The US never stopped investigating this, and other governments like Australia deliver information but are told to keep quiet about it. Eyewitness accounts are described vividly, and some of the sillier government reaction to UFO-sightings are read (this the audiobook review) in a deliciously sarcastic voice and timber. Shortly before he and his aircraft disappeared, Valentich was recorded telling Melbourne air traffic control that he was being followed by a huge illuminated shiny metal craft hovering above him.

There are many plot holes, little character development, the boys at the camp talk like they're 10, not 17, and the plot feels like something we've all read many times before. However, it could be that, in turn, the increase in the number of sightings of strange objects at the time, especially in the western US, made Hollywood’s storytellers more aware. If it gets covered at all, invariably there is a quizzical raising of the eyebrows or a subtle turn of phrase, or a flourish of X-Files music, to suggest that this is a lighter story to be taken with a grain of salt. However, strange things begin happening almost immediately—and Chris seems to be the only one who’s noticing.She clearly remembers the two military policemen first came to the family home, so she directed them to Annie’s workplace, where her colleagues watched her being escorted away. The New Mexico White Sands testing ground, two hours’ drive west of the crash site, was where the US Army had conducted the world’s first-ever detonation of the ‘Trinity’ nuclear device on 16 July 1945.

Recent discoveries in the fields of physics and astronomy show, not only that we still know very little when it comes to gravity, spacetime, dark matter, dark energy and the vacuum of space. The taciturn policemen drove Annie straight into what she knew was the top-secret section of the US base. Featuring the beautiful illustrations of Adam Allsuch Boardman, 'Hiding In Plain Sight' reveals and documents The Lost Cinemas Of Leeds, some gone forever, some now re-purposed, strangely familiar, and hiding in plain sight. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. The first part of the book detailing the UAP sightings might raise some interesting questions but the second part, which is obsessed with conspiracies and cover-ups, is, in my opinion, nonsense.I found this book in my neighborhood “little library” with a note from Tim in the cover promoting his novel. Or, in the most dramatic case, recovered craft and bodies and a silent race with Russia and China to reverse-engineer the technology. The first thing Annie did was ring her cousin, who had long been inquisitive about what was really going on at the base. I prefer the less loaded term ‘UAPs’ because ‘UFO’ is so often taken to mean flying saucers and little green men. Tracing a line from the origin of the saucer phenomenon with Kenneth Arnold's famous sighting and that old chestnut Roswell through to the era of soft disclosure that has seen Blink-182 frontman Tom DeLonge emerge as an unlikely protagonist, In Plain Sight hits all the classic notes of UFO literature without feeling stale.