UFO Crash at Roswell
Author: Saler, Benson
ISBN: 9781588340634
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 22 Jun 2010
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback / softback
In UFO Crash at Roswell, the authors discuss the on-going debate about the mysterious 1947 crash in New Mexico that may possibly be a UFO.BR>BR>In the summer of 1947 something mysterious crashed in the New Mexican desert near the town of Roswell. Whether it was an alien spacecraft manned by tiny humanlike beings or-the US government's official explanation-a scientific research balloon has long been a subject of passionate debate. Transcending the believer-versus-skeptic debate, anthropologists Benson Saler and Charles A. Ziegler contend that the Roswell story is best understood as a modern American myth. They show how the story-and its continual retelling-tap into modern fears about the power of technology, the duplicity of the government, and the power of the media. i>UFO Crash at Roswell/i> also includes physicist Charles Moore's meticulous account of how 1947 experiments to launch balloon-borne radar reflectors may have led to the Roswell UFO myth.
ISBN: 9781588340634
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 22 Jun 2010
Pages: 216
Format: Paperback / softback
In UFO Crash at Roswell, the authors discuss the on-going debate about the mysterious 1947 crash in New Mexico that may possibly be a UFO.BR>BR>In the summer of 1947 something mysterious crashed in the New Mexican desert near the town of Roswell. Whether it was an alien spacecraft manned by tiny humanlike beings or-the US government's official explanation-a scientific research balloon has long been a subject of passionate debate. Transcending the believer-versus-skeptic debate, anthropologists Benson Saler and Charles A. Ziegler contend that the Roswell story is best understood as a modern American myth. They show how the story-and its continual retelling-tap into modern fears about the power of technology, the duplicity of the government, and the power of the media. i>UFO Crash at Roswell/i> also includes physicist Charles Moore's meticulous account of how 1947 experiments to launch balloon-borne radar reflectors may have led to the Roswell UFO myth.
