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In this exhaustive and provocative polemic, Good (Above Top Secret, Alien Liaison), UFO researcher extraordinaire, endeavors to demonstrate that incontrovertible proof of UFOs is being buried by a global conspiracy of governments, academia and the media. Good catalogues hundreds of sightings of unidentified flying objects from the 1920s through the present and marshals scores of declassified government reports, news stories and eyewitness affidavits to support his often-controversial contentions: not only are aliens here, but the U.S. military has established contact with them; President Eisenhower met with aliens in 1954 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.; President Kennedy viewed alien bodies at an air force medical facility in Florida; President Nixon arranged for comedian Jackie Gleason to view alien bodies in 1973. Good emphasizes a lengthy record of credible witnesses, including military and airline pilots, who have reported unexplained phenomena, but he fails to provide incontrovertible evidence of UFOs, extraterrestrials or a global conspiracy of secrecy. Moreover, he ignores contradictory testimony, exaggerates rumors and circumstantial evidence, and reprises old charges. Nonetheless, UFO enthusiasts will appreciate this comprehensive and spirited UFO defense and the hundreds of supporting documents reproduced within. B&w illus. (Dec.)
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An obsessively researched look at what British sky-watcher Good (Alien Contact, 1993, etc.) deems ample international evidence of UFO visitations since the 1930s, and the repeated official denials that they ever happened."UFOs are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head," declared former Canadian Minister of Defence Paul Hellyer in 2005. Good methodically lays out similar testimony from pilots, military men in air and sea, civilian observers, surgeons who operated on the extraterrestrials, generals and presidents, accompanying their words (some from sworn affidavits) with meticulous footnotes, photos, drawings and copies of documents. During World War II, small, seemingly remote-controlled flying objects dubbed "foo-fighters" created a nuisance for pilots. In the summer of 1946, a rash of sightings of "ghost rockets" across Scandinavia and other parts of Europe alarmed the U.S. military, which blamed them on the Soviets. Good believes UFO incursions were common in 1940s New Mexico, the site of U.S. atomic testing, and avers that the debris found near Roswell in 1947, quickly identified by the military as fragments from a military balloon, was in fact the remains of a flying-saucer crash. He chronicles alien-disc sightings during the Cold War, suggests that Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy were taken to disc-landing sites and maintains that since the 1940s, aliens have been communicating "with an elite group of U.S. military and scientific intelligence personnel [and] there has been a transfer of technology." Reagan's "Star Wars" project was actually motivated by growing concerns about alien hostility, the author adds. The bizarre crash of a cigar-shaped craft near Varginha, Brazil, in January 1996 stranded strange creatures needing medical attention. Good excerpts some chilling material from an interview conducted by a fellow UFOlogist with the Brazilian hospital staff, though it's rather peculiar that several individuals' comments are conflated into quotes collectively attributed to "Medical Personnel."The author certainly knows his stuff, and to his credit is keenly aware of the importance of documentation, however specious some of it may seem to the unconverted. (Kirkus Reviews)
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Public awareness on UFOs,
By Opticmind (Montréal, Québec - Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Need to Know: UFOs, the Military, and Intelligence (Paperback)
(French below)I give five stars to Good's book for two main reasons. First, the efforts to collate such an amount of documented cases and information on parties' interest in the UFO subject is outstanding. I personnaly know how difficult it is to make research on that subject, especially when dealing with officials. As one of the fellow readers who wrote a comment said, there are some redundancies in Need To Know. But this is exactly Good's point. With so much cases officially reported since the Second World War by experienced withnesses, years after years, and exposing the way these reports are treated with high priority by governments, the militaries and intelligence services around the world, it would be difficult for anyone, skeptics and mass medias included, to refuted the existence of UFOs. Second, the implications of this book are of highest importance. The public must be made aware that another reality escapes most of us. Good's book give the scope of what higher branches of power, mostly governments and militaries, know about UFOs and try to hide from public awareness. Although the classic cases are not discussed in this book, it still is a good starting point for people interested in making their own research and is a must read for anyone interested in this subject. Je donne cinq étoiles au livre de Timothy Good pour deux raisons principales. D'abord, les efforts pour colliger une telle quantité de cas documentés et d'information sur l'intérêt que porte les pouvoirs publics sur le sujet des OVNIs est exceptionnel. Je sais par expérience qu'il est difficile de faire de la recherche sur ce sujet, particulièrement en ayant affaire à des fonctionnaires ou «l'autorité». Comme le mentionne un des lecteurs qui a écrit un commentaire, il y à une certaine redondance, sur le fond, dans Need To Know. Mais c'est exactement l'intérêt du livre et c'est ce que Good cherche à nous faire réaliser. Avec autant de rapports d'OVNIs officiellement rapportés depuis la deuxième guerre mondiale par des témoins expérimentés, années après des années, et en exposant la manière dont ces rapports sont traités avec la plus haute priorité par tous les gouvernements, les militaires et les services de renseignements autour du monde, il serait difficile pour n'importe qui, sceptiques et médias de masse inclus, de réfuter l'existence des OVNIs. Deuxièmement, les implications de ce livre sont de la plus haute importance. Le public doit être mis au courant qu'une réalité fondamentale lui échappe. Le livre de Good démontre l'ampleur de ce que la plupart des gouvernements et des militaires savent au sujet des OVNIs et essayent de cacher au public. Bien que les cas classiques de l'ufologie ne soient pas discutées dans ce livre, il reste un bon point de départ pour toutes personnes intéressées à faire sa propre recherche et constitue un «must» pour n'importe qui s'intéresse à ce sujet.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
good but dragged on,
By Mulder (Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Need to Know: UFOs, the Military, and Intelligence (Paperback)
The only other Timothy Good book I have read is Above Top Secret I cant comment if the other ones overlapped/repetition with this one.The vast majority of the book is accounts from pilots and military personnel of Intercepters being sent after UFO's and that an astounding number of these intercepts being destroyed or captured(absorbed)and that afterwards UFO's would destroy civilian airliners and military jets as retaliation. This was interesting for the 1st 200 pages but really really dragged on once your past page 400, the author asserts we are at conflict with these extraterrestials who keep destroying our jets but despite his apparant contacts which provide him inside information inside the military he is unable/doesnt even elaborate on who we are in conflict with. The book is at its best when it isnt discussing these unending cases of UFO's destroying military jets which become mundane after a while...encounters with Mr Janus, Alien bases on earth, the Brazilian Alien which was captured and treated at a hosipital are the most interesting, im unsure if his other books focused more on Alien Contact with the military but I found those parts the most interesting in the book and wished more information regarding that was included in the book. solid 3 stars
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4.3 out of 5 stars (39 customer reviews) 44 of 45 people found the following review helpful
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More Than You Think You Know,
By Edward F. Mazur - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Need to Know: UFOs, the Military, and Intelligence (Paperback)
Probably more books have been written in the past 60 years on the captivating and mysterious phenomena of flying saucers, now referred to as UFOs, than on any other single topic. Their continuing and increasing presence in the skies over planet Earth have led many researchers to undertake closer examinations of the documented reports much of which were closely held by official government agencies and later leaked or declassified..The current release of NEED TO KNOW: UFOs, The Military, and Intelligence, by Timothy Good, is his seventh book on the subject. NEED TO KNOW is particularly noteworthy in that it builds on his previous works while disclosing new information gleaned from government documents, Air Force personnel and credible witnesses. Its 430 pages lead the reader through known sightings and incidents adequately verified, that spans the recorded 60 plus year history of the UFO presence. Compelling scenarios are presented from official files. Some have appeared on the History Channel, the Larry King program and even Nightline. As a long-time researcher into the UFO puzzle and a former State Director in the Mutual UFO Network, an international organization, I have read many very good works on the subject and have also written extensively on various UFO aspects. But in reading NEED TO KNOW, I was immensely impressed with the quality and integrity of the work. Mr. Good does not offer his theories, conclusions or opinions. He lets his documented and recorded findings speak for themselves. And indeed, they do speak loudly and emphatically. The sequential presentation of the many different episodes and sightings form a picture that is difficult to ignore or to challenge. Even the incidents on which very little data exists are presented in a time-line that meshes with known and adequately documented events Mussolini's interest in those early reports of 1941 of strange aerial craft, intercepts of Werner von Braun's V2 rocket tests by UFOs and later, of other missile test launches, the in depth reports on the Washington D.C UFO overflights in 1952, the Northeastern blackout of November 9, 1965 and a month later, the crash of the Kecksberg object in Pennsylvania, disappearances of Air Force planes and pilots, and the incapacitation of an entire missile complex in Montana. These and other incidents are just some of the examples of the detailed coverage of significant unearthly incidents. But it is in the last one hundred pages of the book that many of the diverse events coalesce and begin to form a picture that cannot be dismissed. This is a book that is well worth the time to read. The UFO has changed more than most of us could imagine. Timothy Good presented thought provoking disclosures. The rest is up to you, the reader. It's your world too. You decide. 22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Scared the heck out of me,
By David Kearns "Dave" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Need to Know: UFOs, the Military, and Intelligence (Paperback)
I am just about finished. An incessant read. Earlier reviewers slam him for using old information etc. don't listen to them. This book will absolutely blow your mind.It is interesting that the slammers don't challenge any of the data in the volume, nor the seemingly incredible stories which are well documented with official paperwork. The fact our government continues to remain mum is disheartening evidence that democracy as set down by the founding fathers has been suspended since 1947. When the powers that are created to protect us see fit to continuously lie, covering up a secret that enriches the few, those powers ceased to be esteemed as for the better. The later is my thought on the matter. Mr Good renders no such judgment in his work. He merely lays out all the information. Truly an important work. 7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very informative,
By Salim Mahdi "Salim Mahdi, Magister" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Need to Know: UFOs, the Military, and Intelligence (Paperback)
Very important information on how the military operates in the dark.The author was clear and precise. The evidence of America working with aliens is documented. It is a very essential publication. Read it and learn from it. S. Mahdi, Cairo, Egypt |
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