Wonders in the Sky | Free Book
In the past century, individuals, newspapers, and military agencies have recorded thousands of UFO incidents, giving rise to much speculation about flying saucers, visitors from other planets, and alien abductions. Yet the extraterrestrial phenomenon did not begin in the present era. Far from it. The authors of Wonders in the Sky reveal a thread of vividly rendered-and sometimes strikingly similar- reports of mysterious aerial phenomena from antiquity through the modern age. These accounts often share definite physical features- such as the heat felt and described by witnesses-that have not changed much over the centuries. Indeed, such similarities between ancient and modern sightings are the rule rather than the exception.
In Wonders in the Sky, respected researchers Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck examine more than 500 selected reports of sightings from biblical-age antiquity through the year 1879-the point at which the Industrial Revolution deeply changed the nature of human society, and the skies began to open to airplanes, dirigibles, rockets, and other opportunities for misinterpretation represented by military prototypes. Using vivid and engaging case studies, and more than seventy-five illustrations, they reveal that unidentified flying objects have had a major impact not only on popular culture but on our history, on our religion, and on the models of the world humanity has formed from deepest antiquity.
Sure to become a classic among UFO enthusiasts and other followers of unexplained phenomena, Wonders in the Sky is the most ambitious, broad-reaching, and intelligent analysis ever written on premodern aerial mysteries.
About the Author
Jacques Vallee holds a master’s degree in astrophysics
from France and a PhD in computer science from Northwestern
University. He is the author of several books about high technology
and unidentified phenomena, a subject that first attracted his
attention as an astronomer in Paris. While analyzing observations from
many parts of the world, Vallee became intrigued by the similarities
in every culture in patterns between modern sightings and historical
reports of encounters with flying objects and their occupants. After a
career as an information scientist with Stanford Research Institute
and the Institute for the Future, where he served as a principal
investigator for the groupware project on the ARPANET, the prototype
of the Internet, Vallee cofounded a venture capital firm in Silicon
Valley. He lives in San Francisco.
Chris Aubeck was
born in London. He moved to Spain at age 19, and after teaching in
Cáceres and Madrid for 24 years, he now lives in Granada. His interest
in the historical and sociological aspects of unexplained aerial
phenomena began at an early age. A student of language and folklore,
he has helped compile the largest collection of pre-1947 UFO cases in
the world. He has spoken on his research in many articles and on
public radio. In 2008 he was awarded a prize for his contributions to
the field by the Spanish organization Fundación Anomalía.
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