UFO's are real but what are they and where are they from?

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	• Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters With Ufos Jerome Clark Citadel, 2003 - 254 pages average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Never really gets off the ground

As a believer in UFOs, I found this book in the library and thought that it would be a fascinating read about pilot encounters with UFOs. Well, yes and no. Some of the cases presented were truly fascinating and others were ho-hum. It could be due to Clark's writing style. He doesn't really appear to care about what he writes. His style of writing is lackluster and the reading comes across as such.

For example, he will tell the story of such-and-such pilot; this is what he/she saw; the USAF investigated and came to so-and-so conclusions. OK. So what? Other stories, in which he appears to be interested, come across much better and exciting.

Clark gives me the impression of trying to dismiss what he writes, so I wonder why write a book if you don't really believe in the subject matter.

I thought the book would be much more interesting but it just never really takes off for my tastes.

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UFO's are real but what are they and where are they from?

I enjoyed the book it is well presented and edited. The book does not answer my question but that may not be possible.
Even if you don't believe that UFO's are from another planet it is interesting to see how others react to unexpected encounters with something that should not be there.
As a pilot, who once saw something I could not explain, I was fascinated by the book. If you think that UFO's are something made on this planet read the book it could change your mind, or even convince you that you are correct.
I have no doubt they are real I saw something that was impossible for me to explain. But that doesn't mean they were from another planet or galaxy. If we are making them then we have technology I've never even dreamed of.

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Strange Skys

It seems logical that if your seeking truth about things flying in our skys that you would ask people who fly there and know what kind and shape our Earth craft are. Also when judging distance from the ground or another moving object or speed of some thing encountered people who fly have the basic knowledge to find the answers much more so than some grounded person like me... The book was more than interesting... maybe spell binding. Like a movie .. you see things the second time you look and I'm now going to read the book again... PLEASE READ IT

Not Much New Here

Maybe I was expecting too much, but I was looking for some recent reports from commercial and military pilots that might have been originally suppressed and were recently released to Mr. Clark under the freedom of information act. Instead I got a rehash of older reports, the most recent being around 1986, most, if not all of which I had read about before. Starting long before the Kenneth Arnold sighting on June 4 1947, the book talks mostly about sightings that occurred 40, 50, and 60 years ago. The only surprise was that Mr. Clark on several occasions reported on incidents that were ultimately determined to be a hoax or misidentification of natural phenomena, which he readily acknowledged. I couldn't understand his reason for including them. Similarly he left many apparently good sightings, questioning their validity. I couldn't really tell if Mr. Clark was approaching this as a believer, skeptic, or debunker or whether he was merely relating what he knew. In any case there wasn't anything new presented, any conclusions drawn, and no revelations.

As latest generation of UFO books go I'd give this one a C+. It's a quick study of important cases for anyone new to the subject.

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Another First Rate Book

Another first rate book from Jerome Clark. Careful, considered and always entertaining.
What I especially like about this work is the way he takes the old chestnuts--the Arnold story, the Mantell incident ,the Chiles-Whitted encounter and especially the 1952 Washington flap and fleshes them out giving us details of the story in a fresh new way. Kenneth Arnold comes across as an especially appealing character and the way his story is weaved together with the Maury Island hoax is very illuminating.
Someone on this sight criticized Clark's " lackluster" style and I can only think we were not reading the same book as I find his style taut, flexible yet full of the wonder of all this. Clark is an enthusiast but with a critical mind perfect for sorting the wheat from the chaff so different from those dessicated true believers like Menzel and Klass that the HARD scientistic types on this site love to cite for their rigor and objectivity. Those two in particular had biases from before time was and it astonishes me they are still quoted as though they were quiet, rational types. They were total debunkers as Clark points out. But I digress--In this particular book Clark takes quite a lot of the familiar stuff and makes it really come alive and anyone who has really read a lot of the familiar lore before knows how not easy that is
Anyway--rational enthusiasts everywhere--buy this book!

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