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Books to read if you're planning a vacation in "Gulf Breeze", sorted by average review score:

3 Plays: The Boys in the Band, a Breeze from the Gulf, for Reasons That Remain Unclear
Published in Paperback by Alyson Pubns (June, 1996)
Authors: Mart Crowley and Gavin Lambert
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Boys in the band is hilarious
I found this play to be one of the funniest I have ever read. Black humour at its most hilarious.

Great Plays
I wonder sometimes why so few people know who Mart Crowley is. It doesn't seem unreasonable to me to call him one of the most gifted and important American playwrights, and yet nobody I've talked to, outside a handful of gay men who are in the theater or who read too much, has known even his name.

The Boys in the Band is the best-known of Mr. Crowley's plays: that's because, well, it IS the best, and also because there was an excellent movie made of it, which is as often seen as the play is read or seen on stage. The play is a brutal birthday party one evening in New York in 1969, and the guest of honor is guilt itself: eight gay men in their 30s gather and say horrible things to each other, which reflect more on themselves than on each other. Each in his own way is caught in the war zone between his homosexuality and the pressure from society to be something else (and goodness knows, the play opened just a few months before Stonewall). The most incredible thing about the play (in my opinion) is Mr. Crowley's evenness: you get the feeling that he is just showing life as he knew it, and not trying to judge or blame anyone or anything--rather a big feat for all the hate that had poisoned that life-as-he-knew-it.

One criticism has been consistently directed at The Boys in the Band over the years, that it depicts only guilt-ridden self-hating gay men who wish for all the world that they weren't gay. All I can say to this is, well, yes; but I am only 19 and I know exactly why these particular men are so guilt-ridden and self-hating, not because I grew up before Stonewall (I was still in diapers at the beginning of AIDS), but because it's STILL tough to be gay in America. This kind of guilt and this kind of self-hate haven't disappeared--I experienced them first-hand in the 1990s. If The Boys in the Band seems a bit narrow for focusing only on that, then it's remarkably deep in spite of its narrowness.

The other two plays in this collection are also quite good. They too are built on Mr. Crowley's cl! arity and evenness of vision, but it seems (unfortunately) that they'll always suffer in comparison to the first play. They're good reads. I recommend them highly.

I can't justify my claim to you that Mr. Crowley is one of the great American playwrights--how can just one person justify that? The claim, I hope, will justify itself as future theater-goers, movie-goers, and readers (you!!) match Mr. Crowley's clarity and get to know his plays. For all the depressing subject matter, the plays are gripping, quite funny, searingly intelligent, and very rewarding. He sees a lot.


Gulf Breeze double exposed : the "ghost-demon" photo controversy
Published in Unknown Binding by J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies ()
Author: Zan Overall
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Excellent research material on Ed Walters's UFO hoax...
When the first Gulf Breeze photos came out it was a big
sensation to all UFO investigators.

However, when Ed Walters began to get MORE and MORE and MORE
photos of UFOs around Gulf Breeze, Florida over different
periods and he seemed to be the ONLY ONE that was able to get
photographs of something that showed something in the sky that
was made by some higher intelligent.

Why was HE(Ed Walters) the ONLY ONE that was able to get very
clear photos of what appeared to be an alien spaceship and
nobody else in Gulf Breeze??
The answer is simple he faked the whole thing.

Some UFOLOGISTS that have backed Ed Walters on his claims forgot
something that applies to all especially in the field of
UFO Research, "If it seems too good to be true, it probably
is not".
Mr. Zan Overall did an EXCELLENT job finding out that Ed Walters
of making ghost photographs at parties he did before his first
UFO GULF BREEZE photograph came out.
It was also surprising he used the same type of camera to take
ghost photos and his famous GULF BREEZE photos.

The J. Allen Hynek Center For UFO Studies(CUFOS) was the only
PRO-UFO organization that really questioned the claims of
Ed Walters and the whole UFO Gulf Breeze thing.

And this detrailed & researched material published by them is a
must for all that study & research the UFO phenomenon on
what to look for in investigating UFOs.


Gulf Breezes (Harlequin Superromance, No 507)
Published in Paperback by Harlequin (July, 1992)
Authors: Anne Logan and Barbara Colley
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I enjoyed writing this book tremendously.
I am the author of GULF BREEZES, and I'm also the author of FINDING KENDALL, part of the Harlequin Delta Justice Series. But my name is simply Anne Logan, NOT Anne Marie Logan as listed for FINDING KENDALL.


Ufo Abductions in Gulf Breeze
Published in Paperback by Avon (January, 1994)
Authors: Ed Walters and Frances Walters
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Multiple proof
How can so many people be wrong? Having become immersed in the Walters family experiences the fascination never wanes. But still the question remains - where are the decent photos? An engrossing read (if in a somewhat basic English) and another must for all ufologists and more. I need to get hold of more of the Walters books

White Chevy Nova
Well let me start out by saying the the ufo mania is kinda wierd. I mean everyone and his uncle has seen a UFO right??? The book itself was ok. It was the testimony of one man that convinced me that this was the real deal. His name was Brandon Wheeler. He drove a white Chevy Nova. He was a busboy. You don't get anymore honest than this guy. I was curious so I decided to look him up on my next trip to Pensacola. I found him at a bar called Flounder's. He was drinking a Diesel Fuel, a local drink in a mason jar. He recounted the story in the book and then after a 3rd Diesel Fuel, he told me of another experience he had. He said he was home alone when his phone rang. It was a friend of his mother's. She asked him to look go outside and tell her if he could see what she saw. He went out and he told her he saw it. He desrcibed what he saw to me as a flying glowing Cheerio, not your Applecinnamon type Cheerio it was more of the plain version, just flying and glowing. Then he told me he saw pods coming out of this Cheerio. They looked as if they were landing behind his house in the woods. As Brandon told the story he got a scared look in his eyes. Then he told me of the nightmares that followed. Nightmares of anal probes and cross breeding with sheep. He then said he had to go and he stumbled out of the bar and I never saw him again. He is still there. Look for him and ask him to tell the story. He still has the Chevy Nova.......

A man who has been abducted many times, tells of them fully.
He tells, in this(His second of three books) of being abducted by the aliens many many times, and that, contrary to many crazies, that they arent here for any spiritual crap. He wards those who yell HOAX! extremely well, presenting the evidence. Thank you for reading.


The Gulf Breeze Sightings
Published in Paperback by Avon (April, 1991)
Authors: Ed Walters, Frances Walters, and Budd Hopkins
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5 stars for the story. Minus 4 for the hoax pictures.
Okay first up this is great read and many UFO buffs will certainly be shocked by Ed and Francis Walters story of a UFO encounter that they backup with multiple photographs in the book. There are also multiple witness testimonies and the book does its very best to try and describe every event as it unfolded in their daily lives. Wonderful and riveting stuff and the long winded and often complex photo analysis really does its utmost best to show that these photographs could not have been hoaxed. Certainly a compelling argument and the fact that most of the photographic 'experts' seem to be able to conclude that the photographs are not a result of 'double exposure' is a sealing of proof that the photographs are real.

However you do not need to 'double expose' anything to achieve the same results and this is EXACTLY why their analysis is not that credible. I am sorry but the fact that no-one has ever mentioned the following, including the photo experts, really does put me in the position of total skepticism... Even better is the fact that you do not need to 'double-expose' anything or alter the original negative as the camera is capturing exactly what you are seeing. I would however see this as a problem for some complex shots like the UFO hiding behind trees or anything else in the foreground but the photographs 1 and 2 in which Ed said he had captured such a thing where not printed in my edition of the book and I can not find them anywhere else either. I would love to see these but alas have not found them. Either someone ripped them out of my copy of the book or Ed did not publish them. Anyway I want to be the first to point out that this is how a lot of the photographs could have been reproduced without direct 'image altering' or 'double-exposure'. In fact the process dates back to the 18th century where instead of using a camera the audience watched the ghost float across the room as a reflection on a sheet of glass that covered a portion of the stage.

PLEASE give me credit for this if you use it elsewhere because I worked hard to find this out. I do not doubt about the existence of UFO's and I believe that many of the shots/videos of other UFO's are real.... but alas Ed's pictures can be exactly replicated ... without interfering with the original negative or print. I also fail to understand why many of the 'experts' did not notice this. It is pretty obvious from photograph 11 that the image is semi-transparent and can be reproduced this way along with many others. Remember where you read this first and enjoy creating your own set of Gulf Breeze photographs ... but beware.. people like me will be able to spot your hoax a mile away. Have a nice day and do get the book because regardless of the above it is an enjoyable read!

Simple Truth Fully Authenticated
This wonderful book tries to present the simple fact that alien ships really are visiting the earth. Dubunkers have no ground to stand on with this one. The debunkers themselves are relegated to the group of people who have never observed the phenomenon. For this reason they imagine that such a thing could never happen. It's difficult to imagine that level of obtuseness when there is now so much solid supporting evidence for the information and the phenomenon. Grow up. We live in a busy neighbourhood (space) and we get visitors. Many are from our own future, some are interdimensional travellers, others are ETs.They have the technology to make it work. They are tourists, anthropologists and scientists. We live in a galaxy with so much life that they couldn't help but knock at our door. Ed Walters had a real experience.

AWESOME
I live about 95 mles from Gulf Breeze and did not know about all of the UFO sightings until I read the book.Ed Walters is the man along with others that have brought the Gulf Breeze UFO'S to the mainstream. This book has some excellent photographs of the alien spaceships that have been seen over Gulf Breeze.This book reminds me of the X-Files books not because of UFO's but because this book keeps you on the edge of your seat.If you are in to aliens and other X-File type books get this one because it has alot of intresting pictures and diagrams illustrated by the author. Some of the information in this book was also mentioned on the X-Files TV show along time ago.


Beyond Gulf Breeze (A Sally Malone Mystery)
Published in Paperback by Deadly Alibi Press (01 August, 2000)
Author: Joyce Holland
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A Breeze from the Gulf
Published in Hardcover by Farrar Straus & Giroux (October, 1974)
Author: Mart Crowley
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The Gulf Breeze Sightings: The Most Astounding Multiple Sightings of Ufos in U.S. History
Published in Hardcover by William Morrow (March, 1990)
Authors: Ed Walters, Frances Walters, and Budd Hopkins
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UFOs : the Gulf Breeze sightings
Published in Unknown Binding by Bantam Press ()
Author: Ed Walters
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