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A seminal text which has redefined extraterrestrial encounters.
List of contents
FOREWORD TO THE NEW EDITION
INTRODUCTION: A RUMOR OF OTHER WORLDS
PART I: TRACKING THE PHENOMENON
CHAPTER ONE - Before the saucers came, prehistory–1947
CHAPTER TWO - A mystery in the skies, 1947–1966
CHAPTER THREE - Waiting for first contact, 1966–1987
CHAPTER FOUR - Twilight of the saucers, 1987–present
PART II: EXPLORING THE POSSIBILITIES
CHAPTER FIVE - The barriers to understanding
CHAPTER SIX - The alternative hypotheses
CHAPTER SEVEN - The natural history of apparitions
PART III: SOLVING THE MYSTERY
CHAPTER EIGHT - Summoning the space brothers
CHAPTER NINE - The last secret of the Cold War
CHAPTER TEN - The end of the dream
GLOSSARY OF ACRONYMS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
NOTES
INDEX
About the author
John Michael Greer is the award-winning author of more than fifty books, including T
he New Encyclopedia of the Occult, The Druidry Handbook, The Celtic Golden Dawn and C
ircles of Power: An Introduction to Hermetic Magic. An initiate in Freemasonry, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Martinist Order, and three Druid traditions, Greer served as the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America (AODA) for twelve years. He is also the author of seventeen fantasy and science fiction novels and ten nonfiction books on peak oil and the future of industrial society. He lives in Rhode Island and blogs weekly on politics, magic, and the future at www.ecosophia.net.
