Above Top Secret: The Worldwide Ufo Cover-Up

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Summary: This book is a superb introduction to UFOlogy
Review: This book is a great introduction to UFOlogy. If someone were only to have one book on the subject, this would be the one to buy. Tim Good's book has an enormous number of incidents, recounted in detail. This is the strength of the book and what makes it so valuable, the sheer comprehensiveness of it. The only weaknesses in this ambitious work are its somewhat obscure system of organization of the data, and the inclusion of material which has since been proven to be false, such as the interview with the purported former USAF fighter pilot who claimed that there was a special unit tasked to intercept and photograph UFOs in the 1950's. While there may have been such a unit, this poor fellow (identified with a pseudonym under his photograph in Good's book) has since confessed (after investigation revealed) that he was never a flight officer in the Air Force and never participated in such an interception unit, as detailed in the most recent edition of UFO Magazine on-line. Good also seems insufficiently skeptical of certain UFO shibboleths, such as the Majestic-12 documents which "just showed up" in L.A. film producer Jaimie Shindera's mail box one day. These and other failures to probe deeply enough into the material mar an otherwise impressive compendium of material. These flaws notwithstanding, this is an entertaining and informative book which I highly recommend to anyone with an interest in this admittedly odd area of human experience.

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Summary: A must-read book for anyone interested in UFO's.
Review: This book is one of the best books I have ever read on the UFO subject. What distinguishes it is the amount of research that went into it. The author does not merely speculate and hypothesize, as do most UFO authors. He gives names, dates, places, written evidence, photographic evidence, etc. This book convinced me that there is, and has been, a UFO cover-up in place since 1947. It is a large book, filled with solidly researched information, and presented in a rational, intelligent manner. I am surprised that this book has not received a ton of favorable reviews from people interested in this subject. Perhaps most people's attention spans are too short to get through it, and instead prefer the tabloid type of UFO book. Along with the author's other book, "Alien Contact," and Jim Marrs' "Alien Agenda," it is one of the best researched and most interesting UFO books I've read. Highly recommended. Buy it and read it thoroughly.

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Summary: A must read in the subject of ufo's and extraterrestrials
Review: Timothy Good is a known reasearcher in the field of UFO's. This book describes many cases and evidence that we have been being visited for a long time. The book is easy to read and the great majority of the cases presented are very detailed, including locations, names etc. Anybody reading this book would be at least puzzled and probably would be pressed to know even more about the subject.

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Summary: Good Compendium of Official Secrecy
Review: Timothy Good's 1988 ABOVE TOP SECRET is not a quick easy read, but it offers an unmatched pile of information for the skeptic. Nearly every researcher who has studied the UFO phenomenon has concluded that they are space craft operated by extraterrestrial biological entities, and Good is no exception.

Good takes a special interest in what governments other than the USA are doing about the problem. He catalogues several instances where a government's rheteric is in conflict with its actions. There is an especially good and lengthy appendix with document after document from the world's governments, proving that despite their denials, they do take UFO sightings seriously.

As a British investigator, Good details the intelligence services of the UK, and how they liason with those of America and also the KGB. Some of the best information lies in the exposure of secret government organizations and how they liason with ech other. You can almost create an org chart to follow the flow of information from the moment a witness makes his frantic phone call to the local authorities.

Some of the individual sighting reports can safely be skipped, but as you get deeper into the report, you begin getting to the real meat of what makes this book valuable. Knock off a star for overlong and somewhat dry, and you are left with a four-star must read for the UFO buff.