Timothy Good

For the mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts, see Timothy W. Good.

Timothy Good (born 28 July 1942)^[1] is a British author on UFOs.^[2][3][4][5] His books include Above Top Secret: The Worldwide U.F.O. Cover-up (1987),^[6] Alien Liaison (1991) and Beyond Top Secret (1996), all published by Sidgwick & Jackson. Good has made many television and documentary appearances. Critics challenged the reliability of his writings. Good was born in London.^[7] He has also had a career as a violinist.^[8]

Career

Good is a British author about UFOs.^[9][10][11] In 1987 it was reported in The Observer that he was "Britain's leading UFO researcher".^[12]

In his 1987 book Above Top Secret: The Worldwide U.F.O. Cover-up, he was involved in the initial publication of the purported Majestic 12 documents; later, according to skeptic Phil Klass, Good questioned the authenticity of at least some of the documents.^[13][14] In 2007, the CIA cited Above Top Secret as one of the sources contributing to "the idea that CIA has secretly concealed its research into UFOs".^[15]

In 2012 Good was interviewed on the BBC's Frank Skinner's Opinionated show.^[16]

In May 2019, Tom DeLonge of Blink-182 credited Good's books with "opening his eyes" into UFOs, leading to DeLonge's development of To The Stars.^[17][18]

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:^[19]

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 Islington, London.^[1]

Bibliography

• George Adamski: The Untold Story. With Lou Zinsstag. Beckenham: Ceti, 1983. ISBN 978-0950841403. With a foreword by Marcia Falkender, Baroness Falkender.
• Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-up. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987. ISBN 978-0283994968.^{[15][20][21][22][23][24]} With a foreword by Lord Hill-Norton, GCB.^[25]
• Alien Liaison. London: Century, 1991. ISBN 978-0712621946.
  • Alien Contact: Top-Secret UFO Files Revealed. USA: New Leaf, 1993. ISBN 978-0688135102.
• Alien Update. Edited by Good. Arrow, 1993. ISBN 978-0099257615.
• Beyond Top Secret. Sidgwick & Jackson, 1996. ISBN 978-0283062452.^[26] With a foreword by Peter Hill-Norton.
• Alien Base. Century, 1998. ISBN 978-0712678124.
• Unearthly Disclosure. Century, 2000. ISBN 9780712684651. With a foreword by Peter Hill-Norton.
• Need to Know. Sidgwick & Jackson, 2006. ISBN 978-0330442961.^[2]
• Earth: an Alien Enterprise. Pegasus, 2013. ISBN 978-1605986388.