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The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials

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This is a great book. What I like about it was that It had a great guide of alien life forms,how they look and people claim they have encounterd. It is a great, fantastic guide!!!

This is an excellent book. Ive never read anything like it. I especially liked the pictures they are great. I can read it over and over again and never stop. I am glad I read that book

For readers intrigued by alleged UFO occupant encounters and close encounters of the third kind, Patrick Huyghe's "The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials" is a fascinating reference that reflects the same academic sensibility on display in "The Field Guide to UFOs." This book is a holistic (and unnerving) rogues' gallery of ETs, categorized according to characteristics and presented in informed, concise chapters. Harry Trumbore's exacting illustrations help bring Huyghe's text to life. "The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials" is as much fun as UFO books get.

I liked the pictures and how he grouped the aliens by type and put their distingusing characteristics their height and the story behind it. I wish there were more books like it. Also I'm not an idiot.

I could not believe there are so many aliens species in the universe, but here they are. Myth, superior beings pantheon or fantasy? It does not matter really, let your imagination run loose and free. It is healthy for your mind. The Field guide to extraterrestrials is a nice companion if you are willing to accept the hypotheses and elaborate theories of the person who wrote this book. Personally, I was amuzed and intrigued. Give it a shot.

I'm not a big UFO-ologist. Both sides of the argument for and against visitors from other planets have good points (see Sagan for and Fermi against.)

The underlying premise of this book is that there are patterns in the human reports of contacts with creatures from UFOs and that looking at the similarities in those patterns can add to the debate.

I suspect the movie "Men in Black" could have been taken from this book, as a fictional elaboration. If one accepts that older planets have civilizations that have mastered interstellar travel, then there could well be some "interstellar eco-tourist network" and even interstellar politics. The latter is hinted at in a couple of the reports in the book.

Even if you remain skeptical, then it is still a fun read with lots of graphic representations.

If you think Earthlings are diverse, we have nothing over the aliens if you believe even only a fourth of the sightings in this book. All we hear about are the greys, but there are far more according to this book. I liked the illustrations and the way the author catalogs the beings. Very cool...probably not in your local library!!