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Do UFOs really exist? Noted scientist Frank B. Salisbury, in collaboration with Joseph Junior Hicks, tries to answer this question by examining UFO data in the context of modern science. In the process, he and Hicks interview countless Utah witnesses who adamantly insist they encountered a flying saucer. Shedding new light on the UFO mystery, this authoritative volume brings to life dramatic eyewitness accounts that address this timeworn puzzle from a scientific viewpoint. Prepare to be pulled to the edge of your seat and held spellbound until the last page.
Frank Boyer Salisbury grew up in Springville and Salt Lake City, Utah. After a year in the Army Air Force, he served as a missionary in Switzerland. As a teenager, he led hikes and taught nature and crafts at two scout camps, where he began a lifelong fascination with biology in general and botany in particular—as well as with all the physical sciences.After earning bachelor's and master's degrees in botany and biochemistry at the University of Utah, he earned his doctorate in plant physiology and geochemistry in 1955 at the California Institute of Technology. After teaching ecology, general biology, and other subjects at Pomona College for one year, he spent eleven years at Colorado State University before moving in 1966 to Utah State University to become the department head of the newly organized Plant Science Department in the College of Agriculture. He resigned as department head after four years to spend more time writing, continuing at Utah State for a total of thirty-one years.He has written or cowritten sixteen books, including a basic textbook in plant physiology that went through four editions and was translated into several languages. His research projects have involved the physiology of flowering, plant growth under snow, plant growth in controlled environments (to provide food and oxygen for astronauts), and plant responses to gravity. He led a project that grew wheat in the Russian space station Mir. He spent sabbaticals in Germany, Austria, and Israel (at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem). He also took a leave of absence for a year with the Atomic Energy Commission (now the Department of Energy).Frank retired in 1997, and with his present wife, Mary Thorpe, served in the Ohio Columbus Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The couple then returned to live in Salt Lake City, where Frank has since been working on writing projects. He and his former wife, L. Marilyn Olson, are the parents of seven children.
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