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Roswell: Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe - Review
Skeptical Inquirer, Sept, 2001
Karl T. Pflock. Prometheus Books, 59 John Glenn Drive, Amherst, NY 14228-2197. 2001. ISBN 1-57392-894-1.331 pp. Hardcover, $25. In his foreword Jerry Pournelle calls this a "courageous and important" book, and in many respects it is. Pflock is a rare breed, a pro-UFOlogist who is an anti-Roswellean, the result of his own eight years of research into the Roswell story and his gradual conversion from wanting to bust open the truth about Roswell to discovering that he was not as objective as he had believed.
Pflock is a former Defense Department and intelligence official, and this is a meticulously researched look at Roswell. Pflock concludes that Roswell was indeed stimulated by the debris from a constant-level balloon project in 1947 that had both civilian (New York University researchers led by professor Charles B. Moore) and secret military aspects. "On close and careful examination, the seemingly impressive ease for a crashed flying saucer at Roswell dis solves, and a quite different picture comes into focus" writes Pflock after thirteen chapters of analysis. "No saucer wreckage. No bodies. No missing nurses. Instead there is revealed the story of a highly classified, very sensitive U.S. Army Air Force research-and-development project, how it almost was compromised by a combination of complacency, chance, and hubris, and what military authorities did to forestall such a security breach."
COPYRIGHT 2001 Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal
COPYRIGHT 2001 Gale Group
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