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Summary: Can't tell the players with out a scorecard...
Review: ...This book takes the story only to the mid-'90's, but that's enough to get a glimpse of what Imre Lakatos would call a "degenerating research programme." Mercifully, Philip Corso and the whole MJ-12 mess came later and we are spared a pointless examination in this book. Everyone interested in Roswell owes it to themselves to read this book, it details the evolution of the myth while providing info. on Project MOGUL. My personal gripe is that the author's maintain a pose of agnosticism while I'm sure they are all skeptical of the "myth."
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Summary: Food for thought....
Review: Fascinating expose of the facts re:Roswell, and an interesting look into the genesis of what may have become an "urban legend"....I was a firm believer in all the media hype concerning UFOs - (as searchers, we fervently WISH to believe) - but after delving into this book without preconceived ideas (as much as that is possible), I now have a very different way of collating the "evidence", and a fresh set of questions! Extremely interesting - starts a whole new dialogue with one's self as to what is real versus what we WISH to be real....and the conclusion is left up to us in the long run...
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Summary: Food for thought....
Review: Fascinating expose of the facts re:Roswell, and an interesting look into the genesis of what may have become an "urban legend"....I was a firm believer in all the media hype concerning UFOs - (as searchers, we fervently WISH to believe) - but after delving into this book without preconceived ideas (as much as that is possible), I now have a very different way of collating the "evidence", and a fresh set of questions! Extremely interesting - starts a whole new dialogue with one's self as to what is real versus what we WISH to be real....and the conclusion is left up to us in the long run...
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Summary: The title looks more interesting than the actual book.
Review: this book is very dry to read. On the other hand, it was published by the Smithsonian, so what can you expect. It is suppose to be scientific. It really doesn't have a lot analysis about the actual incident. Instead, The first chapter has lots of analysis about why people want to believe it, and why it persists, etc. I think that it is quite boring. I want to read why they think that it did not happen. I do not need to read the analysis of about this almost religious like phenomena. The second chapter talked about the weather balloon, etc. I think that it is totally irrelevant. I think that the government has explained twice. The first time, it was the weather balloon. The second time, it was something else, which at that time was classified military secret. So if the last time, the government already said that it is not a weather balloon, what is the purpose to tell the readers about the weather balloon experiments at that time. Also this book failed to explain all those rumors about this incident. It tried to discredit all those reports. On the other hand, the other side have listed many credible people's reports. This book did not explain how those people's descriptions can not be ture. At last, it insisted that the government has given the public all the possible documents about this incident. Then how come so many documents that are released to the public have pages after pages of blacked areas. What kind of government secrets that still can't be declassified after almost 50 years? I am neither a believer or non-believer, however, this book did not convince me that Roswell incident did not happen.
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