Jacues Valee, co-author of the newly published book, "Wonders in the Sky"

Alan Boyle writes: One of the best-known scientific sleuths of UFO sightings is focusing his search not on today’s flying saucers, but on the sky wonders of antiquity.

Jacques Vallee, the French-born computer whiz and venture capitalist who also served as the model for Francois Truffaut’s UFO-hunting character in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” says such sightings show that the UFO phenomenon did not start in 1947. He’s a co-author of a newly published book, “Wonders in the Sky,” that lists 500 unexplained aerial observations dating back as far as 1460 B.C. and going up to the dawn of the industrial age in 1879. (That 500th case involved an unknown “airship” that was sighted over eastern Iowa, where I grew up. Coincidence? I think not.)

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