The drawings categorized in here put things into perspective for ufology.

It allows one to grasp the complexity of the UFO Phenomenon. Most of the famous cases are here. From Kenneth Arnold, Soccoro, Lubbock, Hudson Valley, and other important sightings from hard-to-find resources (UFO journals like Flying Saucer Review, MUFON, IUR, and old magazines, but which still seem credible).

I also recommend Kevin Randle's "Faces of the visitor" and "Sspaceships of the visitors" -- these make a good cross-references.

For a thoughtful overview of ufos, entertaining for the devoted ufologist and educational for the beginner, this is a great guidebook to the forms and patterns (I loved the section on flaps) evidenced by unidentifed aerial phenomena. The drawings are amazing, the text is down-to-earth, and these two well-known authors are very informative. Every school library should pick this one up, every parent should buy it for their kids, everyone would do well to buy this for some good bedside reading. After delightfully digesting this book, you will know that we don't have all the answers - and that all ufos are NOT "flying saucers"!

For readers intrigued by alleged UFO occupant encounters and close encounters of the third kind, Patrick Huyghe's "The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials" is a fascinating reference that reflects the same academic sensibility on display in "The Field Guide to UFOs." This book is a holistic (and unnerving) rogues' gallery of ETs, categorized according to characteristics and presented in informed, concise chapters. Harry Trumbore's exacting illustrations help bring Huyghe's text to life. "The Field Guide to Extraterrestrials" is as much fun as UFO books get.

I liked the pictures and how he grouped the aliens by type and put their distingusing characteristics their height and the story behind it. I wish there were more books like it. Also I'm not an idiot.

This is a great book. What I like about it was that It had a great guide of alien life forms,how they look and people claim they have encounterd. It is a great, fantastic guide!!!

Mainly a collection of articles from Omni, many from the anti-matter section. Not a lot of depth to most of them, which is to be expected, since anti-matter was a collection of short articles about the paranormal. I was hoping for something along the lines of "Shockingly Close to the Truth" by Mosely, so we could get a deeper look at the investigative process, which is what I thought I was buying. I found it a bit dull, and can't recommend it.

This complilation of Patrick Huyghe's writings on the subject of UFOs was both fascinating and fun to read. He has a knack for addressing serious and mysterious subject areas with a touch of humor. As it happens, Omni ran some of the best UFO reporting anywhere for nearly a decade, and Huyghe was responsible for a lot of it. In "Swamp Gas Times" he has updated his articles for Omni and other publications, and put these pieces in both a jouralistic and ufological perspective. The book also contains material that has not appeared elsewhere before. Well researched and objective, this book is a treasure in the field of UFO research.

SWAMP GAS TIMES is an intelligently written and thoughtfully assembled collection of articles and observations from the author's years as a writer on matters UFO related. He covers the topic from the early days- George Adamski, Kenneth Arnold, J.Allen Hynek, etc. right up through the current controversies of today. The book is very nicely put together, and every piece is prefaced by a useful commentary which lends a personal and reflective tone. Mr. Huyge has followed the UFO phenomenon over decades and offers a very well-informed overview which, I believe, will especially benefit readers new to the field as well as delight old timers who remember how it all began.

So you pick up this book and read on the back cover the exciting quote about Hemingway's ghost and you're ready to drop some cash, right? Guess what--there's zero information about the Hemingway haunting in this book! In addition, old Ataulfo of Madrid has less words wasted on him than an asthmatic's version of Handel's Halleluja Chorus. Instead, what's offered here is a rehash of old stories (and old theories about what ghosts could be) with insipid, comic book illustrations. Why this is called a "field guide" with its connotation of an exhaustive reference to every kind of manifestation of a particular phenomenon--be it birds, plants, or mushrooms--is yet another part of the mystery of why this book exists. If you're a serious researcher of this subject, then pass this book up and seek Hem's fetch elsewhere.

The authors did a great job of categorizing the different types of ghost: haunter, poltergeist, revenant, harbinger, and time-slip.

There's plenty of helpful illustrations as well. I highly recommend this book.

This book tells you everything you need to know about ghosts.

"The Field Guide to Bigfoot, Yeti and Other Mystery Primates Worldwide" by Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe stands alone as a work that attempts to briefly describe each of a variety of distinct animals sighted worldwide.

The authors have presented the cases, not as the "be all and end all" of mystery primate reference, but rather, as the title denotes, as a "field guide". The historical accounts are informative, nicely condensed, and feature excellent drawings by Harry Trumbore.

It can be argued that the differences in individual sightings leading to the creation of so many distinct "classifications" has the effect of lessening credibility, but the reader is free to make their own judgements. Although some would relegate it to the realm of "mythology", the majority of the sightings are based on solid historical evidence. To include more than one or two specific sightings per entry would have burdened the book with unnecessary bulk and turned it from a "field-guide" into an "encyclopedia".

Overall it is another excellent book from a cryptozoologist with nearly 40 years of experience.

Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe have in the course of 207 pages laid a basis for a reclassification system to the myriad of mystery primates from around the worldwide. Borrowing from the works of Mark Hall and Ivan Sanderson (to name a few) the proposed classification system encompasses nine (9) varieties of these cryptic creatures.

Coupled with the classifications, are 50 case studies each accompanied by an line illustration by Harry Trumbore. These case studies are short recounting of famous and not so famous, incidents and anecdotal information about each of these cases. The cases themselves are subgroup in a worldwide geographical breakdown, thus allowing a reader to view only the particular world area if they choose. Although some may question the inclusion of chupacabras or Steller's sea monkey (or ape) in the classification system, they do add some spice to the reading and perhaps offer a few un-thought of ideas.

The heart of the book though is not the case studies, rather the rationale for a reclassification to avoid the common term of "Bigfoot" around the world, as these mystery primates have been being reported long before the usage of the word "Bigfoot" in the mid-part of this century. The first portion of the book breaks down the various groups that make up the classification, these being: Neo-Giant, True Giant, Marked Hominid, Neandertaloid, Erectus Hominid, Proto-Pygmy, Unknown Pongid, Giant Monkey, and Merbeings. By far the last class, Merbeings, is the most controversial.

Additionally the latter part of the book deals with best bets as to which of these mystery creatures may be discovered first. It must also be said that some of the inclusions are historical and that the creatures described may no longer exist. The extensive bibliography, source pages and other resource and additional follows-up sections at the rear of the book, make it easier for a researcher to dig further for themselves.

The book does not answer everything, and there are some gray areas. But, as a medium to create debate and rethinking of ideas the book succeeds. As a book in a series of other Field Guides this one had to follow a certain pattern. More emphasis is needed on breaking down the exact anatomical variations between the classes and a more thorough emphasis on cases that make up those classes. But for limited space and a stricter pattern, the book does offer a reader the basics to start their own research and evaluation. Perhaps even offer the authors themselves a reclassification of their classifications.

For any serious researcher of mystery animals, "The Field Guide to Bigfoot, Yeti and Other Mystery Primates Worldwide" by Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe is a must for your personal resource library. Though some may disagree with the classifications that the creatures (in this case unknown hominids) are painstakingly broken down into, no one can deny the meticulous research that has gone into this work. This field guide is also the first properly published book to attempt to sort out all of the variations of appearance of these creatures that eyewitnesses worldwide have reported. "The Field Guide to Bigfoot, Yeti and Other Mystery Primates Worldwide" is a welcome addition to my cryptozoological resource collection.

The subtitle overstates the significance of this book (A Scientific Discovery That Revolutionizes the Way We View the Origin of Life, the Water We Drink, etc). The Big Splash is very technical and , for those of us without a Doctorate in Geophysics it is quite a dry read. The references to the Space Program and the human elements that show the competition and back-stabbing that goes on in the scientific community are more interesting and help to move you to the end of the story, but, this is little solice for the feeling of being let down at the conclusion (or lack thereof) at the end of the book. Unfortunately, this book is probably the best you can find on the topic, though. I guess you cannot expect every scientific story to be a great read. If you need the data and answers to questions you can find in this book (like I did), you probably won't find it anywhere else. Grab a cup of strong coffee.

Dr Frank develops a hypothesis that is very plausible, well supported and a suprisingly engrossing read. By the time I finished, my beliefs in the objectivity of the scientific community had been severly shaken.

He makes a rather complex subject easy to understand and enjoyable. If only I had been fortunate enough to have more teachers in college that could make a subject come alive.

Frank explains in wonderful detail the problems that a scientist has when he makes an important discovery outside of his accepted expertise. He is not the first to suffer from this prejudice, nor will he be the last. But, it is important for us to be reminded that science too, often wears blinders and because of this, important discoveries are ignored and it takes decades before we are able to move forward in our knowledge of how things work.