Alien Agenda

   Author: Jim Marrs

reviewed by Theresa Welsh

There are many books about UFOs and aliens. Some cover one case or one aspect of the phenomenon, perhaps with a specific interpretation of the events reported, and the evidence may or may not be convincing to the reader. I’ve read quite a few books on the subject of UFOs and what they may be and what they may imply for mankind, but I feel that Jim Marrs’ Alien Agenda is the best book on the subject. Yes, Marrs has a point of view (it would be strange to research the subject and come to no conclusions), and because of it he writes with a certain amount of passion. Yes, Marrs is a conspiracy buff who thinks the government is lying to us. But as the old saying goes, it’s not paranoia if they’re really after you.

Scoping the Problem
What sets Alien Agenda apart is its comprehensive treatment of the subject. As I was reading, I found myself going over a lot of familiar territory -- stories I’d read about in other places -- but nicely summarized and pulled together in one well-written book. Some of the material was new to me. Is our moon actually a hollow satallite brought to earth orbit by intelligent travelers? Why was the space program stopped and do the astronauts know more than they’ve said publicly? Were we basically “warned off’ coming back to the moon?

Marrs tells us the Nazis were developing some pretty advanced flying machines and suggests their technology may have survived and some of their designs secretly built. Could our own government be building the flying discs that people identify as UFOs? That’s not likely to be the explanation for all the sights seen in the sky by observers around the world. Marrs covers the crash at Roswell which seems to have considerable credibility, he looks at the animal mutilations that have happened in the American West, he explains the evidence in the Billy Meier case, covers abductions beginning with Betty and Barney Hill, examines crop circles and who might be making them, takes us to Area 51 and brings us the credible testimony of Bob Lazar that the US government has alien craft in its possession. Finally, he brings us the insights of Remote Viewers, psychics who travel in time and space to “see” events and places that could be anywhere in any time. It is quite a round-up.

Who is in Touch With Aliens?
Who on earth, if anyone, is doing business with these aliens? Could it be the small group of the rich and powerful who really control everthing (think Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg, etc.)? He tells us about something called Alternative 3. This is the escape plan of the powerful people of earth in case we succeed in destroying the planet. Alternative 3, which replaces the first two earth-bound alternatives, is to relocate on another planet. Marrs, in discussing the rich and powerful, espouses the same “funny money” ideas William Bramley (see his book, The Gods of Eden and my review of The God of Eden ). According to this view, these rich and powerful organizations actually control the world-wide flow of money, which in turn, controls who gets to use the earth’s resources. Could these organizations, which do their work in secret, actually know all about the alien presence?

Project Blue Book, the government’s program to catalog and investigate UFO sightings, was mainly a PR tool. The most interesting cases went to a totally secret unit that did the real investigating, and this unit probably still exists. Marrs builds a good case that the US government, while feigning disinterest, was and remains very interested in UFOs. He tells us the government’s Remote Viewing program, which served as a kind of Cold War psychic spy operation, revealed a great deal of information about alien presence. All of the Remote Viewers reported seeing entities who were not human in their psychic travels.

Who Are the Aliens?
Marrs does more than just present case after case of UFO sightings and alien contact. He looks at the Big Picture, asking the important questions about how long has this been happening and why? Who are these aliens and why are they here? He actually gives us some answers. He identifies three kinds of aliens: The “greys” who may be an artificially created race who lack emotions, another race who are more like us and may be remnants of the Martians who inhabited the red planet before it was made unhospitable, and the “transcendentals” who exist mainly in another dimension. These last are made of pure energy so they can move through walls and pop in and out of view. The implication is that they are part of the spiritual world. Marrs does not say so, but Raymond Fowler, in his fascinating book The Watchers II, relates the aliens to the afterlife. They exist in the place our own spirits go to once we shed our bodies.

Is It Believable?
All of this is pretty mind-boggling, but less so if you are familiar with some of the ground that Marrs trods on these pages. The book is well-researched and well-presented. If you follow and stay with Marrs to the end, you will see why this summation of the alien presence has a lot of plausibility to it.

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