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 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 large-format, fully illustrated 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. Michael Swords was the primary author of the
United States chapters. The work was coordinated and edited by
Robert Powell. Clas Svahn, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Bill
Chalker, and Robert Powell contributed country chapters. Jan
Aldrich was the primary content consultant, with additional content
consultation and writing coming from Barry Greenwood and Richard
Thieme. Steve Purcell was the primary photo illustration
editor.
From the foreword by Jerome Clark: "While UFOs and Government
revisits an often unhappy history, the reading of it is far from an
unhappy experience. The authors, eloquent, intelligent,
sophisticated, and conscientious, provide us with the first
credible, comprehensive overview of official UFO history in many
years... Most of the current volume deals with U.S. military and
intelligence responses to the UFO phenomenon, but it also features
richly informative chapters that expand the story across the
international arena. If you're looking for an example of a nation
that dealt productively with the UFO reports that came its official
way, you will take heart in the chapter on the French projects...
From here on, every responsible treatment of UFOs and government
will have to cite UFOs and Government prominently among its
sources... this is the real story as accurately as it can be
reconstructed in the second decade of the new century. I expect to
keep my copy close at hand and to return to it often. While it
cannot be said of many books, UFO-themed or otherwise, this is
among the essential ones. Stray from it at your peril."
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