Mirage Men, Mark Pilkington
Mirage Men, Mark Pilkington
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Mirage Men
A Journey Into Disinformation, Paranoia and UFOs

Author: Mark Pilkington

Narrator: Ciaran Saward

Unabridged: 12 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/05/2021


Synopsis

Seeking the truth about UFOs in America, Mark Pilkington and John Lundberg uncover a sixty-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.

About Mark Pilkington

Mark Pilkington is a writer, editor, and filmmaker. He has written a weekly weird science column, Far Out, for the Guardian's Life supplement and has been a contributing editor to Fortean Times magazine. He has also written for, among others, the Times, the Wire, Arthur, Plan B, and has contributed to fiction and non-fiction anthologies. He also edits Strange Attractor Journal.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Michael

The Mirage Men Mark Pilkington Although this is a book about the ‘truth about UFO’s’, if you really believe we are being visited by Little Green Men (or perhaps their more grown up cousins - the Greys) then you probably won’t enjoy this. For anyone else who is curious about what all the fuss is about t......more

Goodreads review by George

Took me a while to get through this and almost gave up. Any book which discusses the difference between misinformation and disinformation is bound to raise suspicions about its own contents. At times, the text does descend to the level of blatant deception or misdirection (ie, "silent helicopters di......more

Goodreads review by Mike

Reading this book is probably the closest most of us will get to fully understanding what the UFO phenomenon is. Mark Pilkington presents damning evidence implicating American intelligence agencies in the propagation of UFO mythology from the very beginning and details their disinformation activitie......more

Goodreads review by Lauren

My background primes me to be SUPER INTO UFOs and associated phenomena. I've managed to remain fairly uninvolved with the community at large but have always had an intensive outsider's fascination with UFOlogy and everything it entails, and this book is a great primer in that respect. For someone wh......more