Cinderloo
(Dawley Riots)

In Alien Heat - the UFO Book

Steve and I went to school together in Warminster in the 1960s and 70s. Warminster was, around then, famous for its UFO activity and we wanted to believe... So, we went on skywatches - which basically involved sitting round on cold hillsides - Cradle Hill, Cley Hill - waiting for the saucers to land. And, of course, they didn't.

Fast-forward a few years...

Once upon a time, on a dark and stormy night, in Steve's house in Palmer's Green, we were reminiscing about the times we used to go skywatching and one of us said "We could write a book about all that stuff..."

Over the years, the focus of the book changed and moved from a general history - we soon realised that would be impossible - to focusing on the Warminster phenomenon. Long periods of apathy, punctuated by intermittent bouts of complete disinterest, has meant it's taken over twenty years to complete. But finally, here it is...

You can read bits of it here...

BTW, the title is a slight misquote from Theodore Wratislaw's Hothouse Flowers.

Oh, and a few people rather liked it ...

"A remarkable new book...a riveting social document, objectively placing the phenomenon in its cultural and historical context...highly engaging." - Western Daily Press

"...a considerable achievement, meticulously researched and documented, well-written, often humorous account of a fascinating piece of... ufological history." - Magonia

"This is a fascinating and absorbing book which should be read by everyone who wants to know 'the truth' behind the UFO mystery." - Dr. David Clarke, National Centre for English Cultural Tradition, University of Sheffield.

"The story of the Warminster phenomenon as Dewey and Ries tell it is at once singular and weird ...and archetypical. This book should be read with care, patience and reflection, but most of all it it should be read." - Peter Brookesmith, Journal of Scientific Enquiry

On the other hand, Jerome Clarke gave it a right panning in International UFO Reporter:-

"In Alien Heat is neither terribly enlightening nor terribly entertaining... One sometimes has the sense that the authors did no more than cram the contents of a few debunking books into a random-word generator and preserve the results between covers."