BOOK REVIEW

A Model UFO Debunking

War of the Words: The True but Strange Story of the Gulf Breeze UFO. By Craig R. Myers. Xlibris Publishers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-1-4257-1654-7. 192 pp. Hardcover, $30.99; softcover, $20.99.

ROBERT SHEAFFER

Robert Sheaffer is the author of UFO Sightings: The Evidence (Prometheus 1998) and a regular SI columnist.

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Given the current bear market in UFO conferences, books, and magazines, it seems odd that someone would publish a book detailing one, single UFO case, albeit an extremely important one. That is doubly true when the book is written from a skeptical perspective. But, nonetheless, that’s what we have here, and while such a book is not likely to make any best-seller list, it’s a valuable contribution to our understanding of the contemporary UFO mania.

Full article here:

http://www.csicop.org/si/2007-05/sheaffer.html