Review of UFO's by Phillip J. Klass

The introduction obviously uses material from a group called Ground Saucer Watch which purports that the CIA although claiming to have closed its books on ufo's in 1952 has secret information that extraterrestrials could be penetrating the airspace over military facilities, ufo's could be abducting people, at least two hundred, they claim and a personal account by Val Johnson, deputy sheriff in some town in Minnesota was attacked by a ufo.

The introduction which claims that two hundred "innocent" people are being abducted is actually amusing.
I have no idea why the author would make claims as to their innocence? Who would be guilty of an ufo abduction, and who would be charging? I am prepared to be serious about the facts as given in this book by Phillip Klass.
I think that his book is worth reading to make a sensible mental comparison with other claims and behaviors of his group.

Chapter 1-Since 1947 the U...S. government has been charged with withholding information about ufo's. The first to publickly make this charge was Donald Keyhoe, a freelance writer who had been in the Marines. Coincidentally these charges by former government employees were made against the US government at the same time as the Soviet Union had developed nuclear weapons. In 1969 the Air Force actually announced that it was closing down its Project Blue Book UFO station located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.

Chapter 2- The CIA had made an English translation of a Soviet bibliography claiming to be articles on parapsychology and claims that ufo's could be "psychic phenomena."
Chapter 3- On February 2, 1979, a tiny bit of information was read on the Tomorrow Show hosted by Tom Snyder. Someone by the name of Spaulding had been invited to read to the viewers that the CIA has plenty of documentation that they know about ufo.s
Chapter 4- The CIA implication brought up by airing their closed Blue Book investigation is the possibility of using ufo reports in psychological warfare. (Be good to us or we will bring out our aliens, excuse me the writer still has a sense of humor.)
Chapter 5- Although Phillip Klass states that the CIA had closed its investigation in 1952, in this chapter he states that the CIA kept secret papers in 1978.
Chapter 6- The date is March 31, 1975, the show is the Art Finley Show airing at San Francisco's KGO radio station. The report is a United Airlines captain, appearing incognito who claimed he waved at a passing ufo.
Man, if you are into mental massage, read the book, and get a load of this line and there are many other line like it " they could, but do not. their vibrations vary within the bounds of those energy layers within the physical matrix. they are able to reach a different vibration, yet are still here." All I have to say is that we have another reason why marijuana should not be legalized.
Chapter 7- The Christian Science Monitor wrote a story in April 27, 1977, that stated that ufo's should be investigated by astronomers because then we would have a scientific explanation of where God came from.
Chapter 8- A northern California couple were attacked by a huge red blob.
Chapter 9- Phillip Klass has a friend! Both he and his friend have decided that ufo's are here with a message.
Chapter 10- The meaning of extraterrestrial is worked on with ample quotations from ufo addicts.
Chapter 11- Ufo addicts and reporters are not be be trusted. We need to rely on explanations from expert ufo followers like Dr. J. Allen Hynek.
Chapter 12- Amazing eyewitness reports of ufo's fighting with the United States Air Force.
Chapter 13- Ufo's are spotted in Canada using the North American Aerospace Defense Command or NORAD.
(This stuff is getting too serious. My name is Nora and I dated a Phillip. If he doesn't say anything, nobody will know who)
Chapter 14 - The plot thickens as Iranian Air Force lets us know they too have ufo's.
Chapter 15 - Ufo ologist Ronald Schiller whose family name is renowned in Dunedin, Florida, with a scientology, born again Christian hotel management group, discusses an encounter near Mansfield, Ohio, in Delphos where ufo's actually allowed themselves to be photographed.
Chapter 16- Ufo's near Mansfield, Ohio, follow a helicopter. ( I had a cousin living there. He probably brought his helicopter with him from Symi, Greece)
Chapter 17- Not content with following one Army helicopter, ufo's follow another helicopter in 1976 again in Mansfield, Ohio. ( Okay, cous, let me check your warehouse)
Chapter 18- Ufo abductions the media made famous Barney and Betty Hill, a mixed racial couple and Travis
Walton (not of North Carolina's sit com fame)
Chapter 19- They drop Travis Walton off.
Chapter 20- Actually i would like to see if they can do a polygraph on an alien.
Chapter, 21- Phillip Klass begins to see the possibility of a hoax since the National Enquirer is making a lot of money on is story. (Actually, the detailed accounts that he gives are priceless if you are thinking of a scifi story.)
Chapter 22- Mike Rogers insists he was not inebriated.
Chapter 23 - Phillip Klass has found a new friend, Mike Rogers. Just the photographs and supposedly taped recordings are worth buying the book.
Chapter 24- We are back, Val Johnson's account of being attacked by a ufo on August 27, 1979, is recovered in detail. He was attacked on Highway 220 while going at a speed of 65 miles an hour. He was attacked by lights.
Chapter 25-Ufo's are spreading their lights and are now hitting on New Zealand.
Possible future attractions.
Chapter 26 - I don't want to start up with any international ridicule but actually, here we have an account of a Captain Startup of the Safe Air Argosy unit in New Zealand. Ufo's were seen on the Kaikoura Peninsula.
KaI
Chapter 27 - Not content with being South bound, the ufo's are not North bound in New Zealand.
Chapter 28 - Are we being brainwashed? or is Phillip Klass the only genuis since he has access to Mensa (an organization of nerds, whose main claim to fame is that they have control of government papers)
Chapter 29 - I am of absolutely positively conviction that Phillip Klass has used hypnosis to sell this book to a publisher.
Chapter 30- With FBI agents zeroing down on helicopters illegally brought into the country Phillip Klass and his ufologist claim dementia.
Chapter 31 - As if to send us further into outer space, Phillip Klass titles this chapter, The Greatest Derangement of the Mind". Yet, his account of Todd Zechel from Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, who rose to the rank of leading the Ground Saucer Watch and organizing his own group Citizens Against UFO Secrecy seem envious and spiteful.
There is an Appendix of the most ridiculously contrived ufo principles ever presented as noncomedic.
The book is actually invaluable for ufo see ers.