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PRAISE FORCONTACTEES:
Nick Redfern, the Brit with a knack for ferreting out all the dope on outrageous subjects, presents a revealing look at alien contact.
Jim Marrs, author of Alien Agenda
Nick Redfern, author of a wide variety of UFO books from the serious to the popular, has taken the bull by the horns and produced the, so far, definitive book on the subject.
Andy Roberts, author of Albion Dreaming
The disturbing fact, according to Redfern, is that a common thread tends to lead to the same, surprising conclusion in the bulk of cases. We are not alone, he posits, but the others are not necessarily from Venus or the Pleiades. Where they do originate, and what it is that they want, I will leave to Redferns eloquent explanation.
Linda Godfrey, author of Hunting the American Werewolf and The Beast of Bray Road
Contactees outlines a peculiar subculture that remains present in the fringes of Americana, and though well known to some, it has received its best treatment thanks to the efforts of Redfern.
Micah Hanks, author of Magic, Mysticism and the Molecule
A book that I couldnt set aside. Nick Redfern provides relevant information and pertinent minutiae about those now considered to be part of the UFO fringe.
Adrian Wells, The UFO Iconoclasts
Redfern gets down into the trenches to examine the band of eerily human-looking blond-haired visitors who early on expressed their concern about our warlike ways.
Timothy Green Beckley, Bizarre Bazaar
PRAISE FOR MEMOIRS OF A MONSTER HUNTER:
Memoirs of a Monster Hunter is a wild and woolly five-year odyssey into the unknown, courtesy of one of the premier investigative researchers and authors in the field. Redferns adventures and often hilarious antics will leave you breathless.
Marie D. Jones, author of 2013 and The Dj vu Enigma
This is one of the best books Ive read in years. Redfern sweeps you away on his personal adventure. Around the world, from romance, to ghastly beasts, to the cosmos, Redfern candidly shares the wonders of his young life.
Joshua P. Warren, author of Pet Ghosts and How to Hunt Ghosts
Acknowledgments
I would like to take this opportunity to offer my very sincere thanks to the following: my literary agent, Lisa Hagan; Matthew Williams; Warwick Associates; and everyone at New Page Books, but especially Michael Pye, Laurie Kelly-Pye, Adam Schwartz, Kirsten Dalley, Gina Hoogerhyde, Kara Kumpel, and Diana Ghazzawi.
Introduction
On October 4, 1957, the entire Western world was well and truly shocked to its collective core when the former Soviet Union blasted into orbit its now legendary Sputnik 1 satellite. And although the life of Sputnik 1 was destined to be a manifestly short onewhile decaying from its orbit only four days into 1958, it quickly ignited and was burned to cinders in the Earths upper atmospherethe propaganda value of its launch alone, at the height of the tension-filled Cold War, was near incalculable, and practically impossible to successfully trump.
The government of the United States of America, in particular, immediately felt both panicked and highly vulnerable due to the fact that the Russians had overwhelmingly beaten them in the first leg of the race to outer space. As a result of this setback for the United States, its government, its military, and the collective intelligence community of the CIA, NSA, and FBI, quickly recognized the dire needscientifically psychologically, and defensivelyto catch up with what, at the time, was most certainly the biggest and largely unanticipated technological development within the Communist world.
A model of the Soviet
Sputnik 1 satellite.
Indeed, the U.S. Congress was so overwhelmingly worried, and utterly appalled by the Soviets surprise leap into space, that it collectively demanded rapid, concerted, and unified moves on the part of the government as a whole to rectify the balance of power that had now been so drastically and quickly undermined. Under absolutely no circumstances at all, it was forcefully and logically argued, could the Soviet Union be allowed to gain a significant, or even a modest foothold in the previously uncharted domain of outer space; and particularly so if that very same domain was ever to become significantly militarized, as many figures within the scientific community, and within the Air Force and Army, suspected might one day very well occurperhaps sooner than later.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower and his staff, astutely recognizing that the old, familiar world around them was changing rapidly, drastically, and in ways that had been largely unanticipated until now, embarked upon the first tentative and previously uncharted steps to try and rectify the situation, and set about balancing the precarious struggle for supremacy that still existed at the time between the powers of East and West. The dire need for a totally new body to deal with an equally new realmnamely, that of outer spacewas clearly realized.
By the early months of 1958, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was well on its way to determining how, and under what particular circumstances an official organization of the U.S. government, unlike any that had ever previously existed, could take complete control, and carefully and capably manage the brave new world that outer space was offering humankind.
In April 1958, and as a direct result of NACAs growing vision, Eisenhower proudly stood before Congress and announced the ambitious establishment of what was to be originally known as the National Aeronautical and Space Agency. This was very good news, and precisely what the members of Congress dearly wished to hear. And, by the end of July 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Act had been carefully formulated and approved at a presidential level. The new body, now to be known as the slightly reworded National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationNASA, as it is known to one and all todaywas duly born, and quickly initiated plans for the United States to play a decisive and leading role in outer space.
Since that now historic date, NASA has successfully placed countless satellites into Earth orbit; has blasted both men and women into space; has put a handful of brave astronauts onto the surface of our nearest neighbor, the Moon; has revamped and revolutionized off-planet travel with the Space Shuttle fleet; has sent unmanned probes to such planets as Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, and Venus; and has ensured that humankind is no longer tethered to planet Earth.
But that is not all: behind the scenes, there is a very different NASA; some might even say its a darker and shadowy NASA. It is, as is about to become acutely apparent, a NASA that is seemingly populated to near bursting with stories of high-level cover-ups and secrets relative to:
UFOs
