Flying Saucers Are Real!

Jack Womack is the author of Ambient, Terraplane, Heathern, Elvissey, Random Acts of Senseless Violence, Let’s Put the Future Behind Us, and Going, Going, Gone. Womacks’s short stories have appeared in anthologies edited by Ellen Datlow, Ellen Kusher, and Delia Sherman. His short fiction, reviews, and essays have appeared in Omni, Spin, Fantasy and Science Fiction, the Washington Post Book World, Artbyte, Suddeutsche Zeitung. He has written short pieces for and appeared on BBC 1, BBC 2, and Radio Bavaria. Womack won the Philip K. Dick Award in 1994 and has taught writing at the Clarion West workshop in Seattle.

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

• 21st century William Gibson on 20th century phenomena. 19How this collection came to be; why anyone should care. 21Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Dero. 29Saucer slag, dead dogs, the first Man in Black. 39Making sense of the saucers. Or, not. 87Telepathic warnings, blonde Venusians, odd trousers, and Moon potatoes. 141Skeptics take the field, few notice. 151UFOs in the Aquarian Age, and after. 157The original Man in Black and others. 183An infinity of oddity. 239The mind in action is a marvelous thing. 239