UFO Encyclopedia: The Phenomenon from the Beginning
Jerome C. Clark

First published in three separate volumes, the UFO Encyclopedia, 2nd edition is now available in a newly revised two-volume edition. The definitive history and reference source on UFOs, the second edition presents 271 updated entries in a single alphabetic sequence. New entries have been added, and coverage for UFO organizations has been updated. Detailed entries cover the cases, the theories, the organizations, the personalities, the government and media responses, the effects on popular culture, the hoaxes, the flying-saucer religious movements, the debunkers, and anything else that is relevant.

From the Publisher

First published in three separate volumes, the UFO Encyclopedia, 2nd edition is now available in a newly revised two-volume edition. The definitive history and reference source on UFOs, the second edition presents 271 updated entries in a single alphabetic sequence. New entries have been added, and coverage for UFO organizations has been updated.

Detailed entries cover the cases, the theories, the organizations, the personalities, the government and media responses, the effects on popular culture, the hoaxes, the flying-saucer religious movements, the debunkers, and anything else that is relevant. Also included are profiles of the investigators, theorists, and other prominent individuals associated with UFO phenomena. Approximately 50 UFO organizations and contactee groups are included, with descriptions of their activities and full contact information.


From The Critics
Booknews

Details aspects of unidentified flying objects from ancient times to the present, with 273 entries on the cases, the theories, the organizations, the investigators, the theorists, the contactees, places, the government and media responses, the effects on popular culture, the hoaxes, the flying-saucer religious movements, the debunkers, and maybe even the kitchen sink. The entries tend to be several pages long, include specific references in addition to the overall bibliography, and are well cross-referenced. Lightly illustrated. The first edition was published in three volumes from 1990 to 1996, and is here updated and redivided. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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Robert E. Bartholomew, a Sociologist at James Cook Univ., December 3, 1998,
Very impressive

This is a landmark book and a remarkable achievement. The entries are very detailed, balanced and extremely well-referenced. Many of Clark's entries are worth the equivalent of an entire book boiled down to a few pages. I have suggested to several sociology colleagues that they get their libraries to order it. When a case is in doubt, Clark tends to land on the side of possible ET visitation. While I disagree such interpretations and assessments (because I require absolute proof), Clark is certainly within his rights to do so because he bases his views on evidence, and he backs up his argument with quality references and lucid reasoning. No matter where one stands on the UFO debate (and I am a sympathetic skeptic), this 2 volume set clearly stands as the most thorough ever written for the 273 entries covered. Jerome Clark should be congratulated for an almost super-human effort.