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In reply to the discussion: Office To Investigate UFOs Pushed In Bipartisan Proposal, 'This Is Urgent' [View all]LunaSea
(2,893 posts)Check out "Wonders in the Sky"
In Wonders in the Sky, respected researchers Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck examine more than 500 selected reports of sightings from biblical-age antiquity through the year 1879-the point at which the Industrial Revolution deeply changed the nature of human society, and the skies began to open to airplanes, dirigibles, rockets, and other opportunities for misinterpretation represented by military prototypes. Using vivid and engaging case studies, and more than seventy-five illustrations, they reveal that unidentified flying objects have had a major impact not only on popular culture but on our history, on our religion, and on the models of the world humanity has formed from deepest antiquity.
https://www.amazon.com/Wonders-Sky-Unexplained-Objects-Antiquity/dp/1585428205
Someone has posted it to Archive.org despite not yet being being public domain AFAIK.
https://archive.org/details/JacquesValleeChrisAubeckWondersInTheSkyUnexplainedAerialObjectsFromAntiquityToModernTimes
DUer Kid Berwyn posted some very interesting items (including about Vallee) in this thread from yesterday-
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216055444