This no-nonsense guide to one of our most enduring mysteries presents a short history of the strangest encounters, looks carefully at explanations from the blunt to the truly bizarre, offers insights into the strongest evidence that we are being visited by beings from another world and sources the best sceptical arguments that it can all be explained rationally. Concise, balanced and - occasionally - hilarious this is a story that has as much to tell you about the human race as it does about aliens.

Blueseason 2011-2012 is the sixth in a series of books chronicling the season-by-season history of Carlisle United; Cumbria's only representatives in the Football League for most of the last 35 years. Offering the official game reports for all first team games, all the goals and gossip and a day to day account of a tense promotion campaign, this is one book no member of the Blue Army will want to be without.

This is the story of a season in which Carlisle United made history. Starting with the first Carlisle player in forty years to make an international appearance, working its way through three managers, taking in a record breaking run of home wins and ending with a deflected ball, a despairing dive, and a play-off goal that broke Cumbrian hearts, this is the story of all the games, the goings on and all the and the gossip of a season that took Carlisle United to their highest league finish in 22 years. Written by Neil Nixon (Singin' the Blues), this is a book no self-respecting member of the Blue Army will want to be without.

UFOs and Aliens have been reported throughout recorded time. Today they represent the greatest and longest lasting mystery known to mankind. Reports of UFO incidents vary from lights in the sky to abductions. The details are frequently terrifying, always baffling and occasionally hilarious. Current UFO investigations range from gathering hard evidence in the form of alleged alien artifacts, collecting witness stories through interview and hypnosis and studying a range of strange phenomena. This Pocket Essential gives details of the best known cases, the most incredible stories and the answers put forward to explain them. A Brief History of Bafflement covers the history of UFO events up to the modern era. From this point individual cases are recounted and analyzed. The alleged crash of an alien spacecraft at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 is considered as both the most historic event ever to occur on this planet and also as 'a boil on the ass of UFOlogy.' Other cases examine strange deaths, unexplained radar recordings, the scrambling of fighter aircraft to intercept UFOs and the bizarre messages channeled from aliens to humans. The book presents UFOlogy's most Astounding Tales and a series of Cautionary Tales which suggest that the answers we seek may be found in the least likely places. And the author shares one experience in which his accidental stumbling on a major case made him fear for his life...