Keith Chester is an artist and filmmaker living in Bel Air, Maryland. After witnessing a daytime UFO in the mid-1960s, he became fascinated with the phenomenon. By the late 1980s, he was devoting considerable time to reserach on UFOs.
"In this eye-opening, thoroughly researched book, bristling with
surprising revelations, Keith Chester challenges decades of
conventional wisdom about the UFO phenomenon." - Jerome Clark"It's
a huge contribution to the field." - Tim Binnall, Binnall of
America"I was reading a new book the other day, Strange Company by
Keith Chester, and realized a couple of things. First, we're going
to have to change the history of the UFO phenomenon. Until this
book came out, we all dated the 'modern' era from the Kenneth
Arnold sighting of June 24, 1947. It is now clear that the modern
era began during the Second World War." - Kevin Randle, A Different
Perspective"Strange Company makes clear for the first time, just
how frequent the wartime sightings were and the concern they
created within Allied military, who seriously feared they could be
advanced secret weapons developed by the Axis forces. This gave
rise to the persistent myth that foo-fighters were highly advanced
flying saucers created by Nazi scientists, whose designs were later
captured and developed in secrecy by the Americans. The proponents
of this bizarre theory will find little to support their claims in
this sensible, sober book which largely sticks to primary source
material... Possibly the most intriguing revelation in this book
are the results of Keith Chester's inquiries at the US National
Archives, which threw up references to a joint US and British
foo-fighter investigation later in the war, and a direct link with
post-war UFO studies by the intelligence services. Most important
of all was the involvement in wartime investigations of Bob
Robertson, the US physicist who presided over a scientific panel
which reviewed the UFO evidence for the CIA in 1953...A must-read
for ufologists of all persuasions." - Dr. David Clarke, Fortean
Times"...an extensive, exceptionally documented, and in-depth
account of UFOs observed and reported by the military during World
War II...Chester has indeed produced a ufological gem." - John
Zupansic, Fate"Packed with never-before-seen documentation, witness
testimony, and reams of new data, Strange Company is likely to be
one of the most talked about UFO books of this year..." - UFO
Magazine"As I began reading Strange Company, I wondered whether we
would be treated with a series of stories of indistinct lights,
which, I confess, was my concept of the foo fighters of World War
II...But we read of solid objects with sharply defined edges moving
the foo fighters from the realm of ionized air and other natural
phenomena into something that is solid and probably
extraterrestrial....Chester gives us the documents created at the
time by intelligence officers trained in interrogation techniques
and whose job it was to understand all that the flight crews were
telling them because lives hung in the balance...this book is a
unique history of the Second World War...What Strange Company does
quite well is move the modern era of the UFO from June 1947 when
Kenneth Arnold's report hit the newspaper to World War II. It is
clear that these sightings, considered at the time to be classified
information and therefore weren't widely discussed, are the
beginning of the modern [UFO] era." - Kevin Randle, Journal of
Scientific Exploration
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