Mirage Guys by Mark Pilkington
You should not ignore Mirage Men whether you are a full-on true-believer in the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis (ETH), wholly open-minded on what lies at the heart of the UFO puzzle, a skeptic, or a rabid debunker. Needless to say, your views on which lies in the centre of this UFO sensation – and which of this above-categories you end up in – will play a big role in determining your reaction and response to Mark’s guide.
Those for who Ufology is just a modern-day faith, and something that gives a type of cosmic convenience, are going to be surprised, angered and maybe also disillusioned in what they read. Doubtless, too, you will have a diploma of hostility and outright denial on their component whenever confronted with the crumbling of certain much-cherished belief-systems, tips and (perhaps) specific instances which have become classics within Ufology.
Too bad. Ufology, together with individuals on it, desire a shake-up now and once again and Mirage Males most assuredly delivers. And then you’re lost already if you’re someone whose notions on what make a good or bad UFO book are based on whether or not that same book says what you want to hear.
When it comes to debunkers: well, on reading the guide, they could gain an understanding that the matter they confidently dismiss – specifically that ET actually has checked out us, and has now crashed and burned – is not quite as clear-cut and black-and-white because they formerly thought.
Then Mirage Men will well and truly satisfy if, like me, however, you realize that something strange really is going on in our skies – but that it appears to be a blurry mix of classified military projects, official and unofficial chicanery, mind-games, lies and distortions, shadowy figures weaving complex tales, and perhaps, maybe, even a very real ET presence.
Therefore, with that in mind, what exactly is Mirage guys exactly about? Well, let me make it clear. Basically, the book informs the storyline of Mark’s (and their buddy and colleague John Lundberg’s) very own and extremely individual search of this truth in regards to the UFO puzzle, and just exactly exactly what can be understood in regards to the topic at a level that is official.
After learning about how precisely and exactly why Mark became thinking about, and fascinated by, Ufology and Forteana, we have a guide from the past reputation for Ufology, after which it is road-trip time.
Things start within an entertaining fashion as Mark and John anticipate activities associated with Ufological type in mystical locales, in wilderness settings that could are making famous brands Adamski and Van Tassel drool, and also at the yearly Overseas UFO Convention at Laughlin, Nevada. But, as our Dynamic Duo delve further in to the heart regarding the secret, as opposed to becoming better, things have alot more confusing and distinctly murky. Danger duly rears its ominous mind, and a high level of paranoia and doubt appear to just simply take your hands on Mark and John.
The pair sinks deeper and deeper into a surreal world that seems to be part-X-Files, part-Parallax View, part-hall-of-mirrors, and ALL VERY FUCKING WEIRD as they seek out the truth about UFOs and the US Government, military and intelligence community. Toss in an attempt of the many President’s guys and much more than the usual few Deep Throat-like characters, add a dose that is liberal of War espionage, and mix all of it up as a cocktail of really mind-bending proportions, and Mirage guys kicks into high-gear.
We have to understand a lot about a few of the classic instances within Ufology – Roswell (needless to say!); the Antonio Villas Boas/Space Babe event of 1957; the 1952 Washington, D.C. intrusion; therefore the tale associated with the “Underground Alien Base” at Dulce, New Mexico. Cattle-mutilations and alien abductions also surface – but definitely not in ways that the faithful that is ufological expect.
But, we have to learn significantly more too: specifically, the way specific shadowy figures might have been manipulating all the above occasions, situations and individuals (and a whole lot more too), for strange, obscure (at first, at the very least) and strange reasons, and just how the ufological research community happens to be PERFECTLY AND TRULY PLAYED. Mind-control, staged-events, the spreading of spurious UFO tales to full cover up exotic army equipment, as well as outright breach of human-rights come right into play.
Needless to say, the highly annoying tale of Paul Bennewitz areas, too (a saga told in full when you look at the pages of Greg Bishop’s essential undertaking Beta), and demonstrates not merely escort girl Springfield the degree to which some goes to guard their secrets (whether of a military, intelligence or extraterrestrial nature – or possibly all three), but exactly exactly how simple it really is to govern the ufological scene and the ones that immerse themselves within it – plus in the way it is of Bennewitz, with really tragic results.
Mark additionally addresses the Contactee controversy – an interest which is why numerous haven’t any time. But, when I noted during my Contactees book, there clearly was evidence that is clear a number of the Contactees might have been dealing with the formal globe, or might have been manipulated, Bennewitz-style. Mark understands this too, and offers thought-provoking data suggesting we ought to consider the entire Contactee motion in a light that is new.
One of the numerous features regarding the guide is the fact that in accordance with the fairly present Serpo saga, as well as its attendant stories, tales, rumors, allegations and supposedly key files on crashed UFOs, alien-human trade missions, and much more. And a character that Mark and John have to meet up and go out with, and from who they glean a whole lot of information, could be the somewhat enigmatic Richard Doty – a name that needs to be familiar to any or all within Ufology, but person who hardly any in the industry have really met.
I came across this an element of the book become probably one of the most informative and entertaining, as it really is right here that the understanding strikes both Mark and John that just what begins for them being an adventurous journey from England with a of the most extremely mystical and legend-filled areas in the us, becomes one thing more. Certainly, it can become a somewhat sinister, paranoia-filled duration where neither Mark nor John understand what to think, whom to trust, or whether or not they are now being given a number of bullshit, the absolute cosmic truth, or one thing in the middle.
