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  • Mirage Men

  • A Journey into Disinformation, Paranoia and UFOs
  • By: Mark Pilkington
  • Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
  • Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (15 ratings)
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By: Mark Pilkington
Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
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Summary

Seeking the truth about UFOs in America, Mark Pilkington and John Lundberg uncover a 60-year-old story stranger than any conspiracy thriller. 

Through the fascinating account of their quest, Mark Pilkington reveals the long history of UFOria and its parallels in little-known tales from the murky worlds of espionage, psychological warfare and advanced military technology. Along the way he discovers that the truth about flying saucers is stranger and more complex than either the ufologists or debunkers would have us believe. 

As he crossed the US meeting intelligence agents, disinformation specialists and UFO hunters, Pilkington was confronted with a dizzying array of ever more outrageous claims and counter claims. As a result he began to suspect that, instead of covering up stories of crashed flying saucers, alien contacts and secret underground bases, the US intelligence agencies had actually been promoting them all along. Meanwhile he has to deal with his own uncertainties, the suspicions of the UFO community and a partner who is starting to believe that conspiracy theorists might be right after all. 

With a fresh, funny and objective approach, Pilkington is the ideal guide to steer us through these strange territories, where nothing is quite as it seems and reality is just a matter of managing perceptions.

©2020 Mark Pilkington (P)2020 Hachette Audio UK

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A bit too much of the machinations, but unavoidable I guess. Really the book spends a very long time not getting anywhere. Nevertheless, well worth hearing.

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Very good overview

I wasn't sure about this initially as I've read quite a lot of UFO books over the years and they tend to repeat the same famous cases and details. This one however contained a lot of information I hadn't heard elsewhere, and approached the subject from a slightly different perspective. It perhaps gets bogged down a little bit now and again with detail/explanation – and I suspect I may have actually enjoyed reading it rather than listening to it – but overall very much worth a credit.

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Provokes some interesting ideas but...

It's very well narrated and does touch on some interesting topics. However, I think it misses a trick in that it doesn't seem to tackle the issue of how infested with fruitcakes the UFO community is. Far too much airtime is given to people like Rich - a man who is clearly suffering from a pathological disorder and who thrives on the attention of the gullible. And it's not just him. Often in the audiobook I lost track of who was being discussed amongst the multitude of random people, all of whom were seemingly arbitrarily chosen by some Air Force general or retired Navy commander to be the recipient of unsubstantiated nonsense stories. It's worth a free credit but I was relieved when it ended because it became a bit of a chore to listen to.

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very good book. A different view point.

very good book. A different view point. Does explain many of the UFO events, as covers for covert operations. Explains the disinformation campaign well. Its not mentioned in book, but in the light of reading this book. If you take the Roswell UFO ! crash the ship apparently flys a million light years, is a tiny ship. Does it head to a City? NO Las vegas and the lights? NO, does it fly in the middle of a desert, and having past black holes, open space, radiation etc just crash lol. AND crash near a military base? LOL. NO. it was the military testing a ship. DOH... anyways a very good book, showing that governments are messing with peoples perceptions. . great page tuner give it a go...

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