The UFO Invasion: The Roswell Incident, Alien Abductions & Government Coverups

by Kendrick Frazier (editor), Barry Karr (Editor), Joe Nickell (Editor)

Countering media misinformation, The UFO Invasion criticizes extraterrestrial visitation & paranormal claims.
The airship hysteria of 1896-97/Rbt E. Bartholomew
The Condon UFO study/Philip J. Klass
Psychology & UFOs/Armando Simón
The Top-secret UFO papers NSA won't release/Philip J. Klass
The Avro VZ9 Flying saucer/Wm B. Blake
Crash of the crashed-saucer claim/Philip J. Klass
The MJ12 crashed saucer documents/Philip J. Klass
MJ12 papers Authenticated?/Philip J. Klass
New evidence of MJ12 hoax/Philip J. Klass
Top-secret balloon project looms over TV movie on Roswell incident/C. Eugene Emery Jr
Air Force report on the Roswell incident/Richard L. Weaver
The Roswell incident & Project Mogul/David E. Thomas
The GAO Roswell report & Congressman Schiff/Philip J. Klass
The Roswell Fragment-case closed/David E. Thomas
Alien Autopsy hoax/Joe Nickell
Alien Autopsy show-&-tell/C. Eugene Emery
How to make an Alien for autopsy/Trey Stokes
A surgeon's view of the Alien Autopsy/Joseph A. Bauer
The Great E. Coast UFO of Aug. '86/James E. Oberg
The Woodbridge UFO incident/Ian Ridpath
FAA data sheds new light on JAL pilot's UFO report/Philip J. Klass
Old solved mysteries: The Kecksburg UFO incident/Rbt R. Young
Gulf Breeze UFO case/Rbt Sheaffer
The Big Sur UFO: An identified flying object/Kingston A. George
UFO Dogfight: A ballooning tale/Joe Nickell
That's entertainment! TV's UFO coverup/Philip J. Klass
3.7 million Americans kidnapped by Aliens?/Lloyd Stires
Additional comments about the Unusual Personal Experiences Survey/Philip J. Klass
The aliens among us: Hypnotic Regression revisited/Rbt A. Baker
Diagnoses of alien kidnappings that result from conjunction effects in memory/Robyn M. Dawes, Matthew Mulford
Studying the psychology of the UFO experience/Rbt A. Baker
Time challenges John Mack's UFO abduction efforts/Philip J. Klass
A study of fantasy proneness in the 13 cases of alleged encounters in John Mack's Abduction/Joe Nickell
Nova's Alien Abduction Program shows questionable techniques/C. Eugene Emery Jr
No aliens, no abductions: Just Regressive Hypnosis, waking dreams & anthropomorphism/Rbt A. Baker
The Crop-circle phenomenon/Joe Nickell, John F. Fischer
Crop-circle mania wanes/Joe Nickell
Levengood's Crop-circle plant research/Joe Nickell
Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence: Interview w/Th R. McDonough
Is intellegence inevitable?/Zen Faulkes

315 pages, Hardcover

First published April 1, 1997

Reviews

[Eric Wojciechowski · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must have collection of articles, originally published in the Skeptical Inquirer on the subject that to me, never gets old. Articles are presented on classic cases, showing them to be not out of this world. Cases of abduction, particularly the claims of the late Harvard Psychiatrist, John Mack, are discussed. It's an interesting part of human psychology that Carl Jung first tackled when it comes to the saucer craze and if better understood, could assist in other areas of paranormal claims (ghosts, gods, angels, fairies, etc.) We get treated to examinations of saucer crashes, the MJ12 hoax, alien autopsies, and crop circles. I also found Philip J. Klass' honest examination of the Condon UFO Study refreshing. But don't bother with this collection if you're a strong believer in ET visitations. Not unless you're willing to change your mind. I'm afraid that as much as I, too, want to believe, there's just not enough evidence for the more wild claims you'll find out there on bookshelves.

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a compilation of Skeptical Enquirer articles. The main reason I picked it up was for the series of pieces by old Phil Klass on debunking the MJ-12 papers. And he does a magnificent job of that. The Roswell stuff is OK as well but for that I would recommend Roswell : Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe by Karl Pflock.

[Stephen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Might have been a tick higher but the copyediting really is subpar. That said, the material is pretty good overall and there are plenty of sources. Ironically I don't know how much of the specific stuff is going to stay relevant, since Ufology has recently moved into really weird, supernatural, unfalsifiable territory.

[Erik Graff · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mike Miley brought this along on one of his summer visits from California to Chicago, Illinois and Bridgman, Michigan. A collection of essays, it ranges from the pathologically skeptical (Klass) to the critically analytical--a real hodgepodge from the magazine, Sceptical Inquirer.