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Summary: The most comprehensive study of the Worldwide UFO Coverup
Review: All of those who entertain the concept of a world wide UFO cover-up really owe something to Timothy Good. In this one of a kind book Good goes through files from the United States, Canada, all over Europe and the very contreversial MJ-12 documents to show that governments all around the world are secretly investigating unidentified flying objects and hiding the truth. Good's conclusions are based more on research as opposed to speculation unlike many other UFO books. Great for an introduction to UFOlogy as well as for the experienced UFO buff looking for something grounded in fact.
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Summary: Has to be the best book on UFOs there is.
Review: All of those who entertain the concept of a world wide UFO cover-up really owe something to Timothy Good. In this one of a kind book Good goes through files from the United States, Canada, all over Europe and the very contreversial MJ-12 documents to show that governments all around the world are secretly investigating unidentified flying objects and hiding the truth. Good's conclusions are based more on research as opposed to speculation unlike many other UFO books. Great for an introduction to UFOlogy as well as for the experienced UFO buff looking for something grounded in fact.
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Summary: A Mixed Bag- No Smoking Guns Here
Review: Good delivers up some tempting morsels in a book that attempts to cover the government angle of the UFO controversy. The American Defense Intelligence Agency chapter is excellent, and so is the CIA and Iron Curtain countries coverage.Unfortunately, some of the other stuff seems composed of hearsay and wishful thinking: the NASA/Apollo sections in particular seem to be more suited to a made for TV movie than a serious discussion of government secrecy or disinformation activities. The Majestic 12 papers (the Rosewell "crash")in the appendix were pretty much proven to be fraudulent (traced to an Air Force intelligence operatrive's typewriter) even at the time this book was published. While I would recommend this book to the reader, I also recommend taking the contents with a grain of salt.
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Summary: Great work
Review: I have to applaud this book in that it goes into some great detail concerning Area 51, S-4, Groom Lake, that not many books have successfully covered. With the Lazar story and his employment at the facility, along with the details that go along with it, this book seemingly implicates and points a figurative finger of judgment at the workings of the government and at a cover up that is almost unneccessary based on the unbelievability of the subject at hand. It is almost comical to discover that the government is attempting to reverse engineer something that is impossible to fathom--the makings of the spirit realm. From Roswell to now, it is quite obvious that the world is slowly being set up for failure with its focus on the new age and its dismissive nature of the truth. Mr. Good writes simply but lays out the basics of this strange phenomenon and how it relates to the modern world; to his credit he does not step beyond the literary bounds of his research and compilation of facts.
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Summary: Great work
Review: I have to applaud this book in that it goes into some great detail concerning Area 51, S-4, Groom Lake, that not many books have successfully covered. With the Lazar story and his employment at the facility, along with the details that go along with it, this book seemingly implicates and points a figurative finger of judgment at the workings of the government and at a cover up that is almost unneccessary based on the unbelievability of the subject at hand. It is almost comical to discover that the government is attempting to reverse engineer something that is impossible to fathom--the makings of the spirit realm. From Roswell to now, it is quite obvious that the world is slowly being set up for failure with its focus on the new age and its dismissive nature of the truth. Mr. Good writes simply but lays out the basics of this strange phenomenon and how it relates to the modern world; to his credit he does not step beyond the literary bounds of his research and compilation of facts.
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Summary: One of the best on this subject
Review: I would recommend this book to anyone interested in the subject of UFOs and particularly for open-minded people who are undecided about it. It's great strength is it's comprehensive review of reports from all over the world (too often these type of books only deal with US or local incidents).It easily refutes 3 scepticisms about the UFO phenomena:
1.That only crazies are eyewitnesses.
2.That military/intelligence forces around the world have investigated the phenomenon and found that there is nothing to it.
3.That governments are not hiding anything.
Good tries to keep his feet on the ground (which is very diifficult in the UFO community!). Some of his content may well turn out to be inaccurate (eg.the MJ12 documents are most likely faked)
but he is willing to concede doubts where they legitimately exist.
The interviews with government and military officials/pilots etc are most interesting. For Australian readers there is a full transcript of the 1978 Valentich-air traffic control conversation just before his tragic disappearence.
After reading this book, the open minded reader should be convinced that something very strange indeed is happening in our skies, but Good is not presumptuous enough to pretend that he has the answers.
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Summary: Allegation by innuendo
Review: In this fat book, British UFO investigator Timothy Good tries to persuade us that governments are withholding evidence proving that UFO's are real. Like many others who have made this claim, he relies on a mixture of documents, media reports, interviews, and hearsay to support his case. He focuses heavily on Great Britain and the United States, with special attention to military and intelligence agencies.
While Good does cover a lot of material, people who have read into this field will have seen many of these reports and allegations before. Only those predisposed to accept Good's thesis will find the book persuasive. He often uses unconvincing phrases such as "I have been informed that," "I feel certain that," and "it must have become obvious that." Some of his sources "claim" that certain facts are true. Good dismisses denials by sources as credible as Neil Armstrong. Though Good says at the beginning of his book that a bona fide UFO does not necessarily imply an extraterrestrial spacecraft, he comes down firmly in favor of the alien visit hypothesis at the end because "it is the only one that explains most of the facts." Arguing that we are under surveillance, he writes that "we are being visited by several different groups of extraterrestrials." Good believes that aliens have made selective contacts with hundreds of individuals. Accepting the idea that the aliens are similar to us physiologically, he theorizes that some of them have had a hand in our evolution. None of these statements are clearly supported by evidence available to the rest of us. The only useful feature of this book is the one hundred plus page appendix, which reproduces large numbers of documents with various degrees of relevance to the UFO issue. We have had no objective, scholarly, book-length study of the UFO phenomenon since 1975, when historian David Michael Jacobs published The UFO Controversy in America. Will some scholar please fill this gap?
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Summary: Allegation by innuendo
Review: In this fat book, British UFO investigator Timothy Good tries to persuade us that governments are withholding evidence proving that UFO's are real. Like many others who have made this claim, he relies on a mixture of documents, media reports, interviews, and hearsay to support his case. He focuses heavily on Great Britain and the United States, with special attention to military and intelligence agencies. While Good does cover a lot of material, people who have read into this field will have seen many of these reports and allegations before. Only those predisposed to accept Good's thesis will find the book persuasive. He often uses unconvincing phrases such as "I have been informed that," "I feel certain that," and "it must have become obvious that." Some of his sources "claim" that certain facts are true. Good dismisses denials by sources as credible as Neil Armstrong. Though Good says at the beginning of his book that a bona fide UFO does not necessarily imply an extraterrestrial spacecraft, he comes down firmly in favor of the alien visit hypothesis at the end because "it is the only one that explains most of the facts." Arguing that we are under surveillance, he writes that "we are being visited by several different groups of extraterrestrials." Good believes that aliens have made selective contacts with hundreds of individuals. Accepting the idea that the aliens are similar to us physiologically, he theorizes that some of them have had a hand in our evolution. None of these statements are clearly supported by evidence available to the rest of us. The only useful feature of this book is the one hundred plus page appendix, which reproduces large numbers of documents with various degrees of relevance to the UFO issue. We have had no objective, scholarly, book-length study of the UFO phenomenon since 1975, when historian David Michael Jacobs published The UFO Controversy in America. Will some scholar please fill this gap?
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Summary: Encyclopedic, centered in pro-UFO belief
Review: No one would ever characterize Timothy Good as being overly skeptical. In terms of research and analysis this is a liability. But in terms of writing a fascinating page-turner, it's an advantage. ABOVE TOP SECRET is a good, solid read -- never boring, constantly surprising, often amazing. It's an encyclopedia of incredible stories. So power down your critical faculties and just enjoy.
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Summary: too descriptive
Review: This book has lots and lots of sightings, descriptions, etc. I am intrigued with this subject, however, I don't feel that it tells me any further other than those many encounters. I want to be informed further not just to read one after another sightings that no one is yet for sure. The most interesting story among all is the disappearance of an Australian pilot.
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