Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: In the wake of the 2017 Times article, a number of researchers got busy submitting Freedom of Information Act requests.In 2022, after over four years had passed, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) released an underwhelming group of records in response to the requests (Expanding Frontiers Research, n.d.).By that time, much of the information originally published by the Times was shown to be incorrect.The authors of the book at hand acknowledge that this is the case (unlike the Times) but fail to provide significantly more key supporting data for their version of events than the Times.Neither do the authors address the discrepancies between their assertions and their lack of confirmation to be found in the records produced by the DIA.When citations are offered in this book, they include such sources as George Filer (an infamous unreliable narrator with the Mutual UFO Network), UFO reports filed with the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (a mid-20 th century civilian UFO organization), and Wikipedia.It is out of such reports and, at times, dubious sources that the authors fill multiple chapters with technical-sounding jargon on flight capabilities and propulsion means of objects otherwise not established to exist, at least not to the extent as speculated.Description after purported description is presented, ranging from lift forces to color changes, halos to invisibility.This leads to sections on power generation and advanced UAP power generation.Three of five citations provided on page 79 from "a relatively hefty body of anomalous craft reports of varying degrees of credibility," further described as "well documented," lead to Jacques Vallee's UFO books.Often referenced are the physiological effects of UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) on human beings.This writer personally took a deep dive in 2022 into the allegations of what was being termed UFO injury studies, only to find the evidence lacking to the extreme (Brewer, 2022, April).This book did nothing to change my mind.I remain unconvinced investigation of alleged UFO-related injuries took any substantial form that could establish reliable causality or would pass peer review.The merit of such reports and subsequent studies is often simply claimed without sufficient justification.Right from the preface, the authors launch into dramatic descriptions of anecdotal stories relayed by so-called whistleblowers, though the accounts perpetually lack conclusive evidence.The authors never raise the possibility that evidence might be lacking for the simple reason that the stories are inaccurate and incomplete.Numerous figures are presented as credible and esteemed without offering any
DOI: 10.31275/20243523
Author: Jack Brewer
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405844108