In Plain Sight: A fascinating investigation into UFOs and alien encounters from an award-winning journalist, fully updated and revised new edition for 2023

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Davies writes that he was fascinated by Savile from childhood, keeping scrapbooks of clippings about him but always sensing, he claims, something evil about him. His book is largely based on numerous interviews Savile gave him mainly at his flat in Leeds. He describes how difficult it was to get Savile to open up, but chillingly reveals how he gave clues not only to him but to other interviewers. He includes the well documented episodes of Savile brazenly abusing guests on his TV shows. Could he really have existed, or was he perhaps invented by Robert Louis Stevenson, along with the Master of Ballantrae, Long John Silver, and the good Dr. Jekyll?...There is some evidence to say that he appeared in the flesh, but I lean more toward the invention theory.

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The whole Savile story broke a little while after his death in 2011. I was living in London at the time and didn't know much about who he was - but the story was everywhere and continued for months as more victims come forward. Dan Davies was probably part way through writing this biography when Savile died in Oct 2011 and therefore In Plain Sight is a strange mix of standard biography smushed together with the story of the revelations/investigations/police-and-political-coverups of his widespread abuse of minors. A career of abuse that spanned 60 odd years. The deadly crime spree the book covers began in January 2013 when attorney and Justice of the Peace Eric Williams shot and killed Kaufman County, Texas Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse as he exited his car in the courthouse parking lot while Kim Williams waited in the car for him. Then, two months later, Williams, with his wife again in the car with him, drove to the home of District Attorney Mike McLelland, 63, and his wife Cynthia, 65, and shot them inside their house. They were found dead from gunshot wounds on March 30, 2013.However I can tell you that wild ravings this book is not. It is authored by Ross Coulthart, a multi-award-winning and respected Australian investigative journalist, who has won both multiple Walkley awards and one Logie - Australia's most prestigious awards for print and tv journalism respectively.

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This is due to a small group of people who have persistently been brave enough to go public with all they can, even while being bound to legally binding non-disclosure agreements. If you could ask him anything, I say, what would it be? Davies thinks about it. "Did you feel remorse for what you did? Did it plague you when you were alone in your flat at night? Did you sleep easy?" Seidman, Robert (August 25, 2010). "USA Captures 5th Straight Summer Win". TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on June 20, 2011 . Retrieved March 16, 2012.

It is an incredible read; preposterous, unbelievable, utterly damning about the institutions that were taken in and duped by Savile: the NHS, the BBC, the royal family, the government, the civil service, the entire nation. And a cast of characters that spans everyone from Elvis Presley to the Beatles, from the Rolling Stones to the Queen to the pope. It could never have been fiction. Everything about the Savile story strains credibility. The man who dressed like a paedophile was a paedophile. Though this is only one part of it – just as paedophilia was only one of his many crimes. It was the kaleidoscopic aspect of Savile's life that gave Davies the idea to write the book in the first place. He didn't just want to write about Savile but had the idea that the history of the nation's popular culture could be told through him. In 2020, the US Navy went on the record confirming that several leaked videos showing purported UFO technology which defied the laws of physics were real…and this took the nation by storm. All of a sudden, everyone was talking about “aliens”. My interest, though laced with a heavy dose of skepticism, was piqued.