It Didn't Start With Roswell: 50 Years of Amazing UFO Crashes, Close Encounters and Coverups [Paperback]

Philip Rife (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 19, 2001

ALIEN ABDUCTION OVER A CENTURY AGO?The story was related to a Catholic priest by an elderly man on his deathbed. The man claimed that as a boy he was part of a posse searching for stolen cattle in the mountains south of Tucson, Arizona in 1899, when a huge, silver bowl in the sky flew ahead of the posse. The lawman in charge ordered the group to split up. The witness said a tiny man in silver-colored clothes confronted him with a hollow tube. The boy drew his revolver and fired six shots into the creature. The little man flickered like a candle flame and disappeared. The boy rejoined the posse, and the lawman set off alone to investigate. About an hour later, the silver bowl rose into the air and took off. When the posse rode to the area where theyd seen the UFO ascend, they found the lawmans horse, but no sign of the man himself. An Apache tracker with the group said the depth of the animals hoofprints showed the man had left the horse at a certain point. However, there were no bootprints at the spot indicating hed dismounted and proceeded on foot. The posse searched the area for several days, but found no trace of the missing lawman.

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By the author of AMERICAS LOCH NESS MONSTERS and BIGFOOT ACROSS AMERICA

Product Details

• Paperback: 216 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (February 19, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 059517339X
• ISBN-13: 978-0595173396
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,161,812 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What on earth is this rubbish?, September 6, 2004

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This review is from: It Didn't Start With Roswell: 50 Years of Amazing UFO Crashes, Close Encounters and Coverups (Paperback)

I have read books on history, I have read books on UFOs.

This is neither, because it barely even qualifies as a "book." It is rather a string of sourceless internet posts and sensationalist articles that would should make its author feel quite ashamed. Did he stick this together in a single afternoon?

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars UFO History Doesn't Start Here, April 26, 2002

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This review is from: It Didn't Start With Roswell: 50 Years of Amazing UFO Crashes, Close Encounters and Coverups (Paperback)

The author of the book seems to have started out with a more or less honourable idea: to cram as many UFO-related incidents as possible into the shortest possible space. As a UFO researcher myself I appreciate Rife's effort to deal with material that most researchers don't usually bother with. However, the final product is a book filled with incidents that the author has done nothing to investigate independently, contains various factual errors, and whose bibliography is unacceptably vague. Many of the cases 'discussed' are taken from sources that not even Rife can identify, and when a source is given he very often casually writes "Internet posting" as if this counts as a bibliographical reference.

As a researcher myself I may consult Rife's book from time to time 'just in case', but it does nothing to fill in gaps in the history of UFOs that other researchers such as Jerome Clark and Chris Aubeck are filling with their work.