In Plain Sight: A fascinating investigation into UFOs and alien encounters from an award-winning journalist, fully updated and revised new edition for 2023

by Ross Coulthart

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781460712764
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	08/01/2021
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
File size:	29 MB
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About the Author

Ross Coulthart is an award-winning investigative journalist and writer. Previously an investigative reporter on news and current affairs program 60 Minutes on Channel Nine and chief investigations reporter for the Sunday Night news program, Coulthart has won five prestigious Walkley journalism awards, including the most coveted top award for Australian journalism, the Gold Walkley. His broadcast television investigative journalism has also won the top broadcast award, a Logie.

Ross is the co-author of bestselling books Dead Man Running and Above the Law, both exposes of organised crime in Australian and international outlaw motorcycle gangs, as well as Charles Bean, Lost Diggers, The Lost Tommys and Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze.

Table of Contents

Prologue 1

1 Let's Hope They're Friendly 7

2 Roswell: Implausible Denials 16

3 The Launch of Project Blue Book 28

4 A Worldwide Phenomenon 39

5 Hard Evidence 49

6 Cracking the Cover-up 62

7 Confusion or Cover-up? 77

8 The Black Triangles 88

9 The Disclosure Project 107

10 Skinwalker Ranch 121

11 Tic Tacs from Space 136

12 The Hunt for 'The Big Secret' 149

13 Would the President Know? 161

14 We Can Handle the Truth 173

15 Sharing the Guilty Secret 185

16 To The Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences 198

17 Verified Unidentified 211

18 Art's Parts 224

19 The New Science of Metamaterials 237

20 The Astronaut and 'the Spaceman' 248

21 Not Made by Human Hands 260

22 Gordon Novel: Fact or Fiction 274

23 Dr Salvatore Pais's Puzzling Patents 288

Bibliography 305

Acknowledgements 308

Endnotes 310

Acronyms 331

Index 333