Millennial Hospitality [Paperback]

 

 

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If true, this may be the most amazing story yet told on the subject of Human-ET interaction. There is no mysticism, life affirming-revelations for the Human race, or solutions offered to our worldly problems; just an objective summary of events in which the Tall White aliens turn out to be disarmingly like ourselves, but even more quick to temper and to exact retribution then we are. They may be more rational and clear-thinking than ourselves to have survived long enough to become interstellar travellers, but they cannot be described as being overwhelmingly friendly and benign. How refreshing!

In all 3 books of the Trilogy, I feel the author is telling the story exactly as it is. The previous reviewer makes no comment on the possible significance of the story, but comments only on the style.

If this story is confirmed, then it is of fundamental importance in our understanding of the motivations of the major powers in dealing with (and witholding evidence of?) ETs. I find it of great significance that most of the major revelations of recent years have come not from starry-eyed truth-seekers, but have instead originated from ex-military personnel who got involved from duty rather than choice.

Read all three books, and form your own opinion!

This book (number one of a set of 4) tells of a soldier based near Las Vegas who is working in the desert alone. He is the base weather reporter and has to spend hours on his own day and night letting off weather balloons and filling in reports to fax to base. He tells of his experiences with a group of Aliens who start to interact with him. He sees their spacecraft regularly and manages to overcome his fear and have an ongoing relationship with the aliens. The only critisism is that the books are a bit repetative and I feel the information could have been condensed into two books quite easily. However, I still bought all four books because I found them so fascinating.

I've just bought and read this book and I honestly don't know what to make of it. The author presents it as "fiction" and as a work of SF fiction it's dire: repetitive, confused, unlikely and inconclusive. But if it's an accurate account of an enlisted airman's encounters with aliens during the 1960s at a USAF base in Nevada then it's fascinating.

First a summary: The book is a first-person account of how Airman Charles "Baker" arrives at AFB "Desert Center" (Nellis AFB) in the early 1960s, works as a weather observer in nearby "Mojave Wells" (Indian Springs) which involves solitary nocturnal visits to isolated bombing ranges to launch weather balloons which he observes through a theodolite and phones in wind velocities to "Desert Center" so they can know if it's safe to fly aircraft on the day. While doing this Baker has various encounters with "tall white" aliens who like to watch him at work, rifle through his possessions and generally get in the way. These aliens seem to have good working relations with the USAF top brass and occasionally when Baker is in trouble they make a phone call to a 4-star general in the Pentagon who calls the 2-star general in charge of Desert Center who call the Major in charge of weather, who contacts Baker's sergeant who fixes the problem.

Baker is adopted by a "teacher" alien who likes to bring her young alien school children and her own daughter out to watch Baker at work. Baker succeeds with the aliens where others have failed because he neither runs away and refuses work on the ranges alone, nor attempts to interact with them. As much as possible he just carries on with his solitary weather work. Which is what they want - to see natural human behavior (for the education of their children mainly.)

But one can easily imagine Hall has simply made it all up. Clearly he really was a weather observer at Nellis AFB. The meteorology comes across as authentic. But a job like that, long, boring, solitary, could have set him to building a fantasy world populated with aliens which 30 years later he has written down as a novel. There are also a couple of "hero" fantasies in the book. In one, Baker more or less single-handedly saves two 707 jetliners which would otherwise have crashed into the desert. Did this really happen, or does he just wish it had?

I don't doubt Hall really served at Nellis. His meteorology seems authentic; his military slang is authentic (I have looked up various terms he used and he's not inventing, they're real.)

Where the book rings less true is simply that Baker goes from encounter to encounter with these aliens but never seems to believe they are real and in each encounter starts again with the premise that he must be hallucinating. Surely after a conversation the "teacher" alien the next meeting would be less of a surprise to him?

However Hall's naivity also adds credibility. He writes a dire book, the narrative is jumbled and confused (the book was self-published so no professional edit) and he makes the mistakes typical of a novice fiction writer, for example all the characters speak with the same "voice". But at the same time the book is noticeably conformant with mainstream ufology. For example when looking at a "tall, white" alien in his barracks one night Baker actually sees a white sheet and is satisfied enough to go back to sleep. This is a small thing but very mainstream. Many abductees have reported that aliens interfere with their minds in such as way that they don't see the alien standing in front of them but instead see a more plausible but similar object. Would Hall be naive enough to write this badly, but at the same time knowledgeable enough to insert small details which conform with aspects of the cosmic phenomenon reported elsewhere?

The aliens' habit of interacting with Baker by phoning a 4-star general at the Pentagon also seems sufficiently unlikely to be authentic.

The descriptions of people being "switched off" and of missing time are also straight from mainstream ufology.

The USAF top brass attitude also seems authentic. If you have telepathic aliens living on an air force base, so you 1) go and see them personally and have every scrap of classified information read out of your mind, or 2) use a know-nothing enlisted man as an intermediary? Bit of a gotcha for a 4-star general!

I've only read the first book of the series so far so I'll reserve judgment. Hopefully the rest of the books will help me decide if this is mega, or just someone's day-dreams written down and self-published.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Charlie Hall's fictional/autobiographical tale: case unproven, but a big story if true
This is the first of the series (of four) of Charles Hall's rather controversial books reporting his experiences as an airman-weather observer in the USAF at Nellis AFB in Nevada... Read more

Published 17 months ago by Archer Books

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