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Invisible Residents: The Reality of Underwater UFOs

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I have no idea why the first reviewer stated that this book is confusing and padded. I found it very easy to understand and follow not to mention highly informative and eye opening. Great book for people with the courage to look at fact filled official reports from around the world written for the most part by the worlds navies high command. It also digs up newspaper reports of strange underwater sightings and radar trackings of otherworldly USOs that uncharacteristically leaked out to the worlds press. An excellent essay for the open minded intelligent person who understands that there is much more to be added to our limited human understanding of the world and it's mysteries. The content of this book is much more important & vastly out weights any misgivings one might have with writing style.

Invisible Residents is a fascinating book about something I suspected all along. It never made sense to me to think that aliens were all visiting us from distant planets because the commute did not seem worth it. It made more sense to think that they were already living here with a technology more advanced than ours. The evidence presented in this book is overhwlemingly convincing and made a believer out of me.

This book starts out slow but is methodical in course to show where the governments of the world are either not paying attention or are covering up the phenomena of UFO's and USO's. Good read.

Be it mokele mbembe, oreng pendek, singing stones or, in this case, aquatic ufo's, Sanderson is able to rise to the occasion. His style is always crisp, a bit pedantic, borderline witty/balmy and consumately entertaining.
Is there a technologically advanced society at the bottom of earth's hydrosphere? If so, is it in any way connected to the Bermuda Triangle and other maritime mysteries?
I have all Of Ivan Sanderson's books and with delight I assure readers not one of his mystery subjects has been verified as absolute fact. He was the best of true skeptics in that he never completely felt that something simply could not be.
Buy this books and not only will you learn some interesting/diquieting
things,you'll read some damn good stories.

insofar as reading about USOs, which lots of other authors don't seem to touch upon, this book is pretty thorough. the edition being sold now, since the original is OOP, is ok, but it does show some typos and bad editing.

the author's style is...silly...but that may be that we of the later decades are just not used to the writing style of the '60s. in some places, he uses "we". i truly hope he means it as "him and other people" and not in the queen of england kinda way, and i do realise that he has an assitant(s), but that's not made clear at the point where he uses "we". he is a bit verbose and repetitive with his personal words, but it's still a good book for the study of USOs. lots of stuff in it that i've never read before and i have really read quite a large number of books on the whole UFO, et al, subject.

Ivan Sanderson presents some great alternative concepts and answers to some old questions regarding UFO's and USO's. Even though many of his documented and undocumented cases referenced in the book are somewhat vague and unproven, the basic questions of the existence of either extraterrestials or "others" living underwater is a mind provoking thought. Is it possible that an ancient earth lifeform highly superior to "humans" existed long before us, and occupies the underwater domain. I used concepts from this book in my book, "The Nightmare Trilogy", in the first story "Aliens?", where I suggest the aliens are not what they seem, but have been here all along. I certainly recommend the book for anyone seeking thought provoking material to explain some of the documented UFO/USO cases that have been unexplained.

The Foreword by David Hatcher Childress describes interesting witness reports of UFOs extracting water from bodies of water for some unknown reason and also includes UFO photographs and drawings. Likewise, the first 45 pages of Invisible Residents by Ivan T. Sanderson describes similarly-interesting USO-UFO events; unfortunately, after that point in the book, which was first published in 1970, Sanderson begins a meandering wondering that dominates the rest of the book and completely loses the direct indications it started with. Many times while considering a supposedly-unusual event, Sanderson uses a large number of words to conclude that it probably was caused by an ordinary experience. In Chapter 10 -- The Disposition Of Anomalies, Sanderson describes his "Vile Vortices" theory of lozenge-shaped areas of strange activity circling the center of the globe, but then after mentioning the known issues of earthquakes, volcanic activity, and heavy mineral deposits, makes the bizarre conclusion of: "It is manifest that we are dealing here with a set of factors that are not, or have not as yet been, correlated with any other physical features of our earth." On pages 124-126, Sanderson lists Disappearances In Northwestern Atlantic of ships and planes from 1840-1969 as a supposed indication of unusual activity. In his time, Sanderson seems to have not known that the loss of people, planes, and ships in various areas is part of typical experience; it is now known that volcanic activity and powerful wave actions are the probable causes of lost ships in the Pacific's Dragon's Triangle, and the loss of House Majority Leader Hale Boggs' plane in Alaska most probably happened because of common storm conditions on that day. In Part Three, Sanderson considers the possibility of underwater beings and cities in the same meandering wondering but does not consider the great physical adversity that such beings would be constantly dealing with and why such beings would choose the harshness of water existence over the ease of land existence. There may be more to learn about in the world's oceans, but Invisible Residents does not provide a meaningful and well-defined view into such possibility.

This is thought provoking look at an unusual and little known phenomena. Ivan T. Sanderson did a great job of research and presentation here.

"Invisible Residents-the reality of underwater UFOs" is a well thought-out, well-researched book on the possibility of resident aliens living in the deepest, most inaccessible rears of our oceans. Well documented, with many pictures this is an easy read with lots of good information for those doing their own UFO investigations. Highly recommended.

I read "Invisible Residents" by Ivan T. Sanders when it was first published in 1970.At the time, it seemed exciting and very mysterious, and I readily accepted Sanderson's writing and premise. It's funny what 38 years can do!

To be truthfull, I was extremely dissatisfied when I started reading this book again. Naturally, much of the information is old and has been inflated and deflated so many times that much of it no longer resembles much of...anything.

Sanderson's premise is that; UFO's (or their underwater cousins) are not extra-terrestrial at all, but more than likely craft from earthly residents of an Atlantian type species who have resided here for millenniums long before we exchanged the "flipper" for feet.

There are numerous sightings of Unidentified Submersible Objects (USO's) to be sure, and...perhaps the existance of some submarine culture is possible. Who really knows at this point in time?

However, Sanderson's "hodge-podge" accumulation of various unsubstantiated reports became...I'm sorry to say, "a boring read." Although Sanderson is typically considered the "Godfather" of USO's, few have ventured past the age of this printing. Much more study needs to be done in this realm of "UFO-olgy".

There is only one such researcher that comes to mind, and readers who are attracted to this subject matter might focus more of their attention on the lectures and writings of Mr. Carl Feindt (as seen on the History Channels UFO series).

I appologize to the late Ivan T. Sanderson, but I could only give the book a three (3) star rating at best.