Even if it isn’t aliens but some natural effect or psychological thing that endangers flight safety, we still need to know the cause behind it. One of the American secret divisions, sped to the crash site and removed the craft and occupants to a highly secret place and ever since, have completely denied all knowledge that the crash ever happened. However, it fell flat for me—I feel like he should have used a professional editing source to clean up this book.

We’ve just heard from Wellington radar that we’ve got an object about a mile behind us and it’s following us,’ he reported in-flight on the darkened plane.Heaven help you if you dared to hang up though, because then you would become the focus of their aggressive paranoia. If it gets covered at all, invariably there is a quizzical raising of the eyebrows or a subtle turn of phrase, or a flourish of X-Files music, to suggest that this is a lighter story to be taken with a grain of salt. There was feverish public interest in the phenomenon of UAPs at this time, which should put what happened next in some context.

What is even more amusing to me but perhaps not so for most scientist is that the author has some good arguments against using Ockham Razor and the various versions of “extraordinary evidence needs extraordinary bla bla” as a UAP denial panacea. The timelines didn’t really make sense for me, nor did the whole “brainwashing” idea, nor did most of the plot.The excursion into the UFO rabbit hole at the beginning is an excellent starting point for the review. In 1938, Orson Welles’ radio adaption from New York of HG Wells’ 1897 novel The War of the Worlds sparked alarm among some of his audience, who thought an alien invasion was actually underway.