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The UFO Magazine UFO Encyclopedia: The Most Compreshensive Single-Volume UFO Reference in Print

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I find this book very useful especially the short Bio's of numerous individuals listed, who I see refered to in other UFO articles & books.
Being new to UFOlogy, This book is valuable as a guide to many more books and interesting UFO incidents.

This book can be used as an encyclopedia, but it is so interesting I just read the entire thing front to back. It looks good and as far as I know it is considered a reliable source of UFO-related information. The only problem I have with it is typing/writing errors. Would it have hurt to have someone check for mistakes?! I opened the book at a random page and immediately spotted one. That is the only reason for not giving it five stars. The book is still good, but not perfect.

"THE UFO MAGAZINE: UFO ENCYCLOPEDIA" SC
by William J. Birnes(editor).





This is a UFO book. It is an encyclopedia.

The entries are in alphabet order. For example, "A" starts with "A-12 Oxcart", then "Abduction Scenario, Physical Evidence", then "Abductions, indicators of", then "Abramov Alexander", so on and so forth(from A to Z).

This is a very good book. A superior encyclopedia. It is full of different entries. It is complete & helpful. Photos & sketches are also many.

There are also some shortcomings. First, some pages get easily loose, so you need to glue it back; Second, the writing style is a little dense, but it is still easy to read & understand.




These entries are very good(from the book). They are the followings:

. Aurora
. Belgian Triangles
. Bermuda Triangle
. Billy the Kid
. Bonilla, A.Y.
. Brooking Institution
. Canary Island case
. Cash-Landrum case
. Central Intelligence Agency(CIA)
. Central Intelligence Agency, History of UFOs in
. Children of Roswell - the longest, most exciting, & best entry of them all(23 pages).
. Clonaid
. Flight 9, Project Mogul
. Flying Triangles
. Hill, Barney & Betty
. Hypnosis, Abduction Memory Recovery
. Implants, Alien
. Laser Weapons
. Lockheed
. Mars
. Mind Control(MK-ULTRA)
. Philadelphia Experiment
. Ramey Telegram
. Roswell, New Mexico
. Roswell Crash Press Release
. Sarbacher, Robert
. Smith, Wilbert Brockhouse
. Voronezh, Russia
. War of the Worlds, the Radio Broadcast
. Zamora, Lonnie





"Alien Agenda"(by Jim Marrs) is an another very good UFO book. It is very informative & enjoyable.


The contents(some) are the followings.

. "The Aurora Crash of 1897"
. Chapter 1 "The Greatest UFO ?"
. Chapter 4 "The Roswell Crash" & "The MJ-12 Papers"
. Chapter 5 "Giant Artificial Satellites"
. Chapter 6 " The Scientist & The Saucers"(the Bob Lazar story)
. Chapter 7 "Over The Hills"(the Betty Hill abduction case)
. Chapter 9(entire) "Cattle Mutilation"
. Chapter 10(entire) "Crop Circles"
. Chapter 11(entire) "Remote Viewing"(very, very good chapter on the subject matter).






FINAL ANALYSIS:
"The UFO Magazine: UFO Encyclopedia" SC
4 of 5 stars
**** = a "must read"
Rating: A-



This is a brilliant, practical, & helpful UFO book. It should be on your bookshelf.

A must read!



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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!!


P.S. -- "UFO Photographs Vol. 1" HC(by Wendell Stevens) is also a good book.

Three people I trust in Ufology: Dr. Richard Boylan, Maximillien de Lafayette, and Dr. Bill Birnes the author of this book. They are highly educated and honest. Buy this book. It is well-documented.

I wanted to give it 5 stars but because it was a small encyclopedia I gave it 4 stars.
Many of the subjects in this book were written about in other books.
But I liked the clear style of the author and the quality of data he used.
I enjoyed reading it. The chapters are condensed and take you straight to the point.
I recommend this book. It could be very helpful in your research.

The author is eager to please us. Well, he did.
A small but adequate reference book. Plenty of good stuff.
Needs a little bit more work, considering the important place, the author occupies in ufology.

Why some important people in UFOlogy were not mentioned in this book, I have no clue. People such as Joe Montaldo of International Community for Alien Research (www.ICAR1.com), James Gilliland of Enlightened Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence (www.ECETI.org) , Bill McDonald of www.AlienUFOart.com, to name a few. Or, how about Howard Menger, for crying out loud? Or, Long John Nebel? Or, August C. Roberts? Oh my god, what about Valiant Thor? These omissions disappoint me, but not having gone through the entire book yet, I still may state that it is filled with information that is most definitely worthy of my reading.

One of the 10 best books ever published on UFOS! First class. It has everything. Buy it right now.

The book came in excellent shape and received it in one day. Very happy with the service provided.

This thing reads more like a Coast-To-Coast-AM who's who than it does a serious book about UFOs.