Searchers: A True Story [Hardcover]

Ron Felber (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1994 | ISBN-10: 0848816501 | ISBN-13: 978-0848816506

Describes the disturbing experiences of Dawn and Steve Hess, who believe they were the victims of alien abductors who subjected them to twenty-four hours of anguishing mental torture during a camping trip in 1989. Reprint.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 213 pages
• Publisher: Armstrong Publishing Group (1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0848816501
• ISBN-13: 978-0848816506
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,465,221 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unbelievable, or Misunderstood?, November 15, 2003

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Searchers: A True Story (Hardcover)

Wow! What an incredible story Searchers tells. I wondered after reading it if it was Aliens that had abducted the Hesses or our own military doing desert warfare exercises in the Mojave. Could the "UFOs" be hover aircraft suited to travel above sand? The "red eyes" night vision goggles? And the "Aliens" soldiers in modern warfare, psy ops gas masks? Whatever it was that happened to Steve and Dawn Hess that night, it scared me for weeks.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For My Money, the Most Frightening UFO Book Ever Written, February 13, 2012

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Ken Korczak (Minnesota) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Searchers: A True Story (Mass Market Paperback)

Over the years just a handful of UFO books have been able to creep forth and poke their icy, boney fingers into the soft underbelly of the deepest subconscious fears of the public, scaring the bejeepers out of millions of readers.

Whitely Strieber's COMMUNION, for example, seemed honest and authentic, and therefore exceedingly unsettling and creepy. John Mack's ABDUCTION was more scholarly and clinical, but because it was the work of a respected Harvard psychiatrist, it probably made even hardened skeptics think: "Gulp! I wonder if something like this could really be happening?"

But there is one book of UFO alien abduction I have read over the years which delivered that feeling of quesy fright like none other. This is a much more obscure book -- it's SEARCHERS: A TRUE STORY OF ALIEN ABDUCTION by RON FELBER.

An interesting aspects of this book is that Felber is an outsider to Ufology. Unlike Strieber, Bud Hopkins, David Jacobs and others who made careers and reputations by focusing on alien abduction topics, Felber is a mainstream writer and businessman. He has produced several books of fiction and nonfiction. But "Searchers" is his only work in the UFO genre. He appears to have written it only because a tip from an associate pointed his way to an extraordinary story that Felber found so compelling he had to write about it.

The book describes a sizzling night of terror as experienced by an ordinary middle class California couple, Steve and Dawn Hess. It was 1989 when the Hesses decided to head out to the Mojave Desert for a camping trip. Upon arriving and setting up camp in the middle of nowhere, the isolated couple began to see strange globes of light in the sky. They were unnerved but tried to explain them away in all the common ways. But then, events rapidly escalated to an profoundly frightening degree.

The "lights" moved toward their camp. Steve and Dawn Hess retreat to hide in their camper, only to be accosted by an array of eerie alien beings who surround them, look into their camper window, and seem intensely bent upon getting at them and probing every aspect of their beings. They perform devastating psychological invasions of their minds - at times, the couple is surrounded by dozens of bizarre alien manifestations of wide variety.

Dawn Hess described it this way:

"They (the aliens) wanted everything we had ... everything ...our minds, our bodies, even our souls, I think. It was like they drew it out of us with a syringe ... every molecule. And it was painful and I thought we were going to die, or already had died and were being tortured in hell."

After enduring a night of this hell, the Hesses returned to their normal lives and jobs, but all was not well with them. Nightmares, fears, anxieties, post-traumatic stress - everything that had happened to them had shattered their sense of what it means to be a normal human being.

It's a remarkable story, and in the hands of an extremely skilled writer - Felber holds a Ph.D. in Art and Letters - the result is one of the most terrifying books on alien abduction ever written.

5.0 out of 5 stars An amazing tale about something beyond the grasp of logic, July 14, 2009

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Jon_Strange (New York City) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Searchers: A True Story (Hardcover)

This book seriously blew me away and is to date one of the most complex and detailed account of human encounters with extra terrestrials that I've ever read. I've been interested in the subject since grade school, scarring myself into long sleepless nights and what not, but haven't recently read anything with the same caliber of emotion, suspense, and good, true? story telling. The things that happened to this couple will shock and amaze you and even scare the bravest readers. I heard that the couple involved was about to do media interviews and bring more press for this book, but before it was published they withdrew their story because the Mormon church had forced them to or be banished from the church. Crazy yeah. A great read whether you're into this kind of stuff or not. C'mon, expand your mind a little.