it is. It seems to have a shadow ring around it too and it looks like it is semi solid but definitely 3-D not just a flat image.


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A beam of light hit me 4 x’s (ref 21386)

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My neice was over and we stayed up late talking about UFO’s. It was around 12 30 at night when she said that she saw a light come from the ceiling into the room with us and the light was behind me then like an hour later we took a short drive out to look and as soon as we parked a light from the sky which looked like a beam of light struck me and you could see the light on my sweat shirt then a moment later a second beam came down and again you could see the light hit my sweat shirt, then after that we moved up the road a little and 2 more beams came but this time the light went further down into the car touching my legs and then after that the beams of light flashed around my car. The beam of light was white with a yellow tint and was the size if a softball. I really think that it was the UFO that I nicknamed Flasher.


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Dark Moon: Apollo and the Whistle-Blowers

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Dark Moon: Apollo and the Whistle-Blowers
 
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Using secret documents and analyzing thousands of NASA photographs of the Apollo 11 mission, the researchers delve, in great detail, into every aspect of this beguiling theory to answer the questions that won't go away:

* Was Neil Armstrong really the first man on the moon?

* Was a second craft going to the moon at the same time as Apollo 11?

* Is lethal radiation prevalent throughout deep space?

* What is wrong with the official account of the Apollo 13 accident?

* Was the live color TV feed from the moon not really live?

* Is it true that the lunar surface camera had no viewfinder?

* How was lighting used in the Apollo photographs if no lighting equipment was taken to the moon? The answers rock the foundation of trust in NASA and the U.S. space program!

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UFO Sighting Report!

i was driving a hazardous material transport truck between Cisco,tx. and Rising Star,tx. southbound on hwy 183.I noticed an extremely bright series of 3 lights in the sky.The lights werent moving or were moving very slowly.I passed a car that had apartly pulled over to view the sight and thought about pulling over myself.The shoulder was too narrow so i proceeded in a southerly direction toward the lights high in the southern sky.Then an additional 6 lights came on and the lights covered at least 1/4 mile of the sky.I turned my spot light on and shined it in the direction of the lights.The lights went out after a few minutes and the sky was dark with no signs of any aircraft or aircraft lights.I could see planes in the far distance but nothing in the immediate area.Then the original first 3 lights reappeared for a few more minutes and went back out again.I was closer this time but still could see no signs of aircraft of any sort.The lights were very bright and impossible to not notice.There were 2 cars behind my truck and they were sure to have seen the sight as well as the folks that had pulled over.I studied the sky carefully.I have worked at night alot in my life.I have seen the space shuttle re-enter the atmosphere,space junk fall and catch fire,comets,meteors of all sorts,apache helicoptors with lights underneath,and passenger jets with landing lights on.These lights were quite unique in comparision to anything ive ever seen.The light they admitted was white and bright with no colors at all.I would love to get a look at the radar at 8:02 pm.It was several small craft or one very large one.


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Fire in the Sky: The Walton Experience

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Fire in the Sky: The Walton Experience
 
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The author recounts his abduction by a UFO in the mountains of Arizona in 1975, describing life aboard an alien spacecraft in an account that became the basis for the major motion picture of the same name. 25,000 first printing. IP.

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