The exercise took place in the early 1960s ... and involved launching fictional UFO sighting reports from many different areas . The project was headed Desmond Fitzgerald of the CIA s Special Affairs Staff  ( who made a name for himself by inventing harebrained schemes for assassinating Fidel Castro ) . The UFO exercise was " just to keep the Chinese off-balance and make them think we were doing things we weren t ... The project got the desired results, as i remember , except that is somehow got picked up by a lot of religious nuts in Iowa and Nebraska or somewhere who took it seriously enough to add an extra chapter to their version of the New Testament " 

                                                                                                                         - Former CIA officer Miles Capeland .

                                                                                         quoted in Above Top Secret : The Worldwide UFO Cover-up

                      President Clinton said, " Hubb, there are two things I want you to find out for me : One, who killed JFK ? and two, are there UFOs ? 

 I actually did go to NORAD ( North American Aerospace Defense Command ) When I was in the Colorado Springs and asked them about UFOs of course they denied it . 

                                                      - Former Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell , in USA Today . 

                                                    The New York Times Bestseller

                                                     Little   Green Men is a page-turner that will appeal to believers and non-believers alike - Financial Times 

                       Jonh O. Banion is a staid Washington talk-show host with a fragrant wife and a lucrative contract .But his privileged life is thrown into upheaval when he is abducted by aliens from his exclusive country-club golf course ...

                                         " A shady government group whose job it is to kidnap trailer-trash Americans while disguised as aliens is the starting point for Buckely s savagely comic novel witch pokes fun at every aspect of American society "     The Big Issue 

                   Buckley is both wonderfully satiric and blessed with the gift of storytelling . Little Green Men is a page-turner that will appeal to believers and no-believers alike . On the other hand, those who have actually been abducted, probed and whisked round Pluto will find it offensive and rather sickening "                         Michael Thompson-Noel , Financial Times 

                                           Christopher Bucley s Little Green Men had me laughing out loud, a rarity in the age of Clinton ... Chris Buckley is America s top humorist "                                                                Taki , The Spectator

                           " Great one-liners, smart plotting and a plausible political context make it a rare treat _ a comic novel with real brains and pace "      Attitude 

                                               " Really good .... Thoroughly amusing ... Bright , knowing - and out there "                  Time Out