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"The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" by Edward J. Ruppelt provides a captivating insider's account of his pivotal role in the US Air Force's UFO study projects during the mid-20th century. Ruppelt, credited with coining the acronym 'UFO,' shares the atmospheric ambiance of working within the shifting perspectives of the USAF during the 1950s - vacillating between denial, ridicule, paranoia, and genuine inquiry.
The book dispels conspiracy...
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A NEW YORK TIMES notable book from Hugo Award-winning author Robert Reed.
The son of a UFO researcher, Agent Cornell Novak is the perfect candidate for a secret government project, where humans go through "portals" and emerge as aliens. Cornell crosses a portal with Porsche, and together they embark upon a bizarre odyssey. When he returns to Earth, Cornell realizes that his greatest challenge is yet to come, as he faces secrets more shattering...
3) UFOs
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"Engaging images accompany information about UFOs. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
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My weirdest school volume 1
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IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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"A.J. and the gang at Ella Mentry School are in for a super surprise when a new teacher, Mr. Cooper, take over their third grade class"--
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Tor
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2013.
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English
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UFO Hunters® follows the team of bestselling author Bill Birnes, former NASA physicist Dr. Ted Acworth, and former US Army engineer Pat Uskert as they investigate UFO cases around the world. The team’s access to UFO evidence is unparalleled—and their expertise allows them to quickly identify bogus claims. Together, they use eyewitness accounts, scientific experimentation, documents recently released through the Freedom of Information Act, and...
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Sammy and the Cheese volume 1
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Madcap, zany noir set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco. Sammy "Two Toes" Tiffin is the bartender in a scruffy gin joint, with street connections that make him the go-to guy for just about everything. When one of his schemes goes south and his lady vanishes, Sammy follows a tortuous trail from Chinatown to Telegraph Hill to a hidden forest enclave in a desperate search to find his girl. Meanwhile, a suspicious flying object has...
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Saucer novels volume 3
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The long awaited sequel to master storyteller Stephen Coonts's Saucer brings back the characters, action, and exhilaration that made the original a smash. After discovering the secrets of a 140,000-year-old spacecraft in Saucer, Rip Cantrell and beautiful test pilot Charley Pine think their days of high-flying extraterrestrial adventure are over. But when Pine takes up flying spaceplanes to the moon for the French lunar base project, she discovers...
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So begins Jeffrey Mishlove's The PK Man, the true and strange story of Ted Owens, whose claims of powerful psychokinetic abilities given to him by "Space Intelligences" were too bizarre and extreme for many to believe. When these claims were ignored or challenged, he purportedly used his powers to produce earthquakes, civil unrest, UFO sightings, strange weather events, and other powerful phenomena. Owens even threatened to down aircraft to garner...
12) UFO crash sites
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Since the beginning of recorded history, people have been mystified by UFOs--unidentified flying objects. Even Christopher Columbus, on a 1492 voyage aboard the Santa Maria, was puzzled by a sight he described as "a light glimmering at a great distance" in the sky. While no UFOs have ever been captured or recovered, there may be startling clues to their existence left behind in places where they are thought to have struck the ground. In this book,...
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"While still on active duty in the U.S. Army during the 1980s, Colonel John B. Alexander, Ph.D. created an interagency group to explore the controversial topic of UFOs. Participants came from the Army, Navy, Air Force, CIA, NSA, DIA, and the aerospace industry. All members held Top Secret clearance. And what they discovered was not at all what was expected. UFOs covers the numerous cases they saw, and answers questions like: �What was really in...
14) Mysterium
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A town in Michigan is transported into a new world. Instead of democracy and the pursuit of happiness the citizens find a repressive theocracy.
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Gideon and Ishmael Hofstadt, ages sixteen and seventeen, accidentally start a hoax that aliens have landed, turning their town of Lansburg, Pennsylvania, into a circus. Told through narrative, police interviews, text messages, blog posts, and more.--
When one of his science experiments went wrong, Gideon Hofstadt and his older brother Ishmael blamed the resulting explosion on extraterrestrial activity. Their lie was embraced by the town. As the brothers...
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The true nature of what actually crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947 remains classified. Only a select few have ever had access to the truth about what became known as Area 51. But what happened to the remnants of that crash is shrouded in even greater mystery. What began in the high desert of New Mexico ended at Wright-Patterson, an ultra top-secret Air Force base in Dayton, Ohio. The physical evidence of extraterrestrial visitation was buried...
17) Area 51
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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"Engaging images accompany information about Area 51. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
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[2023]
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"How likely is it that humans aren't alone in the universe? Reports of strange lights, UFO sightings and alien encounters abound-and some (like recent accounts from U.S. Navy pilots) even sound credible. And in recent years, armed with state-of-the-art technology and better information, the search for extraterrestrials overflows with exciting possibilities. Within our own solar system, astrobiologists search for the biochemical building blocks that...
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Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
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[2002]
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English
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This story is based on events which occurred in Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Distraught by the sudden, tragic death of his wife, a journalist finds himself mysteriously drawn to a small West Virginia town when his car inexplicably strands him. He soon learns that many of the town's residents have been beset by bizarre events, including sightings of an eerie "moth-like" entity, an entity similar to the one seen by his late wife.
20) The UFO incident
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Kino Lorber Inc
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[2022]
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English
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Barney and Betty Hill, husbands -and -wife survivors of alien abduction, in this engrossing look at one of the most controversial and carefully documented cases of an extraterrestrial encounter in U.S. history. The Hills claim that, on the 19th of September, 1961, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, they were taken aboard a saucer-like spacecraft and examined medically by mysterious humanoid beings with grayish skin. The UFO Incident describes...
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