The Tujunga Canyon Contacts [antikvár]

PrefaceUFO research is hard and lonely work, misunderstood by skeptics and generally ignored by science. Within the past few years, however, there have been heartening signs that an interdisciplinary approach is at last being brought to bear on the problem. Hopefully, through the joint efforts of different sciences, the UFO mystery will eventually be solved.The Tujunga close-encounter cases, about which this book is written, occurred between 1953 and 1975. They are puzzling examples of UFO interaction with human witnesses. Spawning as they did from an area of California where UFO incidents of all sorts have been reported for decades, these absorbing cases present an added puzzle that seems unique even in this uncertain field. They seem to involve an actual epidemic of UFO contacts and suggest that there might have been some kind of contagious element at work.The investigation of the primary Tujunga case, the Shaw-Whitley incident, was made by a small group of lonely researchers, attempting to pry loose a twenty-five-year-old abduction case from the cobwebs of time. Other "satellite" close-encounter cases grew up around it, overwhelming in their complexity.In the autumn of 1978 I asked D. Scott Rogo, a noted parapsychologist, to join the investigation. Psychic elements were an integral part of the Tujunga cases, and Scott was one of those rare psychical researchers who have a profound interest in the UFO question. We hoped that the joint efforts of a veteran ufologist and a professional parapsychologist could shed more light on the cases. This book is a result of our combined endeavors.It is an in-depth ufological and parapsychological study of a group of UFO incidents from a localized area. As such, it is the first book of its kind. Although our conclusions aboutix