Contact of the 5th Kind [Paperback]

Philip J. Imbrogno (Author), Marianne Horrigan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 8, 2002

An investigation into claims of alien contact and abductions

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Philip Imbrogno (Connecticut) is a recognized authority in the field of UFO research. He has been interviewed by The New York Times and Coast to Coast AM, has appeared on NBC's The Today Show and The Oprah Winfrey Show, and has been featured in documentaries on the History Channel, A&E, Lifetime, and HBO. Imbrogno worked closely with many top UFO investigators, including Dr. J. Allen Hynek and Bud Hopkins. He has been a science educator for the past 30 years.

Product Details

• Paperback: 272 pages
• Publisher: Llewellyn Publications; 1st edition (September 8, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1567183611
• ISBN-13: 978-1567183610
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #840,894 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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32 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Highly intriguing evidence, but conclusions leap too far, November 13, 1998

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This review is from: Contact of the 5th Kind (Paperback)

There is a deep tone of honesty and directness in this book, akin to that of Jenny Randles, and the evidence is presented directly, often in direct quotations from eyewitnesses. There is some reliance on hypnotically extracted accounts of abductions (never to be trusted too closely), but not enough to dissuade us from seeing that something is going on. The question is still: "What is it?" The authors leap well beyond the evidence they've offered in trying to answer this, with the tired and culturally-conditioned answered "Pleiadeans" and "genetic manipulation" and "weapons technology" answers.

There are surely deeper answers, perhaps even deeper than human comprehension, and the Imbrogno/Horrigan answers often border on the silly.

Do intense electrical fields open interdimensional doors? If so, then stars and black holes must be utterly bewildering confusions of dimensional interleaving. Has American weaponry put ET's technology to use? If so, how come we still go to war with battleships and bombers instead of "appearing", irradiating, and vanishing?

The authors admit to being believers. I believe, too, that thousands of highly credible witnesses cannot be lying, and I believe they have seen something non-human. But Imbrogno/Horrigan have not presented the detailed additional evidence that would permit the rather more outrageous elements that percolate through their conclusions.

By the way, they confess to being materially delayed in researching the Belgian Air Force sightings because they were documented (gasp!) in French. Good researchers should have several tools available, including a few foreign languages or at least a friend or two who can handle Europe's second-most-common language and North America's third-most-common. This complaint was out of place in a book claiming to do intelligent research. Get with it, folks!

11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Disappointing Effort From an Author Who Has Done Better, September 16, 2002

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Trent Rollow (Seal Beach, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Contact of the 5th Kind (Paperback)

Imbrogno and Horrigan spend more time in this book covering wild goose chases in upstate New York caves and government efforts to muddy the UFO waters than they do actually exposing CIA skullduggery. The early chapters cover a in interesting if not unique take on the connection between UFOs and paranormal or occultic phenomena: certain stone structures reminiscent of Druids or Celts seem to be at the epicenters of UFO sightings and "high strangeness" encounters with the paranormal. The claim is made,that an interdimensional "fault line" exists between a number of these structures. Sadly, no maps, dates, physiacal readings or density distributions are offered to support this claim as the book descends into the usual whining about government cover-ups and conspiracies with an alien intelligence. After years of mostly anecdotal claims of an alien-occultic connection, some real data showing a connection between certain geographical locations, physical anamolies, and UFO/paranormal activity would have been welcomed by many lay readers. The fact that Imbrogno has some scientific training in his education makes this omission all the more painful. The pie charts and graphs in the back are more or less a rehash of several works and authors, and probably would get a junior high report a passing grade, but remember that this author did a good, solid job on his "Night Siege" work in the late eighties. I found this work to be well below the standard set back then.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Contact of 5th Kind, August 19, 2010

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This review is from: Contact of the 5th Kind (Paperback)

This is an extremely fascinating book. Having read Philip Imbrogno's other books, It was great to go back and read this one and learn more about the research he had done years before.