From the author of the multimillion copy bestseller Communion, comes a book with the first hard, physical evidence concerning alien presence on earth

This book is at once a journey of scientific discovery and the story of the personal struggle the author has fought since he had an apparent close encounter in 1985. He has been criticized for creating folklore, been called insane, and labelled a liar and a cult leader. Naturally, he wants to correct the record. But more than that, he has come to feel certain that something truly earthshaking is happening — something far stranger, far more incredible than anyone suspected — and that it is being seriously misunderstood and ignored, all of which has made mankind vulnerable.

To change all this, he has needed physical proof. Now he has it, and this book is the story of how he got it, and what it is.

Ironically, even as it asks the best questions I have ever come up with, this book does provide some key answers, and they present an incredible picture indeed. What it all means, science must tell us. But if I am right about what it suggests, what is by far the most extraordinary event in history is unfolding right now....

So what is this evidence? Alien bodies, perhaps, or faster-than-light communications equipment? This is not a book of proof of alien presence, but of evidence that confirms that an unknown phenomenon is unfolding among us. This phenomenon emerges in three distinct areas:

-- the first is a dramatic growth in amateur video recording of strange things in the sky

-- the second is the unexpectedly huge body of close encouter testimony that is far, far different from anything that has thus far appeared inprint

--the third is the unexplained objects that have been surgically removed from some close encounter witnesses, myself included, who claim to have been implanted with them during their encounters.

This book is at once a journey of scientific discovery and the story of the personal struggle Whitley Strieber has fought since he had an apparent close encounter in 1985, which he recounted in Communion: A True Story. He has been criticized for creating folklore; he has been called insane, labeled a liar and a cult leader. Naturally, he wants to correct the record. But more than that, he has come to feel certain that something truly earthshaking is happening, something far stranger, far more incredible than anyone suspected, which has made mankind vulnerable.

To change all this, what he's need is physical proof. He has it, and this book is the story of how he got it and what it is.

Strieber first reviews all the evidence for UFOs-including the remarkably dramatic and repeated sightings over Mexico city filmed by so many people-as well as the testimony thousands have given about their close encounter experiences, before turning to shocking new physical evidence: five implants surgically removed under controlled and documented conditions from the bodies of people who have reported contact with aliens. The study of these "implants"-what they are made of, how they function, and what their ultimate purpose is-holds the final answers to this whole puzzle.

In addition, in a remarkable appendix, Monsignor Corrado Balducci of the Congregation of the Evangelization of Peoples and Propagation of the Faith discusses the perspective of the Catholic Church on the whole matter of alien contact and what it means within a religious perspective.

Whitley Strieber is widely known for his bestselling account of his own close encounter, Communion: A True Story. He is engaged in the most advanced research being conducted into the physical evidence of close encounters.