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Flying Saucers Are Real!

Jack Womack author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Anthology Editions

Published:8th Jan '16

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Flying Saucers Are Real! cover

Comprehensive, illustrated library and history of UFOs and their origins from Jack Womack.

Flying Saucers Are Real is a catalogue of the Jack Womack UFO library and a history of one of the 20th century's most pervasive subcultures.Flying Saucers Are Real! is a catalogue of the Jack Womack UFO library and a history of one of the 20th century’s most pervasive subcultures. The collection presents an unknown wealth of images taken from mid-century flying saucer books and extensive text by author-collector Womack outlining the history of the UFO phenomenon and opining on the selections. With an introduction by science fiction author William Gibson.

In his 1956 book, 'The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects,' Edward J. Ruppelt, former head of Project Blue Book, examined all the evidence and concluded that further study of UFOs would be a complete waste of time. Oh, ye of little faith! The very existence of the Womack collection demonstrates incontrovertibly that UFOs are, if nothing else, the stuff that dreams are made of. Keep watching the skies! - The Washington Post
Your coffee table needs this lavish collection of retro UFO pulp fiction art - Vice
"Now it can be told. Life on this planet will never be exactly the same." - Jonathan Lethem, author of A Gambler's Anatomy and The Fortress of Solitude
"Jack Womack's fascinating research of flying saucers say more about human beings than visitors from beyond....Womack celebrates a plurality of beliefs overlapping, some competing, some desperate, but all of them - especially the tales of grey aliens - thoroughly human." Ryan Britt
"One man spent 40 years amassing the most comprehensive - and strangely beautiful collection of UFO books around. And now he's sharing it with the world." - Sweet

ISBN: 9781944860004

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 1420g

288 pages