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This may be the worst book published this year. The author is clearly ignorant of the simplest and most basic facts of aeronautics, science, history, and physics, and combines that ignorance with a total lack of scepticism to create a breathtakingly stupid book. If you believe her, this is what happened in the 1940s and 1950s: The German military, while being bombed day and night, using slide rules and pencils, invented a type of winged non-helicopter aircraft that can hover in flight and fly from Russia to the United States on one tank of gas(?) All countries since then have been unable to duplicate this German feat, after 65 years and the invention of supercomputers and modern aerospace technology. The Russians captured this super-flying saucer thingie. They don't use it to make super fighters or ultra-bombers--instead they used British technology given to them in the 1940s to make the MiG-15, just in time to be shot down at a rate of 10 to 1 in Korea. For bombers, they copied a B-29 piston-driven US bomber that landed in Russia during World War 2. Joseph Stalin, because he remembered the Orson Welles broadcast of "War of the Worlds," from ten years before, decides to use this unique, super-advanced incredible German saucer technology not to win the Cold War, but to "panic" America. Never mind that he's working on a real A-bomb that will do a pretty good job on scaring Americans in a year or so. To make it extra-spooky, Stalin has an SS scientist (who was hiding in Austria at the time, by the way)"geneticaly alter" children to make them look like spooky aliens. (The discovery of the DNA helix was years in the future, but never mind about that. Never mind that the scary alien-children were supposed to be 13 years old, which means that the plan had to start in the 1930s, before the super-saucer was invented and before World War 2 or the Cold War began.) Risking certain exposure of his incredible super-saucer thingie, Stalin's master plan is carried out--he panics America by crashing the saucer in a cow pasture in Roswell, New Mexico. Once again, that was the diabolical master plan---panic America by crashing one "saucer" in the boonies of New Mexico.(Never mind that, before satellite technology, controlling any aircraft at thousands of miles of distance was impossible, unless of course the alien-child martians were also taught to fly.) Americans scientists, are so impressed by the super-duper saucer and the super-scary aliens that they: 1. Never use the technology themselves, and continue to build nice old jet fighters and get to the moon using old-fashioned rockets. 2. Manage to conceal such an incredible event for 60 years. 3. Decide that Stalin has such a good idea that they should start experimenting on humans too. After the Cold War ends, when this secret would literally be worth billions of dollars, Soviet scientits, who are forced to rely on Western charity to eat and do research, don't reveal the super-duper flying saucer. The one man who knows the truth(of course, only one man knows the truth) who is now in his 90s, keeps this incredible secret quiet for decades and then tells it to the author for no money at all, when, if he could prove 10% of his story, he could make Donald Trump look like a charity case. Are you kidding? I mean, really, can you read the above without laughing? All we need is Bigfoot and Leprechauns and its perfect, right?? The author and this book would be a joke if she didn't cross one very, very ugly line: she accuses real people, with real families, BY NAME, of ordering human experimentation, without a shred of evidence. That is disgusting, that is unethical, and that is poor, poor journalism. She bases those repulsive accusations, and the whole insane story detailed above, on the word of ONE, repeat ONE, old man in his 90s. She has been lied to, and she has lapped it up and she has spewed it out for the ignorant and the unwary to consume. Along with the insanity detailed above, this book is riddled, on page after page, with factual errors, misinterpretations, obvious misunderstandings of the basics of science and technology, and just plain poor writing. It is a shame, a SHAME, that such garbage was accepted by any publishing house, and it is a disgrace that this piece of trash was reviewed by the New York "Times." The author and everyone involved in producing this book should be ashamed of themselves.