Call me a skeptic, but I'm also a psychologist and a writer. If I was to write a book and make a prediction, and had the means to showcase said prediction (airforce backing) I would find a way to do it. Hot air balloons would be able to go high enough without detection from pedestrians and ground vehicles. To us, looking up, we would not be able to identify the fly objects. Which, happens to be what UFO stands for, Unidentified Flying Object.
Now, do I believe that there is life out there other than us? Of course I do. Not only would it be selfish to assume we had the only planet out of the thousands upon thousands of star systems with life on it, but it would be scientifically unsound. But, the more scientific part of myself (which happens to be the part that studies human behavior) does not believe in predictions. Calculated educated guesses, maybe, but not predictions. I can see how this author would have been privy to information civilians would not ever see, and if this information had documentation of other life forms, then OK, I'd give him that. But let's not forget how simply the human brain can be manipulated into believing something that isn't really there. It is used all the time for advertising to put a very simple spin on it.
