UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities [Anglais] [Broché]

Great book, lots of interesting info on the UFO subject regarding former U.S Presidents that I did not know were on the record talking about their own UFO`s experiences. Good point of the "why of our media" attitude of ridicule to everything UFO as resolve of an official CIA advice through the Robertson panel for obvious reasons, also explains WHY NASA denied the requests made by former pres., Carter to officially study UFOs an advice given by Dr Richard Henry(a consultant for APRO)a direct result of the negative effect produced by the Condon Report to influence scientists to this day not to deal with anything UFO. Dr Alexander gives us "Over 40 Good unexplained sightings of UFOs", such as the Royal Air Force Base at Benwaters in December 26-28 in 1980 incident a shocker with so many credible witnesses which were part of the PRP military personal which made them impeccable over top as far as firsthand witnesses go, because of the extensive psychological testing this PRP personal undergo prior to being assigned to sensitive position in nuclear military bases; also shocking was the event that follow the next day all the way across the world in Houston Texas, also in 1980 December 29, Texas sighting by the Cash-Landrum family unbelievable! with irrefutable physical injuries cause by high levels of radiation; not to mention the Phoenix lights with an elected official(plus who is a former Air Force pilot) admitting to have seen them; The Mansfield, Ohio UFO interacting with a HU1-H Huey military helicopter in 1973, seen my many people on the ground; the Eskimo Scouts encounter in 1963 you got to read it; The Gulf Breeze UFOs in 1987; and many more including UFOs involving the soviets, Chinese, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Turkey, Mexico, Germany, etc UFOs incidents such as the Byelokoroviche/Khmelitskiy in the USRR, etc. Also a big plus is Pres., Harry Truman admitting the existence of UFOs on quote" I can assure you the flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth", Pres., Carter and Pres., Reagan testimonies about UFOs, Pres., Clinton curiosity about UFOs, etc.

But John B. Alexander is trying to hard to be an apologist for our leaders and Defense and Intelligent Departments about keeping info a secret, a bit naive on his part to claim they`re no record of ongoing investigations on the matter and that they have no more knowledge than an average Joe.
Let`s take Nuclear Physicist Stanton Friedman for example, and his "Top/Secret/Majic Eyes Only" I totally agree with the Author of this book John B. Alexander Ph.D., regarding "Majestic 12". It never made sense to me that that`s a credible source especially with Bill Moore and Jaime Shandera involvement. The memo from July 1954 from Robert Cutler to President Ike that suppose to validate them look fake, fraudulent and alter, pure disinformation, maybe an organization did exist during the cold war designed to prevent nuclear decapitation of the U.S. as the author of this book states, maybe the Government did composed a small group down the chain of Command and was efor the task of developing a plan to maintain and continue the U.S-leadership. They had the intelligence to take on such a problem and if it include UFOs is not a crazy idea, because it would exposed the U.S areal entrance spots, but it was not their whole purpose to exist. I am with John Alexander on this one.
Although Friedman research on the Roswell Crash in 1947 NM is amazing, finding Mayor Jesse Marcel in 1978 and interviewed him, talking to many witnesses its a marvelous job on Friedman part.
And then came the affirmation from the field's 509th Bomb Group, then came the denial of the Commanding General of the Eighth Air Force, Commander Roger Ramey?. Then the lies about a Weather Balloon, to changed their mind once again later to a "Project Mogul spy Balloon", that no one care to recovered according to Jim Marrs, but inexplicably the Air force did care about the Roswell one in particular. John B. Alexander Ph.D., failed to acknowledged that one.

Also after a requested of the NM Republican Representative Steven Schiff to the GAO of the official records between 1946-1949 of all "administrative and outgoing messages" in Roswell Army Air Field was found out that were all destroyed but 2(we all know them). There is no mention on Project Blue Book files about Roswell, why is that?,the fact that but omission of the Roswell incident in such project, it gives prominence and validation to Roswell. Not to mention why The Air force failed to start an investigation about UFOs with the mother of all UFO incidents "Roswell" in 1947 and instead beginning it in 1952?.
Also more important than anything is the Friedman request under FOIA to the NSA through a Federal Judge GErghard GEssell on files about UFOs(about 160), after CIA suggested the other agencies have them as well. Which BTW was turn down producing an Affidavit that even the Judge needed to get a higher Security clearance to read after which agree with the NSA to no let anyone access to NSA files regarding UFOs because it could compromise national security. After a FOIA request to get that affidavit by Stanton Friedman, unreadable blackout pages were released due to again, national security.

And the Author of this book John B. Alexander Ph.D. naively wants us to believe that they are no secret projects about UFO on hands of our intelligence community, no juice records, specially those about the sightings over our Nuclear military installations that goes directly to "NORAD" such as one in march 5, 1967 over ND and tracked on NORAD radars, where a metallic object/Disc-shape/UFO with bright flashing lights moving above at the Minot AFB in N Dakota was immediately detected, this UFO stopped abruptly and hovered at 500 ft, circled the Minuteman missile site, then ascended vertically and disappeared at tremendous speed, just when NORAD sent F-106s to intercept it, John B. Alexander Ph.D. Nice try!...But in Dr Alexander defense he at-least acknowledged the event that follow 11 days later in a near by state of MT, where First Lieutenant "Robert Salas" of "Oscar Flight Launch Control Center" at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana, in 1967, where 10 Nuclear missiles were disable by a Hovering UFO, during the heat of the Cold War, and was ONLY release under a FOIA direct request that confirms it.
And the list goes on and on as the memo of the UK regarding US and Russian agencies currently involvement officially in UFOs investigation title; "Unidentified Aerial Phenomenal Study" discovered by "Nick Pope"while working on the Ministry of Defence`s in 1993.Also many MoD UFO files has been releases(The memo of Colonel C. Halt/RAF Bentwaters-Rendlesham incident in 1982 for example)and among Americans the list of official documents, Yes goes on and on; The 1947 Twining memo; The 1949 FBI memo-UFOs Top Secret; The 1950 Hanford AEC document; The 1952 CIA-Chadwell memo-; The 1953 Oak ridge memo; The 1954 Maxwell AFB emergency memo; The Pepperell AFB radar visual UFO tracking in 1955; The 1956 Minot AFB UFO landing memo; The 1966 Bollender memo; The 1967 Malmstrom AFB memo; The 1975 NORAD and USAF UFO documents; The 1976 DIA(General Parviz Jafari Iranian/Tehran Jet fighter incident) memo; The state department memo on the 1978 bolivian ufo crash incident; The Halt memo 1981; The 1990 DIA documents on the Belgium UFO wave, etc.
For more info Check on youtube;
"IUFOC 2011: Richard Dolan Takes on John Alexander"
"RICHARD DOLAN at the Project Camelot Awake and Aware Conference, Los Angeles, Sept 2009"
...And...
"UFOs and the National Security State - Richard"

I give 3 stars to this book by John Alexander for his courage to come out from the inside of the USA intelligence and write a book about the taboo UFO subject...And I recommend the following books;

-UFOs; General, Pilots, and Goverment officials Go on the Record
by Leslie Kean

-Flying Saucers and Science: A Scientist Investigates the Mysteries of UFOs: Interstellar Travel, Crashes, and Government Cover-Ups.
-Captured!: The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience.
By Stanton Friedman

Ufos and Nukes
By Robert Hasting

-UFOs and the National Security State Volume One, 1941-1973
and
-The Cover-Up Exposed, 1973-1991 (UFOs and the National Security State, Vol. 2)
By Richard Dolan

Above top Secret.
Alien Agenda.
By Jim Marrs

I will recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand the UFO phenomenon. It will be especially interesting to those who are not inclined to automatically accept conspiracy theories as viable explanations for every puzzling event. History reveals that real conspiracies are indeed hatched in shadowy political and military circles, but if they involve more than a few people, and the secrets are too juicy, they don't remain secret forever. Many historical events that were the most tightly held secrets 25 to 50 years ago are ho-hum today. Are there new secrets yet to be unveiled? Certainly. Is this one of them? This book makes me doubtful.

Given the release of UFO files by many governments in recent years, and the increasing efforts by various organizations to disclose who knew what and when, I think it has become increasingly unlikely that any government or private group knows anything more about this phenomenon than anyone else. Conspiracies may be more comforting to believe in because it means that someone is in charge. But the reality is far more unsettling: No one is in charge. That is one of the key messages of this book -- people at the highest levels of the government know nothing about this phenomenon. There have been cover-ups revealed by FOIA requests, but that information just confirms that some UFO reports are genuine mysteries. They do not suggest the existence of secret cabals that know what is going on. This can be a scary thought to contemplate if you believe that someone, somewhere, ought to be in charge.

So for me Alexander's book significantly reduces the likelihood that there are black projects in cahoots with aliens, but at the same time it significantly increases the underlying mystery. That is, UFOs are a genuine and probably an ancient mystery, and something far stranger than human conspiracies or the ET equivalent of those conspiracies may be at play here. That conclusion is at once unsettling and yet, from a perspective of our species as primates just recently down from the trees, not surprising.

I might add that I know some of the people mentioned in this book, including the author, and the story told here is completely consonant with things I've been told by them in private over the years.

I enjoyed this book and the points Mr Alexander presents seem quite rational and as he'd like to say, common sense. There's a lot of emotion around the UFO subject matter and so (even looking at some of the reviews here) people can jump up and down about all manner of things if they fervently hold onto opposite viewpoints.

I read this book in what I hoped was a calm, open-minded manner and enjoyed particularly the detailed descriptions of how bureaucracies function (or don't function). Mr Alexander certainly had access over time to an amazing array of top people right through the U.S. Government and he was certainly passionate about uncovering whether any of these people had secret knowledge of black projects. It's fair enough for him to say that in all his travels and with all the people he met and talked with, he became convinced no-one appeared to be covering up any great secret(s). That's fair, and that's worth hearing.

The book can be a little pedantic in parts, but that may be Mr Alexander's personality, for instance including a very long letter from the past to the now deceased Mr Corso in the Appendix seems unnecessary (endless nit-picking about Mr Corso's Roswell story), in fact the Appendix itself seemed to be on the whole self-indulgent for no real apparent reason.

Other than that there was a strange amount of grammatical typos in the book, perhaps 10 or so, (which makes me wonder about the stringency of the editing) which I though unusual. A book should have no typos. There are also some contradictions to Mr Alexander's arguments that he presents. For instance when his thoughts line up with someone else's he is at pains to point out the other person's professional credentials and thus alleged credibility, yet others with very impressive credentials as well, but opposing viewpoints, such as the Canadian ex Minister of Defence, he belittles as ridiculous and his credentials aren't factored. Credentials either stand for something or they don't I would think. He also comes to the conclusion that no-one was covering up any secrets whilst later explaining that the military slaps top secret classifications on everything they don't know how to deal with, that there's an avalanche of top secrecy. On a slightly oblique note, he chastises people several times for referring to the Stealth craft as a fighter, when it always was a bomber, yet refers to it as a Stealth fighter himself once.

Mr Alexander doesn't give much time to the concept that he may have been easily lied to or deceived. People lie all the time yet he seems to truly believe and rely on facts like people in the armed forces take an oath so surely they would never deceive or lie because of this oath, which seems an incredibly naive belief. Either that or he idolises people with higher rankings. As someone on a witness stand once said, "Gee I'd hate to be the first person to lie under oath..."

But overall, other than a slightly anal, obsessive-compulsive way of presenting details, (straight-laced military style perhaps), which includes a veritable bombardment of acronyms; some typos and some contradictions, I enjoyed hearing what he had to say and in many respects he paints a very believable version of events. The huge PLUS for this author is the incredible access he has had to so many important people in very high ranking positions, and also Mr Alexander does not come across as a ranting, lying, emotional, lunatic (like so many others), he seems very sane, very rational, presents as scrupulously fair (although debatable in parts when his personnel beliefs are pushed) and very believable. (The straight-laced military style at least adds to the credibility that he is dedicated to telling the truth as he experienced it.)

This is definitely a must read, I would opinion, for those open-minded and interested about UFOs and the U.S. Government. I should have saved all that bombast I wrote in-between and just written that one line!