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The World of Flying Saucers: A Scientific Examination of a Major Myth of the Space Age

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The World of Flying Saucers: A Scientific Examination of a Major Myth of the Space Age

Donald Howard Menzel and Lyle Gifford Boyd

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Are flying saucers real? Astronomer Donald Menzel, a determined skeptic, examines the great UFO wave with a scientist's eye, sorting genuine puzzles from mirages, hoaxes, and misread lights. He treats the saucer as a modern myth worth explaining rather than a spacecraft to fear. A cool-headed guide through the flying-saucer craze of the space age.

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130 chapters

  1. 1THE WORLD OF FLYING SAUCERS
  2. 2Contents
  3. 3Acknowledgments
  4. 4PREFACE
  5. 5THE WORLD OF FLYING SAUCERS
  6. 6Chapter I THE SAUCER WORLDS
  7. 7UFO Reports and the Air Force
  8. 8The Scientist’s View
  9. 9The Question of “Evidence”
  10. 10Various Types of UFO
  11. 11Descriptions of UFOs
  12. 12A “Baedeker’s Guide” to Saucerdom
  13. 13Chapter II LO!
  14. 14Arnold’s Nine Disks
  15. 15The Great Shaver Mystery
  16. 16The Maury Island Fragments
  17. 17Science Fiction Adopts the Saucers
  18. 18Mirage or Wave Clouds?

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