The Definitive Illustrated A–Z Guide

📖 The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Life

From the first close encounter on record to the latest news of the global UFO craze, this comprehensive A-Z encyclopedic collection brings together contributions from the field’s leading experts, including:

* Isaac Asimov
* Whitley Strieber
* Carl Sagan
* Martin Kottmeyer
* Walter Andrus
* Ann Druffel
* Raymond Fowler
* Brad Steiger
* Kevin Randle
* Erich von Däniken
* Stanton Friedman

…along with many other well-known authorities, whose theories and speculations together point to one cosmic question…

Are we alone?

An outstanding UFO reference…
Reviewer: a reader from the United States

I would not necessarily agree that Ronald Story’s The Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Life is the best reference in the UFO field, but I admit it comes very close. The book is arranged A to Z and covers almost every topic that might relate to the UFO phenomenon—from “alien abduction” to the “Bermuda Triangle” to “crop circles,” and much more. It also briefly describes almost every major UFO incident in the United States since the summer of 1947, and it has the advantage of including recent important cases, such as the famous 1997 “Phoenix Lights” sighting. For me, though, the most impressive part is that it gives a fairly detailed life of nearly every major ufologist and skeptic/debunker in the field. Each biography ends with a “position statement,” in which the ufologist or skeptic sets out a personal view of UFOs or of what they might be. Unsurprisingly, the “position statements” of the skeptics and debunkers are much alike—they argue that UFOs are not real, only hoaxes or misidentifications of “normal” phenomena (stars, birds, balloons, ball lightning, and so on). The ufologists’ “position statements” differ. Some think UFOs are spacecraft from another planet, while others think they are “energy beings” from a parallel universe, and so on. The book does have one major flaw: most of the articles and papers were not written by Mr. Story himself, but by a mix of ufologists and debunkers. The quality and reliability of those pieces therefore vary—some are excellent, others mediocre or thin. Articles by debunkers (such as Philip Klass’s paper on “alien abduction”) are highly critical and dismissive of the topic at hand, while other articles by ufologists are just as “pro-UFO” and “pro-alien,” which can be confusing. Overall, though, this is still an excellent and thorough one-volume reference that should answer almost any question you have about UFOs. In my view, only Jerome Clark’s hefty two-volume The UFO Encyclopedia is better. Highly recommended!

📚 Source:UFO Evidence Bookstore