Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series.

"A thrilling story of science, Nazi research, secret spy planes, and the space race, UFO traces the history of the U.S. government's hunt for 'unidentified aerial phenomena' here on Earth, as well as the group of forward-thinking scientists who launched the search for extraterrestrial intelligence far from Earth. Drawing on original archival research, declassified documents and interviews with intelligence and military officials, Graff's book traces our quest to understand one of the most popular questions of all time: whether or not aliens exist"--

Prologue: War of the worlds --

Introduction --

Flying saucers -- Part 1: The saucer age. Foo fighters -- Rocket age -- Project Sign -- Classics -- Project Grudge -- Captain Ruppelt arrives -- Mysterious death of Captain Mantell -- Washington merry-go-round -- Robertson panel -- Saucer-mania -- Frost's flying saucer -- Contactees -- Men in black -- Sputnik -- Briefing Capitol Hill -- Part 2: Space age. Fermi's paradox -- Project Ozma -- Phantom signal -- Drake equation -- Search expands -- Socorro incident -- Exploring Mars -- Swamp gas -- UFO gap -- Condon report -- Byurakan conference -- Arecibo message -- Close encounters of the third kind -- Dick Cavett duel -- Tehran incident -- Wow signal -- Situation red -- Exploring the cosmos -- Alone theory -- Voodoo warrior -- MJ-12 -- Crop circles -- Belgian wave -- Interrupted journey -- Sex with aliens -- Roswell revisited -- "Who killed JFK?" -- Mars rock -- Phoenix lights -- Part 3: Interstellar age. Cometa -- Skinwalker Ranch -- StarChips -- Tic Tac incident -- Life science -- Breakthrough listen -- Epilogue: Truth is out there