What are UFOs?
Why are they here?
What is the Government not telling us?
Exposed, Uncovered, and Declassified: UFOs & Aliens strives to address all of these questions--and more--by covering new evidence of famous sightings and contact with aliens, and uncovering classified files from world-class collections and archives--all courtesy of the world's leading experts on modern ufology.
Nuclear physicist and world-renowned UFO expert Stanton T. Friedman discusses how close we really are to interstellar travel.
Nick Pope, former member of the British Ministry of Defence, covers the latest UFO documents released by the UK's National Archives, including such fascinating information as: what Churchill knew, why the documents are being released now, what's in them, and what's still being withheld.
Donald Schmitt, the former co-director of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, takes on the aftermath of the Roswell incident, discussing in detail the initial stages of the government's cover-up attempts.
Air Force veteran Thomas J. Carey chronicles the military's attempts to intimidate people into not telling their stories about what they have seen with their own eyes.
The niece of Betty and Barney Hill, Kathleen Marden, gives a short history of cases of alien abduction, many which continue to baffle the American public and UFO investigators alike.
Nick Redfern provides a fresh take on the famous 1953 UFO crash in Kingman, Arizona, and explores its possible connection to a government program to reverse-engineer alien spacecraft.
Publisher of Legendary Times and consulting producer of the History Channel's Ancient Aliens, Giorgio Tsoukalos, recounts the best evidence for ancient astronauts.
Something is out there, and Exposed, Uncovered, and Declassified: UFOs & Aliens will help us find out exactly what--or who--it is.
Preface 7
A Cosmic Watergate: UFO Secrecy Stanton T. Friedman 9
The Real X-Files Nick Pope 27
Doubt Beyond Reason Gordon Chism 47
An Alien Intervention Jim Moroney 59
Alien Abduction: Fact or Fiction? Kathleen Marden 81
Cosmic Peeping Toms: UFOs and Invisibility Micah Hanks 107
The Kingman Affair Nick Redfern 121
Roswell in Perspective: The Human Response to an Extraordinary Event Donald R. Schmitt 137
Star Travel: How Realistic Is It? Stanton T. Friedman 157
The UFO Problem: Toward a Theory of Everything? John White 167
Killing the Roswell Story Thomas J. Carey 189
Identity Crisis: When Is a UFO Not a UFO? Marie D. Jones Larry Flaxman 211
Hybrids: Memories of the Future Erich von Däniken 229
Index 241
About the Contributors 245
Overview
"I am convinced that UFOs exist because I have seen one."
--President Jimmy Carter
What are UFOs?
Why are they here?
What is the Government not telling us?
Exposed, Uncovered, and Declassified: UFOs & Aliens strives to address all of these questions--and more--by covering new evidence of famous sightings and contact with aliens, and uncovering classified files from ...