Scientific Ufology: Roswell and Beyond--How Scientific Methodology Can Prove the Reality of Ufos [Mass Market Paperback]

Kevin D. Randle (Author)

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Publication Date: May 30, 2000

For the last fifty years, there has been a consistent attempt to withhold solid information about alien visitation from the general public. Newly released letters reveal how time and again the U.S. government and its military forces have lied about their involvement in UFO research. Now, for the first time, noted author Kevin D. Randle -- one of the most respected names in UFO research -- examines the physical evidence of these visitors from beyond our solar system. Ignoring biased government documents and sensationalized media accounts, Randle mounts the first serious, independent analysis of UFO phenomena in this hard-hitting investigative report using scientific methodology to scrutinize, among other things, eyewitness reports, photographs and video footage, and radar images.

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"Well worth your time and money." -- -- UFO Magazine

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: HarperTorch (May 30, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380813831
• ISBN-13: 978-0380813834
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,662,112 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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4.0 out of 5 stars A Defense of "Scientific Ufology"..., February 27, 2002

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This review is from: Scientific Ufology: Roswell and Beyond--How Scientific Methodology Can Prove the Reality of Ufos (Mass Market Paperback)

I read Kevin Randle's book several years ago, and I found it to be far more serious-minded and thoughtful than most UFO books, whether pro-or-con. Randle is no wild-eyed UFO "nut" who believes that every UFO sighting is "proof" of alien visitation (he is actually highly skeptical of all UFO "abduction" reports). But Randle does believe that the testimony of thousands of competent, often well-trained eyewitnesses (such as pilots, military officials, scientists, etc.) cannot simply be ignored. And, as a reply to the gentleman below, I thought I would make the following observation: 1) "Ufology" IS a legitimate word, and is included as such in the "American Heritage Dictionary". Only someone who has never bothered to read a dictionary would fail to realize this fact. 2) UFOs ARE a mystery precisely because we don't know what they are...which is the very definition of a mystery! To claim that UFOs are simply ordinary objects which haven't been identified yet is simply absurd...as anyone who has actually read Randle's books (or those of other credible UFO researchers) soon discover. When the US Air Force was in the business of investigating UFOs in the 1940's and 1950's, they discovered that the more impressive the witness and the longer the sighting, the more likely the "UFO" was to remain UNIDENTIFIED. If all UFOs were merely ordinary objects which were/are misindentified, then logically the more time you have to view the object - and the more qualified the eyewitness - then the more likely it is that the person would be able to "identify" the UFO as something ordinary. Instead, the Air Force found that the precise opposite was true. Hmmmm...I wonder if the critics of most pro-UFO books actually bother to read them?

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent, "serious" study of the UFO Phenomenon, March 28, 2001

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This review is from: Scientific Ufology: Roswell and Beyond--How Scientific Methodology Can Prove the Reality of Ufos (Mass Market Paperback)

Unlike many self-proclaimed "ufologists", Dr. Kevin Randle (along with a few others such as Jerome Clark and Richard Hall) is a true UFO researcher with the credentials and background to be taken seriously. His latest work, "Scientific Ufology" is one of his best books. Using extensive on-site research and displaying an objective stance that is often rare in this field of study, he reviews a number of famous UFO sightings such as the 1957 Levelland sightings in Texas and the Trent photographs taken in Oregon in 1950. He makes a strong case that these incidents cannot be written off as hoaxes or misinterpretations of normal phenomena such as ball lightning or weather balloons. He also offers a strong rebuttal of UFO debunkers such as Phil Klass and Curtis Peebles. Although the book is not as in-depth as some of his other UFO works, this book by Randle is an excellent place for a beginner or general reader to get a well-written and serious look at some of the most famous UFO sightings of the last fifty years.

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5.0 out of 5 stars good advice for any investigator, October 26, 2004

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This review is from: Scientific Ufology: Roswell and Beyond--How Scientific Methodology Can Prove the Reality of Ufos (Mass Market Paperback)

There are writers who want to believe everthing they hear, and there are writers who give the facts that can be proven, even when it goes against their desires. Mr Randle has written a book that gives a double blind test to the stories presented. He does not shrink from saying there is not enough credible evidence to support a story,even though it makes good reading. This book is unlike others in that while Mr Randle believes in UFO's he does not try to make the reader take on his beliefs. He stresses asking questions of the reported facts, to determine what holds up under scrutiny, and what plays out as anecdotal. Other writers on this,and other paranormal subjects are to quick to accept a story as truth when good investigation can quickly place it into the urban legend catagory. Disproving a good story is not as enjoyable proving it, but there is no room for sentiment in research. Mr Randle has presented a tool for investigating that is much bigger than the narrow subject.