UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record

By: Leslie Kean

Narrated by: Heather Henderson

Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins

Publisher's summary

An Air Force major is ordered to approach a brilliant UFO in his Phantom jet over Tehran. He repeatedly attempts to engage and fire on unusual objects heading right toward his aircraft, but his missile control is locked and disabled. Witnessed from the ground, this dogfight becomes the subject of a secret report by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency.

In Belgium, an Air Force colonel investigates a series of widespread sightings of unidentified triangular objects, sending F-16s to attempt a closer look. Hundreds of eyewitnesses, including on-duty police officers, file reports about the incident, and a spectacular photograph of an unidentifiable craft is retrieved and analyzed.

Here at home, a retired chief of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Accidents and Investigations Division reveals the agency’s response to a 30-minute encounter between an aircraft and a gigantic UFO over Alaska, which occurred during his watch and is documented on radar.

Now all three of these distinguished men have written breathtaking, firsthand accounts about these extraordinary incidents. They are joined by Air Force generals and a host of high-level sources who have agreed to write their own detailed, personal stories about UFO encounters and investigations for the first time.

They are coming forward now because of Leslie Kean, an investigative reporter who has spent the last 10 years studying the still unexplained UFO phenomenon. Kean reviewed hundreds of government documents, aviation reports, radar data files, and case studies with corroborating physical evidence. With the support of former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, Kean draws on her research to separate fact from fiction and to lift the veil on decades of U.S. government misinformation. Throughout, she presents irrefutable evidence that unknown flying objects - metallic, luminous, and seemingly able to maneuver in ways that defy the laws of physics - actually exist.

©2010 Leslie Kean (P)2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

“This book is bound to set the gold standard for UFO research.” (Michio Kaku, Ph.D., host of Sci Fi Science on the Science Channel and author of Physics of the Impossible)

“I was astonished by the care and precision of Leslie Kean’s research in this terrific book…. her craftsmanship in organization and writing are superb.” (Rudy Schild, Ph.D., Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

“Kean presents the most accurate, most credible reports on UFOs you will ever find.” (Miles O’Brien, PBS Newshour science correspondent)

One of my favorite

Wow! This has to be in my top three UFO books of all time. It is compelling and convincing. The reader performance is a professional job. It’s only fault is that it is dull to listen to. The pace is to slow. I found that it helps to bump up the speed to 1.2. It helps but she is still dull to listen to. It is a great book, though.

Over 10 Years Old, but Still Relevant

This book was written over 10 years ago. I'd love to know what Leslie Keen now has to say about the government's recent acknowledgment that UFOs exist, they are physical phenomenon that appear on radar, have been photographed, and have left physical traces.

Very Interesting!

Would you consider the audio edition of UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record to be better than the print version?

I did not read the print version so I have no idea if it is better than the print version.

What did you like best about this story?

The author presented convincing cases of evidence that there is something flying around in our atmosphere that we have yet to identify. There is also substantial evidence to show that the US government is one of the least responsive governments in the world when it comes to UFO's. The majority of the book came off as an unbiased presentation of information. However, the last few chapters heavily leaned towards the belief that there are UFO's out there that are not of this planet, which there is no evidence of as presented in this book. I enjoyed the book and would recommend it to anyone interested in the subject. The author clearly has done decades of research before writing the book and it is well worth listening to.

What do you think the narrator could have done better?

The narrator was hard to follow at times during some of the interviews because there was no change in tone, pitch or tamber for the different persons quoted in the book.

Well researched, detailed book

Covers most of the well known incidents quite well and added a few new events to go out and research for myself. I know it os difficult but I wish all these type books were read by the author. I believe much of the emotion and intensity of the subject is lost without the original author's inflection. I still highly recommend this book.

A thorough and scholarly work

This one is for the reader who wants documentation and verification of reports with names, dates and specifics. It's not a "story" book at all, but an excellent recounting of reports submitted by notable people, verified and testified to by other people involved in the incidents at the time. Ms. Kean is a thorough research reporter and leaves little doubt that we should not be so quick to dismiss odd occurrences simply because they are inexplicable. If I recall correctly, most of the witnesses simply indicate they do not know and cannot explain what it was they saw or experienced, only that the reported incidents did occur and were inexplicable by our current state of knowledge.

Not light reading, but well worth the time spent doing so.

Excellent Read

Best book on the subject of UFOs that I've read. The book is well researched and provides plenty of eyewitness accounts.

Excellent review of ufo/uap phenomena

The narration was excellent. The subject matter was interesting and well researched. If there are skeptics in your life, I would point them to this book.

An objective look at an often subjective phenomeno

Definitely one of the best books I've read/ listened to on the topic. Well researched with an incredible amount of background investigation included on key officials discussed.

If this book doesn't make you think that there's a whole lot more to the topic than "swamp gas" or mercury in retrograde... Then nothing will.

More important to read than ever

As the Government in 2022 eases off its hard dismissal of the UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena) this book highlights and asks for some of the very same thing our congressional members are putting into legislation. I strongly recommend this book.

Very interesting

Perfect delivery of much needed understanding of a topic we as human’s need to hear . The cloak needs to come off the TRUTH needs to be unveiled .