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Extraterrestrial Visitations: True Accounts of Contact

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This book is not a "blockbuster". It is humble and honest rather than sensationalistic. It is short and can easily be read in an afternoon. The author thankfully doesn't spend a lot of time defending his belief in the existence of UFOs. This book is a collection of several reports in the first person of the people who experienced the events. It covers many different types of missing time, sightings, abduction/visitor contacts, alien "exams"...in short, the usual. What I liked about it was that it didn't have a lot of editorializing. It just let the peoples' experiences speak for themselves. I like to read reports such as this because I have experienced several incidences of "high strangeness" in my life and I enjoy comparing notes with others to learn if others have experienced what I have. This book relates the words of average people living normal lives who have been in touch with something they cannot fully explain. It is not going to be found on any best seller list but it is just plain interesting, well paced, well written and fair-minded. It doesn't come across with dire predictions, conspiracy theories or any sweeping statements about the close encounter experience. The author has done the investigating, talked with the people and now shares with the reader so that we can piece this information together with our own understanding and insight. I appreciate it for what it is and recommend it if you are in the process of learning and investigating this phenomenon.

This is a good book for people interested in ufos and abductions. The author has a good style of writing and lets the people who have lived through these experiences, speak for themselves in the book. Preston lets you make up your own mind about the cases, instead of TELLING you what they mean and forcing a particular point of view on you like a lot of books and authors out there (David Jacobs, Stephen Greer, and others).

I for one recommend it.

Near the beginning of the book there is a whole page describing how an object moved - up; down; to the right; then to the left; then up; then down etc. This was done again later on taking up a good portion of the page, and repeating this scenario lesser in other pages.

I do not understand how a person can have an alien implant on the roof of his mouth without him feeling it with his tongue, as a dentist removed it.

I found 5 typos, and a couple of words that did not pertain to anything.

And the reader does not know when the author is talking being that there is not a new paragraph when he does.

In general the book was not well written.

As an overall I think the book needs a rewrite.

Can't say I really recommend this book. I've read a lot of alien-abduction-type-case-study books in the past and this one just didn't do it for me.

One of the most annoying things about these stories are the way they are written. Each chapter starts out with the author giving a short introduction, then goes into the meat of the story as the abductee says it in his/her own words, annoying because of the way they describe it. They seem to feel it necessary to describe the same scene/action/thought over and over again.

There's one page where a woman is describing stopping a car on a highway, I just did it in half a sentence, she does it in a whole page. It goes something like this: We stopped the car. Then I asked myself, "Why are we stopping?" I mean, right there, we just stopped. We pulled over, and stopped there. All of a sudden we're their by the side of the highway, stopped... GOD, it was so annoying, and everyone telling a story in the book does this.

I actually wonder if the author made up all these stories and people, because they all speak in this manner. Besides all that the "case studies" aren't very interesting anyway. If you want to read an interesting book about abduction case studies, read anything by Budd Hopkins.

Luckily, this book was short, it should have been shorter. Most of it could have been cut in at least half and still left the stories intact.