Aliens: Encounters With the Unexplained

Have a close encounter of a fun kind with Marcus Day's magazine-size introduction to UFOlogy. Day has condensed the pertinent information on the subject into six chapters outlining the most renowned Close Encounters of the First through the Fifth Kind. (Did you know that a Close Encounter of the Third Kind, for which Steven Spielberg's movie was named, involves first-hand accounts of seeing a UFO and its occupants?) There's information on different types of alien crafts, alien abductions, international government cover-ups, and predictions of imminent contact. Chapter 6 is dedicated to UFO hot spots, and the entire package is dressed up in a dandy graphic design with as many full-color photographs, graphs, maps, and illustrations as there is text. Aliens would make a super gift for the imaginative teenager or science fiction aficionado. --P. Randall Cohan