Watchers, The [Mass Market Paperback]

Raymond Fowler (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 1991

Betty Anreasson Lucas's UFO abduction case has long been famous for the vividness of her recall under hypnosis and the detailed inner consistency of her story.  But recently a breathtaking array of previously unknown extraterrestrial encounters has come to light.  They reveal the secret, disturbing prime motive behind the abductions of Betty Andreasson Lucas and many others throughout history--and the ultimate design the alien's presence on earth and in our lives.  When Lucas discovered this astonishing secret, she gave the beings a name.  She calls them the Watchers.  Here is a vivid, fully documented picture of the abduction phenomenon as experienced by Betty and many others, including author Raymond E. Fowler himself.  The many points of agreement among disparate abductees--such as physical descriptions of alien beings, examinations, experiments, and out-of-body experiences--suggest that not only are we indeed being visited, but we have been for many years.  The Watchers brings us closer to the  visitors than ever:  we see their amazing equipment, their scientific knowledge and power, and the shattering consequences of what they know about our present and our future.  This explosive book gives new meaning to the tantalizing mysteries whose solutions lie in the message no one on this planet can ignore.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

This is Fowler's third, and perhaps strangest, book about Betty Andreasson (now Mrs. Robert Luca). There is a little bit of everything here--out-of-body/near-death experiences, Christian spirituality, and ancient astronauts. By way of hypnotic regression, Luca was able to provide details about her numerous abductions, and her drawings, included in this book, clarify her verbal descriptions of alien machinery and enigmatic activities. The "secret design" behind alien abductions, says Luca, is a long-term genetics program undertaken by the aliens to prolong and improve life on the Earth. Fowler's objectivity in reporting these amazing experiences is called into question with his recent "discovery" of his own, up to now repressed, abduction experiences. Still, this book will be popular at public libraries with strong patron interest in UFO abduction.
- Gary D. Barber, SUNY at Fredonia Lib.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Publisher

Betty Anreasson Lucas's UFO abduction case has long been famous for the vividness of her recall under hypnosis and the detailed inner consistency of her story. But recently a breathtaking array of previously unknown extraterrestrial encounters has come to light. They reveal the secret, disturbing prime motive behind the abductions of Betty Andreasson Lucas and many others throughout history--and the ultimate design the alien's presence on earth and in our lives. When Lucas discovered this astonishing secret, she gave the beings a name. She calls them the Watchers. Here is a vivid, fully documented picture of the abduction phenomenon as experienced by Betty and many others, including author Raymond E. Fowler himself. The many points of agreement among disparate abductees--such as physical descriptions of alien beings, examinations, experiments, and out-of-body experiences--suggest that not only are we indeed being visited, but we have been for many years. The Watchers brings us closer to the visitors than ever: we see their amazing equipment, their scientific knowledge and power, and the shattering consequences of what they know about our present and our future. This explosive book gives new meaning to the tantalizing mysteries whose solutions lie in the message no one on this planet can ignore.

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 386 pages
• Publisher: Bantam (July 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0553287338
• ISBN-13: 978-0553287332
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #978,389 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best resources in book form on the alien agenda, November 30, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Watchers, The (Mass Market Paperback)

I have studied this subject for over 40 years and even recently had an experience that confirmed that I am an abductee myself. I am a computer consultant, x-Special Forces, a college graduate, father of two.

The information is unsettling, but if you are intensly pursuing this subject you may be more involved than you think. The interceded to save me from dying from blood poisioning and I have the scars to prove it.

Another great book, which provides detailed information, particurlaly on the development of a hybred species is The Threat by David M. Jacobs, Ph.D.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hit and miss, December 11, 2003

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This review is from: Watchers, The (Mass Market Paperback)

The first half of this book continues the saga of Betty Luca (formerly Betty Andreasson of the Andreasson Affair) and is weird and riveting. Betty herself provides pencil-drawing illustrations, which makes it easier to follow the strangeness being described in the text.

But then Fowler starts going into his own supposed alien experiences, which are vague and not especially interesting. He goes on and on about weird (and completely pointless) coincidences in his life (like the time he got a phone call from someone named Baum when he just happened to be thinking about the Wizard of Oz - who cares!?!), and then treats us to blow-by-blows of his inconclusive hypnosis sessions, which shed precious little light on anything. He spends four whole chapters telling us his story, but there really isn't much for him to tell. Interesting stories to tell your friends, maybe, but nothing worth writing a book about.

The Betty half of the book is definitely worth reading, though. It certainly won't be convincing to the skeptic, but it's a page-turner.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not one of my favorites., February 17, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Watchers, The (Mass Market Paperback)

Although I've read a few books on abductees and their experiences, I found this one somewhat disturbing. Much of the information related by the abductee was new to me and I did not expect it in a book from whom I considered to be a serious researcher on the matter. I found the religious hues of those messages difficult to believe, although that in itself is does not mean that Lucas' experience wasn't real or her recollections inaccurate. However, when the author became personally involved and started relating his recent discovery that, after years of dealing with testimony from abductees, he suddenly realized that he too had been abducted, he lost credibility and made it very hard for me to finish the book