A sociologist encounters witnesses to unexplained aerial craft, their occupants and other elements of the multiverse
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Black Swan Ghosts: A sociologist encounters witnesses to unexplained aerial craft, their occupants, and other elements of the multiverse (Mount Baldy Press, Inc., 2017) ISBN 0971586322
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction —The Social Danger Zone —Flatland
Chapter One—The Robertson Panel
Chapter Two—The Citizen Hearing: “Embedded in a shell of silence”
Chapter Three—My childhood encounter with unexplained aerial craft —Witnesses at Farsight —Brilliant Blue Object —Triangle over Laughlin, NV —Yet Another Flying Triangle
Chapter Four—The idea of locality in modern science
Chapter Five—Black Swan Ghosts —Social Blindness —The Boulder Flood of 2013 —The Day after Disclosure —Fall of the Berlin Wall
Chapter Six—Conspiracies of silence —The Structure of Secrecy
Chapter Seven—Peter: Unexplained sighting of object and humanoid, strange phone call, and contact with a mysterious UFO organization
Chapter Eight—Louise: Huckleberries, flying disc, and U.S. military response
Chapter Nine—Joy French: Vehicle stalls and radio stops, strange luminosity, missing time with friend
Chapter Ten—Retired police officer sees extremely bright object and has sighting of a “spaceman”
Chapter Eleven—Franco and the glowing disc over Wonderland Lake
Chapter Twelve—Cold Fusion: “Junk science” or breakthrough energy technology?
Chapter Thirteen—Paul and Sonya at Silbury Hill: threes lights move towards them over a field, condense into one ball of light with second witness
Chapter Fourteen—The costs of denial
Chapter Fifteen—Lyn Buchanan and the alien control panel
Chapter Sixteen—Woman and mother see Hudson Valley Triangle
Chapter Seventeen—Dr. Richard Hoover: extraterrestrial fossils and NASA’s suppression of evidence; Anomalous Skylab photos; Very large flying disc over Soviet missile site causes launch sequence initiation —Skylab Incident and Subsequent Cover-up of Photos —Missile Launch Sequence Initiated by Flying Disc
Chapter Eighteen—Pilot’s sighting during routine radar calibration; Anomalous objects encountered by B-52s over Soviet border area during Cold War —Unidentified Craft From Space Approach and Disrupt B-52 Convoy during Six-Day War
Chapter Nineteen—Aerospace engineer is asked to reverse engineer unidentified nanomaterials
Chapter Twenty—Jan: father who flew Roswell wreckage with armed guard to Wright Patterson Air Base
Chapter Twenty-One—John: Daylight sighting of bronze disc; Attempted shoot down of “Off-World Craft” over Lake Superior with loss of pilots and planes
Chapter Twenty-Two—Teri: Aerial object with burn marks on ground; attended “secret school” during kindergarten —Teri’s Secret school
Chapter Twenty-Three—Betsy and the flying disc with military jets in pursuit
Chapter Twenty-Four—The price of silence —Opening Pandora’s Box —Cultural Lag and Future Shock
