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phase 2 even better than phase 1, March 25, 2004
Phase 2 is the beginning of the end of phase 1, during which time the aliens are the protectors and exploiters of humanity. They maintain control by using far advanced technology and implants. Direct control of the human mind is possible, allowing the aliens to more or less do what they like without humans being aware of it.
The story here is an extrapolation beyond what is known from UFO research that includes historical studies and recent case investigations including abduction investigations. Readers who have no experience in the field should also read some factual books in order to place this story into perspective. Those who are familiar with the UFO literature will be able to spot the numerous allusions to actually reported events.
Does this book present a story line that could be close to the truth? I don't know. The UFO phenomenon may be even stranger than we know, stranger than what is portrayed here.
The question then is, to paraphase J.B.S. Haldane, is it stranger than we CAN know?
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Phase Two, June 19, 2003
Phase Two
by Dr. C. Scott Littleton
Arlington, VA:The Invisible College Press, LLC, 2002. 294 pp., [$$$]
While *UFO Magazine does not usually review fiction, we are persuaded to do so when an exceptional novel crosses the editor's desk. In the case of *Phase Two by Dr. C. Scott Littleton, Professor Emeritus, Occidental College, we again make an exception. The novel is that fascinating.
*Phase Two is an extrapolation of what may lie behind years and years of abduction accounts and the likely long-range goals of our alien "visitors." Written with the "eye" of the anthropologist that he is, the novel shows vast familiarity with human accounts of gods and goddesses, myths and legends and what may be behind these fantastic stories.
Professor Culley Wisdom begins his journey while living the life of an expatriate in Japan, having left a failed academic career behind in southern California. Before his departure, Wisdom had been an untenured professor of anthropology in a small liberal arts college in the San Gabriel Valley suburbs. One evening while investigating some thousand-year-old native American ruins in the Mojave Desert, Wisdom became the victim of a UFO abduction. His experience, involving a sexual encounter with an exotic human/hybrid female, threw Wisdom's life into a tailspin. Unable to assimilate the experience, Professor Wisdom not only talked about his encounter, he wrote what would become a bestselling book about it, which the Dean of his college found unacceptable. Wisdom lost his teaching position, then his wife left him. Unable to secure anything else in American academia, he traveled to Japan and found himself teaching English to Japanese businessmen.
Ten years after his abduction, Wisdom finds himself face to face with the alien female who caused him to undergo such a life shattering experience. While heading to work, Wisdom encounters her in a Japanese train station, then follows her to a small coffee shop where she assures him he was not dreaming the past experience. This seemingly young woman is actually a 120-year-old hybrid of alien/human DNA, and her name is Qaazi Qann-gaa. As Wisdom is about to learn, she conceived a male child during the sexual encounter, and he is presently living in an underground base on one of the several alien installations on planet Earth.
But there is much more.
Qaazi Qann-gaa is very unhappy with the way things are conducted by her alien masters, called the Clan. The Alien Raj, it seems, is deeply conservative and locked into its long term project, in Phase One. This phase of an extremely long-range plan involves harvesting DNA and other covert goals. Phase Two, which has not yet been implemented, concerns opening limited contact between members of the Clan and humanity. Qaazi intends to try to speed things along by initiating Phase Two herself, with the help of her human paramour.
Things are not quite so rosy, however. Even the Alien Raj has its problems, because there is another competitive alien faction present on planet Earth. The faction represented by Qaazi Qann-gaa hails from the Pleiades. The second faction, called SESO, comes from Zeta Reticulus and is vying with the Clan to exploit the planet. As Wisdom is about to find out, a vast war was fought between these two alien cultures thousands of years ago, a war that took place right here on Earth. While peace now reigns between these two powers, covert warfare has not ceased.
The third ingredient to enter this mix is the elusive American intelligence agency known as MJ-12. Formed after the UFO crash that took place in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, the group is trying to make some sense out of the alien presence on planet Earth. They are aware and have very limited contact with both factions. They are hampered, however, by humans' comparatively limited technology, and find themselves constantly trying to play "catch up." The scene is set for a very compelling story.
As Professor Wisdom discovers while deep in one alien facility, the Clan has been present on Earth for a very long time. Inside the base he discovers a museum of sorts, called the Museum of Time. "It was housed in a series of artificial caves carved from the bedrock directly beneath the Central Plaza, and included a seemingly endless number of brightly illuminated, diorama-like exhibits that span over twelve thousand years of human history," Littleton writes.
"Every race and region of Earth was represented several times over, as was almost every culture that has existed since the first contingent of Pleiadians arrived at the end of the last Ice Age. . . . There were at least ten ancient Egyptian scenes. Some were of simple peasants frozen in the act of threshing grain or planting crops . . . There were scenes depicting the building of the Great Wall of China and the Pyramid of the Sun at Teothuacan in Southern Mexico. Another large group of scenes depicted the daily life in both ancient Athens and ancient Rome; still others devoted to medieval European castles and monasteries . . . " And as Wisdom discovers, the humans placed in these dioramas are actually real humans from those times-seen in quiet suspended animation! Oh, those pesky ETs!
Over the years one thing might be said with absolute certainty about the UFO phenomenon--no one really knows what the actual facts are. After decades speculating on something as esoteric as alien abduction, we are no closer to the truth now than we were at the beginning. What is satisfying about *Phase Two is that Littleton's plot line could be close to the answer. The author, a scholarly scrutinizer of the Alien Raj, has paid close attention to the contradictions and confusion inherent in phenomenon's behavior, but still is able to weave disparate data points into a logical whole. While at present simply do not know, there's a kind of comfort in reading an engrossing but credible fictional rendering of this huge mystery which hangs over humanity like an eternal albatross.--Don Ecker
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