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Ross is the co-author of bestselling books Dead Man Running and Above the Law, both exposes of organised crime in Australian and international outlaw motorcycle gangs, as well as Charles Bean, Lost Diggers, The Lost Tommys and Secrecy for Sale: Inside the Global Offshore Money Maze. If you’re afraid to read this book because you think it will contain a lot of graphic details of the sexual abuse of minors then rest assured – it doesn’t. The details of offences are kept to a minimum and there is no salaciousness in the reporting of them. In fact the book is all the more powerful because it doesn’t dwell on the details. It is a harrowing book to read because it paints an all too vivid picture of how celebrity rules and how too many of us are unwilling to challenge anyone in the public eye. That first interview, which was scheduled to last an hour, went on for the entire afternoon and into the early evening. It set the template for the series of lengthy meetings that followed, staged in the same flat in Leeds or in the seafront apartment he had bought for his beloved mother in Scarborough. In time, these summits began to stretch over days and nights.
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The clutter of the room's time-warp interior was in stark contrast to the panoramic views of Roundhay Park and the hills beyond. An ancient-looking exercise bike, a low sideboard with two This Is Your Life books lying open on the top and a glass-fronted cabinet stuffed with what looked like cups, medals, plaques and various awards from his career in entertainment dominated the first half of the room. That's where my intellectual empathy with the book ends. The book's logical structure is obnoxiously circular. The author starts with a conclusion and proceeds to assert series' of untestable qualititative evidences. He consistently utilizes appeals to authority by presenting testimonials of people who have long titles in the US government (which is ironic because he also eludes that people with long titles in the government are liars and attempting to cover up "real" quantitative evidence. I suppose they are all liars except the ones who support his premise.). Finally, the author attempts to reinforce these untestable premises by asserting that no one can prove the negative. This is a recently published, meticulously researched, and currently relevant account of the UFO/UAP phenomenon. Savile is dead. There was no trial. No verdict. He got away with it. None of the victims have seen justice done. More and more information about what he did and how he did it is coming to light, but it doesn't change this one simple, irrevocable, unsurpassable fact. He got away with it. And it's this, more than anything else, that perhaps makes Savile so difficult to process. We are all affected by it. He was part of the wallpaper of our lives. And none of us have had our day in court. Davies confesses in the book that, for a long time – before the truth about Savile came out, while he was still obsessed with his dark side but didn't know what it was – he wondered if Savile had murdered someone. But then, given the nature of his transgressions, including the latest from the NHS inquiry at Leeds infirmary, which found allegations of necrophilia, and the instances of violence cited in the book, it's hard to know what he would stop at.
The book is narrated by the author himself, who has a clear and engaging voice. However, his deep intakes of breath become a bit distracting after a while - those should have been edited out, or he should have used a better dynamic mic or mic cover. He tries to present his findings as objectively and impartially as possible, but he often reveals his bias and credulity towards the UFO hypothesis. He rarely challenges or questions the sources he relies on, and he accepts many claims at face value without providing sufficient evidence or verification. He also tends to repeat himself and use sensationalist language that undermines his credibility. The book starts out describing some of the better corroborated eye witness accounts of seeing unexplained phenomena. One thing I really appreciated was that while he doesn't take people's stories as gospel, neither does he discount them purely because they are eye witness stories. As he says, much of science relies on human observation, and I think it's foolhardy to simply dismiss people's described experiences outright without at least listening to them and lending them your curiosity. He showed me through to his kitchen. It was decorated in tiles of pink and brown, or as he put it, "the colour of sex". He asked me what was missing but I already knew, having read scores of newspaper and magazine interviews over the previous 20 years: it didn't contain a cooker. He liked to boast that none of his many homes had one. "It would give women the wrong idea and that would only lead to brain damage." In Plain Sight" is an important book that raises serious questions about the government's handling of the UFO phenomenon. It is a must-read for anyone who is interested in this fascinating and mysterious topic.
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Author Ross Coulthart is an investigative journalist for Australian news and current affairs program 60 Minutes on Channel Nine. He is also a best-selling author of three books, including The Lost Diggers. He lives in Australia.It was March 2004, our very first meeting. Jimmy Savile had thrown me off balance. The rules of engagement had been established: he was on home turf and he was in charge. It just lays out the current state of affairs as known outside the circle of those that do know and say nothing. There are reports from inside that circle that give creedence to some events but at the same time the biggest feature is the sheer overwhelming silence around this subject.
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The book is meticulously researched and presented in an admirably balanced way. I felt Coulthart sat on the delicate fulcrum between healthy scepticism and fair open mindedness with impressive poise. For as long as I remember, the subject of UFOs has been something to titter at, scoff about, and downright deride if someone tried to speak about it in any serious manner. Just last week, I was called a “loonie” for posting a comment under one of Mr Coulthart’s interviews. I shrugged it off, thanking her for the laugh at the label she’d slapped on me. It was obvious that my curiosity flowed in a direction that hers didn’t. It would behoove her and her ilk to read this eye opening book.And you, Dan? When you found out about his crimes, did you ever feel that he'd also made you complicit? Coulthart believes that the government's secrecy about UFOs is a disservice to the public. He argues that the government should be more transparent about its knowledge of UFOs, and that it should conduct a serious scientific investigation into the phenomenon.
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