I just finished reading “Secret Journey to Planet Serpo” by Len Kasten. In a nutshell it describes what an Air Force Colonel kept in his diary. He was one of the 12 human military personnel who supposedly documented about his ten month experience traveling to the alien planet and the 13 years they were in the "Ebens" care. Remember the ten men and two women in red flight suits with sunglasses that were going with Roy Neary at the end in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?I have a lot of questions. Let’s say this was real and it happened. The fact that the “Ebens” had difficulty understanding our concept of time, and us with theirs, bothers me. They are able to travel through space in “space tunnels” (worm holes as we now call them) and bypass the law of speed of light, yet can’t be superior with numbers? Math is universal. Now don’t you guys start saying, “Well on Planet Serpo, their math is different.” No, it’s not. Please don’t blanket that kind of excuse for everything. Because of math, we understand time. We can understand that time is different in other celestial bodies. It’s even explained on page 194. Math is a universal constant. One is always going to be one, and two is always going to be two and it doesn’t matter where you are on Earth or on "Serpo."Another headache I got from this was nothing was mentioned about the planet’s gravity or it’s effect on the 12 humans. I would think that would be the first thing these humans would have experienced before stepping off the mother ship onto the Arizona-desert-looking environment.One nugget of info that I thought was cool was the fact that the aliens were curious as to what the Hell we were doing with the atom bomb. They did not have weapons of mass destruction like that.I’m going to guess there is an ounce of truth with this book with a gallon of “Eben” BS dumped on top of it.Now this unparalleled meeting and exchange took place in the 1960s during the space race with the Soviets. Americans traveling to another planet would have trumped the Russians hands down and would have given us bragging rights...Just like we did with the moon landings. This feat would not have been kept silenced. It would have been celebrated. Now some of you may say, "Well it was covered up because it was compartmentalized due to the Defense Intelligence Agency." That may be true and to help that argument, Bob Lazar said the biggest problem with his work in reverse engineering was because of department compartmentalization. None-the-less, Reagan KNEW and gave an address about the importance of protecting the Earth from a hostile alien race. He could have disclosed more then, but he didn't.My last thought on this extraordinary account, if true, the military should have sent smarter humans and seeds to grow a garden. The books makes the military look stupid and not capable for forecasting basic human requirements. By bringing seeds, they could have grown their own food on that planet when their rations were depleted. The book states the humans had a hard time enjoying and digesting Serpon food and had ran out of salt and pepper to make it tolerable. Then there was the protein issue. It is stated that the humans "killed a beast" and ate it. It supposedly tasted like bear. The animals described by this "anonymous" man are juvenile descriptions. "The strangest was the beast which looked like a large ox. the animal was timid and never seen to be hostile. Another animal looked like a mountain lion, but had long fur around the neck. This animal was curious, but was not considered hostile by the Ebens." I won't even touch on the giant snake that had human eyes.I come away from this reading....very angry. I would like to think the USAF was smarter than this in 1965 with what it was sending to this alien world. And we won't even talk about the radiation issue that allegedly was the cause of the humans (that returned to Earth) their eventual deaths. Do the "Ebens" even know about science and solar radiation or are they just winging it?At the end of the day, it is a fantastic read. And like watching a Michael Bay movie, you need to turn off your brain and just enjoy the story. I recommend it.