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A New Yorker Best Book of 2022
A Best Book of the Month at The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Deeply beautiful, and never simple.” ―James Gleick, author of Time Travel: A History
An unforgettable tour of the human condition that explores our universal need for belief to help us make sense of…
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Fred was a pilot. He also was an avid ufologist. In October 1978, on a short flight in a private plane from Melbourne to King Island in Australia, Fred has a conversation with air traffic control and claims to see a large aircraft — a UFO — flying around him… until it vanishes.
That is Fred’s last conversation with anyone as both he and his plane disappear, never to be found. Was it an alien craft? Pilot error? Weather phenomenon?
There are no answers in Krasnostein’s chapters about Fred. But the story and her lyrical…
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