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• UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Coverup, 1941-1973

  Tags: 19411973, Chronology, Coverup, National, Security, State, UFOs
  Posted in UFO Report on September 9th, 2009 by RoswellUFOs.com

  

  • ISBN13: 9781571743176
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  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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  Richard M. Dolan is a gifted historian whose study of U.S. Cold War strategy led him to the broader context of increased security measures and secrecy since World War II. One aspect of such government policies that has continued to hold the public’s imagination for over half a century is the question of unidentified flying objects.UFOs and the National Security State is the first volume of a two-part detailed chronological narrative of the national security dimensio… More >>

  UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Coverup, 1941-1973

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5 Responses to “UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Coverup, 1941-1973”

1. Edward Lopez Says:
   September 9th, 2009 at 5:30 pm

   No doubt, to the uneducated this book might seem like nirvana. But it isn’t. Give Richard Dolan credit for historicalness, but give him the boot for his believer attitude. He believes in Roswell and not intelligently. He dredges up the same ol’ crap and the same ol’ “witnesses.” He treats the Mantell case as if the truth meant nothing and fantasy is to be accepted instead. He mentions Mogul only once in the INDEX, tells you it’s on page 450 yet only book titles are on that page! Of course, he mentions it at length during the Roswell b.s. Allright, so the U.S. government has lied about UFOs and continues to lie. So what? Despite all of the historical records that Dolan serves up no one still knows anything about UFOs. This book takes its place alongside all of the other books that are written about UFOs but nothing new is added and all that is accomplished is that we know just as much now about UFOs as we have since time immemorial. Who cares about history when it’s the kind of history that doesn’t add anything to our knowledge of UFOs. Anyone can find documents and put them into book form. The point is to write a book that helps solve the mystery of UFOs. This one doesn’t do it.
   Rating: 2 / 5

2. X-Phile Says:
   September 9th, 2009 at 6:31 pm

   I’m the kind of guy who just wants the facts, not a bunch of talking. I’d rather read first-hand sources than what this guy regurgitates.

   If you’re looking for the most readable overview of UFOs, then get “The UFO Book” by Jerome Clark, or “Above Top Secret” by Timothy Good.
   Rating: 2 / 5

3. enoeiwh Says:
   September 9th, 2009 at 8:48 pm

   Nothing really informative. This book it seems is a collection of sighting data. The sightings are strung together in a neverending number of paragraphs. No information, only data.

   Check out Schnoebelen’s book Space Invaders. Much more informative.
   Rating: 2 / 5

4. Thomas Jackson Says:
   September 9th, 2009 at 9:19 pm

   This long, dry, chronological listing of sightings of UFOs would certainly benefit from a little more narrative snap. It is easy to believe the author’s contention that UFOs are treated like a national security issue, and that the government doesn’t want to share any information. Nothing suprising there. Still, the overwhelming quantity of sightings listed simply proves that a lot of people have seen a lot of unusual things. But the book doesn’t offer any new definitive evidence. If the reader conflates quantity with proof or explanation, the book is compelling. If you’re inclined to want more empirical proof, this book won’t give it to you.
   Rating: 2 / 5

5. Scott Snyder Says:
   September 9th, 2009 at 10:36 pm

   UFO’s and the National Security State is a book of two and a half stories that do not actually come together.

   The first story regards UFO’s in general and the career of Donald Keyhoe in particular. There is very little new information here. The only thing I learned was that UFOs are also a nautical phenomena. Dolan’s presentation is an unremitting assault of fact – or reported facts — gathered over the years. Unfortunately the facts come in such rapid succession that there is hardly room for breath in between and the result is tedious.

   The second story regards the National Security State. Again, there is precious little new information here. James Forrestal’s apparent suicide, Project Grudge, Blue Book, etc., are all old news, as is the idea that Blue Book was more a PR stunt than a serious study of unknown phenomena. Where Dolan does bring in writers and thinkers like Chomsky, it is to describe how the power structure works in covert operations – not how it may or may not hide UFO information. There is very little “glue” between the workings of the national security state and UFOs in this book.

   The half story regards the author’s gratuitous and unnecessary inclusion of government mind control experimentation under Sid Gottlieb and MK Ultra, Monarch, etc. This is an important subject. How it relates to UFOs remains a mystery. Again, there is no glue connecting the shocking details of terminal mind control experimentation to unknown things in the sky.

   Three quarters through the book Dolan writes that if the reader has made it that far, maybe they can stomach yet another unsubstantiated report from inside the NSA. What is this great disclosure? The NSA apparently notes that either something is really going on, or mass psychosis is sweeping the planet! This was certainly the funniest bit in a book largely lacking in humor.

   All in all, I would recommend this book to anyone who wants a concise review of the UFO controversy from the 40s to the 70s. If you already know much of the history, this is not your book. And as far as revealing anything about the national security state’s treatment of UFOs – well, the state debunks them. But then again, you didn’t need this book to tell you so.
   Rating: 2 / 5

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