The Contact Has Begun

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Summary: Alien Corporate Yuppies control the universe?
Review: You can certainly read indepth reviews beyond this one. I just want to add that I found the Verdants incredible bureaucratic corporate nerds, yet they are supposed to be the wise Masters of the Universe? Their plan for buying-out planet earth's franchinse rights is dependent on selected earthlings writing up "white papers" (position papers to submit to the FCC?). That's straight out of 1980's corporate America. What's next, Quality Assurance Boards? Employee Empowerment Committees? Cell Phones? Cosmic pagers and a 24 hour Help Line to the Space Patrol? I expect these aliens to all have exclusive memberships in the very best golf course and live in posh walled suburban communities, once the corporate takeover of earth occurs. Don't ask me to buy stock in this plan! Whenever a European country took possession of a 3rd world country in the 19th century, the locals became house-help (someone has to clean the bathroom). I don't want to clean up after Krapf's sell-out, do you?

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Summary: Time will tell!
Review: In view of Y2K and rumors of martial law, roaming hoards of looters and societal collapse, this book provides a diversion from concerning ourselves with such events. Instead we are led to believe that the Verdants, who have allegedly been watching us for 1,000 years, with their "absolute intelligence" and benevolent motives, wish to offer humanity an opportunity to join the "Intergalactic Federation of Sovereign Planets." Mr. Krapf even outlines a timetable for these events to occur in the relatively near future. Announcements will be made by prominent world leaders already recruited by the Verdants in the first few months of 2002 and by 2010, with the Verdants sharing their technology, we'll be building our own starships and probing nearby stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. But why is it taking three years to compile the plans of the world leaders for their beginning announcements? Oh, because the "work must be done at home on evening and weekends." Such a monumental event should take absolute priority! If true, think of the millions of lives that could be saved by an earlier announcement and the Verdants sharing their medicinal and technological achievements that much sooner. Was Mr. Krapfs transportation aboard the 200,000 year old star cruiser named "Goodwill" a CIA neural implant, or did the event actually occur? There is no hard evidence. Had he the foresight to regurgitate the meals he was fed or submit his stool and urine for analysis after he returned, that may have supplied us something concrete to backup his story since all of his food was synthesized from plant matter unlike that grown on Earth. Or the boxer shorts that they supplied him with - did they have special detergent residue unlike that on our planet? Too bad Mr. Krapf didn't return with a souvenir - from soap, razor, after-shave lotion, toothbrush, or toothpaste, to the "softest and most comfortable" slippers he had ever worn. Will these events unfold as told by Mr. Krapf? Will the Earth finally reach our rightful place in the universe as a laughing and loving society? Or will the Verdants end their contact by giving up on us due to the "20% incorrigibles" that they choose to withhold space technology from? That could be a reason (excuse) if the foregoing events do not take place. But I'm willing to give Mr. Krapf the benefit of the doubt and see what unfolds over the next few years

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Summary: I saw this story in Star Trek TNG Season 6
Review: This book mirrored an episode that I saw on Star Trek concerning first contact with a species. Once I saw the god and heaven stuff, I promptly closed it and it will be returned. I got suckered on this one. I do believe that people are being abducted (this was my first read on the subject). I hope to find a real book on this very interesting topic.

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Summary: FOR THE 80% WHO BELIEVE IN THE TRUTH
Review: Bought & read it yesterday. Entralled by wishful thinking, yet appalled by the use of "truth". This journalist should have submitted his story to the rag publications - not to be in the category of "author". Noticed some blatant tricks of the novel trade, whereby names (when scrambled about) spell out clues to the meaning of the story or character: Gwantelmipsa can unscramble to "a wet sampling" or "I want sample". The first initial of each of the 11 aliens (on the committee)spells out "dark meeting" and the initials of all the committees (pg. 147) when put together, spells out "CIA species of hope" along with such words as "spaceship", and "spoof". Verdant/servant(?). Much wordplay to disclaim his event. Lots of unanswered questions and (in the face of an immense UFO community of people who HAVE lived through contact)a hard-to-believe slap-in-the-face response to his amazing event: "My life has not been transformed..." Food for thought: would "absolute intelligent" beings choose ONE journalist to write a very thin book to sit among the thousand of UFO books, in hopes that we get a global message? (Wouldn't they choose a group from around the globe to unitely undertake the "white paper"`project?)

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Summary: A one source story- It rates an F
Review: In this book, Krapf claims to have been abducted by aliens who tell him that he is one of many people "chosen" to deliver the alien's message of peace and good will to humanity. If you are looking for objectivity- don't look here. Krapf discounts the stories of thousands of abductees, who claim to have been subjected to repeated examinations. He fails to address the accounts of an alien/human breeding and hybridization program involving UNWILLING abductees. In place of the ojective, well researched account one would expect of a seasoned journalist, readers will find a verbatim press release that reads like the pamphlet of some fringe cult. This is blatant disinformation, lacking the who, what, when, where and why of the Basic news story. As an abductee searching for answers, I find this account paticularly offensive. I would recommend instead The Threat, or My Secret Life. Both are written by an Associate Professor of History at Temple University, well researched, and available on this site.

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Summary: The only verifiable truth - this is a poorly written book.
Review: Yet, it is intriguing because it breaks the mold - the author, Phillip Krapf, is told that the era of secret experimental abductions is over. Now, ET WANTS us to believe! Krapf spent many hours in conference with the "Verdants", we are told, and was given a photographic memory for a few weeks to recall his time among them, specifically to write this book. Yet he keeps most of the good information to himself. For example, we are led to believe he used his enhanced memory to copy a list of famous earthlings selected by the Verdants as "Ambassadors." Yet, he divulges no names. Why not? Will they scrap their carefully laid plans if he tells all? To whom does he owe a greater loyalty - his fellow humans, or a race who abducted him against his will, who admit to thousands of other abductions and who are using him to serve their own unknown ends? Come on Phillip, spill ALL the beans. If they want us to believe they're the benevolent race they coaxed you into telling us they are, then name names. Put these "Ambassadors" on the spot, 'cause right now you're the only one on the spot. Or maybe the Verdants are not the real con artists at work here...

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Summary: He's pulling our UFO Mania-leg
Review: Mr.Krapf wins his bet with his LA Times friend. He being a skeptic bet that he could sucker all the UFO believers into buying his made-up story about an abduction. The Verdants ("Little green men"- Get it?) know where the "Pearly Gates" are and they are willing to share the knowledge if we are willing to buy Mr.Krapf's book(s) Surely we will be getting an update soon. A good joke on us!

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Summary: This book is truly pathetic
Review: This book would have been OK as a lightweight piece of fiction.As a book on the subject of UFO's I wish there were a 'no star' rating for this. Krapf introduces an alien race called Verdants who, among other things will instantly turn a 60 square mile desert area of the Southwest into a verdant plain, where they will build a city, which will function as an Intergalactic capital for the Earth zone.Among the achievements of this race is finding Heaven and the "Father" in his heavenly kingdom, and, guess what? there are twelve pearly gates leading into this kingdom.This book deserves a 5* rating for infantile balderdash !!

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Summary: Something different for a change
Review: Tired of the same ol' story? Well don't despair, Phil Krapf has done something that NO other author in the field of alien abduction has ever done before: Tell a logically consistent story from beginning to ending. I'm not saying this is a believable story but I am saying if you are going to tell a lie, at least TRY and tell it well and telling a tale is exactly what Philip does very well! Alien abductee writers, take note! Phil makes no mention of goofy government conspiracies, no badly taken pictures, no nincompoop science, just a well told "true story". From the non-lethal military genius of Gwantelmipsa to the "sweet, charming, gentle, kind," intelligent, sexy Gina (...Gina, I love you!!), Phil humanizes the aliens (the "Verdants") and makes them sound like intelligent characters instead of cartoons. The Verdant's passion for peace will ensure that no hostile earthly civilation will ever enter space without encountering the Verdant equivalent of the Iraqi "no fly zone". Phil also offers something that no one else does and that is verification. While some physical evidence would be nice for once, at least Phil puts his name on the line by providing a timetable in the appendix of his book for when the Verdant's plan to begin their official public contact, starting in the year 2002. If this really does turn out to be a true story, let me be first to welcome the Verdants to earth and my home.

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Summary: If this is true > What are you going to do.
Review: I hope it's true , because our world is in need for some help> > Sunday 27,98 > Stop lQQking, at just this country and lQQk at the hole world,The US has touble here at home and the people oversea are comeing and Blowing us up. .Not Good. . If it's true, don't panic. We might have some of there DNA .You might need this book later on.. > Go Phillip...let's hear from you very soon > real soon ...Verdants ... are they for this World! ?