Michael Lindemann

I love the night sky and I love Astronomy so I am always looking up. I have personally seen a few UFO’s. Now don’t get all excited, remember UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object not flying saucers. It means that I saw something that I don’t know what it was. In addition to Astronomy I love many of the other sciences and I believe that there is life out there in the universe, some of it advanced life; this does not however mean that I positively believe that that life has visited our planet.

Having said that, if there is a possibility of life out there, and there is such a thing as space travel, then I believe that it is possible the alien life could have visited us either now or at some point in our past or maybe in our future. This is why I like to read books on UFO’s and the possibility of alien life. Some of the books I found were not worth the paper that they were printed on, while others were very informative.

I liked this idea of this book because it gave the opinion of a few different people. And that sounded like an interesting way to present a book on such a controversial subject. All of the researchers and witnesses in this book were on the side of “yes it’s real and they are here.”

I think I would have like the book much better if it had a different mix. Maybe some of the contributors could have been scientists that discuss the possibilities of life in the universe and what that life may be like. The book could have also had a few engineers that discussed the concept of space flight and the difficulties involved, they could also review where we are at in our technology and where the aliens’ technology would need to be to make solar system hopping possible.

We could have dialog between the believers and the non-believers and see where that takes us. I would also like to have an Air Force representative give their input on the fact that many UFOs are just military vehicles (both know and still secret.) It is not breaking with National Security to say, “Yes from time to time people see our aircraft and mistake them for ‘other things’ but Air Force is not going to give a press release saying ‘that UFO that everyone saw last night was a test of our new secret plane. Please don’t tell anyone about it!’” Just a simple statement like that treating us with respect would be a breath of fresh air. They would not event need to talk about UFOs, they could just talk about how the US has developed new aircraft and tried to keep it secret, a tough thing to do in an open and free society. That’s a book that I would like to read… Hint, hint to the author!

Getting back to the real book, and not what it could have been, the book was an interesting read. The ideas and topics were at times wild and strange but I have not done any investigating myself and do not know how much is true and how much is not true. I just have to keep reading more on the subject and hope to put all of the pieces together into some plausible and hopefully factual conclusion. My suggestion is to keep reading!… (meer)