Is the United States engaged in a massive coverup of Unidentified Flying Objects, as reported in the New York Times? Was Travis Walton, a young man from Arizona featured on an ABC-TV network show, really abducted and held captive for five days aboard a UFO? Are alien craft penetrating the air space over some of this nation's most vital military bases, as reported on the front page of the Washington Post? Or has the public been brainwashed into accepting fantasy as fact because the news media has shirked its responsibility to investigate before publicizing extraordinary claims?
"For much too long, the public has been misled by half-truths, by coverups, and by outright falsehoods . . . It is time to talk sense to the public about Unidentified Flying Objects," writes Philip J. Klass in the Introduction to UFOs: The Public Deceived, Klass, who has been called the "Sherlock Holmes of UFOlogy," has devoted nearly two decades to investigating the most famous, challenging UFO incidents. In this book, Klass examines the popular belief that the U.S. Government is engaged in a "UFO Coverup," using once-secret CIA files that show quite the opposite. Some of the most famous UFO incidents of the past decade are analyzed, including a famous "abduction" incident in which intentional deception was used by a widely read newspaper and a major UFO organization to keep the full facts from the public.
PHILIP J. KLASS was a senior editor for Aviation Week & Space Technology for nearly 35 years and an internationally recognized authority on the subject of UFOs. He is the author of The Real Roswell Crashed Saucer Coverup, Bringing UFOs Down to Earth, and UFOs Explained and is also a founding fellow of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal and chairman of its UFO Subcommittee.
310 pages ISBN 0-87975-201-4