UFO the inside story of the US government's search for alien life here - and out there

From the post-war Project Blue Book to the Pentagon's modern-day Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, historian Garrett M. Graff presents the first serious narrative history of humanity's hunt for alien life-including the military and CIA's secret, decades-long quest to study UFOs. A th...

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Main Author: Graff, Garrett M., 1981- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Avid Reader Press, 2023.
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Summary:From the post-war Project Blue Book to the Pentagon's modern-day Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, historian Garrett M. Graff presents the first serious narrative history of humanity's hunt for alien life-including the military and CIA's 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. government's 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 scientists-astronomers like J. Allen Hynek, Frank Drake, Carl Sagan, and Jill Tarter-who 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.
Physical Description:368 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
ISBN:9781982196776
1982196777
Author Notes:Garrett M. Graff has spent two decades covering politics, technology, and national security. The former editor of POLITICO and longtime WIRED and CNN contributor, he writes the popular Doomsday Scenario newsletter and hosts the award-winning podcast Long Shadow . He is the author of ten books, including the #1 national bestseller The Only Plane in the Sky , the FBI history The Threat Matrix , Raven Rock , and the New York Times bestsellers The Devil Reached Toward the Sky , When the Sea Came Alive , and Watergate , which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History.