{"id":1826,"date":"2017-12-07T15:40:49","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T15:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anomalistbooks-com.securec37.ezhostingserver.com\/news\/?p=1826"},"modified":"2017-12-07T15:43:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T15:43:32","slug":"an-admirable-reinvestigation-of-a-curious-ufo-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=1826","title":{"rendered":"An Admirable Reinvestigation of a Curious UFO Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anomalistbooks-com.securec37.ezhostingserver.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"align left size-thumbnail wp-image-1801\" src=\"http:\/\/anomalistbooks-com.securec37.ezhostingserver.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NR-100x150.jpg\" alt=\"NR\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Jacques Vallee was kind enough to provide a foreword for David Booher&#8217;s new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/book.cfm?id=93\"><strong><em>No Return: The Gerry Irwin Story, UFO Abduction or Covert Operation?<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 In it, Vallee writes: &#8220;I believe two major themes stand out from the insights we can derive from David Booher\u2019s work: First, the virtue of a patient, long-term perspective on cases that seemed forever lost in amnesia or hidden in secrecy; and second, the critical need for an intelligent alternative to the shoddy, pop psychology of hypnosis that has come to masquerade for &#8216;research&#8217; in numerous reports of UFO abduction.&#8221; That idea is echoed by Ron Westrum, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Eastern Michigan University, who calls this book\u00a0&#8220;a model of a competent UFO close encounter investigation.&#8221; But it&#8217;s also more than that, as Nick Redfern notes in his review on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysteriousuniverse.org\/2017\/08\/no-return-ufos-government-mind-control-or-awol\/\"><em>Mysterious Universe<\/em><\/a>: &#8220;Booher has written an absorbing, unbiased and genuinely fascinating story. It\u2019s Booher\u2019s own, personal search for the truth of a young man whose life was forever changed on a dark night back in the fifties. You should read this book.&#8221; Jerome Clark, in his review in <em>Fortean Times<\/em>, agrees: &#8220;<em>No Return<\/em> is admirable work, clearing up \u2013 to the limited extent possible \u2013 a curious case from the early UFO age, among the first to hint that even higher strangeness was lurking just over the horizon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"grammarly-disable-indicator\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacques Vallee was kind enough to provide a foreword for David Booher&#8217;s new book, No Return: The Gerry Irwin Story, UFO Abduction or Covert Operation?\u00a0 In it, Vallee writes: &#8220;I believe two major themes stand out from the insights we can derive from David Booher\u2019s work: First, the virtue of a patient, long-term perspective on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-return"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1826"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1831,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1826\/revisions\/1831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}