It could be a scenario from a blockbuster Hollywood sci-fi movie script.

The governments of Britain, Australia, America, Canada and other nations not only BELIEVE UFOs exist but. . . . ARE monitoring the flights of hundreds of UFOs every year;
  • ARE channelling massive resources from black budgets into UFO research projects;
  • HAVE recovered alien bodies and spacecraft;
  • ARE involved in a massive cover-up to withhold information from the public.
Add to them allegations of horrific and alarming animal mutilations linked to UFO activity and the use of such bases as Pine Gap in the UFO monitoring link and allegations that the United States is currently test-flying some alien spacecraft at Dreamland, the super-secret military base in the Nevada desert.

Researcher Timothy Good, bestselling author of Above Top Secret and acknowledged leading world authority on UFOs, is claiming in his new blockbuster. Alien Liaison: The Ultimate Secret, to have documented proof of all the above. . . and more.

He names names and offers top secret letters that have yet to be refuted.

Good _ based on interviews with key scientific, intelligence and military personnel _ now believes the governments are realising they will not be able to maintain the cover-up for much longer and are making plans for the controlled release of information on UFOs.

The ultimate secret, he says, is about to unfold.

Here, in an extract from the book, Good gives an insight into what he claims is a matter of truth being stranger than fiction. . . According to an increasing number of witnesses, the United States Government has been test-flying some very unusual aircraft for many years in the remote Nellis Air Force Range and Nuclear Test Site in Nevada, and particularly at the top secret Groom Dry Lake area and its environs, otherwise known by various names, but usually as ""Area 51" or ""Dreamland", located north-west of Las Vegas.

""We are test-flying vehicles that defy description," aviation writer and photographer James Goodall was told by an Air Force officer.

Another of Goodall's informants, a retired colonel, concurred. ""We have things that are so far beyond the comprehension of the average aviation authority as to be really alien to our way of thinking," he reportedly stated.

""But is it possible that more advanced craft, of truly "alien' origin or design, have been flown?" The editor of the American military magazine ""Gung-Ho" Jim Shults, lends credence to the possibility.

""The (Alien Technology) Centre (a unit at Nellis Air Force Base, near Las Vegas ) is rumored to have obtained alien (not earth) equipment and at times, personnel to help develop our new aircraft, Star Wars weaponry etc," Shults wrote in 1988.

""Yes, I know I sound crazy, but the rumor is awfully solid. The Alien Technology Centre is for real. Something remarkable has caused the Russians to suddenly want to play ball, and I personally believe this could be it."

A former radio technician, once employed at the Weapons Research Establishment, Salisbury, South Australia, wrote to Good last year saying that in the period from 1956 to 1960 when he made a a number of trips to the Woomera Test Range (set up jointly with Britain in 1946 to test military missiles) numerous sightings of UFOs were made but seldom reported for fear of persecution.

Good's informant (who left the electronics industry and joined the police force, rising to the rank of inspector and was put in charge of the Governor-General's security until retirement due to injury in 1982) told the author of of an object discovered at the range in 1958 or 59 that was subsequently found by experts to be outside any technology (then or now) available on earth. But when advice was sought from further on high, the object disappeared along with an American who had been at the range as an observer. The witness was told that the Americans had claimed it as part of their space debris.

Some years later, he said, he came across one of the people who had seen the object who was still employed at Woomera. ""He told me that as far as he was concerned there had never been such an object and strongly advised (i.e. warned not threatened) me to adopt the same line if ever I was asked." The informant firmly believes the object was part of a UFO.

Good refers to Pine Gap near Alice Springs, ""a highly secret communications base run by the National Security Agency (NSA)."

He writes: ""There are rumors that the NSA, which has a long history of involvement in monitoring the UFO phenomenon and is withholding many documents on the subject at an above Top Secret level, also monitors communications from UFOs."

He claims there have reportedly been a number of (UFO) sightings in the Pine Gap area. In December 1989, for example, American researcher John Lear received a letter from a university professor in Australia, in which it was stated that three witnesses, returning from an all-night hunting trip at 4.30am observed a camouflaged door open up in the grounds of the base and a metallic, circular disc ascend vertically and soundlessly into the air before disappearing at great speed.

""The three witnesses are reliable," the professor reported, ""though understandably rather reluctant to discuss what they saw."

On the question of animal mutilations allegedly connected with UFOs, Timothy Good has unearthed some bizarre examples.

One involved a three-year-old colt found dead in the San Luis Valley area of southern Colorado in 1967. The entire head was stripped clean of all flesh and muscle and the brain, organs and spine were missing. No signs of blood or tyre tracks near the animal could be found.

Fifteen circular ""exhaust" marks were discovered nearby and a 1m circle of six or eight holes in the ground was found near a damaged bush 10m away from the animal's body.

Dr. John Altshuler, currently Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine (Haematology) and Pathology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Centre in Denver, investigated the case 10 days later and was profoundly shocked by what he found.

He said: ""It was cut from the neck down to the base of the chest in a vertical, clean incision . At the edge of the cut, there was a darkened color as if the flesh had been opened and cauterised with a surgical cauterising blade. The outer edges of the cut skin were firm, almost as if they had been cauterised with a modern-day laser. But there was no surgical laser technology like that in 1967.

""Most amazing was the lack of blood. I have done hundreds of autopsies. You can't cut into a body without getting some blood but there was no blood on the skin or on the ground. No blood anywhere.

""Then inside the horse's chest, I remember the lack of organs.

Whoever did the cutting took the horse's heart, lungs and thyroid."

The Alamosa case was the first to attract worldwide attention and thousands of similar cases have been reported since that time.

Good claims that the mutilations are a manifestation of extra-terrestrial activity and condemns the official FBI ""Animal Mutilation Project" report which he regards as proof of the deliberate intention of the American authorities to deceive public opinion on the UFO phenomenon.