Books like Worlds in collision by Immanuel Velikovsky

Charles Fort’s 1919 nonfiction classic collections of anomalous events—UFO sightings, strange meteorological phenomena, mythical creatures, and mysterious disappearances—establishing the field of anomalistics.

A science‑fiction exploration of humanity’s resilience amid planetary disaster, set in the United States.

Graham Hancock argues that an advanced Ice Age civilization was destroyed in global catastrophes around 12,800–11,600 years ago, and that its survivors—called the Sages, Magicians, and Shining Ones—dispersed worldwide, founding sites like Göbekli Tepe, Baalbek, and Giza.

Sixteen legends of the constellations, including Greek, Babylonian, Egyptian, Sumerian, Bible, American Indian, and more, all told in 16 tales of the heavenly zoo.

The author presents evidence for "the existence of an ancient advanced civilization--not Atlantis--that predates Egyptian, Hittite, and Chinese cultures"--Publisher.

Velikovsky wrote this book as a result of research he made to account for the upheaval of many civilizations around 1400 BC, especially in the middle east. That 20 year research resulted in W in C wherein he claims that the source of upheaval was the near miss between the earth and a comet, captured by our solar system as the planet Venus almost 600 years later. He arrived at these conclusions by creating an hypothesis large enough to account for the observations of the ancients, not their explanations. Part of this hypothesis required planets to be charged bodies, later proven to be true, and that Venus' rotation is opposite that of the earth and other planets in our solar system, also true. The book is meticulously researched with writings from most of the ancient texts around the world. It is a tour de force that disrupted the scientific world in 1950 and that created the Velikovsky Affair as 'scientists' fought his claims. He was eventually vindicated by the Venus satelite fly-by after which he was invited to speak to NASA scientists. Velikovsky was a very rare 'out of the box' thinker!