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Books > Health, Home & Family > Mind, body & spirit > Unexplained phenomena / the paranormal > UFOs
This book is a collection of essays written by the very
scientists and engineers who have led, and continue to lead, the
scientific quest known as SETI, the search for extraterrestrial
intelligence. Divided into three parts, the first section, 'The
Spirit of SETI Past', written by the surviving pioneers of this
then emerging discipline, reviews the major projects undertaken
during the first 50 years of SETI science and the results of that
research.
In the second section, 'The Spirit of SETI Present', the
present-day science and technology is discussed in detail,
providing the technical background to contemporary SETI
instruments, experiments, and analytical techniques, including the
processing of the received signals to extract potential alien
communications.
In the third and final section, 'The Spirit of SETI Future', the
book looks ahead to the possible directions that SETI will take in
the next 50 years, addressing such important topics as interstellar
message construction, the risks and assumptions of interstellar
communications, when we might make contact, what aliens might look
like and what is likely to happen in the aftermath of such a
contact.
The Official FBI Reports on Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)
Released Under the Freedom of Information Act.
Finally a book that answers the tough questions about UFOs, Gilmer
reveals rare information about little green men and more.
Top UFO researchers Paul Whitehead and George Wingfield tell the
story of UFOs from their first appearance in cave art, the Bible,
through folklore and the emergence of science fiction, to the
extraordinary phenomenon as we know it today.
"Chronicles of the Strange and Uncanny in Florida "explores the
unknown for those who wish to look beyond the confines of everyday
life to discover the truly unusual. It explores Florida’s darker
avenues for evidence of the extraordinary and the fantastic.
Investigate sightings of flying saucers, extraterrestrials, and
strange aerial phenomena. Meet skunk apes, chupacabras, and other
creatures of the night. And in Florida’s lakes and seas, meet
aquatic abnormalities like sea monsters, the Everglades water
serpent, and the three-toed beast of Clearwater Beach.
The purpose of this book is to initiate a new discussion on liberty
focusing on the infinite realms of space. The discussion of the
nature of liberty and what it means for a human to be free has
occupied the minds of thinkers since the Enlightenment. However,
without exception, every one of these discussions has focused on
the character of liberty on the Earth. The emergence of human space
exploration programs in the last 40-50 years raise a fundamental
and new question: what will be the future of liberty in space? This
book takes the discussion of liberty into the extraterrestrial
environment. In this book, new questions will be addressed such as:
Can a person be free when the oxygen the individual breathes is the
result of a manufacturing process controlled by someone else? Will
the interdependence required to survive in the extremities of the
extraterrestrial environment destroy individualism? What are the
obligations of the individual to the extraterrestrial state? How
can we talk of extraterrestrial liberty when everyone is dependent
on survival systems?
Have you ever wondered what could happen when we discover another
communicating species outside the Earth? This book addresses this
question in all its complexity. In addition to the physical
barriers for communication, such as the enormous distances where a
message can take centuries to reach its recipient, the book also
examines the biological problems of communicating between species,
the problems of identifying a non-Terrestrial intelligence, and the
ethical, religious, legal and other problems of conducting
discussions across light years. Most of the book is concerned with
issues that could impinge on your life: how do we share experiences
with ETI? Can we make shared laws? Could we trade? Would they have
religion? The book addresses these and related issues, identifying
potential barriers to communication and suggesting ways we can
overcome them. The book explores this topic through reference to
human experience, through analogy and thought experiment, while
relying on what is known to-date about ourselves, our world, and
the cosmos we live in.
In 1988, in an article on the analysis of the measurements of the
variations in the radial velocities of a number of stars, Campbell,
Walker, and Yang reported an - teresting phenomenon;the radial
velocity variations of Cephei seemed to suggest the existence of a
Jupiter-like planet around this star. This was a very exciting and,
at the same time, very surprising discovery. It was exciting
because if true, it would have marked the detection of the ?rst
planet outside of our solar system. It was surprising because the
planet-hosting star is the primary of a binary system with a
separation less than 19 AU, a distance comparable to the planetary
distances in our solar system. The moderatelyclose orbit of the
stellar companionof Cephei raised questions about the reality of
its planet. The skepticism over the interpretation of the results
(which was primarily based on the idea that binary star systems
with small sepa- tions would not be favorable places for planet
formation) became so strong that in a subsequent paper in 1992,
Walker and his colleagues suggested that the planet in the Cephei
binary might not be real, and the variations in the radial velocity
of this star might have been due to its chromospheric activities.
This book describes a wide variety of speculations by many
authors about the consequences for humanity of coming into contact
with extraterrestrial intelligence. The assumptions underlying
those speculations are examined, and some conclusions are drawn.
The book emphasizes the consequences of contact rather than the
search, and takes account of popular views. As necessary
background, the book also includes brief summaries of the history
of thinking about extraterrestrial intelligence, searches for life
and for signals, contrasting paradigms of how contact might take
place, and the paradox that those paradigms allegedly create.
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IF UFOS DON'T EXIST, THEN THEY CAN'T CRASH. But something did crash
near Corona, a tiny town not far from Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947.
And that crash has been dissected and debated ever since.
Aviation/science writer Don Berliner and nuclear physicist Stanton
Friedman, the original civilian investigator of the so-called
Roswell incident, have delved into the controversy to find the
truth. They sifted through once-classified government documents,
interviewed military and civilian witnesses, pieced together
evidence, considered alternative theories, and concluded that a UFO
crashed near Corona-and the U.S. government knew it and covered it
up. Crash at Corona proves that what was found in the New Mexico
desert wasn't a weather balloon or a secret weapon-it was a UFO.
"One of the more credible books arguing the existence of
UFOs...Most arresting of all is the testimony of those who handled
the debris, who had no opportunity to compare notes, yet have
described the materials ...in almost identical
language."-Publishers Weekly DON BERLINER has written more than 300
magazine articles and 25 books on aviation history and space and
was also a staff writer for the National Investigations Committee
on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). He is board chairman of the non-profit
Fund for UFO Research, Inc., and is a delegate to the UFO Research
Coalition. STANTON T. FRIEDMAN is a nuclear physicist who has
worked for General Electric, General Motors, Westinghouse, and
other corporations. He is also the author of TOP SECRET/MAJIC and
has appeared on Larry King, Unsolved Mysteries, and Nightline, and
was involved with the documentaries UFOs Are Real and Flying
Saucers Are Real. He was the final speaker at the fiftieth
anniversary conference at the International UFO Museum and Research
Center at Roswell, and has given more than 700 lectures on the
subject of UFOs.
De entre los libros de la Biblia, el del Apocalipsis suele
presentarse oscuro y misterioso para la mayor a de las personas; ya
no tiene que ser as, hoy podemos tener un conocimiento m?'s
detallado de esa revelaci n y de sus implicaciones en la vida
diaria y en el desarrollo integral del ser humano. Al leer el libro
"Descifrando el Apocalipsis," podremos acceder al detalle en una
interpretaci n cap tulo a cap tulo, vers culo a vers culo, ofreci
ndonos un nuevo nivel de comprensi n de la "Revelaci n" para cada
persona en particular.
Here is the first A–Z encyclopedia to explore the convictions
held by many in the modern day world that extraterrestrials,
angels, fairy-folk, and other-dimensional intelligences regularly
interact with human beings. Extraordinary Encounters: An
Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrials and Otherworldly Beings is the
first ever illustrated A–Z encyclopedia to explore these
fascinating modern day beliefs, personalities, beings, and events.
Among the beings you'll meet in its pages are Abraham, a collection
of highly evolved entities that speak in one voice; Metranon, the
divine interface between God and the Outer Worlds (and sometime Old
Testament angel); and The Planetary Council, whose members include
Jove, Merlin, Quetzalcoatl, and Lao-Tzu.
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