Millennial Hospitality

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Summary: The most important ET book ever written?
Review: If true, this may be the most amazing story yet told on the subject of Human-ET interaction. There is no mysticism, life affirming-revelations for the Human race, or solutions offered to our worldly problems; just an objective summary of events in which the Tall White aliens turn out to be disarmingly like ourselves, but even more quick to temper and to exact retribution then we are. They may be more rational and clear-thinking than ourselves to have survived long enough to become interstellar travellers, but they cannot be described as being overwhelmingly friendly and benign. How refreshing!

In all 3 books of the Trilogy, I feel the author is telling the story exactly as it is. The previous reviewer makes no comment on the possible significance of the story, but comments only on the style.

If this story is confirmed, then it is of fundamental importance in our understanding of the motivations of the major powers in dealing with (and witholding evidence of?) ETs. I find it of great significance that most of the major revelations of recent years have come not from starry-eyed truth-seekers, but have instead originated from ex-military personnel who got involved from duty rather than choice.

Read all three books, and form your own opinion!

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Summary: Millennial Hospitality (Volume One) Review
Review: The book, "Millennial Hospitality" by Charles James Hall, otherwise known as Charlie Baker in the text, reflects upon his tour of duty at Nellis AFB during the 60s. Although Mr. Hall has many stories to share about his experiences with aliens when he was performing his job as a weather observer, he tends to overuse the convention of dialog and draws out his conversations with a repetitive style that almost annoys the reader. For instance, the chapter "Doxology" could have been completely omitted which would have spared the reader some of this. Mr. Hall also takes every opportunity to convey to his audience that he is a very special man. Perhaps a tad more restraint could have been employed regarding the validity of his own merits. Mr. Hall would have his audience believing that he is the brightest, bravest, most special, and the most level headed man that ever served in the entire history of the US Air Force. Granted, some of his exploits did take a lot of nerve, but he over did his own self-praises by having other people say how amazing he is at every opportunity.

On the bright side, Mr. Hall's experiences with alien life forms are both informative and interesting. He relates several episodes with good ability and there are many stretches in the book that read very well. I especially liked the part concerning the interview with the "neurosurgeon" (336).

It was helpful for me to locate a map of Nellis AFB to get a better idea of the various ranges Charlie worked between as a weather observer. I would have liked to see something like that included in the content of the book. It would have enhanced the text to get an idea of the distances between the different ranges, where much of the alien contact took place. Of special interest to this reader, was the similarity between the writings observed from inside one of the alien scout ships and ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics.

Overall, I liked the book, but it could have been written with more cleverness and with less filler words in the form of repetitive dialog.