Although books, films, and TV continue to address the UFO phenomenon, there has been no satisfactory photographic evidence until now. Here, two witnesses give an absolutely riveting first-person account of the Gulf Breeze UFO sightings. 70 color photographs.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Bubba Exposed,
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This review is from: The Gulf Breeze Sightings (Paperback)
I read this book many years ago and revisited it when I returned to Gulf Breeze last summer. As a former resident of Gulf Breeze, I can say with certainty that there were strange things in the skies in the early 90's. I never saw the exact craft that Ed had taken umpteen photos of, but I saw my share of fighter jets chasing glowing orbs, and I had a real good daylight sighting of a pulsating reddish-orange sphere at treetop level.I came late to the Ed Walters story, as the events depicted in this book coincided exactly with my freshman year at FSU in Tallahassee. I moved back to Gulf Breeze in 1988 and heard the stories from a friend of mine who was a good friend to Ed's family. I was sold that my friend (Patrick Hanks in the book) was convinced of the authenticity of Ed's story. He offered strange tales from Ed's past that I would later read in Ed's second book. He seemed truly perplexed and never hinted that the whole thing was a big joke. Later, he was visited in Chicago by "the authorities" and vowed never to talk about it again. There are many UFO abduction stories in print. What makes this story interesting, aside from the fact that it occurred in my home town, is the unprecedented siege laid upon Walters by the UFO. Most abductees see a light in the sky that descends on them, then the next thing they know they are in hypnotic regression therapy, spewing forth details of their abduction. Walters was literally under siege by the aliens. He would hear voices in his head telling him to step forward so that he could be brought aboard, but he consistently refused, dodging the blue beam, and incessantly snapping photos then ducking for cover. This went on for months and meanwhile everybody in town was seeing UFO's nightly. This was the first close encounter case in the annals of ufology that allowed for an investigation to take place while the sightings were still occurring. MUFON gave Walters a stereoscopic camera that used dual lenses to take photos so that the object in the picture could be triangulated to determine its size and distance from the camera. Walters managed to take some photos with this camera, which is foolproof to the double exposure techniques of which he has been accused. Walters was finally nabbed by the blue beam from Shoreline Park South in May 1988 and what he learned under hypnosis became his second book, which I read many years ago but have not revisited recently. I cannot be sure that this was not an elaborate hoax, but I am sure of UFO's in the Gulf Breeze skies, an increase of military presence in the Pensacola area airspace, many stories from friends and neighbors who saw odd things, took pictures and videos, and my own "missing time" experience, shared with a friend in 1992. There are so many tales of alien abduction. I once assumed they were all made up, but my Gulf Breeze experiences have shown me that people need not make up stories. There is something strange going on.
7 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting..... but thoroughly debunked.,
By OverTheMoon (overthemoonreview@hotmail.com) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Gulf Breeze Sightings (Paperback)
This is a great UFO story, about a man, his wife and children in Gulf Breeze, Florida. Ed Walters claimed that he was hounded by a UFO near his home that even tried to beam him up. Basically the book is about Ed Walters taking photographs of a mysterious UFO outside of his home and then publishing them in the local newspaper. He writes about his experiences photographing the UFO and the MUFON investigation that followed shortly afterwards, during which time he took more UFO photographs and eventually published them in this book. So basically the book is about a series of extraterrestrial events near the Walters household in Gulf Breeze, Ed Walters taking photographs of this UFO and the MUFON investigation that followed.So how does the story pan out? Well it is pretty much the bees knees of UFO sightings. The book is full of color pictures of a mysterious UFO with portholes at the sides which seems to be flying everywhere around Ed's home. It seems pretty believable and even has statements on photographic analysis from Dr. Bruce Maccabee to authenticate the photographs. Bud Hopkins, the famous alien abduction memory retrieval expert, even chimes in. So as a true story UFO romp it certainly is very good... except... All the pictures are indeed fake. In fact this story destroyed the MUFON outfit which split because of two groups that came out of it, Pro-Ed Walters and Anti-Ed Walters. Dr. Maccabee was paid $20,000 for his analysis to appear in the book before the investigation was over. What you also don't know is that Ed Walters has never released his photographs for analysis elsewhere and that he holds the copyright to all the photographs that he took AND the ones that he said he did not take. The other photographs where published in newspapers elsewhere, so he had anonymous witnesses to the events. The big blow to Ed's story came when he denied taking these other photographs but a quick search found that he had copyrighted them. Also anomalies associated with talking photographs against a piece of glass using reflection methods of fakery cropped up in these photographs as well as his own. The anomalies where originally called scratches and blotches due to the development process and the camera he was using, but this is false, and since all the photographs have them then they where taken with the same camera and the same fakery process. Ed is in fact the photographer of the anonymous photographs that appeared in the newspapers after he had taken his and since he owns their copyright it pretty much goes to show that Ed has lied about his story. I believe that there was a UFO FLAP over Gulf Breeze and that many people did see UFOs in the sky but this book is a complete hoax that just capitalized on the whole event. Ed Walters has simply faked a ton of photographs during this UFO flap and sold them off as what people where seeing. This is in fact false. Ed and his wife where the only people to ever witness this type of UFO. No one else saw this UFO and there are no witnesses to back up their claims, even though Ed lives in a pretty densely populated area. People may have seen UFOs at Gulf Breeze, but they didn't see the UFO in the pictures that Ed took.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Towel Clad And Angry!,
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This review is from: The Gulf Breeze Sightings (Paperback)
A lot of controversy surrounds this book because of the high quality UFO pictures in the photo section. They're said to be a little "too good." Additionally, a model of the UFO was found in the attic of Ed Walters's old house. Regardless of if it's real or a hoax, the format's interesting (Ed and his wife write alternate chapters) and you can't beat the picture his wife took of him standing outside with a towel wrapped around his waist while angrily shaking his fist at a UFO that interrupted his shower.
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