Them

By: Whitley Strieber

Narrated by: Whitley Strieber

Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins

Publisher's summary

Them is the first book ever to examine the intent of the presence known as "aliens" or "visitors" from the perspective of what both civilian and military close encounter witnesses report happening to them.

Mitch Horowitz says in his preface that it's "among the most important interpretations of visitor phenomena since Jacques Valle's Passport to Magonia appeared in 1969."

Jacques Vallee, in the foreword, states that "This book cites fact after fact to build the case for in-depth realignment of public policy with public need."

In part one of the book, Whitley Strieber analyzes the experiences of eleven close encounter witnesses and from that derives the first in-depth picture of what this extremely strange experience may mean, and what our visitors' intentions may be.

In part two, he turns to the military experience, showing how the visitors themselves have forced governments to keep their reality secret, and what the effects of conflict with them has had on public policy as well as the lives of military personnel who have confronted them. Strieber also discusses why conflict situations occurred in the past and why this may be continuing.

He then explores the enormous difficulty of communication between species with differently structured brains, and how these issues can be recognized and addressed.There has never been a book written like Them. It is as much a first as Mr. Strieber's groundbreaking volume about his own close encounter, Communion. While, with the exception of a final, riveting chapter, it does not deal with his own experiences, in it he takes advantage of over three decades of study and research to create a vision of contact that may prove foundational to useful understanding of what is now a confused, sometimes violent, and fraught relationship.

Visit Whitley on his website, Unknowncountry.com and listen to his podcast Dreamland wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Loved this thoughtful consideration of the phenomenon

Whitley uses his own personal experience and the accounts of other to look at the abduction phenomenon from the perspective of the Visitors.
Interesting and thought provoking! Loved it.

Conflicted

I like listening to the stories people share, I don't really care for the analysis. I can do my own analysis, but I get why he wants to do it. He comes from a time where experiencers were treated pretty harsh, but these days it's way more acceptable and many platforms welcome us. Also, I just can't with his outdated views of climate change, overpopulation, etc. Many of the claims he makes about the world (views that come from the not so good guys) have been proven false. Stop blaming humanity for the wrongs in this world, we were born into this world that was and is clearly molded by people that think they know what's best for us. All you can do is work on you, and I think that's the moral of the story THEY are trying to teach us.

Whitley's brilliance never gets old

I loved listening to Whitley read this deep and moving book. While the topic isn't new, this particular slant on it makes me ever more curious. I likethathe doesn't give us "the answer," but wish he would say even more about what he knows for sure. Maybe next the!

Lacking dénouement. Dragging. Amateurish Production

I was looking forward to finally diving into Whitley’s story. And then it began.
Have you ever read a story that you knew could be amazing and as you read on and on you got the feeling the writer was trying too hard? What he was communicating was interesting (to an extent) though could have been so much more with less…

No doubt an interesting story was there to be told. However the author had spent too much time expounding on what would have been better with fewer words and so resolving into a more gripping story.

As a narrator, Whitneys voice is pleasant and easy to listen to.

However the production quality is beyond annoying frequently amateurish. I’m no specialist in audio recordings though the ups and downs, low volume to high when he starts and stops.

Secondly, there are many occasions where entire sentences or groups of sentences are repeated giving the audience a very amateurish impression. These problems could easily been rectified had the author listened to his own narration, or an editor had taken the time to do so would have easily detected and delivered the listeners the professional story they paid to receive.

This is really shameful of Audible and the writer and editor. The quality being more in line with a middle school production than the company that I first invested in nearly 30 years ago.

A Necessary Beautiful Crazy Mess of a Book

Just to get my criticisms out of the way, Them is a highly disorganized mess of a book. There is no reason that the two parts of it should be under the same cover. Yes they are both about the UFO phenomenon but aside from that the topics are really different and each deserves its own full-blown treatment. It would have been so great if the first part, which is about the Communion Letters, could have been expanded into a full book. I wanted more of that. And then, even on the chapter level there is a certain kind of random free association going on. One chapter will start off being about secrecy and then it somehow starts talking about ancient aliens and then the paranormal and so on. It can be kind of maddening, because even the digressions have digressions.

On the positive side: All of it is fascinating. Once I let go of the expectation that it follow whatever discursive model it is that I think the book should have followed, I was blown away by the depth and subtlety of Whitley's observations. You're just not going to get this kind of analysis from anyone else. And to hear it in his own voice just made it that much better. He has a way of making it feel like you're in the same room with him, that he's speaking to you personally. I binged on the whole thing.

All in all, in spite of its flaws, I think this is one of Whitley's best books in a long time.

Very interesting…

As soon as the author mentioned his yoga and long meditation practice it all fell together.. every thing Whitley described including the mind telepathy is mirror to diabolical infestation and demoniacal oppression and possession.. look into exorcism and modern demonology.. It’s all there

An extremely important book

Some of the most genuine and current assessment of the unidentifiable phenomena and all its implications.
Whitley Streiber is a very objective, inquisitive and inclusive author who goes above and beyond to equip the reader with the most intel on not only cases alone but motives and a dive into possible scenarios and reconciliation of opposites between secrecy and the evolution of our planet. Highly recommended and highly regarded work is in this book about our future as a planet and as a species.

Profound

Thank you, Whitley. Your deep thinking and extraordinary knowledge of this subject is a gift. I’m left with so many threads to follow and new insights to consider. Stay safe. You are very special.

love Whitleys voice

love it, Whitley always delivers factual info in this realm. love ❤️ 😍 💖 ❤️ 😍 💖 ❣️

Must read

A book by Mr Strieber is always well thought out and important. This old warrior has more wisdom than all of those out there.