Authored by BUDD HOPKINS and CAROL RAINEY, published in 2003 by Atria Books, NY, NY
Review By HAROLD EGELN, founder of S.P.A.C.E. (the Search Project for Aspects of Close Encounters), vice president of the National Space Society's New York City chapter, former executive director of New York Metro Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy, and, since 1989, a general assignment reporter and photographer for the Home Reporter, Brooklyn Spectator, Sunset News and Park Slope News weekly newspapers.
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"Our universe could contain invisible galaxies, stars and planets -- even invisible ETs." -- from "The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow's Science" (Oxford University Press, 2001) by astrophysicist Marcus Chown, cosmology consultant for "New Scientist" and former California Institute of Technology radio astronomer.
NEW YORK CITY, NY, December 17, 2003 -- In the 22 years since his first book was published, Budd Hopkins has gone from "Missing Time" to "Missing Space," as witnessed in his latest book, "Sight Unseen."
Around the time when Hopkins' "Missing Time: A Documented Study of UFO Abductions" came out in 1981, I used to make audio-tape recordings of my favorite movies and TV shows off my TV set, being in a pre-home-VCR age. Recently, while looking among my numerous classical music tapes to play for background music as I began to write this book review, I just happened to come across an audio-cassette from 1980 with two items on it: "The Invisible Man," a 1933 horror movie starring Claude Rains, followed by a 1957 episode of "Sergeant Bilko," the TV series starring the comedienne Phil Silvers at an Army base, titled: "Bilko And The Flying Saucers."
I was struck by this odd coincidence of the juxtoposition of Invisiblity and Flying Saucers as I readied to write this review, because of the subject matter of Budd Hopkins and Carol Rainey's "Sight Unseen." It was what famed psychologist Dr. Carl Jung might call "a synchronicity, a meaningful coincidence." In fact, on the page before the introduction to "Missing Time" in 1981, he uses a quote that Jung made in 1954 about flying saucers: "So far, only one thing is certain: it is not just a rumor: something is seen." (Note: Jung wrote "Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky" in 1958.)
In "Missing Time's" first chapter, "Cape Cod Genesis" about Hopkins' seminal UFO sighting in 1964, he writes about the actor Maximilian Schell buying a painting of his in 1968 "which contained, as most of my work did in those years, a huge, ambiguous black circle." Schell, calling the painting "unearthly," suggested that Hopkins see Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," seeing a "resonance between the two works." Hopkins at first dismissed the actor's suggestion, following a lifelong habit, only to find out later what he meant.
Like unattached giant dominoes, the super-dark monoliths, cloaked in black hiding an invisible realm, were an entrance to a place "full of stars" and a method used by a vastly different and advanced alien intelligence to monitor, intervene in and communicate with humanity. Two years after the real year 2001 there is now a major book produced by the combined talents of the kindly Budd Hopkins, now the well seasoned UFO abduction investigator, and his wife, the journalistically talented Carol Rainey, a refreshing and engaging mind with a flair for superb writing skills.
Their perfectly matched teamwork has produced a critically remarkable book, focusing on the connections between Ufology and the very latest bizarre scientific discoveries in cosmology, quantum physics, stealth technologies and transgenics.
And yet, what they have written and the sources which they use to support their well-stated case for science, may come as no surprise to some of us who actually live through all the paradoxical contours of this disturbing, highly strange phantom experience as we try to make sense of nonsense!
Hopkins enjoys quoting from the grand oldtime comedienne Jimmy Durante, breaking into a grin when he gets ready to tell a Durante joke. Durante ended his TV shows in the 1950s by donning his overcoat and hat, fading away into invisibilty under a narrowing spotlight through a stage door into the dark with the wistful words to a mystery woman, "Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash, -- where-ever you are." (She may have been a waiter in North Carolina, as one story goes.)
Now it is Hopkins, famous guardian of abductees, who dons his artist smock and incredible hat of knowledge, entering that door into the murky dark night of what really may be behind the stage-props of stealth encounters, exploring where the "alien Mrs. Calabashs" might be, with his ever-curious companion Rainey, equipped with the studies of 21st Century science.
In their introduction, Hopkins first brings in a mindset, based on logical educated assumptions, given the patterns he has found, that "intelligent, nonhuman beings possessing a technology vastly superior to our own have arrived on this planet."
Their book, Hopkins notes, is divided into two parts, with "Unseen" about "the aliens' successful methods of concealing their worldwide program of human abduction," while "Seen" explores "newly recognized patterns of extreme alien visibility,"and that the book brings in "physics, neurobiology and genetics" to back up the case for UFO abductions.
Rainey, with a Doctoral Degree in Future Studies, explains that their book hopes to bridge science and ufology ("create common ground") by exploring new scientific discoveries in quantum physics, cosmology, genetics, teleportation and other areas, because "....UFOs seem to exist in a realm that is hard-edged and material part of the time and immaterial and ghostly at other times."
For the first time, in public print, Hopkins goes boldly where others have been before, such as Jacques Vallee, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Whitley Strieber, S.P.A.C.E., and especially John Keel (as in "Why UFOs?" from 30 years ago!), with him and Rainey carefully applying the latest scientific discoveries, experiments and theories to abduction research, while also discussing such issues as apparent "alien co-option," a "phantom support group" and the possibility that "They're Here!" among us (they are), going back to the future ala George Adamski without the fabled hokum.
What they discuss all seemed so familiar to we who have already navigated through the same areas, based on our direct experiences, while they extrapalated from what they have studied about us (the experiencers, abductees, witnesses, contactees), an indirect but noble approach.
LOOKING THROUGH "A MIRROR IN THE DARK"
"In my readings in the strange, elusive world of quantum physics, hyperspace, string theories, time travel and other dimensions, it's clear that most philosophers and physicists -- faced with their own inexplicable feelings at the quantum level -- are experiencing the same squimy uneasiness that I feel in attempting to deal logically with UFO cases that contain some element of the paranormal," writes Rainey in the "Behind the Scenary" chapter in Part Two: Seen. |
In "Sight Unseen" there are a few cases cited by Hopkins which he has shared in public, and others which he has not. These include, with the former, the Australian "perpetual photographer case" (a popular public presentation involving a family which does not appear in a photo when they should) and, with the latter (as far as I know) the case of Katharina, who apparently was invisible for awhile at an airport, possibly abducted.
These cases lead to a lengthy discussion by Rainey of concepts such as stealth shielding and teleportation (shades of 1950's contactee Howard Menger and Charles Fort's 19th Century stories), which has already been demonstrated on a miniscule level by scientists, and related in a "Scientific American" magazine cover recently. (Imagine a Mozart musical piece arriving at its destination a nano-second before being sent!)
The stealth technology that seems to be the cause of this invisibility factor, according to and explained very well by Hopkins-Rainey, has also been demonstrated to encounter explorers (experiencers) in S.P.A.C.E. These are real-time incidents of a person being invisible momentarily to another witness but not to the person themselves (May 1991 and May 1994), and by footsteps all around or near people but without anyone being seen (1993 and 1996), among other such episodes. The cases cited by the authors are a journey into well-educated speculation from accounts they uncovered, but not based on their firsthand personal experiences.
In the chapter titled "Uncovering Clues to the Science of Invisibilty" in Part One: Unseen, Rainey cites the excellent work of Paul Hill, a respected NASA engineer, in his postumously published book, "Unconventional Flying Objects: A Scientific Analysis," published in 1995, discussing adaptive camouflage, UFO invisibility, plasma sheathing and audio spotlighting, among other technologies.
In this chapter I was charmed by Rainey's childhood account from the 1950s in which her parents bought her a pet Amercan chameleon lizard. It reminded me of the one my mother got me, at around age six, at the Hopalong Cassidy Carnival in Jersey City in the 1950s. (Hopalong was a good guy TV Cowboy dressed in black who rode on a white stallion.)
Which brings us to a longstanding question of alien disquise: The tricky "aliens' who operate the stealth encounters cannot be dressed in purely "either good or bad guys" roles, but must be seen for what they seem to be -- and seem not to be!!! -- and for what they do and what they leave out.
After describing cases of "physical and psychological suffering" endured by people at the hands of "the aliens," Hopkins, usually using that profile as a major indicator of a case worth researching, expresses his true feelings quite honestly. These feelings can just as well apply to the way humans have treated fellow humans throughout history, especially in the last century, humanity's bloodiest and most murderous. Dangerous and violent humans remain the Earth's greatest threat, demonstrated millions of times! This is not noted here to justify "alien" procedures.
Cases of suffering by "alien's" handling which "harm or destroy" people's lives, Hopkins writes, "leave me with a barely concealed fury at those who would paint the aliens as benign saviours here to help us by spreading higher truth and demonstrating 'unconditional love'."
Indeed, people have suffered, through no fault of their own, and other people feel uplifted by their experiences; it evokes many human variables and there no is universal operating principle that applies to all contacts. Researchers should not place value judgements on people's encounters nor use those values in considering worthy cases. And caution is advisable to be mindful of their own personalities as much as humanly possible to keep their data as pure as possible.
This December Whitley Strieber, while acknowledging positive benefits of expanded consciousness from his contacts, went further than Hopkins and turned his fury at "present alien terrorism," as he describes it. Strieber views the current cadre of alien kidnappers, according to his present experience and accounts of many others, as "scum" and warning people of contact's dangers, and describing all experiencers as defenseless "soldiers" (the latter a position certainly not all of us agree with!)
Also, Hopkins talks about "alien co-option," citing cases of an abductee presenting "the aliens' case for the endangered Earth environment (as with the use of Linda in the 1989 Brooklyn Bridge abductions), or of strange humans with paranormal abilities who seem to assist the alien agenda in many ways.
"THEY'RE HERE! THEY'RE HERE!"
Perhaps the most fascinating discussion in the new book are the "aliens among us" concept, new to Hopkins in his book discussions, but old hat to Ufology.
In Chapter 17, "A Special Perfume," Hopkins wonders about "the presence in earthly locations of apparently normal-looking human beings who interacted cooperatively with UFO occupants and who also seemed to possess distinctly nonhuman characteristics. Do these people live here among us.... The evidence suggests that some of them do. How extensive is this bizzare underground society?"
First there are his descriptions of mysterious interviews by strange humans who seem to know everything about the people they interview in minimalist bare offices, the "phantom support group" and Twilight Zone-like nice people who befriend abductees, and who may knowingly act on behalf of the aliens, or who are co-opted by them. As well as the whole question of transgenic alien-humans living amongst us, which we will get into shortly.
While Hopkins cites one frightening Midwestern experience of a "phantom support group" meeting, there are likely far more sophisticated, better emotionally attuned out-in-the-open "PSGs" shadowing existing groups of a more subtle and sublime nature, operating with compassion.
Hopkins also cites fascinating instances of "yet another strange example of alien or part-alien beings living and operating among us and displaying the kind of intermediate awkwardness we have seen before -- behavior one might expect of creatures who do not share the subtleties of our culture, our mores, and our languages."
From our dozen years of experience within S.P.A.C.E., this seems to be the case, but with examples, again, of a far more sophisticated and sensitive nature of some of these "creatures" who may only lack the human nature that has been humanity's way for the last few thousands of years.
Perceptions of these beings among us may be cloaked in belief systems or intuitive feelings (e.g. incarnated alien souls, reincarnation, bioengineered alien/human transgenic hybrids) or seemingly imposed on the will of the experiencer from an outside force.
In his 1998 book, "The Threat: Revealing the Secret Alien Agenda" by David Jacobs, he discusses his suggested alien-hybrids hypothesis, arrived at by his own preferred use of logic and patterns appearing mostly in hypnosis sessions.
It must be seriously considered that certain scenarios extracted from hypnosis may be settings that are orchestrated - to an extent - by those in charge of the close encounter, whose powers of the mind may be vastly superior!
"If hybrids are continually gaining human genes, and thus becoming more human, and if they can exist in human society unnoticed for short periods, then it is possible that in the future they will be able to do so for longer periods of time -- or even indefinately," writes Jacobs. (from "The Threat," Chapter 10, Independent Hybrid Activity.)
This learned gentleman, who fears for the future but hopes for the best, finds the implications, if true, of such activity "disturbing" and wonders if their intentions are for good or bad, which he considers "the grey zone." Hopkins and Rainey find strong hints that they are already among us, whatever their agenda.
Aliens living on Earth among humans, as kind of a Fifth Column or as observers, is an old science fiction theme, as seen in the 1956 classic film "The Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and for TV audiences in the Autumn of 1967 when the network TV series "The Invaders" starring Roy Thinnes premiered, running for 43 episodes.
Producer Alan Armer described the show's premise as: "They're here among us now... in your city... maybe on your block. They're invaders... alien beings from another planet... but they look just like us!... The new neighbors across the street. The substitute teacher... Any one of them might be an invader from outer space." (from "The Invaders" by Gary Gerni in "Starlog" magazine, number 16, September 1978.)
And how about Orthon, Firkon, Ramu and other human-looking aliens reported by contactee George Adamski in the 1950s, who he claimed drove cars, ate in our burger joints, sat in hotel lobbies and sometimes had everyday jobs?
AMBASSADORS?
What is not touched upon in the book, but which may emerge as a pattern in future Hopkins-Rainey studies of us witnesses, is that experiencers may be being primed as "ambassadors" or at least intermediataries for "the aliens." This is like a page out of Doris Lessing's Canopus sci-fi novel series from 20 years ago.
This pattern emerged early on in S.P.A.C.E's group research. Is this co-option? Perhaps. But a telling pattern is how witnesses are given instructions for piloting "spaceships" and "operating equipment." It may be literally true.
But, in Hopkins' research based on hypnotic recall patterns which are often interpreted as literal, perhaps mistakenly in some cases, this pattern may also be an allegory mentally implanted (with real physical effects) by nonhuman forces to bring in awareness of a deeper consciousness based not on ego drives that guide most of our lives, but on the bizarre, grander terrority of nonlocality awareness, to connect with a supra-consciousness beyond the ego's limitations. Or it may be an effect of the interface, the interaction itself.
A CREATIVE PROCESS SEEKS A SOLUTION?
This brings in the concepts of two psychologists who have interacted with S.P.A.C.E. and our own witness-based direct encounter research (done without respected researchers outside of our experience), -- Dr. Gibbs Williams of New York, who did a psychological profile on Linda of the Brooklyn Bridge case for Hopkins, and Dr. Remo Roth of Zurich, Switzerland who has worked for over 20 years with experiencers through their UFO-related dreams.
Simply put, Dr.Williams preceives a naturalistic explanation for close encounters as experiencers seek answers and a resolution for their encounters, which have a "Rashomon"-like venue, while Dr. Roth preceives a creative process, sans high technlogy "aliens," for a new synthesis at work engaged through a more playful, erotic level of consciousness.
(Please checkout their persepctives in greater detail in the S.P.A.C.E. "Project Wonderland" e-book, acessible at the link at the end of this review. References: "Volume Two, Chapter 12 --The Decoders: Part One - Roshomoning Encounters" about Dr. Williams and "Vol. Two, Chapter 13 -- The Decoders: Part Two - A New Melody, A New Genesis" by Dr. Roth.)
"THE GUARDIAN FACTOR"
Before continuing, here's a true story about the folly of making authoritative assumptions in an filed of study, a preview from "The Guardian Factor" to appear in the new "S.P.A.C.E. EXPLORERS CONTACT E-JOURNAL":
***** Five years ago an experiencer had dinner with a top UFO researcher. Discussing the experiencer's UFO sightings which he shared with other witnesses a few years before, he pondered its possible subtle and ambiguous implications, hinting at a then yet-to-be-announced astronomical discovery.
In response, the researcher proceeded to openly question the experiencer's intelligence by making an insensitive and patronizing remark, assuming the experiencer to be scientifically illiterate, ignorant of basic cosmology --- which he definately was not, having kept up, in-depth, with science and astronomy since age seven.
The experiencer, taken aback by the surprize putdown, almost walked out of the diner. But, although annoyed, he choose to respond with charity, forgiving the researcher's false presumptions. Somberly, he realized how firmly "The Guardian Factor" operates with otherwise excellent researchers, who learn about the encounter experience from the outside... and why close encounter participants must, ultimately, work independent of these "guardians," without their intercession. *****
That "Guardian Factor" works on many levels, even among encounter witnesses themselves as an ego-based protective policing mechanism, often manifesting as police or military images in dreams or emerging as coping mechanisms and belief systems, naturally expected when confronted by a Strange Unknown. That, too, can be seen at work in many UFO books, such as "Sight Unseen," which also, thankfully, puts aside the "Guardian Factor" when the data breaks through boundaries, opening new areas to exploration.
Hopkins, when in a "guardian mode," acts as an authority figure (as an "expert" on UFO abduction) rightly or wrongly, -- and the chief flaw in "Sight Unseen" is the exercise of that "guardianship" from one who is not, as far as he knows, having his own hidden interface with the unknown. And that can present very real dangers. Readers of "Sight Unseen" should be aware of those pitfalls in an otherwise remarkable book.
That all leads us to another area in the book. And, now comes the bioengineering aspects of close encounters, hopping down a rabbit hole....
"Glow-Worm... glimmer, glimmer" goes the old song, but now the lyrics change to "Glow-Bunny" with awesome glimmerings for humanity's future, both from humankind and "other-kind."
Following the Green Flourescent Bunny called Alba down a rabbit-hole into a bioengineered wonderland is Rainey, who at her talk hosted by the Wagner College planetarium here in the city in October, brought up a familiar trickster archetype (not described as such by her) operating in a pattern throughout S.P.A.C.E.'s "WOW! Signal" episodes.
While it is seems certain that the Hopkins-Rainey team arrived at their findings independent of S.P.A.C.E., it is still an uncanny coincidence and confulence of conclusions that the GFB living artform created by Eduard Kac in France in early 2000 would be one of the keys in unlocking "the aliens" methodology in the research for "Sight Unseen," along with other matching information, as it has, through a different way, with S.P.A.C.E. It demonstrates the value of research and experience via different perspectives, but raises questions about acknowledging some source material.
In the "New Life-Forms" chapter by Rainey, she writes that with "the burgeoning new fields of genetic engineering, cloning and transgenics, it struck me that many of the most recent accomplishments of our own science were nearly as strange and unacceptable in some visceral way as is the abduction phenomenon."
Rainey cites six examples, including: "A transgenic rabbit that glows green under fluorescent light, the result of an artist's conceptual piece. The rabbit was custom-designed by hiring scientists to insert a permanent new gene from a jellyfish into a human genome."
The domesticated rabbit is the gentle Alba we mentioned, the project of the artist Kac, whose concept is explained in the S.P.A.C.E. "Project Wonderland" e-book in Volume Two, Chapter 17, "The March Hare. April Fools! May Be? Spring 2002" under the "GFB Bunny, Interspecies Dialog and the WOW! Signal" section. It is followed by the "Unseen Rabbit," an account by "Gary H," an experiencer and researcher in England.
In "Sight Unseen" chapter 16, "The Breakdown of the Barriers Between Species," Rainey carries forward the technology of transgenics thesis of alien intervention, placing it ahead of the long discussed and unlikely, practically impossible hybridization process, such as Vincent Price's head on the body of a spider in "The Fly" movie.
(Rainey cites another spider and its behavior in "Sight Unseen" -- but you must read if for yourself, and decide if her comparisions with alien operations are correct or not. But it seems that the analogy that she gives reveals a biased slant that is a pattern in Hopkins' overall fine research.)
"We, in fact, are just beginning to learn the techniques of breaking down the barrier between species -- something the aliens appear to have mastered many generations ago," writes Rainey. "So forget sex. It's not about sexual reproduction. It's about a much more refined and targeted way of intermingling genetic material between species."
With her marvelous ways with words (which I derive great pleasure in reading), Rainey warns: "(If) hybridization is a calico alley cat, transgenics is a glossy, cybernetic cheetah. It's as invisible as it wants to to be -- a high-tech, easy-to-conceal kind of genetic manipulation. And it can change the genome of an entire species in a condensed amount of time -- without being visible in the exterior traits of the animal." Another trail of invisibility!
Going further, she brings in the "ancient astronaut" scenario, long avoided for many reasons of his own by Hopkins, when Rainey cites the work of longtime researcher Michael Swords, who wrote that "alien zookeepers must have seeded the Earth's pre-biotic oceans aeons ago."
Rainey hopes humans who have close encounters are not just test subjects for alien scientists, -- a hope we naturally share.
"The UFO occupants' ambiguity, their elusiveness in being categorized, and their profound secretiveness are strokes of genius," Rainey writes. "In this way, they have all the control in terms of our relationship with them."
WHERE "SIGHT UNSEEN" STUMBLES
Well, "yes" and "no" to Rainey's ststement. While "THEY" have ultimate control, our experience in S.P.A.C.E. as encounter explorers (i.e., empowered experiencers), shows that there is, indeed, response and communication of an odd riddle-ridden sort from the nonhuman realm, although it is not conclusive nor provides final answers.
But it confirms, in a far more convincing way, the science and "alien connection" that Rainey postulates. While the book is brilliantly written and presented, it also seems to borrow or, at least, taken a cue from other sources which have explored in the past and which are exploring in the present the premise of "Sight Unseen" in greater detail and depth.
We have discovered that there can be and actually is -- for sure -- a proof-testable limited interchange, via we experiencers ourselves, and a workable venue for co-creating that interface, if we desire it and seek it, and have the tools of knowledge to work with -- and without saying we have the ultimate answers.
It is a grassroots SETI-like effort on a massive, worldwide scale, a revolutionary leap ahead of the way outside encounter researchers function. And that represents a true breakthrough for Ufology -- and science!
FROM GLOWS TO SPARKLES
There are other "Seen" cases in the book which we, as S.P.A.C.E., can vouch for, such as "the sparkles" Hopkins recounts in "The Strange Children at a Cape Cod Playground" in Chapter 13. In the account, a child reports "sparkles" that filled a bedroom as a "little man" stood in the room.
"The 'sparkles' that she said seemed to fill the room have been reported in at least three other abduction cases I have investigated," writes Hopkins, who talks about this for the first time in print and who adds that the function of the glowing sparkles remains unknown.
In the early 1970s, when I had several strange episodes which later led me in 1987 to write Hopkins, a young man at a place called "the Firehouse" flinched and looked above my head. "What's wrong?" I said. "I just saw a spray of brightly colored sparkles jump from your head." I did not know what to think of that, but he seemed sincere and surprized!
Again, after a talk I gave, with a Soviet mission diplomat, at Co-Op City on SDI ("Star Wars") in the mid-1980s when I worked for a citywide peace organization, an older woman, who eyed me strangely during my talk, approached me and told me that she saw a "rainbow over your head, filled with sparkles." Perhaps these were residual aftereffects of a stealth close encounter?
Another "seen" phenomenon reported by Hopkins is that of "rippling waves" that encounter witnesses report, resembling the optcal illusions of rippling air created on hot pavement on a broiling hot day. S.P.A.C.E. teams at our upstate New York encounter site have seen such rippling "waves" actually moving in the air through the woods or towards us on cool nights.
On a very human level, there is also in the book Rainey's charming human interest story snippets of how she got to know Hopkins after meeting him in the mid-1990s. For you romantics out there, that's another reason you should read this book!
"Sight Unseen" is the best book to emerge from Hopkins long years of research and should be widely read, discussed, debated, argued and studied. Whatever its flaws (it has them, such as a touch of typical human arrogance) it should be featured in "The New York Times Book Review" Sunday section or The London Times Literary Supplement section.
WHERE "THE ANSWERS" ARE
Ultimately it is up to WE -- not researchers nor groups nor the hyper-intelligence behind the contact scenary -- who interface directly with this "Secret Commonwealth," high-tech or not, to decide how to handle it and move it along -- until the hyper-intelligence makes decisive moves.
There is still a nagging, annoying "Missing Something" which evades Hopkins and Rainey in their book. "Who knows what really lurks in the minds of 'the aliens?' -- The Shadow knows."
That "Missing Something" rests somewhere in the authors aloofness, at times, a simple human failing, as well as a scientific flaw in their methodology, along with an inability to understand or unwillingness to recognize the potential interactive, participatory role encounter witnesses can and do play.
No matter how well top researchers work, it s still preferrable that the Circle of Encounter Explorers who directly experience contact gather knowledge together to discover what's really at the source of the close encounter enigma.
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By-the-way, I found a classical music tape to play, as I completed this review, with the composition, "The Invisible City of Kitezh" by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Of course.
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"Sight Unseen" co-author Budd Hopkins was the top guest on Whitley Strieber's "Dreamland" radio program on February 14. It was their first conversation in 15 years.
"Sight Unseen is truly extraordinary, by far the most powerful and convincing book about the abduction phenomenon ever written," said Strieber.
"Dreamland" is available on-line and on short wave radio weekly on Saturdays, and the Hopkins show was archived on Strieber's site for four weeks following broadcast. For specific details on this highly informative radio program, visit Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country website below, where you will enter the "Dreamland" webpage:
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A review by HAROLD EGELN
December 17, 2003 -- Mix together the movies "E.T." "Forrest Gump," "Close Encounters," "Flubber," "Contact" and "The Sound of Music" and you get India's first major science fiction film, a whimsical Hindu combo of romance, a "Bollywood" musical, drama, pure fun, high drama and beautiful scenary and sets called "Koi...Mil Gaya" ("I Found Someone.")
This utterly charming and delightful 2003 film by director Rakesh Roshan was released in a few cities, including New York City, in August. I missed it then, but on Sunday (December 14) I saw it at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Rose Cinemas, just three blocks away from the city's Flying Saucer Cafe. It played for one day, in two showings, part of BAMcinematek's "Bollywood Shuffle" series.
Rohit, the main character played by Roshan's son, is the focus of the three hour, eleven minute long movie, with an intermission. Before Rohit was born his father (played by the director) made contact with an extra-terrestrial civilization through his homemade SETI computer equipment. He was soon subsquently killed in a car accident after he and his wife had a close encounter sighting of a UFO. His wife gave birth to Rohit, who was brain damaged in the womb by the car accident, and who has a lower intelligence as a result.
The first segment of the movie is more young adult romantics, childhood play and has the drama of how Rohit is befriended by younger children and a young woman, with a few joyfully catchy song-and-dance sequences that are a pleasure to watch and a delight to hear.
It s only when Rohit learns from his highly protective mother of his dead father's success in getting a response from an alien civlization that a giant spaceship appears over his city in the northern India mountains and an alien is accidently left behind that the "E.T." element kicks-in.
When the abandoned alien, wearing a robe and hood, becomes friends with Rohit and his child friends, it is named "Jadu," the Indian word for "Magic," and that sets off an enchanting, spirited Bollywood song-and-dance scene which is pure pleasure and a barrell-full of fun.
Of course, trouble with the authorities eventually develops, as they learn of the alien's presence, and the story turns very dramatic with plot twists that produce major action and suspense.
"Koi...Mil Gaya" is a genuine "feel-good" movie that is not meant to be a serious look at extraterrestrial life but a ride through innocence unbridled.
It also, when released in August, appeared in the context of a major Alien Life Form invasion of New York City, reaching more of the public than any UFO group, UFO book or UFO meeting that took place in the city in 2003.
It appeared between the "Wave UFO" interactive sculpture art installation at the IBM Building Public Atrium in the late Spring/ early Summer and a Space Alien structure in Rockefeller Center Plaza in the early Autumn, both Public Art Fund Projects seen and experienced by tens of thousands of people.
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UFO TESTAMENT: ANATOMY OF AN ABDUCTEE by RAY FOWLER, 542 pages, self-published. "This book entails the life of one internatonally respected as a UFO investigator and author who suspects that he is a so-calledUFO abductee. It is strikingly different from his other works dealing with the abduction phenomenon as it will provide an overview of a complete life of an experiencer from chldhood to the sunset years of his life.
"The documented descriptions of UFO sightings and nvestigations would be worthy of a book theselves. Chief Consultant to the USAF UFO Project Bluebook, astronomer Dr. J. Allen Hynek, is on record as stating: 'Raymond Fowler's meticulous and detailed investigations far exceed the investgations of Bluebook.'
"This book, however, is about much more than investigating UFO sightings. Throughout the warp and weft of his UFO and paranormal experiences, Fowler meticulously records the data and circumstances that indicate he has been investigating since early childhood by the very phenomenon he was investigating."
Fowler's other books are UFOs: Interplanetary Visitors, The Melchizedek Connection, The Allagash Abductions, The Andreasson Affair, The Andreasson Affair - Phase Two, The Watchers, The Watchers II and The Andreasson Legacy.
By ELLIE CRYSTAL with CONNIE JOHNSTON --
Morris Publishing, Kearney, Nebraska, USA
"The story of 'Sarah and Alexander' is the journey of humanity, created from the blueprint of Sacred Geometry. It is the esoteric history of the human race, brouht forth to awken the spirit with each of us. The protagonist's journey to pry open the secrets of her bloodline, is also humanity's struggle to uncover its hidden agenda. This saga, written hard against the backbone of history, is awash with mythic overtones, replete with revelations of mystic realities.
"Have you ever yearned to discover your destiny? Have you prayed to find a soul mate to travel with you on that journey of fate? Did you ever wonder about the secrets of time and space?
"Sarah Manning did, but in a way no has ever struggled to discover the truth. Through her bloodline, she discovers her heritage, while battling with the most ancient foces of evil. Find out how Sarah endures her trials as she bridges the past, present and future... to find love and a new meaning for humanity's existence."
www.crystalinks.com
St. Martin's Paperbacks, New York, NY
A fictional thriller by famous suspense writer Coonts about "a relic from the past," a flying saucer found buried in the Sahara Desert for 140,000 years, and "a bridge to the future," but not after a battle by several forces for ownership and control of the ancient spacecraft that startles the world with its abilities.
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