The UFO landing at Socorro has been wrapped in controversy almost from the moment that police officer Lonnie Zamora watched a craft descend and land. Zamora saw alien beings near the craft and a symbol on its side but was told that he shouldn't mention either. Encounter in the Desert reveals--for the first time--exactly what he saw in that arroyo in 1964 and what an examination of the landing revealed to investigators. Socorro wasn't a stand-alone case. Other sightings, some of them nearly as spectacular as Zamora's, were reported at the time. A study of the Air Force investigation of this case reveals an effort, at first, to learn the truth that mutated into a clever attempt to hide the information from the public. Encounter in the Desert reveals all this and much more, including: The first new, in-depth look at the Zamora UFO landing in more than three decades. Other reports of alien creatures sighted around the country at the same time. An examination of the physical evidence found on the landing site. The revelation that there were other witnesses to the craft and the landing.

Aidan explores the ways in which Nietzsche's warning that 'the desert grows' has been taken up by Heidegger, Derrida and Deleuze in their critiques of modernity, and the desert in literature ranging from T.S Eliot to Don DeLillo; from imperial travel writing to postmodernism; and from the Old Testament to salvagepunk.

Describes an encounter in the desert when the animals came to a caravan campfire and danced with a child because fear was absent.

An Encounter in The Desert This book tells the story of Robert, the main character, who while heading on a business trip from New York to the Arab countries, finds himself submerged in an unforeseen incident that makes him experience various circumstances that were previously unthinkable to him, jolting him into a space between the tangible and intangible. After this, Robert will never be the same. After this unexpected time in the desert, Robert found the unexpected, something that helped him greatly for the rest of his life. Dear reader, you can travel with Robert, and participate in this story from your own perspective, to find the unexpected. Discover it! – It’ll be a fascinating journey.