The Real Roswell Crashed-Saucer Coverup

by Philip J. Klass

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573921645
• ISBN13: 9781573921640
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

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People have been using Roswell incident as evidence of extraterestrial visitation. Klass like his other books, uses something most ufo believers like budd hopkins don't use, science and logic. Remember hearsay and conjecture are not evidence.

An admirable exercise in rationality, with minor flaws

Imagine you are a government official, investigating the possibility of a cover-up of knowledge of an alien spacecraft that crashed at Roswell over 50 years ago. Imagine that you find nothing; furthermore, imagine that you have nothing to find. Your situation is hopeless--who in the UFO-believer community is ever going to believe you, no matter what you can show? Philip Klass is either to be admired or pitied for taking on this Sisyphean task; no matter how convincingly he demonstrates that the supposed "crash" at Roswell has a prosaic explanation, no matter how ridiculous the so-called "researchers" who claim otherwise are revealed to be (ranging from simple gullibility to outright fraud), the counter-arguments will _never_ stop. There will always be some new account, some new dimension to the conspiracy, that the diligent debunker failed to address. This principle is exemplified by Kevin Randle's review of this book right here on this URL (see below). Don't let Mr. Randle fool you--this book strikes a fatal blow to the entire Roswell crashed-saucer phenomenon. Mr. Klass has a tendency to harp on certain facts a little too much (the single document that he believes serves to falsify all notions of recovered alien spacecraft does nothing of the sort; it is simply a piece of evidence to that effect), but the story of Project Mogul--a simple, relatively boring high-altitude balloon experiment--is compelling, and explains just about everything. The book is pleasantly short, and makes for a breezy read, which is surprising for a debunking effort. The truth is out there, and Philip Klass reveals it. (P.S. to Mr. Randle: if one is to dismiss the Project Mogul explanation because part of it depends upon the 50-year old recollections of one man, then one must naturally also dismiss the entire crashed-saucer story, which depends entirely on such crusty old memories, most of which conflict with each other.)

Phillip Klass hits a home run on the Roswell UFO myth.

As a Roswell resident for 30 years, I'm always looking for definitive and well researched books on the subject of the Roswell 'UFO' crash. I found it in Phillip Klass's book which is full of facts and details that ought to make believers run and hide. I suggest it be on every skeptic's book shelf.

The last shovel full of dirt on the Rosewll Myth's grave!

You of course will hear indignant howls of pain from the profiteering promoters of the Rosewell "UFO crash" Myth, but that is just the sound of their cash cow dying. Klass presents the evidence surrounding the Rosewell incident (and the non-evidence invented by the UFO-hucksters) and arrives at the only logical conclusion. The Rosewell "crash" involved a lot of coverup, and no aliens. This book serves as an excellent source for debating the credulous, and along with Kal K. Korff's "The Rosewell UFO Crash : What they don't want you to know" it buries the Rosewell Myth deeper than the Loch Ness. The Truth is Out There. And you can find it in this book.