Re: Alexander's _UFOs - Myths, Conspiracies and Realities_ book:

Read it? I did. Just finished it a few days ago. Interesting. He quite 
convincingly, I think, says that our and other governments/militaries are 
ignoring UFOs and ETs as not a serious problem nor a threat. Too 
expensive in time and personnel to research them just out of curiosity. 
Here there are no hidden UFOs or wreckage at AF bases or elsewhere, no ET 
interaction of any kind and never was, no ET bodies, no nothing! He seems 
to agree that UFOs exist and have frequently been seen. The military used 
to chase them sometimes. They interfered with ICBM silos in the US, 
former USSR, etc. But in the past several decades we ignore them and they 
mostly ignore the governments except for a little annoyance once in a 
while. He, as I recall, says little about abductions and cattle 
mutilations.

Don't ask me to describe his government indifference reasoning - it takes 
up most of his book. Read the book instead, please.

I was a radar maintenance man in the USAF in very late 1950s and can say 
that on the DEW Line (northern Canada) we ignored them when we picked up 
what was obviously a UFO (usually because of their high speed or their 
behavior) on the radar, never scrambled any interceptors that I heard of 
or witnessed.

What, if you read the book, do you think? He seems to know what he's 
talking about, despite what I've read about UFOs and ETs elsewhere. But 
then again, I've often been wrong before.

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