Status Updates From Mirage Men: A Journey into ...

around here it gets to listing various secret experimental aircraft that may or may not have caused quite a few UFO sightings, the prototypes for the B-2 and F-117 stealth bombers being just the tip of the iceberg

This book presents a significantly more nuanced view of Richard Doty, a former USAF officer tasked with feeding deliberate misinformation about alien invasions to ufologists in order to distract from secret test flights of experimental aircraft, than I remembered. For example here Doty makes it clear which information about UFOs he gave ufologists he actually believes in, and which was intended as misinformation.

Decided to give this a re-read after having read "Project Beta" by Greg Bishop which goes into more detail about the Paul Bennewitz case in which the USAF deliberately fed an ufologist with misinformation about alien invasions to conceal tests of then-secret high tech equipment.

This goes into way further detail about ideological schisms within the ufological community than I remembered from 1st read, for starters.

Fourteen - Flying Saucers are Real! - considers all the secret aircraft that could be mistaken for UFOs

Fifteen - The Secret Weapon - details US plans to develop a working flying saucer like the Avro MX-1794

Sixteen - A Matter of Policy - other agents of AFOSI like Walter Bosley

Thirteen - Bad Information - the MJ-12 document history.

Twelve: Seeing is Believing - the history of filmmakers being offered incontrovertible evidence of recovered crafts and aliens by the Air Force. Emenegger, Linda Moulton Howe, and even Pilkington & Lundberg are offered the disinformation bait.

Eleven: Over the Edge - more on the Air Force’s disinformation campaign against Bennewitz. Pilkington suggests the real goal was to use Bennewitz and Bill Moore to spread disinformation to the larger ufology scene in order to disrupt those pesky investigators from looking into their black projects as well as throwing off foreign agents that had infiltrated the ufology scene.

Nine: Rick - meeting chief AFOSI disinformation agent, Rick Doty

Ten: Beef, Bugs and The Alien Underground - cattle mutes, Gabe Valdez, and the Archuleta Mesa

Seven: Pioneers of Space - Adamski and early abductee stories. CIA psychological warfare using hallucinogenics?

Eight: Among the Ufologists - Bill Moore, Richard Doty, the Falcon, and Paul Bennewitz.

Five: Conference of the Birds - Pilkington attends the International UFO Congress. A review of the possible events around the Roswell Incident and the beginnings of government deceit surrounding UFOs.

Six: Washington Versus the Flying Saucers - UFOs as psychological warfare.

One: Into the Fringe - Pilkington’s background in UFOs, including his own experience with orbs near Yosemite.

Two: The Coming of the Saucers - Pilkington and his partner decide to make a film about Richard Doty and UFO disinformation.

Three: UFO 101 - a good overview of the early UFO scene including the phantom airship phenomenon in the late 18th century

Four: Lift-Off - the history of Project Serpo