Ufos & Alien Contact: Two Centuries of Mystery

571 Pages·1998·18.11 MB·English

by  Robert E. Bartholomew

ROBERT E. BARTHOLOMEW & GEORGE S. HOWARD

In the twenty-first century the greatest progress in civilization will be made not
through science and technology, but in the understanding of what it means to be
human.
-John Naisbitt
This book is dedicated to Robert C. Girard and Thomas Bullard, UFO pioneers.
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Part I. Strange Things Seen in the Sky
1. Wishful Thinking: The Great American Airship Mania of 1896-97
2. Thomas Edison's "Electric Star" Illusion of 1897
3. When Believing Is Seeing: Canada's Ghost Balloons of 1896-97
4. The New Zealand Zeppelin Scare of 1909
5. The New England Airship Hoax of 1909-10
6. The British UFO Panic of 1912-13

7. Phantom German Air Raids and Spy Missions over Canada, America, and
South Africa during World War I