You are holding in your hands a very unusual book, unusual for at least three reasons. Firstly, the topic itself is unusual - unidentified flying objects, if you go beyond the newspaper level of its discussion. Secondly, the author’s approach to the interpretation of UFOs is unusual: while recognizing the existence of a global phenomenon that has been active throughout the history of earthly civilization, the author categorically rejects the popular idea of aliens as a primitive understanding of a much more complex phenomenon. And finally, thirdly, the figure of the author himself is unusual