Reviews

Sekret Machines: Gods An Official Investigation of the UFO Phenomenon by Tom DeLonge, Tom DeLonge, Peter Levenda, Jacques F. Vallée

ajv's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative mysterious reflective medium-paced

4.0

orbufo's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.0

There are some interesting concepts in this book, but it doesn't flow particularly well. Kind of hard to follow at times. 

scipio_africanus's review against another edition

2.0

Snooze. Pseudo-intellectual bullshit

bucketlist's review against another edition

4.0

I had low expectations for this book but was pleasantly surprised. It kept my interest.

tjr's review against another edition

1.0

Utterly confusing and hard to navigate. What was the point of this book?

courtwarters's review against another edition

adventurous challenging informative slow-paced

4.0

fractalyin's review against another edition

informative mysterious slow-paced

2.5

meghanmarion's review against another edition

2.0

I received this free via Goodreads giveaways.

I understood what the subject matter was, however it felt like the author continued to deviate from the content. It felt like every new chapter was different tangent that you would never hear the end of. And they continually referenced Book 2 and 3, which doesn't really do the reader any good in the moment.

cl1ch3's review against another edition

5.0

Tom and Peter are doing their investigation right. There is no doubt a "tell all" confession from Tom about his sekret meetings with high ranking government officials would sell more copies and hold the readers attention more, yet he and his co-author have decided against this. Their goal is loftier - to inspire a revolution of thought, challenging ideas that have been held about religion and science for years. Thoroughly researched, the authors have done their work and it shows. Once again, if you are looking for a confession with all the goodies, go pick up a copy of Cosmopolitan. But if you want to know about the UFO phenomenon, including its long history and connection to human events and religion, then this is the place to start.

apattonbooks's review against another edition

2.0

I am not the target market for this book, I have followed the topic and weird stuff for my entire life. I have hiked to Area 51, done remote viewing and have read more books on both UFO's and religion than I will ever be able to track. So this book did not have anything new for me. In fact the book does not have much a thesis at all... Finding connections between the world religions is nothing new, but rolling out a jump to conclusions mat and saying that equals aliens from another planets ignores the fact that for people of faith religion works. This book ignores all the weird stuff around UFO's and in the end says all it's conclusion are coming in two more books, titles that I will read due to be curious but I can't say I am excited about it.
While I loved the fiction book in this series, I just don't think there is much here to live up to the hype... and really there is no 'hype' to the topic it is a niche of a niche.