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

    By Leslie Kean

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    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Impeccably researched, this riveting journalistic investigation separates fact from fiction, and documents the unexplained mysteries of—and government reactions to—actual UFOs. 

    “A treasure trove of insightful and eye-opening information.”—Michio Kaku, PH.D., bestselling author of Physics of the Future

    Leslie Kean, a veteran investigative reporter who has spent the past ten years studying the still-unexplained UFO phenomenon, reviewed hundreds of government documents, aviation reports, radar data, and case studies with corroborating physical evidence. She interviewed dozens of high-level officials and aviation witnesses from around the world. Among them, five 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—have written their own breathtaking, firsthand accounts about UFO encounters and investigations exclusively for this book.

    With the support of former White House chief of staff John Podesta, Kean lifts the veil on decades of U.S. government misinformation about this mysterious phenomenon and presents irrefutable evidence that unknown flying objects—metallic, luminous, and seemingly able to maneuver in ways that defy the laws of physics—actually exist. 

    With a Foreword by John Podesta

    “The most important book on the phenomenon in a generation.”—Journal of Scientific Exploration

    “Written with penetrating depth and insight, the revelations in this book constitute a watershed event in lifting the taboo against rational discourse about this controversial subject.”—Harold E. Puthoff, PH.D., Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin

    “Kean presents the most accurate, most credible reports on UFOs you will ever find. She may not have the final smoking gun, but I smell the gunpowder.”—Miles O’Brien, science correspondent for PBS’s NewsHour
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateAug 10, 2010
    ISBN9780307716859
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    • 3/5
      The author thinks there are UFO sightings that can't be explained and we should seriously research the possibilities of extraterrestrial origins.
    • 3/5
      I was impressed with this book overall. Kean had me thinking, again, about the possibility not of abductions, but of the chance that there are things in the sky we cannot identify nor understand. She's done her homework and the guest writers and sources she quotes are impressive.
      The only reasons I give the book a three rating is that the writing was not always engaging. But for content, I give her a five star.
    • 5/5
      I have read a lot of UFO literature. This is one of the best books on the subject that I have read. Highly recommended.
    • 1/5
      Making the end of the world boringMar. 7th, 2011 | 04:21 pmLeslie Kean's NYT bestseller on UFOs is an infuriating read.The complete title is:UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the RecordRight away you begin to see part of the problem. The only people that count in her universe are Important People, like generals, pilots, and government officials. Anyone without the proper credentials is clearly beneath notice.It follows, of course, that since Leslie is one of those Important People, being an investigative journalist and all, that the whole subject of UFOs only became really important when she began to pay attention. Don't look for any history of the phenomenon that extends very far into the past when she wasn't paying attention. For the same reason, don't expect her to mention previous books or important researchers.And don't look for any information on the stickier and more baffling aspects -- alien abductions, or crashed UFOs, for example. That would only get in the way of her Important Message: some Important People are interested in the phenomenon right now.Her book is very superficial -- and ultimately boring. Which is pretty hard to do when writing about a subject of such enormous importance and fascinating drama.Since UFOs exist and they reflect contact with another reality, they are the most significant event in human history. Leslie makes the phenomon as boring as a NATO budget meeting.There have been many far better explorations of the subject that have never attracted 1/1000 of the attention that this New York Times bestseller received.I suppose that the success of this book could be considered a good sign. Maybe knowing that Some Important People are admitting that we should be paying attention, maybe we actually will.But don't count on it.
    • 4/5
      A book that is highly likely to alter the way that you think about UFOs. What makes this book stand out above other resources that address UFO sightings is that in this case the collection of reported visual sightings comes from highly respected and qualified pilots and government officials, with most if not all involving multiple witnesses and many accompanied by recorded impacts including electromagnetic readings, radar tracking, photographs, and plant cellular degradation. You will not be alone if you feel frustrated at never having heard about most of these events, despite the information being publicly available. Beware that the writing is basic and many arguments are restated throughout the book. The meat of the book comes with the stories as told directly by the individuals involved in the encounter.I suspect that the majority of people that will not like this book are existing UFO enthusiasts, to whom the material here will be rather tame and already known. I, however, was previously a skeptic (cliche as that line is for such a review) and could have only been "converted" with such a conservative yet highly interesting look into the UFO phenomena as is contained in this book.One key point made throughout the book is that most reporters are not convinced that the UFOs are extraterrestrial just because they cannot currently be explained by what humans know. On the other hand, most people are also quick to point out that the UFOs perform acts that do not obey the laws of inertia and gravity as we currently understand them, so, at least, they are not man made.Now that I am a converted skeptic I'm just going to keep on sliding past stable pupil into the realm of crazy UFO enthusiast and state that I believe that UFOs are in fact not extraterrestrial, but that they are instead from a society of highly enlightened beings that populate the earth in the (future) year 10500 AD and time travel back to study humans. However, they do not want humans to know that they are from the future for fear that humans will attempt to change the course of history and not annihilate themselves in the year of Quaigon circa 2078 AD, thus making it so the race of enlightened beings cannot develop from the ashes of the nuclear holocaust of that very same year. Now I must fashion my tinfoil skullcap so that I may telewarp down the block and buy a couple of donuts.