Flying Saucers - Serious Business: Overwhelming Evidence That UFOs Are Real

By: Frank Edwards

Narrated by: David Gilmore

Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins

Publisher's summary

Overwhelming new evidence that UFOs are real...

This uncensored best seller smashes through the barrier of official silence, asking the difficult questions:

• What was the mysterious solid object that struck a jetliner in flight over India?
• Has modern science already communicated with intelligent beings from outer space?
• Why have UFOs undergone drastic design changes in the past 60 years?
• What was the thing - tracked by radar - that followed a NASA missile in 1961?
• How could British TV viewers pick up signals from a Texas station that had gone out of business years earlier?
• What was the strange substance that dribbled from a crippled saucer over Brazil in 1954?
• What caused the mysterious power blackouts in 1965?

In Flying Saucers - Serious Business, America's most popular paranormal spokesperson, Frank Edwards, collates the latest information on UFOs and theorizes about the shocking possible conclusions, including what the next UFO phase might be and its implications for the future of the human race.

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very interesting read lots of good facts

very good book many very actual situations that I recall from my youth are recalled in this book

Eyewitness accounts galore!

I really like eyewitness accounts because everybody is different and therefore the retelling of their experiences are unique. I also prefer this type of book because its like a record of events and so more believable.

Uber interesting!

I thought I had read everything about UFOs and strange happenings involving UFOs. This book is totally proven me wrong. 68 UFOs in the night sky in Minnesota… I’ve never heard of that. Are you a UFO that turns off the power at a power station and then goes into the sky and blows up… Never heard of that either. This is all things that backed up by fact newspaper articles I witnesses and more. What a great book! This book is on my top three list of best books about you about ever

Essential reading if you’re interested in UFOs

Everything we know now about UFOs was actually already known seventy years ago. Many well documented cases from the past have just been forgotten and are no longer talked about. This book has them,

Out-of-date, often inaccurate, and yet...

One of the classic books in UFOlogy, I owned this book when I was young and fervently interested in such things. Seeing it on Audible, I decided to see how Frank Edwards's treatise has held up, now that I'm older and more agnostic on the subject.


After nearly sixty years, much of the book is naturally out of date. Mr. Edwards proposes CTA 21 and CTA 102 as strong possibilities for extraterrestrial transmitters; they are now known to be quasars, which were still being discovered at the time the book was written. And almost everything involving the moon is now suitable only as a historical curiosity.


Sometimes he fell for hoaxes, such as the KLEE-TV incident in Britain, and the Steep Rock Lake sighting in Canada, neither of which ever actually happened. Another hoax is the story of the "lost cosmonauts," which is delightfully creepy but not at all true.


There are other cases where Mr. Edwards repeats second-hand, exaggerated reports, instead of the original, rather more prosaic accounts, e.g. the Walesville incident. Perhaps he should have researched a bit more thoroughly, but I believe this was the result of overeagerness, not an intent to purposefully deceive; and of course, it's much easier to find original sources now than in the 1960s.


Some of the official attempts to explain away UFO sightings are so ludicrous, that one doesn't even have to believe in extraterrestrial visitors to find them comical, and Mr. Edwards gets in some delightful zingers when he punctures them. My personal favorite: "When the planet Venus gets so close that boys can hit it with .22 rifles, it is time for all of us to head for the hills."


David Gilmore's performance is excellent; it is matter-of-fact, with just enough emotion and deadpan wryness to keep it from being dry and soporific. (I imagine Mr. Edwards's own broadcasts had a similar tone.)


Don't rely on this book as an authoritative, final source, but for anyone with an interest in UFO sightings–whether believer, skeptic, or neutral–this makes for an enjoyable listen, and a good place to start. Just don't forget to double-check his claims, and catch up on the six decades of developments since.