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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:
•
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
•
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.
Also by
Howard Blum
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Wishful Thinking
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