Roswell : Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe - Hardcover

Pflock, Karl T.; Pournelle, Jerry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1573928941 ISBN 13: 9781573928946

Publisher: Prometheus, 2001

Synopsis

For over fifty years an incident near Roswell, New Mexico, has sparked the imaginations of UFO enthusiasts. Did the military recover a crashed "flying saucer" there, along with several extraterrestrial bodies? Has the government gone to great lengths to hide the evidence? Over time these speculations have reached the status of unquestionable truths in the minds of many ufologists.In this definitive study of the Roswell incident, longtime UFO researcher Karl T. Pflock-who is convinced that some UFO reports are real alien sightings-concludes, after an exhaustive investigation, that no alien craft or bodies were ever found at Roswell. Pflock admits at the outset that he too once strongly believed there might be something to the Roswell alien stories, and he describes how he then came to discover the whole truth. Using formerly classified records he proves that the U.S. government has absolutely no physical evidence of aliens, shows how critical weather data completely refute key claims of Roswell believers, and explains why the case now rises and falls on the testimony of just one witness, who cleverly manipulated leading investigators and continues to do so today.Pflock's intensive research and access to once-classified documents-including facsimilies of important formerly classified documents, 28 witness affidavits, and the entire Pratt-Marcel interview transcript-make this book must reading even for UFO buffs-believers and skeptics alike- who feel they know everything about Roswell.

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From the Publisher:

When you finish...you will know everything you need to know about Roswell. You may not like the conclusions Pflock draws, but it's hard to quarrel with them. They aren't the conclusions that he...hoped to come to. Seeking the truth means taking the truth seriously and following the facts where they lead, no matter what you want to believe. That takes courage. -- Dr. Jerry Pournelle, from the Foreword

From the Inside Flap:

This is not just the name of a small New Mexico town. For many, it is a word that taps into a deep-seated will to believe and evokes thrilling images: A flying saucer crashes in the desert southwest in the summer of 1947, killing its extraterrestrial crew. The U.S. military swiftly recovers the saucer and bodies and wraps them in a cloak of cover stories, witness intimidation, and super-secret research. There are hundreds of witnesses. There are highly classified confirming documents. There are heart-wrenching stories of terror at the hands of government agents. Everything has been repeated over and over again on television, in hit films, and in the press.

It happened. Who can doubt it?

Karl T. Pflock does. In this book, the veteran ufologist--who is convinced we have been visited by ETs piloting UFOs--proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that what happened near Roswell was not one of those visits gone wrong, but something else gone awry. Here, he reveals the truth about what many consider "the most important UFO case in history," as well as his own intellectual odyssey from hopeful agnostic to Roswell skeptic, showing how he overcame the pull of his own will to believe by following the inconvenient facts where they led--rather than conveniently ignoring them.

According to Pflock, there is much less--and thus, in some ways, more--to Roswell than meets the eye. The body of evidence he presents to support his case is vast and overwhelming, from the genuine formerly classified record to a deft expose of the hoodwinking of some ufologists by two clever men--one of whom fed a leading researcher's own words and claims back to him, "confirming" a central feature of Roswell lore. ROSWELL: INCONVENIENT FACTS AND THE WILL TO BELIEVE is the definitive work on the Roswell case. No one with an interest in UFOs and the belief systems they inspire can afford not to read it--especially those who think they already have all the answers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Prometheus
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1573928941
• ISBN 13: 9781573928946
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 331