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The CIA UFO Papers

Written by: Dan Wright, Jan Harzan - foreword
Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly
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Publisher's Summary

Here are the secret CIA papers that prove that the government has been tracking UFOs and extraterrestrials for over 50 years.

In autumn 2016, the CIA sent to its website a cache of electronic files previously released under the Freedom of Information Act but housed at the National Archives. Among a variety of subjects were "unidentified flying objects." Finally, a stockpile of reports and correspondences were available for serious UFO researchers to examine at home.

This book consists of selections from those secret files. Dan Wright spent 18 months selecting, editing, and organizing the 550 files that are relevant to UFO research and has produced a chronological collection of CIA documents spanning 1949 to 2000.

Each chapter focuses on a particular year. The summary of documents for each year is followed by a section called "While You Were Away from Your Desk", which provides historical and cultural context for the document summaries and examines other sightings and contacts that are not mentioned in the CIA files.

Among the fascinating tidbits are:

A memo to J. Edgar Hoover about flying saucer reports and The 1949 conference at Los Alamos that included Edward Teller, upper atmosphere physicist Dr. Joseph Kaplan, and other renowned scientists in which the participants debated whether recent incidents were natural phenomena or UFO sightings.

This is a must-listen for those fascinated by the history of UFO sightings and those interested in government secrets and cover-ups.

©2019 Dan Wright. Foreword © by Jan Harzan (P)2019 Blackstone Publishing

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Just the facts

Straight and to the point, reads more like a compendium of sighting reports rather than a narrative-driven story. Rather dry and lacking in specifics (names often withheld), but enough interesting cases presented to make it worthwhile for subscribers to the nuts-and-bolts craft hypothesis. Narrator draws inspiration from the Twilight Zone’s Rod Serling and uses it to subtle advantage throughout.

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Focus on the best ones, drop the dull ones

Reciting a list of 550 brief reports gets monotonous, even if well organized. This book sounds like someone reading out a pile of inter-office memos and filled-out forms. Time and date, location, occupation of witness, shape and color of object seen, description of object's movement. I stopped listening after he got up to about 1955. Better to focus on the 10 most interesting cases and ditch the rest.
The high number of alleged sightings merely shows there are lots of folks who claim to have seen UFOs, not that there are lots of UFOs. Why do UFOs only appear over forests, deserts or oceans and never over New York City at rush hour? If aliens are visiting us today, there ought to be many sightings with good videos made by multiple witnesses using smart phones.

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