U.F.O.'s Are Real by Sergeant Clifford E. Stone

Clifford E. Stone has written a book that he admits should not have been written. He acknowledges on page viii that in doing research for it and in publishing it "superiors tried to get rid of me, through the use of pressure, intimidation, or insinuation." As is the case with most UFO books, the writers seem to be confused.

He acknowledges having been intimidated but on the next page, ix, he says that he was hired by the U.S. Army to the investigation of UFO debris for more than 22 years. According to Clifford E. Stone, he presented his case to Congress on several occasions. He actually went in front of Congress and talked about Project Moondust and Operation Blue Fly. I really hope he didn't go in front of that body and say, "Man is not alone in the Universe."

One or two of them actually believe in God.

The writer of Top Secret/Majic, Stanton T. Friedman, did the introduction for Stone's book and is filled with what appear to be secret agency investigations. I am beginning to think that while many of the letters, classified and unclassified are probably real correspondence, the writer Stone was not entirely operating on a full deck.

None of the correspondence from Generals and others really say anything more than that's all right Clifford, you need a good rest.

The proposition that Clifford E. Stone bases his, oh, by God, there really is a UFO, conclusion is that we will all be astounded at his pronouncement. His letters are answered. He was employed by the Army. His book is based on the presumption that since he wrote to Generals and got replies that his amazing beliefs in UFO's are real and that the government is secretly using alien intelligence and we had better behave. He sounds like he was hired by wanna bee's 1984"s. There is too much hocus-pocus in the collection of letters from Generals and others.

Very simply, I am of the opinion, that he was paid to put together a collection of his letters to his bosses and he was impressed with his work. Therefore, he was paid again to publish his work to tell everyone that the Army has done its work and properly investigated the situation.

For me, I can see no real purpose being served by the Army in not setting the record straight except for one obvious problem. The member of Congress are elected by people with their own psychological and intimidation agendas, and no amount of telling people that balloons are also flying objects will satisfy them if their intent is to use those stories to create fear in people. Most politicians unfortunately play on the fear of people.