Acknowledgments
Foreword, by Linda Moulton Howe
Introduction
The Problem
Main Themes
The Story
Sources
Implications
Chapter 1: Global Strangeness, 1973-1975
Inexplicable Technology
The State of Ufology
UFO Crash in Wales
The French Minister of Defense
The Wave in Spain
ET in the Himalayas?
Landed UFOs in Albuquerque
All Quiet in the West
Nixon, Gleason, and Alien Bodies
The Ronald Reagan UFO Sighting
Political Crisis and Freedom of Information
Behind the Scenes: The Elite Organizations
The Emenegger-Sandler Intrigue
1975: An Extraordinary Year
1975: UFOs and the Spanish Military Again
UFOs Over Montana Missiles
Enter the Triangles
May 3, 1975: A Forgotten Day
More Military Encounters
1975: The State of Technology
The Nazi UFO Connection
UFO Research in 1975
Remote Viewing the Aliens
Last Hurrah of the Old Republic
UFOs Elsewhere in the World
Summary
Chapter 2: Intruder Alert, 1975-1976
Helicopters and Mutilations in the American West
A New Pattern in Abductions
The FBI Backs Away
Going Crazy in the West
NORAD’s Top Alert
Up a Notch: Loring Air Force Base
The Wurtsmith AFB Encounter
From Bad to Worse
Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana
Some Unconfirmed Encounters
Fire in the Sky - The Travis Walton Abduction
Summing Up 1975
1976: The State of UFO Research
1976 Politics
UFOs in the USA: 1976
Somebody Else Is On the Moon - and Other Interesting Leaks
UFOs in the Summer of 1976
ET over the Canary Islands?
Incident Over Tehran
Henry Kissinger’s UFO Memo
Summary
Chapter 3: Great Expectations, 1976-1978
Jimmy Carter and the Trilateral Commission
Freedom of Information
Daniel Sheehan and the Vault
White House UFO Project
Things Go South
Stringfield’s Leaks
NASA’s Troubles, and The Grenada Initiative
Movies and the Media
Government Policies Elsewhere
1977: A Year of Aerial Encounters
UFOs that Kill
The Return and Departure of Mr. Axelrod
A Global Aerial Crescendo
Citizens Against UFO Secrecy
The Crash Retrieval Syndrome
Moving Toward a Breakout?
The Fort Dix - McGuire AFB Incident
Spring Sightings
The Bell Island Explosion
U.S. Military UFO Sightings in 1978
UFOs in the World, 1978
Crashes and Dogfights in South America
European Encounters
Flurry in the Middle East
Soviet UFO Programs
China and Australia
Summary
Chapter 4: The Empire Strikes Back, 1979-1980
The 1979 Drop Off
Growing Paranoia
The House of Lords Debates UFOs
Mutilation Controversy
1979: Mid-Year UFOs
Fighting America’s Goliath: the NSA
Closing with a Bang and Invasion
1980: A Year of Intrigue
Spring Sightings
The Myrna Hansen Abduction
Close Aviation Encounters
A Strange Harvest
Stringfield and The Photos
Manzano
Philip Klass: A Covert Attack
More Triangles
The Roswell Incident and the Spooks
“A Mysterious Silence”
The Strange Signals of Paul Bennewitz
Moore Slides Deeper
Cases at the End of 1980
Encounters in Rendlesham Forest
The Cash-Landrum Incident
Summary
Chapter 5: Cloak and Dagger, 1981-1983
Trans en Provence
The Reagan Administration
The State of Ufology, 1981
World Sightings through May
Setbacks in the Fight Against Secrecy
Abduction Debate
Sightings: June through December 1981
Correspondence on UFO Secrecy
1982: Pennsylvania UFOs
World Sightings, early 1982
The Lid Stays On
The Smith-Sarbacher Connection: Uncovered
America: First Among Equals
Big Brother Grows Up
Sightings in Late 1982
Star Wars, the Soviets, and ET?
Runaway Government
The Hudson Valley Objects
Linda Moulton Howe meets Richard Doty
Taking ET Into Custody?
Ufology in Retreat
Philip Klass: One Man Disinfo Band
Encounters 1983
The Cold War Escalates
Stealthy UFOs
Two Important Stories Break
Summary
Chapter 6: Calm Before the Storm, 1984-1986
State of Ufology: 1984
MUFON and the National Enquirer
Governmental Policies
Hessdalen
Triangles and Balls of Light
The Barbados Incident
Giant UFOs Over the Hudson Valley
The Hudson Valley UFO Conference
Dangerous Soviet UFOs
Media Damage Control
Towards a New Era
Leaks and Lore, 1985
Conservative Ufology
1985: A Quiet Year
Reagan’s (First) Alien Invasion Speech
Pennsylvania Triangles
The Challenger and Ellison Onizuka
Dalnegorsk: The Soviet Roswell?
Geopolitics and Chernobyl in 1986
Research: The Old and the New
May 1986 - The Brazilian Air Force
UnFunded Opportunities
Politics and Scandal in late 1986
Amazing Encounter Over Alaska
The Young Internet
Tracking Fastwalkers at Cheyenne Mountain
A So-Called UFO Working Group
The Aviary
Summary
Chapter 7: Ufology Explodes, 1987-1988
A World About to Change
Redefining Ufology
Abductions
Cracks in the Secret World
Leaking MJ-12
The MJ-12 Affair Breaks
Dr. Eric Walker
1987: A Quiet Year of UFOs
Gulf Breeze
The Lear Letters
1987: The Year in Review
The Knowles Family Encounter
The U.S. Coast Guard Encounters a UFO
Gulf Breeze: 1988
Gulf Breeze - Criticisms
Pennsylvania Wave of 1988
Presidents Talking UFOs
The End of APRO
Strangeness in the Antelope Valley
Enter Bill Cooper
UFO Cover-Up? Live!
Into the Dark Side
Revealing Stealth Secrets
The Norton/Lockheed ARV
Sightings in the World, 1988
Summary
Chapter 8: Into Dreamland and Beyond, 1989-1990
The Bush White House
Paranoia and Its Discontents
The Eastern Empire Cracks
Fyffe, Alabama
The Bob Lazar Story
Cooper on the Secret Government and MJ-12
Bill Moore’s Confession
UFOs Mundane and Extraordinary
The (Non) UFO Shootdown Over Long Island
The Strange Soviet Summer of 1989
The Belgian Triangles
Abduction in Lower Manhattan
Panama: Dress Rehearsal for a New World Order
Going to Area 51
Gulf Breeze Revisited
Dirty Tricks: The Gulf Breeze “Model”
The Soviet UFO of March 21, 1990
The Night of the Belgian Triangles
The Belgian Air Force Talks
Belgian UFO: Opinions
Soviet UFOs – Again
American Technology Ascendant
Crop Circle Explosion
Summary
Chapter 9: False Dawn, 1990-1991
The Structure of UFO Secrecy
Invasion of Kuwait
Greifswald Lights
Soviet UFO Acknowledgment
Dreamland becomes Leakland
The Gulf War
Aerial Encounters in 1991
UFOs Over Mexico
The Military Abduction Question
The Abortive Disclosure
The Soviet Coup and Aftermath
Faking Crop Circles
UFOs in Space: STS-48
Creating the New World Order
Summary
Conclusion
Bibliography
Endnotes
Index
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