Are significant numbers of humanity the product of an ancient and advanced alien civilization? Have we, across the millennia, been periodically modified and refined as a species? In short, has our genetic make-up been manipulated by otherworldly beings that view human civilization as one big lab experiment?
These are controversial and thought-provoking questions. They are also questions that demand answers, answers that may very well be found by examining those people whose blood type is Rh negative.
The vast majority of humankind--85 to 90 percent--is Rh positive, which means a person's red blood cells contain an antigen directly connected to the Rhesus monkey. This antigen is known as the Rh factor.
Each and every primate on the planet has this antigen, except for the remaining 10 to 15 percent of humans. If the theory of evolution is valid--that each and every one of us is descended from ancient primates--shouldn't we all be Rh positive? Yes, we should. But we're not. The Negatives are unlike the rest of us. They are different.
They are the unique individuals whose bloodline may have nothing less than extraterrestrial origins.
Nick Redfern is a British best-selling author, Ufologist and Cryptozoologist who has been an active advocate of official disclosure, and has worked to uncover thousands of pages of previously-classified Royal Air Force, Air Ministry and Ministry of Defence files on UFOs dating from the Second World War from the Public Record Office.
He has has appeared on a variety of television programmes in the UK and works on the lecture circuit, both in the UK and overseas, and has appeared in internationally syndicated shows discussing the UFO phenomenon. He is also a regular on the History Channel programs Monster Quest and UFO Hunters as well as National Geographic Channels's Paranormal and the SyFY channel's Proof Positive.
Redfern now lives in Texas and is currently working as a full-time author and journalist specializing in a wide range of unsolved mysteries, including Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, UFO sightings, government conspiracies, alien abductions and paranormal phenomena, and also works as a feature writer and contributing editor for Phenomena magazine and writes regularly for other magazines and websites.
In 2007 Universal Studios bought the rights to Redfern's book: "Three Men Seeking Monsters: Six Weeks in Pursuit of Werewolves, Lake Monster, Giant Cats, Ghostly Devil Dogs and Ape-Men" in the hopes of making a movie from it.
Many great books are written when an author has an inspiration and becomes totally enthusiastic about the subject. Unfortunately, this book was admittedly written as an assignment, and a request from Redfern's Publisher. As such, it lack passion and is a patchwork of various sources mixed together. Rather than independent research, this is a re-hatch of several existing books about UFO's (Budd Hopkins, Whitley Strieber, etc.), and alien ancestors (notably Zechariah Sitchen and Erich Von Dnaiken). If you have already read these books, this is quite boring and repetitious. There is some information about blood research, but it is mostly standard and encompasses a small part of the book. it is almost as if Redfern needed to fill the book with a certain number of pages, so he boringly includes summaries of several well-known books on UFO's over many pages, as a filler.
When he started talking about alien, lizard, shape-shifters amongst us, as though they were common knowledge and factual, and that the Queen of England was one, I almost tossed the book in the garbage. Even many believers in the possibility of UFO's and alien ancestors know where to draw the line.
The argument about "most" RH-negative people having very similar physical characteristics is total nonsense. One may inherit the blood type of a parent, but other physical traits are separate and have nothing to do with the gene for blood type. It is true that the RH-Negative blood type is unusual, and may have been inherited from certain ancestral groups many tens or hundreds of thousands of years ago. However, today, it is only one of thousands of physical characteristics that we inherited from our ancestors. Redfern's point about the mystery of the Basque people as a group, predominantly having RH-Negative blood, is not mysterious at all. They lived in a very remote mountain area, were keen to preserve the traditions of their own unique culture, and like all such closely-bound groups, there was likely much in-breeding taking place in this very close family-like community. Therefore prevalence of the blood type and certain physical characteristics is nothing outstanding, but expected.
Redfern makes far too much of this blood type. I have RH-Negative blood, and know others that also have it, but we lack many of the so-called "common" characteristics that Redfern likes to pretend exists. Of course, coincidentally, there are some commonalities that I can relate to (e.g. my obsessive interest in unusual phenomena such as UFOs, alien ancestors, history, Egyptology, etc.), but you will find commonalities and differences amongst most groups of people that have nothing to do with blood types. For example, my half-sister, who is also RH-Negative, has absolutely no interest in UFO's, alien ancestors, or any other New Age interest at all, has never had "psyschic" experiences of any kind, etc. On the other hand, my brother, who enthusiastically shares all my interests and physical characteristics (we look and act very similar), has a Positive blood type, and even his blood is from a different Group than mine.
I have read many UFO books, as well as some of Sitchen's books, and had high hopes for this one, but I was greatly disappointed by the lack of innovative research, novelty, as well as the credibility of many of the very weak and unsubstantiated arguments.
OK, while I don't buy into any of this stuff, it's still a very fun read. Pure fantasy as far as fantasy goes. A lot of interesting conjecture and musings and interesting tidbits that the author uses in a bunch of intriguing ways. Love it.
Was having a terrible day and my mental health was making g me feel insane so I wanted to read a book which I tought would be more insane. Not disappointed in the book because of that. But didn't give it a higher rating because I don't belive in anything g the book had to say
I really wanted to give it four stars. Really. It was stylistically a very easy read. The use of many different fields in order to prove his hypothesis was well done, able to connect some science to legends, for example, and strongly suggest these are more than coincidences. I especially liked the blood restrictions of the Bible, and the legends of "fairies" and similar magical organisms. The alien abductees almost always reporting reproductive and sexual encounters, and being Rh-, also create a strong argument. Then he goes through (mostly anecdotal) evidence that the types of genetic manipulations for the Rh negatives may still be going on. (The Black Eyed Children, as they did before, scared me.) So yes, it is a very well structured, well researched, well written text. However, some of the biology is not as well thought out; some of that also is not the author's fault, as one set of evidence for example, like letters passing in the mail, was published as this book was in press. More research came out recently after the book was published. It would be interesting to see if the author would change his hypothesis any with the new evidence and other points below. The overall hypothesis is that there was an alien intervention in Homo evolution forming Rh- people. One reason for this the author states as a question: why would a Rh- mother have the ability to kill her own Rh+ child? The author assumes in this case all genetic changes are always good. But look at something like malaria and sickle cell, where being sickle cell is just as bad as getting malaria. Also just recently published was a study that showed a mother's immune response could contribute to a child's autism. Therefore yes, a mother may fight her fetus, on more than one gene. So the assumption that a mother would never try to kill or harm her fetus is false and weakens the argument. Second, the one "crossed in the mail" was the claim that there are no Neanderthal genes in modern humans. That has been revised with further study to at least 4% of modern DNA is Neanderthal derived. Third, the author does not sufficiently debunk a more standard hypothesis for the appearance and localization of Rh- peoples, namely, random mutation, migration, and genetic drift in those isolated populations. But there is enough here to warrant further study. Maybe by sequence analysis we can find or not the mutations and drift. We can see if the Rh- Cro-Magnon man and their Basque, Celtic and other descendants do or do not have Neanderthal DNA. We can see if the other traits Rh- have such as the extra L vertebrae, lower blood pressure extra rib, etc, are linked, or in the author's terms, are in the same engineered area. Conclusion: I do not think the author is wrong. There are too many coincidences from all the fields for something not to be there. But there is work to be done, especially in the biology, to call it a "theory." It is a plausible hypothesis in need of some more research. Anyone want to fund me to do the sequence part?
Nick Redfern is an engaging writer-- he has the gift of writing with the same "voice" he uses in TV conversation, and he gets to use more humor in his own book than he does when he appears on Ancient Aliens.
However. He does a lot of very blatant leading the reader to agree with his conclusions by ignoring other possibilities, and he doesn't hide it very well. His scientific and medical statements are suspect, to say the least.
But it's a good survey of the Annunaki idea and a very brief survey of modern abduction reports, plus some speculation about the Fair Folk of Celtic myth being the same beings as the aliens we all know and "love" in the modern day. If you want to get an idea of what the Ancient Alien hypothesis is all about and you think Erich Von Daniken writes like a pompous blowhard, this could be a good book to start with.
This book basically takes for granted the particular Anunnaki hypothesis put forward originally by Zecharia Stitchen- which is a red flag right off the bat; Stitchen's work may have some merits, but its often opposed by others within the exopolitical theory space for its reliance on shoddy translations, logical fallacies and general sensationalism, which others (e.g. Philip Coppens) decry as harming the overall "ancient aliens" hypothesis in the eyes of the general public, most probably from the motivation of generating book sales. Redfern is apparently more of a general "cryptozoologist", researching anomalous events, creatures and such- and this book definitely reflects that in a lot of the language and logic. He's basically the opposite end of the spectrum from someone like a Graham Hancock, who is propounding an alternative history hypothesis loathed by established academia but while clearly attempting to anticipate criticism from and appeal to that higher brow audience. Redfern clearly dun giva fug about that, and his writing does frequently read a bit like "DID Batboy really have an affair with Princes Diana? Some may say that sounds ridiculous, but actually the circumstances do make such an encounter an all too real possibility."
And so we almost gave up on this one, but did end up listening through the entire audiobook. Luckily it did actually improve we got deeper into it, eventually mounting into an overview of the most famous UFO abduction cases, and more profitably- a survey of the most influential literature on the topic, including some interesting analysis and comparisons concerning that literature. Redfern's thesis is thoroughly centered on the significance of blood types, primarily the RH- factor, and in that regard we believe he most likely is on to something, what with the Basques, the extra vertebrae and all. But the most surprising part of this book for us came in the conclusion when Redfern briefly quips to reveal that he believes the "official" 9/11 story about planes falling into buildings! Pretty odd for a guy who chases chupacabras to be propagating the most obvious psyops of all time.. unless he is IN on the agenda?! Dundunduuuun..
Nick Redfern, who has been seen on the series "Ancient Aliens", is a good writer. The topic is finally taken up that I've always wondered about. If we all have the same origen, why should our blood types be different? Even causing a natural reaction in a mother to attack her fetus of a different Rh type?
The only issue I have is that Redfern soliloquizes over religious beliefs causing terroristic actions and then goes on to say that if people thought their bloodline was caused by alien genetic tinkering that (1) their belief in God would be abolished (why couldn't people just extrapolate that their God is even bigger than previously thought and created the alien race, too?), and; (2) without religion, which he says is responsible for the ardent terrorism, that there will be no social order but chaos (if religion causes terrorism and strife, one would think it a boon to social order and elimination of "my God vs your God"-caused terrorism). Redfern needs to spend less time on the soapbox about his feelings in this area and make a stronger connection about the possible reactions.
All in all, a good writer has taken on a long overdue topic. Highly recommend. (And why isn't this addressed in school when when we first learn about blood types...?)
I mean... if you are familiar with his work you'll probably like this. The most important part is in the introduction where you find out how to have your blood tested for alien DNA, the rest is sort of a rehashing of the Bible's greatest hits through the eyes of ancient astronaut theory.
An indulgence into the imagination of possibilities... life would be ever so boring if we couldn't make chaotic poetry of it. Truth is time and we know very little of its pulsebeat dreaming.
This book expounds upon the theories set forth by Zecharia Sitchin and Erich Von Donken, in the distant past aliens from another planet visited earth and interacted with humans. Zecharia Sitchin posits that the aliens came from a planet called Nabiru and needed a slave race to mine if for them. Since the igigi or workers from Nabiru were hard to control they decided to genetically alter a proto-human species by giving them some of their own DNA. the aliens did some other experiments wit gene splicing which is why we got minotaurs, centaurs etc. these creatures and aliens gave rise to our mythology.
Gene splicing according to the author may go back hundreds and thousands of years. The first proto human to have their genes altered were the cro magnon people. they seemed to have legends about the stat system the Pleiadis. The bloodline tha is supposedly the product of alien manipulation is the RH - blood type. LOL my mom is O- while I am O+. The RH- is the bloodline they altered so they could take control of this planet and mine it for gold and other resources. The author details that people like the Basque, the Celts and other groups have a higher percentage of RH- in their populations than other groups do.
People with RH- blood have certain health advantages and certain disadvantages. They tend to have a lower blood pressure and heart bea which can be good. If an RH- mother is pregnant with an RH+ baby the mother must take RH+ hemoglobin to prevent her body from making antibodies that would destroy the fetus. Most abductees are RH- and what happens to them after the adduction can be blamed on the curse of having RH- blood.
What is the purpose for the abductions. Many say that the aliens are interbreeding with us to make hybrid being that will one day take over the planet and push the humans out. They are taken up and they have their sperm or ovum taken so it can be spliced with alien DNA. Why tey do this who knows ? It could be that their DNA is weak and it needs ours to strengthen it. Also it could be for a take over. Many such hybrids are no exactly human friendly. Often theyh have malicious intent towards us as evidenced by the Black Eyeed children and the men in black.
Abductions and getting human DNA samples has been going on through out history but it was called by a different name. Going back t Babylonian times we have Lilith who seduces men in their dreams. She heads a class if demons called lilin . They seduce men and get the human DNA from the encounter. Lilin also had male demons in their ranks wh did the same thing o women.. Celtic fairy lore has people being kidnapped by faeries and mating with them. The changeling phenomenom involves the faeries taking a healthy baby and rplacing it with a sick faerie baby.
Why the obsession with DNA. THe author posits that the Annunaki had nuclear wars against each other and that may have weakened their DNA. The author posits that the aliens left after the flood and after they wen t war with each other. A few remained behind.
While I find the Ancient Alien theory very plausible I have a hard time believing certain details that theorists hold dear. I find that humans being the product of gene splicing to be highl unlikely nor do I believe that the planet Nabiru exists. Not enough proof. Seeing technoloy today i we wanted to mine a planet we would use Artificial Intelligence or androids o do the work. Surely the annunaki had the tech for that and assuredy it would be easier and less problematic than creating a slave race. I do find it believable that RH- comes from Aliens. It is possible that humanoid looking aliens settled into our planet after theirs was destroyed or ruined and somehow they were able to breed with the humans already here. Of course the bible has instances of the angels mating with humans only t have the offspring miscarry or be born rather freakish. My burning question for the author is how did the RH+ blood come about .
Overall good back has many facts to consider with some strength to it's hypothesis.
"Bloodline of the Gods: Unravel the Mystery of the Human Blood Type to Reveal the Aliens Among Us" by Nick Redfern is a fascinating exploration of the origins and implications of the human blood type, particularly the Rh-negative blood group. Redfern's compelling narrative weaves together scientific research, historical accounts, and intriguing theories to suggest a possible extraterrestrial influence on human genetics. The book is thoroughly researched and thought-provoking, making it a must-read for anyone interested in the intersection of human history, genetics, and ufology. Redfern's ability to present complex ideas in an accessible and engaging manner earns this book a well-deserved 5-star rating.
Main Points:
1. Rh-Negative Blood Anomaly: Explores the mystery of Rh-negative blood and its uncommon presence in the human population, questioning its origins and unique characteristics. 2. Historical Accounts: Examines historical records and ancient texts that hint at the possibility of extraterrestrial contact influencing human evolution and genetics. 3. Scientific Research: Integrates scientific studies and genetic research to support the theory of alien involvement in the development of the Rh-negative blood type. 4. Alien Abduction Narratives: Investigates numerous accounts of alien abductions and encounters, analyzing the prevalence of Rh-negative blood among experiencers. 5. Hybrid Theories: Discusses the concept of human-alien hybrids and how Rh-negative blood might play a role in these theories, offering a new perspective on human origins. 6. Biblical and Mythological References: Delves into biblical stories and mythological tales that may reference extraterrestrial beings and their interactions with humans. 7. Government Cover-Ups: Considers the possibility of government cover-ups and secrecy surrounding the true origins of the Rh-negative blood group and alien contact. 8. Medical Implications: Explores the medical and health implications of having Rh-negative blood, including its impact on pregnancy and disease resistance. 9. Cultural Impact: Looks at how the Rh-negative blood type has influenced cultural beliefs, legends, and societal structures throughout history. 10. Future Research: Encourages further investigation and open-mindedness towards the potential connections between human genetics and extraterrestrial life.
Conclusion:
"Bloodline of the Gods" is an eye-opening and intellectually stimulating book that challenges conventional beliefs about human origins and genetics. Nick Redfern's meticulous research and engaging storytelling make a compelling case for the potential influence of extraterrestrial beings on the Rh-negative blood group. This book is not only a captivating read for UFO enthusiasts and conspiracy theorists but also for anyone curious about the mysteries of human genetics and our place in the universe. With its blend of science, history, and speculative theory, "Bloodline of the Gods" is a thought-provoking journey that invites readers to reconsider the boundaries of human knowledge and the possibilities of our extraterrestrial heritage.
Wow, what a pleasant surprise. I recently finished a contact/ abductee help book that was utterly terrible I'm so glad that that did not turn me off from continuing on with the subject matter and to this book, because it was really good. I was inspired throughout and paid apt attention to everything the author said. I will definitely be reading more from this author and diving even deeper into this subject which is both thought provoking, and if true, nothing short of astounding.
Everyone likes an origin story, and this is a fine one. If the author wants this story adopted more widely, I would advise telling it as a story, not trying to tie together a bunch of data points into a mocumentary. This book requires a reader willing to make some fairly large leaps of logic or faith to arrive at the same co clusion as the author. For instance, just because Basque is a language isolate it does not follow that the most likely explanation is it's an alien language.
Was a decent read The more I learn about Annunaki and reptilians the more that theory comes together ..I much more believe in annunaki being our creators, than that we evolved from Apes..I dont know this origin story brings a few puzzle pieces together and does not seem so fringe and crazy any longer .🧐 Good story, good info, nice balance of familiarity and education 👌
Started out as an interesting proposition. But too many "perhaps"'s later down the track in the book. I feel like its assumptions are really far-fetched. I'd like to believe in it as I'm one of those RH-' s but I feel much more comfortable with Robert Lazna's biocentrism theory. It's a must read!
A fascinating read that brought diverse subjects into a clear narrative. I did find the argument and sources a bit weak in places but there may not be enough research into the subject at present. Overall an easy, well thought out read.
Very interesting book on the alien question and people who are Rh negative. Goes into the differences between Rh negative and positive people and what might happen to the world population if this was even considered outside the small UFO community
Some good speculation, but many of the articles used for this book are not really realiable, besides that Redfern is not really coherent, among his books he believes in stuff that are against his theories. Still may be some interesting food for thought on this one.
I have been deeply involved and interested in this topic for almost 20 years. While the book hit on points, it missed on solving the others. Still if you’re looking for something to entertain you go for it.
I put the book down about half-way through. It's not bad, and may be very interesting to people unfamiliar with some of the Sitchin/Ancient Astronaut info...but I found there were too many pages rehashing a somewhat questionable premise (and I say that as someone who has read all of Sitchin's books and still am very dubious about his overall assertions).
Nick Redfern is a really good writer, but this book felt like a subject that Nick was assigned. I'd recommend it to someone who is new to ancient aliens concepts. I'd recommend others who have read a lot on the subject to get the Rh info from audio's on the subject that can be found on Youtube.