Jim Marrs - Alien Agenda: The Untold Story of the Extraterrestrials Among Us

ALIEN AGENDA

Jim Marrsa seasoned reporter and authorhas produced an exhaustive overview of everything we know and dont know about UFOs.... As he builds his case, the circumstantial evidence for an alien presence seems overwhelming.... Alien Agenda has plenty in it to make one pause and wonder. After reading, you may find yourself watching the skies a little more intently, or even checking under the bed before you go to sleep. Ft. Worth Star-Telegram An exhaustive, rich... history of the reported UFO phenomenon from ancient times to the present day.

Arlington [Texas] Morning News

CROSSFIRE

The big daddy of the conspiracy books on the JFK assassination, and one that cant be taken lightly. A sheer tour de force that may be the final word until 2039when government files on the case can be unlocked. Kirkus Reviews

Washington Post

Compelling reading.

Raises profound and deeply troubling questions.

Cleveland Plain Dealer

A hardcover edition of this book was published in 1997 by HarperCollins Publishers. A HarperPaperbacks edition was published in 1998.

ALIEN AGENDA. Copyright 1997 by Jim Marrs. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address HarperCollins Publishers, 195 Broadway, New York, NY 10007.

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First Perennial edition published 2000.

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The Library of Congress has catalogued the hardcover edition as follows:

Marrs, Jim.
Alien agenda: investigating the extraterrestrial presence among us /
Jim Marrs. 1st ed. p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-06-018642-9
1. Unidentified flying objectSightings and encounters. 2. Life on other planets. 3. Human-alien encounters. I. Title.
TL789.M264 1997
001.942dc21 96-52017

ISBN 0-06-095536-8 (pbk. )

It should be acknowledged that our current understanding of UFOs and the alien agenda is the result of many hours of hard work by dedicated and courageous individuals, too often the objects of ridicule, dismissal, or worse. These investigatorsfrom well-known authors and researchers to unheralded private citizensare too numerous to list here. But their combined efforts have contributed to our knowledge and understanding. Likewise, any attempt to enumerate the many people who have contributed to this work would prove excessively long and most likely overlook someone. Suffice it to say, None of us is as smart as all of us.

The controversy over the existence of UFOs is over.

UFOs are real.

Only those persons whose outlook prevents them from dealing honestly with the massive amount of documentation and reports collected over the past five decades still cling to the idea that nothing soars in the skies of Earth but mans imagination. Evidence accumulated over the past half-century clearly indicates that UFOs represent real and tangible objects exhibiting traits unlike anything that man can yet produced.

Of course, arguments and protestations will continue. There are, after all, some few folks who still refuse to believe that the world is round.

But, whether you believe in them or not, UFOs are now part of our reality. Gather more than a half-dozen persons in a room and odds are at least one of them has either had a personal UFO experience or knows someone who has. UFO sighting stories permeate our society from migrant farm workers to former presidents. We are surrounded by UFOs. Theyre with us in books, comics, advertising, movies, and television; on posters, T-shirts, billboards, trinkets, caps, and bumper stickers.

There are those who still prefer to ignore the phenomenon, hoping it will simply go away and stop intruding on their comfortable world-view. Others are deeply fascinated by what the reality of UFOs might portend. UFO researchers, organizations, and conventions continue to grow throughout the world.

The questions now are What are they? and What do they want? What is the alien agenda?

The answers may be found by taking an overview of the total UFO experience, a wide-ranging investigation through the maze of UFO literaturemuch of it sensational, contradictory, distorted, disjointed, and deficient in one way or another, although certain common themes can be discerned.

This confusion is compounded by documented government deceit and duplicity aided by the reluctance of conventional science to publicly address the evidence. For few peopleparticularly among the smug scientific and political intelligentsiaare willing to give any public credence to the subject. By failing to publicly take notice of the phenomenon, these bastions of conformity and conservatism have left the field open to a wide array of private researchers, who range from serious and dedicated investigators to the wildest of charlatans and profiteers. This situation has meant that any serious and unbiased look at UFOs immediately opened the researcher to a barrage of ridicule and arrogant dismissal by those who have some reason to ignore the subject.

So this is not really a book about UFOs. It is more a book about mind-set.

Mind-set involves what you know and, perhaps more important, how you know it. From the moment of birth we are continuously imprinted by our experiences, our parents, the people and places around us, and our social conditioningthe most dominant of which are public education and religion. This conditioning continues through life, aided principally by the print and broadcast media.

While the media obviously cannot dictate how we are to think, they certainly set the agenda on what we are to think about. Who has time for tedious stories of government conspiracies and financial manipulations when the newspapers and airwaves are filled with crime, accidents, and celebrities? Who bothers to notice when a prime-time TV network news break contains nothing but sports scores?

For most peopleperhaps the majorityUFOs represent an issue to be avoided. So they bury their minds in the safe, conventional world of the local newspaper and their favorite anchorperson who nightly tells them everything is really okayjust after delivering the days litany of death and sorrow. These people then assure themselves they are well informed.

Added to this self-assurance is the regular media infusion of conventional thinking by various experts, most of whom owe their livelihood to government in one way or another. Most yield to the immense pressure of the status quo and say nothing publicly that might cause controversy. Those who do are usually branded as kooks or profit seekers.

A clear illustration can be found in comparing two UFO authors with widely divergent opinions. Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe, an Annapolis graduate, Marine pilot, and associate of Charles Lindbergh, began a study of the UFO issue almost from its inception in 1947. During his career, Keyhoe developed close relationships with, many high-ranking military and government officials. Keyhoe wrote in Alims from Space, During my long investigation of these strange objects I have seen many reports verified by AF Intelligence, detailed accounts by AF pilots, radar operators and other trained observers proving the UFOs are high-speed craft superior to anything built on Earth. Before the censorship tightened I also was given the secret conclusions by AF scientists and Air Technical Intelligence officers. In 1957, Keyhoe was named director of the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, one of the first private UFO research organizations.