Are We Alone?

If so, these book authors and publishers would be a lot more impoverished.  These paperbacks are a *few* on my shelves which survey whether alien guys are coming to visit us Earth guys.

The above is a 1975 paperback which tries to be fact-based when reporting the search for radio contact with any ETs across space.

Blum's 1991 book is more about narrating weird supposed happenings, "from official government reports," and then smacking you with the portentous "If the stuff we know about is this weird, what about the stuff we don't know about?".

Warren Smith was an American writer who wrote romances and Westerns, along with umpteen million books on monsters and aliens and such.  His papers are collected at the University of Iowa.  This book came out in 1977, right in time to lure audiences of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Well, the text on the cover of this book leaves you breathless.  Who could uncover such amazing PROOF?  Why, William Francis Brinsley Le Poer Trench, 8th Earl of Clancarty, 7th Marquess of Heusden, that's who!

Now it's up to YOU to decide how you wish to approach the question of Life Out There. See you Monday!

  

Can You Update the List?

Here's a fun article from the January 27, 1985 Tulsa World.

If you want to tell us about any newer bloopers, share 'em in the comments!  See you on Thursday.