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I've had the pleasure of reading an advance copy of PHASE TWO, and I loved it! Littleton has captured the feel of both the alien abduction scene and the extent to which there are rebels among the aliens who want to co-exist with us humans. An excellent sci-fi book! Highly recommedned!

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?

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

What was most interesting to me about Phase Two was its integration of detail, speculation, and ethnographic fact. UFO lore is now so systematized, wide-reaching, and detailed that it rivals the sacred stories of ancient cultures. Littleton's grasp of the nuances of this information puts his novel on the level of classic contemporary mythology. He effectively creates larger-than-life characters, and we get a very thought-provoking way to think about what's out there in the UFO research and rumor community.

In a way, it doesn't matter if you believe or don't believe. In fact, after reading the book several weeks ago, I find that I am still thinking about it. For a while I thought about the characters and how both humans and aliens were being duped and set-up. This was familiar to me, a moral drama that I've lived many times. But after a while I began to see how deeply--at some level--I had accepted the story as if it were real, and it didn't matter if it were or were not. It was a little like my reactions to my religion. I "feel," and I accept the feeling, but I can't say that I "believe" any particular text. I have a much expanded understanding of dimensionality after reading Phase Two. The book is an easy and engaging read--but it is much deeper than it appears.

Littleton is an internationally acknowledged anthropologist, and he does not write about that which he does not know firsthand--whether that be traditional Japanese Zen ritual (he was a Fulbright scholar) or quantum physics, speculations about gravity, and non-locality (professions and topics cultivated by his close friends). His command of data and detail makes for a story that puts pieces of UFOlogy into places in the mind that are easy to retrieve and easy to snap together.

Now that he is an Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Occidental College, Scott Littleton is even more fearless than he was throughout all his years mentoring students and advising us, when we studied "primitives," that "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" (Arthur C. Clarke).

REVIEW FOR "PHASE TWO"


C. Scott Littleton's PHASE II refreshingly deviates from the passé plot presenting aliens as extraterrestrials whose mission is to control planet Earth. Instead, the novel presents a reasonable and believable story about the seduction of a male human by an alien female whose assignment was to be impregnated, thereby capturing the earthling's DNA. Therein is born the intrigue, because neither Wisdom, the male Earthling, nor Qaazi, the alien female, is able to erase from memory the pleasurable and exciting experience they'd shared.

Wisdom and Qaazi's second encounter occurs in Japan where Qaazi's facial features won't attract undue attention. The Orient is a perfect location to meet the "earth-transformed" Qaazi whose features may evoke in the reader descriptions often described by those who've encounter aliens. For the initiate, Littleton has woven into the story sufficient references detailing human encounters with UFOs. And, for the science fiction connoisseur who has "gone beyond," the author has written a story that is suspenseful, logical, credible and worth the read

Phase Two is a thought provoking page turner and an endearing love story, set against the back drop of the "Alien Raj. " The Raj, like the mostly benevolent,-at least in the Western view- colonial rulership the of Great Britain over India, is the concept that generations of UFO abductions and manipulation of human affairs has made the human race essentially a puppet species of one or more extraterrestrial rulers. Phase Two is one of many new novels on the subject of the UFO phenomenon and its impact on human affairs. The UFO phenomenon has been a subject of continuing public discourse since 1947, more than half a century, and is as mysterious as ever. With the emergence of the abduction phenomenon, the specter of a vast, but stealthy, extraterrestrial intervention in human affairs has emerged. However, the UFO phenomenon is so multi-faceted, and so confusing, that it cries out for someone to try to paint a coherent picture of it. In Phase Two Scott Littleton has made a bold attempt to understand the reality beyond the reports of lights in the sky, the recovered memories of abductees, the obfuscations of government officials, and the strange fabric of legends and beliefs concerning people from the stars. His vision of the reality beyond the UFO coverup, from both the terrestrial and extraterrestrial point of view, is overarching and intellectually complete. If anything is missing in this picture of the human race in a metaphorical test tube, it is hope, however in Phase Two Littleton has hope arrive in the form of a human-alien hybrid female of aristocratic blood named Quazzi Qann Ga. She is endearing mixture of beauty, genius, and boldness and she sets out on what appears at first to be a hopeless mission, to bring together as a family, herself and her human abductee lover , a failed college professor named Cullen Wisdom , and the child they have created together during his abduction. This is a quest that will be viewed as a pathetic act of rebellion by the powers that be: an ossified ruling commission composed of her own people, the Pleiadians , and the ruthless and heartless Reticulians, two species who had warred over the planet Earth eons ago, much as the French and British warred over India. Helped by Cullen, she steals a spacecraft and penetrates a hidden underground alien base to find and carry off their child, a charming little boy named Adam. The chain of events they trigger by this act could lead to renewed interstellar war, or result the death of the whole family or even worse, that they experience the living death of being sentenced to slave labor in one of the many far flung installations of the aliens, after having all their memories of each other irreparably erased. But, perhaps by some inexplicable twist of fate, her action could instead lead to Phase Two, the long spoken of Pleaidian dream of a merged and open human-alien society, based on equality of peoples. In the middle of this confused landscape of a fugitive family, and pursuing alien forces, there wander members of the ultra secret US government team called MJ-12. They are trying to slowly piece together the puzzle of the alien presence, and the sudden tumult that Quazzi's desperate ploy has unleashed. Is Quazzi's effort the birth of a long postponed dream, or a doomed act of an irresponsible rebel? Does it matter, if what she does, she does for love? What will become of all of them? I say: read this book and find out, for once your do you will never think about the UFO puzzle, or the stars themselves, in the same way.

Strong characterizations, well plotted, and an overall good read. Some tantalizing tie-inns with history and "visitors from space" from an author who has a career full of outstanding accomplishments.