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Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The author considers why persistent UFO sightings don't command more urgent attention from scientists, scholars, and mainstream journalists. Discusses what UFO accounts tell us about ourselves, our beliefs, and the possibility of visitors from beyond, and the view that official denial is part of a conspiracy to hide the truth
4) Night skies
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
Six individuals have an encounter with aliens on an isolated road.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 23
Description
In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who, or what, is out there? In Cosmos, Carl Sagan explained the universe. In Contact, he predicts its future, and our own....
7) UFOs
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book discusses reports of UFO sightings and explains that scientists continue to do serious searching for signs of extraterrestrial life.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Lucas Tappan, a wealthy and eccentric billionaire and founder of Icarus Space Systems, approaches the Santa Fe Archaeological Institute with an outlandish proposal--to finance a careful, scientific excavation of the Roswell Incident site, where a UFO is alleged to have crashed in 1947. A skeptical Nora Kelly, to her great annoyance, is tasked with the job. Nora's excavation immediately uncovers two murder victims buried at the site, faces and hands...
9) Nope
Pub. Date
[2022]
Appears on list
Description
Two siblings who run a California horse ranch discover something wonderful and sinister in the skies above, and the owner of an adjacent theme park tries to profit from the mysterious, otherworldly phenomenon.
10) UFOs
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about UFOs. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Cat Who mysteries volume 21
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Qwill, Koko, and Yum Yum are looking forward to a quiet vacation relaxing on the porch of their cabin, but when a young backpacker is found dead in the woods and the locals believe that UFOs are responsible, the cats know that their relaxing break has been interrupted by a bizarre mystery.
Author
Pub. Date
©1998
Description
There is a place in the Nevada desert the size of Belgium that doesn't officially exist. It is the airbase where test flights of our top-secret experimental military aircraft are conducted and —not coincidentally—where the conspiracy theorists insist the Pentagon is hiding UFOs and aliens. This is Dreamland—or Area 51. For Phil Patton, the idea of writing a travel account of a place he couldn't actually visit...
14) Noir: a novel
Author
Series
Sammy and the Cheese volume 1
Formats
Description
Madcap, zany noir set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco. Sammy "Two Toes" Tiffin is the bartender in a scruffy gin joint, with street connections that make him the go-to guy for just about everything. When one of his schemes goes south and his lady vanishes, Sammy follows a tortuous trail from Chinatown to Telegraph Hill to a hidden forest enclave in a desperate search to find his girl. Meanwhile, a suspicious flying object has...
16) UFOs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Investigates several well-known accounts of UFO sightings as well as theories aimed at explaining why such reports cannot be true.
Author
Series
Saucer novels volume 3
Description
In Saucer, after discovering the secrets of a 140,000-year-old spacecraft and delivering it to safety in the Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian right alongside Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis, Rip Cantrell and beautiful test pilot Charley Pine think their days of high-flying extraterrestrial adventure are over. However, that will change in the sequel, Saucer: The Conquest, because someone is using top-secret information about saucer technology,...