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A "Must Own" book for this topic, June 22, 2008
Pick up this reprint (with new info) while it's still available. I had the original and picked this one up too, to get the additional material... now I have a copy to share with friends.
If you're open minded about UFO's possibly being (at least some of the time) man-made, secret technology, this is simply one of a very few books you MUST own on the topic. I routinely see this book slagged by "UFO's are always driven by ET's" crowd because it doesn't push that theme, but I see no reason to toss out the ideas and research presented here based on a wish for alien life. Frankly, this is more believable and is rather well documented.
Well written, well edited (a rarity in this field), and if sometimes a bit dry, at least well documented... I've read it thru several times and always enjoy the re-reads.
If you're into this topic, read this and Nick Cook's vastly entertaining "Hunt for Zero Point" pronto. Also, Harbinson's hard to find Fiction novels on this topic are worth hunting down (the Projekt Saucer series).
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More believable origin than Zeta Reticuli, September 4, 2010
"Projekt UFO" provided some great research material for a program I produced and hosted at Tsiyon Radio called "Flying Saucers a Sign?". This book presents a far more believable origin for flying saucers than Zeta Reticuli - with the added advantage of being real documented history. As you will see when you read this book, flying disk technology was conceived and developed right here on planet earth. In modern times the underlying scientific theory originated with Tesla in the 19th century. However, it took the pressures of WWII to cause the Nazis to explore the development of "wonder weapons" by which they might defeat an enemy of vastly superior numbers. The need for such weapons was largely responsible for NAZI openness to unique ideas and alternate scientific theories that were otherwise being overlooked. It was in this climate of highly funded and facilitated NAZI R&D that real flying disks went from theory to actual working proto-types under NAZI development. Unfortunately for the Nazis, but fortunately for the rest of us, the surging tide of the Allied advance overtook the Nazis before they could put their wonder weapons into production, bringing the NAZI war machine to a screeching and ignoble end. Soon a mad scramble was underway among the Allies to scoop up the futuristic technology along with the NAZI scientists, engineers and technologists that had created it. Beginning in 1945 the USA scooped up more than its share of these highly prized NAZI criminals, sanitizing hundreds (thousands?) of them via the ministrations of Operation Paperclip, to keep them working on the very same technology they had been developing over there - only over here instead. No sooner did the NAZI team get settled in at White Sands in New Mexico than abracadabra - flying saucers began to be sighted here! The technology has been kept "deep black" all these years through the use of the ET UFO cover story. How far this technology has been developed in the intervening years boggles the mind. Google "TR-3B" to get some idea of where billions of dollars and decades of time have taken this technology - no aliens required. Bottom line: read this book to get past the moronic "alien" cover story to the real history of man-made flying saucers.
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Possibly the best UFO book ever, September 13, 2011
W. A. Harbinson's Projekt UFO: The Case for Man-Made Flying Saucers, is in my opinion the best book I have ever read on the UFO phenomena and the possible explanations behind it (Henry Stevens' book Hitler's Flying Saucers is also a very good UFO book but is not as broad in scope).
W. A. Harbinson is the author of the fictional Projeckt Saucer series- five novels telling the story of how UFOs are connected with a megalomaniacal long-lived genius called Wilson.
This non-fiction book, Projekt UFO, shows us the facts behind the fiction, presenting convincing arguments that show how UFOs are NOT alien spacecraft (as so many people insist) but could in fact be advanced aircraft built right here on Earth.
Harbinson quickly demolishes major arguments for "ancient astronauts", showing that ancient and medieval UFO sightings were more likely natural phenomena rather than alien visitors. From there on, he shows a history of human-made secret aircraft, beginning with the Great American Airship Mystery of 1896-1897. Though it was unexpected to see airships in America during that era, it was not at all impossible for American inventors to develop them. After all, airships had already existed in Europe since the 1850s, and the fierce competition between inventors in that era means it is not at all surprising for inventors to have built their machines in secret.
The Nazis were working on flying saucer designs in the 1930s and 1940s. Harbinson explains howt he saucer shape was the best shape for reducing the effects of Prandtl's boundary layer (when air resistance limits an aircraft's speed). Furthermore, the slowing effects of the boundary layer could be even further reduced by building the saucers out of porous metal. (It should also be noted that, while Harbinson does not directly state so in the book, the very fact that flying saucer shape has to do with overcoming the boundary layer throws a wrench into the idea that they "must" be alien spacecraft, as something travelling through space would obviously not encounter any air resistance. Though I suppose Harbinson may have felt that this point was self-explanatory).
After the Second World War, Nazi saucer secrets may well have fallen into the hands of Allied powers, who went on to further develop and enhance the technology to this day. Harbinson points out that the main saucer producers today are the American and Canadian governments, though these are not the only governments involved.
Harbinson explains how encounters with "aliens" could in fact be encounters with human cyborgs, built in secret by groups who possess technology going beyond what basic ethics would permit (a good reason for keeping such technology a secret). As incredible and shocking as this idea sounds, it is in fact based on well-documented research into cybernetics.
Harbinson also explains how UFO features often claimed to be way beyond the capabilities of terrestrial technology are in fact well within what terrestrial technology can achieve.
It is clear that the "UFOs are aliens" belief is based a lot on a lack of understanding of modern terrestrial technology (e.g. the fact that flying saucers make ideal aircraft due to the boundary layer issue discussed earlier).
Harbinson discusses a few possible locations for UFO bases, including such exotic locales as deep under the sea, and under the ice of Antarctica. Harbinson admits that he himself is a bit skeptical on the existence of the Antarctic bases, but still feels it should be kept open as a possibility. In the afterword he also talks a little bit about Area 51, which most likely involves secret terrestrial, rather than extraterrestrial technology.
Harbinson apparently doesn't consider human-made aircraft the only possible explanation for UFOs. As stated earlier in this review, he also feels that natural phenomena are involved (especially in regard to ancient and medieval UFO sightings). In the afterword, he also briefly states that some of the more dreamlike UFO and "alien" encounters may involve interdimensional entities.
Overall though, the majority of UFO sightings have to do with secret aircraft developed right here on Earth, and kept secret due to its connection to various forms of highly unethical and immoral scientific work.
Overall, I found Projekt UFO a truly enlightening read, and I would recommend it to anyone interested in the UFO phenomena.
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