5000 years of UFO's : Are we really alone? [Paperback]

Jim Hickman (Author)

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Publication Date: April 5, 2001

Jim Hickman has written a book about his adventures as one of the leading UFO researchers in the world, he add his special humor and insight into real UFO sightings and reports, Jim also covers the history of UFO's going back to before the Egyptians.

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In “5000 years of UFOs” Jim Hickman establishes Ufology as a legitimate field of science. -- The University of South Carolina journal 4/2001

About the Author

Jim is currently working as a staff consultant with CAUS, Attorney Peter Gersten’s Citizens Against UFO Secrecy. In the past Jim was the Vice-President of Skywatch International Inc., the largest Internet based UFO research group in the world. He had held that position for many years.

Jim has been active as a researcher into UFO’s since 1963.

He has appeared on many radio shows including The Laura Lee show, The Cybercity show, The 21 Century Radio Show with Bob Hieronimus, the Jeff Rense show, the Art Bell show, the Jerry Pippen show, and of course, is featured weekly on Rob McConnell’s X-Zone radio show.

Jim has literately written the book on UFO Investigations. He has trained over 100 field investigators who are actively working around the world taking UFO reports. He, along with author Chris O’brien wrote the Skywatch International UFO spotters handbook.

Jim also does considerable speaking at UFO conferences and recently spoke on Flying Triangles at the UFO museum in Roswell, New Mexico and Jim working on his first book, to be published soon.

Jim's is currently active with his weekly “The Hickman Report” radio interviews, he has interviewed everyone from Stanton Friedman to Lloyd Pye, and his weekly articles are widely published both at CAUS and at “Sightings” websites.

“The Hickman Report” is one of the highest rated shows out there; our current numbers for the last ratings period were an incredible 59% market share, with 84 stations in our listening area.

Product Details

• Paperback: 381 pages
• Publisher: PublishAmerica (April 5, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1588513831
• ISBN-13: 978-1588513830
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 6.6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,596,478 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Not Satisfying, July 27, 2006

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R. Gray (Rochester, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 5000 years of UFO's : Are we really alone? (Paperback)

Once again Jim Hickman's book "5000 years of UFO's" is a misleading title. (I thought his book "The Rancher's Nightmare" was also a misleading title.) Most of the UFO incidences reported are from about 1850's to present. There is only one mention of a UFO anywhere close to 5000 years ago. And that is in the "Hoax" chapter, so shouldn't count. This is certainly not a look at UFOs starting some 5000 years ago. One report is from about the year 1250 (exact date I don't remember).

Also, the writing style and book format is hard to read. The reports are very short and not very detailed. It gets very tedious to read "Mr. X saw a Disk shaped UFO on (date) while he was (fill in activity). Mr. Y saw a disk UFO on (date) while (fill in activity)." And on and on.... (There is a little more filled in but that's the feel of it after a while.) It's not filled out.

And not in any chronological order.

And sometime hard to tell if Mr. Hickman is writing or if the text is from someone else's report.

Although lots of UFO incidences are mentioned, its hard to stay interested as one seems pretty much the same as another with no new significant details.