UFOs Over Topanga Canyon

by Preston Dennett

Take a quiet community, isolated by mountains from the neighboring Los Angeles megalopolis, add some of the most amazing documented reports of visits of beings and craft not of this Earth, and you get UFO's Over Topanga Canyon by Preston Dennett.

Topanga Canyon is a quiet community of 8,000, just west of Los Angeles, in the Santa Monica Mountains. The one main street goes through the mountains, and has only one stoplight.

Since 1947, Topanga Canyon has been a virtual hotbed of UFO sightings. June 14, 1992, marked the beginning of a UFO wave of gigantic proportions.

Now, for the first time in print, eyewitness accounts of the activity are revealed,

·Unexplained lights
·Strange, metallic ships
·Face-to-face alien encounters
·Strange animal sightings
·Abductions of humans by aliens
·Missing time phenomena

The author is a field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). He has published numerous books and more than 50 articles on UFOs, and worked with the television programs "Sightings," "National Geographic Explorer," and "Encounters."

In UFO's Over Topanga Canyon, you'll read the startling, eye-witness accounts of encounters with the unknown, ranging from odd lights to terrifying abduction experiences.

Genres: Mystery

312 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[Rae Gee · Rating 4 out of 5]

Here's the thing with this book, if you Google “Topanga Canyon UFOs” most of the search results (especially the first three pages which is what most people will look at) throw up references to this book or articles by the author. Compared to the 1940's “Battle of Los Angeles” scare, there's very little information available for a huge UFO flap that happened a little over 20 years ago.

Saying that, if you trawl You Tube and messages boards there are references to more recent UFO activity over Topanga so maybe there is some truth in this book.

This is a good read. If you're interested in UFOs in any shape or form, UFOs Over Topanga Canyon will definitely get you thinking. I recently became fascinated by Topanga and, while listening to a radio show, this book was mentioned. So I decided to give it a go. I'm a long term UFO fanatic and wanted to know more about activity over major cities, particularly those that already have a certain something attached to them (LA, New Orleans, Vegas etc. It must be the Brit in me. We don't see a lot of places like that over here!). If you're a UFO buff, this book doesn't disappoint and is one of the more indepth ones that I've read.

[Rachel]

Oh -- it doesn't get better than this. What I love is drugs are never, ever mentioned as having anything to do with these visions and awesome visitations. Me, after over a decade living here, I'm still waiting for my close encounter.

Here's a choice excerpt:

January 1991. Pre-dawn hours. Entrada, Topanga Canyon. One witness: Susan. Bedroom visitation during which witness was unable to move, speak, or see. Witness sensed a presence which snipped off a lock of her hair, probed her body with a pencil-like instrument and then departed. Encounter lasted for a few minutes.

[Regan · Rating 4 out of 5]

I always like collections of regional paranormal events: UFOs, ghosts, haunted places, etc. Having lived in Topanga Canyon this was fun, and a bit spooky. I was reminded of the stories I heard of UFOs and even a Bigfoot family living in the area, and one weird experience of my own. (That experience involved not a UFO or missing time, but a "missing road.")

[Sharon Zink · Rating 4 out of 5]

Pretty good book. Interesting subject, but good to read in bed and fall asleep over.

[Mrs carol mathews · Rating 5 out of 5]

Riveting. Very well written and researched, with some very interesting case studies.