We Are Not Alone - The Extraordinary History of UFOs and Aliens Invading Our Hopes,

Informationen zum Autor Marc Hartzman has been called "one of America's leading connoisseurs of the bizarre" (ABCNews.com) and is the author of several books, including The Big Book of Mars , Chasing Ghosts , and We Are Not Alone . More of his love for the unusual can be found on his site WeirdHistorian.com. Klappentext "A pop history of UFOs, aliens, and extraterrestrial encounters, including photographs and illustrations"-- Leseprobe GREETINGS, EARTHLING READERS It seems only fitting to start a book about unidentified flying objects and aliens with an otherworldly story from Roswell, New Mexico. Not the Roswell crash in 1947 (we’ll discuss that tale later), but the one I heard over lunch during my pilgrimage to the flying saucer mecca on a clear November day.      I had spent the previous two days working on this book just outside Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the home of UFO researcher and historian David Marler. His curated collection is a massive archive of UFO documents, photographs, books, original newspapers, and every form of audiovisual media imaginable. During our conversations he told me the story of a man he’d tracked down in Roswell who was attacked by a UFO in 1964. His name is Charles Davis, and he was just eight years old when the incident occurred on a Tuesday afternoon on June 2 in the small town of Hobbs, New Mexico. Knowing I was headed to Roswell to continue my research, Marler texted Davis and asked if he’d be willing to meet with me. He said yes.      The next morning, with the rising sun nearly blinding me at the outset of the three-hour trip, I drove from Albuquerque to Roswell. There was little to be seen over the last hundred miles leading into town, except for some clich. tumbleweed that occasionally rolled across the road in front of me. But once I got to Roswell, aliens greeted me everywhere I looked. The lampposts dotting the main drag were topped with alien heads. The Dunkin’ Donuts sign was held up high by a twenty-foot extraterrestrial. The McDonald’s was shaped like a flying saucer and surrounded by metallic alien statues and, naturally, there were plenty of shops selling whatever they could put an alien face on — including a store selling Abduction Beef Jerky.      My plan was to spend the day at the International UFO Museum and Research Center. It has an enormous collection, including more than 8,000 books and 30,000 files. I didn’t quite get through them all, but after a few hours of gathering as much information as possible, I took a break and met Davis and his wife for lunch at a nearby Mexican restaurant. It was crowded and loud and, for Davis, not the ideal place to discuss the traumatic event of his youth. But he had moments when he felt comfortable enough to share a few of his memories.      “If you were to ask me today if I’m a believer or a nonbeliever, I’d tell you I don’t know,” he said as I cut into my enchiladas. “I just know something weird happened. It was unexplainable.”      The weird thing that happened involved a black, metallic object shaped like a spinning top hovering about two stories high. Davis was playing in the back lot of DeLuxe Laundry when he spotted it across the street. It seemed fixated on the young boy, and he knew it. So he moved to the left, and it moved to the left. Then he moved to the right, and it followed.      “I remember knowing I was seeing something I shouldn’t be seeing,” he said. “I remember hearing a loud noise and within seconds—boom—it was on me.”      The strange craft whooshed directly over Davis’s head and belched out fire, giving him second-degree burns across his face and ears. His grandmother heard the commotion and rushed out of the laundromat in time to witness the strange event. She told reporters her grandson was “covered with black, his hair standing on end and burning. . . . I grabbed him and tried to smother out his hair, which was on fire.”<...

Product details

• Authors: Marc Hartzman
• Publisher: Quirk Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.10.2023
• EAN: 9781683693352
• ISBN: 978-1-68369-335-2
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 184 mm x 236 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Spirituality > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries