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| Strange Secrets: Real Government Files on the Unknown | 
 enlarge | Authors: Nick Redfern, Andy Roberts
Publisher: Pocket
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95 (54.03 RON)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 692569
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 336
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0743469763
Dewey Decimal Number: 001.94
EAN: 9780743469760
ASIN: 0743469763
Publication Date: May 20, 2003
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 Nothing Special About This Book October 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Like the title says, nothing special about this book. It briefly touches on a few subjects, and I mean Very BRIEFLY, such as crop circles, Noah's ark, spontaneous combustion, flying saucers, the government black-baggers, Mind Science (Telekinesis, Telepathy), and the Loch Ness Monster.
This book is for someone who absolutely has never heard of any of this stuff, and is just looking to skim the surface on a few topics. Nothing more. The information in this book is not very detailed at all and hardly presents any useful information to someone actually studying these topics.
Personally this book did not keep my attention at really any point in time. Though, it didn't take me long to read because there's hardly any info on each page. It's almost as though they were just trying to fill a certain amount of pages.
To sum it all up, if you've ever caught some of the documentaries shown on the Discovery Channel or History Channel, where the entire show is dedicated to providing bias and non-biased so-called facts about phenomenon and by the end of the show, the narrator leaves you hanging with "Will we ever really know if blah blah blah really exists??!?!". Well, yeah, that's this book. But hey, it's only 99 cents on amazon. So if you're looking for a book to maybe fill one of those "waiting on the good book to arrive in the mail" weeks, then this is your book.
Strange and Sometimes Boring Secrets August 12, 2008
The book is a compilation of research into unexplained paranormal activity and events from crop circles to UFOs to spontaneous human combustion. (Yeah, no joke.)
It's got the usual governmental suspects denying everything but contradicting their own reports. Of course the juicy parts of the released reports are still blacked out.
Most of it is interesting but rather dry. Some of it, like the part on remote viewing, I wouldn't even consider "strange" or "secret" by today's standards. If you're in to the conspiracy theory stuff, add this one to your collection.
pretty boring February 21, 2008
I heard the author talk on tv...he doesn't translate well in the written form....sorry BORED to DEATH
it was ok January 7, 2008
I learned a few things that I didn't know.It contained released government documents concerning ufo's which indicates that at least some of the ufo's are a creation of the military.
Not really very sensational October 14, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The official standpoint of the governments of England, the U.S. and former Soviet Union regarding the paranormal might not be very detailed. But appearances are deceptive. In fact, for a long time all three of did, and still do, actively investigate and document everything from the Loch Ness Monster, Men in Black, alien abductions, the alleged existence of Noah's ark, and much more.
Nick Redfern and Andy Roberts, two British ufologists, have collected a large amount of governmental documents from the three countries, and these documents clearly show how paranormal discussions and theories have been present at the highest levels of each government. And some of these documents reveal quite startling facts, such as the struggle of both East and West to find psychic spies, the interest in unexplained entities by the British government, and America's attempts to construct saucer-shaped aircraft.
Each chapter is jampacked with quotes and citations from previously classified documents, and from time to time the sheer amount of these reach such a level that the role played by the authors feel more or less redundant; in the sense that the reader gets the feeling the entire chapter is not really written but instead copied straight from the documents. This has a negative impact on the book, despite the interesting content, because official documents have a tendency to be monotonous and boring. Just because the content is exciting doesn't automatically result in exciting reading, a sad fact which most people with an interest in the paranormal are very well aware of.
All in all, the book isn't actually that sensational. Because nothing sensational is revealed, besides the fact that the world's leading governments have had, and still has, an interest in things that many people perhaps believed the governments cared nothing about. But if you're looking for a book about the unexplained and paranormal you're well advised to go look somewhere else.
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