Alien Base: The Evidence For Extraterrestrial Colonization Of Earth

This substantial book is packed with case studies focussing on reported interactions with alleged non-human (but sometimes very human-looking) entities, most of them investigated and interviewed face-to-face by the author. George Adamski, Gossta Carlsson, the rocket scientist Daniel Fry, Bruno Facchini, Howard Menger, Carroll Wayne Watts, Paul Villa and many others come under the spotlight as their claims, experiences and photographic evidence are examined with forensic thoroughness by Tim Good, who reserves judgment and in most cases simply reports and presents the facts and claims - though where he discovers obvious chicanery, he's not afraid to say so in print.
One of the most interesting cases explored by the author is that of Air Vice Marshall Sir Peter Horsley, Assistant Chief of Air Staff Operations in the 1960s. Horsley's interest in the ET issue is well known following an alleged encounter in 1954, written up in his autobiography `Sounds from Another Room' published in 1997. He later became a confidant of Prince Philip, whose personal interest in these phenomena is also public knowledge.
A long chapter is given to the alleged activities of the `Itibi Rayans' in remotest Amazonia, written up in the 1970s by Ludwig F. Pallman in his now very expensive and hard-to-find book `Cancer Planet Mission.' This story was also investigated independently by the late Wendelle Stevens, who in April 2008 personally discussed with me his travels in Amazonia in pursuit of this case. If an elaborate hoax then a lot of people were taken in, including the local population who simply considered these human-looking beings to be "foreigners" or "Americans" with their exotic silent disk-shaped "aeroplanes" and their advanced use of biotechnology to genetically modify (in the 1960s, mind you) local mazonian plant species. Tim Good is one of the best veteran writers on this subject and closely parallels Jacques Vallee in methodology. Like Vallee, Good visited the north-western Amazonian region of Brazil to personally investigate all the strange happenings there in the late 1970s to early 1980s: Vallee's investigations are written up in `Confrontations' (1990), and Good's are recorded in `Alien Base'- to similar disturbing conclusions. The author devotes most of the final chapter to the bizarre goings-on in Puerto Rico, a theme he takes up again and in more detail in his next book 'Unearthly Disclosure.'
Some of the encounters reported in `Alien Base' are somewhat `out there' and stretch credulity, but no more so than those in `Passport to Magonia' or `The Invisible College.' Patterns may be discerned in these cases, and it is these patterns which, in the long run, will surely guide us to a better understanding of these bizarre phenomena.