Alien Viruses: Crashed UFOs, MJ-12, & Biowarfare

by Robert M. Wood, Nick Redfern (With)

This book, the first of its kind, delves into the many leaked documents that describe research into alien biology and virology. Dr. Robert Wood’s forensic analysis of the documents themselves argues strongly for their authenticity. And their implications are startling. Alien viruses are not only deadly, but are of key importance to biological warfare on Earth. Wood examines the mysterious deaths of key microbiologists and virologists, offers insight into the huge government secret expenditures, and provides an incredible revelation from an Area 51 insider on autopsies of bodies of unknown origin. With assistance from seasoned researcher Nick Redfern, extensively footnoted, and with a comprehensive Index, this is the authoritative treatment of the subject.

Genres: Nonfiction

318 pages, Paperback

First published July 4, 2013

Reviews

[Whisper · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extremely interesting !

[Harrison · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bob Wood is part of the father-and-son team devoted to analyzing the purported "MJ-12" documents that have been fed to UFO researchers since the early '80s. This book gives a good overview to that material, while focusing on one overarching topic of interest: biowarfare and the threat of a potentially species-killing virus. Wood and his ghost-writer Nick Redfern tackle the subject from all angles: references in the MJ-12 documents, testimony from military and intelligence sources, and the mainstream historical and scientific record. What crops up over and over again are links between alleged MJ-12-connected individuals, research into biological warfare, astrobiology, and connections to alleged UFO crash/recoveries.

Wood and Redfern look at several documents from the Timothy Cooper collection, tackle the problem of document authentication, highlight several individual crash incidents, the cattle mutilation phenomenon, and the mysterious deaths of dozens of microbiologists and experts in biowarfare in the early 2000s. While I don't necessarily agree with all of the authors' conclusions (e.g., the overall authenticity of the documents, Redfern's ideas on Roswell, or the idea that cattle mutilations are essentially biowarfare experiments), most conclusions are stated more as tentative working hypotheses than as pet theories. The main virtue of the book, in my opinion, is the sheer collection of data: names, places, connections. And I have to hand it to Nick Redfern. I did not like his style in his Men In Black book, but his prose here is more journalistic, to-the-point, and it makes for an informative and page-turning read.

While the material is controversial, the sheer number of connections inclines me to think that there is something real here. Whether the real danger is from space-borne pathogens (e.g., brought to earth via comets or asteroids), so-called alien viruses found on the alleged bodies of UFO inhabitants, or engineered biowarfare agents (the source of which may or may not have something to do with the other options), the intel community has been keeping tabs on it since at least World War II. Any of the three scenarios is scary enough. Despite its scary subject matter, Alien Viruses (****1/4) is damn fun to read.

[Isabella Hale · Rating 5 out of 5]

very amazing and thought provoking book.. especially now with the Corona Virus.. not that I think it was alien.. but in fact.. other people.. like the Palmdale stories say IT COULD HAVE HAPPENED THAT WAY. As a virologist. I often wonder if Virus actually came from comets or other passing sky debris.