In Plain Sight

By: Ross Coulthart

Narrated by: Ross Coulthart

Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

An award-winning journalist investigates a story largely ignored by mainstream media but right there, in front of our eyes ...

Are we not alone? The moment we have an answer might have arrived.

Award-winning investigative journalist Ross Coulthart has been intrigued by UFOs since mysterious glowing lights were reported near New Zealand's Kaikoura mountains when he was a teenager. The 1978 sighting is just one of thousands since the 1940s, and yet research into UFOs is still seen by many as the realm of crackpots and conspiracy theorists.

In 2020, however, after decades of denial, the US Department of Defense made the astonishing admission that strange aerial and underwater objects frequently reported and videoed by pilots and tracked by sensors are real, unexplained and pose a genuine national security concern.

Compelled to investigate, Coulthart has embarked on the most intriguing story of his career, speaking to witnesses, researchers, scientists, spies, defence officials and intelligence insiders in an attempt to sift the truth from the conspiracy. In the US, powerful new laws and a hardening of government resolve may soon force the military and intelligence communities to reveal what they know about alleged UFO crash retrievals and secret reverse-engineering programs.

Bizarre, sometimes mind-blowing and utterly fascinating, in this new edition of In Plain Sight, Coulthart explains why there is cause for optimism that 'the biggest story ever' might finally be about to break.

©2021 Ross Coulthart (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers

Riveting. a single"UAP 101" master class catchup

I've been getting more into this topic since the tictac and UAP reports started heating up the past couple of years. I came across Ross Coulthart in his youtube interviews and he showed poise, intelligence, candor, and an immense journalistic integrity increasingly rare these days.

this book should be the definitive starting point for all interested in the Phenomenon, considered a textbook that catches someone up on the entire 70 year story to 2020's announcement of an upcoming UAP report to congress from the ODNI.

this book clued me into several unknown new corroborated angles on the 70 year suspicions of US gov alien crash posession and reverse engineering programs, presented with sincere intellectual curiosity and healthy skepticism.

A quick review and the latest in the realm of UAPs

Great review.. on the classics. But even more interesting about the latest news of the past 10-15 years.

Because of the New York Times story on UAPs .. the dust is beginning to settle on the world of advanced Technology and the probability of not be alone on this planet.

With the dust settling we are starting to get a clearer view of what the nature of our reality really is .. and I for one, am completely astonished at the implications for us humans .

I say good luck to everyone, the world as we know it has been a sweet dream.. it’s time to wake up and face reality.

Good listening, lots of well put information

I find some of the stories to be vague, but I understand that "vagueness" is something usual in this topic. Awesome investigative work here.

A must listen.

I've been hearing about the various people and cases in this book all over the place for many years now. But this book really contextualised it all in a great way for me to understand what happened when, and how, what's fact and what's speculation.

I highly recommend everybody to listen to this book, even if you are an UAP/UFO sceptic. Or even especially if you are a sceptic.

There is definitely something there there.

Ross does a great job pulling all the pieces together and laying out the different narratives from crack pot conspiracies to admissions at the highest level. He weaves together a thread that allows the reader to spin his head.

Absolutely fascinating!!

If true, this is the most important story of our time. I found this book well written and well narrated. I highly recommend it!

Excelente trabajo investigativo

Este es el mejor libro, actualizado, de las investigaciones sobre el fenómeno. Casos basados en la realidad. Fuentes creíbles. Charlatanería eliminada.

Fantastic read!

I love how this topic is tackled by a real investigative reporter, not just a UFO/UAP enthusiast.

Everything is researched and reported on in a manner that lets you decide with the information given.

Such a fascinating read.

Melodramatic reading, but interesting

Like many works in this fringe corner of investigation, the content can be fascinating -- and also sometimes hard to believe. It took me awhile to get used to Mr. Coulthart's written voice as an investigative journalist, but in the end I felt he was doing a fair job of bringing the reader along with him by laying out his own experience as he tries to figure out what to believe. He isn't a bad perfomer for the most part, but unfortunately he chose to "act out" many of the quotes from people he interviewed. He doesn't always nail the accents, which I can forgive, but sometimes his performance comes across so over-the-top that it makes his sources sound caricatured or histrionic. Which is a shame, because they're often saying very intriguing things. All in all, I enjoyed the book -- he definitely took a deep tour of an evolving rabbit hole here.

Ross lays it out clearer than anyone else.

It’s so difficult to tell fact from fiction on this topic. Ross does a great job laying out and picking apart all the current claims, characters and their veracity. He also has a great accent!