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alfiee 's review for:
Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs
by Luis Elizondo
Rating: [C-]
I went into this book expecting to love it but was unfortunately disappointed.
I was expecting a serious looks UAPs from the angle of a national security threat, with hard evidence of genuinely strange encounters like the tic tac and gimbal videos. While there was a bit of this, a lot of what I read was anecdotes of paranormal activity, psychic spies, telepathic communication, religious cults in the highest offices of governments, recovered alien bodies, crashed crafts and alien biological implants (to name just few things).
Some real lowlights included:
The author claiming to have remote viewing psychic powers that "can only be used for good"... which he used with a group to torment an inmate at Guantanamo bay awaiting trial.
Another gem is claiming to have orbs regular visiting his house and even entering his home through walls once he started investigating UAPs... but he (despite being a counter intelligence Pentagon official) never thought to set up a security camera to record them?
There was also a graphic and excruciatingly detail description of the authors mother slowly dying from cancer. Why? I have no idea.
There were some highlights though. I found "the aha moment" chapter where a unifying theory of UAP is introduced pretty interesting and I'm glad I stuck it out till the end because the chapters on the Senate hearings and bills passed into law was great. I hope the disclosure act bears fruit and we finally see some solid evidence for the extraordinary claims made in this book.
I went into this book expecting to love it but was unfortunately disappointed.
I was expecting a serious looks UAPs from the angle of a national security threat, with hard evidence of genuinely strange encounters like the tic tac and gimbal videos. While there was a bit of this, a lot of what I read was anecdotes of paranormal activity, psychic spies, telepathic communication, religious cults in the highest offices of governments, recovered alien bodies, crashed crafts and alien biological implants (to name just few things).
Some real lowlights included:
The author claiming to have remote viewing psychic powers that "can only be used for good"... which he used with a group to torment an inmate at Guantanamo bay awaiting trial.
Another gem is claiming to have orbs regular visiting his house and even entering his home through walls once he started investigating UAPs... but he (despite being a counter intelligence Pentagon official) never thought to set up a security camera to record them?
There was also a graphic and excruciatingly detail description of the authors mother slowly dying from cancer. Why? I have no idea.
There were some highlights though. I found "the aha moment" chapter where a unifying theory of UAP is introduced pretty interesting and I'm glad I stuck it out till the end because the chapters on the Senate hearings and bills passed into law was great. I hope the disclosure act bears fruit and we finally see some solid evidence for the extraordinary claims made in this book.