The field guide to extraterrestrials : a complete overview of alien lifeforms - based on actual accounts and sightings

Since the late 1800s, there have been numerous documented reports of human encounters with extraterrestrial beings. In this unique and comprehensive volume - the first field guide ever devoted to extraterrestrials reported in UFO incidents - science writer Patrick Huyghe offers a fascinating overview of alien types witnessed throughout the past century. Each event is described in detail, based on eyewitness accounts, and is accompanied by a carefully rendered likeness of the lifeform encountered. With its detailed classification of alien types,' THE FIELD GUIDE TO EXTRATERRESTRIALS is essential reading for anyone who wants to know who 'they' are. Patrick Huyghe has been writing about science - and UFOs - for nearly twenty-five years. His work on UFOs has appeared in such diverse forums as The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Newsweek, New Age Journal and Science Digest. For the last dozen years, his articles on the subject have appeared exclusively in Omni magazine. Introduction What Is Real?...................................................................... 1 A Little History.................................................................... 2 The Aliens............................................................................ 5 Who's Who?........................................................................ 8 About This Guide ............................................................ 11 The Classification System............................................. 13 Classification Table......................................................... 16 Humanoid ......................................................................... 17 Animation ......................................................................... 69 Robotic............................................................................... 97 Exotic.................................................................................113 Afterword Too Human? Or Too Many Aliens?..........................122 Those Grays.....................................................................123 Beyond Looks ...............................................................125 Where Do They Come From? What Do They Want?......127 Patterns...........................................................................128 Things Are Not What They Seem............................130 Evidence..........................................................................131 Acknowledgments.......................................................132 Bibliography....................................................................133 Case Index .......................................................................135 Since the late 1800s, there have been reports of human encounters with extraterrestrials. Here, the author provides an overview of the varied alien types witnessed throughout the past century. Each event is described in detail and accompanied by an artistic impression.