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Confirmation
The Hard Evidence of Aliens Among Us
Now in paperback
By Whitley Strieber
Our Price: $6.99
Our Item Code: Confirmation
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Postage Code: book1
256 Pages, Hardcover
Cover Size: 6.5 x 9.5 inches
St. Martins Press
Related listings: Whitley Strieber: Abduction and Science Fiction Books
and Alien Abduction
Date: 1998
ISBN: 0-312-96794-7 0-312-18557-x WSConfirmation
Country of Origin: USA
Added to Catalog: 5/13/98
(Revised 1/6/99)
WIRT: 2242x412
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Features: Table of Contents, Index
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Research Value
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Cultural Interest
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Wow Factor
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This book provides "confirmation" only for people who are true
believers anyway, and "hard evidence" is hard to find in its
pages.
Instead, this book offers only "soft evidence," which is Strieber
giving his analysis of current UFO cases. This book is the
equivalent
of going to an auditorium for a two-hour Streiber monologue. This
is
fine if you like to hear Strieber talk (as millions do), but we
are
not blessed with that facility.
The proposed "hard evidence" is alien implants, the objects
supposedly
removed from the bodies of abductees. Now that we are talking
about
physical objects and not human memory, we are moving into the
realm of
physical science. You can run your implant through a battery of
chemical tests which produce concrete results. As a novelist, not
a
science writer, Strieber is completely unqualified to report on
these
results and only obscures them. There are photographs: about two
dozen
black-and-white shots of fuzzy UFOs and supposed abductee scars.
One
picture shows a sliver of glass-like material removed from an
implant
victim. Well, it certainly looks hard, but this evidence is as
debatable as it has always been, and Streiber doesn't seem to add
anything. To us, this book seems that same as all his others --
just a
long-winded novel that provides lots of emotion but few
specifics.
Our favorite picture is the CAT scan of Whitley Streiber's brain.
There it is, don't you see it?... the hard evidence -- Whitley
Streiber has a brain! We can't make out much in that tiny picture,
but
we know it must be there: There must be something making him talk
and
talk without really saying anything. Or maybe that's just what
novelists do: obfuscate, dramatize and delay.
That's not to say that this book is useless. Indeed, it is a
pretty
good record of the UFO "hot topics" of the past few years: the
implant
surgeries of Roger Leir; the "rods" videotaped in Midway, NM; the
Mexico City videos; the objects photographed from Space Shuttle
STS-48, etc. Everything is thrown into the thin soup of soft
evidence
with no significant skepticism added. There's even an interview
with
Monsignor Corrado Balducci, supposedly from the Vatican, who was
the
source of an internet flap only weeks before the release of this
book.
Strieber is nothing if not contemporary, and this book could have
value as a cultural record.
-- Glenn Campbell
Comparison to Other Books
Dr. Roger Leir's
Aliens and the
Scalpel is a much more useful book on implant claims.
For better UFO journalism, see Clark's
UFO Book
and our list of
Top 10 UFO Books.
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From the Book Cover
This book is at once a journay of scientific discovery and the
story of the personal
struggle
Whitley Strieber has fought since he had an apparent close
encounter in 1985, which he recounted in
Communion: A True Story.
He has been criticized for creating folklore;
he has been called insane, labeled a liar and a cult leader.
Naturally, he wants to corrent the record.
But more than that, he has come to feel certain that
something truly earthshaking is happening,
something fare stranger, far more incredible than anyone
suspected, which has made mankind vulnerable.
To change all this, what he's needed is
physical proof.
He has it, and this book is the story of how he got it and what it
is.
Strieber first reviews all the evidence for UFOs --
including the remarkably dramatic and repeated
sightings over Mexico City
filmd by so many people -- as well as the testimony thousands have
given about their
close encounter experiences, before turning to shocking new
physical evidence:
five implants surgically removed under controlled and documented
conditions from the bodies of people who have
reported
contact with aliens. The study of these "implants" -- what they
are made
of, how they function, and what their ultimate purpose is -- holds
the final answers to this whol puzzle.
In addition, in a remarkable appendix, Monsignor Corrado Balducci
of the Congregation of the Evangelization of Peoples and
Propagation of the Faith discusses the perspective of the
Catholic Church on the whole matter of alien contact and what it
means
within a religions perspective.
Whitley Strieber is widely known for his bestselling
account of his own close encounter,
Communion: A True Story. He is engaged in the most
advanced research being conducted into the physical evidence of
close encounters.
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