Book Description
In recent years, alternative historians have gained remarkable insight into the mysteries of ancient Egypt-but according to Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, their discoveries tie into a dangerous conspiracy nearly fifty years in the making.
At the center of this conspiracy is a group of respected, powerful individuals who believe that the ancient Egyptian gods are real extraterrestrials who will soon return to earth. The conspirators have intimate and exclusive knowledge of this momentous second coming-but they insist on keeping it to themselves. In this riveting, well-researched book, Picknett and Price reveal what this conspiracy means for the rest of mankind-and expose the insidious motivations of the individuals and organizations behind it...
"Picknett and Prince are first-class storytellers and their magical mystery tour is totally enthralling." (Daily Mail [London])
Customer Reviews:
the others.......2007-06-11
this book has a lot of truths wrapped up in dark energy. beware!
Interesting.......2007-05-27
I enjoyed the book, can't say I agree with all their conclusion. The authors who I don't think believe in the bible, argue that there is a grand conspiracy of cosmic spiritual dimensions. You can find fundamentalist preachers saying the same thing. Very interesting, hey come to your own conclusions. I recommend this book.
Dogmatic nonsense.......2007-05-07
Non scienific dogma! An insult to the great many experiencers who know what this is all about.
Great Reading.......2006-07-08
Best research reading I have ever read. Many things I have been asking about have been for years have been made clear, Recommend
Highly. One of the best books I have read
Exciting introduction, but gets boring later.......2005-10-02
I am rather disapointed, the first few chapters are interesting, but later on it gets really boring when it gets into simple enumeration of facts and linked theories...
That book indeed gave me lust to read the very other books it criticises.
Book Description
23 DECLASSIFIED INTELLIGENCE REPORTS CONTAINING LITTLE KNOWN FACTS NOT FOUND ANYWHERE ELSE!
Former Military Intelligence Operative COMMANDER X has compiled a massive -- large size, 8xll -- work containing previously unreleased information regarding the workings of the New World Order, the military-industrial complex, various secret societies...as well as data related to the late great genius Nikola Tesla, time travel, invisibility, anti gravity flight, area 5l.
The reports include:
** MIND CONTROL MACHINES OF BIG BROTHER.
** TIME TRAVEL EXPERIMENTS OF THE MILITARY.
** AREA FIFTY ONE; GENETIC MONSTER LABORATORY.
** DARK WORLD OF REPTILIANS; EARTHS PARALLEL LOST RACE!
** NIKOLA TESLA BELIEF IN COLLIDAL SILVER.
** INVISIBLE DEATH RAYS IN THE SKY.
** SEX, SATAN AND THE CIA.
** PSI-COPS -- SINISTER PSYCHIC TOOLS OF THE CIA.
** MURDER, MAYHEM, SUICIDE - MIND ALTERING MADNESS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER.
** NASA'S PROJECT BLUE BEAM EXPOSED.
** ILLUMINATI, SKULL AND BONES; SECRET SOCITIES EXPOSED.
** FBI REPORT ON SATANIC CHILD ABUSE.
** NIKOLA TESLA SEARCH FOR ALTERNATIVE ENERGE SOURCES.
** ANTI GRAVITY; SECRET BLACK PROJECTS EXPOSED!
** MONEY LENDERS; WHO CONTROLS THE MONEY SYSTEM?
** AREA 51 - SECRET UFO BASE.
** THE CAR THAT RAN BY WATER.
** ALIEN IMPLANTS AND UFO ABDUCTIONS -- ET THREAT OR SECRET GOVERNMENT DECEPTION?
** INVISIBILITY EXPERIMENTS OF THE U.S. NAVY.
** CIA HOLOGRAPHIC WARFARE.
** GEORGE WASHINGTON'S VISION OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM
** HOW TO CLONE A HUMAN - NOW A REALITY!
** NIKOLA TESLA'S SECRET INVENTION; MIRACLE OF PURPLE PLATES.
DO NOT BE DECEIVED! ORDER TODAY!
Customer Reviews:
The Truth In Pieces.......2001-10-11
Are you a bona fide conspiracy buff? Or at least a fan of "The X-Files"? If so, you should really enjoy "Suppressed Intelligence Reports" by the well-known yet unknown Commander X. Commander X has here assembled a marvelous collection of documents that deal in great detail with various aspects of the Conspiracy Big Picture and offer a glimpse inside the dark inner workings of the so-called Secret Government and its various entangling alliances with aliens, devils and even its own military personnel.
All the chapters in this anthology have been previously released under separate covers, but they make even more interesting reading bound together in one book, which allows you to see how the different authors complement each other and combine to carefully build scenarios of interlocking facts mixed with educated suspicion.
Some of the standout chapters are authored by Ike Dillon, who masterfully attacks such diverse subjects as Antigravity Flight and the alien race of serpents called the Reptilians, often cited as being the most evil of the various UFO occupants. The case histories of mass murderers Timothy McVeigh and Michael McDermott are also examined by Dillon, and the possiblity that some form of military brainwashing was behind their violence is explored in a chapter called "Murder, 'Suicide,' Mind Altering Madness of the New World Order."
Other chapters are equally fascinating, particularly one on the Illuminati and the Skull and Bones societies, as well as one about the CIA's secret experiments with holograms as a military and psychological weapon. There is even a chapter called "How To Clone A Human" that reveals medical and genetic details on the cloning process that were previously kept secret for many years.
While some of what is here may simply be expressions of a well-intended but over-the-top paranoia, the book is nevertheless a treasure trove of conspiracy theories that could accurately depict a sinister presence that is still awaiting its time to be revealed.
Inarguably, the truth that lies behind the black veil of secrecy is a long way from being exposed. But with books like "Suppressed Intelligence Reports," a process of chipping away slowly at that hidden truth has at least begun. If even ten percent of what this book contains is literally factual, then we have every reason to be concerned about just where the hidden agenda of the conspirators is leading us all to. The old expression "Forwarned is forearmed" is very appropriate here. To defend ourselves, we must first be informed. And in that quest to be informed, Commander X's anthology of conspiracy reports is a good place to start.
THIS IS TOO EERIE.......2001-10-01
There are so many sections to this book -- some 23 exactly. One thing that is missing is a detailed index -- but I guess you can't have anything. Particular, when you keep in mind that there is so much material here that this would have been a full time job. The best material has to be in regard to Nikola Tesla and some of the stuff on top secret experiment in the area of time travel and anti gravity research being conducted inside Area 5l.Some of the material I have to admit is really spooky -- if it is true we should be scared. Supposedly the New World Order and a group of aliens known as the greys are cloning humans in underground bases around the world -- FOR FOOD? Some abductees claims they have even seen clones of themselves while being held captive by secret fractions of our military affiliated with the NWO. Another report deals with a lost race living along side us on earth since the beginning of creation. It details the existence of the Reptilians or the SERPENT RACE. Its hard to believe that this is all real when you consider that we have enough evil in the world as it is without having to deal with entities from other dimensions and realms. On a positive note there are some other reports on alternative healing such as the use of the Tesla Purple Energy Discs and plates when are said to have great benefits in the area of relieving stress, depression and healing ailments. Colloidal Silver is also given a good rating; though I am still somewhat skeptical myself and will have to do further research.
Book Description
The Government knows all about UFOs. And it knows all about you, too...
Since 1947, official agencies across the world, including the CIA, the FBI, the United States Air Force, the National Security Agency, and the British Ministry of Defense, have undertaken clandestine UFO investigations and have compiled thousands of pages of classified documentation on this strange, unearthly subject. But, in their quest for the truth about UFOs, those same agencies have been secretly spying on you, as well.
It isn't paranoia if you think "they" are watching you: they really are!
Revealed for the first-time from on-the-record interviewees, an analysis of previously-classified official records, and testimony provided by insider-sources, is the amazing story about how and why Military, Intelligence, and Government departments keep a close watch on those people that look for, and see, UFOs.
Highlights of
On the Trail of the Saucer Spies include:
* The FBI's reports on people who claim to have met extraterrestrials*
* Top Secret surveillance of alien-abductees *
* The real-life Men in Black who spy on UFO witnesses *
* Phone-tapping and mail-interference of UFO researchers and authors *
* Scotland Yard's secret monitoring of UFO computer-hackers *
* Classified files on researchers of the famous Roswell crash of 1947 *
* Official infiltration of Flying Saucer research groups *
* UFO writers suspected by the Government of working for hostile nations to uncover defense secrets*
*The author's own experience of being spied upon by the British Ministry of Defense for his interest in UFOs*
Customer Reviews:
Good read.......2007-06-10
Redfern, you are quite the researcher. I think in twenty years UFOlogists will be quoting Nick Redfern on the internet and harping back to the good old days when researchers like him were doing the best work. This was a very interesting read.
Jess
Old News..........2007-05-06
Basically a rehash of old news in story format. Nothing new, would not recoment the purchase.
Solves the UFO Mystery.......2006-09-06
Redfern's latest book is so amazing it's completely mind-blowing. I don't want to give any the truly astounding evidence he has unearthed but let's just say I'll be forever thankful for Redfern's sleuthing skills. I, myself, had a very close encounter with a big, black flat triangle, preceded by spheres of light, each a different color, doing inexpliable manuevers on the horizon. So Redfern had been kind enough to respond to an enquiry I emailed him and he mentioned some evidence to me and then this new book gave the details on what he had mentioned.
Holy cow! Redfern has played a truly crucial role in the conditioning feedback that Jacque Vallee talked about -- how there appears to be this huge psy-op agenda that is increasingly guiding the masses, through mass media, to a deeper level of conspiracy.
They've been watching all along...And Redfern Can Prove It!.......2006-06-01
Nick Redfern is the one authority on UFOs and government cover-ups that wins my total trust. His meticulous research, smooth style, and occasional well-placed wit make for books that simply cannot be argued against as he proposes that the governments and military agencies of many a nation have long been interested in keeping a spying eye on UFO witnesses, researchers and investigators.
"On The Trail of the Saucer Spies" documents the below-the-radar interest of the U.S. and British official agencies in all things ufological, focusing on clandestine investigations carried out on the parts of the CIA, FBI, Air Force, NSA and British MoD, since 1947. In many cases, the sinister spying has served to undermine legitimate UFO research, and even the researchers themselves, as thousands of classified documents show.
Redfern lays out the blow by blow agendas of these mysterious agencies, along with many eye-witness reports and anecdotes from those who've been spied on (including himself!). As a researcher, Redfern does his best to unturn every stone, with a sense of objectivity and a strong curiosity that propels him to boldly go where few researchers have gone before, even if it means getting his own butt tailed by the Feds. He covers everything from the bizarre Men In Black to Area 51 and the alleged crashes at Roswell and Bentwaters, and a whole lot of stuff you may never have heard of, but should know about, some courtesy of his underground source known only as "The Sandman."
The story of Paul Bennewitz is most chilling. Paul was a physicist who, in the late 1970's, began digging into Air Force and NSA secret projects, and soon found his life unravelling at the hands of sinister forces bent on preventing him from getting too close to the truth. Other chilling stories include one about an abductee who "came out" of an abduction to see actual humans in black fatigues in her room. They even apologized before they hustled away in their black helicopter!
"On The Trail of the Saucer Spies" is great late-night, page-turning reading that will no doubt have you looking over your shoulder, especially in this day of domestic spying. If you are a UFO buff, all the more reason to read up, and be prepared for anything.
MARIE JONES, Book Reviewer, Curled Up With A Good Book
Saucer Spies - UFO Reality.......2006-03-11
It would seem fair to say that at least for the last year, Nick Redfern has been the hottest topic around when it comes to UFO related books. Back in June 2005 we had Body Snatchers, the story about what really happened at Roswell, and now we have Saucer Spies, the history of American and British Intelligence agency observation of Ufologists.
Now when you read that last sentence it makes a kind of natural sense. After all, you would think, of course the Intelligence agencies are going to watch Ufologists and they are going to smack them sharply on the nose like a naughty puppy if any of them get too close to any kind of truth.
Except that's not how it was. It seems that the spooks couldn't care less what researchers found out about UFOs, which isn't very nice of them. Their interest it appears was more to do with the concern that some Ufologists might be using an interest in the subject as a cover for less patriotic activities. Like for instance spying for a foreign power, and so on.
And Nick Redfern should know as he himself was watched by the UK's Special Branch for a number of years. You see, Nick kept company with very bad men. Matthew Williams, Matthew Bevan and Robin Cole were all dastardly villains because they too were Ufologists and rather than just sitting lamely back and fiddling with their widgets, they got off their backsides and either broke into restricted government buildings to get answers or hacked into the Pentagon's computer system, or, as in Robin's case, had the temerity to actually write a pamphlet on what the GCHQ (UK equivalent of the NSA) knew about UFOs.
But not satisfied with just consorting with these grave threats to the security of the realm, Nick further compounded his attraction to Special branch by standing outside Porton Down, the UK government's centre for biological warfare research, and noting down the car registration numbers of people driving in and out of the base. Why would a Ufologist want to do that for God's sake? I'm afraid the answer is in the book.
Nick covers Adamski, Newton/Scully/Gebauer, Van Tassel, Albert Bender, Men in Black, the real story behind some alien abductions, APEN - a mysterious group of UK individuals from the political far right, the Berwyn Mountain incident, Jenny Randles meeting with "Robert", animal mutilations, the escapades of Matthew Williams, Matthew Bevan's hacking into the Pentagon, the Provost and Security Services, direct approaches to Ufologists by AFOSI, and much, much more. In particular, Nick has the assistance of a former Special Branch detective who he calls The Sandman who, years after the events described in Nick's book, is quite happy to confirm and clear up and explain what was going on and why.
This is an excellently researched and well written and informative book that casts Ufology in another perspective. It is a perspective that some may feel uncomfortable with but you need to remember that this is a Nick Redfern book and Nick isn't in to tucking us up all safe and snug at night. What this is is a further clarification of the UFO Reality and that reality isn't exactly what a lot of Ufologists currently believe it to be. Prepare to be disturbed.
Book Description
Human beings have always looked at the heavens and asked: Are we alone? Is there life elsewhere in the universe? What is that life like? Unfortunately, people can't actually travel to other solar systems. Even the closest stars are too far away to visit. Today, astrophysicists such as Jill Tarter are looking for other ways to search for extraterrestrial life. Jill is the director of Project Phoenix at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California. SETI stands for "Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence." Twice a year, Jill and her team travel to the mountains of Puerto Rico where they use the world's largest radio telescope to examine nearby stars. They search the sky, listening for radio signals that, if found and verified, would provide strong evidence that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe. Author Ellen Jackson and photographer Nic Bishop introduce us to a dedicated scientist and her thrilling, rigorous, and awe-inspiring work in the field.
Amazon.com
As many earthlings already know--including more than 2 million computer users with firsthand experience--our best hope for finding extraterrestrial intelligence might just lie with an ingenious little screensaver. So it's not surprising that this introduction to searching for and communicating with intelligent life begins with some of the details behind UC Berkeley's groundbreaking, massively distributed SETI@home project, which processes intergalactic noise for pennies on the teraflop. But that's just the start of the story. Inventor and software developer Brian McConnell continues with an overview of whether and why we might find something out there, who's doing what to look for it (including the folks at Berkeley), and--once some ET picks up on the other end--what we might say and how we might say it.
This last problem, which occupies the final half of the book, proves to be the most thought-provoking, and McConnell has put together a methodical, nuts-and-bolts walkthrough of both the challenges involved and how binary code might be enlisted to solve them. If you've taken even a single computer-science class in your life, you'll probably skip ahead through explanations of data structures and Boolean arithmetic, but McConnell doesn't want to leave anyone behind in fleshing out his alien-friendly lingua numerica. The book's first half surveys various SETI projects, past and present, and includes generous sections on signal processing, what sort of radio and laser hardware has been mobilized for the search, and how exactly SETI@home works. (So, if nothing else, now you can know how your computer decides if it's talking to aliens while you're off having lunch.) --Paul Hughes
Book Description
"What do we need to know about to discover life in space?" --Frank Drake, 1961 In the early 1960s, Frank Drake, a young astronomer with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Green Bank, West Virginia, developed what is now known as the "Drake Equation" in an effort to determine how many intelligent, communicative civilizations our galaxy could harbor. For forty years, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has combed the skies in search of signals from star systems within the galaxy. In Beyond Contact: A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations, author Brian McConnell goes behind the scenes and examines what goes into the search for intelligent life. SETI is a four-step process. First we have to know where to look; then we must be able to send and receive signals to that star system. Once signals arrive, scientists then need to be able to interpret those signals into something that can be understood. And although we haven't yet received any signals (except for our own Earth-based transmissions), we'll eventually have to figure out a protocol for responding. Beyond Contact introduces you to:
- The history of SETI research, including the early searches of Project Ozma, traditional radio astronomy, the search for intelligence in optical wavelengths (known as Optical SETI, or OSETI), and the SETI@home project.
- An overview of the Drake Equation and the Rare Earth Hypothesis, which scientists use to estimate the number of planets in our galaxy that could harbor intelligent, communicative life forms.
- How signals are sent and received over interstellar distances. The author explains the principles of signal and image processing, and how SETI researchers identify and process analog signals using Fourier transforms to see how the power in a signal is distributed across different frequencies.
- How to build a general-purpose symbolic language for sending signals, and even computer programs, with present-day SETI equipment. The ability to transmit computer programs enables us to let another civilization know about our knowledge and technological capabilities.
The author also shows how SETI research--though often thought to be a mere flight of fancy--has spawned technological improvements in astronomy, computers, and wireless communications. Beyond Contact: A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations sidesteps the "little green men" approach to take a hard, realistic look at the technologies behind the search for intelligent life in our universe.
Customer Reviews:
Awesome!.......2007-07-12
This is the kind of book you need to understand the details of SETI, how does it work, what its limitations would be, and what technology is behind. It is an excellent addition to your personal library if you are a tech-savy and enjoy learning about science and technology.
Get's down to the skinny when it comes to communicating with aliens.......2007-06-20
This is a very all-encompassing book about extraterrestrial communication, and goes to considerable length explaining how it would be done through binary language. It is a very intelligent book about life on other planets, The Drake Equation, etc. People need to know what they're getting into if they buy this book - it really is for those who have a more technical/scientific bent towards the whole SETI process. If you think Speilberg's ET or Sagan's Contact are the bees knees when it comes to intellectual sci-fi, then this book is definitely not for you. I should point out that there is a direct correlation between a person's IQ and how high a score they give this excellent tome.
can't take it seriously.......2002-04-15
Here's a book that superficially looks like a serious technical discussion of SETI, even to the point where many potential readers may be intimidated by the diagrams, equations, jargon, and so on. But in reality, it's very lacking in solid scientific information.
For example: On page 116, one of the factors mentioned as a limit to OSETI (finding laser beacons and such) is extinction--the attenuation of light due to dust in the intersteller medium. This, it is said, limits our ability to see laser beacons to "a few dozens light years" for visible wavelengths. Really?? Then how come you can go and see stars farther away than that with your naked eye? Oh, because they're brighter! Well, how bright does a laser beacon need to be? How much attentuation is there, in per cent, dB or whatever, at, say, 100 light years? How much does a beam spread out over, say, 100 light years? How much variation in the signal is there over time as a result of dust? Not a BIT of quantitative data on this stuff!
Like all other SETI enthusiasts I've seen, they also ignore another issue: As communication techniques get more advanced, they look more and more like random noise. Our millions of chattering cell phones and internet hosts will almost certainly be undetectable to anyone outside the earth environment, let alone the solar system: Those transmissions have no directionality, they are low power precisely because they are efficient and advanced, and their advanced modulation causes them to look like white noise. Consider a 300 bps modem, with its old-fashioned tone signaling; then listen to a 56k modem, which, except when it's hooking up, sounds almost like rushing steam. It's hard to escape the idea that we will only pick up radio from ET if he intentionally beams it at us, a doubtful proposition unless he's within 60 light years, as he has no way to know of OUR radio transmissions.
A final word about copy editing: I've yet to read a book with absolutely no errors, but at least they could get three-letter words like "its" right. There are other serious errors, such as missing words, the ubiquitous "different than," and other less glaring mistakes. If they can't do better than that, perhaps they should just record audio tapes.
All in all, about a third of the way through, I decided that other books must surely be able to better satisfy my curiosity on this subject.
A decent review of the basics, but more than a little dry.......2002-03-13
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I like the idea of this book, but the execution left a bit to be desired.
The first two sections ("Are We Alone?" and "Getting a Dial Tone") do a passably good job of introducing some of the basics of interstellar communication, ably introducing both the fundamentals of radio and optical technologies and the unique challenges of communicating a signal (any signal; the details of the signal to be sent are reserved for Part III) across interstellar distances.
Problems with the first two sections are:
(1) inconsistent readability: the author seems not to have found a consistent tone for the book, and wanders between wide-eyed pie-in-the-sky speculation and bone-dry technical detail;
(2) organizational flaws: the author routinely discusses a concept or entity throughout early chapters without a decent introduction or explanation, only to treat the subject in question at length (with the proper explanatory introduction) later in the text -- the discussion of the SETI@home distributed computing project is particularly guilty of this;
(3) lack of investigative reporting: almost every piece of information in these sections could have come out of a textbook or a web search, and it's clear that the author hasn't bothered to interview the movers and shakers in the SETI community and find out anything much about the "story behind the story," which might have made for some interesting reading;
(4) bad editing: there is a typo every few pages, which is a minor beef but in the age of spell-checkers hardly excusable.
Nonetheless, if you've never read a "Scientific American" article about SETI, the first two sections of the book would be educational. If you have any exposure to SETI prior to picking up the book, chances are that you won't learn very much (except possibly about optical SETI/CETI, which relies on the production and/or detection of laser light aimed at a specific star system, and which is grossly undertreated in the literature).
The third section ("Communicating with Other Worlds") treats the specifics of the author's ideas about what sort of message could be sent by us (or, by extension, might be received by us from others). The author makes an analogy between modular messages encoded in binary code and genes encoded by DNA, and sets up one potential system that might be used to send a complex message from star A to star B. This section is definitely the weakest in the book, for the following reasons.
(1) It treats at punishingly great length only one possible system of a presumably great many for communicating with alien intelligences, glossing over other approaches in favor of a detailed treatment of the author's pet approach. While I don't have a specific complaint with the approach described, I will say that as a working biologist, I found the author's biologically motivated analogies ("igenes," "binary DNA") strained and in some cases laughable. It probably makes the material "sexier" in the computer-science and SETI literature, but as a life scientist I mostly winced a lot.
(2) In part because of this, the author doesn't put his approach in any kind of context -- e.g., how else might we do it?
(3) It's way too long and inappropriately detailed: a great deal of theory of computation stuff that's not at all unique to SETI or the challenge of communicating with a non-human intelligence ends up in this section, and I don't think that benefits the reader more than just saying, "We'll send computer programs using the benefit of knowledge reaped from the maturing fields of cryptography and computer science and our impressive knowledge of the physical universe," and focusing more on reasons why any approach like this has shortcomings and might not work regardless of how clever you are.
All that having been said, this is an OK book. I wouldn't recommend that it be the only thing that you read about SETI, nor would I recommend that you read it cover-to-cover (unless you have troubles with insomnia), but if you're an avid reader of the SETI literature, it certainly can't hurt to pick this one up.
A highly technical book on interstellar communication.......2002-01-15
Readers who want a general introduction to questions related to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence should look elsewhere. This is a highly technical book on the techniques and problems of communication across interstellar distances. People with strong backgrounds in science or engineering may find this material fascinating, but general readers soon will get lost. Overall rating (for techies): four stars.
Average customer rating:
- Still the best general introduction to SETI
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Still the best general introduction to SETI.......2003-11-19
Science journalist Walter Sullivan of the New York Times published the first version of this book in 1964, when the radio astronomy search for extraterrestrial intelligence was new. Thirty years later, he updated and broadened the story. Even though the second version is now nine years old, it still is the best general introduction for anyone new to SETI.
Sullivan sets the stage with chapters describing how earlier conceptions of the universe were revised, giving us basic information about modern scientific views of stars and planetary systems. He touches on the origin of life, how organic materials might be spread through space, and the search for life on Mars. He describes the Drake formula for determining the probability of extraterrestrial life, and the modern radio astronomy search for extraterrestrial signals. Sullivan addresses the possibility of interstellar flight and discusses the Fermi Paradox. He briefly describes the UFO phenomenon, concluding that there is no convincing evidence that we have been visited. Sullivan's final chapter presents some of the speculations about the consequences of contact with ETI. The writing is clear and non-technical. The book includes a few diagrams and some black and white photographs.
Book Description
"
Above Top Secret is a bible for UFO watchers."-
The Wall Street Journal
"The evidence that Good has amassed is too overwhelming to ignore and it is clear that a more open debate is long overdue."-
The Sunday Times (London)
"I have the highest regard for Good's absolute integrity, his determination and skill as a researcher, and his wide and detailed knowledge of the whole fascinating UFO experience."-Lord Hill-Norton, Britain's former chief of defense
Fact: In 1945, the US military recovered an alien spacecraft. Fact: The United States shot down several flying disks in the late 1940s, a period marked by an unprecedented wave of unexplained aircraft crashes.
The facts have continued only to mount over the past six decades in the classified files of military and intelligence agencies worldwide. Pilots the world over have reported incidents with UFOs that have often been accompanied by electrical interference and communications difficulties. UFOs have prompted more secrecy and security-and deception-than any other concern ever on the part of military specialists and intelligence chiefs around the world. An acknowledged authority on the controversial subject of UFOs, and an indefatigable researcher, Timothy Good in this revelatory book tells us what we need to know.
Timothy Good is widely regarded as one of the world's top experts on alien phenomena, which has led to speaking engagements at the Pentagon's Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office and the headquarters of the French Air Force. His first book,
Above Top Secret, is widely regarded as the definitive book on the subject.
Customer Reviews:
INTERESTINGLY WELL DONE.......2007-07-06
VERY WELL DONE , LOTS OF INFO , ANOTHER GOOD BOOK BY GOOD . I BOUGHT THE HARD COVER FROM AMAZON.UK. MONTHS AGO
Book Description
A former Navy Commander and CIA operative shares his private memories involving the wreckage from a UFO shot at over the nation's capital and how pieces of this craft were stolen from a safe inside a supposedly secure government office building in Washington. REVEALED FOR THE FIRST TIME. . .
* How aliens Moore defines as "Skymen" have been coming to earth and exploiting it for what could be thousands of years.
* Some of these beings possibly have bases inside caverns on Mars, Jupiter, or the astroids.
* Many more originate from Sky Islands" closer than the moon or from the hollow parts of our own earth.
* Skymen have been kidnapping humans, using our blood for ritualistic purposes and may have even committed murder.
THIS BOOK IS DEFINITELY NOT FOR THE WEAK OF HEART. . .
Customer Reviews:
Whatever.......2002-09-08
This book did nothing for me, just bored me. This guy gives so called evidence, "yea right", not enough to get someone's attention. For someone who worked for the cia and wrote a book about extraterrestrial he better have more than what this book had to offer.Over all just a dull, stale book.
BIZARRE, BIZARRE, BIZARRE.......2001-12-16
CIA OPERATIVE OFFERS INFORMATION THAT I TRULY NOT OF THIS WORLD! I have read dozens of conspiracy and UFO related books. A lot of them are written by kooks -- but kooks with no real military or intelligence operations background. The author of this book, on the other hand has all kinds of impressive credentials. . . He starts out by discussing how a piece of a UFO that had been shot at over Washington DC had landed in his backyard in VA and how h had put in the office safe at a secure military facility -- and how it was stollen and this leads up to his belief that there are all sorts of negative thins associated with UFO beings. Commander Moore has this weird idea that invisibility UFO beings have invaded our world and live on space islands between here and the moon and are abducting woman for reproductive purposes and sucking our blood. Now you may think this all crazy -- but the book is very well documented (its almost 300 pages offer a heck of a lot of material) and very readable, with hundreds of select sources referenced. If you are all into this kind of subject matters this book is a MUST read!
Fascinating book on an alternative view about UFOs.......2000-10-08
Commander Moore's book is a must read for those who would like an original viewpoint on the origins of UFOs. Not every one is convinced that UFOs are extraterrestials visiting the Earth in spaceships. However, alternative ideas have been mostly shouted down in the United States by the extraterrestrial lobby convinced that either the Space Brothers are here to save us, or that evil Reptoids are here to eat us.
Commander Moore based his ideas on years of studying UFOs(starting in the late 1940's), and the artifacts left behind after certain UFO sightings. Moore's ideas of "Islands in the sky" are very similar to those proposed by the late Charles Fort. Buy this book for a fascinating look at the early days of UFO research by the military and intelligence services.
Book Description
This is a unique compendium of documents on CD-ROM released to the public under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) about Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), space aliens, and extraterrestrials. Over 270 documents are presented as Adobe Acrobat PDF files. This collection catalogues CIA information on this subject from the 1940s through the early 1990s. One report traces CIA interest and involvement in the UFO controversy from the late 1940s to 1990. It chronologically examines the Agency's efforts to solve the mystery of UFOs, its programs that had an impact on UFO sightings, and its attempts to conceal CIA involvement in the entire UFO issue.
Our CD-ROMs are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly general reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed or printed without untold hours of tedious searching and downloading. Vast archives of important government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review. This book-on-a-disc makes a superb reference work for UFOlogists, scientists, historians, libraries, researchers, students, and home reference!
It is truly an incredible resource for any curious mind!
The documents are reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Apple Macintosh systems. Reader software is included on the CD.
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Spiritual Practice, Occultism, And Extraterrestrial Intelligence: A Travel Guide for Beyond the Rainbow
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Delightfully unique, yet practical and empowering, this comprehensive book is the definitive spiritual manual and political manifesto for the new millennium. It explores the connections between spiritual practice and extraterrestrial intelligence, dispelling disinformation about politics, occultism, and conspiracy theories typical to this genre. "The Wizard of Oz Mysteries" as a unifying theme provides an enlightening backdrop, as the book is divided into sections that correlate to the story. Thus, venturing "beyond the rainbow" in the tradition of Dorothy and other heroes, a great secret about the esoteric mystery schools veiled by the world's spiritual traditions is revealed. The impact of our extraterrestrial ancestors on the evolution of these traditions - East and West -- is thoroughly explored in a historical context. Occultism as an engaged spirituality in conjunction with new discoveries in music and the physiology of awareness provide the reader with a vital key that will strengthen ability to communicate with all beings, therefore enabling a better understanding of ourselves, others, and the nature of the universe.
Customer Reviews:
We're Not in Kansas Anymore.......2006-08-22
"Spiritual Practice, Occultism, and Extraterrestrial Intelligence" by Judy Kennedy, is a book that combines esoteric psychology, eastern philosophy, and western wisdom in one information-packed volume. Where else can you find information on chakras, tarot cards, psychotronics, ufos and more in one book? For such "far out" subject matter, Kennedy presents it in a down to earth fashion. I particularly enjoyed the section on music and Pink Floyd.
Spiritual Practice, Occultism, and Extraterrestrial Intelligence.......2006-07-31
Genre: Research
Title: Spiritual Practice, Occultism, and Extraterrestrial Intelligence
AUTHOR: Judy Kennedy
"As is written on a plaque above the door of an ancient mystery school, we read the imperative that is timeless in essence: KNOW THYSELF. To that end we begin our journey." This quote, taken from the last paragraph of the introduction, gives us but a slight clue to what is to come, so hold on, because it is an amazing journey.
Judy Kennedy presents a volume of fascinating material taken from the research of distinguished scholars, scientist, archeologists and the like. She shares her knowledge with the reader and strives to clear up many misconceptions that have been forced upon us by those who do not wish us to know truth.
In reading this masterfully written research book, the reader realizes that no matter how we believe or how educated we are in the material Judy Kennedy presents, there are volumes of knowledge beyond what the average human being can possibly know. This book challenges traditional views and causes the reader to pause, think and realize that there is much we do not know but that we will, someday, all know the truth.
At the end of her book, Ms. Kennedy includes three appendices that clarify and accentuate added material and an extensive bibliography. The reader, especially if new to the material presented, would benefit from a glossary of terms.
For the inquisitive reader interested in spiritualism and extraterrestrial intelligence, this is a must read.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
Reviewer: Elaine Fuhr, Allbooks Reviews
Title: Spiritual Practice, Occultism, and
Extraterrestrial Intelligence
Author: Judy Kennedy
Publisher: PaperWings Publishing
ISBN: 0-9770132-0-0
Pages: 629
A Must buy for the Spiritual Pilgrim.......2006-05-12
Fascinating - Judy Kennedy brings forth the much needed background and history of man, our traditions, and myths that are not found compiled anyplace else. She also shed light on spiritual practices and insights for those who are searching for truths. I found it quite rewarding for my personal understanding and spiritual growth. A must buy for the serious spiritual pilgrim.
An intuitive and practical introduction into multi-dimension experience of reality that may be deeply revealing and refreshing.......2006-04-10
Spiritual Practice, Occultism, And Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Judy Kennedy is an intuitive and practical introduction into multi-dimension experience of reality that may be deeply revealing and refreshing. Readers will discover great secrets about the esoteric mysteries unveiled by schools of ancient spiritual traditions. Clarification of the disinformation so frequently found regarding occultism, uncovering an engaging spirituality that is essential for the many teachings of Spiritual Practice, Occultism, And Extraterrestrial Intelligence. Highly recommended for its highly researched, informed and informative context, and insightfully intriguing content, Spiritual Practice, Occultism, And Extraterrestrial Intelligence is the perfect addition to any alternative spiritualist's library.
Delightfully refreshing, empowering, and informative!.......2006-01-31
I really enjoyed this book. In spite (or because?) of the author's extensive academic background, she is able to convey facts about a wide variety of subjects related to the UFO/ET phenomena in a creative, story-like style. Most books I've read in this genre were dry and merely interesting. This one's fun! What I really appreciated was her honesty. If certain material was speculative, she said so. If an idea was her own, she claimed it. It is evident she did a lot of research, yet she does so much more than merely review and recite. She forms her own conclusions, which are fresh and sound. Writing style is clear and concise. She is able to transition to new points and topics with relative ease, weaving it together with the underlying theme of the book - the "Wizard of Oz mysteries" - esoteric truths about the symbolism in that story and how it relates to the material in her book. She reveals connections not ordinarily discerned and her insight sheds much needed light on controversial issues. She gives an in-depth analysis of the principles of occultism, and even gives out a technique for individual practice so that the reader can experience firsthand the reality and effectiveness of this engaged spirituality. This preliminary material forms a strong foundation for what comes next - an overview of the evolution of the esoteric mystery traditions and how they're tied into the UFO/ET phenomena. Why this information is important and how it relates to the reader is thoroughly explored psychologically, sociologically, and spiritually. An entire chapter is devoted to the workings of what she calls the "muddlers" -- a shadowy corporate/governmental oligarchy - how it maintains control and spins the wheel of disinformation and what we can do about it. She explains that they need not resort to conspiracy or secret societies to do this -- it's all done through mainstream politics and economics and she shows how. Finally, she explores at length the little-known physiology of awareness and effects of music and how we can use this fascinating knowledge to heal and strengthen ourselves, leading to a better understanding of each other and meaningful extraterrestrial contact. Very down to earth, she excels in translating supportive scientific studies into layman's terms. Her main message is self-empowerment, that spiritual enlightenment is anchored in the heart - not the head, and ends the book on a compassionate and positive note. Overall, this must be one of the most original books I've ever read. I found it to be empowering, uplifting, and incredibly comprehensive. I only wished she'd included more diagrams. Still, at a whopping 654 pages, it's a lot of bang for your buck. Highly recommended as I believe it's destined to be a classic!
Fay Starr 1/29/06
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