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UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Hereand Out There | Garrett M. Graff
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From Garrett M. Graff, New York Times bestselling author of Raven Rock, The Only Plane in the Sky, and Pulitzer Prize finalist for history Watergate, comes the first comprehensive and eye-opening exploration of our governments decades-long quest to solve one of humanitys greatest mysteries: Are we alone in the universe? From the post-war Project Blue Book to the Pentagons modern-day Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, bestselling author and historian Garrett M. Graff presents the first serious narrative history of humanitys hunt for alien lifeincluding the military and CIAs secret, decades-long quest to study UFOs. A thrilling story of science, the Cold War, Nazi research, atomic anxieties, secret spy planes, and the space race, UFO traces the real-life history of the U.S. governments hunt for unidentified aerial phenomena here on Earth, from Roswell to Rendlesham Forest, as well as the story of the small group of forward-thinking scientistsastronomers like J. Allen Hynek, Frank Drake, Carl Sagan, and Jill Tarterwho launched the search for extraterrestrial intelligence far from Earth. Drawing on original archival research, declassified documents, and interviews with senior intelligence and military officials, Graff's book traces the long history of our quest to understand one of the most profound and popular questions of all time: whether or not aliens exist.
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89/150 This took me months to finish, not because it's not well written or interesting, but because it is absolutely dense with information about the history of the US government's interest in UFOs, and in programs like SETI, that looked for alien life outside the planet Earth. There are a lot of people to remember, both famous and obscure, and it's best read in small chunks. 3 ⭐⭐⭐💫

DieAReader 🥳Fantastic 3mo
MonicaLoves2Read That sounds fascinating. It did have stuff about Area 51? 3mo
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