Kelly Milner Halls - Alien Investigation: Searching for the Truth about UFOs and Aliens

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated to my mom, who always said I was her little alien; to my dad who knows about space; to my heavenly daughters Kerry and Vanessa; and to a few reading starsyou know who you arefrom McKinley Elementary in Yakima, Washington. Its also dedicated to my best friend, who taught me to hope for new worlds of my own.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

This book would not have been possible without the generous assistance of
the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and the staff of their 2010 Symposium in Denver, Colorado. Their lectures and my subsequent interviews of their experts helped bring the topic and the possibilities into focus, and Im grateful to Clifford Clift, John Greenewald, Stanton Friedman, Kevin D. Randle, and Michael Schratt in particular. Im also grateful to my editor, Carol Hinz, and illustrator, Rick Spears. You brought this project to life.

Text copyright 2012 by Kelly Milner Halls

Illustrations copyright 2012 by Lerner Publishing Group, Inc.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Halls, Kelly Milner, 1957

Alien investigation : searching for the truth about UFOs and aliens / by Kelly Milner
Halls ; illustrated by Rick C. Spears.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN: 9780761362043 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper)

ISBN: 9780761388449 (eBook)

ISBN: 9781467759878 (Audisee ISBN)

1. Unidentified flying objectsJuvenile literature. 2. Extraterrestrial beingsJuvenile literature. I. Spears, Rick. II. Title.

TL789.2.H35 2012

001.942dc23

2011022230

Manufactured in the United States of America

2 BP 4/1/13

TABLE OF CONTENTS

IMAGINE ... a team of bold explorers as they prepare to leave their home planet. T he leader, Yllek, wonders, Could the alien species be real? T hat question fuels their mission. T hey plan to observe a distant blue planet. T he journey could
be dangerous, but the desire to expand the reach of science compels the team. T hey carefully prepare and hope they will make it to E arthand back home again.