Project Moon Dust:: Beyond Roswell--exposing The Government's Covert Investigations And Cover-ups [Mass Market Paperback]

Kevin D. Randle (Author)

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Publication Date: June 1, 1999

In 1953, a classified government project was proposed that would deal with the recovery of "returning space debris" launched from other nations. But why did the Air Force consider such a program necessary when Sputnik -- the first Soviet satellite -- would not be launched until four years later? Since the initiation of the top secret Project Moon Dust, the government -- and specifically the U.S.A.F. -- has engaged in continuous covert yet highly documented official investigations into UFO phenomena, which have included often dangerous interfaces with extraterrestrial crafts in the skies above our nation, and supersonic pursuits that have put pilots' lives at risk; pursuits that were observed by many reliable eye-witnesses. Former Air Force Captain, world-renowned ufologist and co-author of UFO Crash at Roswell, Kevin D. Randle reveals startling facts about the official government investigations and cover-ups that continue to this very day. It is time for the truth to come out -- with indisputable reports and documentation ... and without obstruction or lies.

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About the Author

Kevin D. Randle, Captain, U.S.A.F.R., is the author of Project Moondust, Conspiracy of Silence, and A History of UFO Crashes, and the co-author of UFO Crash at Roswell and The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell. A Captain in the United States Air Force Reserve, he is considered the foremost expert on the Roswell incident, and is well known as a serious researcher of extraterrestrial phenomena. Captain Randle makes his home in lowa.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 328 pages
• Publisher: Avon; Reprint edition (June 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380806037
• ISBN-13: 978-0380806034
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,417,895 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Kevin D. Randle is a retired lieutenant colonel who served in Vietnam as a helicopter pilot and in Iraq as a battalion intelligence officer. He began writing for UFO magazines and eventually moved onto books. A goal had been to publish science fiction and to join the Science Fiction Writers of America. He has appeared on countless radio and television programs in the mid-1990s hosted his own show on KTSM Radio in El Paso, Texas. To prove that he hasn't been stuck in a rut, he has written books about UFOs, science fiction, action adventure and even a vampire novel called, cleverly, VAMPYR. Someday he hopes to be on The Amazing Race. His blog can be found at www.KevinRandle.blogspot.com.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good information on UFOs and the government, July 30, 2001

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This review is from: Project Moon Dust:: Beyond Roswell--exposing The Government's Covert Investigations And Cover-ups (Paperback)

One needs to be clear as to what this book is about. Basically, it looks at the involvement (public as well as secretive) of the military with UFOs. As such, it can be something of a protracted read at times. When you are devoting a lot of attention to specific government documents, it is rather hard to breathe great excitement into the story. Randle does not deal with abductions here, nor does he seek to describe possible alien races visiting the planet. If you are looking for stories of abductions and of individuals' personal experiences with UFOs, you may well want to cross this book off your "to buy" list.

Randle attempts to give an overview of government involvement with UFOs since the mid-1940s, and he does a competent job of that. The first half of the book describes the transition of government involvement from the development of Project Sign, through the Blue Book years, up to the present time. He details the moves made by the military toward hiding their active investigation of a phenomenon they publicly state is not real. Early on, when a project code name became compromised, the military would simply change the name of the project (e.g., from Sign to Grudge). Over time, however, the military resorted to publicly pronouncing a project closed (such as Project Blue Book) while secretly transferring the responsibility for UFO investigations to an entirely different section. It is in this manner that the 4602d Air Intelligence Service Squadron covertly usurped all "serious" UFO reports while passing on to Project Blue Book only those reports which were rather easily identifiable. He does a good job of explaining the pre-ordained roles of the Condon Committee and Robertson Panel in promoting the government's disinformation campaign to discourage interest and belief in UFOs among citizens. In the second half of the book, Randle takes a look at several important "events" over the years (e.g., Levelland, the Cash-Landry sighting, Bentwaters)--but only in terms of how they relate to the government's involvement in the investigations. While this information is interesting, it provides little new information for readers reasonably well-grounded in the literature already.

The main problem with this book seems to be Randle's writing style. While he does tend to repeat himself at times, in this book he seems to sometimes offer evidence which diminishes his own argument. For example, he will stress the importance of reported sightings taking place before some event that generated a lot of interest and thus (debunkers argue) copycat reports, yet after describing these early reports he will tell us that they were mostly hoaxes or easily explainable. Clearly, Randle is not a lawyer. He is, however, a very important figure in the UFO community because of his straightforwardness. He openly addresses some of the newer arguments against the Roswell UFO crash in an appendix, clearly expressing some disturbance by one new piece of evidence. He treats such new information quite objectively. If only many more UFOlogists could go about their work in such a manner, rather than resorting to grade school namecalling back and forth, we would be much closer to truly understanding UFOs.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Nothing New Under the UFO, February 13, 2000

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This review is from: Project Moon Dust:: Beyond Roswell--exposing The Government's Covert Investigations And Cover-ups (Paperback)

My expectation was that this book would clear up some of the questions brought up with Jeff Reense's interviews with Cliford Stone and his work with the Project Moon Dust. Mostly it seemed to review the old cases that I recall reading from Fate magazine when I was a kid -- and basically not as well. In his defense, it's a hard research topic and the book was a quick read.

6 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Project Moon Dust .... boring., June 6, 2000

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This review is from: Project Moon Dust:: Beyond Roswell--exposing The Government's Covert Investigations And Cover-ups (Paperback)

">DONT< Read This Book"

Title: Project Moon Dust Author: Kevin D. Randle

I hated this book. It didn't solve anything for me. It didn't answer any questions for me. I read over 200 pages, almost 90% of the book, and not one interesting topic. Maybe it's just me, but all the author wrote about was top secret, government classified projects, that were supposedly set up to do research about "unknown flying objects." The author says these projects were never mentioned to the public, and when the media asked questions, the government hid the fact that it was about alien-life form by claiming that it was about satellites, rockets, etc. The reason why I found this book uninteresting was because I expected more 'conspiracy theories' and more reasons why aliens exist, where they came from, why they would come. But instead I got a bunch of supposed facts and projects that the government set up, and their hiding it from the public. Big deal! Everyone knows that. Anyway, this book was sad to read, I could have done a better job writing about UFO's myself. The only plus side, was that it had some pictures. But the pictures were not even of aliens! They were about some person named Clifford Stone, who is supposed to be some internationally known UFO researcher, but I couldn't care less about him. Another picture was of a flying saucer which looked like a pot or something. Even the caption said, "Air Force Investigators agree this picture was proof that flying saucers was a hoax." Why? I'm in the mindset that UFO's do exist, and even though the picture was baaaad, I would have believed it anyhow. In conclusion, this book I think made me believe a lot less about the existence of aliens, and that's a shame, because that is the same thing as a young child finding out Santa Claus doesn't exist. I think the author should of focused more on discussing aliens then the government, two topics he doesn't have a clue about, but at least aliens would be more interesting then men in black. I give this book an F! My beliefs were shattered....