Has anyone read Mr. Good's most recent book Earth: An alien enterprise?
I came across an interesting comment on the Amazon page from a reader:
"Timothy Good believes a lot of UFO stories. He believes the discredited Col. Philip Corso, who claimed fiber optics and other modern advances came from aliens. He believes John Lear, whose tales of underground alien bases-cum-torture chambers were too much even for Art Bell. Good may be one of the last UFOlogists to believe George Adamski, the `50s hustler who claimed to zoom around the solar system with a Venusian named Orthon.
Good seems to believe everyone with a wild UFO/alien account; he stacks dozens of them end to end, uncritically, in "Earth: An Alien Enterprise."
Corso, Lear, et al are the least of them. There's an account of UFOnauts surveilling a North Dakota farm throughout the 1930s and befriending teenage boys. There's a story of live aliens in long-term residence at an RAF base in Somerset. There's an alien liason program, "Amicizia," involving dozens of people across Europe for forty years. (Good provides a snapshot of a genuine alien on the Amicizia team; he looks like Richard Kiel, the "Jaws" guy from the Bond films.) There's an offhand reference to the head of a `70s US/West German space research center being a Venusian.
No matter how outrageous the story (most are wholly unconfirmable: second-hand, hearsay, or single-sourced), no matter how glaring the absence of evidence (no photos of an alleged `50s mass sighting over Bexleyheath, UK because "cameras were not common in 1955"), Good stretches to believe. "Leo came across as genuine..." "I remain impressed by his total sincerity." "An unlikely tale? Perhaps not." Good believes everyone. If you call Good and tell him six-foot space squirrels played mariachi music in your back yard and fed you nachos from the Crab Nebula, he might believe you too.
There's a weird appeal to Good's increasingly berserk cavalcade of UFO / alien anecdotes. But they don't cohere. They add up to no unified view of the UFO phenomenon. Good presents no thesis. Contact began when Eisenhower met with aliens at Edwards AFB in 1954. No, 1948. Actually, George Washington met with aliens. Actually, it all began when a NASA emissary met the aliens in the Solomon Islands in 1961. Oh, wait, there was UFO wreckage hidden in a U.S. Capitol sub-basement in the 1930s. And secret alien bases? They're in the South Seas, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Alaska, the American Southwest... there's also a secret alien city somewhere in Mexico with an alien population of 300,000...
At some point even the most credulous reader should say, hey, wait a minute.
If the phenomenon includes this many alien species, bases, types of craft, government secret-keepers, and dastardly cover-up activities (including numberless murders and thousands of child abductions), hiding it on Earth would be as hard as hiding double-decker buses in London.
But Good thinks the planet is being overrun. He literally sees aliens behind potted palms. How do you deal with a guy who sees a pretty young girl in a restaurant, sends her the telepathic message: "Are you from another planet?" and takes her much-subsequent random smile as a "yes"? Good files this innocuous exchange under "my contacts with presumed aliens."
There's a fine line between tantalizing and ridiculous.
Good's mid-1990s book "Above Top Secret" remains a key, well-researched UFO volume, but since then his critical faculties seem to have degenerated... well, rather a lot. It doesn't help that a great deal of "Earth: An Alien Enterprise" consists of reheated material from Good's prior books, large verbatim excerpts of other books, or old chestnuts from the UFO oeuvre polished up for resale. The Antonio Villas-Boas abduction story (Brazil, 1957) gets its umpteenth outing here. The so-called "headline revelation" about UFOs and Apollo 11 trumpeted by the publisher has actually been out there for decades; the sole update is that Good names the recently deceased MI6 source. (She claimed she heard Neil Armstrong confirm spotting alien spaceships on the lunar surface while she eavesdropped through a closed hotel room door at a conference in Italy. No matter that the conference's official record makes no mention of the source, Armstrong, or the professor he allegedly confessed to. Good believes her.)
There is a real shortage of new and balanced writing about the UFO question, which is indubitably worth studying. The problem doesn't seem to be a lack of new stories or witnesses. More likely it's a shortage of cogent, rational analysis that will coax open-minded people to take a closer look. In that regard, sadly, "Earth: An Alien Enterprise" does more harm than good."
Does it ever end? 
