By Philip KlassOur Price: $19.95 Our Item Code: klassufo Postage Code: book2
310 Pages, Trade Paperback Features: Table of Contents, Index
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| Our Review | Opinion of the webmaster, subject to debate |
Our favorite misanthrope tackles the belief that UFOs are being covered up by the highest levels of the U.S. government. Klass analyses dozens of popular claims prior to this book's 1983 publication date, including the Travis Walton case, classified CIA documents, UFOs over SAC bases and many alleged aircraft/UFO encounters. Not surprisingly, Klass finds only fraud, fantasy and misperception. Klass is an impassioned disbeliever - a religious zealot of ufology's far right - and all of his writings and investigations are colored by this ideology. He makes many of the same mistakes of reasoning as the true believers - inferring the whole from one detail, for instance, or liberally inserting his own speculation where facts are lacking - but unlike the believers, Klass also conducts solid research on occasion, and he has dug up devastating information on many seemingly plausible UFO claims. Unfortunately this book suffers from a lack of footnotes or a bibliography, but most of those references can be found in "pro-UFO" books like The UFO Cover-Up, which examines many of the same cases. Whenever reviewing an historical UFO case, it is important to seek Klass's analysis to read the worst that anyone can say about it. If the case holds up after a "Klass attack," then it might be something worth pursuing. -- Glenn Campbell
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Joseph Burkes·(1)
Footnotes for Above: (1) Dr. Burkes after 6 years of service as Working Gr.
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