Alien Contact: The First Fifty Years

ALIEN CONTACT Jenny Randles ALIEN CONTACT The First Fifty Years BARNES &...NoBLE B N E 0 \\' 0 Y K O R S K This edition published by Barnes & Noble, Inc., by arrangement with Collins & Brown Limited Copyright © 1997 Barnes & Noble Books Text copyright © 1997 jenny Randles The right of jenny Randles to be identified as the Author of this Work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval sys­ tem, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. ISBN 0-7607-0545-3 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Available M 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Reproduction by Centre Media, London Printed by Midas, Hong Kong Picture Credits Front cover: Spiral galaxy (courtesy of Spectrum Colour Ubrary). Opposite title page: The 'face on Mars', as found by NASA landing missions, a highly-debated issue of 1993. 17, 27 ©Roy Sandbach; page 33 David A. Hardy/Science Photo Library; 51 ©]. P. Templeton; page 53 NASA/ Science Photo Library page 63 NASA/Science Photo Ubrary; pages 87, 93 BFI Stills, Posters and Designs; page 94 David Parker/Science Photo Library; page 103 © 1982 Starchild; page 123 (right) NASA/Science Photo Library. Pages page CONTENTS Introduction 1947: The Aliens Arrive 1948: Crash Landing 1949: Secret Invasion 6 1973: Mark of the Aliens 72 1974: Euro Rendezvous 76 1975: Global Encounters 80 10 1976: The Alien Annada 84 12 1977: Investigations 86 1978: We Are Not Alone 88 1979: Angels or Demons? 92 8 1950: Little Green Men 14 1951: Standstill 18 1952: From Another World 20 1980: Back with a Bang 94 1953: The Men in Black 22 1981: Alien Interlude 98 1954: Aliens in Europe 24 1982: The Oz Factor 100 1955: Contact 28 1983: Alien Rejects 102 1956: Aliens v the Earth 30 1984: Star Children 104 1957: Sexperiments 32 1985: Strange Energies 106 1958: Alien Colonists 36 1986: Big Bad Aliens 108 1959: Hello Earth 38 1987: Spacenapped 110 1988: Alien Revelations 114 1989: Tell the World 116 1960: Close Encounters 40 1961: Abduction 42 1962: Under Wraps 46 1990: Extraterrestrial TI7 120 1963: It's Out There 48 1991: New Frontiers 122 1964: Time Bandits 50 1992: Under the Influence 124 1965: Aliens in Orbit 54 1993: The Alien Oscars 126 1966: Star Trekking 56 1994: Not Going Mad 130 1967: Science and Aliens 58 1995: Proof at Last? 132 1968: The Invaders 62 1996: Alien Artefacts 136 1969: Alien End Game 64 1997: Are \Ve Ready? 138 1970: The Aliens Return 66 Further reading 1971: Under the Skin 68 UFO organizations 197 2: Fading Vision 70 Index 139 141 142 6 ALI EN CONTACT INTRODUCTION Fifty years