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THE THREAT by David M. Jacobs

THE THREAT

The Secret Alien Agenda

by David M. Jacobs

Pub Date: Jan. 1st, 1998
ISBN: 0-684-81484-6
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Jacobs knows that people think he's crazy. He is a bona fide historian at Temple University—and a leading UFO researcher. He has interviewed, mostly under hypnosis, hundreds of people who say they have been abducted by aliens, and he thinks he's figured out why they are here—and it's not Whitley Strieber's mystical, New Age vision of cosmic harmony. Rather, it is interspecies breeding, because the aliens cannot reproduce themselves. ``The aliens are conducting a widespread, systematic program of physiological exploitation of human beings,'' he states. Jacobs gives vivid, detailed descriptions of the alien/human hybrids and mating and fetal implantation procedues, based on the accounts given by his interviewees. You can classify this with Star Trek or engage in a willing suspension of disbelief, which might be allowed Jacobs on the assumption that he, a solid academic, and the many, many people he interviewed—with similar accounts uninformed by prior knowledge of other abductions—can't all be crazy.