Case file · Non-fiction & research literature
The Utah UFO Display (1974)
Utah State University plant physiologist Frank B. Salisbury's book on the Uinta Basin sightings, built on Junior Hicks's files, with a foreword by J. Allen Hynek.
1974 CE · 41.73, -111.83 · status: claim
The account
Published by Devin-Adair of Old Greenwich, Connecticut, it was subtitled 'a biologist's report'. Salisbury, who headed USU's plant science department and co-wrote a standard plant physiology textbook, treated the reports as a scientist looking at testimony.
The sceptical view
The book analyses witness accounts; it does not provide instrumental data, and many cases rest on single observers.