Mysteries of the Skies: Ufos in Perspective [Hardcover]

Gordon I. R. Lore (Author)

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• Hardcover
• Publisher: Prentice Hall (June 1968)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0136090575
• ISBN-13: 978-0136090571
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,255,380 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Lest we forget: UFOs are Unidentified Flying Objects, December 14, 2003

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This review is from: Mysteries of the Skies: Ufos in Perspective (Hardcover)

This is a fantastic book. 1968 was a pivotal year in UFO history. APRO and NICAP were vigorously pursuing their agendas. Dr. James McDonald was very alive and pushing for a proper investigation of UFOs. Allen Hynek was five years away from founding the Center for UFO Studies. Project Blue Book was still in existence, and the Condon Committee was in the midst of its investigation. The Portage County sightings (the Spaur / Neff high-speed chase) were fresh in everyone's mind, as were the notorious Ann Arbor "swamp gas" sightings and the House Armed Services Committee hearing on UFOs.

It was in 1968 that Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. and Harold H. Deneault, Jr.published _Mysteries of the Skies_. The authors had access to NICAP's files and produced a wonderful compendium of pre-1947 sightings. (Lore would be deposed from NICAP along with Donald Keyhoe in December, 1969.) The intent of the authors was to show that there was much more to the subject of UFOs than the sightings reported subsequent to Kenneth Arnold's widely publicized encounter.

There is detailed coverage of the Airship Sightings of the 1890s, Foo-Fighters, and the Battle of Los Angeles in 1942. This isn't about "little green men" and rectal probes. This is about strange things seen in the sky by reliable observers, things that never get explained.

One of the bonuses of reading this book is getting to watch as Lore and Deneault swallow Kansas farmer Alexander Hamilton's now-debunked 1897 airship lie, hook, line, and sinker. They practically open the book with it. It constitutes a warning to those who would too readily believe the succeeding accounts. And yet, people saw these things, and they are still seeing them.

If you are interested in or amused by nuts-and-bolts UFOs, and you get a chance to acquire this book, you would do well to do so.