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Article: James R. Lewis. UFOs and Popular Culture, an Encyclopedia of Contemporary Myth.
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- Utopian Studies
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- January 1, 2002
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James R. Lewis. UFOs and Popular Culture, An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Myth.
Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2000. xl + 393 pp. $75.00.
THIS BOOK by James R. Lewis is an encyclopedia with over 400 entries arranged alphabetically from A to Z, but it is not a comprehensive encyclopedia about UFOs. For example, there is no mention in either the encyclopedia or the chronology that appears in the appendix of the Shag Harbour incident of 1967 or of the Socorro, New Mexico, landing in 1964, an incident long prominent in UFO lore. If there will be a complaint from the reader about this book, it will be that it does not give enough hard information about UFOs. This ...