Ufo The Inside Story Of The Us Governments Search For Alien Life Here And Out There Garrett M Graff by Garrett M. Graff 9781982196790, 1982196793 instant download after payment.

For as long as we have looked to the skies, the question of whether life on Earth is the only life to exist has been at the core of the human experience, driving scientific debate & discovery, shaping spiritual belief, & prompting existential thought across borders & generations. And yet, the idea of extraterrestrial intelligence has been largely seen as a joke, banished to the realm of fantasy & conspiracy. Now, for the first time, the full story of our national obsession with UFOs—& the covert, decades-long search by scientists, the United States military, & the CIA for proof of alien life—is told by bestselling author & Pulitzer Prize finalist Garrett M. Graff in a deeply reported & researched history.

It begins in 1947, when 2 headline-making sightings of strange flying objects—the first near Mount Rainier, Washington, involving a pilot named Kenneth Arnold, & the second a ranch on the outskirts of a New Mexico town called Roswell—prompt the US Air Force’s newly formed Department of Defense to create a series of secret programs to determine how unidentified phenomena may pose a threat to national security. Over the next half-century, as the atomic age gives way to the space race & the Cold War, the search continues, bringing together an unexpected group of astronomers, military officials, civilian contactees, & true believers who bring us closer, then further, then closer again, to answering 1 of our most enduring questions: What exactly is out there?

Drawing from original archival research, declassified documents, & interviews with senior intelligence & military officials, Graff…