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Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-up
Veteran ufologist Good doesn't mince words in this hefty international expose of hush-hush government involvement in UFO research: not only are UFOs real spacecraft, he asserts, but the USA may even have saucers & aliens secretly on ice. Moreover, he presents a warehouse of documentation--much of it anecdotal--to support his case. As a frontline buttress to Good's claims, England's former Chief of Defense Staff, Lord Hill-Norton, offers a spirited foreword crying "cover-up" on the part of world governments. Good's dossier persuasively backs up this charge with a rundown--beefed up by info obtained via the Freedom of Information Act--on a horde of UFO encounters, government responses, & both open & clandestine state investigations into UFOs. First England, then assorted lands including China & the USSR, then the US come under his scrutiny; altho many of the encounters--e.g., the alleged recovery of alien bodies from crashed craft in Socorro, NM, in 1947 and in Aztec, NM, in 1948--are familiar, the sheer quantity of UFO sightings recounted here astounds. Particularly intriguing is Good's discussion of astronauts' reports--ranging from Mercury astronaut Donald Slayton's statement of spotting something that "looked like a saucer, a disk" while testing a P-51 jet fighter to a credulity-stretching report that has ham-radio buffs picking up Apollo 11 calling Mission Control during the 1969 lunar landing & saying, "I'm telling you there are other spacecraft out there...they're on the moon watching us." More weighty, however, is Good's dogged tracking of the CIA & NSA's monitoring & suppression of UFO research--suppression mirrored in other countries (e.g., in Brazil via a Sao Paulo State directive forbidding media "to divulge UFO reports without the prior censorship of the Brazilian Air Force"). There's no smoking gun here, but enough circumstantial evidence to convince that governments have, & are, withholding important data about UFOs. Good's encyclopedic approach blurs the eyes even as it overwhelms skepticism; not a grand read, then, but certainly a noteworthy contribution to the field.--Kirkus
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First published July 1, 1987
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Timothy Good
32 books78 followersWorldwide research, interviewing key witnesses and discussing the subject with astronauts, military and intelligence specialists, pilots, politicians and scientists, has established Timothy Good as a leading authority on UFOs and the alien presence - the most highly classified subject on Earth.
He became interested in the subject in 1955, when his passion for aviation and space led him to read a book by Major Donald Keyhoe describing UFO sightings by qualified observers such as military and civilian pilots. In 1961, after reading a book by Captain Edward Ruppelt, a U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, he began to conduct his own research. Since then, he has amassed a wealth of evidence, including several thousand declassified intelligence documents.
Timothy Good has lectured at universities, schools, and at many organizations, including the Institute of Medical Laboratory Sciences, the Royal Canadian Military Institute, the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Naval Air Reserve Branch, the House of Lords All-Party UFO Study Group, and the Oxford and Cambridge Union societies. In January 1989, following the dissolution of the Soviet empire, he became the first UFO researcher from the West to be interviewed on Russian television. He was invited for discussions at the Pentagon in 1998, and at the headquarters of the French Air Force in 2002. He has also acted as consultant for several U.S. Congress investigations. He is known to millions through his numerous television appearances and has co-produced several documentaries on the subject.
Timothy Good's first book, Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-up (1987) became an instant bestseller, and is regarded widely as the definitive work on the subject, together with the fully revised and updated book replacing it, Beyond Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Security Threat (1996), which remained for five weeks on the Sunday Times bestseller list. Alien Liaison: The Ultimate Secret (1991) spent thirteen weeks on the same bestseller list. Alien Base: Earth's Encounters with Extraterrestrials (1998) went to No.4 on the Guardian bestseller list. His book, Unearthly Disclosure: Conflicting Interests in the Control of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (2000) was serialized in the Daily Mail. He has also edited a number of books on the subject, including the bestselling Alien Update (1993). Four of these books have a foreword by Admiral of the Fleet The Lord Hill-Norton, former Chief of the Defence Staff and Chairman of the NATO Military Committee. Need to Know: UFOs, the Military and Intelligence (2006/2007) is now published in paperback in the U.K., U.S and Canada. Good’s latest work - EARTH: An Alien Enterprise – is due for publication by Pegasus Books (New York) in November 2013.
He became interested in the subject in 1955, when his passion for aviation and space led him to read a book by Major Donald Keyhoe describing UFO sightings by qualified observers such as military and civilian pilots. In 1961, after reading a book by Captain Edward Ruppelt, a U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, he began to conduct his own research. Since then, he has amassed a wealth of evidence, including several thousand declassified intelligence documents.
Timothy Good has lectured at universities, schools, and at many organizations, including the Institute of Medical Laboratory Sciences, the Royal Canadian Military Institute, the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Naval Air Reserve Branch, the House of Lords All-Party UFO Study Group, and the Oxford and Cambridge Union societies. In January 1989, following the dissolution of the Soviet empire, he became the first UFO researcher from the West to be interviewed on Russian television. He was invited for discussions at the Pentagon in 1998, and at the headquarters of the French Air Force in 2002. He has also acted as consultant for several U.S. Congress investigations. He is known to millions through his numerous television appearances and has co-produced several documentaries on the subject.
Timothy Good's first book, Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-up (1987) became an instant bestseller, and is regarded widely as the definitive work on the subject, together with the fully revised and updated book replacing it, Beyond Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Security Threat (1996), which remained for five weeks on the Sunday Times bestseller list. Alien Liaison: The Ultimate Secret (1991) spent thirteen weeks on the same bestseller list. Alien Base: Earth's Encounters with Extraterrestrials (1998) went to No.4 on the Guardian bestseller list. His book, Unearthly Disclosure: Conflicting Interests in the Control of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (2000) was serialized in the Daily Mail. He has also edited a number of books on the subject, including the bestselling Alien Update (1993). Four of these books have a foreword by Admiral of the Fleet The Lord Hill-Norton, former Chief of the Defence Staff and Chairman of the NATO Military Committee. Need to Know: UFOs, the Military and Intelligence (2006/2007) is now published in paperback in the U.K., U.S and Canada. Good’s latest work - EARTH: An Alien Enterprise – is due for publication by Pegasus Books (New York) in November 2013.
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September 19, 2010
This is a definitive work for anyone interested in the field of Ufology and one massive tome of a book that took me the better part of the summer to read. That is because Good does something in it that few UFO books before had done: provide evidence. Nearly one-third of the book is declassified documentation obtained through FOIA requests and citations to publications and interviews that an industrious researcher may go and check for themselves. Because it is so research-based, the text is rather dry and makes for tedious reading at times. Readers looking for rollicking UFO tales of the kind found in The Weekly World News will no doubt be disappointed and I don't think that is such a bad thing. Good moves from nation to nation, including the US, Canada, Britain and much of Europe, devoting a healthy number of pages to how each government acquires its intelligence and then demonstrates how that has been applied to the UFO phenomenon. Gradually, the case for a cover-up grows stronger as does the sensible rationale to have one in the first place.
This is not to say that Good doesn't include his share of "an anonymous source has told me that..." instances of hearsay. Such things are unavoidable when dealing with the subject of UFOs, otherwise there would be no "conspiracy." Not only that, but Good's stance can hardly be called a neutral one. His drive to conclusively prove a UFO cover-up comes through loud and clear. For instance, Good includes this correspondence he had with former NASA astronaut, Scott Carpenter (p. 381). Carpenter said to Good: "...your continuing implication that I am lying and/or withholding truths from you. Your blindly stubborn belief in Flying Saucers makes interesting talk for a while, but your inability to rationally consider any thought that runs counter to yours makes further discussion of no interest--indeed unpleasant in prospect--to me."
Regardless of his insistent fervor, Good did provide a much-needed publication to the UFO field by virtue of the included documentation alone. Given the book's publication date, it obviously does not include more recent developments or progressive speculations, but I was glad to read in the closing pages that Good entertains the possibility that UFOs come perhaps not from outer space, but other dimensions.
For anyone wanting or needing a baseline knowledge of the modern UFO mythos, this is essential reading.
This is not to say that Good doesn't include his share of "an anonymous source has told me that..." instances of hearsay. Such things are unavoidable when dealing with the subject of UFOs, otherwise there would be no "conspiracy." Not only that, but Good's stance can hardly be called a neutral one. His drive to conclusively prove a UFO cover-up comes through loud and clear. For instance, Good includes this correspondence he had with former NASA astronaut, Scott Carpenter (p. 381). Carpenter said to Good: "...your continuing implication that I am lying and/or withholding truths from you. Your blindly stubborn belief in Flying Saucers makes interesting talk for a while, but your inability to rationally consider any thought that runs counter to yours makes further discussion of no interest--indeed unpleasant in prospect--to me."
Regardless of his insistent fervor, Good did provide a much-needed publication to the UFO field by virtue of the included documentation alone. Given the book's publication date, it obviously does not include more recent developments or progressive speculations, but I was glad to read in the closing pages that Good entertains the possibility that UFOs come perhaps not from outer space, but other dimensions.
For anyone wanting or needing a baseline knowledge of the modern UFO mythos, this is essential reading.
April 14, 2011
One of my best and oldest friends from high school did a stint as an editor for UFO Magazine after he moved from Chicago to San Francisco. Although I'd had an interest in the topic in elementary school, I'd pretty much let it go until he got involved. Then, during annual visits with him here or in California, I'd read from his collection of books on the subject, this being one of those read in San Francisco.
So far as I recall, this book is virtually a country by country listing of UFO events, demonstrating that the phenomenon, and, at the time, its cover-up, was world-wide.
So far as I recall, this book is virtually a country by country listing of UFO events, demonstrating that the phenomenon, and, at the time, its cover-up, was world-wide.
April 22, 2011
This is the book that got me interested in UFOs. I dare anyone to read it and then tell me there's nothing to this. And there's so much more that I've learned since then. Read the book(s), find out for yourself what's been going on for thousands of years.
May 8, 2017
Although dated, this was a fascinating read. Packed with a wide range of documents through the years, from a variety of different, credible sources. I was looking for a book with as much evidence of the existence of extraterrestrials, and this delivered. I dare skeptics to read this and do further research, before jumping to the conclusion that we're the only beings in this universe. I definitely recommend this book to all UFO enthusiasts!
September 1, 2012
Dated but very good book for the UFO buff. Lot's of things that make you go hmmmm.
I believe this is the UFO bible....The Book for those with interest. It has been written a couple decades back but facts don't go away and the questions about them are shrouded in secrecy so they won't disappear.
I believe this is the UFO bible....The Book for those with interest. It has been written a couple decades back but facts don't go away and the questions about them are shrouded in secrecy so they won't disappear.
July 5, 2014
Level-headed overview of publications and documents from about the 1940s to 1980s. Drawing from cases in Flying Saucer Review, and many others, the book presents a worldwide phenomenon geographically (and geo-politically). Instead of dwelling on any one event, the text continually moves on to further examples. That aspect makes it a bit dizzying, and even dry reading, a barrage of facts, reports and summaries, but actually its what lends the most credence to the whole subject of "cover-up." There is just so much data diversely collected here that the final impart to the reader is an overpowering sense of being left in the dark in a world where only special agencies are allowed access to reports of what is happening all over, where future technological possibilities are only afforded to the privileged and in-the-know set.
I can say personally, that this elitist governmental agency control of information specifically pertaining to UFOs is very offensive to me, having come from a family of science fiction illustration dating back before the lid was sealed on public UFO reporting. (i.e. my grandpa was doing flying saucer illustration on magazine covers from the 40s through the entire period covered in this book). It's been made quite clear that while a person could feel free to fantasize about aliens and spaceships via fictional outlets, the same is not true for factual information over the same half-century. The book closes with about fifty pages of reproduced declassified documents and reports from agencies such as the FBI, CIA, Air Force Agencies, & NASA which work well to immerse a reader in the real situation. The situation is a cloistered honeycomb of secrets, where one person in one agency doesn't know what anyone else is doing in other governmental units. The elite few who have access to facts cannot, in my opinion work fast enough in their secrecy to achieve nearly as much as public disclosure would. I think the result is a stagnation. Meanwhile real evidence it simply filed informationally and moved between secret document resources out of the view of everyone else. Bureaucracy with its inherent tunnel-vision has replaced action.
The author is to be lauded for not taking a non-factual approach, to appeal to primitive sympathies of the reader. He has written his piece to let the evidence present the case, with little pressure on the reader to form expected opinions, to "believe." Whether or not the UFO situation is indeed a real one, we are confronted with a picture of agencies manipulating and coveting information which was once public so that not only is it suppressed, but also it becomes distorted and meaningless. That's the cover-up, and that's what this book questions. Well-annotated.
I can say personally, that this elitist governmental agency control of information specifically pertaining to UFOs is very offensive to me, having come from a family of science fiction illustration dating back before the lid was sealed on public UFO reporting. (i.e. my grandpa was doing flying saucer illustration on magazine covers from the 40s through the entire period covered in this book). It's been made quite clear that while a person could feel free to fantasize about aliens and spaceships via fictional outlets, the same is not true for factual information over the same half-century. The book closes with about fifty pages of reproduced declassified documents and reports from agencies such as the FBI, CIA, Air Force Agencies, & NASA which work well to immerse a reader in the real situation. The situation is a cloistered honeycomb of secrets, where one person in one agency doesn't know what anyone else is doing in other governmental units. The elite few who have access to facts cannot, in my opinion work fast enough in their secrecy to achieve nearly as much as public disclosure would. I think the result is a stagnation. Meanwhile real evidence it simply filed informationally and moved between secret document resources out of the view of everyone else. Bureaucracy with its inherent tunnel-vision has replaced action.
The author is to be lauded for not taking a non-factual approach, to appeal to primitive sympathies of the reader. He has written his piece to let the evidence present the case, with little pressure on the reader to form expected opinions, to "believe." Whether or not the UFO situation is indeed a real one, we are confronted with a picture of agencies manipulating and coveting information which was once public so that not only is it suppressed, but also it becomes distorted and meaningless. That's the cover-up, and that's what this book questions. Well-annotated.
February 26, 2017
Timothy Good created a GROUND BRAKING book in a time when books on the subject had not yet reached a level of credibility needed for the subject. He published a book with a massive amount of detailed research backed up with plenty of FACTS. A great reference book. I recommend to the serious reader.
August 23, 2008
Good did his homework and the result is a fascinating look at a wide range of documents over time and from a variety of sources. It could have been dry, but never was for me.
November 30, 2017
I've owned this book since it was released in 1988, and I'm still impressed by it. Timothy Good covers the subject of the worldwide UFO coverup in a scholarly way, with an appendix of reproduced government documents, footnotes and an Index. There are separate chapters on Great Britain, France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Australia, Canada, China, USSR, with the largest section covering the United States.
July 1, 2023
Timothy Good's Above Top Secret is less about the secrets and more about UFO sightings. Good discusses Roswell and argues that the crash was not a balloon and that the real wreckage was shipped to Wright-Patterson AFB and tin foil and sticks were substituted in the photo with Ramsey. Good does not provide any documentation that the switch actually happened. Good reviews some of the more famous sitings such as Sacorro and Falcon Lake. At Sacorro, Lonnie Zamora saw a spacecraft land and witnessed some creatures walking around the sight. This was the case that J. Allen Hynek was convinced that UFO's were real. Another famous case is Falcon Lake up in Canada. Stefan Michalak witnessed a UFO land and at first thought it was an American spacecraft. When the craft lifted off Michalak sufffered radiation burns and went to the hospital. Another ufo siting that caused injuries is the Cash - Landrum case. Betty Cash, Vicky Landrum and her child Colby Landrum saw a flaming UFO appear over the road. Vicky Landrum approached the UFO and watched it leave while 23 military helicopters followed the object. Vicky Landrum became nauseous and she suffered diarrhea and her hair started to fall out. Landrum sued the air force but the case went nowhere.
The book starts off with the international scene. Cook starts with Britian, then Canada, Australia, China and the USSR. Eventually Cook gets to the U. S. and he discusses a lot of the history. Towards the end of the book he delves into the alphabet agencies: the CIA, DIA and the NSA. One of the more fascinating chapters was on NASA. Cook discusses astronaut Gordon Cooper who had a siting on a Gemeni flight. There are rumors that Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin saw a UFO on the moon. Cook argues that the sighting was hushed up and kept from the public. Finally Cook discusses the intriguing statements by astronaut Edgar Mitchell. Mitchell has never seen a UFO but claims that government officials have told him that we are not alone.
The book is somewhat dated since it covers sightings up to the early 1980's. The book is overly long at 600 pages. When Cook discusses the alphabet agencies he gets off topic and writes about sightings. Cook does not fully make the case for secrecy and the writing could have been better in some places. There is nothing new under the sun in this book so I only give it three stars.
The book starts off with the international scene. Cook starts with Britian, then Canada, Australia, China and the USSR. Eventually Cook gets to the U. S. and he discusses a lot of the history. Towards the end of the book he delves into the alphabet agencies: the CIA, DIA and the NSA. One of the more fascinating chapters was on NASA. Cook discusses astronaut Gordon Cooper who had a siting on a Gemeni flight. There are rumors that Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin saw a UFO on the moon. Cook argues that the sighting was hushed up and kept from the public. Finally Cook discusses the intriguing statements by astronaut Edgar Mitchell. Mitchell has never seen a UFO but claims that government officials have told him that we are not alone.
The book is somewhat dated since it covers sightings up to the early 1980's. The book is overly long at 600 pages. When Cook discusses the alphabet agencies he gets off topic and writes about sightings. Cook does not fully make the case for secrecy and the writing could have been better in some places. There is nothing new under the sun in this book so I only give it three stars.
January 8, 2012
For the benefit of classification I’ve set this up in both the “fantasy” and the “non-fiction” sections because, even after reading the entire 584 pages - I’m still not convinced one way or the other about extraterrestrials.
Timothy Good has obviously done a ton of research into the many and varied sightings of UFOS over the past several decades (up to 1988 in this book anyhow) and seems, by his closing accounts, to “believe” that we are being visited by extraterrestrials and the governments of the earth are covering up this truth.
Hmm, I say. As much as I want to believe that I simply can’t. Nothing in my personal experience leads me to conclude that beings from another planet are visiting us or sending intelligent probes to do the same. And, despite this large quantity of “evidence” (which I find suspect and circumstantial at best) presented in “Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover Up” I just find myself not being convinced by it.
So is the book worth reading if you are interested in the UFO phenominum? I would have to say, not really, though many of the accounts are fascinating. If you must know what it is all about I’ll summerize quickly. Tons of reports gathered by Timothy through letters, interviews and Freedom of Information Act released documents. Tons of them. Did I mention tons? Which makes for a pretty dull read let me tell you despite my interest in the subject matter.
At least I didn’t find any “National Enquirer” references in the notes section.
But, tons, does not equate to “truth” in my opinion. If I tell you there are five lights over and over and over and over again, when in fact there are only four lights, chances are that over time through repetition and a sincere conviction on my part - you will come to believe that there are indeed five lights . . .
Yes, using a Science Fiction reference to make my point, but I think it is valid here.
So I let this book stand as “fantasy” and “non-fiction” and leave the believing up to the individual.
My personal opinion of the whole matter - the UFO phenominum is just a part of the program of the Matrix . . .
. . . no, really!
Timothy Good has obviously done a ton of research into the many and varied sightings of UFOS over the past several decades (up to 1988 in this book anyhow) and seems, by his closing accounts, to “believe” that we are being visited by extraterrestrials and the governments of the earth are covering up this truth.
Hmm, I say. As much as I want to believe that I simply can’t. Nothing in my personal experience leads me to conclude that beings from another planet are visiting us or sending intelligent probes to do the same. And, despite this large quantity of “evidence” (which I find suspect and circumstantial at best) presented in “Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover Up” I just find myself not being convinced by it.
So is the book worth reading if you are interested in the UFO phenominum? I would have to say, not really, though many of the accounts are fascinating. If you must know what it is all about I’ll summerize quickly. Tons of reports gathered by Timothy through letters, interviews and Freedom of Information Act released documents. Tons of them. Did I mention tons? Which makes for a pretty dull read let me tell you despite my interest in the subject matter.
At least I didn’t find any “National Enquirer” references in the notes section.
But, tons, does not equate to “truth” in my opinion. If I tell you there are five lights over and over and over and over again, when in fact there are only four lights, chances are that over time through repetition and a sincere conviction on my part - you will come to believe that there are indeed five lights . . .
Yes, using a Science Fiction reference to make my point, but I think it is valid here.
So I let this book stand as “fantasy” and “non-fiction” and leave the believing up to the individual.
My personal opinion of the whole matter - the UFO phenominum is just a part of the program of the Matrix . . .
. . . no, really!
June 12, 2022
Everyone who wants the clear story about the history of this phenomenon in a well-documented and referenced format, along with some possible reasons why they are here, this is the book to read!! It was nothing short of outstanding! It was professionally written, more so than ANY other book I've read about this subject! I have read many books, watched as many documentaries as possible, and continue to watch YouTube channels and other sources, which have daily updates about sightings, yet never have I learned as much as I did by reading this book. Even if you consider yourself pretty well informed on the history, read it...I guarantee it will blow you away with so much documented information that you will come away shaking your entire brain, lol! By the way, this was written in the late 80's I think, and I'm just now learning about so much that Timothy pointed out, it just beggars belief! We have a situation on our hands, worldwide, and we need disclosure NOW, silly little 3rd grade-level Congressional hearings insults the intelligence of every American who considers this an important issue for our country, we must stay on our Congressmen and Senators about this, we must educate them and each other about why this is something that needs to come out...yesterday!!!
November 10, 2023
Rambles on in places and many UFO sighting that have already been well documented. In general we'll written and informative particularly liked country classification.
Worth a read if now slightly outdated.
Worth a read if now slightly outdated.
August 2, 2015
excellent, what is really happening in the world today.
February 3, 2023
You would think that 'top' secret would be the top but nope, it seems that UFOs rated an 'above' top secret. This means, of course, that there is something real that is very serious and potentially dangerous in order to achieve that ranking.
Weather balloons will not take over the world.
The book starts off with unmarked aircraft seen in 1933 then moves on to the Los Angeles Air Raid of World War II where loads of artillery opened fire on something. Explanations ranged from that something being nothing at all on through that something being a UFO.
Also in WWII there were 'Foo Fighters,' odd lights that seemed to follow planes. The decision on what they were? Unexplained.
As things went on Britain used their intelligence service and the CIA became involved in trying to determine if the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena were easily explained or could become a danger to all humans.
The book goes on to UFO landings, discussion in Parliament, film regular people take of UFOs being taken by 'officials,' MI6, abductions, UFOs seen in other countries, planes destroyed, the FBI's involvement, Roswell, MJ12, UFO near misses with passenger planes, Janap 146, Adamski, Zamora, debunking reports, NICAP, APRO, disinformation campaigns, alien bodies, multiple UFO crash recoveries, reasons for secrecy and a host of other things.
In other words, it's a very comprehensive book.
Some things I thought of after reading it. If UFOs are so advanced then why have there been several to many crashes of them? Why don't UFOs use some kind of cloaking device so no one can see them? Why do some UFOs have colored lights on them?
Worse of all, of UFOs are actually piloted by aliens from another planet then when a UFO crashes and bodies are recovered isn't there a major danger of catching some kind of disease from them?
The aliens (if they exist) came (probably) from another planet, a planet that had it's own evolution and it's own microorganisms, ones that carry disease. The aliens probably have vaccines against all of them but humans would have no immunity at all to the diseases.
We've seen in history where diseases can spread wildly like the Black Death, or be used as military weapons as smallpox was used against Native Americans.
Anyhoo, I really liked the depth of the book.
Weather balloons will not take over the world.
The book starts off with unmarked aircraft seen in 1933 then moves on to the Los Angeles Air Raid of World War II where loads of artillery opened fire on something. Explanations ranged from that something being nothing at all on through that something being a UFO.
Also in WWII there were 'Foo Fighters,' odd lights that seemed to follow planes. The decision on what they were? Unexplained.
As things went on Britain used their intelligence service and the CIA became involved in trying to determine if the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena were easily explained or could become a danger to all humans.
The book goes on to UFO landings, discussion in Parliament, film regular people take of UFOs being taken by 'officials,' MI6, abductions, UFOs seen in other countries, planes destroyed, the FBI's involvement, Roswell, MJ12, UFO near misses with passenger planes, Janap 146, Adamski, Zamora, debunking reports, NICAP, APRO, disinformation campaigns, alien bodies, multiple UFO crash recoveries, reasons for secrecy and a host of other things.
In other words, it's a very comprehensive book.
Some things I thought of after reading it. If UFOs are so advanced then why have there been several to many crashes of them? Why don't UFOs use some kind of cloaking device so no one can see them? Why do some UFOs have colored lights on them?
Worse of all, of UFOs are actually piloted by aliens from another planet then when a UFO crashes and bodies are recovered isn't there a major danger of catching some kind of disease from them?
The aliens (if they exist) came (probably) from another planet, a planet that had it's own evolution and it's own microorganisms, ones that carry disease. The aliens probably have vaccines against all of them but humans would have no immunity at all to the diseases.
We've seen in history where diseases can spread wildly like the Black Death, or be used as military weapons as smallpox was used against Native Americans.
Anyhoo, I really liked the depth of the book.
September 14, 2023
Somewhere I read that the information was inaccurate but I don’t believe so. Very interesting book. My father recommended this and had wanted to read it. Many sightings on UFO’s in America and Russia and Japan and the United Kingdom. The most interesting piece was the Duke of York (Prince Phillip)’s statement on UFO’s in Great Brittain. They were definitely sightings and confirmation’s of non human built aircraft flying on Earth.
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October 5, 2020
Not for a person with a casual interest in the subject. More like a definitive UFO historical textbook. Not little green men per se, but documented military detailed sighting of unidentified craft. I found it a bit of a slog, but that’s due to me not being interested enough in the subject matter to get enthralled.
September 21, 2022
Probably Good's most credible, sober, well-substantiated book, at least in terms of trying to support his thesis that major governments take the UFO phenomenon more seriously than they publicly admit. However, his endorsement of the deeply flawed MJ-12 document blows his credibility entirely. Full review: https://fakegeekboy.wordpress.com/202...
July 21, 2022
Truth really can be stranger than fiction. This book is a testimony to this reality, and that historical facts and information told without embellishment can be more compelling than anything Hollywood has to offer.
October 23, 2025
I have read a lot of Roswell incident books.But this has nothing to do with Roswell but events mostly in Europe and the Air force where the govt. is aware of the UfO sightings. I felt this book was drawn to to make a small profit! It's not exciting at all.
December 13, 2017
Well researched and documented overview of the secrecy surrounding the sightings, human interactions, and alleged crashes of all things UFO.
June 29, 2018
A brilliant book . Full of excellent information regarding this enigmatic phenomena. Credible testimony and evidence.
June 13, 2021
A must read if you are enjoy UFO topics. This book has a lot of documents collected over the years.
January 5, 2022
A must read. Period.
November 8, 2022
Review to come
April 7, 2024
Mind blowing
Fascinating insight and investigation of a subject of massive importance to the world. It is time that we Earthlings are given the facts.
Fascinating insight and investigation of a subject of massive importance to the world. It is time that we Earthlings are given the facts.
April 17, 2020
One of the cornerstones of UFO literature. A great place to start for those that are just dipping their toe into the subject. The author released a somewhat updated version of this book some years later, its called 'Beyond Top Secret'. Recommended.
July 22, 2007
Main source of a report on UFOs for English class.
I blew the lid off the whole conspiracy.
"That Rocky sure knows a lot of stuff about UFOs."
"Perhaps too much."
"Maybe we should be his friend, just in case his facts and figures turn out to be true."
"Yes. If an invasion happens, we want him on our side."
"We better hurry...before the other girls get to him first!"
I blew the lid off the whole conspiracy.
"That Rocky sure knows a lot of stuff about UFOs."
"Perhaps too much."
"Maybe we should be his friend, just in case his facts and figures turn out to be true."
"Yes. If an invasion happens, we want him on our side."
"We better hurry...before the other girls get to him first!"
April 20, 2007
I read this when I was in High School. The only thing I can remember is how unconvincing all of those UFO and paranormal books I read were. My rating is how I imagine I would review this book if I read it today.
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