Alien Contact: Top-Secret Ufo Files Revealed (Paperback)

by Timothy Good (Author)

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Not only do the aliens walk among us but, until recently, they were working tentacle-in-hand with the US military--or so British ufologist Good (Above Top Secret, 1988) implies in this erratically organized, incredible report. While Good's earlier book made a well-documented case for clandestine federal involvement in UFO research, this more anectodal study will convert few to the cause. Despite the tantalizing subtitle, much of what Good presents is familiar fare, beginning with his selection of reported run-ins between aircraft and UFOs. He focuses next on the provocative (and well-covered elsewhere) controversy about alleged UFO culpability in cattle mutilations. A close-up look at strange doings at a Colorado ranch plagued by mutilations sheds more mystery than light (``At about two a.m...a mechanical-sounding voice was heard coming from all the radio and TV speakers....`Attention. We have allowed you to remain. We have interfered with your lives very little. Do not cause us to take action which you will regret' ''), while Good's rapid-fire rundown of assorted purported human-alien contacts rehashes old cases like the Roswell incident (alien bodies recovered in 1947 in New Mexico). A gnarly discussion of intelligence community disinformation about UFOs follows, leading to Good's core case: the testimony of physicist Bob Lazar, who claims to have worked at an Air Force test site in Nevada where he tinkered with extraterrestrial craft and learned that aliens had been in ``liaison'' with the military until a 1979 ``incident'' resulted in the death of 66 humans and the flight of the ETs, who left their craft behind. Good does admit that Lazar's credibility has been shaken by a recent conviction for pimping. True believers will be interested to learn that Jesus may have been a ``genetically engineered'' alien; others will want to pass in favor of the more grounded work of Jacques Vallee (Revelations, 1991, etc.). (Photographs--not seen.) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description
In his international bestseller Above Top Secret, Good showed evidence that the U.S. and other governments have channeled millions into UFO research. Now, Good exposes the startling results of this research, based on secret government files and scores of interviews with key U.S. millitary, scientific, and intelligence personnel. Photos and illustrations.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Quill; Revised edition (June 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0688135102
• ISBN-13: 978-0688135102
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #369,256 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book!, January 3, 1998

By A Customer

This book picks up where Timothy Good's previous book, "Above Top Secret," leaves off. He is an excellent researcher on the UFO subject, and leaves no stone unturned. I bought "Above Top Secret," and was so impressed by it that I went out of my way to find any other books by Timothy Good (this was before I knew about Amazon.com and their search button). "Alien Contact" is a more speculative book than "Above Top Secret," but still solidly researched and extremely interesting. I am surprised at the lack of positive reviews for this great book, and that there is no book cover picture shown for it. This is a great book, and it deserves more positive attention. The best sections deal with Area 51 in Nevada, and the alien craft seen there. One section describes how several military fighter pilots on training runs (at different times) encountered UFOs over Area 51, after disobeying standing orders for all pilots not to overfly the base. Fascinating stuff. There is also a big section on Bob Lazar's Area 51 story. Along with Timothy Good's previous book, "Above Top Secret," and Jim Marrs' book "Alien Agenda," this is one of the best books I've read on the UFO subject. Highly recommended. Get it and read it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Unearthly Disclosures, October 7, 2004

By	Kevin Seeger "DudeSeeg" (Woodland Hills, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I read Tim Good's ABOVE TOP SECRET and was duly impressed with his journalism. Good proved straightforward and well-researched. I was surprised by the sensationalism in ALIEN CONTACT. This is not a bad book, just a vastly different one than his hallmark tome.

Good touches upon cattle mutilations, subterranean alien bases, and many of the ancillary connections to the UFO phenomenon. The best portion of the book is an in-depth look at Bob Lazar and his supposed inside information. Lazar claims to have been briefly employed at the Nevada site known as Area 51.

Lazar subsequently had a falling out with his employers and began divulging confidential information to prevent the feds from whacking him before he could violate security. His strategy was to come out with the information so that he would be immune to elimination, as a mysterious death would serve to prove him correct posthumously. Instead, he would put up with the inevitable ridicule and harassment. Judge for yourself whether you believe his information. I will tell you that I was impressed. He sounds like he understands the technology and what he says fits in nicely with all the known information that has leaked from the elite military junta over the years.

The book is a worthy read, though not as an all-purpose overview of the UFO and related phenomena. I also read Good's 2000 book UNEARTHLY DISCLOSURE, which also was highly enjoyable. In this work, Good goes very much in depth on a few otherworldly experiences reported by various earthlings. The chapters and pictures detailing Filiberto Caponi's saga are really great. Do a web search on Caponi to get his story - it really is good stuff. Without the story, the pictures look pretty fake. But add in the story and also Caponi's wonderful sketches, and it begins to sound too strange to be made up. It may be that he has captured photographs of something extraterrestrial.

There are scores of stories from around the world detailing encounters with strange creatures. These are not just delusions - there has often been physical evidence such as hair or blood left at the scene which has been analyzed and found not to match any known creature. One epicenter of strange creature sightings is Puerto Rico, where Good has professed his belief in the existance of a subterranean alien base.

It all gets to sound so crazy, but most of the leading researchers over the past decade have come to believe in alien bases and aliens among us. Either that is what is really going on or the governments of the globe have done a great job of infusing disinformation into ufology circles. With tourists going into space with digital cameras, the day can't be far off when the proof of an alien presence in, on, and around Earth is undeniable. Whatever else we discover and how this knowledge alters our civilization going forward and looking back will be monumental.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Get the cover up story from the source of the origanl source, February 24, 1998

By	[e-mail] (El Paso Texas, USA) - See all my reviews

The truth is that you are probably not looking for books on cover-ups, because i know i wasn't. But this book was the best information i have read in a long time on American cover ups, sightings, and new experimental theories. This book was like watching all the discovery channel shows in one sitting. If you want to know you will read this one.