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Man-Made UFOs, 1944-1994: Fifty Years of Suppression

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Thing is, the UFO story is one where one has to dedicate a lot of time before he could even come close to any informed view about it.
What is really flying out there, and more importantly, is there anything weird or "non-earthly" flying out there at all??
That's what this book tackles. Flying craft having the appearance of the now cult "flying disc" were on the drawing boards since the 30s actually. This is fact, proven by several documents that the Nazis left behind. Whether these craft actually ever flew or were tested reamins a question, but there is enough evidence to suggest that not only they did fly, but that such craft were actually tested all through the 50s the 60s and the 70s.
It's quite plausible that "flying disc§ shaped craft are today's most precious military secret.
From there on it gets foggy. Why are they still a secret? That question begs an answer, an answer that for the time being ahs not been adequately answered.
But for anyone interested in the topic, this is essential reading. It's a very well "constructed" book, it provides actual data (photos, diagrams, dates, names, documents)..And it attempts (to a very satisfactory degree) to sift through the myth and the truth. You cant call yourself a serious researcher in the UFO lore without having read this.

Packed with illustrations, this is the best book on the unusual subject that many UFOs are part of a top-secret project that began during WWII. Vesco was an Italian aircraft engineer who knew what he was talking about. He claims that Foo Fighters were developed in Germany, as were "discoid" craft. These German scientists then were moved to New Mexico where they created the secret space program. This book will amaze the reader with many references and the history of Project Paperclip scientists and the genisis of "flying saucers" made on Earth by humans. I love this book!

This title is an update of a book originally published in 1971 that was a real eye - opener for me. This updated version has all of the excitement of the first book plus new material. It is a well researched volume that gives what I believe is very good evidence that real UFOs are high - performance aircraft made here on Earth.
The book does not provide proof that real UFOs are manufactured here, but does provide historical information that points to a short period of incredible research and development from about 1938 to 1950. German scientists then were even better than many of us know, and most of us have known that they were extremely good. Apparently, Germany's super weapons which were under development in World War II had considerable basis in fact, and some of them observed by American pilots and bomber crews over Germany, were not only operational, but were effective. According to the authors, these weapons were subsequently further developed by the victors after the war and were made operational.
Well documented sightings such as the "Lubbock Lights" in the Texas panhandle and saucers (confirmed by radar) over Washington D.C. are among the most famous appearances described. The authors do a convincing job of giving reasons for UFO development, the basics of how they worked and how manufacturing could have been kept secret from the public. It is an impressive read.

One of the more important books of this decade! Their research and explanation of UFO's is a seldom heard alternative to the other 2 choices: aliens or natural phenomenom. The long cover up of US involvement in saucer projects is starting to unravel.

This book is a reprint of the book, "Intercept UFO" by Renato Vesco. That original book was the best researched book on flying saucers I have ever read, outlining their technical origins stemming from aeronautical researches in Boundary Layer Control. But David Childress bought the rights & added to the front & back of Vesco's book, and his additional material isn't nearly as well researched. Basically, what Childress added was junk. So, the book within the book is excellent, but the overall book suffered when Childress added his material.

This book supports the theory that ufo's are not from aliens from another planet, but are
from men who have invented such devices, and successfully used them. I have never believed
that there were aliens from other planets visiting earth, in flying/hovering saucers.
People should read this book, to dispel the myths they have been told, about life on other planets.
It's all been invented and flown, here.

Although the extraterrestrial 'answer' has gotten most of the press, many important events were never adequately explained. The 'foo fighters' seen during the war were real, but not until a researcher located a document that included details about 'phoo bombs' did something official get added to the story. And the 'ghost rockets' seen over northern Europe in 1946 never got an adequate explanation either, although the Russians had definitely taken over the German research station at Peenemunde. Somehow, that was forgotten in 1947 when private pilot Kenneth Arnold saw something flying near Mount Ranier. What was it? In his report to the Air Force, he drew a spade shaped object, on the cover of his own book, it becomes semicircular, and a photo shows him holding a painting of what is clearly a particular type of flying wing, the Horten IX.

This book provides a solid foundation. Add to that what Rudolf Lusar published in the German title, Waffen und Geheimwaffen, and a clearer picture emerges. Then add in Flying Saucer Aircraft by Bill Rose.

Recommended.

This impressive tome results from very extensive research in both newspapers and technical papers. The documents quoted extend back into the 1920s and 30s ( and perhaps earlier ).

The authors take roughly half the book covering Nazi experiments and operational planning. While much information seems to have been suppressed during the war ( and to this day ), there is obviously much available upon which to propound several theories. The two most important theories are: 1) there was extensive German research done concerning unique airframes and propulsion systems, and 2) that research was continued by Allied and Soviet governments well after the war ended, sometimes with the original German researchers.

I strongly recommend this book for anyone convinced that we are being visited by extraterrestrials, and not being duped by government incompetents.

This is an interesting book (I was given a copy as a gift by a young relative who's a UFO nut)--with some darned strange and entertaining information--and it's a lot more info packed than plenty of other books on this bizarre and somewhat unbelievable topic, even if some or even much of that info is deeply questionable. That's why four stars.

Overall, books on these subjects that I've read or scanned through either flat-out stink or are almost precisely half good/half bad; OR they gloriously self destruct--kind of the way "Hunt for Zero Point" demolished its credibility at the very conclusion with a silly-arsed chapter (that had little to do with the thrust of the book) on some goofy Canadian psychic. Yet another gift.

It's interesting because, at times, the stuff that makes these books sink (that was sink, not stink)--and they ALL eventually do (this one far less than most)--is often gratuitous or downright silly. For example, a chapter that will contain volumes of solid-seeming information, name names, reveal dates and locations, and interlock well with the commonly accepted path of history is then usually followed by talk of reptilian aliens or bizarre psychic experiments. The photograph section (first thing I look at) is usually the worst case--a couple of intriguing ones surrounded by blatant laughable fakes. Weirdly, some of these books (like this one) often have remarkably convincing pics that one can never seem to unearth elsewhere. I've noticed this phenomenon with UFO documentaries--the European ones I've been shown often have footage--especially very old movies--taken in the US that are total surprises.

These books--from this fairly decent offering (it's the only one I can recommend with a straight face) to the outrageous Commander X offerings I read about here on Amazon--don't really provide much solid immediate proof of anything. That's obvious. However, taken all together, and given that some fairly tantalizing information DOES turn up in them, they exhibit all the symptoms of carefully calculated distraction.

I'd always suspected that about this publishing phenomenon, but it was the Nick Cook book that cinched it for me--given that the author was an editor of a world-respected technology magazine (that I once read regularly) and he was clearly within his depth, his writing is wildly schizophrenic (the book reads like it was written by two separate people) and the inclusion of some intensely flaky material crudely demolishes any believability the book may have mustered. I was actually excited about that book when its release was announced, but stopped recommending it after I read it. The book made anyone touting it look like a kook--and I pretty much suspect that's what the intention was.

Honestly, I suspect we're all being jerked around a bit and whoever's doing the jerking has cranked the game up a notch in recent years. Once it was bad books on flying saucers by questionable characters--I read a lot of them when I was a kid. Now we're getting people like Cook and Colonel Corso (who wrote that benumbing book on the "Roswell crash"--yet another gift!)--folks with genuine credentials--scribing 98% decent, 2% absolutely ridiculous books. Whatever they're doing, it works, and it works well. Time was when you were the lovable town eccentric if you talked a lot about UFOs; now you're the scary town paranoid right-wing survivalist if you ask hard questions about WWII German black projects and what we've been secretly doing the last 60 years with trillions of dollars of R&D money.

A few years ago I helped a New Age-y friend write a magazine article on a subject that I still find a bit much. This person wanted a level head to bounce ideas off (makes me sound like a ping-pong table) and I thought the whole endeavor would be an amusing hoot. After a few months of this--lots of traveling and meeting fringe people--I realized I'd learned a few things: for one, these people I was meeting (and many were very nice) were about the most gullible lot ever--they were so desperate to find proof of their beliefs that they could have been easily fooled by anyone (and a pretty unscrupulous anyone--they were nice and harmless). For another, while they were all captivated by one shining bauble or another, I kept noticing things off to the sideline that WERE genuinely odd. By project's end I had a lot of questions about plenty of things that weren't anywhere within the sphere of our subject. When I probed deeper, later, and on my own, it all got even weirder, and eventually I just gave up. The world stopped making sense.

I suspect that anyone interested in this man-made UFO phenomenon would get similar results if they quit paying close attention to books like these and started scrounging for oddities in other directions, or at least looking at the distractions with very different eyes and intents. Example: why in God's name would Peter Jennings of all people have hosted a UFO special, and why did that special in fact subtly debunk the whole issue when it promised to do otherwise? Stuff like that. It's fun to analyze these things; kind of like doing crossword puzzles.

Doesn't matter really. Let's face it, any genuine info on any subject as hot as moon men or anti-gravity is just not ever going to get out to The Public. All we know is the stage curtain is moving around a lot indicating there's plenty of activity going on behind it. Something else to think about--maybe a lot of that potential "black" technology is incredibly, mind-bogglingly dangerous.