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It is time to acknowledge that the extraterrestrial theory (which assumes that UFOs are spacecraft piloted by beings from another planet who conduct a survey of the earth), a hypothesis that seemed the best avenue of research in the years following World War II, contradicts at least five major facts:

  1. The total number of close encounters far exceeds the requirements for a sophisticated survey of our planet.
  2. The appearance of the UFO operators is overwhelmingly humanoid: they breathe our air and display recognizable emotions. Not only does this make an extraterrestrial origin very dubious, but it implies that the operators are not making use of genetic engineering to optimize a space mission, as interstellar travelers presumably would under the extraterrestrial hypothesis model.
  3. The reports regarding abductions display behavioral patterns on the part of the operators that contradict the idea of a scientific, medical, or genetic experiments. Simpler, more effective methods are already available in earth-based science to accomplish all the alleged objectives of these Aliens.
  4. The patterns of close encounters, contacts, and abductions are not specific to our century, contrary to what most American ufologists have assumed. In fact, it is difficult to find a culture that does not have a tradition of little people that fly through the sky and abduct humans. Often they take their victims into spherical settings that are evenly illuminated, and they subject them to various ordeals that include operations on internal organs and astral trips to unknown landscapes. Sexual or  genetic interaction is a common theme in this body of folklore.
  5. Both the UFOs and their operators are able to materialize and dematerialize on the spot and to penetrate physical obstacles. The objects are able to merge together and to change shape dynamically.

As an alternative to the extraterrestrial hypothesis, I propose to regard the UFO phenomenon as a physical manifestation of a form of consciousness that is alien to humans but is able to coexist with us on the earth.

— From Confrontations: A Scientist’s Search for Alien Contact by Jacques Vallee

Reviews

Forbidden Science: Journals 1957-1969

Jacques Vallee

Vallee, along with his mentor, J. Allen Hynek, was commissioned by the Air Force in 1967 to disprove the UFO phenomena. This volume, spanning the years from Christmas Eve 1957 through 1969, is the very personal record of a man on the frontiers of paranormal and possibly extraterrestrial investigations. In the foreword, Vallee asserts, “These phenomena (UFO) were deliberately denied or distorted by those in authority within the Government and the military. Science never had fair and complete access to the most important files. This fact has been alleged, but never proven. The present book proves it… in fact, the major revelation of these diaries may be the demonstration of how the scientific community was misled by the Government, how the best data was kept hidden, and how the public record was shamelessly manipulated.” The writing is forthright; because it is a collection of diaries, it is dated, with then-current commentary, and the existentialist philosophizing of an unruly young astronomer (along with opinions Dr. Vallee no longer holds). This pulls the reader back in time, and Vallee’s earnestness gives the book a personal tone. “These pages are nothing but a schoolboy’s notebook, in the strange classroom we call life.” An epilogue brings the reader to the present. SK

Publisher: Marlowe
Paperback: 473 pages
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Grand Illusions: The Spectral Reality Underlying Sexual UFO Abductions, Crashed Saucers, Afterlife Experiences, Sacred Ancient Sites, and Other Enigmas

Dr. Gregory L. Little

EMFs have landed. The author “continues to solve and piece together the most profound enigmas into a comprehensive and understandable theory” extrapolated from Carl Jung’s speculations. “For the answers to the enigma of UFOs and its associated phenomena,“ says the author, “lie not in the visitations of extraterrestrial beings like us. Something far deeper and more profound is going on… it’s time to assert that absence of evidence is evidence of absence. Not a shred of proof has ever appeared because the crashed saucers never happened.”
It’s an intelligent electromagnetic phenomenon, stupid! You just think you’re seeing E.T. and his pals! “Carl Jung referred to the force as archetypes—psychoid energy forms from the ultraviolet end of the light spectrum. John Keel occasionally called them Ultraterrestrials—intelligent energy forms residing on the ultraviolet end of the light spectrum. The ancients simply referred to them as a spiritual reality… The energy forms have an underlying intelligence and purpose that is intimately linked to what is happening in global affairs as well as with individuals.” GR

Publisher: White Buffalo
Paperback: 271 pages
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How To Build Your Own Flying Saucer or Mothership

Jorge Resines

In this manual published by Northern California’s Borderland Sciences Research Foundation (BSRF), Argentina- based Resines mentions how U.S.-led government coups have ‘eroded his country’s freedoms and culture’ and diminished his country’s interest in science. At times the relatively simple technology outlined suffers from convoluted Spanish-to-English translations, leaving the reader to agree with Resines that a native English speaker ought to take up the cause. Although there is nary a mention of granddaddy saucer-spinner Nikola Tesla, and Resines shows a marked dependence on the writings of George Adamski, the author has made a valiant effort at disseminating information in this handbook, which includes a lot of xeroxed material, a few vintage science articles, patents and numerous diagrams. The charming “warnings” in the foreword (“Children should not attempt to build their own flying saucer or mothership without the proper parental guidance; building a saucer will not help a failing marriage; the info contained herein should not take the place of certified medical therapy; and BE VERY CAREFUL!”) make one agree that saucer building would be a constructive replacement for television. Electrogravitation at home, for everyone! SK

Publisher: Borderland Sciences
Pamphlet: 119 pages
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M.K. Jessup and the Allende Letters

The BSRF Philadelphia Experiment File

The tale of the Philadelphia Experiment, the secret Navy project to make a ship optically invisible, its disastrous effects on the crew and the possible teleportation of the ship, first surfaced in a series of letters sent to an astronomer turned UFO author Morris K. Jessup. Things took a strange turn when a hand-annotated copy of one of Jessup’s UFO books was sent to the Office of Naval Research. Strange because a Navy official became interested in the book, contacted Jessup and was given the letters. He self-published a retyped version of Jessup’s book (including the notations) along with the letters. Then, with extraordinary timing, Jessup killed himself.
This booklet is a collection of material from Jessup and about him, much taken from BSRF files. Does it give any insight into the events leading to Jessup’s death? For the most part, no. BSRF was very much into channeling entities back then, so most of this is speculation and channeled material. That which is neither of these is available from other sources. The hard-core Philly Experiment researcher may want this book, as it does have letters written by Jessup himself. It may also provide an insight into how the Experiment was perceived before it was muddied by later writers. TC

Publisher: Borderland Sciences
Pamphlet: 51 pages

Man-Made UFOs: 1944-1994 — 50 Years of Suppression

David Hatcher Childress and Renato Vesco

An ode to American, Soviet and Canadian government cover-ups of anti-gravity technology since the end of WW II that calls “ufology” a hoax and claims flying saucers are not from outer space but were secret vehicles of the master race, captured and developed by the Allies. “We know from reproductions of the drawings of Schriever, Bellanzo and Miethe that a flying-saucer project, no matter how primitive at the time, was definitely on the list of German military priorities.” This theory is then used to explain Foo Fighters, the Feuerball and secret Nazi underground bases in the Antarctic and goes on to cover Project Blue Book, suction aircraft, Athodyds, the AVRO-car, Marconi’s secret saucer base, and other esoteric enigmas. Illustrated with photos, drawings and magazine reprints. GR

Publisher: Adventures Unlimited
Paperback: 372 pages
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New World Order: Prophecies From Space

Channeled by the Ashtar Command

Everybody’s favorite Space Brother is back, with more zany, cosmic insights to help ease the transition from the icky world of evil to a New Age of good, wholesome, vitamin-fortified niceness, for those who can grok his, like, totally spiritual vibrations. But wait; there’s more! If you act now, you’ll also get a glamorous assortment of wonderfully tepid pabulum from some of Ashtar’s wackiest Space Siblings, like “Monka,” “Aura Raines,” “The Etherian,” “Solar Star”—the whole gang! Now, how much would you pray? Important information on such topics as “The TOP-SECRET mission of the Space Brothers”; “the selection of the “Chosen Ones” to be removed from the planet in the event of a global disaster; the inside of our planet is really inhabited; educational craft are orbiting Earth; negative beings have infiltrated the military and Government (now there’s a surprise); the “serpent race” and, of course, the “True meaning of ‘the beast’ whose number is ‘666’—the Antichrist.” There are also some amazing portraits of Ashtar and all his little friends. It has been said that “this may be the most important book you have ever read”—well, that’s what it says on the back cover. DB

Publisher: Inner Light
Paperback: 160 pages
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The Philadelphia Experiment Chronicles: Exploring the Strange Case of Al Bielek and Dr. M.K. Jessup

Commander X

Philadelphia Naval Yard, Pennsylvania, 1943: “A megaton destroyer—the USS Eldridge—was made invisible, teleported into the blackness of another dimension, while its crew members were flung through time and space under horrifying circumstances. Most did not return and the few who did went instantly insane.” Cameo appearance by Nikola Tesla. Plus project technician Alfred Bielek’s story of being flung from 1943 to 1983 and back, then later sent back to 1927 to grow up all over again. GR

Publisher: Inner Light
Paperback: 137 pages
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The Promise

Fred Bell as told to Brad Steiger

If you ever saw Raiders of the Lost Ark, read any of Brad Steiger’s other “absolutely true” UFO books, or remember the classic Jay Ward cartoon character Commander McBragg (note for the animationally challenged: it was featured in between episodes of “Fractured Fairy Tales” and “Peabody and Sherman” on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show), you’ve already got an idea of what this book is about. In fact, imagine what it would be like as performed by McBragg himself and his rapt but gullible victim/friend at their genteel English country club: “There I was, already surrounded by hulking, heavily armed neo-Nazi assassins, when suddenly, from the corner of the burial chamber, a group of gigantic insectivoid monstrosities from Zeta Reticuli rushed toward me, brandishing deadly disintegrator guns, all demanding that I surrender my Atlantean Space Talisman.” “Good heavens Commander, what did you do?” “Well, sir, first I channeled all of my grooviest vibrations into the Talisman; a green ray shot out of it and zapped the Lugers right out of the hands of those Nazi goons. Then, by an amazing coincidence, my Pleiadian mistress, visible only to myself, you know, used her mystical powers to blast the beastly Zeta Reticulan lizard-things right out of our dimension.” “My word, Commander, that was a close one!” “Hmmm,” he would reply, filling his pipe. “Quite.”
During the course of this 172 page-boast, the reader learns many things about the incredible Fred Bell; but take away the highly improbable (and that’s being generous) “true” story alluded to above, and the remaining “information” can be distilled down to a few sentences: “I am a genius. I built a jet engine in shop class, put it in a car I designed, and, with a little extraterrestrial help, set a land speed record with it. I later joined the Air Force, where I had a cushy job as an officer, but quit in a huff due to righteous indignation regarding their UFO cover-up policies. Then, while working for NASA, I personally warned Dr. Werner von Braun of the problems that led to the Apollo 1 disaster. Due to my unimpeachable morals, and the fact that I am a genius, I alone among Earthmen am in communication with higher beings from the Pleiades. One in particular, a beautiful humanoid space woman, is, like, totally in love with me. And yes… I scored. Oh, did I mention that I am a genius? Yeah, I knew that—just checking to see if you’re paying attention.” DB

Publisher: Inner Light
Paperback: 172 pages
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Roswell UFO Crash Update: Exposing the Military Cover-Up of the Century

Captain Kevin D. Randle (Retired)

Sincere attempt to keep the Roswell story straight, affidavits included. Introduces and debates the newest evidence: The Air Force’s Project Mogul balloon story (proves to be as lame as the first evidence); two Franciscan Catholic nuns who saw a bright object plunging to the ground (who’s gonna doubt two nuns?); the missing “Indiana Jones” archeologist who was rumored to have seen the wreckage; and the witness who says famed aviator Charles Lindbergh may have been to the crash site (Senate documents prove his presence in Roswell). Nice Fortean touch: The nuns’ story provides proof that the crash date was actually July 4, 1947—Independence Day! GR

Publisher: Inner Light
Paperback: 190 pages
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Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts

Allen H. Greenfield

A Gnostic bishop with 35 years’ experience as a UFOlogist (twice honored as “UFOlogist of the Year”) posits a continuity from the mediumship and magical orders of the 19th century to the UFO contactees and trance-channelers of today. Greenfield suggests that the Book of the Law dictated to Aleister Crowley by the “praterhuman” AIWASS was actually encoded in an English-language cipher based on the classical techniques of the Kabbalah known to the Golden Dawn and other magical orders. Significantly, 1947 was both the year Crowley died and the beginning of the flying saucer sightings. UFO contactee names can be Kabbalistically decoded using the cipher to reveal their spiritual meanings: for example, ORTHON = JESUS. A more elaborate example of the use of the secret cipher is: “QUABALISTIC ALCHEMIST ARCANUM = 345 = LESBIANS + LESBIANISM + SAPPHISM, while FELLOWSHIP OF MA ION = 206 = THE SECRETIONS as well as the alchemical cipher term VERY SHARP VINEGAR. The name FRATER ROBERTUS = 214 = SODOMY SECRETIONS. These terms are consistent with the inner secret teachings of the Great White Brotherhood.” SS

Publisher: IllumiNet
Paperback: 119 pages
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