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Above Black: Project Preserve Destiny Insider Account of Alien Contact & Government Cover-Up Paperback – January 1, 1998

by Dan Sherman (Author)
3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 305 ratings
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ABOVE BLACK documents the true life experience of a USAF member, while working for the National Security Agency (NSA) as an electronic intelligence specialist. The book relates, in the first person, his experience as an integral part of a project called Preserve Destiny... a project deeply involved with alien contact.
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  1. Print length
    147 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Order Dept, LLC
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1998
  5. Dimensions
    5.75 x 0.5 x 8.75 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0966097807
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0966097801
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Order Dept, LLC; Sixth Printing edition (January 1, 1998)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 147 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0966097807
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0966097801
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.6 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.75 x 0.5 x 8.75 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 305 ratings

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3.9 out of 5 stars
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S. Sellars
5.0 out of 5 stars fascinating...
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2014
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From the other reviews I wasn't put off, but was intrigued when left @ the highly secure NSA office about to be told some extraordinary information. So I dove in and wasn't dissapointed. I really respect how Sherman only tells what he knows. Many others embellish their stories, but Sherman tells you only what he knows and the story stays consistent. There is an interview of him on project Camelot.com and while it doesn't go into the level of depth this book does, everything he says is consistent with his interview. And in my book if you are telling the truth, you don't have to have a great memory for the embellishments because there are none as what is being reported is factual. I have found this true with other whistleblowers like: Andrew Basiago, Sergeant Dean, Preston Nichols, Stan Romanek and others. If there is something they don't know, they say so rather than mislead, because they are only telling what they know and have personally experienced.
This to me is the mark of someone telling only what they know, not trying to dramaticize a story. I believe Dan, found his book to be fascinating especially about the textures of people's consciousness as I have felt that too and found the description eloquent. This book for me was hard to put down, fascinating. If you are into understanding pieces of the UFO puzzle, this is a good piece, not a Roswell piece, but an important interconnecting piece that serves the overall picture well, verifies neatly that the military is keenly aware of some abductions, right down to the latitude, longitude, place and person(s) involved.
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J.
4.0 out of 5 stars A good overview of his life but not a lot of detail
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2020
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I really appreciate this authors honesty and transparency throughout the book. I really enjoyed hearing the first person point of view and account of his interactions in black and top-secret projects. It takes a while to get going and there is a lot of detail about things that don’t end up mattering much to the overall account. Still worth a good read though.
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Deverus
3.0 out of 5 stars Somewhere over the Rainbow...
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2014
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…or, as the author states in the epilogue: “Unfortunately, my story doesn’t come in a tight little package with no questions left unanswered.” Perhaps the best review is the author’s own, but in one regard better than his own prefaced concern of substandard writing. ABOVE BLACK is a clean narrative, professional and well written and absent of unnecessary filler.

Content, however, is very limited on Grey material, which doesn’t even meet print until well into the latter half of the book. Actually, it was relatively brief and confined to Sherman’s recollections of a few grid coordinates, and later, about ten or so small paragraphs which allegedly summarize a Grey’s insight on such topics such as time, religion, interbreeding, and energy.

So, ABOVE BLACK is not a revelation – or even evidence - of any new or old alien phenomenon as it is merely some means and methods of one man’s alleged recruitment into the black project world, herein referred to as Project Preserve Destiny. In all fairness to the author, and as a former “0132” myself, I understand the constraints (consequences) of disclosure. That said, perhaps this work will serve best as it was intended… another drip of a leaky faucet, for another author to share, as Paul Harvey would say, “the rest of the story.”

Overall a good read for a quiet afternoon.
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Levy
5.0 out of 5 stars Disturbing revelations about an alien presence in the world
Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2024
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This is a quick read but provides an essential piece of the alien agenda. This book provides evidence that the ETs not only exist but are here abducting people against their will.
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ryan
5.0 out of 5 stars Wow. Mind blowing.
Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2013
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The fact that this book has been given a mere 3 stars just shows how close minded and uninformed so many people are. This book was mentally explosive and impossible to put down. True it's only about 150 pages but I read it in less than 2 days. I've read a lot of ufo books, starting as many with the basics. Books about famous sightings, Roswell, kecksburg, etc before moving on to Streiber and Romanack, then John Keel, Vallee, Hopkins, Mack and Jacobs. Many books are flooding the industry that aside from names and locations, the story remains the same. But every now and then a book comes along that shatters the mold. This is one of those books. Answers are few, and very vague, lending credence to the story. There was no attempt to sensationalize. Just the facts. And what startling facts they are! I e recently been on an Exo-politic kick and though there are still few books as the subject is still quite young, this book is one of the best! For anybody who isn't afraid to step outside of your comfort zone and and have your mind twisted around and handed back to you in shambles, this book is for you. If you still think it began and ended with Roswell, stick to the elementary level books and ghost stories. What a ride!
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Wendy
4.0 out of 5 stars Alien contact by Intuitive communication
Reviewed in the United States on August 10, 2016
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Book came in expected time. One man's account of experiences as he progresses through security clearances and training to "converse", by code, with ETs. No personal contacts or witnessing the aliens is done. It's only by Intuitive Communicating, "IC" typed on a computer. Very interesting processes and gives insight into the governmental organization to keep all of this secret. The training and personal reaction of the man kept me glued to the book. But, in the end, he never sees an alien, only exchanges "conversation" via intuition.
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James R Hersov
5.0 out of 5 stars great
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 26, 2023
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as expected
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Nina
4.0 out of 5 stars a well written, interesting read
Reviewed in Australia on December 26, 2023
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Well written with some interesting information , I enjoyed this book although it was a little short, but true stories end where they end.
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michel morin
5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT STUFF.
Reviewed in Canada on May 2, 2014
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VERY INTERESTING ABOUT ET CONTROL. THIS IS EXCELLENT READING MATERIAL FOR THOSE IN THE KNOW.
I BELIEVE DAN SHERMAN AND RECOMMEND IT COMPLETELY!
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Y. Yang
4.0 out of 5 stars I've finished this book in one night
Reviewed in Canada on December 9, 2021
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Even it is the Kindle version that is not so friendly to the eyes, the story itself is intriguing. However, I found the real contact with grey is a bit too short. Therefore, disappointing.
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Mr. Mark Parker
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting insights but no Earth-shattering relevations
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 24, 2015
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This is a fascinating book for anyone well-versed in UFO lore; beginners should go elsewhere. The story, in a nutshell, is that Sgt Dan Sherman of the USAF was trained as an “intuitive communicator” (ie, telepath) and given the job of receiving alien communications and typing them into a secret window on his workstation which he accessed by pressing right-mouse-button and F10. He did this once or twice a week while all around him his colleagues worked on similar workstations doing their mundane top secret work not realising an alien-communicator was in their midst.

The story is either completely made up or a significant part of the jigsaw puzzle; and even being a UFO believer it’s hard to say which. The main case against “made up” is that Sherman has no real motivation to do that and the story is really quite boring – aliens mainly transmit long strings of numbers and only occasionally vouchsafe titbits about themselves such as they do need to go to the loo and their lifespan is much the same as a human’s. In fact the boring nature of the task eventually causes Sherman to quit the USAF, which he achieves after initially being told he can never quit.

Sherman explains the “onion” model of secrecy. The outer shell is public (level 5), inside you have official-use-only then secret and then top secret aka “black” and the innermost layer is called “grey” also known as level 1. Sherman uses the British spelling of “grey” throughout as opposed to the America “gray”, but otherwise uses American spellings. It’s not obvious why. The “new” thing here is that grey is inside black, other writers have black as the innermost layer. (Sherman also indicated that Level 1 “grey” is divided into “steps”. He does not elaborate on that.) And one is tempted to guess there is also a Level Zero, but Sherman does not speculate on that.

We should keep in mind that Sherman is only telling us what he was told, and it’s likely he was told only a cover story, or at least not the complete picture. (The leaked transcript of President Reagan’s classified briefing on the UFO subject is also full of “levels” with the audience being “re-evaluated” every time Reagan asks a question that intrudes on an inner level. This adds credibility to Sherman’s story.)

After initial training Sherman never met a fellow “IC” and during training he was not allowed to talk to the one he did meet. After training he was deployed to Italy for a couple of years, then a base in the US. Even he does not know why he was sent abroad – maybe to put him in a more convenient time zone, maybe to keep all the ICs well separated, maybe he was an emergency backup communicator for Europe. He was never told.

We really need other ICs to come forward and fill in more pieces of the jigsaw. Even Sherman does not know if he would be able to communicate telepathically with someone else who had the same training. One is inclined to think yes given the lengths the USAF went to keep him well away from others.

On the book qua book, I read the Kindle download. It was readable except for one graphic which was completely black, and one page showing a form which was too small to read. The book is short and quite expensive, much the same price as a physical paperback. It is adequately written although Sherman confuses “effect” and “affect” throughout. To wrap up I’d say, don’t read this as your only UFO book, don’t expect massive insights into the phenomenon (Sherman opines that his book might trigger an avalanche of whistle-blowers; that clearly hasn’t happened) but if you are already a devotee of the subject this is another piece of the puzzle and a small step on the road to the complete picture.
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