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Despite antipathy from "nasty, noisy negativists," this physicist/ lecturer has been seriously investigating UFOs since the Roswell, New Mexico incident of an alleged U.S. government cover-up of extraterrestrial contact. After laying a scientific framework for examining the data and countering arguments against their extraterrestrial source, he mak
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I have read neumorous books on the UFO subject and had high expectations with this book but I found Stanton Friedman writing style very tiresome and irritating to the point I nearly gave up. The book seems to be a personal crusade against the debunkers and he came across as being very arrogant. I would not recommend this book to someone new to ufology but recommend they ready other books on subject before attempting this book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Stanton Friedman is a ledgend in UFO research, a good communicator and speaker
(I saw him years ago in Birmingham) but he's not got the most fantastic writing style.
Subsequently I found myself skimming parts of the book which seemed to get bogged down
in details at times and seemed to require prior knowledge of the some of the subject matter
. I felt I needed to re read Crash at Corona co authored by Friedman as I needed background info
- if you have not read that book then definately get it and read it before you buy this
one as Crash at Corona is a far more interesting readable book.
(I saw him years ago in Birmingham) but he's not got the most fantastic writing style.
Subsequently I found myself skimming parts of the book which seemed to get bogged down
in details at times and seemed to require prior knowledge of the some of the subject matter
. I felt I needed to re read Crash at Corona co authored by Friedman as I needed background info
- if you have not read that book then definately get it and read it before you buy this
one as Crash at Corona is a far more interesting readable book.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This book is mainly Friedman's lookback at his life as a UFO investigator (the author is now in his 70s). However I wouldn't recommend it for those new to the subject, and it could really have done with proper editing.
There's a lot of material about Friedman's investigations, media appearances etc. in the fairly distant past (e.g. 1960s and 1970s), which are of limited interest. Also there's too much said about Friedman's (again long-distant) work on various government-funded nuclear propulsion projects; the sole relevance being to demonstrate that (a) Friedman is a scientist, and (b) many UFO sceptics (including scientists) make ill-informed statements about e.g. whether interstellar travel is possible.
The book takes numerous other swipes at UFO sceptics, particularly those who have had conflicts with Friedman; and while it appears he has justification in his criticisms of them, it is written in an arrogant, personal tone which is distracting. As if, this is his last chance to settle a bunch of old scores, so he's going to make the most of it.
There is also rather a lot about the Majestic-12 documents (supposedly about a top secret US government committee dealing with crashed UFOs), which is hard for most readers to follow: much discussion of signatures, military ranks, date formats, typewriter fonts, paper, and other ins-and-outs of documentary evidence of the kind that might be raised by an expert in some abstruse court case. Though the content of the documents would be interesting if more were available, the arguments about their veracity are of little interest to non-specialists.
Aside from the above, the fact that this book should have been properly edited by someone becomes clear on pages 79-80, in which (with a strange sense of deja vu) the reader becomes aware that a substantial discussion of Friedman's analysis of Soviet nuclear space propulsion and the crash of the Cosmos 954 satellite had already appeared on pages 47-48. It seems Friedman forgot that he'd already made the same points earlier, albeit in slightly different wording. Though the book does list an editor, clearly no-one read it properly before it went to press.
There's a lot of material about Friedman's investigations, media appearances etc. in the fairly distant past (e.g. 1960s and 1970s), which are of limited interest. Also there's too much said about Friedman's (again long-distant) work on various government-funded nuclear propulsion projects; the sole relevance being to demonstrate that (a) Friedman is a scientist, and (b) many UFO sceptics (including scientists) make ill-informed statements about e.g. whether interstellar travel is possible.
The book takes numerous other swipes at UFO sceptics, particularly those who have had conflicts with Friedman; and while it appears he has justification in his criticisms of them, it is written in an arrogant, personal tone which is distracting. As if, this is his last chance to settle a bunch of old scores, so he's going to make the most of it.
There is also rather a lot about the Majestic-12 documents (supposedly about a top secret US government committee dealing with crashed UFOs), which is hard for most readers to follow: much discussion of signatures, military ranks, date formats, typewriter fonts, paper, and other ins-and-outs of documentary evidence of the kind that might be raised by an expert in some abstruse court case. Though the content of the documents would be interesting if more were available, the arguments about their veracity are of little interest to non-specialists.
Aside from the above, the fact that this book should have been properly edited by someone becomes clear on pages 79-80, in which (with a strange sense of deja vu) the reader becomes aware that a substantial discussion of Friedman's analysis of Soviet nuclear space propulsion and the crash of the Cosmos 954 satellite had already appeared on pages 47-48. It seems Friedman forgot that he'd already made the same points earlier, albeit in slightly different wording. Though the book does list an editor, clearly no-one read it properly before it went to press.
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