Watch the Skies! A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth

A Smithsonian and NASA Dryden aerospace historian traced the UFO phenomenon from Kenneth Arnold's 1947 sighting through the 1990s as a case study in Cold War-era mythology, arguing the entire belief system reflects paranoia and social anxiety rather than any anomalous physical phenomenon.

Author

Curtis Peebles

Published

1994

Library rank

#33