Aliens from Space Author:Donald Keyhoe The Real Story of Unidentified Flying Objects — Major Keyhoe explores the government and US Air Force role in UFO sightings. His part as an ex-military officer and his involvement with the National Investigations Committee for Aerial Phenomena allows the reader the opportunity to confront for themselves genuine UFO reports that were made by milit... more »ary personnel. The overwhelming secrecy regarding UFOs by the US Government and the military is of staggering concern for any member of the public who may have had a genuine sighting but ended up being ridiculed by the very establishment that was meant to protect national security, an event that was apparently being breached on a regular basis. What Keyhoe strongly suggests is that the need for secrecy was an essential cover for a Government that knew very little about what was behind the flying saucer sightings, and also the fact that it could not do anything about the infringement of national security. Military and government officials were extremely worried and public must not know that. I found this book easy to read. It includes many examples of UFO sightings which are not famous but are considered important because they demonstrate that there is enough evidence to say that something real and strange is happening. Even though Keyhoe's book was written in the Seventies, the problems he encountered then, such as the official silence, the ridicule of the witness continues to this day and the fact that genuinely unexplained sightings can still be a major problem to a nation's security. Keyhoe enables the reader to understand the investigative processes, and the depths to which some investigators have to go through to get some results, to show that there is a phenomena worth exploring by the scientific community.« less