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Book Review:
UFO, Evaluating the Evidence

By Tracy Farr
Editor, The Daily Spittoon

As I was doing my Christmas shopping this year, looking for just the right thing for the people who expect those kind of things from me, I came across a book that practically leaped into my hands. It was UFO, Evaluating the Evidence by Bill Yene.

I don't know what struck me first about the book, whether it was its outer space cover, or it's "UFO" written in a really weird UFO font, or its claim of being an "objective study of unexplained phenomena, based on the testimony of expert witnesses." Whatever it was, I plucked down my money and brought it home.

Opening the book took me back to a time when my father would take me and my brother to the nearby movie theater to watch documentaries on UFOs and aliens from other planets who had visited Earth and helped build the pyramids and chain restaurants. My brother and I would sit in amazement, watching grown people say they were abducted by aliens and saw Elvis. And to think, our friends were at home doing worthless things like watching mowing yards for money or watching Hogan's Heroes and Star Trek.

I remember watching Jaws in the movie theater, my first "real" movie, and even though I knew that head was going to roll out of the boat, I still jumped like everybody else. Of course that has nothing to do with this book, but I'd thought I'd share that memory with you anyway.

Yenne, who is a writer, researcher and editor with experience in aviation and unexplained phenomena (he uses that word a lot throughout the book), seems like the perfect person to write a book about UFOs. In the book, he details the history of flying saucers, how a number of presidents handled the subject, relates quite a few "expert" eyewitness accounts, and talks in length about Roswell, New Mexico and Project Blue Book.

Yenne also presents physical evidence of UFOs in pictures, some looking like real craft from outer space and others looking like pie plates.

In conclusion, this book may or may not make a convincing case for the existence of UFOs, but it does look good on a coffee table. And for $2.50, I consider that money well spent.