Governments around the world have had to deal with the UFO phenomenon for a good part of a century.
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Steve Purcell was the primary photo illustration editor.
Jan Aldrich was the primary content consultant, with additional content consultation and writing coming from Barry Greenwood and Richard Thieme.
Clas Svahn, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Bill Chalker, and Robert Powell contributed country chapters.
The work was coordinated and edited by Robert Powell.
Michael Swords was the primary author of the United States chapters.
This large-format, fully illustrated book is the result of a team effort that called itself "The UFO History Group," a collection of veteran UFO historians and researchers who spent more than four years researching, consulting, writing, and editing to present a work of Historical scholarship on government response to the UFO phenomenon. government\'s response to the UFO phenomenon, also included is the treatment of the subject by the governments of Sweden, Australia, France, Spain, and other countries.
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And it explains why one government, the United States government, deemed it wise, and perhaps even necessary, to treat it so.
At the same time, the story reveals how a subject with such apparent depth of experience and interest became treated as if it were a triviality.
In fact, they were considered matters of national security.
Those approaches were not taken lightly.
The story, which is unmasked by the governments\' own documents, explains much that is new, or at least not commonly known, about the seriousness with which the military and intelligence communities approached the UFO problem internally.
It\'s a perspective that reveals a great deal about what we citizens have seen, and puzzled over, from the "outside" for so many years.
How and why they did so is the subject of UFOs and Government, a history that for the first time tells the story from the perspective of the governments themselves.
Governments around the world have had to deal with the UFO phenomenon for a good part of a century
