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Ghosts of the Air: True Stories of Aerial Hauntings | 
 enlarge | Author: Martin Caidin
Publisher: Galde Press, Inc.
Category: Book
Buy New: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 880381
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 1880090104
Dewey Decimal Number: 133.1
EAN: 9781880090107
ASIN: 1880090104
Publication Date: November 1, 1994
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Product Description
Imagine witnessing unexplicable events while piloting a plane thousands of feet in the air. These are real accounts from pilots who have experienced strange phenomena. Landing at an airfield that wasn't there; planes guided by dead pilots; Bermuda Triangle accounts; sightings of aircraft from the past; airfields haunted by airmen killed in action; ghost warning prevents plane crash; more.
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 Possibly the most extraordinary book you will ever read ! September 13, 2008
I first read this book and discovered Martin Caidin many years ago. It is about unexplained events that happened on US military aircraft during WW2. Every event in this book is completely researched and verified with some of the participants. You literally will not be able to put this book down until you finish it. How's this for starters:one day a shot up B17 bomber arrived back at base and made a normal landing. When officers inspected the crew inside, it was discovered they had all been dead for hours.
Martin Caidin before his passing logged thousands of hours in all types of WW2 aircraft. I had lost this book years ago and bought another one from Amazon. In re-reading these stories I feel just as many chills up my spine now as I did years ago.
This is a one-of-a-kind read for pilots and non-pilots alike. This is one book you will NEVER forget.
Mr. Caidin wrote many fine books. He was a pilot's pilot and and one heck of an author.
 ghosts of the air August 23, 2008
This is an interesting book about ghosts and other inexplicable experiences in flight. Some of the stories are pretty bizarre; others follow the standard lines of ghost sightings. Most of the stories are out of World War II. What I found most intriguing was a story out of Spence Field, Moltrie, Georgia - my father was stationed at Spence Field during World War II. I wonder, were my father still alive, if he would remember the incident!
 If ever an author needed a Ghost Writer... November 30, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is, frankly, a great big mess. Flying afficianado he may be, but a non-fiction writer Martin Caidin is not. The stories in this book seem to be arranged in no specific order or sequence - it jumps around from one topic to another with very little holding them together. Likewise, there is really only enough material to fill perhaps 100 pages, but enough waffle and conversation to drag it on so that it is a real chore to get through. With adequate pruning and ordering, this would be a far better book.
My biggest quibble with the book is the author himself. If you're writing on this topic, you really need to be objective in order to convince your audience. What you do NOT need to do is belittle every person who disagrees with you and write page after page calling people 'idiots', 'twits', 'deadbrains' and the like. Every so often there appears, randomly, a section where he writes how someone questioned him once, so he (yet again) repeats his resume as if he is the most insecure writer on the planet and convinced 'they're all out to get me!' I found myself thinking time and time again, 'Just shut up about how wonderful you are and get on with it!'
Furthermore, despite his statement early on that he demanded all contributors submit their names so they could 'stand up and be counted', an awful lot of these stories are about 'a pilot' or 'a grandfather' or 'a watchman' with no names, dates or specific locations. What's worse is that some of the more interesting stories are glossed over in about half a page, while some of the most banal stories which feature our intrepid airman himself drag on for ten or more pages, until you're left going, 'Okay! I get it! You're an experienced pilot and you're paranoid we're not going to believe you! But could you PLEASE spend more time on the interesting stories and not on inflating your precarious ego?'
There are some fascinating stories in here, but you have to put up with an awful lot of conversational, subjective and opinionated writing, and feel constantly like you're not allowed to come to your own conclusions. Martin - kudos on tackling a difficult subject, but next time, please place your ego into the overhead compartment and let the material speak for itself!
great read! October 27, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you like airplanes and/or "X Files" type stories, you will love this book. I don't even care if he made it all up, this book is great. Now Mr. Caidin is presumeably a ghost himself, maybe he will give some wayward pilot something to write about :)
I could think of worse people to haunt my airplane.
A great book to read late at night... March 28, 2004
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Excellent book dealing with aerial hauntings, phantom aircraft, and unusual sightings made by pilots. Very entertaining (the one "ringer" story reported in the previous review notwithstanding). Very disappointed to hear the follow up was never completed. If you enjoy true stories of unusual events, with a emphasis on aircraft and the pilots who flew them, this is the book for you.
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