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Visitors from Time: The Secret of the Ufos
Nonfiction. A 30-year veteran of UFO research uses numerous examples of close encounters to establish the hypothesis that UFOs use a technology so advanced that they can literally warp the structure of space-time. The most thoroughly documented book available concerning UFOs and time travel. Contains easy-to-understand explanations of the Doppler effect and other scientific concepts. Extensive notes, bibliography, and index.
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280 pages, Paperback
First published December 20, 1992
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May 13, 2024
A CREATIVE INTEREPRETATION OF UFO DATA (INVOLVING TIME-TRAVEL, ETC.)
Marc Davenport (1952-2008) wrote in the Preface to this 1994 book, “no mystery I have ever encountered has been as compelling, or as intriguing---or as disturbing---as the mystery of UFOs… I was skeptical. Like a lot of other boys in the 1950s, I … dreamed of becoming an astronaut… Then a silver disc landed in a remote rural area within driving distance of my home… I interviewed the witness, Mr. S… There are times when you are absolutely sure a man is telling you the truth, and for me, this was one of them… After that, I was hooked. Starting that day I studied UFOs at every opportunity… [I made] a careful, step-by-step examination of all the UFO encounter reports at my disposal… I don’t claim to have found all the answers to the UFO mystery, but I do think I have made some progress. This book is to share with you how I arrived at a working hypothesis that explains some UFOs and fits the relevant data---something I believe no other book has done.”
He notes, “UFO literature contains hundreds of accounts similar to the ones I have listed. Witnesses from all over the world who have never heard of one another… Skeptics who complain that one report contains no date, another is from a secondary source, or another cannot be confirmed because the witness is now deceased are completely missing the point---which is the collective weight of the evidence is too much to ignore, regardless of how many witnesses can be discredited, regardless of how much data one chooses to throw out. I believe our failure to solve the UFO riddle after nearly half a century of data stems not from a paucity of data, but from a refusal to accept the data we have.” (Pg. 58)
He points out, “we DO have clear photographs of UFOs. Some, like the now=famous ones taken by contactees Eduard (Billy) Meier and Ed Walters, are widely suspected of being faked, but this has never been proven. In fact, quite the opposite seems to be the case. Photography analysts Jim Dilettoso and Gem Cox… declared publicly that, after having subjected Meier’s photos to the latest computer analyses for authenticity, ‘It is no longer a matter of BELIEVING that these photos are genuine. We KNOW they are genuine.’ Many other UFOs have been examined by teams of experts---along with the photographers who took them---and pronounced genuine. I have seen some of them myself, and I can tell you that those who declare they do not exist are mistaken.” (Pg. 61-62)
He suggests, “To explain the peculiar characteristics of UFOs, we must take only one small step---that of supposing they might be surrounded by time-warping fields…. The apparently clear, close-up and purported genuine photographs that Eduard Meier has taken of many UFOs may at first seem to fly in the fact of this hypothesis. On further reflection, however, it must be remembered that Meier has reported that the photography sessions were INVITED by the Pleiadeans. If this were true, then it is conceivable that the time-warp effect that would normally disrupt photography were intentionally controlled so that Meier’s film would develop normally.” (Pg. 74)
He observes, “If a UFO were to visit us from the past (rather than from the future), its time-warping field might have exactly the opposite Doppler effect. The wavelength of hear form its hull might be lengthened rather than shortened, so that it was the same as radio waves. It might product ‘white noise’ on one or several radio frequencies. Instead of being Dopplered into ultraviolet, light from this type of craft might be Dopplered into infrared or radio frequencies, so that the UFO might be invisible to an observer even in daylight, but he might be able to feel its heat.” (Pg. 110)
He states, “Again we see that established data does not mesh well with the popular theory that UFOs are interplanetary spacecraft piloted by aliens from distant planets who travel trillions of miles to survey our planet and study us. While there may be some unknown reason why such intrepid astronauts might choose to make ‘planetfall’ in the same places year after year, it is absurd to suppose that they would have any interest in artificial boundaries of individual states. However, we can easily imagine why time travelers from our own future might observe or be constrained by state boundaries. And they might very well appear in the same ‘window’ areas time after time if these areas correspond to the location of their home bases in the future.” (Pg. 162)
He notes, “There has been much speculation among biologists, ufologists and scholars studying ancient history that the legendary ‘missing link’ between early man and the ape-man may never be found because we ourselves are an engineered species an order of magnitude more human than our immediate ancestor. And many ancient myths and religious writings contain material that would seem to support such a hypothesis. The hypothesis that at least some of the dwarf-like ‘aliens’ are really human would help explain several characteristics of UFO phenomena that have posed thorny problems to proponents of the extraterrestrial hypothesis.” (Pg. 190)
He asserts, “We do not understand the true nature of the universe as well as we think we do. Time is elastic, nonlinear and inconstant. Our ideas of time are illusions caused by (or confused by) the convoluted pattern of motions that our earth, our solar system and our galaxy follow. Time, like space, is not a thing, but an abstract concept used to describe certain aspects of space-time. It is possible to warp space-time, thus to, in a manner of speaking, ‘step outside the universe,’ and then return to it at other coordinates.” (Pg. 215)
He acknowledges, “I have no doubt that skeptics and debunkers will attempt to discredit this book, as they have tried to discredit others, by proclaiming that a detail is in error here and a witness is unreliable there. They will subsequently demand that the entire book and all its premises, including the time-travel hypothesis, be ignored because they can find inconsistencies. Let me save them some effort by admitting in advance that it is quite possible some, perhaps many, of the accounts in these pages are spurious or at least partially incorrect. At the same time, I would suggest that these people will be entirely missing the point. Because with these accounts… it is not the veracity of individual details or witnesses that determine value, but rather the collective weight of the whole volume of data… to ignore unmistakable patterns in preliminary anecdotal data because this detail or that is suspect is to champion ignorance merely for the sake of argument.” (Pg. 223)
This book will interest some who are studying UFOs and are curious about more ‘creative’ solutions to the dilemmas.
Marc Davenport (1952-2008) wrote in the Preface to this 1994 book, “no mystery I have ever encountered has been as compelling, or as intriguing---or as disturbing---as the mystery of UFOs… I was skeptical. Like a lot of other boys in the 1950s, I … dreamed of becoming an astronaut… Then a silver disc landed in a remote rural area within driving distance of my home… I interviewed the witness, Mr. S… There are times when you are absolutely sure a man is telling you the truth, and for me, this was one of them… After that, I was hooked. Starting that day I studied UFOs at every opportunity… [I made] a careful, step-by-step examination of all the UFO encounter reports at my disposal… I don’t claim to have found all the answers to the UFO mystery, but I do think I have made some progress. This book is to share with you how I arrived at a working hypothesis that explains some UFOs and fits the relevant data---something I believe no other book has done.”
He notes, “UFO literature contains hundreds of accounts similar to the ones I have listed. Witnesses from all over the world who have never heard of one another… Skeptics who complain that one report contains no date, another is from a secondary source, or another cannot be confirmed because the witness is now deceased are completely missing the point---which is the collective weight of the evidence is too much to ignore, regardless of how many witnesses can be discredited, regardless of how much data one chooses to throw out. I believe our failure to solve the UFO riddle after nearly half a century of data stems not from a paucity of data, but from a refusal to accept the data we have.” (Pg. 58)
He points out, “we DO have clear photographs of UFOs. Some, like the now=famous ones taken by contactees Eduard (Billy) Meier and Ed Walters, are widely suspected of being faked, but this has never been proven. In fact, quite the opposite seems to be the case. Photography analysts Jim Dilettoso and Gem Cox… declared publicly that, after having subjected Meier’s photos to the latest computer analyses for authenticity, ‘It is no longer a matter of BELIEVING that these photos are genuine. We KNOW they are genuine.’ Many other UFOs have been examined by teams of experts---along with the photographers who took them---and pronounced genuine. I have seen some of them myself, and I can tell you that those who declare they do not exist are mistaken.” (Pg. 61-62)
He suggests, “To explain the peculiar characteristics of UFOs, we must take only one small step---that of supposing they might be surrounded by time-warping fields…. The apparently clear, close-up and purported genuine photographs that Eduard Meier has taken of many UFOs may at first seem to fly in the fact of this hypothesis. On further reflection, however, it must be remembered that Meier has reported that the photography sessions were INVITED by the Pleiadeans. If this were true, then it is conceivable that the time-warp effect that would normally disrupt photography were intentionally controlled so that Meier’s film would develop normally.” (Pg. 74)
He observes, “If a UFO were to visit us from the past (rather than from the future), its time-warping field might have exactly the opposite Doppler effect. The wavelength of hear form its hull might be lengthened rather than shortened, so that it was the same as radio waves. It might product ‘white noise’ on one or several radio frequencies. Instead of being Dopplered into ultraviolet, light from this type of craft might be Dopplered into infrared or radio frequencies, so that the UFO might be invisible to an observer even in daylight, but he might be able to feel its heat.” (Pg. 110)
He states, “Again we see that established data does not mesh well with the popular theory that UFOs are interplanetary spacecraft piloted by aliens from distant planets who travel trillions of miles to survey our planet and study us. While there may be some unknown reason why such intrepid astronauts might choose to make ‘planetfall’ in the same places year after year, it is absurd to suppose that they would have any interest in artificial boundaries of individual states. However, we can easily imagine why time travelers from our own future might observe or be constrained by state boundaries. And they might very well appear in the same ‘window’ areas time after time if these areas correspond to the location of their home bases in the future.” (Pg. 162)
He notes, “There has been much speculation among biologists, ufologists and scholars studying ancient history that the legendary ‘missing link’ between early man and the ape-man may never be found because we ourselves are an engineered species an order of magnitude more human than our immediate ancestor. And many ancient myths and religious writings contain material that would seem to support such a hypothesis. The hypothesis that at least some of the dwarf-like ‘aliens’ are really human would help explain several characteristics of UFO phenomena that have posed thorny problems to proponents of the extraterrestrial hypothesis.” (Pg. 190)
He asserts, “We do not understand the true nature of the universe as well as we think we do. Time is elastic, nonlinear and inconstant. Our ideas of time are illusions caused by (or confused by) the convoluted pattern of motions that our earth, our solar system and our galaxy follow. Time, like space, is not a thing, but an abstract concept used to describe certain aspects of space-time. It is possible to warp space-time, thus to, in a manner of speaking, ‘step outside the universe,’ and then return to it at other coordinates.” (Pg. 215)
He acknowledges, “I have no doubt that skeptics and debunkers will attempt to discredit this book, as they have tried to discredit others, by proclaiming that a detail is in error here and a witness is unreliable there. They will subsequently demand that the entire book and all its premises, including the time-travel hypothesis, be ignored because they can find inconsistencies. Let me save them some effort by admitting in advance that it is quite possible some, perhaps many, of the accounts in these pages are spurious or at least partially incorrect. At the same time, I would suggest that these people will be entirely missing the point. Because with these accounts… it is not the veracity of individual details or witnesses that determine value, but rather the collective weight of the whole volume of data… to ignore unmistakable patterns in preliminary anecdotal data because this detail or that is suspect is to champion ignorance merely for the sake of argument.” (Pg. 223)
This book will interest some who are studying UFOs and are curious about more ‘creative’ solutions to the dilemmas.
February 23, 2015
I read this one while visiting Michael Miley, an old high school friend, in Northern California. Unlike many authors who write about UFO's this one actually has some science background and propounds the hypothesis that they are time travellers.
So, what are the major hypotheses about the nature of UFOs?
-extraterrestrial craft
-craft from beneath the seas
-craft from inside the earth
-time travellers
-pizoelectric effects
-secret government craft
-hoaxes
-altered states of consciousness
-supernatural
-living creatures
-extra-dimensional craft
-Nazi craft
...does this list cover it? I think I've read one or more books propounding each of these theories except the Nazi one--reference to which I've seen in other books and, abundantly, on the Web.
So, what are the major hypotheses about the nature of UFOs?
-extraterrestrial craft
-craft from beneath the seas
-craft from inside the earth
-time travellers
-pizoelectric effects
-secret government craft
-hoaxes
-altered states of consciousness
-supernatural
-living creatures
-extra-dimensional craft
-Nazi craft
...does this list cover it? I think I've read one or more books propounding each of these theories except the Nazi one--reference to which I've seen in other books and, abundantly, on the Web.
July 28, 2011
1.5 off because of the lame interdimensional crime-fighter idea.
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