From Introduction by John A. Keel ~
"For twenty years a pathetic assortment of crackpots and cultists have ruled the "flying saucer field," screamingto an amused world that we are being invaded by tiny green men from some other planet, and passing on absurdmessages of faith and good will which they claimed they received telepathically from the all-seeing, all-knowing "Brothers" in Outer Space. And for most of those twenty years the general press and the public havelaughed at the "UFOnuts" and ridiculed anyone who reported seeing anything unusual in the sky.The real mystery in this multi-faceted enigma, however, has been how our governments and our scientificestablishment could overlook the astounding amount of sincere reports from honest, and often well-trained,citizens. Equally baffling, there has been an almost complete lack of reasonable, rational investigation into thissubject. Hardcore "Ufologists," as they call themselves, have frantically collected random newspaper clippingsand indulged in fanciful speculations based upon a narrow range of pseudo-scientific knowledge tainted with themystical and the occult. Very few of the many books published on "flying saucers" have attempted to collate theavailable "hard facts" and review statistically the vast amount of data now available.Now, at long last, a highly qualified science writer, Otto Binder, has reviewed this overwhelming mass of material - twenty years of sightings and information - and organized it into a meaningful and lucid book. He hasdone a remarkable job of sifting fact from fantasy and truth from nonsense. If there is a "secret" to the UFOmystery, it can be found somewhere in these pages.
