Bringing Ufos Down to Earth (Young Readers (New York, N.Y.).)

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Summary: Bringing Ufos Down to Earth
Review: I used this book as a supplement to a UFO story in a reading textbook in a sixth grade class. The author's specific examples and explanations of UFO phenomena are concrete enough that an eleven-year-old can understand them--and enjoy the discovery of reasonable explanations, as my sixth graders did. I think a number of my students now understand that we don't have to swallow bizarre stories; we can analyze them and consider common-sense explanations. What an empowering small book!

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Summary: Most useful I've seen
Review: I used this book as a supplement to a UFO story in a reading textbook in a sixth grade class. The author's specific examples and explanations of UFO phenomena are concrete enough that an eleven-year-old can understand them--and enjoy the discovery of reasonable explanations, as my sixth graders did. I think a number of my students now understand that we don't have to swallow bizarre stories; we can analyze them and consider common-sense explanations. What an empowering small book!

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Summary: Best of the bunch
Review: Klass seems to offer intelligent points. Hynek and others find lack of hoax evidence as proof of authenticity but Klass reminds my students that SCIENCE calls for positive evidence to support a theory, not the lack of evidence to refute a theory. A good lesson in the SCIENTIFIC METHOD that teaches by showing real world mistakes and keeps students interested.

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Summary: Bringing Ufos Down to Earth
Review: This book is terrible. Phillip J Klass is a skeptic who is too afraid to accept the truth, yes alot of ufo's can be explained as ordinart, but what about the roswell ufo crash? military spy ballon? i think not, theres evidence that tells of something out of this world,[] A more appropriate book would be by Allen J. Hynek. UFO books by skeptics encourage kids to have closed minds and to accept anything as natural phenomena without investigation. The truth is out there.