Planet X: The Coming of the Guardians

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Summary: The Aliens To The Rescue
Review: Commander X's "Planet X: The Coming of the Guardians" is proof positive that good things come in small packages. Despite its diminutive size, the book contains a wealth of information on the mysterious Planet X, from both ancient and modern sources, as well as providing a chilling warning about the inevitable havoc the planet's passage would have on the solar system and Earth in particular.

The basic premise is this: numerous scientists over the past several decades have claimed to have discovered a tenth planet in our solar system, located well beyond Pluto, currently the farthest out of the nine known planets. This tenth planet takes an approximate 3,600 years to complete its orbit around the sun and is thus not widely known to mainstream modern astronomers because of the great distances involved in detecting it. It is only through calculating the wobbles of other nearby heavenly bodies that Planet X has been presumed to exist at all.

Meanwhile, as astronomers in our present age struggle to bring Planet X into focus, the ancient Sumerians 6000 years ago already knew of the planet's existence and documented it in their cuneiform records. This fact was initially discovered by Zecharia Sitchin, who wrote a series of classic books on the subject of the alien origins of life on this planet as revealed in ancient religious scriptures. The Sumerians regarded Planet X as one of the gods, and it appears in later cosmologies as similarly mythically powerful.

Having established the existence of Planet X, the book moves on to offer some dire warnings as to what effect the planet would have were it to plough through the solar system on the return leg of its orbit after more than 3000 years out of sight. Freak weather, earthquakes, volcanoes, the usual apocalyptic scenarios are all predicted. This is perhaps the reason the government allegedly keeps the whole subject under wraps. Commander X even discusses the possibility that the loss of several French astronomers in a 1999 cable car crash may have been part of an effort to keep the threat of Planet X a secret from an unsuspecting world.

And is there a solution to all the future doom and gloom Commander X describes?

Perhaps our only hope in the face of mass extinction by the blundering Planet X would be benevolent aliens who intervene on our behalf, the "Guardians" of the book's title. While there are obviously no prior occurrences of the aliens saving the world en masse, the book nevertheless argues quite convincingly that there is a long history of miraculous intervention by the aliens--healing of the sick, rescuing the endangered, even breaking up a large meteor before it struck the Earth. All those stories are recounted by Commander X, and each is fascinating in its own right.

Some of the sources used by Commander X predict that Planet X could arrive as soon as this year, while other put it decades or even centuries down the line. William Kern, who contributes an excellent historical section to the book's final pages, puts the date even farther into the future--3751 AD!

We can't know the future of Planet X, or even take for granted its existence, but the engrossing combination of myth, astronomy and skillful speculation offer in "Planet X: The Coming of the Guardians" makes for fascinating reading. Commander X, who is nearly as mysterious as the planet he writes about, has done it again.

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Summary: I CANT BELIEVE WE ARE ON THE EVE OF DISTRUCTION
Review: IS PLANET X ABOUT READY TO STRIKE THE EARTH? Predictions of the end of the world are pretty old hat to anyone who has read up on the supposed END TIMES in which it is said we live. Prophets of gloom and doom and numbered in the dozens -- not withstanding Nostradamus who is quoted widely, as well as chapter and verse from the Holy Bible. But this time we could be in deep do do if Planet X really does exist and circles the solar system every ten thousand years or so. Some authorities claim that Planet X is on the way and there is little we can do about its arrival; and that even a close brush with Earth could cause the death of millions from all over the world. A number of books have recently been written on the subject; this is the only one, however, that offers a way out... Commander X suggested that a group of aliens known as the GUARDIANS might possibly destroy Planet X before it can enter the earth's atmosphere. He offers as "proof" numerous incidents in which UFOs have shot at and destroyed large bodies just before they were to crash into the earth and kill many. Perhaps one such episode transpired in Siberia nearly a century ago. Commander X summs up the subject quite well in easy to understand language. This is a work you should own.