An exposé of the greatest secret on earth – the military and intelligence reports that prove UFOs exist.
UFOs remain a key military and intelligence problem – one demanding unprecedented security and deception. Access to information is on a strictly ‘need to know’ basis. In 1960, former CIA director Admiral Hillenkoetter confirmed that, ‘Behind the scenes, highranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.’ The same is still true today.
Timothy Good, bestselling author and one of the world’s most respected authorities on alien phenomena, has drawn together years of in-depth worldwide research to put forward a case that is impossible to dismiss. Need to Know is a compelling exposé of top-secret documents, interviews with key witnesses and discussions with military and intelligence specialists, pilots, politicians and scientists. It is full of revelations, including the alarmingly high number of aircraft crashes following military attacks on UFOs; the disappearance of hundreds of military and civilian aircraft during UFO encounters; and the amazing information provided by a surgeon who operated on an alien captured by the Brazilian army in 1996. Complete with a foreword from Bill Gunston OBE, a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and one of the world’s foremost aviation historians, Need to Know proves that UFOs are a real and current problem facing governments worldwide. The evidence presented is clear, balanced – and irrefutable.
'UFOS ARE AS REAL AS THE AIRPLANES THAT FLY
OVER YOUR HEAD . . . THE CLASSIFICATION WAS,
FROM THE OUTSET, ABOVE TOP SECRET, SO THE VAST
MAJORITY OF U.S. OFFICIALS AND POLITICIANS, LET
ALONE A MERE ALLIED MINISTER OF DEFENCE, WERE
NEVER IN THE LOOP . . . THE TIME HAS COME TO LIFT
THE VEIL OF SECRECY AND LET THE TRUTH EMERGE
SO THERE CAN BE A REAL AND INFORMED DEBATE
ABOUT ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PROBLEMS
FACING OUR PLANET TODAY'
Paul Hellyer, former Canadian Minister of
Defence (1963–7) in a speech at the University
of Toronto, 25 September 2005
Need to Know is now published in an updated paperback edition by Pan, price £8.99, and by Pegasus Books, price $16.95.
For interviews, please contact:
- Sandra Taylor (in the U.K.)
- Claiborne Hancock (in the U.S.)
U.K. pilot speaks without fear of his sighting of the huge UFOs that were seen along with multiple witnesses near the U.K. in 2007.
From The Weekly News - 18th August 2007:
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From The Kent Saturday Observer - 26th August 2007:
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From
Sarasota
Herald-Tribune - 7th December 2007:
So what's in the classified stash?
Here’s an e-mail rejoinder for those advocating the U.S. government re-enter the UFO investigation biz. It comes from veteran British sleuth and author Timothy Good: “It needs to be pointed out that the USAF has never ceased its research effort — albeit clandestinely.”
Good’s reminder comes a few weeks after an international panel of high-level pilots and aviation experts presented dramatic evidence at a Washington press conference for the potentially dangerous aspects of UFOs. Event organizers at the Coalition for the Freedom of Information (http://www.freedomofinfo.org/national_press.htm) are trying to figure out which agency might best manage this sort of research project.
The feds abandoned their official UFO study with the Air Force’s termination of Project Blue Book in 1969. But Good, whose latest book “Need to Know: UFOs, the Military, and Intelligence” reached the States in October, stresses that classified data collection never ended.
Thirty-eight years ago, as Deputy Director of Development for the USAF, Brig. Gen. C.H. Bolender penned a smoking-gun memo that stated what Blue Book critics had suspected all along. Key phrase: “Reports of unidentified flying objects which could affect national security are made in accordance with JANAP 146 or Air Force Manual 55-11, and are not part of the Blue Book System.”
Good is equally suspicious of the ostensibly transparent UFO reporting system in the United Kingdom. Although its Ministry of Defence cites “no evidence which substantiates the existence of these alleged phenomena,” Good’s book presents evidence to the contrary.
Especially intriguing is a 1993 MoD memo from its Head of Air Staff to his Assistant Chief of Air staff concerning a triangular UFO buzzing into restricted RAF air space:
“Many of the reports refer to the object being very large, flying low and making a low humming sound. My staff have spoken to a number of the military and police witnesses, many of whom commented that the object was unlike anything they had ever seen before ... In summary, there would seem to be some evidence on this occasion that an unidentified object (or objects) of unknown origin was operating over the U.K.”
Good, who was arrested by military police in 1985 for getting a little too nosey around the RAF’s Provost and Security Services headquarters in Wiltshire, applauds the Coalition’s ability to provoke decent coverage for its initiative last month.
“But it remains to be seen,” he writes, “if there will be a lasting effect.”
Because, unfortunately, that's largely up to the American MSM.
From Sarasota Herald-Tribune - 10th January 2008:
Everything old is old again
Um, about those forthcoming MoD revelations touted this week in the London press — they're, um, a little stale.
Veteran British UFO researcher Timothy Good points out that Sunday's story in The Observer — which breathlessly detailed a close encounter involving a Vulcan bomber in 1977 — actually came from documents released in 2005. You can find the same story in Good's most recent book, published last year, entitled "Need To Know: UFOs, The Military and Intelligence."
Excerpts from the official Royal Air Force report are on page 306 in the U.S. edition. But four days ago, The Observer announced "Now, 30 years later, the extraordinary encounter is among thousands of previously secret cases contained in the government's 'X-Files' that officials are to release in their entirety."
Furthermore, Good writes in an e-mail, "Have a look at pp. 431-2 and you'll see the MoD document on the extraordinary RAF Shawbury and RAF Cosford incidents in March 1993 - published for the first time in Need to Know. Yet it's constantly cited as one of the secret documents to be released by the MoD this year."
This one involved a UFO that painted air traffic control radar screens, directed a beam of light groundward from an altitude of between 400 and 500 feet, and left some 70 eyewitnesses scratching their heads. "Frankly," wrote the perplexed Assistant Chief of the Air Staff, "I can see little that we can do to follow it up."
Great stuff, but you'd hate to think astute media types could get snookered by documents that have been in the public domain for years. Alas ...
From The South Shields Gazette - 23th April 2008:
Are there aliens living among us? My first dalliance with the world of the unexplained occurred when I was 11 years old. On holiday with my family in Chichester, Sussex, I purchased a second-hand copy of a book about UFOs. I read it all in three days and I've been hooked ever since. Read more
From Kent on Sunday - 18th May 2008:
Close encounters of Kentish kind
NEWLY-released government documents reveal details of sightings of UFOs over Kent, most of which were reported to the former RAF base at Manston. Read more
From Telegraph - 20th June 2008:
Police chase UFO over Cardiff
By Laura Clout A police helicopter crew gave chase to a UFO after it almost collided with their aircraft near a military base. The pilot was forced to bank ... Read more
