True UFO Accounts

The minority of you who actually read my reviews know that I love first hand accounts. This book is a collection of articles from Fate Magazine and its years of UFO reporting, going all the way back to the 1960’s. As for the history of UFO sightings, I had no idea they occurred in ancient Egypt. Sure, I learned about Erich Von Daniken’s “Ancient Astronaut” theory back in 5^th grade, but I’d never heard of the 1865 sighting in Britain. Yes indeed, a man names James Lumley claimed he saw a burning object hit the ground with a strong smell of sulfur. Now are you going to tell me that it was a stray artillery shell, and that the smell of sulfur was from the propellant? As the English would say, not bloody likely? And then there’s the trapper who found rocks covered in hieroglyphics in the mountains of Missouri. Now if this man was a trapper, would he have known enough about hieroglyphics to fake them? It seems that a space-faring race have crashed their vessels in Ancient Egypt, Missouri, and Roswell. Were they attracted by the clean air and natural beauty of those places? A nature-loving race would not have been drawn to Chicago or LA, I guarantee!

The 1949 article gives a good reason to consider a Martian visit to our planet. But first, listen to another theory; some say it was the Soviets piloting some giant experimental aircraft. But who would benefit the most from that suggestion? Boeing and Northrop Grumman! They were paid billions to make stuff for NASA and the army, so the “Soviet spacecraft” idea would be profitable. They made a fortune when Sputnik went into orbit, and the USA went haywire to compete with the Soviets. The Military-Industrial Complex isn’t found in the conspiracy theory section. It’s real!

But seriously folks, why else would aliens come here other than nature? The summers are warm, the winters aren’t bad, and there’s plenty of water in the ocean. Mercury is too hot, Mars is too cold, and as for Venus, well the pressure there is so high that we can’t send a probe.

Looks like Earth is the next stop for the alien tourist.