In the public imagination, UFOs were frequently conflated with technoscientific approaches to space exploration. Contemporaneous with efforts to legitimize the possibility of spaceflight in the years before Sputnik, the UFO phenomenon generated as much sensation in Europe as in the USA. Initially an American phenomenon, flying saucer reports quickly became global in scope. Enjoy, and stay curious!īeginning in 1947, with the first waves of UFO sightings, and continuing in the subsequent decades, debates on the existence and gestalt of extraterrestrial life gained unprecedented prominence. The world seems to grow stranger by the day, so take a look back and see just how strange it was a generation ago. These publications are a reflection of their time, and demonstrate in many cases the beginning steps into subjects familiar to the public today: alleged UFO crashes and landings at government installations, alien abductions, cryptozoology and more. Hopefully, this will prove more nostalgic than off-putting. They have been reproduced as a facsimile edition, meaning spelling errors, pre-computer production and typographic problems, and primitive printing methods are all evident.

This volume contains the entire collection of the Journal of the Fortean Research Center. Exploring events in Nebraska, and far beyond that included ghosts, UFOs, Bigfoot encounters, animal mutilations, government cover-ups, alleged alien abductions, psychic phenomena, cult activity, and even a sighting of a blob-like mystery creature (although somewhat less intimidating than the one depicted on the cover of this book) the Fortean Research Center became recognized among members of the Fortean, paranormal, and UFO research community around the world, as a reliable and trusted source of information. During the two decades of it’s existence, this volunteer group of researchers and investigators delved deep in the waters of the ignored, the ridiculed, and the unexplained. The Fortean Research Center was founded in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1982 to honor and continue Fort’s work. Author of The Book of the Damned, New Lands, Lo!, and Wild Talents, Fort was a master cataloguer of the weird, the unexplained and the bizarre which the scientific establishment of his day chose to ignore and ridicule.

Charles Hoy Fort (1874-1932) was as fascinating a man as one could hope to find.

Time's Tempest by M.J. Moores