The Close Encounters Man: How One Man Made the World Believe in UFOs

by Mark O'Connell and Mark O'Connell

Book Overview

The wildly entertaining and eye-opening biography of J. Allen Hynek, the astronomer who invented the concept of Close Encounters with alien life, inspired Steven Spielberg's blockbuster classic science fiction epic film and is the subject of History Channel's Project Blue Book, and made an entire nation want to believe in UFOs.

In June 1947, private pilot Kenneth Arnold looked out his cockpit window and saw a group of nine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062484176
• ISBN13: 9780062484178
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Dey Street Books
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.2" x 7.8"