Blum,H. Out There. 1990
Blum, Howard. Out There. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990. 300 pages.
It wasn't that long ago that anyone who claimed to have seen a "flying
saucer" was dismissed as loony or at least unreliable. But with increasing
reports of UFO sightings and related phenomena, this is rapidly changing.
This book shows that government officials -- particularly the U.S. military
and science advisors with security clearances above Top Secret -- have
formed various study groups over the years while denying their ongoing
interest in the phenomenon. However, cracks in the official edifice have
appeared. Since even mass-market U.S. television documentaries are now
taking UFOs seriously, we can expect to hear much more on this in coming
years.
Howard Blum is a former New York Times investigative journalist with a
book on Nazi-hunting and another on U.S. spy John Walker to his credit. He
starts out this book as a skeptic, using his contacts in U.S. intelligence
and plenty of shoe leather to try and get a handle on this UFO thing. One
section deals with the debate over the authenticity of the MJ-12 documents
-- a classified report of the 1948 recovery of a crashed UFO and four bodies.
UFO enthusiasts Bill Moore and Stanton Friedman defend the documents, Phil
Klass tries to debunk them, and even the FBI's counterintelligence team gets
stonewalled by the official secrecy. Blum comes away from this book feeling
that the government has something to hide.
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