title: The Field Guide To UFOs: A Classification Of Various Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Based On Eyewitness Accounts (Field Guides to the Unknown)
author:  Dennis W. Stacy 
description: "Meaty...As either a gift or a personal acquisition, THE FIELD GUIDE TO UFOS delivers good value for its price." -- <i>-- <i>Fate Magazine</i></i>
zlib_text: Wilbur Smith
  
  
  The Sunbird
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For my wife, Danielle
  
  
  It cut across the darkened projection room and exploded silently against the
  screen - and I did not recognize it. I had waited fifteen years for it, and
  when it came I did not recognize it. The image was swirled and vague, and it
  made no sense to me for I had expected a photograph of some small object; a
  skull perhaps, or pottery, or an artifact, a piece of gold work, beads -
  certainly not this surrealistic pattern of grey and white and black.
  
  
  Louren’s voice, tight with excitement, gave me the clue I needed. ‘Taken at
  thirty-six thou at six forty-seven on the fourth of Sept,’ that was eight days
  ago, ‘exposed in a 35 mm Lens.”
  
  
  An aerial photograph then. My eyes and brain adjusted, and almost instantly I
  felt the first tickle of my own excitement begin as Louren went on in the same
  crisp tone.
  
  
  I’ve got a charter company running an aerial survey over all my concession
  areas. The idea is to pick the