Wonders in the Sky

One of the most ambitious works of paranormal investigation of our time, here is an unprecedented compendium of pre-twentieth-century UFO accounts, written with rigor and color by two of today's leading investigators of unexplained phenomena.

In the past century, individuals, newspapers, and military agencies have recorded thousands of UFO incidents, giving rise to much speculation about flying saucers, visitors from other planets, and alien abductions. Yet the extraterrestrial phenomenon did not begin in the present era. Far from it. The authors of Wonders in the Sky reveal a thread of vividly rendered—and sometimes strikingly similar—reports of mysterious aerial phenomena from antiquity through the modern age. These accounts often share definite physical features—such as the heat felt and described by witnesses—that have not changed much over the centuries. Indeed, such similarities between ancient and modern sightings are the rule rather than the...