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Out There
By Howard Blum
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337 Pages, Mass-Market Paperback
Pocket Books
Date: 1990
ISBN: 0-671-66261-9
Country of Origin: USA
Added to Catalog: 1/19/97
(Revised 1/20/97)
WIRT: 3330x4x3
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Credibility
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Research Value
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Cultural Interest
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Moderate |
Visual Information
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Style
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Silliness
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Wow Factor
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Bargain
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This book promises to provide a breakthrough on UFOs
but fails to deliver more than a few new tidbits.
Nonetheless, it is notable that a respected
former New York Times
reporter should tackle the issue.
Howard Blum asserts that
there exists within the government a "UFO Working Group" preparing
for alien contact. He seems to have this conviction from
inside sources, but one senses that they dried up before
the book was completed.
The first few chapters are intriguing, including an account of
a NORAD radar incident in which an unusual object was tracked
coming in from space.
The remainder of the book feels like filler:
it is a historical review
of the UFO phenomenon from Blue Book to the MJ-12
controversy.
Even if it failed in its goals, the book is probably
worth the paperback price, at least for the subjects it
does cover.
It deserves a place on a serious researcher's bookshelf,
if only because it is frequently mentioned in conversation.
No index!
-- Glenn Campbell
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From the Book Cover
Note to the Reader
(From the Author)
This is a true story. I verified every name, incident, date, and conversation
that is recorded in this account. To accomplish this, I have relied
on extensive interviews with civilian and military officials, both
past and present; members of the intelligence community; the FBI;
and scientists working both in and out of the government. I have also
consulted confidential military documents, classified research reports,
and reports prepared exclusively for the UFO Working Group, as well
as research papers and government publications available to the public.
A more detailed explanation of my method of attribution is included
in A Note on Sources.
H.B.
Table of Contents
- PROLOGUE A Spy's Story
- PART I The UFO Working Group
- PART II The Burrowers
- PART III The Order of the Dolphin
- PART IV Boomtown
- PART V Counterintelligence
- PART Vl Communion
- APPENDIX: The MI-12 Documents
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS
- A NOTE ON SOURCES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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About the Author
Howard Blum, a former award-winning reporter for The New York
Times, has written several highly acclaimed and bestselling
nonfiction books that not only are headlinemaking works of investigative
journalism, but also tell compelling true stories. In Wanted! The
Search for Nazis in America, Mr. Blum told a real-life detective
story‹and wrote a book that led to congressional hearings. In I
Pledge Allegiance . . . The True Story of the Walkers: An American
Spy Family, he wrote an espionage thriller about the most damaging
spy ring in America's history. The book was the basis for the CBS
miniseries, and Mr. Blum served as the drama's associate producer.
And now in Out There, he reveals a true story about the future.
Mr. Blum lives and works in New York, where he is presently involved
in writing another true story.
-- From the Publisher
Promotional Material from the Publisher
What Is the Government Keeping from Us?
THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT: "There is no record of any committee, either
official or unofficial, called the UFO Working Group."
THE CIA: "The Agency has no active research into UFOs."
THE NSA: "I can find no one who will confirm the existence of the
UFO Working Group or an involvement by the NSA with UFO investigations."
Award-winning journalist HOWARD BLUM would discover that all three
of these statements had one thing in common . . . they were lies.
"[An] immensely intriguing expose of our government's ongoing involvement
with persistent reports of UFO's."
- Houston Post
"Researched with meticulousness and written with a fine balance of
irony and open-mindedness."
- Entertainment Weekly
"A first-rate investigator ... OUT THERE makes an interesting,
and blood pressure-raising read about the real aliens in our midst."
- Newport News Daily Press
"Intriguing, informative and just plain fun to read."
- Washington Post
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Cross References
- Howard Blum: Author
- Paul Bennewitz: Includes an account of the Bennewitz affair
- Philip Klass: Account of Klass's investigation of MJ-12 documents, including
- MJ-12: Extensive coverage of the MJ-12 document controversy, including
- NORAD: Account of a Dec. 1986 NORAD incident in which an object was detected
- SETI: Several chapter on SETI and its participants.
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