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

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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?

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.