(Editor’s note: This site received an advance copy of the book prior to its release from To The Stars.)
The third and final installment in Tom DeLonge and Peter Levenda’s academic aimed UAP opus “Sekret Machines: War” is an in-depth conclusion worth the wait.
Levenda uses his vast knowledge on occultism to help paint a bigger picture - drawing connections between some of history’s most influential figures and their connections to paranormal phenomena. At times, it can feel like a stretch, but the connections are valid enough when understanding this is not just a study on UFOs, rather culture and history and how there’s so much more to most of its stories. The work connects many dots of historical figures to historical occurrences. There is even an obscure reference to a 1952 science fiction film “Red Planet Mars” that eerily mirrors what was going on a post-World War world in terms of technology, espionage, science and space races.
If you believe many UAP sightings are man-made, or reverse engineered from not-of-this-world technology, “War” digs deep on this topic. A source even claims Roswell was indeed a Nazi craft. As a reader you’ll find yourself going down a few rabbit holes, but they aren’t conspiracy theories, rather crazy coincidences that aren’t normally mentioned- a special trait Levenda has playing detective . The book also expertly documents the origins of cult hysteria and disinformation and the role it has played in society from Salem to QAnon, and how that mindset has poisoned discourse when it comes to every day life to UFO studies.
“War” is not just a book on UFOs, rather a case study of a world where science, space, history and the paranormal all intersect, and is expertly presented.
By MIKE DAMANTE
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