A history of military encounters with UFOs : explanations and combat strategies / Robert Allred.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allred, Robert.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unidentified flying objects--Sightings and encounters--History.

Unidentified flying objects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (290 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Havertown : Pen & Sword Books Limited, 2024.

Summary:

"This book was a fun read that was hard to put down." -Toy Soldier Collector & Historical Figures Military bodies around our planet have encountered, and even clashed with, UFOs, or as the U.S.military now defines them, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena - UAP.

Contents:

Cover

Book Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Maps

Chapter 1 Military Action and Recently Recorded Events

Preliminary Briefing

Why Would a Military Engage With Alien Spacecraft?

Seeing is Believing

Chapter 2 From the Nineteenth Century to the First World War

Mystery Aircraft: Made by Domestic Inventors, or Sinister Foreigners, or … ?

First Attack on an Unidentified Flying Object by a Military Aircraft

The War Office Took Airship Reports Seriously, For a While…

Chapter 3 Second World War

The 1941 "Crash of a UFO" Near Cape Girardeau, Missouri

The "Battle of Los Angeles," 25 February 1942

Fireballs: Strange Craft, Or…? The "Foo-Fighters" of the Second World War

Chapter 4 Post-Second World War and Early Cold War

The Ghost Rockets of 1946

1947: The Pivotal Year

Chapter 5 Roswell

UFO Incidents and Possible Crashes in New Mexico, 1947

Did The American Military, Perhaps Inadvertently, Cause the UFO Crash at Roswell?

Chapter 6 Going Deeper into the Cold War, and More Fireballs

Why Initial Fears of UFOs had more to do with the Russians than Extraterrestrials

The United States Government Takes Action

Green Fireballs

Chapter 7 The "Tipping Point" - USAF Decides to Shoot Them Down

The Loss of Captain Mantell

The Intelligence People Report While There is a Reversal on High

Why Don't They Land on the White House Lawn? They Almost Did, in 1952

Shoot-Down Order Re-Stated to Interceptor Pilots

Over England, a UFO "Shoot-Down Order" was Radioed to a USAF Pilot

Plates

Chapter 8 The (UK) Flying Saucer Working Party

A High-Level Association Urges Investigations of UFOs, and a Possible Landing at Broadlands

The Broadlands Incident

Did Aliens, or Others, Try to Meet with Prince Philip?.

A Member of Peerage Instigates an Official Inquiry

Chapter 9 More American Planes Downed

Air Force Jet Disappears While Intercepting UFO

Was an Air Force Jet "Shot Down" by a UFO?

Chapter 10 A UFO "Attack" off the California Coast

Strange Events: Bizarre Incident Described in Uruguay

UFO "Attack" in Brazil

UFO Zaps Missile Warhead Test off the California Coast

Chapter 11 A Prime Minister, and a President, "Kept in the Dark"

Operation Mainbrace

The Prime Minister Wanted to Know (And so Did a President)

First Encounter: Near Stonehenge, and a Royal Visit

Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia

Chapter 12 UFOs Over USAF Nuclear Sites

Several Specific U.S. Air Force Bases Visited by UFOs

Did a Soldier Shoot and Kill an Alien in New Jersey?

Minot, Malmstrom, Warren - What Happened at America's Strategic Missile Bases?

Did a UFO Almost Trigger a Nuclear Attack?

Chapter 13 A UFO on the Ground in Suffolk

UFO Lands at RAF-USAF Air Base in Suffolk

Dozens Report UFOs Over England, Including at RAF Bases

Peruvian Air Force Pilot Intercepts, Shoots UFO

Iranian Jets Attempt to Intercept UFO Above Tehran, 1976

Reports and Rumors of Soviet and American Planes Vanishing in Pursuit of UFOs

Chapter 14 More Military UFO Encounters from Around the World

Russia

China

India

Pakistan

France

United Kingdom

United States

UFOs Flaunt Their Presence Above Belgium

Belgian Congo (Now the Democratic Republic of the Congo)

Madagascar

Chile

Antarctica

Around Our Planet Earth - Literally

and Beyond

Cosmonauts See Them, Too

Soviet Cosmonaut Secrecy

Chapter 15 More Compelling Evidence from Reliable Witnesses

A UFO (Possibly) Killed Betty Cash

Multiple Eyewitnesses of a Crashed UFO That Was Spirited Away by Military People: Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, 1965.

Japanese Cargo Plane Stalked by Huge UFO over Alaska: Truth-Seeker Foils Cover-Up

Chapter 16 Crop Circles, Cattle Mutilations, Alien Abductions

More Mysteries

Crop Circles

Animal Mutilations

Alien Abductions

Did Aliens Cause Planes, Ships, People to Disappear?

The Disappearance of Australian Pilot Frederick Valentich

Alien-Human Hybrids

Chapter 17 More Videos, and Continued Secrecy

The Congressional Hearing of 17 May 2022

United States Navy Videos, Redux

An Alien Presence as an Established Fact

Who (or What) Are They?

Why Come to Earth? What's in it For Them?

This Writer's "Estimate of the Situation." What is to be Our Strategy?

What Can You Do?

My Conclusions

Bibliography

Back cover.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781399063784

1399063782

OCLC:

1458761135