UFOs and Aliens: Is There Anybody Out There?

Exposed, Uncovered, & Declassified

by Michael Pye (Editor), Stanton T. Friedman (Contributor), Erich von Däniken (Contributor)

"I am convinced that UFOs exist because I have seen one."
--President Jimmy Carter
What are UFOs?
Why are they here?
What is the Government not telling us?
"Exposed, Uncovered, and Declassified: UFOs & Aliens" strives to address all of these questions--and more--by covering new evidence of famous sightings and contact with aliens, and uncovering classified files from world-class collections and archives--all courtesy of the world's leading experts on modern ufology.
Nuclear physicist and world-renowned UFO expert Stanton T. Friedman discusses how close we really are to interstellar travel.
Erich von Daniken, father of the ancient astronaut theory, discusses the possibility and evidence of ancient hybrid creatures created by visiting god-like aliens.
Nick Pope, former member of the British Ministry of Defence, covers the latest UFO documents released by the UK's National Archives, including such fascinating information as: what Churchill knew, why the documents are being released now, what's in them, and what's still being withheld.
Donald R. Schmitt, the former co-director of the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, takes on the aftermath of the Roswell incident, discussing in detail the initial stages of the government's cover-up attempts.
Air Force veteran Thomas J. Carey chronicles the military's attempts to intimidate people into not telling their stories about what they have seen with their own eyes.
The niece of Betty and Barney Hill, Kathleen Marden, gives a short history of cases of alien abduction, many which continue to baffle the American public and UFO investigators alike.
Nick Redfern provides a fresh take on the famous 1953 UFO crash in Kingman, Arizona, and explores its possible connection to a government program to reverse-engineer alien spacecraft.
Something is out there, and "Exposed, Uncovered, and Declassified: UFOs & Aliens" will help us find out exactly what--or who--it is.

256 pages, Paperback

First published June 11, 2011

About the author

Michael Pye (b. 1946) is a writer who reported on business for The Sunday Times of London in the 1960s and 1970s. He has also authored many books, two of which are about the entertainment industry: The Movie Brats: How the Film Generation Took Over Hollywood (with Lynda Myles, 1979), and Moguls: Inside the Business of Show Business (1980).

Reviews

[Sassan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was utterly disappointed. I was looking for a book that laid down the case for the existence of UFOs scientifically and with real evidence. Aside from Nick Pope, the book was mainly anecdotal and even delved in to "ghosts", "psychics" and the such. I enjoyed some of the essays (especially on Roswell and that of Stanton Friedman); and some of them were thought provoking... but this is not a book that I would recommend.

[d · Rating 2 out of 5]

i wanted to give this book a higher rating but i honestly can't. while some of the essays were quite good, the ones that were bad were really, really bad. starting with the positives: both the essays by friedman--one debunking the idea that "no one could keep huge government projects secret" and one debunking the idea that "aliens could never visit because long distance space travel is impossible"--were great, and i found them to be convincing considering he's an expert on both the subjects he talked about, having had experience working on classified government projects and being a physicist. schmitt's essay on roswell was fascinating and made me excited to read other books on the subject that i have on hold at the library. another essay, where a man recounted his difficulty being believed when telling his ufo experience, and the pushback he received from talking about it (even from people who were also there!) was also fascinating. finally, the essay on the kingston incident where the author ended up concluding that it was not a genuine ufo was interesting, and a good reminder not to jump to the ET explanation for everything. unfortunately, that's about it for the ones i liked. the rest of the book was an example of the very worst of ufology. one contributor said that ufo sightings could be angels, undersea lifeforms, ghosts, or psychic projections, then bizarrely concluded that the best way to decide between them was to pick "all of the above." not an exaggeration, he literally gave the example of a multiple choice test and said the best strategy would be to pick all of the above, so that's what we should do here. just, what? i don't even think that's even a good strategy on an exam. another one going over abduction experiences had some genuinely intriguing info. for example, an account was given where, after an abduction, there were blisters on a car and physical burns on several woman's bodies. but then, in the same article, the author stated that a different abductee could not have been lying because a rorschasch blot test found that he didn't have a "fantastical personality." the same author also used polygraphs as if they were conclusive proof, only briefly mentioning that they could be unreliable only in the context of a sociopath giving answers. this fails to take into account they can give false readings when someone truly believes what they're saying, even if it isn't true, which is a very likely explanation for dubious abduction accounts. a different author recounted a personal experience where he experienced what i can honestly only describe as the most typical sleep paralysis situation ever, without even having sleep paralysis about aliens specifically, then months later "discovered" that he had been abducted because he went to a hypnotist. hypnotism is probably good for a number of things but there is absolutely no evidence it can recover hidden memories. none. there's a lot of evidence that it can be used to supplant false memories, however, which is almost definitely the case here. the quality of the essays in this book varied so much that i can't really recommend it. maybe just read stanton t friedmans other books and save yourself some time and suffering.

[Natalie Wright · Rating 4 out of 5]

I picked up this book for research on a fiction novel I'm writing. I wanted something with more facts and less speculation than what I could find on the internet. This book fit the bill.

It's a compilation of essays by a diverse group of people including Stanton Friedman, Nick Pope, Nick Redfern and Erich von Daniken, among others. This book is not unbiased- these authors are believers. But they support their arguments with the more well-researched cases and facts gleened from declassified military and government documents.

I am a skeptic and tend to believe that the UFO phenomenon is myth creation in action. However, even with my skeptic's eyes on, Donald Schmitt's essay "Roswell in Perspective: The Human Response to an Extraordinary Event" gave me pause. Without arguing for the truth of the Roswell incident, he simply lays out facts (as he has perceived them from his research) and builds a compelling case for government conspiracy. It still begs the question "What were they conspiring to hide?" because one can perceive of replacing alien spaceship with Russian spy craft or some other very terrestrial object and the result being the same.

If you enjoy reading about aliens, UFOs, paranormal and/or government conspiracy, you'll enjoy this well-written and well-edited book.

[John Orman · Rating 3 out of 5]

A lot of the book is about the Roswell Incident, and has some interesting but not convincing claims about that "saucer crash" and other lesser known incidents of alien encounters and abductions.