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"Our knowledge of space has increased spectacularly with the advent of space satellites, telescopes, and probes. Yet, sightings of UFOs continue to be quite high. Clearly, a skilled investigator is needed to discover the unsettling truth behind these alarming objects. This thrilling guide to the extraterrestrial, which includes information about Area 51, crop circles, and Roswell, New Mexico, presents heroic readers with need-to-know scientific knowledge,...
5) Aliens
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Series
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KidHaven Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"In They Are Already Here we meet the bigwigs, the scrappy upstarts, the field investigators, the rational people, and the unhinged kooks of this sprawling community. How do they interact with each other? How do they interact with "anomalous phenomena"? And how do they (as any group must) reflect the politics and culture of the larger world around them? We will travel along the Extraterrestrial Highway (next to Area 51) and visit the UFO Watchtower,...
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Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
"Using eyewitness accounts and information from footage never before seen on television, author William Birnes takes readers on the hunt for the real truth about flying saucers: what they are and why they're here"--Amazon.com
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Do UFOs and aliens exist? Many people claim they don't. Many others are convinced that not only do they exist, but that in order to avoid widespread panic, the U.S. government released several reports that intentionally covered up all existing proof. Exciting text, accompanied by spine-tingling full-color images and intriguing sidebars, discusses some of the sightings and abductions that have been reported from around the world since the late 1800s....
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My weirdest school volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
"A.J. and the gang at Ella Mentry School are in for a super surprise when a new teacher, Mr. Cooper, take over their third grade class"--
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English
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"We are not alone. Covering topics from the scientific evidence that aliens exist to what the government should do about them to why they are here in the first place, this book provides specific instructions on how to handle an extraterrestrial encounter"--Provided by publisher
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In this mind-expanding book, Paul Davies, astrobiologist and chairman of the SETI Post-Detection Taskgroup and, refocuses the search, challenging existing ideas of what form an alien intelligence might take, how it might try to communicate with us, and how we should respond if it does
12) Invasion
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English
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Robin Cook's "pressure cooker of a thriller" ("Booklist") takes medical technology into a new realm, where everything we know about the human body-and the universe we live in-is about to be challenged
13) Area 51
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Engaging images accompany information about Area 51. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--Provided by publisher
15) Noir: A Novel
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Sammy and the Cheese volume 1
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English
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Madcap, zany noir set on the mean streets of post-World War II San Francisco. Sammy "Two Toes" Tiffin is the bartender in a scruffy gin joint, with street connections that make him the go-to guy for just about everything. When one of his schemes goes south and his lady vanishes, Sammy follows a tortuous trail from Chinatown to Telegraph Hill to a hidden forest enclave in a desperate search to find his girl. Meanwhile, a suspicious flying object has...
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"In 1947, an unusual object crashed in the New Mexico desert and was recovered by the Roswell Army Air Field officers. People everywhere began to speculate what the object could be. Could it possibly be a flying saucer? Would that be proof of aliens and life beyond Earth? Even decades later, some people still believe that the Roswell Incident is the most famous UFO sighting ever. Still, those who worked at the airfield insist it was just a weather...
19) Close encounters
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Series
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Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Hundreds of tourists have invaded the town to watch purported UFO sightings. Odder still are reports of townspeople being abducted. This speculation has the town going wild
20) Nope
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Two siblings who run a California horse ranch discover something wonderful and sinister in the skies above, and the owner of an adjacent theme park tries to profit from the mysterious, otherworldly phenomenon
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