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Are there any unexplainable reports of UFOs which represent something beyond our present knowledge and are governments concealing what they have learnt? And if the answer is positive, what exactly has been discovered and why is the truth being hidden from us? Beyond Top Secret deals with these and other questions relating to the many-faceted UFO phenomenon.
I have discovered many important new cases and a great deal of new information from all over the world adding to the overwhelming body of evidence indicating that the phenomenon has caused grave concern at high levels in many of the world’s governments, despite their statements to the contrary - Timothy Good.
Above Top Secret shot to the top of the bestseller lists when it was published in 1987 and became the definitive book on UFOs. Beyond Top Secret is the completely revised and fully updated edition of this classic. It incorporates powerful new evidence, including officially documented sightings by commercial and military pilots around the world, the latest findings on the mysterious crashes at Roswell (New Mexico) and elsewhere, and confirmation from Russian, American and European defence chiefs that UFOs exist as a serious security threat.
Timothy Good draws on many of the several thousand declassified reports he has acquired from the world’s intelligence agencies to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that there has been an extensive cover-up and that much material continues to be classified at a level beyond top secret.
This is the most astonishing both about unidentified flying objects and their threat to our security ever written - the more so because of the author’s rational, sober and immaculately documented approach. It is riveting.

Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction
Prologue
The Ghost Aircraft
The Second World War
The Los Angeles Air Raid
Document: A memorandum from General George Marshall to President Roosevelt giving details of the Los Angeles air alarm in February 1942. (US Army)
Formations of Unidentified Aircraft
The Foo-Fighters
UFOs Endanger Aircraft
The Ghost Rockets
Document: A 'Top Secret' Department of State memorandum relating to the 'ghost rocket' wave of 1946. (US State Department)
Part One. The United Kingdom
1. Defence Intelligence
RAF Topcliffe
Document: An Air Ministry report giving details of the sighting by personnel at RAF Topcliffe, Yorkshire, in September 1952.
The Deputy Directorate of Intelligence
The West Mailing and Lee Green Incidents
Air Force Concern
RAF Pilot's Close Encounter over Southend
Mystery Aerial Formations Baffle the War Office
HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Defence Chiefs Admit Interest
The Landing at Broadlands
2. Flying Saucers - Top Secret
The Kilgallen Story
RAF Bentwaters/Lakenheath
RAF West Freugh
Room 801 - Top Secret
Document: An article from Reynolds News (London, 16 June 1957) revealing details of some of the Air Ministry's top-secret investigations.
Airliner Communications Interference
RAF Gaydon
Questions in the House of Commons
The Air Minister Admits to a Cover-Up
3. A Matter of National Security
Press Censorship?
The D-Notice and the Official Secrets Act
The New Ministry of Defence
Questions to Ministers
The 1967 Wave of Sightings
Another Observation by Airliner Crew
Air Force Encounters
The Moigne Downs Incident
Document: A sketch of an unknown aerial vehicle observed by Angus Brooks, a former RAF intelligence officer and British Airways flight administration officer, at Moigne Downs, Dorset, in October 1967.
Landing Traces Covered up by the Authorities
Further Questions in the House of Commons
Ministry of Defence Collaboration
Official Pressure?
The Meanwood Landing
The First House of Lords Debate
4. No Defence Significance?
RAF Neatishead Tracks Uncorrelated Target
Aerial Display over North-West Kent
Document: Instructions to air traffic controllers by the Ministry of Defence for the reporting of UFO sightings (1991).
Close Encounters outside RAF Woodbridge/Bentwaters
Document: The memorandum from Colonel Charles Halt to the MoD describing some of the sensational events reported outside RAF/USAF Woodbridge in December 1980. (US Air Force)
Airman John Burroughs
Sergeant Jim Penniston
Sergeant Adrian Bustinza
Airman Lawrence Warren
Official and Unofficial Denials
The Halt Tape
Cover-Up
Colonel Charles Halt
Highly Classified Findings
5. The Security Threat
Close Encounters Reported by Police
Report by a Woman Police Constable
Structured UFO Encountered by Three Police Officers
Police Officer Abducted?
A Home Office Directive
Injury Caused by Unknown Craft
Convincing Witness
House of Lords, 1982
Abduction in Aldershot
Background
The Encounter
The Craft
No Witnesses
Publicity
Further Details of the Encounter
Aftermath
No Defence Threat
Further Questions in the Commons
The UK Intelligence Community
Per Ardua Ad Astra
Ministry of Defence Co-operation
British Airways Jet in Near Miss
UK Policy Influenced by the US
Part Two. Around the World
6. France
Police and Security Services Alerted by Landing
Huge UFO Observed over Paris
French Air Force Commanding General Confirms UFO Reality
Secret Service Officer Confirms Worldwide Collaboration
The Valensole Case
UFOs and the Gendarmerie Nationale
GEPAN
The Masters of Silence
A Landing Case yields impressive Scientific Evidence
Doubts about GEPAN
SEPRA
Further Official and Unofficial Reactions
7. Italy
UFO Fleets over Rome
Landing at Istrana Air Base?
UFO Blacks Out NATO Base at Aviano
Ministry of Defence Releases File
Close Encounter near Mount Etna
Italian Air Force Pilot's Encounter
Air Force General Staff Statistical Survey
Italian Airliner Encounters Unknown Missile over Britain
Document: The official report by Captain Achille Zaghetti of Alitalia, describing the object encountered over Kent in April 1991.
Alien Encounters
European Parliamentary Interest
8. Portugal and Spain
Portuguese Air Force Jets in Forty-Minute Encounter
Near Collision with an Airliner
Defense Intelligence Agency Interest
Landing at an Air Force Target Range
Document: The official report of the sighting by military personnel at Las Bárdenas Reales, near Zaragoza Air Base, Spain, January 1975.
Spanish Air Ministry Releases UFO Files
Spanish Air Force General Confirms UFO Reality
Document: The UFO subject confirmed by the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Spain in 1979 as a 'classified matter'.
Portuguese Air Force Pilot's Alarming Encounter
Another Near Collision
Cat and Mouse
Further Air Force Files Released
Document: The first listing of the official Spanish Air Force intelligence files on fifty-five UFO reports (1962-88), included in a 1991 information note from Flight Safety to the Air Force's Chief of Staff.
Scientific Symposium in Portugal
The Official Dilemma
9. Australia and New Zealand
Early Official Investigations
Missing Film
Navy Pilot's Sighting
Aircraft Shadowed by Huge Disc over New Zealand
The Maralinga Case
The Australian Security and Intelligence Organization
The Directorate of Scientific and Technical Intelligence
USAF Pilot's Sighting
Official Controversy
Ansett-ANA Sighting
US Air Force UFO Film
Captain Cathie and the Defense Intelligence Agency
RAAF East Sale
Aircraft Communications Interference During Multiple UFO Sighting
Parliamentary Statement
Incident at North West Cape
The Disappearance of Delta Sierra Juliet
The Tape
Document: The official report on the case of Frederick Valentich, who disappeared with his aircraft after reporting an unknown aerial craft which hovered above him during a flight in October 1978.
The Official Verdict
The Cessna Found?
What Happened to Valentich?
Sightings on the Same Day
Document: A sketch by professional aircraft illustrator Denis Crowe of a disc-shaped vehicle he saw taking off from Vaucluse Beach, Sydney, on 19 July 1965.
10. Canada
Document: A previously Top Secret memorandum from Wilbert Smith of the Canadian Government's Department of Transport, 1950, in which 'flying saucers' are revealed to be 'the most highly classified matter in the United States Government, rating higher even than the H-bomb'.
Document: A Top Secret memorandum relating to the information acquired by Wilbert Smith from Dr Robert Sarbacher.
Project Magnet
Project Second Storey
Physical Evidence
UFOs Follow British Airliner over Labrador
More Official Contradictions
Cover-Up
The Falcon Lake Incident
Physiological Effects
Findings at the Landing-Site
Official Reactions
Further Sightings by Pilots
Radar/Visual Case at Falconbridge
Document: A NORAD document relating to sightings of unknown objects over nuclear-missile bases in 1975.
Official Reticence
11. China
Airliner Chased by UFOs
Jet Fighters Scrambled
'Combat Stations'
A Landing in the Gobi Desert
Multiple-Witness Sightings
Power Failure and a Close Encounter
Tientsin Airport Tracks UFO
Extraordinary Parallels with Events in the UK
Air Force Jets Affected by UFOs
UFO Paces Airliner
Air Force Pilot Chases UFO
Army Personnel Chased by a Disc
Encounters with Airliners
Officialdom and the Scientific and Industrial Community
12. The Soviet Union
Stalin's Concern
Close Encounters of a Soviet Test Pilot
CIA Concern
US Officials Witness Flying Discs
Encounter over Greenland
Sensational Encounters
Passengers and Crew Disappear from Aircraft
Night Encounter over Yalta
Further CIA Interest
The Stolyarov Committee
Cover-Up
Further Reactions
Document: A DIA attaché report relating to the announcement on Moscow Television in November 1967 of a Soviet commission to study UFOs.
The Military Launches a Huge Investigation
Naval Intelligence
Rival Factions
More Statements from Dr Felix Zigel
Dramatic Events at Baikonur
Commission for the Investigation of Anomalous Atmospheric Phenomena
Aeroflot Flight 8352 Escorted by UFO
The KGB Releases Some UFO Files
Multiple-Witness Sightings at an Army Weapons Depot
The Voronezh Landings
Pilot Affected by an Encounter
Official Recognition
Radar Complex Attacked by a UFO
Official Denial
Giant Sphere Reported by Cosmonaut
A Common Security Threat
13. Defence Intelligence around the World
Germany
The Defense Intelligence Agency
Chile
Argentina
Defense Intelligence Agency Interest
UFO Endangers Airliner
Peru
Air Force Jet Attacks a UFO
Document: A DIA report on the interceptions of an unknown aerial vehicle by Peruvian Air Force pilots in May 1980.
Brazil
Aerial Encounters
Indonesia
Cuba
A Landing Case Investigated by Intelligence Specialists
South Africa
Zimbabwe
Japan
UFOs Pace a Japan Air Lines Jumbo
Document: Drawings by Captain Kenju Terauchi of unidentified traffic encountered by his Boeing 747 of Japan Air Lines over Alaska in November 1986
Former Prime Minister's Interest
Iran
Document: A US Air Force Security Service article about the encounter by pilots of the Imperial Iranian Air Force in September 1976
Further Sightings
Turkey
Cat and Mouse over Ankara
Document: A US Air Force intelligence report describing the sighting of a circular-shaped craft rising from the sea near Paphos, Cyprus, in May 1952.
US Air Force Jet Disappears During Encounter
Turkish Airlines Sightings
Hungary
Belgium
Document: A DIA report on the Belgian sightings of 1989-90.
DIA Attendance at Conferences
Analysis
Part Three. The United States
14. The Growing Security Threat
Document: A 1973 letter from Clarence M. Kelley, Director, FBI, denying the Bureau's involvement in the investigation of UFOs. In 1976 the FBI released 1,100 pages of UFO-related documentation.
Document: A US Army intelligence report detailing observations of flying saucers observed by airborne witnesses over Wisconsin in July 1947.
Air Matériel Command
Document: The AMC report by Lieut-Gen N Twining to the Commanding General, Army Air Forces, September 1947, originally classified Secret, confirming that 'the phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious'.
The Death of Captain Mantell
Request for Interceptor Aircraft
Eastern Airlines Sighting
Top Secret USAF Analyses
Document: One page from the previously Top Secret 1948 Air Intelligence Report
Document: A page (Secret) detailing official reports from January to October 1948.
Intrusions over Sensitive Installations
Document: A US Army intelligence report, 1949, concerning intrusions of UFOs over sensitive installations.
Document: A 1949 FBI document confirming the Top Secret nature of the UFO subject-matter.
Document: A US Army intelligence report, 1950. (US Army)
Army Intelligence on High Alert
Document: An FBI message relating to an 'immediate high alert' for data on flying saucers, December 1950.
UFOs Encountered by Military Aircraft
Document: A US Navy intelligence report, 1951.
Document: A USAF intelligence report describing the sighting of a disc-shaped object reported by Major Ballard and Lieutenant Rogers in September 1951.
The July 1952 Flap
Air Force Jet Attempts to Shoot Down a UFO
Document: A US Air Force intelligence report, 1953. The distribution list includes the CIA and the National Security Agency.
Air Force Jet Disappears While Intercepting a UFO
Top Secret Instructions for Reporting Encounters
15. Collision Course
Air Force Regulations for Reporting UFOs
Document: US Air Force Regulation No. 200-2, setting out official procedures for the reporting of unidentified flying objects, August 1954.
Sightings above Fort Meade
Mystery Aircraft
Document: Two pages from a USAF intelligence report describing the sighting of a mysterious aircraft at Carswell Air Force Base, Texas, in 1954.
Near Collisions with Airliners
Airline Pilots Affected by Military Regulations
Sighting by Helicopter Pilots
Air Force Special Security Service
Extraordinary Events at Holloman Air Force Base
TV Censorship
Congressional Statements
A Tragic Interception
'Serious USAF Business'
Radiation Effects
UFO Destroys Atlas Missile
Californian Contact
The Aliens
Inside the Craft
Outside the Craft
Origin and Purpose
A Spiritual Experience
The Air Force Investigation
The Silencers
NORAD
Police Chief Photographs 'Spaceman'
Army Helicopter in Near Collision
Document: A disposition form describing the near collision with an unidentified flying object reported by four Army Reserve helicopter crewmen in the vicinity of Mansfield, Ohio, in October 1973.
Document: A 'Serious Incident Report' relating to a sighting at Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia, on 8 September 1973.
Document: A National Military Command Center memorandum relating to a sighting at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico, in January 1976.
Intrusions at Kirtland Air Force Base
Document: A US Air Force Office of Special Investigations complaint form describing the intrusions by UFOs over sensitive nuclear storage areas at Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico, in August 1980.
Witnesses Severely Harmed by UFO - But was it One of Ours?
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - a Reality
16. Central Intelligence
The CIA and the Freedom of Information Act
The Released Documents
Document: A Secret memorandum from the Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence, to the Director of Central Intelligence, 1952.
Document: Memorandum by Walter B. Smith, Director of Central Intelligence, to the Executive Secretary of the National Security Council, 1952.
The Robertson Panel Report
UFOs - 'Maximum Security'
Developments in the Office of Scientific Intelligence
The Socorro Landing
The University of Colorado UFO Project
The CIA and NICAP
Infiltration
Surveillance
Missing Evidence
Disinformation
Declining CIA Interest?
The CIA Cover-Up
17. Aerospace Intelligence
Document: Two pages from a NASA management instruction relating mostly to the processing of reports of unidentified flying objects.
Document: A 1978 NASA information sheet perpetuating the myth that no government agency is engaged in UFO research.
President Carter Seeks to Reopen Investigations
Document: President Carter's report of a UFO sighting he witnessed while Governor of Georgia in 1969 (NICAP).
Document: A letter from Colonel Charles Senn, US Air Force Office of Information, to Lieutenant General Duward Crow, NASA, September 1977
Dr James McDonald
Dr Hermann Oberth
The Silver Spring Film
The Astronauts
Did Apollo 11 Encounter UFOs on the Moon?
Physical Evidence?
18. The Roswell Incident
The Corona Debris
Document: Part of the front-page story from the Roswell Daily Record (8 July 1947) describing some of the early events associated with the Roswell incident.
Project Mogul
Containment Strategy
Top-Secret Studies
Majestic-12
Document: An unauthenticated 'Top Secret/Eyes Only' memorandum from Rear Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter, Director of Central Intelligence, relating to unidentified discs recovered by the military in New Mexico in July 1947.
The Bodies
Congressional Inquiry
The Air Force Report
The General Accounting Office Report
19. Down to Earth
Paradise Valley
Cover-Up
The Aztec Case
Document: A 1950 FBI memorandum from special agent Guy Hottel to J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director, concerning flying discs recovered in New Mexico.
Document: A US Army intelligence report relating to the disc reportedly recovered near Aztec, New Mexico, in 1948.
Corroboration
Recovery in Arizona
Alien Bodies at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Guarded Disc at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Another Recovery in New Mexico
Senator Goldwater Confirms Withheld UFO Material
Document: A letter from Senator Barry Goldwater confirming that information about UFOs is classified above 'Top Secret'.
Alien Bodies and Craft Examined at Secret Base in Arizona
A Craft Stored at the Base
A Hoax?
Harassment
Further Confirmation for the Recoveries
Document: A letter from the late Dr Robert Sarbacher confirming the recovery of alien craft and bodies.
20. Beyond Top Secret
The National Security Agency
Document: Three pages from the twenty-one-page Top Secret Umbra affidavit giving the NSA's reasons for withholding many of its documents dealing with UFOs.
The Central Security Service
The NSA/CIA Link
'UFO Hypothesis and Survival Questions'
Why No Leaks?
Reasons for Secrecy
Protection of Defence Intelligence
Military and Political Embarrassment
Society in Upheaval?
A Worst-Case Scenario
A Satellite Government?
Why No Open Contact?
Where do They Come From and Why are They Here?
Are We Entitled to the Truth?

ReferencesAppendix. Some British and American UFO Journals
Index
Photo gallery
Annotation
About the author