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Summary: Utter Tripe
Review: I'm always game for a good conspiracy theory. After all, it makes you put your grey matter into motion and critically think about the "facts" presented before you. Some conspiracy theories are great thinking - stuff that really makes you go "Hmmmm. Maybe." This book definitely is not one of those types of theories. I stopped reading this one 150 pages into it. The first portion of this book is spent dealing with the conspiracy theory that the moon is actually a hollow satellite - placed there by another alien race as a platform for who knows what. Maybe they are observing us, maybe they are spying on us, maybe they are utilizing it as a base of operations for a future invasion. Do yourself and your wallet a big favor. Avoid this book and this author like the plague. His theories have no supporting material behind them - put forth in such a manner that you literally are forced to accept his suppositions as "facts." Poorly researched, poorly referenced, very little supporting material for his wild-assed theories. In my opinion -- don't bother. Spend your money on something more important to your reading palette.
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Summary: JUST SAY, "NO!"
Review: Let's begin with the obvious: Somehow you just have to like a book about flying saucers and aliens written by a man named MARRS (even if these creepy dudes aren't really originating from distant planets - as I'm convinced they aren't.) I've just read ALIEN AGENDA for the second time, and if a more thorough overview of the UFO phenomenon (along with all of its auxiliary mysteries such as abductions, crop circles, & cattle mutilations) has been published, then I'm unaware of it.
The book opens with a bang as Marrs (correctly) states, "The controversy over the existence of UFOs is over. UFOs are real." The only people who would contend with that are those who have not objectively studied the subject in depth, and those who are too frightened to admit the obvious. I am dismayed by a few of my fellow reviewers who decry a lack of evidence to support the UFO "concept." If they were expecting a UFO to emerge from between the pages when they first cracked this book open, then it is no wonder they were disappointed. ALIEN AGENDA documents the testimony of innumerable individuals who claim to have observed incomprehensible, unearthly flying objects. Some of these well-respected, rational people include an astronaut, doctor, fighter pilot, archbishop, police chief, aircraft design company employee, Air Force lieutenant, deputy federal marshal, Franciscan nun, Air Force major, radar operator, brigadier general, county sheriff, geologist, physicist, chemist, petroleum engineer, secretary of the Navy, Navy photographer, senator, astronomer, lieutenant colonel, civil defense director, military intelligence officer, and a priest! If a collection of eyewitnesses like this was arrayed against you in a court of law to testify that they had seen you kill your mother-in-law, you can be most certain that a lethal injection would be awaiting you in your immediate future. (Either that, or a commendation, depending upon your mother-in-law.) And yet, when the testimony concerns flying saucers and aliens, suddenly people are quick to brand it "unreliable" and dismiss it. We can't have it both ways! Out here where I live, most of us couldn't beat a dead dog lying by the side of the road in an I.Q. contest, but still we're smart enough to realize that testimony from people like the aforementioned constitutes valid evidence in support of the UFO phenomenon.
In addition, I'd say that when a former director of the C.I.A. publicly states that UFOs are real and that "through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense", and when a professionally esteemed physicist says of crop circles, "whatever is doing these formations is affecting the fundamental biophysics and biochemistry of the plants...the basic micro fibril structures of the plants have been altered. Such cellular changes cannot be hoaxed", then it's time that we sit up straight at our desks and start taking notes! No proof? No evidence? It seems a few readers are in need of having that grey pudding between their ears examined by a competent physician! {Oh, Stephen! Stephen! Stephen! Why must you insist on being so "UNHELPFUL"?} That was just the planet Venus that the farmer saw land in his cow pasture? It was only swamp gas that followed the lady's car for thirty miles down the highway? That was just a weather balloon that buzzed the pilot's airplane repeatedly at 4000 miles per hour? Okie-dokie. Whatever you say Mr. Government Man. You've never lied to us before!
Yes, ALIEN AGENDA has a few problems: Too many typographical errors for a major publication. As one reviewer pointed out, the author overworks the term "mind-set" and you may or may not find this irritating depending upon your mind-set. Chapter 11, IN THE MIND'S EYE, which is highly speculative at best, is too long. Chapter 12, A METAPHYSICAL EXAM (where I believe we finally sit down to the meat loaf and Tater Tots), is too short. When he refers to "the demagoguery of anti-Communist senator Joseph McCarthy" and his "witch-hunt"; when he implies credence in Paul Ehrlich's book, THE POPULATION BOMB; when he insinuates that F.D.R. was somehow an unwelcome threat to the Morgan Banking House, it is clear that MARRS is out in space! With a few reservations, I recommend the book, but suggest that you not stop here. Also investigate ALIEN ENCOUNTERS by Chuck Missler, ENCOUNTERS WITH UFOs by John Weldon & Zola Levitt, and afterwards, ALIEN INTERVENTION by Paul Christopher. These books make extremely compelling arguments that the manifestation of interdimensional demonic activity and deception is the most all-around satisfying answer to the UFO question and its attendant problems. I definitely agree!
With that in mind, permit me to close with a bit of unsolicited advice: If some pleasant evening while you are slurping beer in your jacuzzi, a silver disc should descend into your backyard, landing on your barbecue grill, and a long-limbed, large-headed, big-eyed short feller emerges, flashes you the Vulcan peace sign, and offers to take you for a spin in his jaunty little ship, I strongly urge you to........(*Please see the title of this review.)
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Summary: A disaster
Review: Someone should write a book about why Marrs continues to write books about things he can't prove. Not only is this badly written, but Marrs does a fabulous job of presenting only 1 side of the argument--his own. "Witness testimony" is all fine and dandy, but why is that Marrs can't ever come up with proof for his claims? Oh wait, the U.S. Government covers it all up. Good Lord, do people really buy into that garbage, or do they just want to believe it? The latter is my opinion. Until Marrs can show pictures of these "aliens", his arguments will continue to be shot down. Maybe the Majestic 12 has all those aliens over for Sunday dinner, but I suspect the truth lies in the hyperactive imaginations of "eyewitnesses" and "experts".
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Summary: Good read and some really new information
Review: UFOs and ETs are by they very nature controversial subjects. Jim Marrs does a fantastic job in this book of taking the majority of UFO lore and condensing into one fascinating read. I have read many books on the subject and most of them are poorly written and/or leaps in logic are of olympian proportions. Not so with this book. The narrative is both fascinating and well thought out at the same time. I would definitley recommend this book as an intorduction to UFOology.
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Summary: Definitive work on ETs
Review: When I read this book, I could not put it down, which is a first for me considering the subject matter.Spanning the history of mankind, Alien Agenda charts all the unusual sightings and artifacts mankind has come across. I'm convinced more than ever, thanks to the book, that ETs are out there watching us. I recommend this book highly to all open-minds out there.
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