How UFOs Conquered the World by David Clarke

How UFOs Conquered the World by David Clarke

How UFOs Conquered the World explores the origins of UFOs in the build-up to the First World War and how reports of them have changed in tandem with world events, science and culture.

'A journey from childish faith to adult disbelief, from a yearning for the fantastic to a regular invocation of Occam's RazorThe stripping away of a desire to believe, although clear-eyed and sensible, seems in the long term rather a chilly process, unsparing and ruthless. This is not to say that Clarke does not make for excellent company. He is often droll and always insightful.'

'True believers in the ETH will undoubtedly dismiss this fascinating book as a whitewash, even as part of a government cover-up. One would expect nothing less.'

'UFO believers will not like this book. It is not a classic debunking; David Clarke is too subtle and warm for that. But it is written by a turncoat, a former believer turned journalist who, in 2007 curated the release of all 52,000 pages of the Ministry of Defence's UFO-related documents to the National Archives...

This is a good book...sceptical, respectful and dry.'

 

'UFO believers will not like this book. It is not a classic debunking; David Clarke is too subtle and warm for that. But it is written by a turncoat, a former believer turned journalist who, in 2007 curated the release of all 52,000 pages of the Ministry of Defence's UFO-related documents to the National Archives...

This is a good book...sceptical, respectful and dry.'

 

'True believers in the ETH will undoubtedly dismiss this fascinating book as a whitewash, even as part of a government cover-up. One would expect nothing less.'

'A journey from childish faith to adult disbelief, from a yearning for the fantastic to a regular invocation of Occam's Razor. The stripping away of a desire to believe, although clear-eyed and sensible, seems in the long term rather a chilly process, unsparing and ruthless. This is not to say that Clarke does not make for excellent company. He is often droll and always insightful.'

DR. DAVID CLARKE, is one of Britain's leading writers on folklore and mythology and in recent years he has acted as a consultant and spokesperson for The National Archives during the release of the Ministry of Defence's files on investigations into UFO 'sightings' under the Freedom of Information Act. As such he appears regularly in print for major national newspapers, and on air for programmes such as BBC Radio 4's Today and BBC 2's Timewatch. He lives in Leeds.

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ISBN 13	9781781313039
ISBN 10	1781313032
Title	How UFOs Conquered the World
Author	David Clarke
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Quarto Publishing PLC
Year published	2015-05-14
Number of pages	320
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