Abduction Digest, Number 57 Thursday, April 16th 1992 (C) Copyright 1992 Paranet Information Service. All Rights Reserved. Today's Topics: Ellen Crystall Larry King Show Abduction Detection Stuff Research Missing fetus syndrome Larry King Show Re: More Secret Life Questions Re: _Secret Life_ Reviewed Larry King Show Re: More Secret Life Questions Re: Larry King Show Re: Secret Life - Questions, 2/3 Re: ABDUCTIONS Re: OVERWEIGHT? Re: _Secret Life_ Reviewed Re: _Secret Life_ Reviewed I'm back once again. I'm back again (2) Re: _Secret Life_ Reviewed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Sheldon.Wernikoff@p0.f605.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Sheldon Wernikoff) Subject: Ellen Crystall Date: 11 Apr 92 05:00:01 GMT In a message to Sheldon Wernikoff <07-April-92 21:34> John Burke wrote: JB> What did Lynn have to say about Ellen Crystall's book? Bob JB> Girard ripped it to shreds in the latest Arcturus catalog. Yes John, Bob utilizes interesting merchandising techniques in his operation. No doubt Ellen's book is selling well for him. If *I* perceive a product to be "trash", I don't carry it. Anyway... what follows are Lynn Van Matre's comments on Crystall's book _Silent Invasion: The Shocking Discoveries of a UFO Researcher_, from Chicago Tribune, 30-March-92: ................................................................ Ellen Crystall's _Silent Invasion_ (Paragon House, $19.95) is a readable but hardly "shocking" first-person account of the writer's 20 years of UFO encounters. Crystall, a doctoral candidate in music composition at New York University and founder of the UFO research group "Contactee", had never been abducted, but believes that she and others have been specifically targeted for sightings. Over the years Crystall has taken more than 1,000 photos of alien craft and their occupants, some of which are included here. Crystall's sightings and photos, most of them in rural Pine Bush, NY, (and many of them corroborated by other eyewitnesses) have garnered her a credible reputation as a UFO researcher. But even the most sympathetic reader will be hard-pressed to see the murky photos reproduced here in black and white as proof of UFO phenomena. The "ships"