Alien Agenda (Paperback)

The book draws on a wide range of testimony, much of it from scholars of repute and from fairly distinguished representatives of the military and scientific elite who have chosen to speak out. Yet despite this great wealth of valuable and authentic high-level testimony from those who feel that we have a right to know what is going on in our own world, society remains filled with nay-sayers who flatteringly describe themselves as "skeptics," and who go about thumping their chests while proudly proclaiming "I do not believe in aliens!"

It is because of this widespread negative mindset that Marrs' book, like most others of its kind, must politely deal with all the wild clutchings at alternative explanations - e.g., UFOs as light reflected from the butts of passing ducks, etc., - which pass for serious thought in the skeptical fraternity. But what is a "skeptic" other than a person whose mind is closed to any new knowledge which strays too far from the orthodox Newtonian-Darwinian paradigm? It is the skeptics themselves, simple souls, who are the True Believers, believers in the reductionist ideology which those in power see fit to promote at this time. Collectively they become horrifying proof of the efficiency of an educational system and a media that exist, not to create thinking and responsible citizens, but to enforce a sort of herd mentality. What the "skeptics" fail to realize is that when everyone thinks the same, no-one is thinking.

When not having to deal with the unending stream of nonsense spouted by "skeptics" - Marrs book becomes very interesting indeed. It will appeal strongly to open-minded readers who may not yet have read widely in Alien Studies and who are still trying to puzzle out the truth. It certainly provided me with a lot of the missing pieces.

'Alien Agenda' is a well-printed and illustrated paperback of 434 pages which includes, besides an Introduction, Appendix, detailed list of Sources and an excellent Index, twelve chapters which cover such things as: The Greatest UFO?; Ancient Astronauts; Military Observers; UFOs Underground; Face-to-Face; Death from the Sky; Going in Circles; A Metaphysical Exam, etc.

For me, one of the most fascinating chapters was Chapter 1 - 'The Greatest UFO? This surveys the evidence, some of it brought back by our own moon missions, for the moon as being an artificial satellite and space base, hollowed-out and given a hardened titanium and rustless iron shell, towed into the solar system perhaps 12,000 years ago by galactic engineers who placed it in a highly unnatural orbit around the earth, home of unusual lights, gaseous and water-vapor emissions, strange artificial structures both below and above the surface with some of those on the surface towering many miles high, scene of constant activities which look suspiciously like mining, surface repair work, bridge-building, etc., much of which is being observed and reported on by our astronomers - or, in short, evidence for the moon as being a currently inhabited alien space base.

Also fascinating was the Native American account in Chapter 2 of a crashed saucer, and of the alien survivor they wisely rescued and nursed back to health before the military had a chance to get hold of him. What the alien told them of earth's history, and of the rivalry between various alien groups for the control of earth, serves in a striking way to confirm much of what Zechariah Sitchin has pieced together from Ancient Sumerian and Babylonian texts, and adds considerably to our understanding of more recent developments.

In short, Marrs' book is a stimulating and valuable read for concerned and open-minded readers who would like to penetrate the veil of "official lies, disinformation, and deceit" which surrounds this subject. Skeptics, of course, should avoid it. Even if they were accosted by an alien in the street, whisked off on a trip to the moon, returned to earth and had their noses punched for good measure, so resistant are they to new knowledge they would no doubt conclude that it must all have been the doing of some joker in fancy dress.