Since 1947, official agencies across the world, including the CIA, the FBI, the United States Air Force, the National Security Agency, and the British Ministry of Defense, have undertaken clandestine UFO investigations and have compiled thousands of pages of classified documentation on this strange, unearthly subject. But, in their quest for the truth about UFOs, those same agencies have been secretly spying on you, as well.

It isn't paranoia if you think "they" are watching you: they really are!

Revealed for the first-time from on-the-record interviewees, an analysis of previously-classified official records, and testimony provided by insider-sources, is the amazing story about how and why Military, Intelligence, and Government departments keep a close watch on those people that look for, and see, UFOs.

Highlights of On the Trail of the Saucer Spies include:

* The FBI's reports on people who claim to have met extraterrestrials*

* Top Secret surveillance of alien-abductees *

* The real-life Men in Black who spy on UFO witnesses *

* Phone-tapping and mail-interference of UFO researchers and authors *

* Scotland Yard's secret monitoring of UFO computer-hackers *

* Classified files on researchers of the famous Roswell crash of 1947 *

* Official infiltration of Flying Saucer research groups *

* UFO writers suspected by the Government of working for hostile nations to uncover defense secrets*

*The author's own experience of being spied upon by the British Ministry of Defense for his interest in UFOs*

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 8 reviews)

"Nothing is quite as it seems."

Nick Redfern's "On the Trail of the Saucer Spies" takes a revealing look at the behavior of the British and American governments in relation to their observation of and interaction with prominent figures throughout the history of modern ufology. The book draws upon an excellent and well referenced combination of declassified documents and first hand interview material to shed new light on historically secretive government operations in these areas.

The book is well paced, enjoyable, and exceeds at balancing intrigue and information. The text proceeds roughly chronologically, taking us first to the Federal Bureau of Investigation as it monitors UFO believers in the midst of communist tensions. As the chapters progress, we find ourselves crossing the pond and being introduced to the British analogues of our own American government agencies and facilities, spending significant amounts of time discussing the operations of MI5, RAF Rudloe Manor, and Porton Down, among others. A random sampling of the topics covered as we criss-cross the Atlantic include Project Beta, the sad story of Paul Bennewitz, hacking Hanger 18 and Wright Patterson Air Force Base, the destruction of NICAP, and the long and twisting tale of the organization known as APEN. The book also includes several black and white photographs, as well as duplicated documents intermingled within the chapters.

Part way through the reading we meet the "Sandman" who quickly becomes a linchpin character in the novel. This otherwise nameless figure is supposedly an ex-member of England's Metropolitan Police Special Branch who has chosen (or been chosen) to reveal information regarding the British government's historical "watching of the watchers." Sandman's frequent direct quotations throughout the latter half of the book serve extensively to validate and confirm various theories our author and his associates have put forth based on prior research. The Sandman is truly one of those "too good to be true" types when it comes to his apparently uncanny ability to put the puzzle pieces in place. In fact, he seems to have a hand in just about every European incident Redfern discusses. Regardless, for those readers who manage to suspend paranoia and suspicion long enough, his claims make for some highly engaging and revealing reading.

When it comes to following the UFO phenomenon, straight answers are a virtual impossibility. Everyone chooses their own particular degree of paranoia, and credulity is something often in short supply. The fantastic thing about "Saucer Spies" is that its contents, if they are to be believed, give many answers regarding government activity surrounding UFOs in a spectacularly elegant and cohesive package. First hand accounts are corroborated to the "T" by recently uncovered documents, government informants, and Redfern's "Sandman" contact. Of course, as the author is quick to point out in the closing of the novel, nothing is guaranteed. In the end, we still don't know if some UFOs are extraterrestrial, we don't know who or what some men in black may be, and we certainly don't know just how open and truthful our respective governments are really being. That said, if you can bring yourself to withhold distrust and paranoia long enough to read through these pages, I highly recommend it. Nick Redfern has done the UFO community a great service with this book, which would appear to be as revealing and honest as it is fascinating.

Rating: 5/5

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Matt LaPlante
2/28/2008
March 19, 2008

Level-headed, professional analysis

Dallas-based - of all places - Briton Nick Redfern [...], who happens to be an expert on ufo, crypto-zoology, declassified files, and other fringe areas, has compiled a well-structured, compelling volume. To name just a few among the various threads pursued: elusive MIBs; human agency related ufo abduction; the sad fate and downfall of physicist Paul Bennewitz due to having been exposed to USAF cointelpro (Project Beta); FBI surveillance of con-man G. Adamski, who claimed "that Russia would one day dominate the world and that any visiting aliens were most likely communist in nature!" (p. 275); their British counterparts monitoring researchers, such as the author himself, not because of ETs but for rather mundane reasons involving sensitive military locations (Matthew Williams sneaking into the underground system at RAF Rudloe Manor), misconstrued fear of possible connections with extreme-right groups and the IRA, or the Royal Marines - under the guise of tracking down some mysterious big cat in the countryside - keeping an eye on the late princess Diana's liaisons with Major James Hewitt, etc.
The reader can also get wised up on Matthew Bevan's hacking into Hangar 18 computers of AFB Wright-Patterson, who stumbled upon documents pertaining to anti-gravity propulsion system, and his subsequent harassment by authorities on both shores of the Atlantic. A bit less than a decade later, in 2005, his compatriot Gary McKinnon (check him out on the net, if you may) incurred the wrath of similar agencies in what is still an on-going case, I recall, when he revealed to newspaper Guardian having come across "a list of (...) names under the heading of Non-Terrestrial Officers. It doesn't mean little green man. What (...) it means is not Earth-based. I found a list of 'fleet-to-fleet transfers,' and a list of ship names (...) They weren't U.S. Navy ships. What I saw made me believe they have some kind of spaceship, off-planet." (p. 273) Wow! Furthermore, the author utilizes not only a handful of out-of-print, hard-to-get books on the subject but information obtained under FOIA and interviews with investigators, informants et al.
March 02, 2008

Good read

Redfern, you are quite the researcher. I think in twenty years UFOlogists will be quoting Nick Redfern on the internet and harping back to the good old days when researchers like him were doing the best work. This was a very interesting read.

Jess
June 10, 2007

Old News...

Basically a rehash of old news in story format. Nothing new, would not recoment the purchase.
May 06, 2007

Solves the UFO Mystery

Redfern's latest book is so amazing it's completely mind-blowing. I don't want to give any the truly astounding evidence he has unearthed but let's just say I'll be forever thankful for Redfern's sleuthing skills. I, myself, had a very close encounter with a big, black flat triangle, preceded by spheres of light, each a different color, doing inexpliable manuevers on the horizon. So Redfern had been kind enough to respond to an enquiry I emailed him and he mentioned some evidence to me and then this new book gave the details on what he had mentioned.

Holy cow! Redfern has played a truly crucial role in the conditioning feedback that Jacque Vallee talked about -- how there appears to be this huge psy-op agenda that is increasingly guiding the masses, through mass media, to a deeper level of conspiracy.

September 06, 2006

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