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Summary: A little bit too shallow
Review: The story is more suited for a movie. That would be cool. The concepts are great but the story line is weak. There was one good chapter: Offensive Security. That's the way the entire book should have been written. The items of interest went by too fast and too simplistically.After reading some of the in-depth free stuff on the net, this book was a let down. But since it is one of the "biggies", I reccommend that you buy it too and make up your own mind about the book (not the ideas behind the book).
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Summary: Best book yet about aliens, UFO's, and government cover-ups!
Review: "Alien Rapture, The Chosen," by Edgar Fouche, is the best book yet about aliens, UFO's, and government cover-ups! I could not put this book down. I would submit that Edgar Fouche has answered, if not brought closure, to the most anticipated questions of our time by adroitly weaving fictional characters around the most closely guarded, classified secrets ever! This book far surpasses the myriad others that try to claim factual revelations regarding exobiology. I had the distinct privilege to work for Edgar Fouche. Ed was the Senior Project Manager for a critical USAF undertaking. I've never met a person so well connected in the inner circles of the defense/aerospace arena as Mr. Fouche. Edgar Fouche has an insider's perspective that only a handful of people have, and I know he's probably on the fringe of compromising his oaths of secrecy, jeopardizing very high-level clearances granted by multiple agencies. For this reason I wish him and his loved ones a long, healthy, prosperous, and safe life!
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Summary: The problem was that it had to come to an end.
Review: Reviewer: ... from Lower New York State, USA
The problem was that it had to come to an end. What a bummer! And just when I was about ready for another two or three hundred pages. This fictional work by Fouche and Steiger makes use of many of the major theories concerning UFO and Abduction experiences and mixes in the elements of a secret government cover up and the religious aspects of the problem. These theories are admirably and intricately woven into the story. And so I found it difficult to put it down; most unusual in a market fraught with all manner of less than stimulating productions, many of which proclaim having "The Truth" defining the genre's mysteries. Truth indeed. Even taken as fiction, the "truth" proclaimed in these other works of "fact" bear little resemblance to the believability contained in the "Alien Rapture," And this "is" a work of fiction! Further, there appears to be a good dose of fact in wide use in this book. And to Fouche's credit, his own aerospace and military experience and some good science, is in generous use early on, giving the plot a much higher degree of believability. Whether one is a believer or skeptic, or just interested in a good read, Alien Rapture fits the bill. Just don't forget! It's just a story. Or perhaps it's the 'Thruth that's out there?" Jim Mortellaro, Ph.D.
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Summary: Interesting, yet disappointing
Review: by Conspiracy Corner Fouche has a long career with the US government, the DoD to be exact, from bomb making to intelligence. He says he had a position to come across vast information, which he used in the book, about back engineering technology and using it in Top Secret Stealth aircraft. During this long career, Fouche started looking into the field of ufology and found others, friends that had information and source material that he would use in his fictional rendition of real life. Fouche wrote the book as fiction as to not 'out' his sources, after which he quickly did on the author presentation circuit. The five major sources for the book are men who worked for the NSA and one for the DoD as a defense contractor. One of the men was the person who sent Fouche the MJ-12 documents, in which Fouche believes strongly in. Fouche aslo states that the Alien Autopsy film is a lie wrapped around many truths and the 'Geo' organ and eye lense are proof of that. One of them worked directly on the TR-3B but was 'mind erased' and cannot remember anything about the platform, accept that he has a record of payment and a letter offering him a job. One flew an SR-71 and saw a Foo Fighter. Another worked on warping gravity for tenant orginizations such as NASA and JPL Two of the sources died, one of heart attack, and one from cancer. One disappeared in paranoia. In my opinion, the writing is very amateurish, and the story incorporates an awful lot of New Age mumbo jumbo in it's ending, trying to tie in Christian prophecy to New Age religion and modern day headlines. The story is a ficitonal rendering of what Fouche says he and his friends went on - a quest for the truth. Nothing in the book was very startling information or information that was new and exciting. There were obviously no actual pictures of the TR-3B, which would have been fantastic, just a few of the MJ-12 documents. The book reads like a 'B' Sci Fi movie, with a very predictable plot, and almost contrived ending. If you're looking for good fiction, look elsewhere. If you're looking for damning evidence to support the hypothesis that the US has back engineered alien technology, this really isn't the ticket either. My intention isn't to be mean spirited, but truthful in my honest opinion of the story and writing, as well as the information given. ~CC
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Summary: TS Black Projects in this story have been rumored for years.
Review: I read this terrific book because George Filer, MUFON Eastern Director wrote: It has been rumored for years that the military's black operations have perfected incredibly advanced gravity-defying triangular super secret aerial platforms at least partially derived from ET technology. Proof of such vehicles is in a book entitled Alien Rapture. Tonight, the world's most exotic and classified aerospace vehicle could be stealthily hovering over Phoenix, Belgium, or your city, where hundreds of sightings have been made by reputable citizens and even police officers. It is known as the TR-3B, Astra, or Flying Triangle. Pictures and witness reports on the web are numbered in the thousands. The book reveals, through a superb fiction thriller genre, top secret information about reverse engineered alien technology from recovered alien artifacts. The triangular shaped nuclear powered aerospace platform was developed under the Aurora Program. The hypersonic reconnaissance SR-75 Penetrator replaced the USAF SR-71 spy plane and the TR-3B's (Flying Triangle) first operational flight was in the early 90s. At least three craft costing a billion dollars each were flying by 1994. The TR-3B vehicle's outer coating is reactive to electrical stimulation and can change color, reflectiveness, and radar absorptiveness. The craft can appear as a small aircraft or a flying cylinder. It can trick radar receivers into falsely detecting a variety of aircraft, no aircraft, or aircraft at various locations. A circular, plasma filled accelerator ring called the "Magnetic Field Disrupter" (MFD) surrounds the rotatable crew compartment. Sandia and Livermore laboratories developed the reverse engineered MFD technology. The MFD generates a magnetic vortex field that disrupts or neutralizes the effects of gravity on mass within proximity by 89 percent. This effect enables the craft to outperform and outmaneuver any other aircraft. The myriad sightings of triangular UFOs give this book credibility. MUFON and the National UFO Reporting Center alone have received thousands of sightings of the flying triangle. I highly recommend this book. I liked the technical and secret information sprinkled throughout the book and my wife liked the human story about a man on a quest to find the truth. This story reads like a Michael Crichton novel.
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Summary: The best book I've read in years.
Review: I listened to Edgar Fouche's presentation at the LA MUFON meeting and sat with about twenty other people at a restaurant for a couple of hours after the meeting. No one had a problem telling the difference between his factual experiences and technology which he talks about at his presentations. I've also listened to all his archived radio shows on Rense.com which fascinated me. Alien Rapture on the other hand is filled with information he experienced and gathered from his career in the USAF, DoD, and as a Defense contractor. He divulges much new information on the government UFO cover-up, black programs where reverse engineering of Alien technology takes place and the ultra secret MJ-12 committee. Although the book is written as an incredibly thrilling fiction story, the facts in the book stand on their own. For instance, the factional information was copyrighted by the authors and posted on Mr. Fouche's web page in 1994. Facts about the removable black wrap-around lens covering the Alien's eyes before Corso wrote After Roswell, and before the Government Remake for Disinformation, of the Alien Autopsy was aired on TV. Two years ago the author was talking about black programs using an advanced plasma for propulsion, whish is also in the book. Just recently NASA and the Russians revealed the same. I must confess, I bought my book from Galdepress.com. All this NEW information is woven into the best fiction story I've read in years. Looking at the other reviewers, I'm in good company. Read all of them before you pass judgement. The MJ-12 Charter and Alien Autopsy Report from Roswell are included as attachments. Fouche was the first to reveal them. GREAT fiction and a must buy!
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Summary: Quite interesting and an excellent page turner.
Review: ...After I read Alien Rapture, I felt compelled to let other readers know how much I enjoyed it...I HIGHLY RECOMMEND Alien Rapture to all those who want another piece of the puzzle and some real truths. PS: Read the excerpts from the book, go to Mr. Fouche's site where a lot of information that was not in the book appears, especially his full background and more details about the black programs he worked...
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Summary: Evading Reality, or "Happy days! Happy sky!"
Review: If you are a discerning novel reader - if you appreciate such things as a plausible plot, interesting and believable characters who grow and who have something of the depth of real people, natural dialogue, a skilful use of diction and imagery, and a story that embodies important truths and holds a deep human meaning - you will probably not rate 'Alien Rapture' highly. One problem with this book is that it is too simplistic. The characters are either good guys who are wholly good, or bad guys who are wholly bad, and all are stereotypes. Some of them, such as the fiendish interrogator Raoul Agabarr, sadistic manipulator of the "Aplastacabeza" torture-machine, "the contemporary derivative of the horrible Venetian head crusher" (p.100), are so extreme as to be laughable. Not only are the characters cardboard cutouts, but the dialogue is stilted and unnatural, the diction is amusingly inept, and the story, as presenting us with a black-white vision with no shades of grey, is utterly implausible. If, however, you're not too fussy and like nothing better than to snuggle up with a tale of "a noble handful of stalwart guardians of the American way" (p.28) trying "to deal with the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy [sic]" (p.22), this may be the book for you. It even holds a surprise, but I won't tell you what it is. Although the plot is skilfully constructed, and there is a handful of quite well-crafted and even gripping scenes in the book (Joe's underwater experience in the Gulf of Tonkin; the arrival of the giant alien spacecraft at the secret Nevada airbase; the aliens' foiling of the nuclear attack on the "Chosen," etc.); and although it contains some rather interesting documents about the aliens, and about the ULTRA TOP SECRET MJ-12 shadow government that has known of their existence all along (documents that are alleged to be authentic), the vision of the redemption of the "Chosen" that the book closes with seems to me to be mere wishful thinking. Everywhere one looks today, one finds so many who are afflicted with what may be called the "Happy days! Happy sky!" syndrome. They are persons who cannot bear to think that they are not really good guys, that they are not of supreme value in the universal scheme of things. They cannot bear to think that their world, and the cosy, comfortable, well-provided life they are leading might, at some point, be brought to an abrupt end. They have shut their eyes to the sufferings of the world and its creatures, to the tyrrannies, wars, famines, poverty, disease, and exploitation which rage elsewhere. They have shut their eyes to the global spoliation brought about by their over-indulgent lifestyle. They have banded together to chant in unison, over and over again, the comforting mantra: "Happy days! Happy sky!" Their fear is so profound that it has cut them off from reality. A psychiatrist might even conclude they were insane. Given a preponderance of such persons, is it any wonder that the alien meanies in this book should turn out in the end to be good guys, really great guys who love us and who have come to benefit us and raise the human race to a higher level? How could a book that aims to be popular end otherwise? How dare it even suggest that, in the eyes of others, we may not be quite so loveable as we like to think? And if the aliens are such great guys, why is the government having to reverse engineer their technology? Why didn't the aliens simply give it to us in the first place? 'Alien Rapture' may be an entertaining read. The authors have clearly worked hard, and it's a better yarn than most of us could spin, but it seems to me a book that tells us much more about our current evasion of reality than about aliens.
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Summary: LONG WAY, SHORT DRINK WATER.
Review: I spent quite some time hunting this book down after beinghooked by all the "science-faction" hype, and thesensational reviews on Amazon.com. I love good fiction and am seriously interested in UFOlogy. Unfortunately, I was let down in all areas, and a Jackson lighter in the pocket. For starters, the writing is mediocre pulp at best. Bottom line, anyone here who says this is "great writing" doesn't know great writing. The editing is suprisingly shoddy with multiple grammatical and spelling errors. The characters are a notch above stereotype. The plot line has sonar pings coming off it from ten miles out. Other than the TR-3B craft information, I found nothing new anywhere between the covers. All in all, this is the kind of book that you accidentally spill suntan oil on during your summer beach vacation. With that said, however, UFOology research does seem to reach a point of diminishing returns much like heroin addiction. You're always looking for the next "lid-blowing" revelation, the next big fix. So, for those who aren't so steeped in the field, and aren't bothered by mediocre writing this might be just the ticket. To be honest, certain books that blew me away several years ago now seem trite. It's like the comedian says to the young drunk kid in the crowd, "Yeah, I remember when I had my first beer, too. Keep drinkin', kid."
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Summary: Disappointed
Review: After all the positive reviews I was ready to submerge myself into a well crafted novel that would expose an imaginative , and enlightening theory of the rapture, aliens, and the like. I found neither. The writing is amateurish at best. The author has no ear for dialog, and no sense of drama, or suspense. What can I say of the "revelations?" The authors mistake accusation for proof. They drop names, put forth a rehash of already known "incidents," and season the brew with a pinch of religion. (A little bit of each of the major faiths: prophets, re-incarnation, pantheism, miracles, universal consciousness... -and I'm making it sound far more exciting that it is) Somehow the result is a very bland book , as these elements seem to subtract instead of adding to a story. I'm very fond of this forum that Amazon provide for us, and I make use of it a lot for choosing my readings. This is the first time that my expectations fell way out of base. May be conspiracy and quality don't need to go together...
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