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  Part Two of Anomaly: A Scientific Exploration of the UFO Phenomenon asks three “bigger picture” questions: Where Are All the UFOs ? When Are All the UFOs ? And finally: What Does It All Mean?  The main sections of Part II are concerned with ferreting out important correlations, or at least seeing if those that are frequently claimed or discussed in ufology actually pan out. Are UFOs significantly correlated with miliary bases, bodies of water, earthquakes, the time of the year, or the release of UFO- or alien-themed movies? This would give us a sense of the where and the when. What are they and what do they want? This would give us a sense of what it all means. But what’s most valuable in this section, besides the actual analysis itself, is the primer he gives to the reader who mightn’t be familiar with the basics of prob and stat (as we said above). Let us dive in a bit more. There’re all sorts of things we think are associated with one another, and in the UFO community ...

  H ere we review in two parts, in a style that is most certainly not palatable to the stressed-out readership of our day, Anomaly – A Scientific Exploration of the UFO Phenomenon by theoretical particle physicist Daniel Coumbe (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023). Somehow a book published in 2023 has landed in my lap, in 2022. Well, of course there’s no real mystery, for despite what is printed on the first few leaves of the text, the book has appeared in late 2022 (October, I believe). Perhaps the publishers need to start populating their 2023 list… This is one of those books that seem to be both timely, and to have emerged almost from out of nowhere—entering the scene quietly, but impactfully all the same. This is a book that should be standard reading for anyone just coming to the study of the UFO phenomenon, and part of what I want to do here is to explain exactly why that is. But I also want to review some of what’s in this rather short (one might even say terse ) text, to h...