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    UFOs, Aliens and the Battle for the Truth: A Short History of UFOlogy

    By Neil Nixon

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    UFOs, Aliens and the Battle for the Truth

    A SHORT HISTORY OF UFOLOGY

    This no-nonsense guide to one of our most enduring mysteries presents a short history of the strangest encounters, looks carefully at explanations from the blunt to the truly bizarre, offers insights into the strongest evidence that we are being visited by beings from another world and sources the best sceptical arguments that it can all be explained rationally.

    Concise, balanced and - occasionally - hilarious this is a story that has as much to tell you about the human race as it does about aliens.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOldcastle Books
    Release dateNov 13, 2020
    ISBN9780857304322
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    UFOs, Aliens and the Battle for the Truth: A Short History of UFOlogy
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    Neil Nixon

    Neil Nixon spent most of his adult life combining the careers of a professional creative and an academic. He is the author of over two dozen books, a scriptwriter for screen, stage and radio, a comedy writer and a journalist who has published on subjects including sport, current affairs and music. UFOs and the paranormal have been a mainstay of his writing work. For decades this work was combined with teaching those who wanted to work in the media industry and for the final two decades of Neil's academic career he founded and ran the UK's first full-time higher education course in Professional Writing. Neil has a website at www.neilnixon.com.

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