Alien Impact [Mass Market Paperback]

Michael Craft (Author)

Book Description

Series: Alien Impact | Publication Date: September 1997

"Alien Impact" is an extraordinary collection of the strange, the impossible, and the incredible. A researcher and teacher, Michael Craft explores nearly every story, report, rumor, and conspiracy theory. Written with both the skeptical inquirer and the confirmed believer in mind, readers can judge for themselves. Martin's Press.

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Amazon.com Review

"Over the past 25 years I have witnessed a fair number of strange objects in the sky," writes Michael Craft of the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies in Alien Impact. He's not the only one. His book recounts the surfeit of reports of visits by extraterrestrial beings, as evidenced by everything from animal mutilations to bizarre abductions, unexplained pregnancies, and abnormal births. Not all aliens are bad, however. The increase in reports of angel sightings is also evidence of the presence of more benevolent visitors from outer space, says Craft. His conclusion: "Humanity's oldest friends in the U.F.O.'s are along with us for the ride." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Publishers Weekly

A compendium of the strange, Craft's first book, like the work of the 19th-century journalist Charles Fort, whom Craft credits, attempts not so much to explain the phenomenon of human-alien contact as to find it everywhere. It is all here: UFOs and chariots of fire; aliens and angels; channeling, the bigfoot and ley lines; crop circles, animal mutilation, the Philadelphia experiment, the Halls of Atlantis, Alistair Crowley, dwarfs and shamanism. Craft, the program coordinator at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, seems to have applied little method other than intuition in considering the most famous strange things that ever happened as aspects of a single phenomenon. At first he appears simply to conflate interplanetary hardware and religious concepts of inner space. The deeper into the past one goes, the more the "gods" look like spacemen, but the closer to the present one approaches, the more "aliens" appear to be parapsychological phenomena. Whether by design or chance, this technique has the effect of drawing the reader along in search of the author's perspective. That is duly delivered in the final chapters of this entertaining but scarcely analytical book. UFOs and aliens, we learn, appear to be psychic phenomena, yet they seem less like simple mental projections than like evidence of a "directed intelligence" that is intent upon "deconstructing" perceived reality, apparently for reasons to be announced.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 332 pages
• Publisher: St Martins Mass Market Paper (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312962878
• ISBN-13: 978-0312962876
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,944,132 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A nearly perfect overview of the UFO phenomenon., April 8, 1998

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This review is from: Alien Impact (Mass Market Paperback)

Mr. Craft has been there, done that. This wonderful book gives you a solid overview of the phenomenon like no other I've seen, including Jacques Vallee. Aliens, angels, witches, "demons," the whole sociological/biological/psychological and all the other "-logical" takes are covered here in entertaining and informative detail. There is much more to the UFO phenomenon than you think, and Craft covers most of it. A few areas overlooked by the author are disturbing, since they relate directly to the subject: 1.) mind control technology and players, quite human, who perhaps use "UFOs" as covers for nefarious research and development (a quick cross-reference to the Human Potential Foundation's sponsorship of two Russian mind-control experts for a U.S. demonstration a few years ago, for example), and 2.) an underlying philosophical "darkside" component of the phenomenon that connects through Jungian "volkish" theory (see the book The Jung Cult for exquisite details) right through M.I.T.'s 1970s studies that led to publication of the books World Dynamics, and Limits To Growth, as a basis for manipulation of social myopia concerning "eco-politics." A more comprehensive exploration of some of the high level players, particularly many of the world's social/financial elite would have better rounded out the book. An examination of some affiliated players, from "The Unicorn" to "Heaven's Gate" to the "Solar Temple" would also have provided appropriate background for those seekers who may not realize the potential toxic nature of some of the related phenomena. These are severe oversights. And yet, this book is a great start. I've written two books about UFOs, but would like to have written this one!

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars UFO, monsters, and general nut-jobs, March 8, 2009

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This review is from: Alien Impact (Paperback)

I tried to approach this book with an open mind and, to the author's credit, he does put a lot of effort into trying to make a reasonable and objective presentation, but the giggle-factor was just too overwhelming. Basically, AI is a 101 introduction into all things UFO, paranormal, and crypto; really a survey without much substance. (Although, I did find the chapter on ancient mythology to be kind of interesting).

I suppose that if you're a "true believer," then everything in this book will be accepted as dogma. To the undecieded (much less out-right skeptical), AI does a poor job of making its case. It dances over various subjects with no real analysis (which, I suppose, is inevitable since this stuff is 99% speculation/fantasy anyway). Sadly, the world is filled with mental ill and emotionall disturbed people (not to mention outright frauds) who find ghosts and UFOs to be fertile territory. (And, yes, if you find that comment offensive, then it's probably directed at you.)

Not recommended.