UFOs: Politics, God and Science: Philosophy on a Taboo Topic Book

	Open Letter	xi
	Foreword	xiii
	Foreword	xv
	Acknowledgments	xix
Chapter 1	Introduction: UFOs and Philosophy	1
Chapter 2	Academic Community and UFO Interest in America	9
	Academic Smugness?	9
	Examples of Scientific Complacency	10
	The Need for a Proper Modesty	11
	On the One Hand	12
	On the Other Hand	13
	The Roots of Extraterrestrials as Myth	15
	Epistemological Totalitarianism	17
	A Peculiar Backdrop for Aliens as Gods	19
	The One Extreme	21
	The Other Extreme	22
	The Gods Must be Crazy	24
	Creation and Metaphysics	25
	A Supreme Being	26
	A Metaphysics of Aliens?	28
Chapter 3	Alien Anatomy and Technology	37
	The Claims of Adamski	38
	On the Credibility of the Claims	30
	Interpreting the Claims	39
	Some Other Considerations	41
	Subsequent Claims About the Anatomy	43
	A First-Hand Report?	45
	Descriptions by Abductees	46
	Are There Many Alien Species?	48
	Reports of Alien Technology	51
	Various Case-Study Descriptions	52
	Inner Features of Alien Craft	54
	Reports of Additional Technologies	56
	A Top Secret/MAJIC Report, April 1954	57
	Reasons the Technology "Cannot Exist"	58
	Behind the Story of Why It "Cannot Exist"	61
Chapter 4	Key People and Unusual Places	65
	Some Key People	65
	Robert Achzehner's Pioneering Insight	65
	R. A. Adair and the Press	68
	Thomas Adams and Alien Cooperation	69
	Hugh J. Addonizio and Congressional Inquiry	71
	Captain Robert Adickes' Bizarre Sighting	72
	Scientist John B. Ahrens on a Police Report	73
	Leslie Ackhurst's Probe of an Unusual UFO	75
	Daniel Fry and Aerojet-General Corporation	77
	Valentin Akkuratov: A Soviet Report	79
	John Acuff and Infiltration	81
	Allen Franklin and the Saucer at Muroc	81
	Dr. John Altshuler on UFO-Related Mutilations	81
	Nobel-Prize Winning Physicist Luis Alvarez	82
	Some Unusual Places	83
	Afghanistan	83
	Aerial Phenomena Office at Wright Patterson	84
	The Alabama UFO Controversy	86
	Alamogordo, New Mexico	87
	Strange Lights in Alaska	89
	Bizarre Places: Alien Bases	91
Chapter 5	Official UFO Reports and Encounters	99
	Official UFO Reports	99
	Reports of the Air Materiel Command	99
	Reports of the Aeronautical Information Service	104
	Reports of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations	105
	Reports of the Air Force Special Security Service	106
	Reports of the British Air Ministry	110
	Reports of Colonel Corso	111
	Encounters with Extraterrestrials	114
	Claims of Abductees	114
	Encounters of the Aetherius Society	118
	Encounters at Alternative Landscapes	119
	Akinesia in the Encounters	122
Chapter 6	Organizations and Related Issues	129
	Some Organizations	129
	Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO)	129
	Ad Hoc Committee To Project Blue Book	130
	Aerospace Defense Command	134
	Air Force Office of Special Research	135
	Air Technical Intelligence Center	136
	The Enigmatic Group: Majestic-12	139
	Some Related Issues	151
	The Issue of A-9 Rockets	152
	Above Top Secret	154
	Above Top Secret and Ethics	157
	After-Images and False UFO Claims	160
	Age Factor and UFO Belief	164
	Airglow, Photometric Data	167
	Alpha Centauri	170
	Altamira Cave Drawings	173
	Alternative Space Craft	174
	Altiplano Airfield	175
Chapter 7	Military Projects and Moon Missions	183
	Project Sign Becoming Grudge	183
	Project Sign	184
	Project Grudge	187
	Project Blue Book and Report 14	190
	Project Blue Book	191
	Project Blue Book Special Report 14	195
	Project Snowbird	197
	The Moon Missions: Apollo	203
	Historical Outline of Apollo and UFO Issue	204
	Extraterrestrials on the Moon?	205
	Were Aliens Responsible for the End of Apollo?	207
	An Afterword on American Culture	208
Chapter 8	Since the Missions: The controversy over Religion and Science	215
	US Air Force Academy: Physics 370	215
	Unidentified Flying Objects	216
33.1	Descriptions	217
33.2	Operational Domains	218
33.3	Some Theories as to the Nature of the UFO	220
33.4	Human Fear and Hostility	225
33.5	Attempts at Scientific Approaches	226
	Do We Share a Religio-Scientific Belief System?	229
	A Final Sign of Hope?	233
	Politics, God, and Science	237
Appendix I	For the Record	241
Appendix II	Case Studies in Maj. Filer's Files	259
	Bibliography	283
	Index	291