Secret Life: Firsthand Accounts of UFO Abductions

by David M. Jacobs

Book Overview

Revealing and unsettling interviews with over sixty real-life individuals who claim they were abducted by aliens from the author of The UFO Controversy in America. In Secret Life, retired professor... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671748572
• ISBN13: 9780671748579
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Clear And Systematic Presentation

This is one of the very few truly essential UFO abduction studies. Dr. Jacobs' research was methodical, his reasoning is uncluttered by any sort of cant or intellectual bias, his presentation direct and concise. Studious without being dull; quietly, thoughtfully provocative. No dramatization was necessary in these accounts; no New Age meanderings intrude. Historical and cultural and social context is always explored objectively. An absolute requirement for anyone at all curious about the abduction phenomenon. Likewise, a must-read for anyone considering delving into Dr. Jacobs' even more provocative, intellectually rigorous and carefully presented sequel to this book: The Threat.

A good read for the ET curious!

I found that David Jacobs really did not speculate to much and let the Hypnosis sessions speak for them selves. It was fascinating. I never knew what was next. I highly suggest this book!

best summary on UFO's

While some books center around a person or group of individuals from a specific area, this one concerns a variety of people and experiences. It provides a summary of various stages of abduction, and is easy to read. If I could only have one book in my UFO library, this would be it.

This is THE abduction book to read.

There is no other book which so properly recounts reliable eyewitness testimony of this nature. Even Hopkins' "Intruders" doesn't quite reach this level. Mack's "Abduction" has too many new-age laced accounts. The conclusions and theories of Strieber's "Communion" *are* new-ageism, which he appears to now regret. This is the one to get if you wish to hear accounts of level-headed abductees who, I can guarantee, aren't going to turn around and say they made it all up, as happened in the case of Mack's.

Balanced, comprehensive, intense.

I highly recommend this book to everyone. I managed to read it in four days, and I couldn't put it down. Jacobs is unbiased and balanced in his summary of what is happening, and his presentation of an abduction scenario is beatifully done. Secret Life is in a sense better than Jacobs latest book, The Threat. Every American should read this book, and then make their own conclusions on what is happening. Secret Life gives an excellent overview of the abduction phenomena.