I don’t know which answer is the correct one, but those are your options.
Click here for a short-but-telling proof-positive indictment of De Longe’s “insider access to UFO truth” by Lorin Cutts (hat tip to Jack Brewer at the UFO Trail for this item). The essay features a picture posted by De Longe as proof of a secret UFO program / craft. Too bad it comes from Taken, a Spielberg TV show circa 2002.
Hello Mike,
I came to your website wondering if the Tom deLonge “Sekret Machines” franchise had finally gotten your attention and I see it has. Of course, debunking TdL by himself is not a challenge at all as I see you flick him away as a pesky fly here. However, I would really like to see you take up the challenge of analyzing the dubious scholarship of Peter Levenda, the author of TdL’s latest addition to the franchise, Peter’s book called Sekret Machines: Gods, Man and War.
I would like to introduce you to Levenda’s book by citing a passage from Jason Colavito’s review where he notes Peter’s citing of you as a source in writing about the Nephilim.
Best regards,
Tom Mellett
Los Angeles, CA
http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/review-of-sekret-machines-gods-by-tom-delonge-with-peter-levenda-part-1
“Levenda also offers us a false dichotomy, daring us to conclude that the Enuma Elish and Genesis are either distorted accounts of the extinction of competing human species such as Neanderthals (!) or are an account of nefarious powers engaging in a planned extinction event. Or they could be made up, you know, symbolic rather than literal narratives. It can’t be that, of course, because Levenda needs to discuss the Nephilim as though they really walked the Earth as the giants of old.
He tried, in a pseudo-scholarly way, to analyze Genesis 6 in light of Babylonian literature and mostly makes the same points I have made over the years, but with the implication that there is something more to the story than fiction.
He cites the work of Michael Heiser (and thus draws indirectly on many of the same sources that I have used in my discussions of the Nephilim), and while he correctly understands the apkallu of Babylonian lore to be behind the Nephilim story (more specifically, they influenced the Watchers of 1 Enoch, the fathers of the Nephilim), he rather simplifies the issue by declaring Gilgamesh a Nephilim rather than a literary figure drawing on the same background traditions of the mating of gods and humans.”
I agree 100%. I recently finished his book that was co-wrote by Peter Levenda. It just regurgitates the tired theories of ancient astronaut theorists and adds nothing new to the discussion. I was very disappointed in hoping this would have had something new to add to the conversation about UFO’s.