Out There: The Government's Secret Quest for Extraterrestrials 0671662600, 9780671662608

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In the winter of 1987, following a series

of puzzling events, seventeen

members of

US. intelligence community were summoned to the the

Pentagon. Their Top-Secret mission: to

determine

if

there

was

life

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For years, the United States A" .iiment has repeatedly denied reports of any official interest in UFOs or of any covert military investigations into the possibility of life on other planets. In an extraordinary feat of investigative journalism, award-winning former New York Times reporter Howard Blum has uncovered the truth: the U.S. government is lying. Out There reveals the existence of the top-secret

December

1987,

UFO

Working Group, established in whose members— intelligence officials,

scientists, military

officers— meet regularly

at the

Penta-

UFO sightings and investigate all other unexplained intrusions into our planetary reports of space. It is the group that hopes to determine, once and for

gon

to evaluate

all,

if

them

how to contact how to respond if

there are extraterrestrial beings,

they exist on other planets— and

if

they attempt to contact us.

Based on sources

at the

highest levels, Out There

is

a

stunning expose of our government's clandestine activities

and a meticulously documented account of the dedi-

cated scientific search for extraterrestrial

Blum made

than two-year investigation,

journey across America of

MIT

to a

raucous

life.

In his

more

a fascinating

— from the scientific sanctuaries

UFO Day

celebration in

Elmwood,

Wisconsin; from the U.S. Space Command's headquarters under snow-capped Cheyenne Mountain to NASA's

97 -mil lion -dollar space-monitoring installation in the Mojave Desert; from the Old Executive Office Building, where bizarre psychic experiments have been conducted, to an exobiology lab that devises models of what extraterrestrials might look like. Every chapter of Out There is filled with unexpected revelations. Among the surprises are:

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The

electronic "fence" that surrounds America's

defense perimeter, which

is

frequently "tripped" by

objects that cannot be identified •

The protocol drafted by a

State

Department

official to

regulate the release of information to the public in the

event of contact with extraterrestrials •

The

and harassment by Air Force Intelligence of UFO groups around the country, and the circulation of counterfeit documents •The FBI's ongoing investigation of the "MJ-12" docuinfiltration

ments—classified reports of the recovery in 1948 of a crashed flying saucer and four extraterrestrial bodies in

New Mexico • "Classified" military

documents

Air Force has considered the possibility that alien aircraft have penetrated the airspace surrounding nuclear instalthat reveal that the

lations

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The active and covert involvement of The National Security

Agency, America's most secret intelligence organi-

zation, in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence

Mr. Blum has discovered that what many deride as science fiction

is,

indeed,

fact.

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Howard Blum

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