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The Threat: Revealing the Secret Alien Agenda Audio CD – Unabridged, March 1, 2021

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The world's foremost academic expert on UFOs and alien abductions provides the first evidence-based explanation of a mystery that has perplexed scientists for decades.

Based on more than 700 hypnotic-regression interviews with alien abductees and a Roper survey of 6,000 adults, The Threat reveals why the aliens are here and what they want, explains why their agenda has been kept secret, and exposes their frightening plans for earth and its inhabitants. In a direct, authoritative challenge to researchers who believe the abduction phenomenon is essentially benevolent and spiritually uplifting, Professor David M. Jacobs proves that there is a far more disturbing and potentially dangerous plan underway, with possible alien domination at its core.

In this remarkably well-researched and well-written book, Professor Jacob has added a new complexity and depth to our knowledge of the UFO and abduction phenomena. The secret alien agenda revealed here is ominous, but it must be confronted before it is too late.

Contains mature themes.
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M. Barber
5.0 out of 5 stars First, Read the Title, Then, Read the Book.
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2012
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First off, Dr. Jacobs comes across as an absolutely sincere expert. The criticisms of his convictions are altogether unfair, as one should already know how Dr. Jacobs feels about the abduction phenomenon from his choice of title. Truly, I don't know how anyone in his position could sit and listen to person after person repeatedly recalling kidnappings and rapes and forced incest, and then think the alien agenda really is flowing from God or that aliens are simply our spirit brothers coming in some yogic, flowery sense of peace and free love. Who knows, they might be and perhaps the connotations of forcibly stealing people and breeding them like livestock just doesn't carry over cross-culturally, but after decades of free service to numerous abductees, if nothing else, Dr. Jacobs has more than earned the right to his position. Admittedly, however, Dr. Jacobs' is but one stance on the abduction phenomenon...

Given all of the above, Dr. Jacobs does a fantastic job of coolly and academically presenting his research surrounding abduction phenomena without inserting too much of his opinion. If You know nothing about the abduction phenomenon, this book is an excellent place to get started, but I wouldn't end here, though, for, at risk of a pun, there's simply too much out there (that said, there is also a lot of space-junk out there as well, but Dr. Jacobs' work is not amongst that literary trash heap). If, however, You're well-read and are a fan of Dr. Mack's viewpoint, may I suggest preparing Yourself for Dr. Jacobs' book by first reading its title...

Astounding research, mind-blowing content, well-organized, academic, totally impressive... five stars!
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T Komar
5.0 out of 5 stars The cases that are presented in this book is terrifying
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2024
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I’m a member of an ET contactee group called OPUS which is a spin off from MUFON. As someone who has experienced eye to eye contact with malignant ETs you never, ever forget it. Yes, it’s buried in the back of your brain and you don’t want to remember because you are protecting your mental health. The stories here triggered me. Sadly, there is more to life than our life here. Yes, there are the good guys “out there” and then there are the monsters.
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Scott Hedegard
4.0 out of 5 stars Frightening and superbly researched look into the abduction phenomena
Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2017
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For whatever reason, amazon.com rejected my first review of this book without any specifics. Maybe they don't like the subject matter, I don't know. But it displeases me to be omitted for no justifiable reason, so I will try again.
David Jacobs is probably the nation's most respected person to be involved with UFO abductee research, and for good reason. He is as honest about his own quandaries, methods and image among skeptics and outright hostile folks toward the entire phenomenon. But his unbiased approach, hypnosis methods and the very disturbing conclusions he is reaching through interviews of over a thousand people who have been abducted are very compelling, and his commitment is purely objective. He goes into detail of the events during abductions, the now suspected reason the 20th century has seen an enormous increase in UFO sightings, aliens and abductions, and explains his methods in a clear, sensible and even alarmed manner.
Without being a spoiler, I find this book to be anything but sensational, matter fitting of the worst supermarket rag, or any kind of exploitive tome. So many points are made that it's hard to argue: abductees who are recalling abduction experiences with correct, not misleading or agenda driven hypnosis, are not revealing hippy dippy tales of a benevolent civilization here to save the planet. They are horrified, sometimes injured during physical examinations that are very much centered on sexual function and reproduction, and there are eyewitnesses who can vouch for their disappearing and "lost time".
The most disturbing detail as Dr. Jacobs suggests, and I concur, is that the experiences, descriptions of the aliens, and there are many more types than the little gray aliens everybody loves, procedures and other details you'll need to read about to find out more, are all almost identical to those of other abductees, spread across the globe of all religions, nationalities, professions, sexes and ages.
Since all of these details are brought out during hypnosis (Jacobs does have a few subjects who can remember events without having to be hypnotized), he readily admits much more work in researching this area of phenomena is needed, and admonishes those who deliberately steer those being hypnotized into areas the researcher/hypnotist prefers to further his or her own agenda and desired conclusions.
It's still a very touchy subject, and while I can't just accept everything as absolute truth, due to the processes involved, nor can I discount the possibilities of what's happening or may happen in the future as far as what this particular alien species has in store, and the book reveals some conversations abductees have with some aliens on the UFO's that indicate there are many many other intelligent species in the universe, but what Earth is experiencing apparently is from just one.
Again, I don't believe it's prudent to merely accept these incidents as stone cold fact, but it is foolish for humanity to assume through its religions or societal pressure to believe we are the only species in the universe or the universes, period. For those with open minds, not gullible minds, who aren't afraid to contemplate the cosmos and all the possibilities that lie therein, "The Threat" is a good book for thinking about, and frankly, now that I'm on Dr. Jacobs' third book that is the followup to this one, it is not good. He is terrified, almost disconsolate, and his overall sincerity and thoroughness is impressive. It is not a "fun" ET style read. But it is food for thought, and any book that stretches our thinking capacities to allow for new ways of viewing our existence is worth it.
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blackkettle
5.0 out of 5 stars This book might scare the Bajeebers out of you.....
Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2024
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I've read numerous books on this subject, but this is the book I would recommend to all those interested in what is really going on with the abduction phenomenon. The facts based on years and years of research done by Dr. Jacobs (with collaboration from other researchers) One caveat though....It will scare the bajeebers out of you if you realize as your reading that this is not science fiction....it's real, and Dr. Jacobs includes scripts of regressions that he has done with abductees.....I tried to refute, in my mind, the evidence along the way, but it was useless....It's unrefutable.......It's a shocker.
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Rufus
5.0 out of 5 stars Is this really true?
Reviewed in Germany on June 13, 2022
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The content of the book seems to be pure science fiction but on the second view this "alien" threat seems to be real. Dr. David Jacobs shows his life work and a history of long examination. After interviewing hundreds of "alien abductees" the reader recognizes a scheme of actions and maybe even some takeover plan of beings which are non-human (or maybe even human?). I enjoyed to read the book.
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3.0 out of 5 stars This book is so dated
Reviewed in Australia on June 22, 2023
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This book gives me nothing, its so old now.
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moe
5.0 out of 5 stars "Holy Mary, Jesus, and Joseph" we're screwed
Reviewed in Canada on December 16, 2015
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"Alien breeding program" " 2 per cent of the American population - 5 million abducted as of 1991" How many abducted since? My Catholic grandma would refer to this information as a "holy Mary, Jesus, and Joseph" moment. In other words we're screwed. David M. Jacobs research into alien abductions is the best published book on the subject that I have ever read. If you really want to know why they are here, read this book. When your done reading, you'll hope and maybe pray, they don't pick you, your children, and grand children next. As my grandma would say, "may God bless you and keep you safe."
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thy31
5.0 out of 5 stars Le vrai visage des enlèvements
Reviewed in France on December 27, 2015
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J'avais commencé par "Enlevés par les extraterrestres" de John E. Mack. Sa vision des enlèvements étaient un trop 'light'. Dans cette ouvrage, la vision est tout autre. Les humains ne sont la plupart du temps considérés que comme du bétail pour des essais de reproduction d'hybrides entre les 'gris' et les humaines. Les résultats ne sont pas toujours à la hauteur. Certes ces hybrides ont plus de pouvoirs, sont plus résistants mais sont parfois bons à enfermer.
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Anglian Traveller
5.0 out of 5 stars A uniquely rational insight into the abduction phenomenon; still the best book on the subject to date
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 21, 2010
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Professor David Jacobs' second book on the alien abduction phenomenon is as influential and controversial today as on its 1998 publication. "The Threat" is rational, cogently argued, superbly written and seen by many as the best work published to date (2010) on the subject because it offers a plausible explanation of what this pervasive phenomenon may be all about. The purpose behind the abductions, the nature of the abductors, exactly why they do what they do; the processes and objectives of what is obviously a planned and managed program are explored with a clarity of vision exhibited by no other writer. If you are close to the phenomenon and personally know the evidence in detail then Jacobs' conclusions are lucid, enlightening and convincing.

The author's original title for this book was "Gray Area", changed by the publisher, Simon and Schuster, to "The Threat": appropriate for the content and stark conclusions. The review which follows is detailed because this book is so important and deserves special attention.

Jacobs prepares the ground in the first chapter by taking us through his 40-year methodical investigation into the UFO/abduction issue. The reader will quickly recognise that we are dealing with a strong intellect which has studied this subject close-up with profound academic rigor since the early 1970s, an evolution of understanding leading to periodic re-evaluation of position as new layers of evidence are uncovered. Jacobs' doctoral thesis was published in 1975 as "The UFO Controversy in America" and he has run the only fully-accredited course on the subject of "UFOs in American Society" in any American University for more than 25 years, educating thousands of students in the process. So agree with his thesis or not, he knows what he is talking about and has some pretty weighty academic credentials.

The common markers found in abductions, and the ways in which people start to suspect this phenomenon may be the source of all the weirdness which happens to them, are discussed. In the third chapter, "Shadows of the Mind", the issue of hypnosis is explored: confabulation and false memory syndrome, consciously recalled events (how reliable are they? - not very, he demonstrates), media contamination, examples of mutual confirmation fantasies between hypnotist and subject, and the importance of thorough and methodical questioning techniques. It's one of the most knowledgeable essays on the use of hypnosis to aid memory recall which you're ever likely to read, written with clarity and replete with pertinent examples. This guy knows his stuff.

In chapters 5 & 6 the issue of what these abductors are, what abductees' interactions reveal about their society and why the abduction program is carried out in secrecy is explored. As always the writing is concise, literate and engrossing and the arguments step-by-step logical, using multiply corroborated reports and sound scientific reasoning.

Some readers may be familiar with the Roper Poll, carried out in 1991 by the Roper Organization and financed mainly by the philanthropist Bob Bigelow. Chapter 7 details attempts by academia to design questionnaires for sizeable populations to investigate just how widespread is the abduction phenomenon. The Roper Poll was the culmination of these efforts: a face-to-face in-home survey carried out on 5,947 people carefully questioned about their unusual experiences, beliefs, social awareness and community activities adjusted for age, sex, race, income and the usual polling equalizers. The results were shocking to the pollsters, revealing that even using the most conservative criteria at least 2% (and almost certainly a higher number) of the US population are probably abductees. The conclusion of this chapter is stark:

"Many people think that abductions are a `study' or `experiment', or that the aliens are `learning' about us. The numbers suggest otherwise. The learning and experimenting, if ever the case, are mainly over...the evidence clearly indicates the aliens are conducting a widespread, systematic program of physiological exploitation of human beings."

Chapters 8, 9 & 10 deal with the "hybrid program" - though technically these beings may be "transgenic" rather than "hybrid". These beings have been reported by many abductees worldwide to different investigators for years ("they look like a cross between us and them..."), the obvious logical outcome of the breeding program consistently reported since the Villas-Boas case in 1957: decades of sperm and ova harvesting, missing pregnancies, anomalous extra-uterine masses (later discovered to be absent) picked up by ultrasound scans on female abductees; abductees reporting being made to embrace/nurture/interact with hybrid babies, infants and adolescents. Chapter 10, dealing with the independent activities of adult hybrids, contains the book's most controversial passages. Some accounts of interactions make uncomfortable reading, and for the ignorant or ideologically-driven critic ("this doesn't fit in my mental-acceptance box") make an obvious debunker-target. However these accounts from widely disparate abductees are consistent and pervasive, so Jacobs took the intellectually honest decision to detail a small number in the book, in the abductees' own words. It is fair to say that on re-reading (I just re-read the whole book again after several years), their shock value is somewhat diminished, their place in the entire narrative more logical and the importance of these accounts to understanding the nature of the phenomenon now becomes more evident. In 2010 we have more disturbing reports of the activities of "the human-looking ones" - as described to me by one abductee who has never met Dave Jacobs nor read any of his work - from widely dispersed geographical sources which corroborate those detailed in "The Threat."

In Chapter 11, "The Nature of Alien Intentions", Jacobs looks at the "positivist" spin placed on the abduction phenomenon by John Hunter Gray, Leah Haley, John Mack, Richard Boylan, Edith Fiore, Leo Sprinkle and many others. In short, these are superior beings coming to help us, enlighten us and save the planet, and abductees "consent" to being abducted before they are born. He does a good job of examining and deconstructing these perspectives, and explores channelling and other new-age mush with fair-minded and knowledgeable academic rigor. One is constantly reminded that Jacobs knows all these people, has read all the books and listened with patience to all the arguments for years. Jacobs' methodology is cautious, thorough and grounded, and - no surprise - he differs from the positivists on the issue of alien intentions. His arguments are logical and persuasive and to date, no-one has refuted his data nor provided any reasoned or plausible alternative explanation for what is going on (nb debunking from ignorance, having done no work on the subject, is NOT refutation of data).

Jacobs demonstrates step-by-step that the evidence leads in only one direction. The abductors' program is clearly to benefit them, not us. They probably intend no harm to abductees but given the nature of some of the procedures, harm (mainly but not exclusively psychological) is inevitable. The abductors' pervasive and secretive program of physiological exploitation of human beings is goal-directed towards the production and gradual perfection of a new race, neither us nor them, but a mixture of both and serving their agenda. They are in charge, and are utilising a calculated percentage of human genetic stock worldwide (between 2% and 5% is best estimate) to ensure exploitation of the entire human gene pool so nothing is missed. The program is persistent and intergenerational, selecting one or all of an abductee's natural offspring for inclusion. They have, through technology or bio-genetic evolution or a combination of both, almost total neurological control over us and are excellent manipulators of memory, often leading to confusion and misdirected belief systems to "explain" the abductions to the abductee. After more than a century of work and the investment of enormous resources, it looks like the end-game is in sight. The reasoning is sound, logical and in line with 50 years of consistent, mounting evidence from multiple sources.

David Jacobs' writing is erudite and straightforward, highly literate with structured arguments detailed for the intelligent reader. There is absolutely no new-age mush, channelled nonsense or ungrounded speculation. Of more than 60 different books published on the alien abduction phenomenon by 40 or so different authors, this is the one whose conclusions look to be closest to the truth of the matter. If you are at all interested in this important issue and you have never read "The Threat", then it's probably time you did. It's written by an excellent writer and expert on the subject, and might forearm you against much of the ignorant and misguided nonsense which exists out there about this issue.

Strongly recommended as absolutely essential reading (NB: read "Secret Life" first).
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