TITLE: Alien Investigator

AUTHOR: Tony Dodd

Tony Dodd has been a UFO researcher for well over 20 years, and in that time he has amassed a wealth of information pertaining to UFOs, which has taken him off the sceptical fence and made him a firm believer in the extra-terrestrial hypothesis. This book is Tony's life work into the subject and begins by informing the reader all about his early interest in the subject, which in point of fact, was added to by his own personal UFO encounters on the Yorkshire Moors. Tony presents his sightings with such conviction that the reader can almost sense that they are there. He was a serving police officer for a number of years and managed to convince his fellow officers that he wasn't going mad by reporting these things, for as fortune would have it, a number of his police collegues were also witness to these strange aerial devices which flitted across the Yorkshire skies. These early UFO experiences sparked a intense desire by Tony to find out what was behind all these UFO reports, and as such he began a one man crusade to investigate these happenings all over the country.

He joined Quest International, a Leeds based UFO society and provided them with many case reports. Throughout the book Tony presents case after case of baffling UFO experiences; from the 'Kalahari Incident' of May 1989 which concerns an alleged UFO which was shot down and it's occupants removed to a South African Air force base under tight security, to his own Investigations with UFO abductees. Tony admits that the hypnosis that was used on these 'abductees' provided a wealth of information, but that information is not taken by some to be all that convincing owing to the controversy surrounding the hypnosis issue. The by now infamous 'Fife Incident' of September 1996 where a number of small grey creatures were witnessed in some woods near Newton of Falkland is also looked at.

His work on animal mutilations is graphic in every detail, and contains some harrowing and disturbing accounts. We learn of sheep, cattle, seals, mice, foxes and a variety of other animals, all found in strange and mysterious circumstances, devoid of any blood and most, if not all, of their internal organs mysteriously removed. But more disturbing is Tony's presentation of some of what could be termed 'human' mutilations, these are even more gruesome. What this reviewer found to be by far the most impressive segment of the book, was the chapter dealing with the death of Captain Thomas Mantell who left Godman Air Force base near Fort Knox on the 7th of January 1948 to investigate a UFO near the air base. Tony presents a new version of the events, not by a friend of a friend, but by someone who was actually there that day, and believe you and me, if you thought Thomas Mantell died of natural cases as a result of his plane crashing due to his oxygen failure, then think again, the information provided here, is 'mind bending' and clearly shows how big the American Government went to cover up this tragic death. There is a great deal of new information in this book, Tony's involvement with the UFO sightings in the Arctic Circle near Iceland is impressive, and again clearly shows how much the cover up was in force. This was a great book to read, lots of new material from a researcher for whom I hold in high regard. I cannot recommend it strongly enough.

Malcolm Robinson Of SPI England