Case file · Non-fiction & research literature
Klass, 'UFOs Explained'
Aviation journalist Philip Klass's case-by-case debunking of famous UFO reports.
1974 CE · 38.90, -77.04 · status: explained
The account
Klass, a senior editor at Aviation Week, proposed prosaic explanations for cases such as Socorro and Pascagoula and argued that witness error and hoaxes account for the rest. He became the best-known UFO skeptic of his generation.
The sceptical view
Ufologists accuse Klass of strained explanations and personal attacks on witnesses, for example his hoax theory of Socorro.
Connections in the atlas
- Socorro landing (Zamora)
- Philip J. Klass
- Pascagoula abduction