UFOs and aliens

Examines various explanations and evidence related to UFO sightings and alien encounters throughout history.

Main Author:	Wilson, Colin, 1931-2013
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : DK Publishing, 1997.
Edition:	1st American ed.
Series:	The unexplained
Subjects:	Unidentified flying objects > Sightings and encounters > Juvenile nonfiction. Extraterrestrial beings > Juvenile nonfiction.

Summary:	Examines various explanations and evidence related to UFO sightings and alien encounters throughout history.
Item Description:	Includes index.
Physical Description:	37 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 29 cm.
ISBN:	0789421666
Author Notes:	Colin Wilson was born on June 26, 1931 in Leicester, England. He attended a local technical school, where he did well in physics and chemistry, and left at 16 to work in a wool factory. Before becoming a writer, he worked as a laboratory assistant, tax clerk, laborer and hospital porter. His first book, The Outsider, was published in 1956 when he was 24 years old. During his lifetime, he wrote more than 100 works on a wide variety of subjects including philosophy, religion, occult and supernatural phenomenea, music, sex, crime and critical theory. His other works include Religion and the Rebel, The Age of Defeat, Ritual in the Dark, The Strength to Dream, Origins of the Sexual Impulse, The Occult, Alien Dawn, Dreaming to Some Purpose, The Angry Years: The Rise and Fall of the Angry Young Men, and Super Consciousness. His biographies include works on Bernard Shaw, David Lindsay, Herman Hesse, Wilhelm Reich, Jorge Luis Borges, Ken Russell, Rudolph Steiner, Aleister Crowley, and P. D. Ouspensky. Wilson died on December 5, 2013 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography)