Sekret Machines Book 1: Chasing Shadows

The presentation is different from the usual, but I quickly realized the intent. The stories weave around and eventually intersect in a kind of X-Files fashion. If you've been a fan of ufology and the like for any length of time, much is familiar, but the uniqueness of how it's tied together makes this well worthwhile.

I got four chapters in before throwing in the towel— I found the writing style just, well, intolerable. I’m not saying this is bad writing, but whatever it is I bailed after an hour. It has the feel of a 1980’s romance/spy novel and I think I’m just too pretentious and embittered to appreciate it.

This "fiction" was they best book I've ever read. Knowing that someone is out there working on projects like this, on this large of a scale makes me believe that huge changes are coming for the world; humanity as we know it. This book does an excellent job at beginning to put all the pieces together.

Very interesting book with even more interesting subject matter. When can we expect the screen adaptation? This book is a truly great start to what I hope will be a world changing reveal come disclosure or first contact!

Great thrill ride connecting the dots for folks who are both steeped in the literature of ufology and those who don't know anything beyond Roswell. History combines in a grand overarching scale, like we are seeing it from the heavens with one bold New elements included. Great read!

I really liked the fast paced adventurous quality of this book. It was a definite page turner. I'm familiar with a lot of the true stories that this fictional adventure was based on. I liked the characters too, they seemed realistic.

"The history of our species is written on sand." Graham Hancock opens his book with that bold statement, and then makes the compelling case.

I'm convinced he is right, and this ancient advanced antediluvian civilization changes literally everything. It is earth shattering.

Gobekli Tepe seals the deal as far as I'm concerned. I've run into only a couple people that had even heard of GT. Seems strange this enormous find is relegated to obscure background noise.

Since I found out about GT on Joe Rogan I remain a fan, and check out clips of episodes if the guest looks interesting. So he has Tom Delonge on, (guitarist Blink 182? heard of them-dismissed them as millennial sludge-heard 1 song I liked since-jury out/ ) and he is talking about ancient civilizations so naturally I listen.

I was never much of an X files guy, but do enjoy an episode here and there. In my pre-GT reality I'd always dismissed the UFO thing as a money making hoax, but now that the slate on Earth was wiped clean 12,500 years ago, and we now must include this mysterious and very advanced civilization who may have been around for eons before that, I must admit anything is now at least possible.

DeLonge claims to be part of a "disclosure" operation with the govt and the inside "TRUTH" about all this. His book is what I understand is only the first in a multi-media attempt at disclosure.
After my GT head expansion, I've been doing some of my own research into "alternate histories" and I'm already a WW2 buff. In so doing I had already recently learned about the Nazi Bell and Admiral Byrd's rather obscure and secretive Operation High Jump to Antarctica in 1946, seeing them both expertly used in this "fictional" thriller was very interesting to say the least.

BTW, the Wiki links are of course the standard model of these events, which all the obscurity /secrecy surrounding these historical occurences allows us to question and doubt and therefore open the doors to all kinds of alternate explanations. But there was no question about how crucial and dangerous the Nazi's thought the Bell was, Wiki fails to point out the Bell was considered by the Nazi's a security level above even their secret nuke program. And the Russian's have their own version of what happened on Byrd's mission, since Wiki also fails to mention that the Russians had sent their own naval forces in the area at the same time and they claim they were chasing down escaped Nazi's. In Antarctica!

680 pages seems like a lot, but the authors break it all down to around 68 ten page chapters with about 6 POV characters- starting with a Polish prisoner working at the mine with the Bell right up to present date.

Now I was always a Men In Black fan, so you gotta love that there are MIB's are all over at secret bases like Area 51, Roswell, etc so if you like that sort of thing you will love this.

I did not love everything, there is some clunky dialog and cardboard characters, but overall a pretty damn enjoyable thriller.

Am I convinced about UFO's? I am 100% convinced they could be part of some super advanced super-secret govt project that started with Operation Paperclip and the Bell, for damn sure.

How about aliens? Not quite, but the jury is definitely out. Let's see what Sekret Machines #2 brings...

Eight out of eleven counter-rotating cylindrical containers filled with cryogenically cooled and frozen Mercury metal...

I started this book this morning and have not been able to put it down. This book will capture and hold your attention from the first chapter. I am not a fan of fiction, which this book states it is not. Some things can only be said in fiction. But that does not mean they aren't true--Aaron Lathom.

If you are well versed in the unidentified aerial phenomena genre you will see lots of familiar threads being woven into one small square of the tapestry that will no doubt be fully revealed in subsequent volumes of Sekret Machines. As a work of fact based fiction this will jostle the hearts of Sci-Fi readers because it develops its focus and direction very slowly, much as real life is actually lived. Through flash backs to the early years of the Nazi Wehrmacht and its Krystal Night birthings that allowed for both self deportations to the West of skilled and talented, and the non-voluntary transport to the East, and extermination. It is from the this later event that the plot traces a teen age Polish escapee of the forced labor camps of this killing machine, as he makes his way through the harrowing maze of underground railways and some narrow scrapes, to end up involved at the end, which was the beginning of the Cold War in 1945, as a recruit in the OSS and subsequently the CIA. A not unfamiliar narrative lived by many and amalgamated in the character of Jerzy Aaron Stern and several other cast members. A pilot (an "accidental traitor"), a wealthy young heiress, a few escaped mad scientists and assorted bad guys from Hitlers defunct blitzkrieg progeny, whom we get follow through the 1947 Roswell inspired events and efforts to understand,investigate,obscure and deflect any truth about it and the veiled Sekret Machines, which use propulsion, command and control devices, that only Buck Rogers saw as having arrived. As Tom Delonge the inspiration and co-author of this series notes, those who happened to stumble across this incredible mystery and occupy the bulk of this first book lived lives that can only be described as Myth, and can only presently be describe by fictional voices... "The glue for this Myth is fiction. The building blocks are not." .
My own reaction to veracity of this story is similar to my feelings after a visit to the Magic Castle, How can anyone not believe in magic? How can anyone explain the best of it? And even if I cannot explain it I enjoyed it immensely. I look forward to the next books in this series to see how the magic gets explained and where fiction and fact merge.

Apparently based on real events, the story is woven around characters who appear at first glance to have nothing in common and to be completely unrelated in unrelated lives in countries far from each other. Events - hard to explain - and deeply secret organisations and struggles - lead to their meeting and dealing with one another. I cannot easily discern which parts are real unfortunately, as this was the reason I bought the book. Nevertheless it is "unputdownable" as the tension builds and the story well written and easy to read. I am looking forward to the next one in the hope it sheds more light on what happened in Book 1 and provides a deeper context for the next. Recommended for people with an open mind and who see the logic that we cannot be the only life form in the universe.

I liked how the author tied together UFO stories and nastalgia I read about when I was growing up that are historically accurate. It was a page turner with many plot twists reminiscent of X-Files. I can't wait for the next book!

Apparently based on real events, the story is woven around characters who appear at first glance to have nothing in common and to be completely unrelated in unrelated lives in countries far from each other. Events - hard to explain - and deeply secret organisations and struggles - lead to their meeting and dealing with one another. I cannot easily discern which parts are real unfortunately, as this was the reason I bought the book. Nevertheless it is "unputdownable" as the tension builds and the story well written and easy to read. I am looking forward to the next one in the hope it sheds more light on what happened in Book 1 and provides a deeper context for the next. Recommended for people with an open mind and who see the logic that we cannot be the only life form in the universe.

I liked how the author tied together UFO stories and nastalgia I read about when I was growing up that are historically accurate. It was a page turner with many plot twists reminiscent of X-Files. I can't wait for the next book!

Several characters in this book at first appear to have no connection to each other at all. In the end they all come together. The bad guys get eliminated and the good guys get to carry on. Interesting technology. If we do have this out there they do not want us to know about it. Most American's don't have a clue.

Rarely has a book so frustrated me while maintaining my interest. The structure of short episodes grows frenetic towards the end. Far too much so for my taste. If you have to pause in your reading, for whatever reason, for a week or more you may be lost when you return. It tries too hard at times and its structure shows too much, but it has an interesting story line. Many of the episodes should have been extended or combined. A bit corny at times when trying to encompass many stories in Ufology. Character development is pretty good and once it gets going the action is good. I found myself skimming the the first 60% till it settled in and then I read every word. If it were not for the subject matter and purportedly is true sources I would find it almost unreadable, but I am interested to see what it discloses. I hope they tighten up the act for the next installments and get outside opinions on the form. Actually, as I think of it it reads almost like a screenplay in the rapidly switching episodes.

Highly recommended! A solid start for a very promising project!

I also recommend that you listen to the Coast to Coast AM episode for some more background detail. I'm fairly well versed on the UFO subject but I was not familiar with Tom or his music before this.

Sekret Machines takes you on a white knuckle ride that journeys through themes of conspiracies, cover ups and secret government advanced technologies. The book is a must read for anyone interested in mysteries, thrillers and phenomena related to UFO's. Great job!

Job well done in meshing all the stories together. This is a great book with a new insight into the alien/ufo phenomenon. Which helps give possible answers to some questions. Can't wait for the next one.