as well as of several obscure ones. Consulting published materials from fields far apart and presenting official policy papers and declassified documents, Redfern investigates the abiding interest of American (and British) military and civilian intelligence agencies in anomalous ancient artefacts and megalithic sites representing exotic technology that can be utilized, primarily, for military purposes, and which may threaten with rewriting history as we know it. Needless to emphasize, an equal measure of attention has been devoted to certain researchers and their hypotheses.
However, bear in mind: "Perhaps the surveillance [of psychics Jeane Dixon and Ruth Montgomery, in particular; also meant to be understood more generally] was undertaken to try to determine how successfully the CIA's faked stories of ancient aliens, and its MK-Ultra-style mind manipulations relative to possibly bogus outer-space-linked issues such as the Nine, were pulling the strings of the New Age arena" (p. 129).
Among the various topics covered in the book, the reader can find the following: 1) USAF's repeated photographic missions of the so-called 'Noah's Ark' being located close to the summit of Mt. Ararat (Turkey); 2) levitation/anti-gravity achieved via acoustic means; 3) the alleged quest for a 'dimensional portal' in post-9/11 Iraq, billed "star-gate" in the book (note the same appelation, albeit without a hyphen, was used for controlled remote viewing programmes run by the DIA and CIA) and the systematic looting of the National Museum in Baghdad in 2003 (based on papers by Michael Salla, Jim Marrs, and Colonel Matthew Bogdanos' book); 4) father of the A-bomb, Robert Oppenheimer's fascination with the Indian epic Mahabharata and its references to thermonuclear war; 5) an alleged and only partly deciphered 'Hebrew Bible' found in a crashed flying craft at White Sands, NM, (Roswell 1947 or Aztec of 1948?; source Harry Cooper, father of Timothy Cooper of MJ-12 fame). Said scroll "was confirmed as the long-sought-after key to understanding extraterrestrial UFO sightings, and this information was shared with the Vatican in 1949," (p. 26) claims the pseudonymous Thomas Cantwheel (MJ-12 whistleblower) - for my part, this story should preferably be taken with a spoonful of that proverbial salt. 6) Andrija Puharich's CIA-funded Amanita muscaria/fly agaric experiments and his links to the cabal of 'Nine' (relying on the exciting title
The Stargate Conspiracy: The Truth about Extraterrestrial life and the Mysteries of Ancient Egypt by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, 1999. Occult/parapolitics researcher Peter Levenda has more to say about Puharich on pages 240-48 in the first volume of the trilogy called
The Nine (Sinister Forces: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft, Book 1) Trine Day 2005). 7) British intel and mysterious plasma orbs inducing hallucinations at the "dancing stones" of Stonehenge, Avebury, and Rollright (Wiltshire, England); 8) Major General Edward G. Lansdale's psyops hoaxing of vampire (Asuang) attack targeting Huk rebells in the 1950s Philippines and his plan to use "a U.S. Navy submarine to project images of Jesus Christ onto low-lying clouds off of the coast of the Cuban capital of Havana" (p. 193); 9) a very brief overview of the Nazi Ahnenerbe and its mission; 10) theories concerning the curious Mars anomalies in the Cydonia region and Egyptian parallels the recently deceased Mac Tonnies had shared w/ Redfern in interviews from 2004 and 2006; etc.
As for the downside:
A) As the saying goes, "Once is never, twice is often." - I felt somewhat cheated when realizing the author, without noting doing so, has again lift over large chunks of closely similar sentences and the very same paragraphs from a previous publication of his, which this time happens to be
SCIENCE FICTION SECRETS: From Government Files and the Paranormal (Anomalist 2009; henceforth abbreviated SFS):
> Expanding on Morris K. Jessup's (1900-59) obsession w/ Mayan and other Amerindian structures and ancient astronauts, and how they relate to the supposed Philadelphia Experiment of 1943 (compare pp. 74, 86, 91-2 and SFS: 38, 41, 43-4).
> Regarding the 'Face' on Mars, Tom Corbett and Space Cadet of the 1950s, and predictive programmer, comics illustrator Jack Kirby, who "had secret associations with...none other than the CIA" (p. 160); plus his involvement in a planned filming of SF classic Roger Zelazny's "Lord of Light" in 1979, and a rescue operation of hostages taken at the American Embassy in Teheran around the same time (compare pp. 134, 156-7, 159-60, 160-2 and SFS: 8-9, 10-1, 17-9).
B) I'm quite perplexed about how the author is able to tell what the enigmatic Carlos Allende/Carl Allen's scrawled notes to Jessup's book titled "The Case for UFO" (1955) have revealed, when only 25 copies were produced of that special edition by the Varo Corporation of Garland, Texas, all of which are unaccounted for (contrast the info on pages 89 and 93). Or does Redfern have access to the original copy "mailed anonymously to the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Research (ONR) in Washington, D.C., [that] was turned over to Major Darrell L. Ritter" (p. 86)?
C) Unmentioned in the present tome is that the aforementioned Carlos Allende "was one pseudonymous Dr. Franklin Reno[,] who had actually succeeded in developing an application of Einstein's theory that was then capitalized upon by the Navy for its Philadelphia Experiment" (SFS: 40).
D) It's impossible to determine which one of his two books from 2010 the author used as a source (see pages 196 and 273).
29 b&w pics., bibliography (pp. 259-78), index (279-84)
