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Good reading. Buy to use as a resourceAugust 28, 2008 1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Probably your best bargain in the ufo category written by a physicist once employed by the Air Force. Despite what the nay-sayers have written here, this is your best buy on the subject, from a no-nonsense researcher.
Mr. Friedman summarizes the best cases, though providing many resources for you to look up on your own. He explains in detail the fallacies of arguments against these best cases. In fact, he encourages you to read the original sources and so follow in his footsteps.
I admire this man for his courage to speak out when to do so, brings censure and derision. Good work! And a very good buy for you.
Flyng Saucers and ScienceAugust 26, 2008 1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Finally a book on Flying Saucers/UFO's that gets away from the old genre and brings us into the 21st century. Stanton Friedman's handling of the subject is befitting a man of his education as a scientist and stature as a life long researcher and believer in the phenomenon. This should be required reading in every news room across the globe. Let every empty talking/writing head who ever made fun of the idea or derided those that reported the sightings take a sobering look at themselves and the matter. I hope I live long enough to see this government 'give it up' and open up their UFO files to the world. Best work yet on this issue.
Superficial and uninformativeAugust 26, 2008 2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Readers looking for a scientific appraisal of the UFO phenomenon or even a coherent overview of the subject should look elsewhere. Friedman's rambling polemic achieves neither objective.
The author spends the first third of this rather slender volume rehashing a number of reports issued decades ago. He presents no new evidence and basically insists that a careful reading of these old documents will prove that some UFOs are alien spacecraft.
The remainder of the book is largely dedicated to claiming a government cover-up and rebutting his critics, many of whom are dead. Ironically, he denounces the critics for making unwarranted assumptions about the motivations of a reputed alien civilization, then proceeds to do exactly the same thing himself. For instance, he suggests that one reason the aliens don't reveal themselves is that they would want little direct contact with beings who spend vast amounts on armaments while permitting 30,000 children to starve to death each day. Moreover, they might avoid landing on the White House lawn because it is in a "no fly" zone and heavily defended.
Apart from its superficial content, the rambling and repetitive text has the feel of a compilation of dictated notes. For example, Friedman informs us at least five times that the stars Zeta 1 and Zeta 2 Reticuli are only 1/8 of a light year apart from each other, and he repeatedly notes that 300,000 documents in the Eisenhower Library are still classified. Numbered points that promise a concise examination of some issue frequently drift into petulant asides or long lists of irrelevant facts. Someone named Kara Reynolds is identified as the book's editor. She must have been on holiday when this book passed muster.
This is a poor effort, especially for someone who has spent a lifetime investigating the subject.
How can the author be objective?August 17, 2008 5 out of 9 found this review helpful
Stanton Friedman does UFOs as a profession, lecturing, writing so my question is how can he research this topic in an objective manner? Also, it seems stranger than the topic to continue to use the old term "Flying Saucer" I think the material in this book is too one sided.
Mostly BombastAugust 16, 2008 6 out of 9 found this review helpful
Just because you have a degree in science (masters in physics) doesn't automatically make everything you do scientific. In fact, very little research that Stanton Friedman has done recently could truely be called scientific, historical maybe, but not scientific. He speaks with the most authority when discussing exotic propulsion systems based on his record of employment decades ago, but he seems to have lost the concept of science since then. It is highly unlikely that memories of an abduction recovered via hypnosis would even be accepted as evidence in a court of law and it certainly couldn't be considered scientific. In fact, Mr.Friedman may be slightly paranoid on this point because he spends a good deal of print blasting those who think differently than he does.
