Romanek's gripping tale-augmented by video footage, photographs, and physical evidence-is the world's most documented extraterrestrial contact case.
In print for the first time, Romanek relives his personal experiences, from his first sighting of a UFO to terrifying alien abductions. Romanek tells how he captured an extraterrestrial on film—the famous "alien in the window" video footage featured on Larry King Live. Messages includes photos, witness statements, lab reports, and other evidence supporting the validity of Romanek's fascinating story.
But what's most shocking are the strange messages these unearthly visitors communicate to Romanek—authentic equations relating to space travel and planetary diagrams pinpointing what could be an auspicious date for the human race.
Stan Romanek has an amazing story. Even if you only believe 50 percent of what he relates in this book, it is still impressive. I happen to believe about 80 percent.
Romanek is an "Average Joe," who just happens to be heavily connected to and stalked by aliens. There is definitely something to his story and his message. That said, I wish this book were different in two ways. First off, the writing is remedial and often just silly. If it had been written with more authority and gravitas, it would lend credibility to this pretty inconceivable story. Second, I don't necessarily agree with his take on why this all happens to him or to humanity in general. I would have preferred that he left that part out, although he makes it clear that it is just his hypothesis and attempt to make sense of some senseless activity in his life.
All in all, a worthy read. Perhaps about 50 pages too long but you'll spend most of your time reading this book saying to yourself, "What!?" and "How!?"
The subtitle of the book says yours is the most documented ET case. Throughout the book you brag about how much documentation there is to back your case. At several points you mention break-ins into your home in which computers are trashed or document files stolen, but luckily you had documents hidden at some undisclosed location for safekeeping in case of this very event. Yet, the nature of these documents are never revealed, and copies of them are not produced or verified by independent parties. And given the fact that the aliens or their minions are constantly said to be able to track your every move, it seems incredible that they couldn't have tracked you to the location of your secret documents stash. Also, you constantly mention photos you've taken of UFOs and various ETs and yet you reproduce very few of them in the book.
Even so, your story is compulsively readable, sometimes chill-inducing and pretty imaginative. I'm inclined to believe you, and the fact of your producing numerous physics equations beyond your own understanding relating to space folding and wormholes and interstellar travel and propulsion -- to the bafflement of actual scientists apparently -- makes for a persuasive argument.
I did get a little tired of your constant cluelessness every time some kind of high strangeness was afoot, in which you would invariably write something like, "We thought the neighborhood kids were playing a prank, but we soon learned how wrong we were." I mean, if I were you, after the first couple of incidents, I would always suspect aliens.
Before reading this book, I was already a believer that there is intelligent life out there, beyond Earth. With the vast number of stars and planets out there, I've always felt that the likelihood of life on other planets is more than highly possible. So know that I read this book with an open mind. I have to say, I thought it was fascinating. The amount of physical evidence that Romanek has collected is impressive. He's captured extraterrestrial life on digital snapshots and video, and at least one film expert has analyzed the footage and confirmed that the what the viewer sees is real and not tampered with in any way. Scientists have looked at the mathematical equations Romanek writes in his sleep and under hypnosis, along with sketches he's created, and they agree that with sixth grade math skills, there is no way that Romanek came up with this stuff on his own. The equations he captures are just too advanced, taking into account theories by Einstein and other physicists, dealing with wormholes and gravity. He drew a sketch of planets before two of them had even officially been discovered. I really don't think this is a hoax. I can't wait to read his other books and continue the journey.
While its a fairly quick read and a moderately interesting topic, the mundane nature of this book really tired me out quickly. I've always been a fan of books about potential ghosts, goblins, and aliens. This is a watered down version of Whitley Streiber's Communion, and less entertaining.
That being said, I would recommend it for a quick fluff read. It's a summer guilty-pleasure, but nothing more.
This is the gentleman who was on CNN and Larry King Live a few years ago claiming to have video footage catching an alien peeping tom peering into a window in his house.
Purely as an aside, I do believe that other life (whether intelligent or not remains to be seen) exists in the universe; however, I think its somewhat conceited to think that we are important enough as a species to have garnered any interest. Everyone knows that the Martians are far more hip than we are.
Messages tells the story of Stan Romanek, a man plagued by UFOs and alien activities. It's a true story. What sets this tale apart from others is the impressive amount of physical evidence associated with it. Stan has pictures, video, numerous eye-witnesses, and other compelling evidence to back up his incredible story. If you find it hard to believe in UFOs and aliens, you should read this. Although none of the evidence will convert confirmed skeptics, those with open minds will be amazed by what this book says and shows (there are several pictures of evidence). Required reading for anyone interested in this topic.
As hoaxes go, this is one of the most amusing. The guy has chutzpah. I remember hearing him on Coast to Coast. George Noory challenged him to a lie detector test. They scheduled it and Romanek failed. He claims the lie detector tests won’t work on him. I could go on. But I gave the book four stars not because I believe it, but for sheer entertainment value.
Proceed with this book with an open mind. Whether or not what happened to Stan was authentic, I feel, is up to each individual reader. Being a believer in (and an experiencer of) many facets of the paranormal, I had a few places where I struggled with believing Stan and his claims. In some places, his accounts really sound like fiction, and many of his experiences can be easily recreated. It's all about faith... what YOU are willing to believe. Regardless of which way you sway, it is clear he is experiencing something out of the ordinary. If you are struggling like I was, try checking out some of his conference vids on YouTube... He isn't nearly as dramatic and much more believable on film, plus he gives much more visual evidence than in the book. I guess a documentary is coming out about him as well with much unseen footage, including the vid of 'grandpa gray'... That is one that I am sure will cause much uproar. But all in all, an enjoyable book. It is well written, and in places quite funny to read. Whether Stan's abductions are fact or faked, he makes a likable character. Definitely worth the time!
Got Stan's new book on the morning 7th January 2014 and finished it before I went to bed - A really great read, I was gripped with this personal story right from page one and the scientific and academic testimonials for some of the experiences Dan has recorded were well documented and relevant. I would recommend this book to anybody who is interested in Stan's story or the UFO phenomenon, if you read one book on the subject - read this one - because what is more important than messages from other intelligences telling us we are not alone and need to step up and make the changes today to create a revolution in consciousness?
If ever there was a UFO book that is ready-made for a movie, this is it. Stan Romanek's story is jaw dropping. Stalked by aliens since he was a little kid, chased by flying craft no less than 50 times, routinely abducted in the middle of the night, implants removed from his leg, family and friends bearing witness to many of the events, balls of light appearing throughout his house, government agents tapping his phones, and that's only half of Romanek's unbelievable life story. This book is a highly readable journey through one man's remarkably difficult life.
Whether or not what Stan Romanek is telling the truth, this is an incredible book and I could not put it down. Some of the pictures seem fake and I think "where's all of this footage he's talking about?" I could not find anything on the internet aside from the popular footage of the little alien standing outside his window, but part of me wants so much to believe in what he is saying. Either way, his story is just plain fascinating and is now one of my favorites.
This book was very intriguing. I had a hard time putting it down. I found that I was skipping ahead just to see the pictures and the diagrams. Any UFOlogist should read this book. I would love to witness a hypnotic regression with Stan Romanek! Whether or not you believe in UFOs you should read this book. It makes you do a lot of thinking.
When I was a newspaper reporter, I traveled to the UFO conference held yearly in Eureka Springs, Ark. There, I listened to a retired Air Force officer from New York who said LaGuardia Airport had an underground hangar full of UFOs.
I pitched the story to the New Yorker magazine in hopes of being published. They responded with the greatest rejection letter I've ever had in my years of freelance. They said they were too legitimate of a publication to run an article of my ilk. UFOs? Nah..
But Stan Romanek found a publisher, albeit it looks like it his own company, to publish his ilk. It is a chilling tale if you believe and it's entertaining, hence my three-star rating. Had it not been fun, I would not have finished it.
There are some weird moments. UFOs chasing Romanek in Colorado and later finding him in Nebraska. The chip in his body implanted by aliens. His writing of equations to explain traveling through wormholes. It all makes for an interesting story.
But then the weirdness gets too weird for a skeptic like me. When black SUVs start following him around and a fake siding company sends "contractors" to repair his home where a surveillance camera took pictures of lil' grey critters, it got out of hand. There were also weird messages on his phone from an apparent alien or government figure. I never understood who. And there were so many convenient things that happened that he said proved he was telling the truth. When he took a tracking chip from his leg (Or was it his arm?) and put it in a test tube, his wife hid it. He said he had no idea where it was, but late that night, he heard an odd noise from his stereo. Lo and behold the wife hid it in the stereo and when he found it, it had disintegrated. He had witnesses see him writing the equations in his sleep. His wife saw the orbs that followed him, along with the UFOs that were tracking him.
And, lord, I was tired of every time he heard a noise, he thought it was kids playing pranks. Again, it was his attempt to show he was a normal guy, the everyman who was like us. The noises, of course, were his alien pals knocking on the door, putting patio furniture on the roof, etc. And then the dumbest thing was when an alien apparently took a picture of himself with Romanek's camera. It's printed in the book, a stereotypical, large-headed, almond eye grey fellow. But every time it was "What could that be?" After a while, even me, the skeptic, would realize it was those dang aliens again.
Then, when people proved a shot of a grey lookin' through his deck fence was probably fake, Romanek wrote about how he wondered how someone had done it. What, me? Never. Must have been those prankster kids.
He also claims to have fathered alien babies and once when he was abducted, he saw a woman in the spaceship with him. When he returned, he was wearing the woman's Mickey Mouse robe. He assumed the aliens were playing jokes by switching the clothing.
My wife looked Romanek up on the internet after I told her of the book. She found the info that he had been convicted for possessing child pornography. Ewww. The BS Factor, she said, grew largely after we heard that. It was, shall we say, out of this world.
And perhaps the weirdest part is the foreshadowing of his conviction. At one point, an alien ran through his house. He grabbed his video camera, thinking it was one of his stepson's friends "running naked" in the house on a dare. He said he wanted to capture that for fun and to later blackmail the kid. Videotaping naked kids in the house? Double Ewwww.
At that same Eureka conference, I met a man who was related to Travis Walton, the Arizona man abducted in the woods that was the basis for the movie "Fire in the Sky." The man said he had a more harrowing abduction than Walton's and he said he fathered several alien lizard babies. I spoke with him for nearly an hour late one night there. Finally, I had enough and told him that he had a strong wafting odor of marijuana just blasting off him.
"It's because of the pain," he said. "I am still hurting from all that."
Maybe Romanek should have included a marijuana joint with each book to help dull the pain of the reader.
I was watching unrevealed on TV, and saw the documentations on UFO's and saw a episode where they mentioned and showed actual Vatican art work where the painter, painted ppl pointing to the sky at UFO's in the paintings. I came across the coliseum in Rome picture it had the same ufo over the building you have on ur documentary from TV, I took pictures of yours and the picture I found. I believe you very much, and I truly believe your daughter gave you those equations to find her. I also know that species is not harmful for you to to you. I feel there truly care for you especially your daughter I feel Victoria must be the mother this is your connection and that's wonderful and your wife is so beautiful, loving and understanding I love her too. But I can't post the picture here, but if u go to my fb page under a name I would recognize from your story I will give you the tw pictures. I was excited when I found it. But it was a dead ringer for the craft you had on video. Find me lchachabrown
It's up to the reader to believe in Stan's story or not, he gives pretty good explanation and feedback about his experiences but if you are like me.. an open minded person when it comes to ET's.. you will find this book pretty interesting. I still do not believe him 100% for certain and it makes an even more interesting book if you keep an open "what if" attitude while reading. I heard he is now in prison for child pornography... so now I wonder if the ET's visit him there !!! That would make an interesting book.
I don't like to write long reviews the book is enough. It's just amazing story about the Stan Romanek and his family and the struggle with alien abductions secret black SUV's and the scientists .
A lot of great material here, very compellingly written. I'm looking for the sequel ...
Aside from the mathematical formulas, most of what is described here has--and here I'm thinking of Martin Cannon's work--"milab" written all over it. There's almost nothing here that points, on the face of it, to an extraterrestrial origin, and there is at least a component of military or covert-ops harassment of some kind, and perhaps that's all there is to the whole thing, with a UFO theme imposed on it in order to discredit Romanek when he tells his story and also as a red herring. But it's still not clear why him and what whoever is doing this to him is trying to accomplish. And the mathematical formulas still puzzle me. But there is NOTHING here that points to extraterrestrial origin, but plenty that points to someone WANTING Romanek to believe he is interacting with extraterrestrials.
Do I have answers? Hell, no.
I am also dismayed to see on Romanek's Wikipedia page that he has been busted for possessing child pornography on his computer. Who knows the real story. But that crime is the easiest thing in the world to frame someone for and also the most efficient way to silence and discredit someone.
As far as aliens, like Fox Mulder on the old X-Files show, I want to believe, and I feel that it would be interesting if evidence came forward that there was something out there. This is an interesting tale of an unexplained phenomena and I feel that anyone interested in the supposed phenomena of alien abduction will find this to be a good book. And that is what makes this great, is that it is unexplained. A mystery, like other odd phenomena, that should be explored further. This book is laid out in a very easy to read and straight forward style. As to it's authenticity, the jury may be out on that one for a while. And I think this is best left up to the reader to form their own opinion. If you do decide to read this don't forget to lift your head occasionally and scan the skies, let me know if you see anything strange out there.
There seems to be an answer in this book to a question asked by Edward Ahspole, author of "The UFO Phenomena". The question is: "Why would Alien intelligence make contact with us, if all they tell us is stuff we already knew?" (Ashpole about other abductee accounts) Well, the stuff Stan scribbles down in his trance state (alien inspired) is not all known already; physics where humans are just beginning to tap into things! ... I decidedly do not think this is a "good Halloween read" - but rather something else altogether, and because Stan is such a reluctant "friend" of aliens, all the more credible. But the story is really quite incredible! Disconcerting and exciting and puzzling all at once. I'll decline from rating it. I find Stan's writing lacks finesse, but this is not a novel, and Stan is no professional writer. It's readable enough. The content is what matters.
While urging people to be more open-minded about aliens, UFOs and abduction experiences, the author thoroughly demonstrates how much difficulty he has following his own advice. Most irritating is a seemingly rigid adherence to knowledge of what is possible and/or impossible, according to earth education. That is the short list of my disappointment with this account. Having said that, I am always grateful to those who have the guts to go public with an experience that so many have had, including government and scientific officials, but who are afraid to say so. The mystery of why and how will soon be explained, and then we will all wonder why it took so long.
I don't think that Stan is an excellent writer. However, this book is not about Stan's writing skills, it is a raw, humble account of one man's extraordinary experiences. His use of language is simple and straight forward, making it a book that is easy to read. The level of unusual and fantastic content may make it difficult for some readers to believe.... but it is an intriguing and fascinating story. Hopefully this book will encourage the reader to investigate other authors who claim to have had simular experiences... and to dive down the rabbit hole of this phenomenon, or to add more pieces of the puzzle for readers already investigating cases such as Stan's.
This is the story of an abductee and his trials and tribulations with both the "ETs" and with various illusive government, private corporation, military (he doesn't know which) entities which have harassed him since the early 90's. The abductions may have been going on since his childhood but he is not sure. He has been able to accumulate many pieces of evidence some of which has been stolen by intruders, some of which are very professional and others that are very unprofessional.
I highly recommend this book as it shows a side of abduction that is not often talked about.
This is the first book on this topic I've picked up in a long time, and I'm glad I did! It's easy to follow and not written like a textbook, which is a problem I found in some other titles of this nature. Stan's experiences, whether you believe or not, and the writing style, make this a quick and interesting read!
I only hope that more books on this topic will come out and be as fun to read as this one.
A strange jaunt into Romanek's experiences, whether those experiences are based on reality or non-ordinary states of consciouness is to be determined. His claim that he has video footage of his experiences (other than the "peeking alien head through the window") is yet to be seen and each day that goes by without him producing the "goods" further discredit's him.
I had initially stumbled on a lecture being given by this author on you tube. I found the subject matter fascinating and unlike other books in this genre, the author has a lot of documentation to back up his experiences. The book covered most of the ground that the lecture covered but if you have an interest in UFOs, extra-terrestrial life and what might be out there, this book is worth a look.
This was interesting, and while at times I was like there is no way this guy made this up - other times I had no doubt that he did. I think it's a mixture of true and made up information that this guy put together.
Good read. Feel sorry for the man and his family. Fancy waking up andbyour hub is nowhere to be found! Or waking up finding a little 4 ft grey standing over you! Dear lord the fear that would grip you!. Reading the next one now Answers.