© CorbisA creative illustration of a UFO in the sky.
Earlier this year Annie Jacobsen's book
Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base drew groans from skeptics and believers alike who derided her claim that the infamous 1947 Roswell crash was really
a spy plane sent by Joseph Stalin, piloted by "alien-like children" created by Nazi doctor Josef Mengele intended to create a mass panic about an alien invasion.
The story was based entirely on one anonymous source without a shred of supporting evidence, which is not unheard of among UFO reports. UFO enthusiasts who prefer some documentation with their speculation might prefer journalist Leslie Kean's
recent book UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record.Kean's book topped the
New York Times bestseller list - an unusual achievement for a nonfiction book about extraterrestrials. Part of the reason the book has done so well, Kean told Discovery News, is that "I'm trying to be very straightforward as a journalist, laying out what we know based on the official records. Also, many of the chapters were written by other people [including generals and former Arizona governor Fife Symington], and [former White House chief of staff] John Podesta wrote the foreword....They're not just taking my word for it, the reader gets to actually read what these authorities have to say in their own words."
There are many cases in the book -- from a UFO sighted over Chicago's
O'Hare Airport in 2006 to reports from Brazil and Iran - but there's one famous UFO incident that was solved shortly after the book came out.
Comment: Pretty bizarre, eh?
But this isn't the first time we've come across such mutations:
Piglet born with "monkey's face"
Turkey: Sheep Gives Birth to Human-Faced Lamb
Goat Born With A Human Face?