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The Outsider’s Guide to UFOs by James T. Abbott, Archway Publishing, Bloomington, Indiana; December 2017; 370 pages, Softcover(B/W), $22.99.

Author James Abbott has taken an impartial look at the baffling and bewildering phenomenon – Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). The volume is a good read with the author taking on core questions that surround and cloud the UFO field. Are they hoaxes, figments of the imagination, or real?

Abbott is an experienced researcher who has spent years studying this timeless debate as an outsider. “UFOs may or may not be of this Earth and time,” he explains, “but the huge job of trying to nail them down is incredibly fascinating.”

Through 19 informative chapters, Abbott notes early UFO sightings, government investigations, mass sightings, and also outlines what skeptics say and points to possible explanations for UFOs. The volume outlines 40 of the most significant UFO cases, as well as over a dozen strange UFO characteristics.

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I found the book’s last chapter – “The Way Forward” – particularly compelling. As Abbott concludes, the UFO field is full of theories and conjectures. “Are they unknown atmospheric and electromagnetic phenomena, little-understood social or psychological forces, extraterrestrial visitors, interdimensional tourists, fantastic mental projections? Who knows…yet?”

For those of us that have followed the case for UFOs, or lack of a case, believer or non-believer, the reader will find this book a fruitful, thought provoking read.

For more information on this book, also available as a casebound hardcover or E-Book. go to:

https://www.archwaypublishing.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-001136570