Saucers, Spooks and Kooks

Excellent book. Details the players and misbehavers in the UFOlogy and Cattle Mutilation research scenes for over about five decades. This is the story of how much of what we call “UFO lore” today originated not from black ops whistleblowers describing real events, but purely from the imaginations of Air Force and CIA intelligence officers, and how they got these tall tales into circulation as “disclosures” believed by many to be true.

Adam Gorightly writes from lengthy experience within the conspiracy, esoterica, and paranormal research scenes (an overlapping grouping to be sure), and deflates many of the more sensational ideas of underground extraterrestrial-staffed military bases and sci-fi laser battles, while very much pointing to real evidence of counter-intelligence operations against potential Russian assets, top secret medical and technological experimentation on American citizens and their cattle, and the possible assassination of investigative journalist Danny Casolaro. It's a very clear-headed and quite interesting book, I enjoyed it a lot.