Millennial Hospitality Hardcover – November 1, 2002

The only reason I bought these 3 books Is because they purportedly contain information concerning the Tall White ETs (and the Kindle editions are cheap). I am convinced that these ETs both exist and are interacting with humans, especially factions of the US government and/or military. That they might have been provided a facility for their use near Area 51, I also find plausible.These books were initially released as works of fiction but later Hall claimed that the experiences and information concerning the Tall Whites is factual. He continues to maintain that position and now speaks publicly about these events. I have read the first book, am reading the second, and have purchased the third. Annoyingly, instead of picking up where the first book left off, the second book backtracks all the way to where Charlie first realizes that the beings exist and is in total denial of their reality. But, in starting over, he recounts different encounters with the Tall Whites that he did not include in the first book.Many other reviewers have stated the facts concerning the writing. It is long-winded, repetitious, and exceedingly self-aggrandizing. Charlie Baker, his pseudonym for himself in the book, is exceptional at everything he does, admired by everyone from the brass on down, everybody's best friend, and a possible candidate for sainthood. He also seems to have a fetish about sagebrush which he mentions literally hundreds of times. Literally. That is not hyperbole. I am assuming that other plants also grow on the desert, but they are overlooked. One of the pros of this book is that it is a very fast read because you can skim the vast majority of it. The dialogue is frequently downright silly, the events ridiculous and irrelevant to the main subject… The Tall Whites. I would estimate that 80 to 85% of the content amounts to nothing more than filler and fluff. It is neither interesting nor entertaining. But now I'M getting long-winded.If you are interested in the UFO/ET subject, you may find some of the information potentially informative. Hall's unfortunate decision to fictionalize these accounts leaves one wondering just how much of it – if any of it – is factual. Too bad he muddied the waters so thoroughly.

I really, really enjoyed this book. The minute I finished reading it, I downloaded Millennial II, then III, IV and V. I couldn't stop reading them.Yes, Millennial I has some technical flaws and definitely needs more editing. Yes, it's repetitious in parts. But that's not enough for me to subtract stars. In my opinion, the uniqueness and freshness of the content far outweigh any technical issues. The author has a wonderful way of bringing to life the scenery, images, and people (human and non-human) he encountered every day. He truly captured the daily monotony of his job along with its scenic desert beauty, all of it punctuated by his sudden moments of sheer terror, confusion, and bewilderment. Yet he always infused the story telling with a kind of mystical enchantment. I'll just say, as one who has also had a fair share of "close encounters of the fourth kind," the gist of what he's saying rings very true for me. It's not easy trying to tell a story like this, especially decades after the fact, and I'm very glad that he did.

Anyone remember the old movie Gremlins and the guidelines for dealing with them? Well, as we are living in the era of Disclosure, Charles Hall has been kind enough to give us some guidelines for coping with the presence of the Tall White aliens:Keep your distance. The newbies especially fear humans and they are well armed. Presumably, it's okay to smile and wave if you see one. If you see a skinny, floating albino person out in the desert, that's probably a Tall White.No shaking of hands or hugging. They are fragile and their bones break easily. It takes their wounds a long time to heal.They are terribly curious, even mischevious. They enjoy watching humans A LOT. If you venture sort of north of Mt. Charleston near Las Vegas to go camping or whatever, you could be serving as their entertainment. If you lose personal belongings or time, you may have been visited.The Tall Whites are generally friendly and smart but they are very well able to fight back when needed. They are willing to kill humans if they perceive that their children are in danger.Fascinating book :-)

The book is not a complete story - it is more like a large episode in a 5-volume serial. It ends with a minor plot resolution, with the evident intent that the reader will buy the next volume to see what happens.There is a substantial fraction of the text devoted to the author's first-person description of his enjoyment of Mojave-desert ambiance. Writers are of course free to write what they wish, but I was led to believe that the book would be primarily about his interactions with non-human but humanoid extraterrestrials. The author, however, states flatly before he begins the story, that it's a work of fiction, based on his actual experiences in the USAF. That means I cannot depend on his description of anything extraterrestrial as being other than his own imagination. I was disappointed.

Let's start with reviewer basics: 1) No I have never seen an "unidentified aerial phenomenon" let alone aliens 2) Yes I do think such things exist. There's too much good evidence to ignore, despite all the static. 3) No I never served in the military so I can't comment on that aspect of the story. 4) This book is unadulterated static.Let's start with: It is written like it is all factual. But the cover labels it fiction. This head-fake is only worsened by an editorial quip that the author "claims he is not an alien". So, exactly what ARE you claiming then? Would you have us believe most of it is true and only a little fiction, or the other way around, or what? Third: this is TERRIBLE writing. The style of writing is even worse than the content (which is highly repetitive) and further enhances my opinion that there is NOTHING to be learned from reading the book, except that the writer was not cut out to be a writer - not even a fiction writer. Don't bother!

I bought this on kindle for £3.49. If I had paid £21 odd for the hard copy I would have been devastated. It definateley is not worth £21. Saying that, I am considering buying the second book (on kindle for £3.49). I did enjoy the book but it is quite unbeleivable and as others have said, contains contradictions. He likes to say how the aliens commented how he is very intelligent while having a conversation about him, yet his spelling and grammar would suggest otherwise. I first came accross this author on Richard D Hall's Youtube channel where he is interviewed about his interactions with these tall white aliens. He came accross as quite believable until he was asked if the children carry weapons, where his response was that they do, but they are smaller than the weapons the adults carry. At this point his response and body language gave me the impression that he was lyeing. Youtube ''tall whites richard hall'' and watch it for yourself.

It states clearly right at the beginning of the book! Maybe it's his get out clause due to a lack of evidence; to my knowledge nobody has come forward and corroborated his accounts, including the several hundred Boeing 707 passengers he saved, but not just on any old day, but Christmas Eve (more on that below)!Having an interest in most things of a supernatural and paranormal nature I came across Charles Hall's presentation on Youtube about his experiences of interacting with the "Tall Whites" whilst working in the USAF in the 1960s. In the hour long presentation, Hall came across as quite a jovial and believable character which compelled me to purchase this first book in the Millennial Hospitality series, after all, I do believe there must be other life in the Universe.The fact he calls himself Charles Baker in the books might be because he knows this is a work of fiction pretending to be real so he doesn't want to mix in too many facts, probably the same reason why Indian Springs becomes Mojave Wells etc.To be critical, the book is very lumbering and laborious to read, it could have been 200 pages less and told the same story. I expected it to be an impossible to put down book that just had you turning page after page long after your body should have given in to it's sleep demands, however, this wasn't really the case in my experience. If it really is fiction then he could have spiced it up a whole lot more.His wife triumphantly exclaimed that she and her daughter edited the book in one interview I watched on YT, but having read the book she shouldn't be so quick with her self-praise. There are silly grammatical errors (such as spelling a car's brakes as "breaks" on a couple of occasions, as well as confusing "then" and "than", the foreword at the beginning is called "forward" etc. Also, far too much "100 feet north of the weather shack", "250 feet north east of the north wall of the lounge" etc, all these sentences are unnecessary and repetitive in the extreme.There's too much clunking dialogue that's obviously been improvised as who can remember such conversations in detail over 30 years later? Also, the continued tedious references to white fluorescent patches that he confused for clouds and plastic bags etc, long after he had interacted with these "chalk white" beings. In fact, he's forever catching glimpses of white patches that appear and disappear; it all begins to grate after the thousandth time and you find yourself scanning a few pages ahead to see if anything actually happens. In one chapter, Hall concludes from the way an alien child ran that their nervous system operates at twice the speed of a humans - I'm not sure why he came to this conclusion and what it even means? I'm a little cynical of how aliens could speak perfect English too if I'm being honest. Of course, the reader is reminded of what is stated at the beginning of the book - it's a work of fiction, after all, it wouldn't be much of a story if all the aliens did was make noises that nobody could understand.The chapter with the 707's performing an emergency landing at his weather base (that he single handedly orchestrated) went on FAR too long (over 30 pages) and really came across as very self-congratulatory and showboating in a way which started to put me off the author. The whole book has an air of how special the author is and that those around him should be privileged to be in his company, he's forever being praised by "Dwight" et al, but maybe this is just me? Of course, we mustn't forget the F105's he single-handedly saved from crashing at the beginning of the book (who needs air traffic control when good ol' weather observer Charlie Baker is around to don his cape lol).It's not really explained why Hall is the chosen one, after all he is only doing a job like countless others before him, but suddenly he's singled out for special attention by these beings, such as the mysterious meeting with a neuro-surgeon at the deserted base with an alien dressed as a woman acting as the receptionist. He seems to have a lot of interaction with high ranking Generals, that ordinary airman would never have. All the other military personnel who met the aforementioned neurosurgeon told Hall that all he wanted to know about was Hall - very narcissistic which is a continual theme in this book. I must also have missed the part where he saves an alien child's life which he is thanked profusely for by several Tall Whites at the end of the book. Surely, an advanced civilisation that can float, mind-read and travel beyond light speed wouldn't need an ordinary human to save one of them?? However, Hall is persistent with his life-saving tales in this book!It would have been nice in a so called semi-biographical book (despite the fiction declarations at the beginning) to have some pictures so that the reader could have an idea of what these weather stations and associated lounges, theodolites, balloons, chow halls etc look like, after all the countless tales of working at ranges one to four make up the vast majority of the book with not much actual alien interaction, save for the end. After all, he obviously doesn't mind recounting his tales of what is usually a very closely guarded government conspiracy so what's a few pictures in the grand scheme? And speaking of the ending, it was very poor and didn't leave me wanting more, it was just more lumbering dialogue with the cook. I gave it a 3 star "it's ok" rating, but would have gone for 2.5 if I could have. I don't think I'll bother with the rest of the books unless I see them for sale (very) cheaply.Right, I'm off, I've just caught a white patch floating amongst the sagebrush outside and I must investigate...

I read the first half of this book very carefully, word by word. Then we get to the interesting parts - the Aliens. I found myself skipping over the boring parts about weather balloons & cylinders & trucks & hangars & chow hall & saying hello to colleagues. Etc. etc. this was so repetitive & boring. Too much of the same. I then quickly skipped each page to pull out the bits about the Aliens. Those were the only interesting parts. That is what people wanted to read about.This book is a little like wading through mud. Needed a good editor to cut out so much of the boring stuff.

I really don't understand what the author is trying to say here. Full of "Gee...you're the bravest soldier that ever wore a uniform"...."wow..you saved all those hundreds of lives on those airliners". How many times can he see the same thing (a white bag / white fog / white mist) and dismiss it as a figment of his imagination, when in the previous chapters he recounts how he has met and spoken to white aliens. Doesn't make sense, poorly written, and a little self-indulgent. These 'aliens' have travelled millions of miles to get upset at someone that has thrown a rock at them....ok then.

I read this before I go to bed ... and though it's interesting, it's a little amateurish. It's supposed to be based on fact, and is an interesting concept - and at times I wished it to be true. However, there are too many 'good friends' and so many coincidences that it gets a bit perplexing at times. Although I did like it and perhaps will read it again over Christmas ...