Greg Eghigian is a Professor of History and Bioethics at Pennsylvania State University. An expert on the history of the abnormal and the paranormal in the modern world, his research has been supported by NASA and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. He is the author of The Corrigible and the Incorrigible: Science, Medicine, and the Convict in Twentieth Century Germany and the editor of The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health, among other works.

[A] fascinating history of the phenomenon shows that a weakness for UFOs has affected an extraordinary range of people and penetrated to just about every corner of society.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Arrival Chapter 2: Before the Flying Saucers: Apparitions, Airships, and AliensChapter 3: Spaceships, Conspiracies, and the Birth of the UFO Detective, 1948-1953Chapter 4: From Mystery to Movement, 1947-1960Chapter 5: JourneysChapter 6: Science and UFOs in the 1960sChapter 7: RenaissanceChapter 8: ThemConclusion: Where To, Where From, Wherefore? NotesBibliographyIndex

Greg Eghigian is a Professor of History and Bioethics at Pennsylvania State University. An expert on the history of the abnormal and the paranormal in the modern world, his research has been supported by NASA and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. He is the author of The Corrigible and the Incorrigible: Science, Medicine, and the Convict in Twentieth Century Germany and the editor of The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health, among other works.

[A] fascinating history of the phenomenon shows that a weakness for UFOs has affected an extraordinary range of people and penetrated to just about every corner of society.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Arrival Chapter 2: Before the Flying Saucers: Apparitions, Airships, and AliensChapter 3: Spaceships, Conspiracies, and the Birth of the UFO Detective, 1948-1953Chapter 4: From Mystery to Movement, 1947-1960Chapter 5: JourneysChapter 6: Science and UFOs in the 1960sChapter 7: RenaissanceChapter 8: ThemConclusion: Where To, Where From, Wherefore? NotesBibliographyIndex

Greg Eghigian is a Professor of History and Bioethics at Pennsylvania State University. An expert on the history of the abnormal and the paranormal in the modern world, his research has been supported by NASA and the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. He is the author of The Corrigible and the Incorrigible: Science, Medicine, and the Convict in Twentieth Century Germany and the editor of The Routledge History of Madness and Mental Health, among other works.

[A] fascinating history of the phenomenon shows that a weakness for UFOs has affected an extraordinary range of people and penetrated to just about every corner of society.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1: Arrival Chapter 2: Before the Flying Saucers: Apparitions, Airships, and AliensChapter 3: Spaceships, Conspiracies, and the Birth of the UFO Detective, 1948-1953Chapter 4: From Mystery to Movement, 1947-1960Chapter 5: JourneysChapter 6: Science and UFOs in the 1960sChapter 7: RenaissanceChapter 8: ThemConclusion: Where To, Where From, Wherefore? NotesBibliographyIndex