GrassRoots UFOs by Michael Swords

I’ve discussed and noted this Anomalist book a few times here.

It sells for $14.95 at Amazon and elsewhere, a 2005 paperback.

It contains Case Reports from the Center for UFO Studies and is an encyclopedic-like collection of sightings prior to 1947 up to recent times, hundreds of them.

While rereading this charming little book, with sketches of the UFOs or circumstances it undertakes to illumine readers with, I noticed that many sightings involved family and/or friendship sightings and encounters: husbands and wives, fathers and daughters or sons, kids alone, and other intimate gatherings.

Could this mean something, psychologically or sociologically?

Each snippet of a sighting is more than informative, often charming like a fairy tale.

(Michael Swords just did a profound pastiche of fairy sightings lore, noted via links from Bill Murphy at the Anomalist web-site’s daily rendering of notable paranormal renderings online.)

Grab the book -- $15 is a pittance for what you get from it.

The case studies rendered in it convince me that UFOs (flying saucers, disks, et cetera) are the tip of an odd mystery that transcends advanced military aircraft or extraterrestrial craft.

RR