Hmm...

This was my-second Timothy Good book, the first being the more recent Earth: AN Alien Enterprise. I was somewhat scathing of Good's inclusion of some cases covered in his later book because they seems too ludicrous. This book also has some such cases. What drew me to this book was the coverage relating to the odd goings on in Puerto Rico. I thought I'd discover more about the cases on that island, but alas, given the twenty plus year age of this book, I was already familiar with nearly all the information regarding cases on Puerto Rico. The same thing applied to the Brazilian case of 1996, I think it was. The Italian case covered here was perhaps the most interesting to me as it bucked the typical trend of the type of alien(s) encountered. I cannot recall reading a separate case where the same type of creature was encountered. Now, whether this makes this a genuine case or not, I don't know. I would like to have seen Good follow up on those older cases in his more recent books.

One thing that irks me, is that it appears Good has the means to travel to Puerto Rico several times and yet failed, so far as I know, to go visit the compelling case covered in Earth: AN Alien Enterprise in the Solomon's.

What also baffles me, is that there appears to be a contradictory narrative here. On the one hand, we have the classic stories of aliens taking people in order to show them the folly of the ways of humanity and how World War III is on the card's and on the other we have aliens supposedly able to disarm complex nuclear weapons, implying that they will not allow us to use them.

Which is it?

Although I am interested in the UFO subject and have studied it on and off for almost thirty years, I find myself oddly ambivalent towards this book. At times, it reads a bit like an episode of the X-Files and others it's like a 50's B movie sci-fi story. That's not to say that there is nothing here of value. I do believe there are accounts here worthy of note. It's just that it's hard to know how much weight to place on much of the material here.

I sound the personal account told in Terry Lovelace's book, Incident at Devil's Den, to be far more compelling and would recommend that to anyone looking for something with a greater sense of reality to it.

Of course, as alluded to above, the other issue with this book is it's two decade delay in release in audio format. Much of the information is likely out there in the public domain by now.

I think the main problem I have with Good's books is that he, in most cases, simply recounts the stories of people without any real actual investigation by himself to test the veracity of the claims other than stating that multiple eye witnesses were sometimes involved. I know he can't be everywhere doing this stuff, but I do wish he would be a bit more proactive in the role of investigator and less as a harvester of information.

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Audiobook ruined by narration!

This would have been a good listen - but after about 90 minutes of struggling with the boring and broken cadence of the narrator - I gave up! A real pity

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A bit too fantastic for me

An excellent, well researched and informative book. The scope of encounters etc was a bit too far fetched for me however I found it entertaining.

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Excellent

Read/listened to a lot of books on this genre,
This being one of the better ones.
Excellently read.

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Don't waste your money!

I am willing to believe in UFO's because when I was around 10 years of age, I witnessed one for myself, it was late at night, and I saw a long black object through trees with orange lights in the side of it. That was over 62 years ago now, but never forgotten.

But this book is so filled with people who say they have witnessed the most incredible sights, and various alien creatures (most apparently speak the most perfect English) that all it has done for me is to wish to exchange it, a.s.a.p !

If they are to be believed, there must be very many different 'species' of alien, different shapes and sizes, yet most speak our language with no problem.
After chapter one, I just had to think 'enough is enough' no more,.. please!

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The reader has an awful cadence

I am unable to get into the first chapter.

the cadence of the reader breaks the sentences up in such a way I can focus on what he is reading

I am very disappointed

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