Just finished reading this one, which Richard Dolan published earlier this year. Bob Wood is part of the father-and-son team devoted to analyzing the purported "MJ-12" documents that have been fed to UFO researchers since the early '80s. (See _http://www.majesticdocuments.com/sources.php) These started with the infamous documents given to William Moore and Jamie Shandera (as well as Tim Good), followed by a whole stack of docs given to Timothy Cooper from 1992-1999. This book gives a good overview to that material, while focusing on one overarching topic of interest: biowarfare and the threat of a potentially species-killing 'alien' or engineered virus. Wood and his ghost-writer Nick Redfern tackle the subject from all angles: references in the MJ-12 documents, testimony from military and intelligence sources, and the mainstream historical and scientific record. What crops up over and over again are links between alleged MJ-12-connected individuals, research into biological warfare, astrobiology, and connections to alleged UFO crash/recoveries (several reports and documents mention deaths connected with these recovery operations). In the first chapters, Wood and Redfern discuss the 'viruses from space' angle, but what's interesting is the amount of interest and research that seems to have been displayed by the intel communities. The last chapter focuses on the deaths of all those microbiologists in the early 2000s, and might suggest another angle in addition to the ethnic-specific weapons one: 'alien' viruses (whether from real 'aliens' or comets). Biowarfare research seems somehow inextricably tied with the whole UFO problem.
For fun, here are some relevant bits from the Cs:
While I don't necessarily agree with all of the authors' conclusions (e.g., the overall authenticity of the documents, Redfern's ideas on Roswell, or the idea that cattle mutilations are essentially biowarfare experiments), most conclusions are stated more as tentative working hypotheses than as pet theories. The main virtue of the book, in my opinion, is the sheer collection of data: names, places, connections. Whether the real danger is from space-borne pathogens (e.g., brought to earth via comets or asteroids), so-called alien viruses found on the alleged bodies of UFO inhabitants, or engineered biowarfare agents (the source of which may or may not have something to do with the other options), the intel community has shown keen interest in it it since at least World War II.
For fun, here are some relevant bits from the Cs:
While I don't necessarily agree with all of the authors' conclusions (e.g., the overall authenticity of the documents, Redfern's ideas on Roswell, or the idea that cattle mutilations are essentially biowarfare experiments), most conclusions are stated more as tentative working hypotheses than as pet theories. The main virtue of the book, in my opinion, is the sheer collection of data: names, places, connections. Whether the real danger is from space-borne pathogens (e.g., brought to earth via comets or asteroids), so-called alien viruses found on the alleged bodies of UFO inhabitants, or engineered biowarfare agents (the source of which may or may not have something to do with the other options), the intel community has shown keen interest in it it since at least World War II.
One of the callers reported strange weather phenomena, so can't say that the time was entirely wasted. Also, I haven't listened to the whole thing yet, but the host didn't make it easy for the authors regarding the issue of documents' authenticity. But they did mention several interesting things, like the red rain in India and the Black Death connection, though there is a feeling that the interview could be better. I am half through it, so perhaps it will improve.
