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First published in 2011 by Viking Penguin,
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Copyright © David Halperin, 2011 All rights reserved
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of
the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons,
living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA
Halperin, David J. (David Joel)
Journal of a UFO investigator : a novel / David Halperin.
p. cm.
eISBN : 978-1-101-47565-2
1. Teenagers—Fiction. 2. Unidentified flying objects—Fiction.
3. Mothers—Death—Fiction. 4. Pennsylvania—History—20th century—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3608.A54925J68 2011
813.6—dc22 2010034999
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