Hello,

        It's Barry Chamish here. From 1987-99 Israel boasted a spectacular UFO wave and I was the reporter who covered it in depth. The incidents were profound, culminating
in the close encounters with giants mostly around the town of Kadima. The book was once nearly impossible to find, but it's back:

Return Of The Giants.
         Available in two editions, with black and white illustrations or with the more expensive color illustrations.
         Many, many color shots of UFO evidence.

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       In thirteen dramatic chapters, the book takes you from the pictographs of Shikmoneh Beach, the giant tracks of Yatzitz, the encounters of Kadima, following the flow of
occasional frauds, much real physical evidence and two dozen photos of the adventure. Most spectacular are the three photos of the alien being filmed during the night of the sun at Ramat Hachayal. This is possibly the only alien being ever photographed with its shadow following its body.
       Lulu.com will let you download the book for under $10 or will send a handsome copy to your home for under $20. Between us though, order the color version for the best experience.
 
       May I present the DVD of Return Of The Giants as well? Besides presenting programs I advised for NBC and Fox-TV, I include over 20 amateur clips including the now famous Hatzor
"balcony" craft, a disc over Rishon Letzion chased by an Israeli jet in clear daylight, and the only known UFO attack, over Rosh Haayin, where two UFOs collide and explode.  I hope $20 is a fair price for my work.

      If you wish to purchase the DVD, or invite me to lecture or be interviewed, write   chamish@netvision.net.il or call me at  904 501 7605

      Meanwhile, here's the introduction to the book: Best, Barry
 

INTRODUCTION:
                                RETURN OF THE GIANTS?

 Are the Anakim or the Refaim, the giants of the Bible returning to Israel
 today?  There are only two periods of recorded history when giants were
 reported in Israel; In biblical days from the time of the Flood to the ascension
 of King David  and since 1993 in modern Israel.

 The case for the return of giants to Israel is airtight. The giants thoughtfully
 chose reliable contactees as witnesses, allowed their craft to be filmed and
 left in their wake ample physical evidence.

 In fact, what characterizes the current Israeli UFO wave from others in the
 world, is the shere abundance of physical evidence left behind by the visitors.
 Consider the first incident to usher Israel into the UFO age.

 On the evening of Sept. 28, 1987, a 27 year old auto mechanic, Ami Achrai
 was driving just south of Haifa when he saw what he thought might be a
 helicopter in distress hovering just above the sands of Shikmona Beach on
 the Mediterranean Sea. He stopped his car and to his utter amazement saw a
 disc-shaped craft which emitted a bright red flash before disappearing.

 Two days later he returned to the site with a ufologist the police referred him
 to, Hadassah Arbel. What they discovered remains one of the most lasting
 proofs ever left by a UFO of its physical existence. The flash emitted by the
 craft burned its image into the sands of Shikmona Beach. A fifteen metere
 ellipsoid disk was burnt black into the sand but what was more interesting
 was what wasn't burned. In the vegetation which wasn't burned was a clear
 image of the pilot of the craft facing a control board.

 Seven years later I sent samples of the burnt sand to the television show
 Sightings which subjected it to laboratory tests. The sand seemed to melt in
 the heat of the camera light. The reason later discovered was the sand
 particles were covered by a low melting hydrocarbon material. The laboratory
 could find no natural or human explanation for the phenomenon.

 Ami Achrai's incident was followed by a repeat performance on June 6, 1988
 when a similarly shaped craft was once again burned into the sands of
 Shikmona Beach, about 100 yards north of the first site. This was followed by
 the most spectacular display of all. On April 27, 1989, two teenagers
 witnessed a UFO explode into thousands of shards over Shikmona Beach.

 By now, Israeli ufologists were prepared to handle the latest incident more
 scientifically. The beach was strewn with burning white metal which was cool
 to the touch. The metal even glowed in water. When picked up, the shards
 turned into a white ash. Scientists from the Technion Institute of Technology
 tested the site and found that magnetism was 6000 times higher than the
 surrounding area. The shards were found top be very pure magnesium.

 Two hundred yards above Shikmona Beach is a biblical shrine called Elijah's
 cave. Here Elijah preached and here or somewhere nearby in the Carmel
 Mountains, Elijah challenged the Canaanites to a duel of Gods. Two bulls
were tethered and the gods were beseeched to roast them. Naturally, baal
 failed the Canaanites but Elijah's God sent a ray of light from heaven which
 cooked the bull on the spot. This ray must have been similar to the kind of
 beam which burned the sands of Shikmona Beach into a saucer shape.

 Within the Cave of Elijah is an ancient drawing of something that was the
 spitting image of the craft burned into the sands below. The Sightings team
 decided the image "was a coincidence. Maybe it was a bat." When Michael
 Hesemann filmed the drawing he left certain it was a match for the burned
 sand pictures.

 Although the cave drawing's meaning is in dispute, the fact of the modern
 UFO- burned inscriptions is not. Something unique occurred at Shikmona
 Beach. Alien craft decided to leave souvenirs there at least three times. By
 doing so, they revealed the dimensions of their craft and apparently pilot, as
 well as their construction material. These were not crop circles nor were they
 formed the same way. A very different message was left on Shikmona
 Beach's sands.

 After the UFO explosion, there was a hiatus of UFO activity until 1993 broken
 only once in late 1991 over the village of Sde Moshe, some five miles from
 Kadima. There, after two straight nights of having the inside of his house lit
 up by an unexplained craft hovering above it, Eli Cohen captured the
 responsible UFO on videotape. Several minutes of the tape were filmed after
 daybreak making the result a most clear and convincing record of a UFO.

 It seems the visitors were merely scouting the Kadima area in 1991 but they
 returned in force in 1993. And this time, the occupants of the crafts did more
 than merely hover in the sky.

 In the early morning of April 20, Tsiporet Carmel's house glowed from within.
 She stepped outside and saw what she thought was a new fruit silo built
 outside her back yard. But then she saw the silo add a second storey to itself.
 Ten yards to the side of this magical silo, Tsiporet saw a seven foot tall being
 wearing metallic overalls. Its head was covered in a what looked like a
 beekeeper's hat. Tsiporet said, "Why don't you take off your hat so I can see
 your face?" The being answered her telepathically, "That's the way it is."

 This was Israel's first publicized close encounter with an alien being. Tsiporet
 could easily have been made an object of ridicule but for the fact that a crop
 circle 4.5 metres in diameter was found exactly where she had seen the craft.
 Within the circle were shards of a material later found to be a very pure
 silicon. I add, Israel's ufologists are divided over the veracity of the silicon
 because there was a prankster loose in Kadima.

 However, within ten days, two more circles were found just outside Tsiporet's
 back yard. This time, they were soaked with a red liquid and this fluid would
 be a constant feature of upcoming landing circles. It was tested by the
 National Biological Laboratory in Ness Tziona and found to be composed
 mostly of cadmium.

 This was the end of Tsiporet's incidents. Now the visitors concentrated on
 two other woman in their late thirties living on Hapalmach Street. The first
 was a Russian immigrant Mara. Strange forces shook her house so hard they
 caused the outside airconditioning unit to fall out of its casing into the house.
 Voices called to Mara in her childhood nickname. Eventually she decided the
 house was haunted and she moved far from Kadima.

 Shosh Yahud is the treasurer of the town of Kadima. She is down to earth
 and wants as little to do with her UFO experience as possible. In May, she
 awoke to see a seven foot, round faced being in silvery overalls circling her
 bed as if "floating on his shoes." The creature assured her he was not there
 to harm her and she became relaxed. After a few minutes the being floated
 through her wall outside.

 Shosh thought she had dreamed the incident until she looked out her
 wondow in the morning and saw a 4.5 meter crop circle in her backyard. The
 ufologists descended on her home and discovered the silicon and cadmium
 within the circle.

 Next, in June, it was Hannah Somech's turn to be visited by a giant. Hannah
 lives in Burgata, three miles from Kadima.  She was startled to see her dog
 go flying across the kitchen into a wall. She stepped outside to investigate
 and her way was stopped by an invisible force. She then saw a seven foot,
 round-faced being in metallic overalls examining her pickup truck. She said to
 it, "What did you do to my dog?" It answered telepathically, "Go away. I'm
 busy. I could crush you like an ant if I wanted to. Go back to your husband."

 Needless to say, a 4.5 meter circle crushed out of the grass was later found
 in Hannah's back yard. Within, the grass was soaked with red liquid
 cadmium.

 By the end of the summer, the credible reports of giants roaming the land
 persuaded the normally staid television station Channel One, to broadcast a
 one hour program on the subject. Tsiporet and Shosh appeared as well as
 the ufologists who had examined the circles of Kadima. To the apparent
 shock of the host, the viewing audience believed the advocates of alien
 landings. The result was two more witnesses coming out into the open.

 Both were women in their late thirties who lived within ten miles of each other
 south of Tel Aviv. Clara Kahonov of Holon was most reluctant to be quoted
 but acknowledged that she had seen a giant being.

 Batya Shimon of Rishon Letzion saw far more than one. In early July, two
 seven foot tall, bald creatures beamed themselves into her seventh floor
 apartment. They told her telepathically not to be frightened and she
 immediately relaxed. She then felt they had "friendly faces." They roamed her
 home, "floating on their shoes" dusting her shelves with a yellow, foul-
 smelling powder. One being saw her son's aquarium, became very excited
 and called his colleague over. After a few minutes, they beamed themselves
 outside. The next night at 3 AM, a dozen giants visited Batya arriving and
 leaving the same way.

 I have had extensive conversations with the contactees and there is much in
 common with their stories. That is fit subject for a separate lecture. In short,
 all were the same age, all were white collar workers, three have been
 haunted since their encounters telepathically, all their men slept through the
 encounters, two had mysterious pregnancies etc. But the core commonality is
 that these women did not know each other and separately described the
 same seven foot tall, bald, round-faced giants.

 And if absolute proof that giants were about in Israel was needed, it came in
 December in the village of Yatzitz, twelve miles east of Rishon Letzion. The
 giants had opened a new axis after Kadima, a triangle of twenty miles linking
 Rishon Letzion, Holon and Yatzitz.

 Herzl Casatini, the village security chief and his friend Danny Ezra were
 sharing conversation when they heard an explosion and felt Ezra's house
 shake. Herzl opened the door and stood face to face with a nine foot tall
 creature in metallic clothes whose face was hidden in "a haze." He shut the
 door and called the police. They arrived and discovered deep boot tracks in
 the hard mud. The tracks sunk 35 centimeters into the ground meaning
 whoever made them had to have weighed, literally, a ton. Thinking there
 might have been a terrorist incursion, the army was called in.

 Military trackers were totally stumped. The tracks carried on for 8 kilometers.
 The heel dug in only 5 cm. meaning whatever made the tracks was walking
 almost on tip-toes. If you can call it walking. Sometimes the distance between
 tracks was twelve feet, meaning the intruder was a world record holding
 broad jumper weighing about a ton.

 The Yatzitz incident confirmed, even to the deepest skeptics, that giants were
 indeed sighted and they left proof that was nearly impossible to dispute. The
 best the Israeli authorities could come up with to explain the tracks was they
 were left by an unknown cult. It would have to be very unknown for records of
 cults whose ceremonies include dressing as giants and leaving miles of
 unidentifiable tracks are undoubtedly quite rare.

 After Yatitz, giant sightings were reported in Ramat Hasharon, Rehovot and
 Afula. And 1996 became a vintage year for UFO evidence gathering with a
 good dozen craft filmed. Two incidents stand out. In August, a UFO was
 filmed over three nights with professional equipment at Kibbutz Hatzor. The
 results include a closeup of what appear to be rows of square-shaped vents
 on the craft. In December, a Netanya household reported constant contact
 with small greys, the first such report from Israel. The witnesses backed up
 their claims with an abundance of physical evidence, including stones that
 melt ice immediately without a known energy source.

 The Israeli UFO experience is unique and very complicated. I have touched
 on just one aspect of it; but it is vital to understanding the Israeli puzzle. Of
 the seven best documented close encounters with alien beings provably
 connected to UFOs, six involved giants. These giants were determined to
 leave evidence of their arrival in the form of cadmium-imbued landing circles,
 miles of impossible boot tracks and deliberate communication with witnesses.
 Indeed, the abundant evidence more than indicates that there are giants
 roaming Israel today.

 As there were 5,000 years ago and they also left proof of their existence. The
 giants were descended from the nefilim, literally the fallen ones. In ancient
 time, entities fell on Israel from the heavens and later became the mortal
 enemies of the Hebrew nations.

 One giant king was Og of Bashan. The bible records that his bed was thirteen
 feet long. Bashan's territory included the Golan Heights. Sitting on the Golan
 Heights is the Israeli version of Stonehenge. Called Gilgal Refaim, the Circle
 of the Refaim or giants in English, this site consists of five concentric rings
 whose beauty can only be appreciated from above. Unfortunately, there was
 supposedly no way for the simple nomads of 5000 years ago to see the
 circles from above.

 The cite is enormous. The outside circle has a diameter of 159 meters and
 over 37,000 tons of rock went into the construction of the complex. Two
 openings in the circles may have been used to measure the solar solstice
 and the rising of Sirius in 3000 BCE.

 The fact remains that Israeli archaeologists are totally mystified by the Gilgal
 Refaim. No other complex built in the Middle East resembles it and it
 predates the pyramids by over 500 years. The indigenous nomads of the time
 did not engage in this kind of megalith building, so outsiders were probably
 the builders. According to the Bible, the only outsiders living on the Golan
 Heights back then were giants.

 Maybe it's a longshot, but no one has come up with a better explanation for
 Israel's current UFO wave. I believe the ancient giants may be coming home.
 I conclude on a somber note. The biblical giants were God's enemy and
 Israel's armies were the means to their utter destruction. There is a legitimate
 reason to contemplate the recent re-arrival of giants in Israel with a good
 measure of dread.