{"title":"Martin Shough","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"truant-boy-art-authenticity-and-paul-mccartney-book-martin-shough-9781521961766","title":"Truant Boy: Art, Authenticity and Paul McCartney","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49581090930961,"sku":"GOR009685182","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/152196176X.jpg?v=1751212345"},{"product_id":"redemption-of-the-damned-book-martin-shough-9781949501070","title":"Redemption of the Damned","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUnravelling\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Aerial Mysteries of the Past\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Fort published his first and most influential book, \u003cem\u003eThe Book of the Damned\u003c\/em\u003e, a century ago in 1919, collecting together many historical reports of strange aerial phenomena.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince the birth of the UFO controversy in 1947 Fort's writings have been cited in countless books and web pages. Yet this is the first time in a hundred years that researchers have systematically verified the sources and content of every one of these oft-recycled stories, correcting many errors, placing each case in its historical context, and submitting it to a careful scientific investigation in an attempt to find a conventional answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat were these reported phenomena? Is it possible to find non-exotic explanations? With the advantage of modern knowledge, methods, and resources, in most cases the answer proves to be yes. Some of the solutions found may shock the general reader and surprise even specialists. Yet, in the end, a few well-documented events remain unexplained.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a huge (410 page), large format (8.27   11.69 inch), full-color book with more than 250 illustrations \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMARTIN SHOUGH is author or co-author of various books, papers, and reports, and has been involved in a number of notable investigations. He is a Research Associate for the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP) and is the author of several NARCAP Technical Reports. He has contributed to the book \u003cem\u003eUFOs: 1947-1987\u003c\/em\u003e (Fortean Tomes, 1987) and the monograph \u003cem\u003eReport on Aerial Phenomena Observed Near the Channel Islands, UK, on April 23, 2007\u003c\/em\u003e (UPIAR, Torino, 2008 ), co-authored\u003cem\u003e Return to Magonia\u003c\/em\u003e (Anomalist Books 2015), and authored \u003cem\u003eTruant Boy: Art, Authenticity \u0026amp; Paul McCartney\u003c\/em\u003e (Monymusk Media, 2017). He has also published in the \u003cem\u003eJournal of Scientific Exploration, Magonia, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDarklore\u003c\/em\u003e. He has been a photolithographer, semi-professional musician, artist and gallery owner. He lives in the north of Scotland.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWIM VAN UTRECHT dates his interest in unusual sky phenomena back to 1974. In 1994 he initiated CAELESTIA, a research initiative that seeks to fi nd explanations rather than promote mysteries. In 2007, together with Frederick Delaere, he set up the Belgisch UFO-meldpunt to monitor UFO reports in Belgium. He is co-author of two books: \u003cem\u003eUnidentified Aerial Object Photographed near Zwischbergen, Switzerland, on July 26, 1975\u003c\/em\u003e (CAELESTIA, 1995, with Frits van der Veldt) and \u003cem\u003eBelgium in UFO Photographs - Volume 1 \u003c\/em\u003e(UPIAR, 2018, with Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos). 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