UFOs and the Secret Government - by Dick Russell (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

UFOs and the Secret Government by bestselling investigative journalist Dick Russell pulls away the curtain on eighty years of government secrecy, manipulation, and obstruction. In this groundbreaking narrative, based on dozens of interviews and meticulous document analysis, you will learn:

• Of the vested interests of the US military, intelligence agencies, private contractors, academics, and of the complicity of media to obfuscate and cover up a secret greater than that of the Manhattan Project
• About the Pentagon release of UFO and UAP files following a presidential executive order for transparency
• Why renowned lawyer, Daniel Sheehan, and practicing physician, Steven Greer, decided to devote their lives to disclosure
• About the mysterious deaths and disappearances of remote viewers and scientists
• President Kennedy's secret plan for UFO disclosure and the CIA's frightening pushback
• What's really going on with drones, the Buga Sphere, and the comet-like 3I/ATLAS object
• Of the hidden trail of Pentagon funding to reverse-engineer captive spacecraft
• The inside stories of military whistleblowers like David Grusch and Jake Barber and behind-the-scenes figures like Andrija Puharich and Christopher "Kit" Green
• Harvard's curious role, from Donald Menzel and John Mack to Avi Loeb
• How the CIA used psychic Uri Geller and performed experiments on gifted children
• Of the ongoing struggle between insiders pushing for public disclosure and the forces trying to keep the cover-up going at any cost
• And of the ongoing struggle between insiders pushing for public disclosure and the forces trying to keep the cover-up going at any cost

This is your briefing book for sorting out fact from disinformation. Russell leaves no doubt that the extraterrestrial phenomenon is real and ongoing.

Review Quotes

"Dick Russell traces eight decades of official secrecy around a phenomenon my father tried to bring to light. Drawing on his own interviews and a long trail of documents, he tells the story of the people who kept asking and the institutions that preferred they stop."

--Paul Hynek, coauthor of The UFO Technology Handbook

"I was delighted to learn that Dick Russell planned to explore the story of Dr. Andrija Puharich in this important new book. An often-overlooked figure, Puharich occupies a singular and vital place in the history of UFO research. It takes a writer with Dick's passion, curiosity, and keen investigative eye to give this extraordinary story the attention it deserves."

--Greg Mallozzi, filmmaker, Mind Traveler

"What if the greatest secret in human history has been hiding right in front us all along? For eighty years, the truth about UFOs has been buried beneath layers of government secrecy, intelligence operations, scientific intrigue, and an extraordinary campaign of denial. Now, the walls of silence are beginning to crack. In UFOs and the Secret Government, New York Times bestselling investigative journalist Dick Russell takes readers on an explosive journey into the shadowy world of classified programs, presidential secrets, mysterious encounters, and courageous whistleblowers who risked everything to reveal what they believe the government has concealed. Who really controls the secrets? Why have presidents allegedly been kept in the dark? And what happens when the truth can no longer be contained? The question is no longer simply whether we are alone. It's who knows the answer--and why they haven't told us."

--Geoff Cruickshank, former Australian intelligence analyst

About the Author

Dick Russell is an investigative journalist and the eclectic author of over fifteen books, including three New York Times bestsellers coauthored with Jesse Ventura and Eye of the Whale, named a Best Book of the Year in 2001 by three major newspapers. His book The Man Who Knew Too Much, probing the forces behind the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, has been hailed as a "masterpiece of historical reconstruction." The final two volumes of his biographical trilogy, The Life and Ideas of James Hillman, and his book The Real RFK Jr., were published in 2023. Russell is also the author of Black Genius and the American Experience and the memoir My Mysterious Son: A Life-Changing Passage Between Schizophrenia and Shamanism. He was a recipient of the citizen's Chevron Conservation Award for his environmental activism. Russell resides in Los Angeles.