Timothy Good (born 28 July 1942) is a British author on

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. His books include ''Above Top Secret: The Worldwide U.F.O. Cover-up'' (1987), ''Alien Liaison'' (1991) and ''Beyond Top Secret'' (1996), all published by

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. Good has made many television and documentary appearances. Critics challenged the reliability of his writings. Good was born in London. He has also had a career as a violinist.

Career

Good is a British author about

. In 1987 it was reported in ''

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'' that he was "Britain's leading UFO researcher". In his 1987 book ''Above Top Secret: The Worldwide U.F.O. Cover-up'', he was involved in the initial publication of the purported

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documents; later, according to skeptic

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, Good questioned the authenticity of at least some of the documents. In 2007, the

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cited ''Above Top Secret'' as one of the sources contributing to "the idea that CIA has secretly concealed its research into UFOs". In 2012 Good was interviewed on the

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show. In May 2019, Tom DeLonge of

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credited Good's books with "opening his eyes" into UFOs, leading to DeLonge's development of To The Stars.

Criticism

Martin Bridgstock, in a review of ''Above Top Secret: The Worldwide U.F.O. Cover-up'' for '' The Skeptic'' in 1989, identified two of the book's central ideas: that "Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) do exist, and are spacecraft from other worlds" and "there is a worldwide cover-up about UFOs, with security agencies seeking to suppress the evidence". Bridgstock concluded that the book:

is not a clear, rigorous survey of the evidence for UFOs. It is a polemical volume, which seems to be devoted to making the case for UFOs, and a cover-up, seems as convincing as possible. However, inspection of the theses put forward in the book, and checking of a few cases with other sources, seem to show that the book is not reliable and its conclusion cannot be trusted.

Personal life

Good was born in

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, London.

Bibliography

*''George Adamski: The Untold Story.'' With Lou Zinsstag. Beckenham: Ceti, 1983. . With a foreword by

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''Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-up''.

, 1987. . With a foreword by Lord Hill-Norton, GCB. *''Alien Liaison.'' London: Century, 1991. . **''Alien Contact: Top-Secret UFO Files Revealed''. USA: New Leaf, 1993. . *''Alien Update.'' Edited by Good.

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, 1993. . *''Beyond Top Secret.'' Sidgwick & Jackson, 1996. . With a foreword by Peter Hill-Norton. *''Alien Base.'' Century, 1998. . *''Unearthly Disclosure.'' Century, 2000. . With a foreword by Peter Hill-Norton. *''Need to Know.'' Sidgwick & Jackson, 2006. . *''Earth: an Alien Enterprise.'' Pegasus, 2013. .

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