Description
Author: Leslie Kean
Foreword: John Podesta
Publisher: Harmony Books
Place: New York
Year: 2010
Edition: First edition, first printing
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Page Count: 352
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-71684-2
Condition: Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. This exceptionally clean copy appears never to have been read. The binding is tight, the pages are clean, and the dust jacket shows only negligible shelf wear. Protected in a removable archival Brodart cover. Photographs show the actual copy offered.
Description
Investigative journalist Leslie Kean presents a carefully researched examination of unexplained aerial phenomena based on firsthand accounts from generals, commercial and military pilots, government officials, and aviation experts from around the world.
Rather than attempting to prove an extraterrestrial explanation, Kean concentrates on documented incidents involving trained observers, radar confirmation, official investigations, and government records. Contributors discuss significant cases from the United States, Belgium, France, Iran, Chile, Brazil, and other countries, demonstrating that UFO reports have long been treated seriously by aviation and defense authorities outside the public spotlight.
First published in 2010, the book helped move public discussion of UFOs—now commonly called UAPs—away from sensationalism and toward evidence, official documentation, and responsible investigation. Kean later co-authored the influential 2017 New York Times report revealing the Pentagon’s secret UFO investigation program.
Why We Love This Book
This is an excellent starting point for readers who are curious about UFOs but prefer credible witnesses, documented cases, and careful journalism to speculation. Kean neither dismisses the phenomenon nor claims to have solved it, allowing the testimony and evidence to speak for themselves. It has become an important modern work in the history of serious UFO and UAP research.