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Title: TOP SECRET/MAJIC by Stanton T. Friedman, Whitley Strieber ISBN: 1-56924-741-2 Publisher: Marlowe & Co Pub. Date: October, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.76 (17 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: The Truth is Indeed Out There ...
Comment: But finding it is the real story. Nuclear scientist Stanton Friedman offers armchair UFO enthusiasts and debunkers an amazing view inside the world of UFO committees and conferences, hoaxed pictures and documents, the government's many records archives, unexplained UFO sightings, and the difficulties of obtaining information through the so-called "Freedom of Information Act". Although Friedman plainly states his pro-UFO sentiments, he nevertheless takes a scientific approach to analyzing the alleged MJ-12 government documents, code-named "MAJIC", anonymously leaked to fellow researchers Bill Moore and Jaime Shandera. After endless hours of archival research, dozens of dead-ended requests, interviews with relatives of deceased government officials, and his own attempts to prove the documents false through massive fact gathering, Friedman's inarguable conclusions add a startling and new dimension to what actually happened near Roswell in 1947, and bring to light the subsequent government and military activity designed to keep it secret. His dogged empirical analyses of each document is a fascinating detective story, one that will easily hold the attention of any reader interested in sifting through rumor, gossip, innuendo, and disinformation to reach a logical conclusion of fact.
Rating: 4
Summary: Freaky deaky man...
Comment: First of all, I bought TOP SECRET/ MAJIC on July 4th in Roswell, NM from ufologist Stanton Friedman. So I walked into reading this book after having met the author (who freaked me out like an evil bearded Smurf). Mr. Friedman completes a nearly flawless, although sometimes strained, point by point case to prove that the MJ-12 documents are real. I left the book feeling convinced of the documents authenticity, but a little suspect about some of the motives behind Friedman's logic.
For example, Dr. Vannevar Bush (chairman of the National Defense Research Commission and Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II & a NACA chairman) was a known UFO debunker throughout his life, and is one of the 12 people listed within the MJ-12 documents. The logic that Friedman uses to convince readers that Bush was a UFO conspirator is often charged with overly negative emotion due to their adversarial relationship.
Despite several such overly demonstrative flaws in the action of his rhetoric, all in all it was a pretty good read.....
Rating: 4
Summary: Anatomy of a Controversy
Comment: A controversy rages about the authenticity of the documents upon which this book is based. It is a controversy which must exist because of the nature of the subject matter. These documents were provided anonymously, and supposedly give evidence for the existence of a highly secret council within our government whose main purpose was to control public knowledge about UFOs.
Secret government agencies such as the Central Intelligence Agency, the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Reconnaisance Office, and many others, are not solely engaged in intelligence gathering. They are also involved in information management. For that reason alone, one cannot unquestioningly accept the main thesis of this book. The possibility remains that the whole set of documents, or a major portion of them, were deliberately forged and given out as disinformation to create controversy and dissention among the ranks of UFO investigators.
In spite of all the doubts about whether this book speaks the truth in every detail, in general terms there is a great deal of truth to the message given. Stanton Friedman has the credentials, the knowledge, and the investigative ability to do as thorough a job as anyone could have done with this subject. He also does an excellent job of presenting the material in an informative and entertaining manner.
This book is definitely worth reading, but for most people, an additional education on the history of UFOs is necessary to provide the right mental framework for this book. This education is obtained by a reading some of the best serious literature on UFOs. To read this book without having that context is hard to imagine.
Tom Bowden,
Oregon State Director,
Mutual UFO Network
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Title: Confirmation: The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us? by Whitley Strieber ISBN: 0312967047 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: February, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Coverup, 1941-1973 by Richard M. Dolan, Jacques F. Vallee ISBN: 1571743170 Publisher: Hampton Roads Pub Co Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Crash at Corona: The U.S. Military Retrieval and Cover-Up of a Ufo by Stanton T. Friedman, Don Berliner ISBN: 156924863X Publisher: Marlowe & Company Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Communion : A True Story by Whitley Strieber ISBN: 0380703882 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 February, 1988 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Ufo Investigator's Handbook: The Practical Guide to Researching, Identifying, and Documenting Unexplained Sightings by Craig Glenday, Stanton T. Friedman ISBN: 0762406194 Publisher: Running Press Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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