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UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record Review

I haven't read a book about UFOs since my college days, but when Michio Kaku recommends something, I take notice. The list of people who have written favorable reviews for this book prompted me to read it, and I'm very glad that I have. The author's basic premise is that there appear to be physical objects in our collective airspace that perform in ways that challenge our understanding of some very basic principles of present-day science. After a brief introduction she wisely turns the floor over to some apparently sane and rational people who occupy positions of some importance in the military and scientific circles, including former Gov. Symington of Arizona, each of whom has had some experience with airbourne anomalies that appear to be physical objects which interfere with both commercial and military aviation on occasion. The author calls for an objective, scientific, coordinated examination of these cases. She has no use for the term UFO, which has been co-opted by the abduction, cattle mutilation, and Face-on-Mars folks, ands asks that we simply return to the question of what it is that we have been seeing in our skies for this past half century or more. She recommends a concerted effort to explore the inner space of our atmosphere in as open a way as we have the outer space of our solar system. This book made me think seriously about this topic for the first time in years, and opened my eyes to my own blind prejudice. A thoughtful and intelligent book written by some interesting people.

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UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record Overview

An Air Force major is ordered to approach a brilliant UFO in his Phantom jet over Tehran. He repeatedly attempts to engage and fire on unusual objects heading right toward his aircraft, but his missile control is locked and disabled. Witnessed from the ground, this dogfight becomes the subject of a secret report by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency.

In Belgium, an Air Force colonel investigates a series of widespread sightings of unidentified triangular objects, and he sends F-16s to attempt a closer look. Many hundreds of eyewitnesses, including on-duty police officers, file reports, and a spectacular photograph of an unidentifiable craft is retrieved and analyzed.

Here at home, a retired chief of the FAA’s Accidents and Investigations Division reveals the agency’s response to a thirty-minute encounter between an aircraft and a gigantic UFO over Alaska, which occurred during his watch and is documented on radar.

Now all three of these distinguished men have written breathtaking, firsthand accounts about these extraordinary incidents. They are joined by Air Force generals and a host of high-level sources—including Fife Symington III, former governor of Arizona, and Nick Pope, former head of the British Defence Ministry’s UFO Investigative Unit—who have agreed to write their own detailed, personal stories about UFO encounters and investigations for the first time.

They are coming forward now because of Leslie Kean, an investigative reporter who has spent the last ten years studying the still unexplained UFO phenomenon. Kean reviewed hundreds of government documents, aviation reports, radar data, and case studies with corroborating physical evidence. She carefully examined scientifically analyzed photographs and interviewed dozens of high-level officials and aviation witnesses from around the world. With the support of former White House chief of staff John Podesta, Kean draws on her research to separate fact from fiction and to lift the veil on decades of U.S. government misinformation. Throughout, she presents irrefutable evidence that unknown flying objects—metallic, luminous, and seemingly able to maneuver in ways that defy the laws of physics—actually exist.

No one yet knows what these objects are, even though they affect aviation safety and possibly national security. The phenomenon has been officially acknowledged by numerous foreign governments. For these reasons and many others, Kean concludes that the UFO problem must be more widely recognized and ultimately solved through an unbiased scientific investigation. The material presented throughout this landmark book is sobering, unflinching, and undeniably awe-inspiring, and moves us toward a goal of properly addressing this worldwide mystery.

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Customer Reviews

Compelling - Julie Clayton - Portland, OR
As the title implies, this book is an investigative inquiry into noteworthy, recorded UFO sightings, the essays often penned by those who were direct witnesses. These personal accounts, along with the author's own research and documentation of statements--many from retired military personnel--are eye-opening and invite careful re-consideration of the party line that UFO'S are not real. The author has spent ten years examining this still unexplained mystery, and with the help of a former White House Chief of Staff has managed to separate fact from fiction, shaking loose the ethos of misinformation touted by the US government.

The author is an investigative journalist with a passion for truth, not a fanatic for either camp, and this is clearly evidenced by her lucid and logical presentation of "irrefutable evidence." Any position she holds on the UFO phenomenon is simply one of pushing against the wall of resistance and cynicism coveted by so many scientists, journalists, or academics. Her point is not that they should believe--or not believe--in UFOs, simply that "An extraordinary phenomenon demands an extraordinary investigation."

UFOs is a compelling and important contribution to the investigation of ufology--and the evidence presented is fascinating.

The most shocking book I have ever read - Marrena Lindberg - West Roxbury, MA United States
I read this book yesterday. I am in the target demographic--like most Americans, of course I thought UFO's were strictly in the realm of science fiction. This book has upended everything I thought I knew about the real world. The research is impeccable, the witnesses are more than trustworthy--this book is shocking and will completely change the perspective of anyone who reads it, except for those who already are true believers.

With my own scientific background I am intensely curious to learn more about the bloodwork done on the Peruvian fighter pilot. But even without knowing more, this book has utterly changed me.

I sincerely hope this book becomes a bestseller, because the public, particularly the American public, has a right to know these facts.

Stanton Friedman Has Been Abducted!!!! Help!!! - Richard Masloski - New Windsor, New York USA
No Stanton Friendman, John Mack, Betty and Barney Hill, Captain Mantel, Budd Hopkins, Richard Hoagland, Linda Moulton-Howe, crop circles, NASA orbital footage, a sentence on Roswell, nothing of UFOs coming out of bodies of water....I could go on and on. It is as if Leslie Kean had a great big bowl of clam chowder put before her and just dug out the clams and threw the chowder out with the possible pilots of these extraordinary craft. While her focus and intent was obviously to remain narrow, is she not doing what she (rightly) accuses our government and media of doing - and that is turning a winking, blind eye to everything that makes up the potentially total picture? There are more things in heaven and earth than are in this book...but maybe she is planning a sequel. Who knows?

But it is a good book for anyone who continues to be a flat-earther. Though the stories are known by those in the know, if a reader doesn't know much about geometry or what a slide rule is for (to quote the song) then this is a good place to begin to have ones eyes opened to the obvious reality of the UFO phenomena.

Gordon Cooper wrote, in his memoirs, of having UFOs tail his plane in World War Two and later talking to two fellows he knew well who had seen a film of a landed UFO and its occupants. Edgar Mitchell has gone on the record saying he knows more than we think he does. Astronaut and cosmonaut accounts are mentioned in the book, but I couldn't find any in the text. They could have helped. The photo section is sparse. After all these years, the McMinville pic of 1950 and the Trindade Island shots of 1958 are just about the best there is by way of photographic proof? Yes, there is one taken during the Belgium wave and one from the Hudson Valley wave: but thousands of people allegedly saw these objects. There must be much more photographic evidence that could have been presented. I didn't really have to see another picture of Nick Pope or Dr. Hynek and all the other big wigs. And ex-Governor Fife Symington's "movement towards change' left me unconvinced. Now that he is out of the political game, it seems to me he just wants to jump on board the lucrative UFO wagon with his suddenly true story of the Phoenix lights and tell us all that he saw them too!!!! Even though his press conference with the masked "alien" in handcuffs was possibly the most humiliating thing I have ever seen in dealing with the issue of UFOs. I just don't buy his turn-around...just like I never believed General Corso's account of his experiences with the Roswell case. But...who knows?

One reviewer rightly pointed out that much of the book is a diatribe and a plea for the government to coordinate a true-blue UFO study group and come clean with all it knows - but this portion of the book became very redundant and repetitive. I yawned in reading these psychological explanations for why people turned blind eyes and had my own opened when reading the actual accounts. There is the meat of the book - or clams, if you will. However, the laughter on the 2006 O'Hare Airport transcripts between the supervisor Sue and air traffic control didn't register too well with me. Nervous laughter? Or a hoax in the making? Who knows. Travis Walton had his "abduction" a week or so after a TV movie about Betty and Barney Hill aired. Who knows?

I saw the Hudson Valley UFO so am convinced that there is much more than meets the eye behind the heavenly veil....and so, as Scotty the newsman urges at the end of the fabulous fifties film "The Thing from Another World" - "Keep watching, keep watching the skies!"

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