This title offers context for the reams of declassified UFO-related documents that have been released in the United States, Brazil, and other countries; explores secret government programs that were revealed in recent years and before; and compiles and explains the UFO phenomena in all its aspects.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• The UFO Phenomenon: A Historical Overview
• A Note on UFO Terminology
• Abbreviations and Acronyms
• About the Author
• About the Contributors
• A
• Abduction Phenomenon
• Adamski, George (1891-1965)
• Advanced Aviation Threat Identification Program Pentagon UFO Study
• Aerial Phenomena Research Organization
• Aetherius Society
• Agile Belligerent Assault on U.S. Navy Spy Plane By UFOs, 1953
• Aho, Wayne Sulo (1916-2006)
• Airship Sightings in New Zealand/Australia
• Airship Sightings in the Nineteenth Century
• Aliens in Our Midst
• Allende Letters
• Allingham Contact Claim
• Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America
• American Association for the Advancement of Science UFO Symposium
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics UFO Subcommittee
• Ancient Astronauts in the UFO Literature
• Andreasson Abduction Case
• Andrus, Walter Harrison, Jr. (1920-2015)
• Angel Hair
• Angelucci, Orfeo Matthew (1912-1993)
• Animal Mutilations and UFOs
• Anomalous Aerial Phenomena Before 1800
• Araçariguama Case
• Armstrong Circle Theater Broadcast
• Arnold Sighting
• Ashtar
• B
• Baleia Case
• Barker, Gray Roscoe (1925-1984)
• Barroso Case
• Bauru Case
• Bebedouro Abduction Case
• Bender Mystery
• Bethurum Contact Claims
• Bloecher, Ted (1929-)
• BOAC Sighting
• Brands Flats CE3
• Brasília Case
• Brazilian Pilot Sightings
• Brazilian Ufologists Commission (CBU)
• Brooksville Incident
• Brusque Close Encounter
• Buff Ledge Abduction Case
• Bullard, Thomas Eddie (1949-)
• C
• Carter Sighting
• Cash-Landrum CE2
• Cennina CE3
• Ceres Case
• Cergy-Pontoise Hoax
• Chalker, Bill (1952-)
• Chiles-Whitted Sighting
• Cisco Grove CE3
• Citizens Against UFO Secrecy
• Civilian Saucer Intelligence of New York
• Civilian Saucer Investigation
• Close Encounters of the First Kind
• Close Encounters of the Second Kind
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Movie)
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Cloud Cigars
• Colusa CE1
• Conklin CE3
• Contactees
• Correa Abduction Case
• Coyne CE2
• Crashes and Retrievals of UFOs in the Nineteenth Century
• Crashes and Retrievals of UFOs in the Twentieth Century
• Cressy Sighting
• Crixás CE2/CE3
• D
• Damon CE2
• Dark Side
• Davis, Isabel L. (1904-1984)
• Daylight Discs
• Debunking and Debunkery: A Skeptical History
• Delphos CE2
• Derenberger Contact Claims
• Dr. X Case
• Domsten CE3 Hoax
• Druffel, Ann (1929-)
• Drury Film
• Duas Pontes Case
• E
• Eagle River CE3
• Earthlights and Tectonic Strain Theory
• Earth Versus the Flying Saucers (Movie)
• Edwards, Frank Allyn (1908-1967)
• Estimate of the Situation
• Evans, Hilary (1929-2011)
• Everglades CE2
• Exeter CE1
• Experience Anomalies
• Extraterrestrial Hypothesis and Science
• Extraterrestrial Hypothesis and Ufology
• Extraterrestrialism
• F
• Falcon Lake CE2
• Falkville Humanoid Photographs
• Fate
• Fatima Miracle
• Fernvale Episode
• Fisherville CE2
• Flatwoods Monster
• Florida Scoutmaster Case
• Flying Saucer Review
• Fontes, Olavo T. (1924-1968)
• Foo Fighters
• Fort, Charles Hoy (1874-1932)
• Fort Beaufort CE2
• Fort Dix-McGuire Incident
• Fort Monmouth Radar/Visual Case
• Fortean Society
• Fowler, Raymond Eveleth (1933-)
• Fry Contact Claims
• Fund for UFO Research
• G
• Garanhus CE3
• Ghost Rockets
• Giant Rock Interplanetary Spacecraft Convention
• Gill CE3
• Gorman Sighting
• Great Taboo
• Green Fireballs and other Southwestern Lights
• Groupe d’Étude des Phénomènes Aérospatiaux non Identifiés (GEPAN)
• Guimaräes Contact Claim
• Gulf Breeze Case
• H
• Haines, Richard Foster (1937-)
• Hairy Bipeds and UFOs
• Hall, Richard Harris (1930-2009)
• Heaven’s Gate
• Hendry, Allan Alexander (1950-)
• Hermann Contact Claims
• Hessdalen Lights
• Higdon Contact Claim
• Higgens CE3
• Hill Abduction Case
• Hoaxes
• Hollow Earth and UFOs
• Hopkins, Budd (1931-2011)
• House of Lords UFO Debate
• Hynek, Josef Allen (1910-1986)
• I
• International Flying Saucer Bureau
• Iran CE2
• J
• J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies
• Jacobs, David Michael (1942-)
• JAL Sighting
• Jarrold Affair
• Jessup, Morris Ketchum (1900-1959)
• Jung and UFOs
• K
• Keel, John Alva (1930-2009)
• Kelly-Hopkinsville CE3
• Kentucky Abduction Case
• Keyhoe, Donald Edward (1897-1988)
• Khoury Case
• Kinross Case
• Klarer Contact Claims
• Klass, Philip Julian (1919-2005)
• Kraspedon Contact Claims
• Kuwait Sightings
• L
• Lakenheath-Bentwaters Radar/Visual Case
• Landings in Tennessee: 1907, 1957
• Langenburg CE2
• Larson Abduction Case
• Lavonia CE2
• Law of the Times
• Laxson CE3
• Lee, Gloria (1925-1962)
• Levelland Sightings
• Lins Case
• Loch Raven Dam CE2
• Lorenzen, Coral E. Lightner (1925-1988) and Leslie James (Jim) Lorenzen (1922-1986)
• Lubbock Lights
• M
• McDonald, James Edward (1920-1971)
• McMinnville Photos
• Maccabee, Bruce Sargeant (1942-)
• Magonia
• Mantell Incident
• Maraponga Case
• Marshall County CE2
• Martin Contact Claims
• Maury Island Hoax
• Meier Contact Claims
• Men in Black
• Menger, Howard
• Menzel, Donald Howard (1901-1976)
• Michel, Aimé (1919-1992)
• Minot Air Force Base Radar/Visual Case
• Mirrasol Abduction Case
• Mon-Ka of Mars
• Montana Film
• Moody Abduction Case
• Moore Case
• Morocco Sighting
• Morro Do Vintem Case
• Moseley, James Willett (1931-2012)
• Mothman and Other Winged Entities
• Munroe Falls CE3
• Muroc Air Base Sightings
• Mutual UFO Network
• N
• NASA and UFOs
• Nash-Fortenberry Sighting
• National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP )
• National Security Agency (NSA)
• National Security Council (NSC)
• Newark Valley CE3
• New Zealand Film
• North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)
• NORAD National Air Defense UFO Alert, 1957
• North Dakota CE3
• O
• Ocala Radar/Visual Case
• Official Night of the UFOs
• O’Hare Airport Sighting
• Operação Prato (Operation Plate)
• Orthoteny
• OTC-X1 Hoax
• Oxford Abduction Case
• Oz Factor
• P
• Padrick Contact Claim
• Palmer, Raymond Alfred (1910-1977)
• Papuda Case
• Paranormal and Occult Theories About UFOs
• Pascagoula Abduction Case
• Penalva CE3
• Phoenix Lights
• Portage County Sighting
• Prince Neosom
• Project A
• Project Blue Book
• Project Blue Book Report No. 14
• Project Grudge
• Project Sign
• Projects and Officers
• Psychosocial Hypothesis
• R
• Radiation Incidents
• Randle, Kevin D. (1949-)
• Randles, Jenny (1951— )
• RB-47 Electronic Intelligence Case, 1957
• Red Bluff Sightings
• Rehn, K. Gösta (1891-1989)
• Rio De Janeiro Sighting
• Ririe CE3
• Roach Abduction Case
• Robertson Panel
• Robinson Contact Claims
• Rodeghier, Mark (1953-)
• Ruppelt, Edward J. (1923-1960)
• S
• Salt Lake City Sighting
• Sanderson, Ivan Terence (1911-1973)
• Sarbacher Episode
• Satellite Tracking of UFOs
• Saucer News
• Saucers
• Schirmer Abduction Case
• Schmidt Contact Claims
• Scoriton Hoax
• Scully Hoax
• Selfridge Air Force Base Radar Case
• Senator Russell Sighting
• Sensor Networks to Track UFOs in the Vietnam War
• Sex and UFOs
• Shaver Mystery
• SIOANI
• Skinwalker Ranch
• Sky Serpents
• Smith, Wilbert Brockhouse (1910-1962)
• Smithsonian UFO Debate
• Society For Scientific Exploration
• Socorro CE2/CE3
• Solem Contact Claims
• South African Crash Hoax
• Space Animals
• Springheel Jack
• Sprinkle, Ronald Leo (1930-)
• Stonehenge CE3
• Strieber, Louis Whitley (1945-)
• Stringfield, Leonard H. (1920-1994)
• Sturrock Workshop
• Swan/CIA Contact Story
• Swords, Michael D. (1940-)
• T
• Taylorsville Man in Black and Other Weirdness
• Templeton Photograph
• Thompson Contact Claim
• Tombaugh Sighting
• Trans-en-Provence CE2
• Trindade Island Photographs
• Tully and Other UFO Nests
• Turner Contact Claims
• U
• Ubatuba Magnesium
• UFO
• UFO IFF Radio-Transmitting Cases
• UFO, IFO, and Insufficient Data
• UFO Newsclipping Service
• UFOCAT
• UFOs in the Nineteenth Century
• UFOs, 1900-1946
• Ultraterrestrials
• Ummo Hoax
• Unarius Academy of Science
• Unicat Project
• Unidentified Flying Objects (Movie)
• United Nations and UFOs
• University of Colorado UFO Project
• Utah Film
• V
• Valensole CE2/CE3
• Valentich Disappearance
• Vallee, Jacques Francis (1939-)
• Van Meter Monster
• Van Tassel, George W. (1910-1978)
• Vargem Grande Case
• Varginha Contact Incident
• Villas-Boas CE3
• Voronezh CE3
• W
• Wakefield Incident
• Walton Abduction Case
• Washington National Radar/Visual Case
• Waves
• Webb, Walter N. (1934-)
• Wednesday Phenomenon
• Westchester Sightings
• Whitman Contact Claim
• Wilkins, Harold Tom (1891-1960)
• Williamette Pass Photo Hoax
• Williamson, George Hunt (1926-1986)
• Z
• Zeidman, Jennie (1932-)
• Bibliography