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UFOs: A Better Analysis: UFO Books & Theories in a National Security Perspective
The best explanation of Roswell, the Maury Island UFO episode, and the fatal UFO chase, fighter plane crash incident involving Captain Thomas Mantell. Fascinating insights into key historical events related to UFOs from the “War of the Worlds” panic in 1938 to Scandinavian “ghost rocket” waves and the famous 1952 UFO flap over Washington, D.C. Takes a close look at mysterious UFO-related deaths and draws some surprising conclusions. Better explanations for cattle mutilations, crop circles, MJ-12, Mothman, and the Loch Ness Monster.
The early chapters closely analyze some of the major events and elements of UFO history during the classic UFO years, 1940s-1970s, including the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) UFO Assessment, 1953 Robertson UFO Panel, mysterious deaths of UFO researchers, and the Nazca lines in Peru. All get scrutinized within the same historical, national-security-based analytical model. This approach gives the most convincing integrated explanation for UFO events during the classic years of any book published to date.
If you want a good introduction to the UFO literature, you have come to the right place. Innumerable references to the leading UFO book authors are woven throughout the discussion. In the companion volume, UFO Book Guide, I point you to the best UFO books. UFO Book Guide lists approximately 6,000 UFO books and articles. This book, UFOs: A Better Analysis, provides the best context to put those thousands of fascinating UFO books in proper perspective.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rick Harrison is retired from the United States Air Force. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in philosophy from Illinois Wesleyan University. His last two Air Force Assignments were as Chief, Personnel Readiness, Edwards Air Force Base California and Chief, Officer Appointments Branch, Air Reserve Personnel Center, Denver, Colorado.
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RECENT ADDITIONS TO SPY NOVEL REVIEWS
William Maz has a superb new (2022) spy novel out, The Bucharest Dossier. The style is reminiscent of Furst, a tad lighter, but still not light. Realistic and compelling. A young CIA officer struggles to navigate chaos in Romania during the fall of the iron curtain in 1989. A Romanian immigrant to the United States, he elects to revisit his childhood home to try to recapture his roots and reform an authentic personal identity, lost in the cold, impersonal, urban sprawl of New York and Washington. He discovers two things: there was more to his family background than he suspected, and it is entirely too dangerous a time to be in Romania. If you are a romantic at heart, you really must read The Bucharest Dossier. There is sexual content, but it is artistically done within the context of an authentic romance. (Being premarital, it is a sin, of course.)
The Handler series (only two books so far) by M. P. Woodward is technologically up to date, with spy drones and encrypted communication systems. Both The Handler and Dead Drop are excellent reads. Woodward introduces a new set of modern characters, realistically human, but also hard-edged professional field operatives. A CIA husband-wife team where the wife is the controlling supervisor of the husband. Tightly written, insider ambience, spy fiction. Well-crafted heavy action scenes, nuclear terrorism and nonproliferation plots. Woodward obviously worked hard to construct a couple of top-quality spy thrillers. He succeeded. If you are looking for thrillers that can pull you in and keep you focused, stories with modern characters and current event themes, Woodward’s The Handler series is a good choice. Highly recommended.
If you really like the British spy novels, as I do, try Ian Rankin’s, The Watchman. Shades of John le Carre, and about as realistic as a spy novel can be. As with many of the British spy novels, the reader has to pay close attention and think things through. Some readers prefer more transparency, but I prefer a book that makes you think. This is a good one. Excellent read!
And, if you really, really, like the British style spy novel, you won’t want to miss Mick Herron’s Slough House series of novels. Hilariously funny, technologically modern, with a cast of idiosyncratic characters that keep the reader fully entertained even when absolutely nothing is happening—and especially then. But things do happen. Quite a bit of action, though the author makes the reader wait a bit for it. I have read five of these novels and enjoyed them tremendously, but it does take a while to adjust to so many seemingly neurotic characters. It gradually dawns on the reader that these characters are not the nut cases they initially appear to be. They are merely independent thinkers who have no desire to conform to society’s rules for outward appearances. For readers who take the trouble to get accustomed to so many odd characters, Herron’s Sough House series offers the most fun available in book form.
My only criticism of the Slough House series of novels is from the Christian perspective. The main character, Jackson Lamb, a cynical Cold War super spy put out to pasture in a computer data analysis section to avoid political fallout from his cowboy operational style, is constantly using Jesus’ name as profanity. This, unfortunately, is all too common across the spy genre. Other novelists including Tom Clancy (a Catholic), have done the same thing, making it seem a trademark of the military/intelligence culture from the 1960s-1980s, which it may have been. However, Herron’s character, Lamb, takes it too far, too often, in my opinion, to where it seems a little gratuitous. Christian’s beware, if that kind of language offends, you will want to pass on these novels. In Herron’s (partial) defense, there was a habit of foul language in the military/intelligence culture—not to their credit. An author who wants to be authentically descriptive can’t avoid including some of it. Because the Lamb character is designed to be the extreme case of the classic cowboy Cold War spook, he exhibits all the classic traits, but writ large, as it were. In general, the linguistic modality of such exclamations is crafted to be genuinely funny, in the context of stress management during dangerous operations—a sort of occupational humor. Non-Christians, therefore, freely laugh at it. But Christians are more inclined to remember that Jesus died a torturous death to take our punishment on himself so that we could be forgiven our sins—not a laughing matter.
I have just re-read the first three of William F. Buckley, Jr’s Blackford Oakes series spy novels (read them first 35 years ago, something like that)–Saving the Queen, Stained Glass, and Who’s on First. All three were pretty good reads even the second time around. Looking forward to the 4th and 8th in the same series, Marco Polo, if You Can and Mongoose, R.I.P., which are about the Cuban Missile Crisis and Operation Mongoose (U.S. plots to kill Castro) respectively. Some explicit sex, but tastefully done (extramarital, so still a sin). Language isn’t too bad, but not perfect. Buckley’s Blackford Oakes novels are mandatory reading classics for spy novel enthusiasts.
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The UFO Hunt Trivia Game files below are free to download. They include game instructions, a game board image file, and 130 questions. You can add your own questions. Most businesses with printing facilities that can do poster size print jobs can print the game board in a large size for a reasonable price on stiff poster board from a thumb drive copy of the game board .JPG file. Right click the game board image and select “Save image as” to copy the game board .JPG file to your computer. You have my permission to use the trivia game files for personal use, but you can’t sell them. These files are copyright protected.
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