Earth: An Alien Enterprise

by Timothy Good

An Alien Enterprise  focuses on unpublished or little-known contacts with aliens, the infiltration thereof, and Earth's top-secret liaison programmes.

This fascinating new edition tells the story of contact between aliens and humans from all across the globe, dating back to 1932, including meetings with military personnel and American presidents such as Eisenhower and Kennedy.

For the first time, a former member of MI6 reveals her conversation with Neil Armstrong at a NASA conference, when he confirmed that there were "other" spacecraft on the Moon when Apollo 11 landed in 1969.

Further evidence included in this book are genuine photographs of aliens and their craft, NATO special forces shown film of a crashed alien craft and survivor, and, perhaps most sinister, injured aliens cared for by military personnel in the US and UK...

An Alien Enterprise  forces us to consider carefully the evidence and data that has stacked up over the years and to ask ourselves the perennial human are we alone in the universe?

Genres: Nonfiction, Aliens, Conspiracy Theories, Paranormal, Science, History, Reference

464 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Worldwide research, interviewing key witnesses and discussing the subject with astronauts, military and intelligence specialists, pilots, politicians and scientists, has established Timothy Good as a leading authority on UFOs and the alien presence - the most highly classified subject on Earth.

He became interested in the subject in 1955, when his passion for aviation and space led him to read a book by Major Donald Keyhoe describing UFO sightings by qualified observers such as military and civilian pilots. In 1961, after reading a book by Captain Edward Ruppelt, a U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, he began to conduct his own research. Since then, he has amassed a wealth of evidence, including several thousand declassified intelligence documents.

Timothy Good has lectured at universities, schools, and at many organizations, including the Institute of Medical Laboratory Sciences, the Royal Canadian Military Institute, the Royal Geographical Society, the Royal Naval Air Reserve Branch, the House of Lords All-Party UFO Study Group, and the Oxford and Cambridge Union societies. In January 1989, following the dissolution of the Soviet empire, he became the first UFO researcher from the West to be interviewed on Russian television. He was invited for discussions at the Pentagon in 1998, and at the headquarters of the French Air Force in 2002. He has also acted as consultant for several U.S. Congress investigations. He is known to millions through his numerous television appearances and has co-produced several documentaries on the subject.

Timothy Good's first book, Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-up (1987) became an instant bestseller, and is regarded widely as the definitive work on the subject, together with the fully revised and updated book replacing it, Beyond Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Security Threat (1996), which remained for five weeks on the Sunday Times bestseller list. Alien Liaison: The Ultimate Secret (1991) spent thirteen weeks on the same bestseller list. Alien Base: Earth's Encounters with Extraterrestrials (1998) went to No.4 on the Guardian bestseller list. His book, Unearthly Disclosure: Conflicting Interests in the Control of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (2000) was serialized in the Daily Mail. He has also edited a number of books on the subject, including the bestselling Alien Update (1993). Four of these books have a foreword by Admiral of the Fleet The Lord Hill-Norton, former Chief of the Defence Staff and Chairman of the NATO Military Committee. Need to Know: UFOs, the Military and Intelligence (2006/2007) is now published in paperback in the U.K., U.S and Canada. Good’s latest work - EARTH: An Alien Enterprise – is due for publication by Pegasus Books (New York) in November 2013.

Reviews

[Les · Rating 4 out of 5]

A very interesting book, this one. The basic premise is that Earth is being visited (and has been for some time) by numerous extraterrestrial races who are watching us very closely, and in some cases, taking an active role in manipulating events from behind the scenes. According to Good, the governments of our larger countries are in deep with these races.
There is a detailed story of an Royal Air Force airman who is involved with the care and keeping of two ET beings that I found fascinating. Also, the information allegedly given by Neil Armstrong about the Apollo missions encountering alien craft on the surface of the moon was enlightening. This might explain some of the cryptic statements that Armstrong made during his rare appearances over the years.
The book covers most of the well known alien visitation and abduction stories as well as a few accounts and theories that I had not heard of before, and I think that it would be a good book for those who are new to this subject.
Overall a good read and well written, highly recommended for those with open minds and those who question the information that we are supplied with by our governments.

[Dominik Kirtaime · Rating 5 out of 5]

highly recommend Good's work for those seriously studying the alien conspiracy.

[Erik Graff · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is not the book to start with if you're interested in UFOs, alien abductions, ancient astronauts and the like. On the one hand, author Good is simply too credulous, mixing hearsay with documented evidences, mixing the plausible with the absolutely outrageous and telling tales at three or more removes. On the other hand, Good is simply lazy, as if he simply had to throw together stories he'd picked up which hadn't fit in previous books, stories roughly arranged by topics, none of them exhaustively treated. Furthermore, and this really bugs me, many of his footnotes refer back to his own previous publications when he himself is not the source the text refers to. Presumably, one might go back to those older books and find a real footnote to a real source, but this kind of laziness is unforgiveable and a suspicion-raising disservice misleading such readers as do not make a practice of reading endnotes.

This being said, Earth: An Alien Enterprise does present some new material and does elaborate on some themes which a generalist who has read scores of UFO books might appreciate as at least adding some more detail to stories heard before, but not with the same detail. And, to be fair, Good does write in a readable, easy-going, if poorly reasoned and sourced, manner.

[Mark Tallen · Rating 3 out of 5]

This isn't his best book on the subject but nonetheless it has information included that I hadn't come across before. Beyond Top Secret is still his best book and a must for people interested in the subject.

[Nathan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Regardless of your default stance on the question of extra-terrestrial life in the universe, statistically it's more than probable. The deeper question of have they been to earth before, before or during humanity, is what this book focuses on. While it's easy to dismiss countless (and I mean countless, this book documents hundreds and hundreds of them with citation) reports by civilians, military, and even large groups of people as confusion or naiveté, the amount of evidence presented that was consistent over different groups and time periods makes it much harder to support a theory of confusion or collusion.

It's worth the read simply for the understanding of the deep, widespread nature of the phenomenon throughout the past few hundred years, and beyond.

[Sharon Zink · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an interesting, well-written, and convincing book about the history of earthly contacts by extraterrestrial aliens. Such contacts have taken place all over the world in many different settings. It is not the first time that I have read about US astronauts seeing alien aircraft when they landed on the moon. I don't know how much of this book to believe, but one thing I do believe: whenever any government states that there is no evidence of extraterrestrial visits to earth, it is lying. This is the best book I have read so far on UFOs.

[Sian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Filled with lots of very interesting stories of sightings and experiences related to UFO and Alien interactions. I liked that there is a mix of experiences shared from all over the world.

[Thomson Kneeland · Rating 2 out of 5]

Deserves 1 star for its credibility, but as a work of conspiratorial delusional fiction, I might rate it 5 stars. Devoured the book and its glut of fantastical stories lacking any supporting evidence. Good consistently will cite "credible witnesses" and evidence, without even presenting it or stating it. Fascinated, I even looked up a few of the cases online to see if I could find any supporting evidence. Found very little information and a small video, and testimony that he essentially copied off the internet from what I could tell. Supporting evidence of an abduction is not a 3 second film of a purported UFO. Mr Good has seriously damaged his credibility with this work; he presents his own testimony of what he believes were alien encounters, aliens living among us when he attempts to telepathically invite an alien to come sit next to him at a NYC hotel. Surprisingly enough, a man does sit next to him!!!!! He also cites the example of a young child who seemed too perfect in a diner and looked at him knowingly. Surely, she must be an alien or hybrid. He also cites Will Smith as making a credible statement about aliens after a meeting with Obama; as if Mr Smith would be briefed on such intelligence, if it did exist. He also relies on George Adamski throughout the book, whose claims are fairly preposterous (Jesus was a messenger for the aliens; he got to board their craft and fly to the moon and Venus) I'd love to see reliable evidence of satellite governments, Jesus as a messenger for the alien civilizations (what about Buddha, Mohammed, and Lao-Tse???...guess the aliens follow a Christian theology?), and everything else in this book, but Mr Good has none besides "credible eyewitness testimony" of which I can find very little support of. Maria in Puerto Rico, continually abducted by aliens over a period of years, and only has a 3 second video of the craft. Here's an idea: if aliens are abducting you on a regular basis, perhaps you should invest in a $100 cheap videocamera at the least, set it up and start filming when you go to bed. Better yet, a few hundred dollars and a higher quality camera with a tripod set up to record for a few hours at night might go a long way towards substantiating your claims.
Great read for the conspiratorial conjectures and imagining a crazy alternate reality we could be living in. But this work ends up harming any truth that might be out there with its fantastic claims, and Good's ability to accept absolutely any witness testimony as fact. Don't get me wrong, I loved the book, couldn't wait to see how outlandish the claims got and whether Obama was an alien...

[Christopher Roth · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of interesting reports here, especially the first person ones, but the book is far too heavily weighed down with cases that are only hearsay, or, rather, second- or third-person accounts. What Timothy Good needs desperately to understand is that even people who don't believe in extraterrestrials at all acknowledge that military intelligence routinely puts about UFO-type stories and rumors as a way of creating a smokescreen of disinformation and as a way of confusing, distracting, and discrediting people who get too close to witnessing or learning about the development and test-flying of prototype craft. This is a very inexpensive way to head off lots of information leaks, and it has been going on since the beginning of the Cold War. Therefore, when an engineer tells Timothy Good that he once worked with someone who once sat next to a general on an airplane who told him, off the record, about all the captured aliens they have on ice in some hangar on some military base, THIS IS NOT INFORMATION. This is not interesting. This is not worth a whole chapter. I even think that the whole Amicizia case in Italy can be put in this category; the photo in the photo section of the supposed 10-foot-tall human-looking extraterrestrial named Mr. Kenio is a ridiculous case in point: yup, he sure looks tall, but why would he acquiesce to be photographed and yet not stand next to something or someone that can be used as a reference point for his height?

Then there's stuff like the Dworshak case in North Dakota. I have no idea how to explain shit like that.

[Jemma · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you're going to read a book about ufology, then you could do a lot worse than read this one. This is a real compendium of the obviously false, the uncertain and a decent dose of he may have something here. Amongst the more unlikely tales is that of the Austrian who rides his motorbike into a UFO to give them a piece of his mind. Which is certainly entertaining, in a tables-turned manner.

About a third of the way through, I realised I'd actually met the author. At a Sceptics event, I suggested that one of his accounts of meeting an alien was more likely to have been a covert pass by a gay man (as it was illegal in New York then). I stand by this as a more likely explanation but there really is more here that is harder to dismiss.

[J.W. Bowe · Rating 3 out of 5]

From his musical background with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Timothy Good tunes this UFO cycle to an open air amphitheatre of possibility over a chamber of conspiracy. One has to wonder if his gentlemanly approach to flying saucers and like are not better suited to the many long form conversations and interviews with him that are available online, but this still reads like a fine gin and tonic, and with much the same effect. Put Holst's The Planets on the vinyl player while you're reading it and you'll be well away.

[Ray Foy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Earth: An Alien Enterprise is a deep-dive into the “contactee” aspect of the UFO phenomenon. The author, Timothy Good, is a respected UFO researcher who has produced solid investigative work through best-selling books for some forty-five years. In this one, he examines what can be learned from the often disregarded stories of the contactees.

CONTACTEE TALES

Before there were victims of alien abductions, there were the contactees. These were people who reported contact and interaction with extraterrestrial beings, usually over an extended period of time. Mostly, they reported the aliens as “space brothers,” who sent warnings to humanity and averred to be trying to help us. Many of them took pictures of the alien crafts and sometimes of the aliens themselves.

The contactees were telling their stories in the 1950s and 1960s. In the 1970s and 1980s, they were largely displaced by the stories of abductions that surfaced. The abductees replaced the contactees in UFO lore, but their experiences and stories were similar. The biggest difference was the forced nature of the abductee experience, and that they rarely obtained the clear, close-up photos made by the contactees.

In Earth: An Alien Enterprise, Tim Good seeks to take a second look at the contactee stories to see if there is something there. To that end, he lays a groundwork in PART ONE, relating some well-known (in UFO circles) stories and a lot of lesser known ones. He includes the tales of President Eisenhower’s alleged meetings with aliens, Nixon’s showing Jackie Gleason alien bodies, and flying saucer landings at military bases.

Mr. Good starts with the stories of extended contact by the Dworshak brothers that began in 1932. These were benign encounters that began when the brothers were just boys. Their accounts laid a groundwork that continued with other contactees. This included effects from the alien craft that required “cleansing” (requiring the contactees to doff their clothing upon entering a spacecraft and undergo a treatment before continuing). They reported telepathy and missing time. The aliens they encountered were mostly human-looking, implying hybrids.

Then there is the tale of the Italian engineer, Giampiero Monguzzi, who photographed an apparent alien astronaut next to a spacecraft while on a climbing trip in 1952. That photo is included in this book’s Image Gallery section.

George Adamski, a near-famous contactee, is covered and several of his photographs included.

A lot of coverage is given to the Amicizia group, where humans were chosen for contact by a group of aliens who “infiltrated” human society. This theme of infiltration is echoed in other accounts, and carries through to today in the work of Dr. David Jacobs.

STORIES AND PHOTOS STRAINING CREDULITY

Mr. Good is a capable writer as well as researcher (and a professional violinist), and his books tend to be good reads. This one is no exception. His accounts of the presidential meeting stories, extended encounters, and the Amicizia group are compelling, though fantastic.

These stories, however, are woven amid accounts of “lights in the sky” that, while interesting, good UFO cases, basically constitute a long list that can become tedious in its repetition.

The contactee stories come through with all their outrageous aspects that originally led to their disregard. Still, one might wonder if at least some of that disregard was a consequence of the time period. Most common folk in the 40s, 50s, and 60s simply regarded flying saucer stories as fairy tales. Taken in the light of a more open-minded generation, however, leads one to wonder if there is more here than wild stories.

Also, the photographs included are easy to regard as faked, even when they are endorsed as “not image manipulations” by experts. The Ed Walters photos of Gulf Breeze UFOs are prime examples. Or could it be that a clear photo of something fantastically outside of our experience can only be perceived as fake?

In examining all these cases, Mr. Good does distill the essence of them, providing possible truths coming through all the incredulity. They seem to support the reality of alien-human hybrids, or even “humans raised by aliens,” as living among us. Crash retrievals, alien body recoveries, live alien recoveries, and even government-alien interactions with agreements, seem to achieve some level of reality.

UFOS AND ALIENS FOR REAL?

Earth: An Alien Enterprise is near encyclopedic in the scope of its content. As such, it is an essential reference within UFO literature. More important is what it says about the UFO phenomenon, the reality of the alien presence, and what that presence is all about. Are Earth and humanity nothing more than subjects of an alien enterprise? Being confronted with advanced technology along with evidence of reality being deeper than commonly perceived can make it seem so. Still, it is better to face reality than live in a fanciful bubble. Earth: An Alien Enterprise will help you burst that bubble.

[John Boyle · Rating 2 out of 5]

A collection of UFO accounts which range from the mildly credible to the completely ridiculous. Unfortunately the author appears to have collected many of these accounts from mostly second- or third-hand sources and appears to have made little (if any) serious attempt to investigate them for himself. Very little in the way of any critical analysis of evidence beyond perhaps commenting that an eye-witness "appeared credible" or something of that ilk, and author tends to reference his previous books within the text a little too much. It's a pity because it is clear that some effort went into the writing - hence the two stars.

I fear that some of the unsubstantiated rubbish that is included within the book will have the effect of undermining rather than underpinning the serious investigation attempts of other writers into this phenomenon, and on the whole does the field of ufology a disservice.

[Phillip Fitzsimmons · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book. It was in the Plus catalog the first time I listened to it, but now I’ve listened to it a second time know I will listen to it again in the future. Well done to everyone involved with the project.

The first time I read this book I thought it was the.best UFO I had ever read. This second time I enjoyed the stories and kept thinking the author might be a great BS artist. I'm looking forward to the next time I read it to find out what I will think about it during future raedings.

[Dan Zarfati · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is defenately an interesting book, but the author includes and gives a lot of space to very questionable cases and people, such as Philip Corso, Thomas who explains about some aliens from Roswell, and so many others. The author is great to leak disinformation, as he include many dodgy cases on his books, still a lot of the material is interesting and deserve to be read. The part of the amicizia alone makes the book worth.

[Ralyn Longs · Rating 1 out of 5]

At first unintentionally hilarious, but soon even that amusement petered out. The author pretends that it is a journalistic venture, but extends no effort whatsoever to cross-examine stories of people deemed to have seen aliens, other than stating repeatedly 'they seemed honest'.

[Wendy Gillespie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting But Disjointed

As always, Mr. Good presents solid information but without enough context to draw any definitive conclusions as to the bigger picture. I feel as if he knows more than he is revealing.

[K. Counihan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good Well Researched Book

For some this will be a very difficult read . It is written in a research style that at times can be confusing. I thought it was interesting and informative.

[Arthur B · Rating 3 out of 5]

Timothy Good had long since lost his credibility by this point, so bowing out with the most extreme and ridiculous restatement of his theories is at least stylishly brazen. Full review: https://fakegeekboy.wordpress.com/202...

[Kathy Adams · Rating 3 out of 5]

It started out well, but it became redundant. After the first few stories of alien abductions followed by more stories of alien abductions. I was a little disappointed. I expected a little more depth.

[Andy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome book full of mind blowing well researched data.

Highly recommended.

[Robert Cook · Rating 5 out of 5]

The shocking truth behind the greatest cover-up in human history – Good book but very long winded – lots of information I hadn’t heard before, including stuff from 1900 to 1945.

[Carolyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting food for thought. Kind of dry.

[Sam J · Rating 5 out of 5]

Seemingly countless experiences

[Beth · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting read lots of individual stories and experiences but nothing particularly new, seems more of a rehash of what's already been in print. Yes there is some new information but not a great deal, and a lot has been in print more than once.

[Jody Nicholson · Rating 1 out of 5]

Did not finish. Got a quarter of the way and just found it repetitive and dull.

[Lo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting info. A lot of the stories are well known, but quite a few I never heard of.

[Scott Roberts]

Pretty good. I like the parts talking about the interactions with aliens and government, far better than the descriptions of the UFO sightings.

[Jonathan Bartholomew · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's fine for what it is, but exactly the same as all other books in its genre.

[Cat · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent anthology of all the contact stories. Fabulously collected and organized. Real or credible or not? I don't know but I found it tremendously entertaining and satisfying.