R&D

It is time to acknowledge that the extraterrestrial theory (which assumes that UFOs are spacecraft piloted by beings from another planet who conduct a survey of the earth), a hypothesis that seemed the best avenue of research in the years following World War II, contradicts at least five major facts:

  1. The total number of close encounters far exceeds the requirements for a sophisticated survey of our planet.
  2. The appearance of the UFO operators is overwhelmingly humanoid: they breathe our air and display recognizable emotions. Not only does this make an extraterrestrial origin very dubious, but it implies that the operators are not making use of genetic engineering to optimize a space mission, as interstellar travelers presumably would under the extraterrestrial hypothesis model.
  3. The reports regarding abductions display behavioral patterns on the part of the operators that contradict the idea of a scientific, medical, or genetic experiments. Simpler, more effective methods are already available in earth-based science to accomplish all the alleged objectives of these Aliens.
  4. The patterns of close encounters, contacts, and abductions are not specific to our century, contrary to what most American ufologists have assumed. In fact, it is difficult to find a culture that does not have a tradition of little people that fly through the sky and abduct humans. Often they take their victims into spherical settings that are evenly illuminated, and they subject them to various ordeals that include operations on internal organs and astral trips to unknown landscapes. Sexual or  genetic interaction is a common theme in this body of folklore.
  5. Both the UFOs and their operators are able to materialize and dematerialize on the spot and to penetrate physical obstacles. The objects are able to merge together and to change shape dynamically.

As an alternative to the extraterrestrial hypothesis, I propose to regard the UFO phenomenon as a physical manifestation of a form of consciousness that is alien to humans but is able to coexist with us on the earth.

— From Confrontations: A Scientist’s Search for Alien Contact by Jacques Vallee

Reviews

Ashtar: Revealing the Secret Program of the Forces of Light and Their Spiritual Program for Earth

Tuella

Tuella, a mousy little woman as unassuming as Ruth Norman was extravagant (and who probably bakes a mean Christmas cookie assortment), channels space beings so cute and cuddly and nice they make E.T. look like “Alien” in comparison. Commander Ashtar is either an “Archangel” or “Space Commander” (nobody knows for sure) “directly under the sponsorship of Lord Michael and the Great Central Sun Government of this galaxy, and is second only to the Beloved Commander Jesus-Sananda in responsibility for the airborne division of the Brotherhood of Light.” “Widely known in UFO channeling circles for three decades,” Ashtar’s message is often obscure but generally characterized by a standard soft ‘n’ fuzzy call for an end to all naughty bad things like the H-Bomb, and the subsequent ushering in of a “Golden New Age of Enlightenment” or something equally boring sounding. DB

Publisher: Inner Light
Paperback: 160 pages
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Behold a Pale Horse

Bill Cooper

This volume, written by a former member of the Intelligence Briefing Team of the commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet, who is already famous on the talk-radio/lecture circuit, has truly become a sensation in the slow-moving world of conspiracy books. At first, Behold a Pale Horse would seem to bring together the strands of Trilateral/Council on Foreign Relations/Bilderberg/New World Order/Illuminati monitoring with Alternative 3/MJ-12 UFO paranoia about “government cover-ups” into one scary scenario.
But at times, Cooper—the man who stared down the Men-in-Black and lived to write a book—leaves the reader in a perilous state of uncertainty by revealing his own doubts regarding extraterrestrial reports. After spinning a fascinating web—which includes forcible depopulation by the Club of Rome through AIDS; fomenting civil wars in high population-growth countries like El Salvador; tobacco fields fertilized with radioactive trailings to increase cancer rates; details of secret moon bases where a hushed-up altercation between Soviet and American personnel actually became violent; the lowdown on Mount Weather where a stand-in federal government is housed in a vast underground city; documentation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s contingency plans to rule the U.S. by martial law and draconian unconstitutional drug-war laws; reports of how Ike foolishly turned to Nelson Rockefeller for help in solving the problem of dealing with alien landings in 1953; and even unmasking Whitley Strieber (author of Communion and Majesty) as a CIA agent— Cooper still seems less than confident about how to interpret his own findings. As he puts it, “There is always the possibility that I was used, that the whole alien scenario is the greatest hoax in history designed to create an alien enemy from outer space in order to expedite the formation of a one-world government… I advise you to consider this scenario as being probable.”
This does not prevent him from accusing Vicki Cooper, editor of UFO magazine, of once being part of the Mayflower Madam’s hooker operation and being forced to move to L.A. and start the magazine in a deal to get out of a long jail term. A firm believer in the premises of Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Cooper reprints a version of the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion in its entirety but then notes that one should substitute “‘Sion’ for ‘Zion’, ‘Illuminati’ for ‘Jews’, and ‘cattle’ for ‘goyim.’”
“Could it be that Congress knows the whole thing and won’t touch it? Are they among the select who have been picked for the Mars Colony when the Earth begins to destruct, if the Earth is going to destruct?” That’s a hard call, Bill. SS

Publisher: Light Technology
Paperback: 500 pages

Casebook on Alternative 3: UFOs, Secret Societies and World Control

Jim Keith

Nearly 20 years ago, British television aired Alternative 3, a bewildering exposé on the world’s elite constructing a secret space- travel and colonization program to escape our doomed Earth. Although it was revealed as an April Fool’s joke (in a program which aired months too late), the info contained chilling similarities to covert operations in effect today. As author Keith postulates, “Alternative 3 points to, if in a clumsy and unbelievable fashion, the deadly alignment of technology and elitist control… [it] may not be true at all, in the sense of a revealed scripture, but only as a persuasive metaphor for totalitarian control in the manner of Orwell’s 1984.” Keith discusses data from Alternative 3 and immediately refutes it, then offers stranger real-life parallels (he reveals the “murdered scientists” working on Alternative 3 were all fictitious, but then ticks off a list of real scientists killed under most suspicious circumstances). One would like to dismiss Keith as a crackpot, simply because of the horrors he unfolds, but given the cool, collected way in which he presents his data and the logical conclusions he comes to, it may be time to get nervous.
Learn how our spy establishment and the CIA act as “little more than the private army of the Fortune 500” and are “often designed to violate international law and to trample human rights.” Get the skinny on CIA mind control of television, LSD, CIA-funded eugenics experiments, human cloning and 70,000 cattle mutilations. Was Jonestown the prototype of an African-American extermination program? Are birth control, AIDS, bio-warfare and man-made UFOs all part of some covert, loosely connected conspiracy to control the planet? Certainly the suppression of the Third World is: “The Third World is being forcefully relieved of natural resources and exploited for cheap labor, and is in fact seen… as maintaining maximum profitability as long as it’s kept in abject poverty.”
Casebook explores our preoccupation with WWII, parallels to Nazi actions (such as the CIA psycho-chemical experiments conducted on American enlisted men—some involving Nazi nerve gases), and Nazi involvement in more credible realms (war criminal Werner von Braun was instrumental in our early space program). In the last chapter, Keith admits his immense reluctance to acknowledge the Nazi connections but “in reshaping the totalitarian control during this century I saw the plans of the Nazis manifestly did not die with the German loss of World War II. The ideology and many of the principle players survived and flourished after the war, and have had a profound impact on postwar history, and on events taking place today… Nazi interests have been entwined with other totalitarian control mechanisms of the world, with the intelligence, police and psychiatric establishments, with eugenics and genetic research, as well as with the plans of moneyed elites.” SK

Publisher: IllumiNet
Paperback: 160 pages

The Commander X Files

Commander X

Earth is on the fast track to annihilation, caught between good ’n’ evil alien forces, these primarily being the evil Grays (and Dracos) of popular legend, and the benevolent Nordics, a non-aggressive confederation of human and non-human races. Commander X continues the Nazi-UFO collaboration story, although his version has the Nazis infiltrating the U.S. spy and space agencies through the Grays’ string-pulling. E.T.s respect us, the author claims, because our auras are proportionately larger than theirs. Is this why they’re trying to breed with us, so that they may “experience human emotions” as they have none of their own? X frequently makes reference to Inner Light Publications—one is always wary of authors who reference themselves (or other authors on the same press) for facts.
Fancifully illustrated, including a handful of goodies like hand-drawn maps to Area 51 and the Dulce Air Force Base and a transcript of Commander X’s entertaining hypnosis sessions. The last chapter reprints various classified documents, mostly pertaining to UFOs, and newspaper reprints, mostly pertaining to bio-warfare. Plus an Alternative 3 document based around a certain Mr. X (the, ahem, Antichrist), who, besides orchestrating all wars and political and social strife in all countries, plans to run the world on nuclear energy. This, the most devious Satanic ploy, is just a “simple chore for Mr. X.” Printed only on one side of the page, this weighty tome has only half the information you might expect. SK

Publisher: Inner Light
Paperback
Illustrated

The Controllers

Commander X

Some researchers believe the Government has been producing fake UFO material and releasing it to the public in an effort to confuse the multifaceted alien issue. This thin volume by the prolific Commander X (also the title of an alien abductions book by Martin Cannon) is a exemplary candidate for impostor status.
Ostensibly about the “strange, parallel race that has complete control of our educational processes, the media and is a dominant influence over all worldly governments,” The Controllers ping-pongs between hidden races from hominoid saurians to chaneques (Mexican gnomes), but the most pages are devoted to alien breeding programs. It is probably the only book to acknowledge the Tesla free-energy scam and masturbate over far-flung extra-terrestrial theories. They seem to be mutually exclusive. What does this spell? Immense entertainment and, very likely, little fact.
The “Alien Babies” chapter, concerning the Grays’ cross-breeding program, is most amusing: “Hey, I know you guys need sperm. Why don’t you come back in six months.” After the handmaid and her crones have come to visit, the desire for the E.T. lady puts X’s relationship with his inferior girlfriend in jeopardy: “‘I’ve always had a lot of sexually based guilt…’” After his anger dissipates, he becomes “proud of [his] new status as a father of space kids…” and reflects upon his impotency, which “may have been influenced by the E.T.s’ suctioning off my sexual energies, but the root cause [of my dysfunction] was that I didn’t want to share my seed with [my girlfriend]…” Later he describes the astral visits to his “space kids,” and how he tries to connect with them by playing Yanni(!). Throw in some discordant passages about ritual Satanic abuse, secret cities under Death Valley and Nazi occultism, with all the naughty bits emphasized in CAPITALS and you’ve got Commander X. The book makes reference to the Amok Fourth Dispatch, so it can’t be completely fraudulent. SK

Publisher: Inner Light
Paperback: 111 pages
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Cosmic Patriot Files: Volume One

Edited by Commander X

Take any run-of-the-mill conspiracy theorist, shoot him or her up with crystal meth daily for a year and you’ll wind up with a pretty good approximation of Commander X—still, you could never improve upon the perfection of the original. In this, his two-volume magnum opus, the Commander offers up for the less demanding reader a farrago of startling notions and beliefs, unlikely chronologies, urban myths cloaked in the robes of True Fact, thrilling accounts of Those Who Went Too Far, and justifications for every kind of nitwittery per-petrated in print during the last 50 years.
Whenever the Commander wants to make especially noteworthy points—once or twice a page, on average—he hits “shift” and caps everything for paragraphs at a time, making you feel as if a stranger is sitting next to you on the subway, bellowing in your ear about his fillings. When you read that in 1979 “66 Americans [were] killed by [neosauroid] alien Grays” you imagine, fleetingly, that the Commander might choose to offer some proof along with his proposition, if only accidentally, but no such luck. No matter—if you see it in print, it must be true. Occasional lapses in spelling—”swine flue,” for example, or “glasnose”—in no way damage the reader’s appreciation of the Commander’s inimitable efforts. Text is printed on only one side of each page, making it look as if the reader is getting twice as much material as is really there. Bound in a sturdy electrical-tape-like substance. In short, a winner. JW

Publisher: Inner Light
Paperback: 75 pages

Cosmic Patriot Files: Volume Two

Edited by Commander X

Take any run-of-the-mill conspiracy theorist, shoot him or her up with crystal meth daily for a year and you’ll wind up with a pretty good approximation of Commander X—still, you could never improve upon the perfection of the original. In this, his two-volume magnum opus, the Commander offers up for the less demanding reader a farrago of startling notions and beliefs, unlikely chronologies, urban myths cloaked in the robes of True Fact, thrilling accounts of Those Who Went Too Far, and justifications for every kind of nitwittery per-petrated in print during the last 50 years.
Whenever the Commander wants to make especially noteworthy points—once or twice a page, on average—he hits “shift” and caps everything for paragraphs at a time, making you feel as if a stranger is sitting next to you on the subway, bellowing in your ear about his fillings. When you read that in 1979 “66 Americans [were] killed by [neosauroid] alien Grays” you imagine, fleetingly, that the Commander might choose to offer some proof along with his proposition, if only accidentally, but no such luck. No matter—if you see it in print, it must be true. Occasional lapses in spelling—”swine flue,” for example, or “glasnose”—in no way damage the reader’s appreciation of the Commander’s inimitable efforts. Text is printed on only one side of each page, making it look as if the reader is getting twice as much material as is really there. Bound in a sturdy electrical-tape-like substance. In short, a winner. JW

Publisher: Inner Light
Paperback: 72 pages

Cosmic Top Secret: America’s Secret UFO Program

William F. Hamilton III

“There is,” says the author, “a growing feeling that the top-secret, compartmentalized projects within the military industrial complex are working on extremely advanced supertechnology based upon a study of alien artifacts and hardware found in various UFO crashes. Witnesses in growing numbers have reported seeing UFOs being tested above a Nevada test site, and film crews have videotaped strangely maneuvering brilliant objects that appear at scheduled times during the wee hours.”

Publisher: Inner Light
Paperback: 144 pages
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Extraterrestrials in Biblical Prophecy and the New Age Great Experiment

G. Cope Schellhorn

Is this the sort of thing some retired English professors do instead of gardening? Schellhorn reprints Bible passages (taken from the Revised Standard Version), examines them and points out the blindingly obvious references to sky gods, their spacecraft and super powers. He “attempts to explain interrelationship between ancient and present UFOs and scriptural prophecy” in relation to the modern age. Is our existence just some “grand experiment”? Are the fiery sky gods in many creation myths more than hyperbole? Have the “end times” commenced with WW II, ushering in a tremendous increase in UFO sightings? Will mankind be tested in trials by fire—with the Messiah and his extraterrestrial host standing by to offer assistance to those who listen? Has there been some kind of flagrant conspiracy among scientists and religious scholars to avoid the implications of the extensive and compelling data? They certainly won’t champion this book, but that’s no reason not to pray to the heavens next time you’re in a fix. SK

Publisher: Horus House
Paperback: 427 pages
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Fire in the Sky: The Walton Experience — The Best Documented Case of Alien Abduction Ever Recorded

Travis Walton

“The only facial feature that didn’t appear underdeveloped were those incredible eyes! Those glistening orbs had brown irises twice the size of those of a normal human’s eyes, nearly an inch in diameter! The iris was so large that even parts of the pupils were hidden by the lids, giving the eyes a certain catlike appearance. There was very little of the white part of the eye showing. They had no lashes and no eyebrows.
“The occasional blink of their eyes was strikingly conspicuous. Their huge lids slid quickly down over the glassy bubbles of their eyes, then flipped open again like the release of roll-up window shades. These huge, moist, lashless eyes and the milky translucence of their skin made their appearance slightly reminiscent of a cave salamander. But strangely, in spite of my terror, I felt there was also something gentle and familiar about them. It hit me. Their overall look was disturbingly like that of a human fetus!”

Publisher: Marlowe
Hardback: 370 pages
Illustrated