The authors perspective is presented with flowing logic and prose, making us understand UFOs and why the government and much of the national media has lied or glossed over the facts and evidence and the first hand witness reports from professionals.

The vast coverage of almost 30 years research on the global phenomena of sightings and statements raise this book to the top five UFO books ever written. Science, Political, Conspiracy, and UFO buffs alike will relish this monumental work.

This work rivals the excellent writings and research of Dr. Paul Hill, Colonel Corso, Edgar Rothschild Fouche, Dr. David Jacobs, Jim Marrs, and Sitchin. If you really want the truth about UFOs, alien or Top Secret Black Technology, and government cover-ups in this field, then check them out. My favorite books in this genre are, Dr. Hill's, "Unconventional Flying Objects," Marrs' "Alien Agenda," Fouche & Steiger's "Alien Rapture," Corso's "The Day After Roswell, and Sitchin's "Twelfth Planet."

Dolan chronicles the classic disc shape sightings, abductions, encounters and cattle mutilations that we all have probably heard or read about. He also goes into depth as to the who, why and history of our government agencies and the great lengths they have gone to downplay, miss-inform, lie, threaten, kill, and debunk the existence of UFO'S that are, in turn, controlled by extraterrestrials. It becomes obvious, in the books content, that the government has gone the full mile and more to cover-up and downplay this existence, because in truth, we have yet to develop a formidable military or technological defense for this higher intelligence that has been observing us for who knows how long.

Dolan takes you every where from the foo fighters, to the CIA'S use of mind altering drugs, countless clandestine activities and heavy involvement in UFO'S, Roswell, the Hill abduction, the importance of Keyhole & Macdonald, Men in Black, the debacle of Project Blue Book, the mysterious death of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI's historical role on UFO's, Watergate, Nixon and finally the government's success at keeping the UFO situation under it's own propaganda control. One can conclude at books end, that the government may be trying to avoid mass hysteria by this ongoing cover-up but in the process has only made matters worse. But as Dolan says, is it in the public interest or there interest?

Truly. Until reading this book I not only did not "believe" in UFO's. I did not believe 2+2=5 either. In other words I felt I knew enough about hard science to exclude the possibility of the Visitors, without having to debunk claims to the contrary case by case. But having heard the Author interviewed, I thought I would give him a chance.

Basically what Richard does is through careful documentation demonstrate that the Government was very interested in UFO's for and extended period, even while maintaining an official position of denial. This does not prove the existence of UFO's, but it does demonstrate a real interest in an otherwise unexplainable phenomenon. To use Richards Analogy, as the book rolls along the Elephant in the living room looms larger and larger. What Richard did for me at least, was allow the US Government to convince me of the reality of the visitors.

I sincerely doubt the Government keeps 1000's of pages of top secret documents on Big Foot. Any thoughtful citizen should put aside the lables believer and skeptic and consider Richards book. We need to ask ourselves, why is my government so interested in this subject, if its all fluff and bunnies?? Why do such a high percentage of sightings occur near facilities storing nuclear material. And what's more frightening, the thought that visitors are real, or that so many persons who man these facilities have apparently become temporarily unhinged if they are seeing fluff and bunnies.

Just a thought. A co-worker of mine saw this book and borrowed it. When I asked why later he told me. "I used to be a Radar Operator, one night we tracked a blip. It just hung in space for 3 passes. Then shot off screen as fast as any Jet. This was in the late 50's before the Harrier, and no chopper in the world at that time could do that!" I wonder how many other quite witnesses there are out there. Who have seen the impossible, and know, what we think we know, just isn't the whole of the truth.

There are so few quality books on the subject. Many of them sit on my bookshelf. Every once in a while, a gem rises to the top. One of these gems is "UFOs and the National Security State". Richard Dolan's treatment is of the highest quality; it's the best that I've read and I'm very anxiously looking forward to volume 2. I was compelled to see and meet Richard Dolan, so I made it a point to attend the National UFO Conference in Los Angeles in October 2004. Given the quality of his book, I had very high hopes for Richard. Well, he far exceeded all my expectations. His presentation was remarkable. The man behind the book is the real deal; an excellent researcher and he sure can write!

This book is full of lies,rumors, accusations, counter rumors. fake looking UFO photos, souces that can not be confirmed for their accuracy, and a charge that the US Goverment has hidden evidence of UFO's from the public for decades. There is no prove, this has nothing to do with science or serious investigation. It has more to do with unfounded beliefs and nonsense, and a cheap way to make a buck fast wihout getting a real job.

Richard Dolan has done researchers a great service by compiling so much compelling evidence into one volume. His research is meticulous and the hundreds of footnotes provide many leads for further study. I thorougly enjoyed the read and now keep the book handy since it's such a wonderful reference... I'm eagerly awaiting the follow-up book covering more recent events.