Randle, Kevin D. Conspiracy of Silence. New York: Avon Books, 1998. 368 pages. Foreword by Jack Anderson.

Kevin Randle, a captain in the U.S. Air Force Reserve and a former Air Force intelligence officer, has been writing about UFOs for 25 years. This one offers a history of official investigations of the UFO phenomenon, as well as tantalizing hints of what was really happening behind the scenes. One chapter is about the "Washington Nationals," the UFOs that appeared over Washington DC in 1952. They were tracked by three radar sites, spotted visually by numerous people, and an F-94 was scrambled to intercept. After the report came out of committee, the incident was explained as weather phenomena. Shades of the famous Roswell weather balloon cover story!

This pattern was repeated by most of the official committees that have studied UFOs, whose final reports were scripted before the evidence was even considered. Simultaneously, there was ongoing, secret investigative activity by the government, and teams have been established that specialized in "collection responsibilities" and the "retrieval of space fragments." The two worlds were entirely separate. Amazingly, one UFO researcher, William L. Moore, even admitted to a UFO convention in 1990 that he had been helping the government spread disinformation. (Regrettably, the infighting among UFO researchers has become as time-consuming and debilitating as the infighting among JFK assassination researchers -- and probably for the same reason.)
ISBN 0-380-79918-9

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