The Cryptoterrestrials by Mac Tonnies (2010)

The Cryptoterrestrials: A Meditation on Indigenous Humanoids and the Aliens Among Us

Editor's Note: Mac Tonnies died in his sleep on the evening of October 18, 2009, at the age of 34. He was weeks away from turning in his manuscript on The Cryptoterrestrials. With the help of his family and friends, we have been able to piece together this, his final book.

What if the "aliens" are not from other planets? In THE CRYPTOTERRESTRIALS, Mac Tonnies proposes that at least some accounts of alien visitation can be attributed to a humanoid species indigenous to the Earth, a sister race that has adapted to our numerical superiority by developing a surprisingly robust technology. At the same time, this groundbreaking work attempts to reconcile the mythological and contemporary accounts of "little people" into a coherent picture. "For too long, we've called them 'aliens,' assuming that we represent our planet's best and brightest," writes Tonnies. "Maybe that's exactly what they want us to think."

"What if the "aliens" are not from other planets?"

"If evidence for the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis has failed to surface—despite decades of hard work and diligent investigations—then maybe we should consider the notion that we are looking for the answers in all the wrong places. Instead of looking up, maybe we should be looking around us. And perhaps, even below us, too."

--From the Foreword by Nick Redfern, author of On the Trail of the Saucer Spies

"This book is an honest pursuit of ideas that might lead to some greater understanding of the paranormal and the existence of an apparent non-human intelligence. Mac Tonnies cuts through much of the self-satisfied, bloated fundamentalist fat of the last fifty years, with the deft touch of a surgeon and the encyclopaedic knowledge of a veteran."

--From the Afterword by Greg Bishop, author of Project Beta

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