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Redfern
and Roberts, both experienced writers on UFOs and the paranormal,
preface their study of real-life X-files by admitting that, "the
nature of intelligence work requires agencies to obtain information
on just about anything and everything that might conceivably have
a bearing on national security." So it's no surprise that
"documentation on the 'unknown' has been created and studied
at an official level." The authors have uncovered such files
from the U.S., British and former Soviet governments touching
on alien visitations, the use of psychic spies and other strange
subjects. A local vampire legend was used by the U.S. in the Philippines
as part of a psy-ops program. The authors discuss reports that
the British government convened a secret ministerial briefing
to discuss the mysterious crop circles that had started appearing
in the 1980s. And they explore the possibility that some supposed
UFO sightings were actually of highly advanced, secret technology
being tested by the U.S. government. This is a trove of entertaining
stories for X-files fans and government skeptics. Publishers Weekly,
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