I received this book about 4-5 days ago. It is an interesting book that dabbles in the names of aliens and alien/ufo writers who either reported and/or wrote about them in publications. At first I got a little confused but after reading through it, it then began to make sense. It is your one stop source for every alien name and UFO researcher in the world.
This book, 'AN ALIEN WHO'S WHO' by Martin S. Kottmeyer (Editor), Greg Bishop (Foreword). It is difficult to explain the book, but I am going to try to convey it to you as the author attempts to do on the back cover:
"Ashtar, Xyclan, Teletron, Sananda and Umaruru", so many names, so many aliens. Who can keep track of them all? Thankfully you do not have to. 'An Alien Who's Who' has done it for you, collecting together the biggest names of real extra-terrestrials encountered by earthlings since flying saucers began taking over the planet. We have shifted through the hundreds of UFO contactees; ufologists and experiencers to bring you not only their names, but also their views on God, earth's future, eternity, politics and how we should run our lives. Like them or not, we strongly advise you: "Do not leave earth without it."
Well after reading and browsing this book, Martin S. Kottmeyer is right. It is a compelling book that is set up in such a way that at first I had to understand it, but after I did, it then made sense to me. He is trying to make sense of a enigmatic world of aliens that make no sense and then trying not to explain them just stating that all these aliens (both real, yet not real) and try to give you the source of the contactees and/or scientist who received this information of a time/space continuum filled with absolutely nothing, which exist in his opinion.
It is, in a sense, believing when there is no sense or any way to prove that sense or nonsense exists. WOW, what a concept. However, even in the Martins way it does exist. Does that make sense? You have to read the book to understand it.
How the book works:
- The first letter of the name is self explanatory.
- Then you have the brief explanation after his thoughts as the names are inserted in the corner of his paragraph of the sense where he explains his view. I.E.
- F would be where the alien is from.
- C would be the contactee or who offers the name.
- Q would be quote.
- S would be source.
- alt would be the alternate name or spelling.
- Pron would be pronunciation
- pdnames would be Paul Dickerson names list item from which source is lost.
So let us continue.
The second listing of a name reads like this:
- F: Acart 52 million kilometers from earth
- C: A Berlet Guide who informs Berlet that their planet is seriously over crowded. Its capital has a population of 90 million. After we destroy ourselves they plan to colonize our planet despite our heavier gravity. A glowing building is mentioned.
- S: Robert E Bartholomew, UFOLORE: A Social Psychological study of a modern myth in the making, which is how this book is written. Once you can fathom that, then you can understand this book.
When you go to the contents page it can take you from chapter to chapter:
- First chapter is: Forward
- 2nd chapter: Introduction, a must read.
- 3rd chapter: is abbreviations. This is a definite if you want to see what the contents means.
- 'Whos who A-Z' is a must.
- The next chapter is "Alien who's where"
- The next chapter is "When Venusians" was cool. As you go through this you will have an understanding of where we are.
- Appendix 1 is: SHHHUUUURRRR
- Appendix 2 is: Cinematic and Sci-fi aliens, a sampler of names.
WOW! It is a great book if you want a compendium of Alien names, descriptions, planets and worlds, both real and imaginary, in the bible of alien contactees and their places they visited in the imaginary time and space of universes that their contacts have come from. I thought this book was laid out nice and had some real information that every UFO researcher should own if they want to know where Klattu came from or what movie he was in.
Should we take this book seriously? I think so. When we understand what Maartin Kottmeyer is doing, then in the heart of the book we come to understand that as John Keel would say we can understand what the "tricksters" are really doing.
For me it is/was a fascinating book with more aliens and contactees then you could throw a UFO at. In fact this book will get you thinking about if there is a universal being, thought or if we are going to a place of no design, but of a random meaningless organization of space/time/literature that we need to throw out. It is much like taking a library and throwing all the books on the floor, and saying "OK will two blind people organize them?"
For those who want to know every space aliens name, planet and universe in the scientific halls of cinema, literature and out of the minds of men and women, then this book is out there. Buy it, because you will enjoy it!
