SWAMP GAS TIMES is a revealing memoir by a journalist who has covered the UFO field for more than twenty years. This honest, behind-the-scenes look at how the media handle UFO stories also examines the dramatic events and major players that have transformed UFO research in the past quarter century. Don't get taken; read the real story. In a series of commentaries and updates to articles written for the New York Times, Omni, Science Digest, Newsweek, and elsewhere, you'll learn:

• whether the New York Times and other media organizations have conspired to keep the truth about the UFO phenomenon from the public

• why "60 Minutes" hasn't pursued the UFO mystery

• what the government really knows about UFOs (and whether or not the president has been told)

• what role NASA has agreed to play in UFO research

• whether UFO home videos have captured advanced technologies on tape

• if crime lab techniques could help finger an alien abductor

• whether defense satellites have tracked objects not of this earth

• what made Carl Sagan think we may have received signals from an extraterrestrial civilization

• what the Pentagon says when asked if the military is involved in "alien abductions"

• and what those top-secret National Security Agency documents reveal about UFOs.


Read these in-depth reviews...

Colin Bennett's "An Experiment in Autobiography: A Review of Patrick Huyghe’s Swamp Gas Times" in Phenomena Magazine.


John Rimmer's review "A refreshingly balanced approach to ufology" in Fortean Times.

Swamp Gas Times

Swamp Gas Times

by Patrick Huyghe


Paraview Press, 2001

Trade Paperback: $17.95

Available from Amazon.



"...one of the best journalists covering the UFO scene...fascinating, level-headed and filled with behind-the-scenes insights... highly  recommended..." – Peter Robbins, UFOCity.com


"The UFO Beat, as Huyghe calls it, is a drama of many scenes based upon a puzzling complex of physical, physiological, and psychological phenomena...The personalities involved are fascinating; and Huyghe has confronted many of them in his many articles...His interviews and oversight give him an unrivaled vantage point from which to sketch out one of the most fascinating social phenomena of our time...It's an insider's view well told." --William Corliss, Science Frontiers


"Huyghe lives up to his ambition of tackling the topic with honesty and integrity. This one comes highly recommended..."

– Kenn Thomas, SteamshovelPress.com


". . .one of those pulse of treatments that examines its subject, ufology, so closely from the inside out, it makes your flesh crawl. . .It is well-written, it is fascinating, and it is revealing." – Loren Coleman, Fate


"[Huyghe] is an excellent journalist and editor... with a keen sense of objectivity, awareness and insight. I highly recommend his latest..." –  Peter Gersten, Citizens Against UFO Secrecy


"...an excellent writer... will keep the reader turning the pages as they review highlights of the past half century." --Dwight Connelly, MUFON UFO Journal