Swamp Gas Times
My Two Decades on the UFO Beat
by Patrick Huyghe
Trade Paperback, 350 Pages
$19.95, ISBN: 1933665459
Genre(s):
UFOs
Where UFOs and journalism intersect...
SWAMP GAS TIMES is a revealing memoir by a journalist who covered the UFO field for more than twenty years. This honest, behind-the-scenes look at how the media handle UFO stories also examines the dramatic events and major players that transformed UFO research for a quarter century.
About the Author: PATRICK HUYGHE was a freelance science journalist for more than two decades. During this time he wrote articles on UFOs for such publications as the New York Times, Science Digest, Newsweek, and Omni, many of which are reprinted in this book along with commentaries and updates. Today he is the editor of Anomalist Books.
The Times Aren't A-Changin'
The Observer Magazine August 11, 2022
In the era before “that UFO article in the New York Times” meant the 2017 write-up by Cooper, Blumenthal, and Keane, there was the 1979 report by journalist Patrick Huyghe. His piece for the New York Times Magazine (“UFO Files: The Untold Story”) revealed the existence of previously unknown UFO research projects, reports of unidentified craft violating military airspace, and an official attempt to downplay the whole thing—the same elements that made the 2017 NYT articles such a paradigm- changer. Four decades prior to the world learning about AAWSAP, AATIP, or Luis Elizondo, Huyghe concluded that the government’s formal interest in aerial anomalies never diminished: “Despite official denials to the contrary, Federal agencies continue to monitor the phenomenon to this day.”
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CONTENTS
Introduction / 8
Chapter 1 The “Raid” Over Washington D.C. / 20
Chapter 2 A Close Encounter with J. Allen Hynek / 29
Chapter 3 The Great UFO Paper Chase / 37
Chapter 4 UFOs and the CIA’s Photo Analysis Unit / 55
Chapter 5 Who Cares About Unexplained Cases? / 64
Chapter 6 Scientists Who Have Seen UFOs / 69
Chapter 7 Writ of Habeas Corpus Extraterrestrial / 78
Chapter 8 The Hudson Valley UFO / 84
Chapter 9 Aliens ‘R’Us / 87
Chapter 10 A UFO Carjacking in Australia / 90
Chapter 11 NASA’s Role in UFO Research / 93
Chapter 12 First Communion / 96
Chapter 13 Enfant Terrible / 98
Chapter 14 Cancer and UFOs / 104
Chapter 15 Past-Life Aliens / 106
Chapter 16 B-2 or Not 2-B? / 107
Chapter 17 Fly that Saucer / 109
Chapter 18 UFOs Framed / 112
Chapter 19 AWOL in UFO Heaven / 114
Chapter 20 Superquali?ed Observers / 118
Chapter 21 What the Government Knows / 121
Chapter 22 What the Dolphins Know / 127
Chapter 23 A Curious Hypersensitivity / 129
Chapter 24 Blaming the Japanese for Roswell / 132
Chapter 25 On the Russian UFO Scene / 135
Chapter 26 On the Mars UFO Scene / 138
Chapter 27 The Dark Side / 141
Chapter 28 Alien Writing / 157
Chapter 29 Manhattan Transfer / 160
Chapter 30 Extraterrestrial Transfer / 179
Chapter 31 Secret Agent Man / 181
Chapter 32 Would Someone Please Tell the President? / 184
Chapter 33 Fast Walkers / 191
Chapter 34 The Devil’s Design / 201
Chapter 35 Anatomy of an Investigation / 203
Chapter 36 Alien Implant / 219
Chapter 37 UFO Crime Lab / 224
Chapter 38 The Secret Invasion / 228
Chapter 39 An Un?ltered Abduction Tale / 242
Chapter 40 The Strieber Show / 248
Chapter 41 Paradigm Shift / 252
Chapter 42 Dick and Jane Meet ET / 258
Chapter 43 Against All Odds / 262
Chapter 44 Extraterrestrial Trash / 264
Chapter 45 On Horse Mutilation Mysteries / 266
Chapter 46 Military Abductions / 268
Chapter 47 Sagan’s Scintillating Evidence / 270
Chapter 48 UFO Home Videos / 273
Chapter 49 An Insider’s Account of Alien Contact / 280
Chapter 50 Those Top Secret NSA Documents / 288
Chapter 51 A New Day for UFO Research / 293
Chapter 52 Taking the Cause to Court / 298
Chapter 53 Are UFOs an Air Safety Hazard? / 304
Chapter 54 The Best UFO Case Ever? / 309
Afterword / 334
Acknowledgments / 341
Index / 342 |
