“Mystery” is the word for today’s set of historic UFO conundrums. This reviewer vividly remembers the hullaballoo surrounding the March 8 Holland-Grand Haven sightings, and the short flap that followed in Michigan. Austin Harvey’s treatment of this puzzler is supplemented by a good-quality and at times gripping audio tape of conversations during the “light show,” and several other references. Netflix has devoted an episode of its Unsolved Mysteries to the case. 47 years earlier there was The OTHER Flying Disc Mystery of 1947. Actually there were two very different “Flying Discs” besides the Roswell object making news at the time, as Curt Collins explains in a delightful article. Then there’s The Unsolved Mystery of Buck Nelson: What Happened to the Ozarks’ First Alien Abductee? Andrew Sheeley describes the strange career of Nelson, a 1950s-60s “2nd-rank” contactee, and the even more outre disappearance of the man. But Brian Dunning actually attacks the “something mysterious” implied in Brazil’s Roswell: The Varginha UFO. Dunning challenges the main threads in this case, in the process rather impugning the late Stanton Friedman’s work as well as James Fox’ new documentary Moment of Contact, which Dunning says is “a great source” for “the entire story as told by the UFOlogists.” (WM)
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