Rosewell Incident [Paperback]

Informative, interesting, fascinating, well written. Detailed description of the goings-on in Roswell... I recommend this book for all you non-skeptics who have a feeling there is other life out there. I couldn't put this book down.

The facts are unbelievable.Why do not the people in U.S. have a concensus on this issue.I mean force the government to comeout with everything about the classified information which concerns the public.But the fact which leaves a reader to think why all the ufo sightings are made in US or russia why not elsewhere?? Any work on other parts of the world. I congratulate both the authors for this excellent work.

This book is disappointing because it is poorly structured and poorly written. A subject that has the potential to fascinate is rendered somewhat dreary at times, simply because of the flawed narrative and the, at times, cumbersome way in which the information has been presented. In addition, this book contains many amazing claims, which remain just that, claims, because they are unsubstantiated by any referencing to their source.

The authors are Charles Berlitz, the founder of the language empire and William L. Moore, unknown (to me),but judging from the footnote to page 160 similarly a linguist. Not a profession with an obvious link to ufology. So what prompted them to write this book? We will never know; the book sadly lacks a preface, telling us the inspiration and motivation and the how of the writing of this book.

This book contains many glitches which irritate. There are too many to mention, but here are a few examples. On page 29 mention is made of the Brazel site, but it is not until page 43 that we actually find out who Brazel is. On page 33 a photograph of Colonel Du Bose with Ramey is stated as being on page 32, but in fact it does not occur until page 35. In page 38 it is stated that Major Marcel was insistent about the great strength of the bits of metallic material they found but it is not until page 73 that we learn that this information came from an interview held with Marcel in 1979. On page 41 we are told that only a very few of the high altitude research balloons were launched in New Mexico and none certainly in 1947. However, the caption to the diagram on page 42 of an atmospheric balloon, (research balloon) being launched at the time of the saucer crash in July 1947! On page 49 we learn that Hughie Green, (yes, the late broadcaster and father of the late Paula Yates) was of the British RAF in 1947, but on the next page in his photo caption it is stated that he is of the RCAF (Royal Canadian Air Force).

Why do these mistakes matter? Well they should matter in any published work, but none more so than in a book on a subject that courts perhaps the most controversy of all. Put simply, with these errors present, and not just one but several, the question is naturally raised within the reader's mind, how am I to believe or have confidence about the accuracy of the content, or is the book a piece of make believe? This is a great pity, because as I say ths subject is potentially fascinating.

The book contains the following amazing assertions. "Even though we know that pilots have disappeared or died while chasing or being chased by a UFO..." This is news to me. "Further intensive research is being carried out [on the bodies of aliens] in at least two major medical centers in the United States." Wow, which medical centers, how do they know this? We will never know. This lack of referencing leaves the book falling easy prey to the sceptics.

The narrative does not flow easily and if this book could talk it would read its own passages in a monotone voice, with barely any inflection. There are parts of the book which are breathtaking, for example when both Marcel and Du Bose admit many years after the incident that the weather balloon cover-up was just that. But this information, pivotal to the whole thesis that an extraterrestrial spaceship crashed onto the earth, is presented in such a matter of fact manner that is full impact takes a re-reading.

Finally, the book ends not as you might expect with a summary and conclusion, but rather with somewhat of a rambling overview of other incidents in other parts of the world where UFOs have had close shaves with the earth's surface. Therefore right up to the end we are given new information, not directly related to the matter in hand.

The whole book for me had the air of being one that was written more with commercial aspects in mind than being borne from a true interest in the subject matter. I may be being unfair, but with no preface to tell me otherwise, (although who would admit to writing a book soley for the money they hoped to make) I am free to hold this opinion. This subject and the information could have been handled so differently and if it had been would have become the last word on the subject, instead for me, it is rather a whimper. Thus, whilst I am sure there is something to the Roswell Incident, its potential to fascinate has been lost in the way the information has been presented.