Tim Swartz (1)

I probably shouldn't have read a conspiracy book directly after reading about German engineering advancements (such as the Horton wing) in WWII because this made me a little mad before I made it to page 10...

"The Stealth technology of today seems far removed from the technology of the World War II era. Is it possible that this technology could have been back engineered based upon the recovery of a crashed UFO outside of Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947?"

Ah.............No, it isn't!

Or this:

"The question remains though on how Stealth technology was developed? Problems that dogged research aircraft seemingly were solved quickly. This could mean that research involving exotic technologies, such as Stealth, could be far older then reported, Or that scientists could have received help from unexpected sources. Either way, the results are guarded deeply within the bowels of the Pentagon."

Of course it was a closely guarded secret...God forbid the Americans would have to credit Hitler's scientists with the development of Stealth 50 years previous...much easier to let people think it was aliens!

The book continues as it starts and is essentially a pile of overinflated conspiratorial psychotic rambling that someone with two brain cells to rub together would dismiss immediately. This book would
appeal to the following audience:

1) uneducated idiots
2) people intent on blaming aliens for everything
3) people who disregard history and rationality
4) those who are so inept they are unable to think for themselves, or is that the same as number one?

I did read the whole book but spent most of my time swearing at it. If I wasn't swearing at it I was laughing hysterically because of little gems like this:

"It appears that the military could be searching for possible alien implants. Their gynecological interest on female abductees could be explained, if they are searching for alleged alien/hybrid embryos, since most of the abducted females had missing embryo/fetus experiences. However, one thing is for sure, this task force or the people who are behind these kidnapings [sic] using advanced mind control technology that is currently tested illegally on people who might have nothing to do with UFO abductions."

No doubt there are secret military bases and underground facilities where people are working on advanced weaponry and prototypes of new machines. UFO sightings are probably glimpses of some of these. But it
should not be automatically concluded that there is some mass conspiracy relating to anti-gravity in effect or alien intelligence at work. It seems to me that governments around the world probably thank the conspiracy nuts for carrying on like they do, it means the governments are more easily able to carry on with what they are actually doing while the rest of the world argues about space aliens and time travel.

If people are doing research and development in anti-gravity and electromagnetism, so what? It isn't magic, it's science, and as intellectual human beings, we are allowed to push the barriers of what we currently know into the realms of what might be. If we weren't, we'd still be sitting in caves.

I suppose I am a bit of an intellectual snob, but once I started looking at this book as comedy rather than a serious writing endeavour I did find it entertaining. Oh, did I mention there is not a single reference or footnote in the entire thing?… (mer)