Against the Odds - by Linda C Powell (Paperback)
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- ONE MAN is largely responsible for the twin pillars of current UFO belief: that UFOs represent extraterrestrial technology and that the government is hiding this truth from us.His name is Donald E. Keyhoe.
- Author(s): Linda C Powell
- 486 Pages
- Body + Mind + Spirit, UFOs & Extraterrestrials
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Book Synopsis
ONE MAN is largely responsible for the twin pillars of current UFO belief: that UFOs represent extraterrestrial technology and that the government is hiding this truth from us.
His name is Donald E. Keyhoe. He was a 51-year-old retired Marine Major when his own investigation of a famous 1948 flying saucer case led him to believe that the US Air Force and the CIA knew the Earth was under surveillance by beings from other worlds and were keeping it secret from the public. For the next 21 years, he devoted himself, at great personal cost, to exposing the official cover-up of what he believed was an alien visitation.
Thanks to his highly-placed contacts in the military and secret informants in the Pentagon, Keyhoe became the first major figure to truly challenge the official view that UFO reports belonged in the domain of "kooks and fuzzy thinkers." He eventually led what became the world's most powerful civilian UFO organization, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP). In this, the first biography of Donald Keyhoe, his public and private life before and during his time as the world's best-known UFO advocate is revealed.
Review Quotes
"As a journalist, I have spent twenty-three years advocating for government transparency on UFOs. Donald Keyhoe, the first to hold the Air Force accountable some seventy years ago, devoted decades of his life to pursuing that effort. Against the Odds is a fascinating, in-depth biography about an extraordinary human being and courageous pioneer who could not be deterred. An inspiring work." - Leslie Kean, author of UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go On the Record
"It's a landmark bio of Donald Keyhoe...He was the first person to be questioning the government and UFOs...a great read...He began the serious narrative about ufos... A really fascinating story about the early days of ufology...The research is meticulous. Linda Powell is a top-notch researcher... " - Christine Scott, UFO Talker
"..."the most well-researched book in the UFO field that I've ever seen...For any viewer out here who is serious about understanding the history of the filed of UFOlogy, particularly in the United Sates, this is a must read book." - Jeffrey Mishlove, New Thinking Allowed
In 1957, "Keyhoe quickly set to the job of using the [NICAP] organisation to argue with the Air Force about its lamentable UFO explanations and investigations. On the top of his agenda was to get open Congressional hearings on the subject. Doesn't this all sound like the UAP fiasco of today on a repeat cycle!...Powell does an expert job of showing us the major characters and factors that constituted that influential period of UFO politics ... I'm sure [Keyhoe] would have been in the thick of the current UAP controversy." - Nigel Watson, Magonia
"A towering figure in his time... Keyhoe is now the subject of Linda Powell's solid, deeply researched biography...Against the Odds can be read as an object lesson in the dangers of public identification with a heretical opinion...Powell focuses on the societal, political, and personal side of the disputes that rages, sometimes within ufology itself, over matters both profound and petty. Though I am well versed in the history of the UFO wars, hardly a page of Against the Odds fails to inform me of something I didn't know...One closes Powell's splendid biography, which is sympathetic but hardly hagiographic, with the impression of an ordinary man who placed himself in extraordinary circumstances. Decades later, as physicists, journalists, historians, academics, pilots, and politicians-precisely the figures whom Keyhoe attempted with limited success to recruit into the ranks-descend on a subject barreling toward respectability, one wishes he were here to see what he started." - Jerome Clark, Fortean Times