PositiveVICEIf you're jonesing for an extraterrestrial, you should check out The Close Encounters Man by Mark O'Connell. O'Connell, a writer for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and founder of the UFO blog High Strangeness, set out to write 'a UFO book people wouldn't need to hide from other people.' He found his ideal subject in J. Allen Hynek, the astronomer hired by the United States Air Force in 1948... In telling the life story of Hynek, the 'astro-beatnik,' O'Connell winds up with a stunning panorama of the UFO movement — from fringe conspiracy theorists to amateur astronomers to agnostic scientists — as well as its colossal impact on pop culture and modern science.
