This book is a piece of useless .... Aliens from space? Where's the proof? This book is full of second hand accounts of this and that, but in the end they don't add up to squat. Overall I think Donald Keyhoe was a charlatan trying to make a quick buck. This book is only for the UFO faithful.

I would happily recommend this book to any student of ufology. Major Keyhoe explores the government and US Air Force role in UFO sightings. His part as an ex-military officer and his involvement with the National Investigations Committee for Aerial Phenomena allows the reader the opportunity to confront for themselves genuine UFO reports that were made by military personnel. The overwhelming secrecy regarding UFOs by the US Government and the military is of staggering concern for any member of the public who may have had a genuine sighting but ended up being ridiculed by the very establishment that was meant to protect national security, an event that was apparently being breached on a regular basis. What Keyhoe strongly suggests is that the need for secrecy was an essential cover for a Government that knew very little about what was behind the flying saucer sightings, and also the fact that it could not do anything about the infringement of national security. Military and government officials were extremely worried and public must not know that. I found this book easy to read. It includes many examples of UFO sightings which are not famous but are considered important because they demonstrate that there is enough evidence to say that something real and strange is happening. Even though Keyhoe's book was written in the Seventies, the problems he encountered then, such as the official silence, the ridicule of the witness continues to this day and the fact that genuinely unexplained sightings can still be a major problem to a nation's security. Keyhoe enables the reader to understand the investigative processes, and the depths to which some investigators have to go through to get some results, to show that there is a phenomena worth exploring by the scientific community.

I am going to get all of Keyhoe's books the time has come and is true.

I don't doubt that UFO's exist, but this book is a sorry excuse for what the title promises: The real story of unidentified flying objects. It seems to me that the author is jumping to conclusions...

With such a wealth of irrefutable UFO evidence, why after 25 years is there still such a strong cover-up? Perhaps this is the core of the book - The US Air Force and CIA have been so determined to keep the truth from the world they will call black - white, as they did with the Condon Report (Donald appears almost bitter about this). It is interesting that this book managed to be published when, as Donald relates, so many similar books failed. A cracking read, a must for everyone. How can the authorities defend themselves?