The UFO Files

Today, we have a guest-post: good mate Kevin Goodman (author of UFO Warminster: Cradle of Contact) reviews David Clarke’s latest book, The UFO Files.
The UFO Files
By Dr David Clarke
Reviewed by Kevin Goodman
Dr David Clarke is one of this country’s most respected experts in all manner of Fortean subjects.
In this, his latest book, David turns his critical eye once again to the thorny subject of the UFO phenomenon, but with a slightly more unusual stance than your common-or-garden writer. For David, along with Joe McGonagle and a number of other researchers who are the leading lights of UFO research here in the UK, are the diligent and persistent citizens who applied pressure to get the MODs UFO files released into the public domain, care of the National archives in Kew. It is this new vein of material which forms the basis for David’s new book, The UFO Files.
David has, per normal, done a great deal of research into this, his new magnum opus. He has cherry picked some of the most interesting and obscure cases held at the National Archive, bringing some hitherto unknown cases into the open for the first time. The book is an interesting read, and covers the whole of the UFO subject in the UK since its inception into mainstream public awareness after the Second World War.
But, it’s no rehash of reports and sightings since the 1950s. Early reports of the phantom airships during the early part of the last century and the famous “Foo-fighters†seen both by Allied and Axis pilots during the closing months of the Second World War are covered, along with more modern sightings.
As with David’s previous books, it is a rich and varied volume, and one which should grace the bookshelf of anyone interested in the UFO subject. I only have one minor quibble, in that it is too short a volume.
With the major press coverage during the release of the files, David and his fellow researchers have done the whole UFO subject a great service. Gone are the old days when such news items were reported with a certain amount of distain and ridicule. For once, the UFO field was treated in a serious manner, taking it out of the domain of jokes and mickey taking, making it a serious news item.
If I had to recommend one book this year, then this would be the one!
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