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On the Trail of the Saucer Spies: UFOs & Government Surveillance
The Government knows all about UFOs. And it knows all about you, too. It isn't paranoia if you think "they" are watching they really are! Nick Redfern's timely new book, On the Trail of the Saucer UFOs and Government Surveillance , reveals that Government, Military and Intelligence agencies have been secretly spying on UFO researchers, writers, investigators, and witnesses for decades- and for countless reasons. If you've been watching the skies, or watching those who have been watching the skies, the government may have been watching you! Highlights of this groundbreaking book the FBI's reports on people who claim to have met extraterrestrials; Top Secret surveillance of alien-abductees; the real-life Men in Black who spy on UFO witnesses; phone-tapping and mail-interference of UFO researchers and authors; Scotland Yard's secret monitoring of UFO computer-hackers; classified files on researchers of the famous Roswell crash of 1947; official infiltration of Flying Saucer research groups; UFO writers suspected by the Government of working for hostile nations to uncover defense secrets; and much more. No one involved in the UFO mystery can afford to ignore this book.
308 pages, Paperback
First published February 7, 2006
About the author
Nick Redfern
137 books227 followersNick Redfern is a British best-selling author, Ufologist and Cryptozoologist who has been an active advocate of official disclosure, and has worked to uncover thousands of pages of previously-classified Royal Air Force, Air Ministry and Ministry of Defence files on UFOs dating from the Second World War from the Public Record Office.
He has has appeared on a variety of television programmes in the UK and works on the lecture circuit, both in the UK and overseas, and has appeared in internationally syndicated shows discussing the UFO phenomenon. He is also a regular on the History Channel programs Monster Quest and UFO Hunters as well as National Geographic Channels's Paranormal and the SyFY channel's Proof Positive.
Redfern now lives in Texas and is currently working as a full-time author and journalist specializing in a wide range of unsolved mysteries, including Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, UFO sightings, government conspiracies, alien abductions and paranormal phenomena, and also works as a feature writer and contributing editor for Phenomena magazine and writes regularly for other magazines and websites.
In 2007 Universal Studios bought the rights to Redfern's book: "Three Men Seeking Monsters: Six Weeks in Pursuit of Werewolves, Lake Monster, Giant Cats, Ghostly Devil Dogs and Ape-Men" in the hopes of making a movie from it.
He has has appeared on a variety of television programmes in the UK and works on the lecture circuit, both in the UK and overseas, and has appeared in internationally syndicated shows discussing the UFO phenomenon. He is also a regular on the History Channel programs Monster Quest and UFO Hunters as well as National Geographic Channels's Paranormal and the SyFY channel's Proof Positive.
Redfern now lives in Texas and is currently working as a full-time author and journalist specializing in a wide range of unsolved mysteries, including Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, UFO sightings, government conspiracies, alien abductions and paranormal phenomena, and also works as a feature writer and contributing editor for Phenomena magazine and writes regularly for other magazines and websites.
In 2007 Universal Studios bought the rights to Redfern's book: "Three Men Seeking Monsters: Six Weeks in Pursuit of Werewolves, Lake Monster, Giant Cats, Ghostly Devil Dogs and Ape-Men" in the hopes of making a movie from it.
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May 28, 2022
Nick Redfern is one of the most productive authors in the field of the paranormal. He has written books on everything from UFOs over cryptozoology to ghost stories and even writing some books on more down-to-earth political conspiracies. "On the Trail of the Saucer Spies" is by far the best of his three books I have read so far, being a genuinely hard-hitting work of investigative journalism about the intersection between political intrigues and UFO culture. As you can guess from the title, "Saucer Spies" explores how various intelligence agencies have engaged in surveillance and even manipulation of UFO investigators - either out of suspicion about hidden agendas at work in ufology, or agendas of their own.
The chapters on the Cold War are in particular interesting. Apparently FBI investigated 1950's era UFO contactees because the alien civilisations they described sounded suspiciously like Communist utopias, the FBI promptly suspecting the contactees might be KGB shills! There are also interesting accounts of UFO witnesses mailing heads of state requests for returning UFO photographs and alleged crash debris collected by air forces or intelligence services, as well as different countries' intelligence services coming to blows over surveillance of ufologists, or government agencies being as confused by Men in Black stories as the UFOlogists themselves and drawing the conclusion of quite a few MIBs were in all likelihood civilian pranksters impersonating spies and military officers.
By far the most disturbing chapters of "Saucer Spies" describe in detail how authorities have deliberately fed the paranormal subculture with misinformation. The most infamous case is probably how Paul Bennewitz, a businessman living next door to a USAF base, was driven to madness by USAF-created misinformation about alien invasion designed to convince him that secret experimental aircraft were in fact extraterrestrial spaceships. Then we have the chapter on the Aerial Phenomena Enquiry Network, a front for Neo-Nazis to infiltrate the UFO community in the United Kingdom. Redfern discovers here that quite a few of the people involved in the APEN affair were in fact police infiltrators, and the same individuals were later involved in the Neo-Nazi infiltration of the skinhead subculture through the "Rock Against Communism" music scene!
It is very clear from "Saucer Spies" that the author is British, since he brings to light quite a few stories originating from the UK and its commonwealth (eg New Zealand) that are often overlooked by US-based ufologists. The weirdest of these stories involve the Royal Army investigating cryptozoologists writing about animal mutilations supposedly carried out by the so-called Owlman of Cornwall.
This is a book I would recommend to everyone interested in ufology, conspiracy theories or Cold War intrigues.
The chapters on the Cold War are in particular interesting. Apparently FBI investigated 1950's era UFO contactees because the alien civilisations they described sounded suspiciously like Communist utopias, the FBI promptly suspecting the contactees might be KGB shills! There are also interesting accounts of UFO witnesses mailing heads of state requests for returning UFO photographs and alleged crash debris collected by air forces or intelligence services, as well as different countries' intelligence services coming to blows over surveillance of ufologists, or government agencies being as confused by Men in Black stories as the UFOlogists themselves and drawing the conclusion of quite a few MIBs were in all likelihood civilian pranksters impersonating spies and military officers.
By far the most disturbing chapters of "Saucer Spies" describe in detail how authorities have deliberately fed the paranormal subculture with misinformation. The most infamous case is probably how Paul Bennewitz, a businessman living next door to a USAF base, was driven to madness by USAF-created misinformation about alien invasion designed to convince him that secret experimental aircraft were in fact extraterrestrial spaceships. Then we have the chapter on the Aerial Phenomena Enquiry Network, a front for Neo-Nazis to infiltrate the UFO community in the United Kingdom. Redfern discovers here that quite a few of the people involved in the APEN affair were in fact police infiltrators, and the same individuals were later involved in the Neo-Nazi infiltration of the skinhead subculture through the "Rock Against Communism" music scene!
It is very clear from "Saucer Spies" that the author is British, since he brings to light quite a few stories originating from the UK and its commonwealth (eg New Zealand) that are often overlooked by US-based ufologists. The weirdest of these stories involve the Royal Army investigating cryptozoologists writing about animal mutilations supposedly carried out by the so-called Owlman of Cornwall.
This is a book I would recommend to everyone interested in ufology, conspiracy theories or Cold War intrigues.
January 30, 2022
I enjoyed this book, better than “body snatchers in the desert“ and very well put together, although I do prefer Nicks cryptozoology books over the UFO subject.
I’m somewhat biased, but I really enjoyed how the majority of book covered events from the UK which are often overlooked. It was also refreshing to see things not follow the standard MIB template, and how sinister things can be without, supernatural involvement.
I’m somewhat biased, but I really enjoyed how the majority of book covered events from the UK which are often overlooked. It was also refreshing to see things not follow the standard MIB template, and how sinister things can be without, supernatural involvement.
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