Nick Redfern - Secret History: Conspiracies from Ancient Aliens to the New World Order

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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N ick Redfern works full time as an author, lecturer, and journalist. He writes about a wide range of unsolved mysteries, including Bigfoot, UFOs, the Loch Ness Monster, alien encounters, and government conspiracies. His many books include The Zombie Book (co-written with Brad Steiger); Close Encounters of the Fatal Kind; and Monster Diary. He writes regularly for Cryptomundo.com, the Mutual UFO Network Journal and Mysterious Universe. He has appeared on numerous television shows, including Fox News; History Channels Ancient Aliens, Monster Quest, and UFO Hunters; VH1s Legend Hunters; National Geographic Channels The Truth about UFOs and Paranatural; BBCs Out of This World; MSNBCs Countdown; and SyFy Channels Proof Positive. Nick lives just a few miles from Dallas, Texas infamous Grassy Knoll and can be contacted at his blog: http://nickredfernfortean.blogspot.com.

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SECRET HISTORY:
CONSPIRACIES FROM ANCIENT ALIENS TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Redfern, Nicholas, 1964

Secret history : conspiracies from ancient aliens to the new world order / by Nick Redfern.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-1-57859-479-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. ConspiraciesUnited States. 2. Civilization, AncientExtraterrestrial influences. 3. Human-alien encounters. I. Title.

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CONTENTS

I would like to offer my very sincere thanks to my tireless agent, Lisa Hagan; everyone at Visible Ink Press, and particularly Roger Jnecke and Kevin Hile; and good friends Micah Hanks and Greg Bishop.

T he title of this book, as you will already have observed, is Secret History. It is a title that begs a number of important questions: What, precisely, is history? How does it impact us, both as individuals and as the collective human race? What can we learn from studying our history, both recent and ancient? Can historical events be manipulated in ways that we can scarcely begin to imagine? With those questions in mind, lets take a look at a few choice, wise words from a variety of noted individuals.

Julian Barnes, the author of the best-selling The Sense of an Ending, said: History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.

In his classic novel Ulysses, James Joyce wrote: History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

Aldous Huxley remarked: That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

George Orwell warned us: The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

If you dont know history, then you dont know anything. You are a leaf that doesnt know it is part of a tree, wrote Michael Crichton of Jurassic Park fame.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it, bragged British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.

All of the above words, in their own, unique fashion, are important ones to remember and ponder. They are also words that are central to the themes of this book: (a) the ways by which certain, significant portions of history have been lost; (b) the ease with which entire swathes of our history have been erased; (c) the reasons why history has been suppressed and hidden and by whom; and (d) the secret, near-maniacal satisfaction on the part of powerful figures who have created deceptive histories that so many accept while barely asking a single question.

In the pages that follow you will come to appreciatealthough, you will most certainly not approve ofthe means by which history has been mauled, manipulated, and buried for reasons that are disturbing, mysterious, sinister, outrageous, unforgivable, and downright deadly.

You will understand how, even going back to the very dawn of civilization, humankind has been a slave to those who wish to present history as they wish it presented, rather than how it actually was and is. Its a situation that, even after thousands of years of manipulation, shows no signs of stopping.

From the sagas of the Old Testament to 9/11, from Jack the Ripper to the Roswell UFO crash, from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to the mysterious 2014 disappearance of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, and much more,