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Review of "Dark Fleet" by Len Kasten

4/15/2020

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Dark Fleet: The Secret Nazi Space Program and the Battle for the Solar System
Len Kasten | Bear & Co. | March 2020 | 240 pages | ISBN: 9781591433446 | $16.00
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I hate to say it, but I think that the great cultural pause created by the COVID-19 lockdown has finally ground much of the fake history industry to a halt. Sure, there are social media posts from people claiming that random rocks are world-changing artifacts, and somehow the History Channel is broadcasting, but otherwise we don’t have much left. I can’t get into The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch. I just don’t have the patience to sit through an hour of people who admit to not knowing anything wandering about to deliver about 30 seconds worth of information, most of which will be disproved the next week anyway. So what does that leave us with? I am barely able to tolerate Rob Riggle: Global Investigator despite its subject matter’s tangential relevance to my interests, and only because it’s like watching a train wreck of bad choices. The Science Channel’s resurrected Forbidden History (formerly of the Travel Channel, formerly of AHC) has been a disappointment. (Apparently, even though it is not part of my cable package, I still have online access.) The first episode involved a failed hunt for a World War II load of Japanese gold. The second revisited the Shroud of Turin just in time for Easter. It’s all so … boring.
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Even Inner Traditions/Bear &Co. doesn’t have any new fake history books to review, except one by Len Kasten so stupid—but decidedly not boring—that I wasn’t sure I could bring myself to read it. Called Dark Fleet, it claims that the Nazis partnered with the Reptilians to run a shuttle program between Antarctica and Mars. It was Inner Traditions’ last crazy-quilt of a book released before the lockdown began. Having some time, I forced myself to attempt to read it. And it was … pages between covers. That’s a book. Right?
 
Kasten is a longtime writer on space alien conspiracies, and Kasten advocates basically every fake UFO and paranormal “mystery” you can imagine, from the Reptilian-Illuminati alliance to the Montauk Experiment to the Zeta Reticuli exchange program on (the non-existent) Planet Serpo. I reviewed his previous book, Alien World Order, back in 2016. If you’ve read a conspiracy theory on the internet, Kasten has attempted to monetize it in one of his books.
 
But he isn’t very good at it.
 
Nothing screams quality like admitting in your acknowledgements that much of the book is based on YouTube videos you watched and that the results are not particularly convincing. In the acknowledgements he literally explains that his research for Dark Fleet consisted of watching online videos. Kasten isn’t even terribly keen on his own work: “I will readily admit that much of this material is not especially scholarly, but is rather based upon intuitive judgments derived from my observations,” Kasten writes in his own book. If he recognizes that his work lacks credibility, why does he expect the reader to join him in his delusions?
 
I tried to read this book. I really did. But I just couldn’t do it. I ended up skimming most of it because I couldn’t force myself to try to force the book to conform to basic rules of logic. Every sentence was so chock-a-block with nonsense that the words stopped making sense. One almost needs a Ph.D. in online conspiracy theories to even begin to make sense of the layers upon layers of claims piled on each other. Consider just the first paragraph of the book:

It has now, in 2019, become abundantly clear from the investigations and writings of several well-known and highly respected researchers that the human race is being controlled and “managed” by a race of alien beings that co-inhabit this planet. We have all believed from birth that we, the human race alone, possess the Earth all to ourselves. But now it appears that we really share it with a powerful and hostile race that can be called “intraterrestrials” because they live far below the surface of the planet, but have the technology to come and go as they please and to travel throughout the galaxy. They are known as Reptilians. In my previous book, Alien World Order, I explained that the Reptilians are ancient and powerful beings who settled here long before we human earthlings arrived, and who therefore believe that this is really their planet. But while they would like us to believe that, that is not the case because another race of humans, our cousins, were the first to settle in this solar system on Mars and on the gigantic planet Maldek then existing between Mars and Jupiter. So, this is really a human solar system. And those first humans were refugees from Lyra, a distant star system that, eons ago, was attacked by the Reptilians who slaughtered fifty million humans and destroyed three planets.
If that weren’t enough, the next couple of paragraphs introduce Atlantis and Lemuria, claim humans came from a planet called Lyra by way of the Pleiades and that Atlantean human-aliens battled Reptilian aliens until the “Atlans” killed all the dinosaurs and a Star Trek-style Federation of planets became involved. Kasten then follows Raelian teaching and asserts that God was really an alien race called the Elohim, and he mixes in many of Corey Goode’s and David Wilcock’s most ridiculous conspiracies about alliances, confederations, and other alien teams battling for total world domination. Modern humans, he said, were a compromise made near Göbekli Tepe, when a Reptilian and Mammalian brain were put together so humans could be manipulated from the Fourth Dimension. Joke’s on him, of course, since we know that real aliens live in the Fifth Dimension, The Twilight Zone.
 
And that’s just the first few pages. It goes on like that for chapter after chapter. I will give Kasten credit for this: Most ancient astronaut writers eventually decide that white Teutonic types are the master race, but Kasten rejects this. He alleges that evil aliens declared Germanic people the “chosen” race, but that they were uniquely chosen for evil because they were so much less spiritually advanced than other peoples. His evidence is that Germanic peoples trashed the Roman Empire, so they must be trash people. He declares Teutonic white folk to be “proto-human” inferiors, underdeveloped and beholden to satanic powers of alien evil. This is in contrast to his earlier book, where the white guys were the ancestral heroes and original supermen.
 
Therefore, Kasten sees the Germans (and white folk in general) as puppets used to control the human population through media-induced violence. (Clearly, they aren’t very good at it since the population has exploded 7.8 billion.) However, Kasten’s identification of Germans with evil isn’t quite what it seems. It’s simply a diabolizing of old Victorian stereotypes of Prussian militarism and efficiency: “Choosing the Germans to attain these Reptilian goals was logical and tactical. More than any other racial group, the Germans were amazingly disciplined and able to achieve remarkable accomplishments by rapidly organizing huge industrial structures along hierarchical lines and ensuring that the reporting discipline from one level to another was efficient and highly regimented.” A whole chapter is devoted racist descriptions of Germans that would have made Lord Kitchener’s propagandists blush. Apparently, the same aliens that could genetically engineer humans for fourth-dimensional puppetry also had to wait for just the right race of efficiency experts to emerge. There is some nonsense about Queen Victoria seeding Europe with Reptilian blood, and Kasten envisions Hitler’s birth as a satanic miracle, planned centuries in advance and heralded with Reptilian retainers. He was, Kasten said, part of an entire generation of Germans bred by space aliens to be inhumanly cruel monsters. Kasten seems unaware that Hitler was born in Austria-Hungary, not in the German Empire.
 
Much of the middle of the book is a long history of the German Empire’s various colonial outrages, which Kasten sees as an alien-planned setup for Hitler. He seems unaware that other colonial powers did the same, or worse. Leopold II’s Congo Free State was among the worst of the offenders, and it was decidedly not German. Kasten follows an outdated historiography that sees Kaiser Wilhelm II as all-powerful, and therefore he fundamentally misunderstands World War I as Wilhelm’s attempt to conquer all of Europe.
 
For some bizarre reason, the plot of “The Screwfly Solution” shows up in the middle of a chapter as a description of how aliens convince men to commit violence against women.
 
By the middle of the book, we get a long conspiracy theory about how all of human history was designed to lead to Hitler, which seems to give Hitler far too much credit for being the fulcrum around which all of infinity revolves. Following claims first made by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier in Morning of the Magicians (though Kasten certainly doesn’t know that), he alleges that Hitler was involved with black magic, met aliens through magical rituals, and became possessed by one such entity. He imagines Hitler as omnipotent, possessed of immense supernatural power, and also possessed of a secret Antarctic base, which he used as a spaceport. There is some offensive material about the Nazis using the Holocaust to obtain slave labor for the Reptilians, and it’s rather clear that Kasten isn’t able to process the idea that humans can be inhumanly cruel on their own, so he can only deal with the enormity of World War II by imagining that demonic aliens used a partially non-human hybrid German race to carry out evil. This, therefore, absolves the “real” humanity of responsibility for cruelty and violence.
 
After the halfway point, Kasten moves into more familiar conspiracy theories popular on Ancient Aliens and promoted by Ancient Aliens stars or star-adjacent figures like Michael Salla and Corey Goode, both of whom are his explicit sources. He talks about the end of the war and the U.S. important Nazi scientists. He imagines a clandestine Nazi takeover of America and the development of a (fictitious) secret space program and the use of a former Nazi moon base to hold galactic meetings of various alien races. Any conspiracy theory you’ve heard, it’s in this book. The discussion is pathetic in its credulity, accepting obvious hoaxes as true and repeating all of Corey Goode’s fantastical testimony as fact. At some point, he goes full Iron Sky and alleges that the Nazis control whole cities on the Moon and Mars, such that “Mars has now become a completely German planet and the home of the Fourth Reich.” Like David Wilcock (also cited as an explicit source), Kasten believes movies reveal this secret reality, so for him Total Recall is a secret expose of the real Martian Nazi society.
 
Oh, and Mars is full of velociraptors that battle Nazis. I don’t know why. Don’t ask.
 
Anyway, I can only scratch the surface of the hundreds upon hundreds of extreme conspiracy claims jammed into this book. Just listing them would take thousands of words. As the book wore on, I found that I could only skim because the ranting language, lack of anything resembling documentations, and ill-defined chapters turned every page into a mind-numbing acid bath in the fetid waters of the internet’s worst message boards and memes. The entire book has just eight end notes and an approximately one-page bibliography of 22 sources, most of which are books by David Icke and Michael Salla. He does not list the YouTube videos he viewed.
 
The book ends with Kasten expressing hope that the United States will save the universe from space Nazis and end the Nazis’ domination of our galaxy. The conclusion is so disconnected from anything resembling reality, where the height of fascist aspiration is currently to convince the elderly to sacrifice themselves for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, that this bizarre indulgence into Hitler-themed titillation could only provoke my laughter. But then I felt a little sad that people actually believe these ideas because it makes them feel better than trying to handle actual reality.

I would have given the book zero stars, but the breathtaking audacity of its effort to condense the entirety of internet conspiracy culture into 240 pages deserves half a star.
28 Comments
Paul
4/15/2020 09:19:52 am

Must be saving Bill Mann’s new Pike letters book for a rainy day.....

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An Anonymous Nerd
4/15/2020 09:37:55 am

[I think that the great cultural pause created by the COVID-19 lockdown has finally ground much of the fake history industry to a halt.]

At least some of them are doing COVID-19 material now. Fake cures, conspiracy fantasies about the origin of it, etc. So I'd say they've more branched out than ground to a halt.

Wait for the "alien diseases" episode of "Ancient Aliens."

Based on your description this book sounds a lot like the old "The Book of the Damned."

-An Anonymous Nerd

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Rock Knocker
4/15/2020 03:52:43 pm

“...Wait for the “alien diseases” episode of ‘Ancient Aliens’...”

Too late, that was Season 3 Episode 7. But, now they have an excuse to revisit the topic, and with new facts! Huzzah!


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AMHC
4/15/2020 05:15:19 pm

I too eagerly await the Aliens Diseases episode. But, I realized something while watching Deep Space Nine a few days ago. Somewhere in Season 3 there’s a time shifting episode where Chief Miles O’Brien absorbs “Delta series radioisotopes “ This is the same pseudoscience underlying the conspiracies about 5G that are now being dumped in with Coronavirus. If you’re interested DS9 is on Amazon Prime and it’s Season 3 Episode 17 titled Visionary.

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An Anonymous Nerd
4/15/2020 10:22:50 pm

Oh wow. I'd forgotten about that episode and had forgotten about the techno-babble that caused the time shift. Not the best episode of that series.

It is very frustrating how many Fringe folks appropriate a combination of very cool nerd fiction (like Star Trek) and turn it into conspiracy fantasy by pretending it's all, somehow, real.

-An Anonymous Nerd

AMHC
4/15/2020 10:58:03 pm

I was just reading about the push to try and unify the public-private collaboration on finding a Coronavirus cure and somehow ended up reading about neutrinos and the question of their role in the matter/antimatter equation. That article about a project based in Italy that was also looking at neutrinos but they shifted the lingo to “dark matter” instead of anti matter. It’s a little late for me to try to be a scientist now! But those are the kinds of articles that spur quality writers to write. I am glad you recognized the episode! That’s what mattered to me!

Scott Hamilton
4/15/2020 10:00:12 am

"Oh, and Mars is full of velociraptors that battle Nazis. I don’t know why. Don’t ask."

You're not the boss of me.

I've read a couple of Salla books, I think I may need to read this one to get something even weirder.

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Kal
4/15/2020 11:25:37 am

the story seems a pasteche of Iron Sky, The Hollow Earth, Mars Attacks, Raelians, Raptors on Mars, and other bizarre works. At least he gets a note for being overly silly in mixing everything, instead of merely ripping off one person or genre. He chooses to rip off all of them. Everything seems to be there but the kitchen sink, as they used to say. Cue the Looney Tune of a sink dropping out of nowhere. Also the Greys are more insectoid than reptilian, so his version if different. He seems to be cribbing from some of my lesser works too. Ha. Mostly science fiction though. This guy seems to think scifi is fact. Ha.

Does beg the question, why would aliens even be interested in us if they're inter dimensional hyper advanced? They never answer that, do they? Oh well. It's because if the fantasy disappears, they must have dreamed it, which itself is a common cop out of fantasy.

Was never too keen on the giant mystery planet, Nibiru or the like, but the destroyed planet in the asteroid belt is in several works, all scifi. Different planet.

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A C
4/16/2020 07:04:26 am

David Icke (from second hand descriptions, never read his books) is pretty explicite that the extra dimensional reptiles feed off human suffering, so there is a 'why'.

Iron Sky is itself (by intent) a deriviative mash up of nonsense, so the idea of it being influential is what it is I guess.

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Machala
4/15/2020 12:11:03 pm

If the Germans are the pawns of the Reptilians and Hitler was in their thrall, does that make a Orange Maroon, Emperor Trump ( who is German/American ) the Reptilians' Lord of the Lies?

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Nick Danger
4/15/2020 12:35:42 pm

Mr. Colavito, Apropos your reference to The Screwfly Solution, and the weird Nazi stuff, I refer you to the Nebula-nominated The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad, a meta-fictional alternate history of Hitler. I suspect you'd like it.

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Joe Scales
4/15/2020 02:49:52 pm

"I can’t get into The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch."

Can't blame you there Jason. Morons overacting over nothing. It's not even (unintentionally) funny along the lines of Curse of Civil War Gold. Just bare bones nonsense. Even for the History Channel.

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Ken
4/16/2020 12:35:09 am

Did you notice that the "mystery radiation" was 5GHz , one of the 2 broadcast frequencies of most home wireless internet routers?

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Kent
4/15/2020 03:36:37 pm

One has to wonder if this is a new version of the Sokal Hoax. Reptilians living underground both now and before humans is an idea straight out of Doctor Who.

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Jr. Time Lord
4/16/2020 02:29:52 am

https://www.amazon.com/Nikola-Tesla-Journey-Mars-Already/dp/1892062313

This work sounds like the antithesis of the book linked above. Instead of Nazis colonizing Mars it's the United States government using Tesla based technology. The book only takes a few minutes to read and is quite entertaining. I am in no way endorsing this book. It was a gift.

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Tony C
4/19/2020 12:01:59 pm

If it wasn't for the Pandemic I would not have gone back to some writings I began over 20 years ago! I take a break and read some of the interesting blogs here on some of the shows.
I cant follow the Skinwalker Ranch crap anymore though.

I do enjoy the "thoughts" and comments from this site:
Thanks Guys

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Lyn McConchie
4/19/2020 04:14:28 pm

It's a happy thought. I read this thread and smiled. Recent news items note that paparazzi are finding times very hard because stars are in lockdown and can't be so easily harrassed and pursued. Drug dealers are running out of precursor drugs and have nothing to sell. And now these sorts of series are having similar problems. Verily, every cloud has a silver lining.

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Jim
4/19/2020 06:04:34 pm

I have even heard strange rumors that the air in L.A. is now breathable.

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Tony C
4/19/2020 08:19:09 pm

I moved from Southern CA 10 years ago. Then,the air and smog in LA were synonymous and the traffic was referred to as "The Worlds Longest Parking Lot." With the lockdown, the pollution has decreased, but the homelessness and sheltering along the streets have tripled.

On a different note, anyone watching Westworld tonight? Each episode leaves me with more questions, or is it dementia?:)

Tony C
4/25/2020 10:53:13 pm

Thanks Lyn.
Instead of "From Chaos Comes Order, its now "Chaos From Order." Stressful times like this seem to Peel Away the Social Norms and bring out the Instinctive Biases of people.
Question? Are you the author that lives in New Zealand? I apologize for the question, but if so, 2 of my son's read your books.

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Lyn McConchie
4/26/2020 03:14:07 pm

Hi Tony,
well, I'm a New Zealand author, and there aren't many with my name, so it's likely. What have they read? SF/F, Sherlock Holmes, my DAZE series, the Four Seasons quartet, or the kids books?

Tony C
4/28/2020 08:06:00 am

Hi Lyn, Of my three sons, the oldest read: Sherlock Holmes: Familiar Crimes, then gave it to my other son. Both were living on campus, but now are staying with us here in lockdown:(

The youngest hates to read, they love their video games too much.
How are things in New Zealand?

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Lyn McConchie
4/28/2020 02:56:36 pm

Hi, Tony,
well, there's another 7 published in those so far (plus 4 four completed and sold.) And if you happen to be a cat-loving family, try Catalyst, or Cataclysm. I have great fun writing those variations of Holmes with a cat.
As for New Zealand. Our PM said the government would act hard and fast, it did, and it seems to be working. Back to level 3 last Monday, but so far we've had only 19 deaths and about 1500 cases. Care over what's permitted continues, and most of the country is with her. (Apart from a sprinkling of covidiots) and it could be that we'll get away without too much damage either to people or the economy.

EDWARD LOPEZ
4/20/2020 12:27:24 am

Jason: Have you published your views/opinion on the shroud of Turin? If yes, where can I read 'em? If no, why not?

You say, above:
"The Science Channel’s resurrected Forbidden History (formerly of the Travel Channel, formerly of AHC) has been a disappointment. (Apparently, even though it is not part of my cable package, I still have online access.) The first episode involved a failed hunt for a World War II load of Japanese gold. The second revisited the Shroud of Turin just in time for Easter. It’s all so … boring."

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Tony C
4/20/2020 11:04:38 am

The Second Messiah is a great book about the Templar Knights and the Shroud of Turin.

The thesis of this book is that the Shroud of Turin bears the image of the executed Grand Master of the Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay (d. 3/1314), not that of Jesus. They "prove" that it cannot be of Jesus because of carbon dating tests performed on it. They argue for its association to the Grand Master from a host of evidences, but not, I think, convincingly.

As regards the physical shroud itself, it may be traceable to the sacking of Constantinople by the crusaders in 1204 and it may have come into the possession of the Templars after that date. It may have been the idol the Templars were accused of worshipping during the trials signaling their dissolution beginning in 1307.

It may even have been thought, by them, to be an image of the Christ. If the 1204 date of acquisition is correct, this makes any association of the image with that of the Grand Master of the Templars impossible, contrary to Knight and Lomas.

In recent years it has been revealed to *not* be Christ's burial shroud. This book explores the possibility of it being the burial shroud of Templar Grand Master, Jacques de Molay. For those who do not know, the Templar Knights are the origins of today's freemasonry...

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Kent
4/25/2020 04:06:59 am

For those who do know, thay are not.

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Tony C
4/29/2020 10:57:01 am

Sorry Ken,
My intent was to give some information to Edward regarding the Book "The Second Messiah." Its VERY controversial, especially regarding the Shroud of Turin. I pasted info regarding the book, but it also extended into the authors beliefs on the Templars and Masons. I also know that the Masons have NO connection to the Templars aside for some borrowed ritualistic behaviors.

T. Franke link
4/24/2020 02:23:41 pm

I started to read this review with the idea that this book is a novel. But no? It dresses itself like a fact book? OMG!

His depiction of the Germans rather fits to China today: They "were amazingly disciplined and able to achieve remarkable accomplishments by rapidly organizing huge industrial structures along hierarchical lines and ensuring that the reporting discipline from one level to another was efficient and highly regimented."

Kasten seems to believe the popular narrative that all German history was dedicated to end in Hitler as its climax. Yes, it is true, this approach gives Hitler far too much credit, it blinds for alternatives in political decision making, and it blinds for the achievements of Germany and the Germans (think only of Wilhelm von Humboldt and the Prussian Reforms, creating e.g. the Humboldt ideal of university and gymnasium).

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