The close encounters man : how one man made the world believe in UFOs
O'Connell, Mark2017
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In June 1947, private pilot Kenneth Arnold looked out his cockpit window and saw a group of nine silvery crescents weaving between the peaks of the Cascade Mountains at an estimated 1,200 miles an hour. The media, the military, and the scientific community - led by J. Allen Hynek, an astronomer hired by the Air Force - debunked this and many other Unidentified Flying Object sightings reported across the country. But after years of denials, Hynek made a shocking pronouncement: UFOs are real. 30 years after his death, Hynek's agonizing transformation from skepticism to true believer remains one of the great misunderstood stories of science.
Main title:
The close encounters man : how one man made the world believe in UFOs / Mark O'Connell.
Author:
O'Connell, Mark, author
Imprint:
New York : Dey St., 2017.
Collation:
416 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780062484178 (pbk)
Dewey class:
001.942092
LC class:
TL789
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1954831