UFOs and Government A Historical Inquiry |
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| Author:
| Swords, Michael
Powell, Robert |
| Contribution by:
| Clas, Svahn
Vincent-Juan, Ballester Olmos
Greenwood, Barry
Thieme, Richard
Aldrich, Jan
Purcell, Steve
Chalker, Bill |
| ISBN: | 978-1-933665-58-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2012 |
| Publisher: | Anomalist Books
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $40.70 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionGovernments 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 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.