In plain sight / Ross Coulthart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coulthart, Ross, author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unidentified flying objects.

Physical Description:

344 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits (chiefly colour) ; 24 cm

regular print

Other Title:

In plain sight : an investigation into UFOs and impossible science

Place of Publication:

Sydney, N.S.W. : HarperCollins Publishers, 2021.

Summary:

Award-winning investigative journalist Ross Coulthart has been intrigued by UFOs since mysterious glowing lights were reported near New Zealand's Kaikoura mountains when he was a teenager. The 1978 sighting is just one of thousands since the 1940s, and yet research into UFOs is still seen as the realm of crackpots and conspiracy theorists. In 2020, however, after decades of denial, the US Department of Defence made the astonishing admission that strange aerial and underwater objects frequently reported and videoed by pilots and tracked by sensors are real, unexplained, and pose a genuine national security concern. Compelled to investigate, Coulthart has embarked on what's become the most confronting and challenging story of his career, speaking to witnesses, researchers, scientists, spies and defence and intelligence officials and insiders. What he has found suggests that the world is on the cusp of extraordinary technological breakthroughs and cultural revelations. Bizarre, sometimes mind-blowing and utterly fascinating, In Plain Sight tells a story that's largely escaped the radar of mainstream media coverage but has been there all along. Now it's time to observe what's in front of our eyes.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Let's Hope They're Friendly

2. Roswell: Implausible Denials

3. The Launch of Project Blue Book

4. A Worldwide Phenomenon

5. Hard Evidence

6. Cracking the Cover-up

7. Confusion or Cover-up?

8. The Black Triangles

9. The Disclosure Project

10. Skinwalker Ranch

11. Tic Tacs from Space

12. The Hunt for `The Big Secret'

13. Would the President Know?

14. We Can Handle the Truth

15. Sharing the Guilty Secret

16. To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences

17. Verified Unidentified

18. Art's Parts

19. The New Science of Metamaterials

20. The Astronaut and `the Spaceman'

21. Not Made by Human Hands

22. Gordon Novel: Fact or Fiction

23. Dr Salvatore Pais's Puzzling Patents.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781460759066

1460759060

OCLC:

1245468997