American Ufo Writers

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 53. Chapters: Carl Sagan, Donald Keyhoe, Alex Jones, Milton William Cooper, J. Allen Hynek, George Adamski, Stanton T. Friedman, Alfred Webre, Philip J. Klass, Daniel Fry, Ann Druffel, Whitley Strieber, Edward J. Ruppelt, Jerome Clark, John Edward Mack, Morris K. Jessup, Jim Marrs, Bruce Maccabee, Steven M. Greer, Philip J. Corso, Leonard H. Stringfield, Bill Moore, Allen H. Greenfield, George Hunt Williamson, David Michael Jacobs, George Van Tassel, Gray Barker, John Keel, Frank Edwards, Orfeo Angelucci, John G. Fuller, George Knapp, William J. Birnes, William Kenneth Hartmann, Richard M. Dolan, Howard Menger, Buck Nelson, Paola Harris. Excerpt: Carl Edward Sagan (English pronunciation: ) (November 9, 1934 - December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer, and science communicator in the space and natural sciences. During his lifetime, he published more than 600 scientific papers and popular articles and was author, co-author, or editor of more than 20 books. In his works, he advocated skeptical inquiry and the scientific method. He pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Sagan became world-famous for his popular science books and for the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which he narrated and co-wrote. A book to accompany the program was also published. Sagan also wrote the novel Contact, the basis for the 1997 film of the same name. Carl Sagan was born in Brooklyn, New York City, to a Ukrainian Jewish family. His father, Sam Sagan, was an immigrant garment worker from Kamenets-Podolsk, Ukraine; his mother, Rachel Molly Gruber, a housewife. Carl was named in honor of Rachel's biological mother, Chaiya Clara, in Sagan's words, "the mother she never knew." Sagan graduated from Rahway High School...