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Governments around the world have had to deal with the UFO phenomenon for a good part of a century. How and why they did so is the subject of UFOs and Government, a history that for the first time tells the story from the perspective of the governments themselves. It's a perspective that reveals a great deal about what we citizens have seen, and puzzled over, from the "outside" for so many years.
The story, which is unmasked by the governments' own documents, explains much that is new, or at least not commonly known, about the seriousness with which the military and intelligence communities approached the UFO problem internally. Those approaches were not taken lightly. In fact, they were considered matters of national security. At the same time, the story reveals how a subject with such apparent depth of experience and interest became treated as if it were a triviality. And it explains why one government, the United States government, deemed it wise, and perhaps even necessary, to treat it so. Though the book focuses primarily on the U. S. government's response to the UFO phenomenon, also included is the treatment of the subject by the governments of Sweden, Australia, France, Spain, and other countries.
This large-format, fully illustrated book is the result of a team effort that called itself "The UFO History Group," a collection of veteran UFO historians and researchers who spent more than four years researching, consulting, writing, and editing to present a work of historical scholarship on government response to the UFO phenomenon. Michael Swords was the primary author of the United States chapters. The work was coordinated and edited by Robert Powell. Clas Svahn, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Bill Chalker, and Robert Powell contributed country chapters. Jan Aldrich was the primary content consultant, with additional content consultation and writing coming from Barry Greenwood and Richard Thieme. Steve Purcell was the primary photo illustration editor.
From the foreword by Jerome Clark: "While UFOs and Government revisits an often unhappy history, the reading of it is far from an unhappy experience. The authors, eloquent, intelligent, sophisticated, and conscientious, provide us with the first credible, comprehensive overview of official UFO history in many years... Most of the current volume deals with U.S. military and intelligence responses to the UFO phenomenon, but it also features richly informative chapters that expand the story across the international arena. If you're looking for an example of a nation that dealt productively with the UFO reports that came its official way, you will take heart in the chapter on the French projects... From here on, every responsible treatment of UFOs and government will have to cite UFOs and Government prominently among its sources... this is the real story as accurately as it can be reconstructed in the second decade of the new century. I expect to keep my copy close at hand and to return to it often. While it cannot be said of many books, UFO-themed or otherwise, this is among the essential ones. Stray from it at your peril."
- Sales Rank: #367663 in Books
- Published on: 2012-07-05
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.02" h x 1.20" w x 8.50" l, 2.99 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 594 pages
About the Author
Robert Powell is an architect and planner. He was Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the National University of Singapore until 2001, and is the author of 29 books including "The Tropical Asian House".
Albert Lim KS is a renowned Singapore architectural photographer whose images have been published extensively in architectural journals including "A+U" (Japan), "Singapore Architect, World Architecture" (UK) and "Monument" (Australia).
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36 of 37 people found the following review helpful.
Exceptional Analytical Work
By Amazon Customer
"UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry" is an exceptional and exciting book. Written by UFO History Group - serious researchers and historians composed of Swords, Powell, Svahn, Olmos, Chalker, Greenwood, Thieme, Aldrich and Purcell - it brings analytical complexity of the UFO phenomena from the World War II up to current days. Their work stands on the shoulder of facts, official documents, and sterling sources. Book is focused towards military and intelligence circles and describes in detail their long-term struggle how to handle the unwanted problem of UFOs. If only phenomena could simply go away and leave them in piece. But it persists, without mercy, over and over again. Historical treatment of the official UFO research within United States is presented with great care and controversies that followed projects Sign, Grudge and Blue Book. Years passed. Different officials within different policies tried to deal with the issue, one way or another.
It was especially interesting to compare official policies with internal notes of Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, former head of project Blue Book that wrote a classic book "The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects." "UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry" brought extended treatment to General Cabell's 1951 meeting, which was mentioned only in passing in Ruppelt's book. Notes from the meeting show that Cabell demanded serious approach regarding UFOs. Ruppelt previously described in his original book that "every word of the two-hour meeting was recorded on a wire recorder. Recording was so hot that it was later destroyed."
It was impressive to follow chapter of the Colorado Project which caused closure of the USAF investigations of the phenomena. Audiotaped lecture from CUFOS archives of Robert Low to the JPL at Caltech from October 1967 shows how strong the subject was polarized between personal opinions and official inertia. This chapter is a great companion piece to previous works of Dr. J. Allen Hynek's "The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry," David. R. Saunders' "UFOs? Yes!: Where the Condon committee went wrong," and Wendy Connors' audio set "Faded Discs." Documents and facts from Sweden, Australia, Spain, France, Belgium, former Soviet Union and Brazil, emphasized the international context of the whole problem.
In Australian chapter, Sea Fury radar-visual incident with UFO from August 31, 1954 was presented. Pilot was instructed by air-traffic control to turn his airplane for identification. That maneuver showed that his aircraft was discernable from two other close targets. Similar radar-visual case, that I am personally aware of, happened at the end of 1970s in former Yugoslavia where a pilot was also instructed to turn his aircraft for identification purposes. At that moment, UFO accelerated towards the aircraft almost causing a collision. Case involved AIRPROX implication to aviation safety so it was interesting for me to compare similarities between both cases.
Book also explains unique situation in France because their official UFO research program, from GEPAN, SEPRA to GEIPAN, is located within French Space Agency CNES where a scientific approach is applied. Although, official UFO program in United States is terminated after the review of Condon's committee, other programs in other countries are still active. It can be argued that due to the lack of the direct experience in the UFO field, countries that are still in the UFO business, will encounter same obstacles and in the end, they will draw same conclusions like Project Blue Book did. On the other hand, France is already 35 years in the UFO field, which is 13 years more than the length of the whole Blue Book's mandate. Official projects and investigations of these complex aerial phenomena are ongoing, and that is the fact.
This book can serve as a perfect briefing document for every government employee, military analyst, non-commissioned officer, officer and researcher which could be, or already is, confronted with this issue. France has GEIPAN; Chile has CEFAA; Uruguay has CRIDOVNI; Argentine has CEFA, etc. If any employee of those projects, or any other serious scholar from any other field, will need a historical broad overview of the UFO phenomena, this book will provide a great service. If this issue will ever become academically recognized in unpredictable future, "UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry" should be an obligatory literature at those colleges. My opinion is that this is the best book about UFO phenomena ever written.
Giuliano Marinkovic
Former Military Intelligence SIGINT operator, Croatian Army
Journalist and Writer
23 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
A Scholarly Review
By Don Berliner, aerospace writer
This is easily one of the top five books about the highly controversial subject of UFOs. Written by a team of scholars, it describes the convoluted story of the the U.S. Government's involvement with unexplained and often unexplainable observations of what appear to have been solid, structured objects having off-the-scale performance. Moreover, it attempts to explain the behavior of government officials caught between the needs of so-called national security and the individual's right to know what is going on. The authors do not hesitate to admit to having insufficient information to deal properly with what appears to most people to be an obvious conclusion. They have not set out to answer the big questions (what are they? where do they come from? what are they doing here?) but state only what they can support with facts. This is truly a breath of fresh air.
20 of 23 people found the following review helpful.
An essential read
By Billy Cox
Don't be intimidated by UFOs and Government's formidable length. This is a justifiably indignant narrative about the contemporary equivalent of Galileo's 17th-century heresy conviction for daring to present the evidence for heliocentric reality. The history of America's hapless response to the great intellectual challenge of our time should offend everyone who subscribes to science as the arbiter for settling competing opinions. In an ideal world, UFOs and Government would provide the foundation for an honest debate on the real and ongoing drama unfolding in our atmosphere. But we will not get there unless and until scholars and historians confront the hard truths about our past. The road ahead starts here.
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