About the Author

Michael Swords, who was a professor of Natural Science at Western Michigan University for 30 years, is the primary author of the United States chapters. The work was coordinated and edited by Robert Powell. Clas Svahn, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Bill Chalker, and Robert Powell contributed country chapters. Jan Aldrich was the primary content consultant, with additional content consultation and writing coming from Barry Greenwood and Richard Thieme. Steve Purcell was the primary photo illustration editor.

Reviews

"While UFOs and Government revisits an often unhappy history, the reading of it is far from an unhappy experience. The authors, eloquent, intelligent, sophisticated, and conscientious, provide us with the first credible, comprehensive overview of official UFO history in many years... Most of the current volume deals with U.S. military and intelligence responses to the UFO phenomenon, but it also features richly informative chapters that expand the story across the international arena. If you're looking for an example of a nation that dealt productively with the UFO reports that came its official way, you will take heart in the chapter on the French projects... From here on, every responsible treatment of UFOs and government will have to cite UFOs and Government prominently among its sources... this is the real story as accurately as it can be reconstructed in the second decade of the new century. I expect to keep my copy close at hand and to return to it often. While it cannot be said of many books, UFO-themed or otherwise, this is among the essential ones. Stray from it at your peril." - Jerome Clark, from the Foreword"The bibliography of the UFO phenomenon is vast but often deeary. This straightforward study of the limited topic of government responses to sightings of UFOs--unidentified flying objects--is an exception...Although the nine authors are part of the UFO community, they are not advocates of fringe theories. Their narrative is firmly based on the available sources...A useful resource of the study of a controversial topic. Summing Up: Recommended." -R. Fritze, Choice