Elvis - UFO Connection by Richard Daniel (Castle Rock Enterprises, c.1990)
'The uncharacteristic absence of Sean Shaver was filled by Joe Tunzi, who would return often in following years with more excellent, though expensive publications. The year had its share of low points, of course, and Daniel's Elvis-UFO Connection vies for the very bottom rung with Greenwood and Tracy's The Boy Who Would Be King...' David Kneale, Essential Elvis Issue 3.
This book is a 180 page paperback that was copyrighted in 1987, but only came to my attention via Arcturus Books Inc. a few years later.
The name 'Richard Daniel' is '..the combined first two names of the individuals who co-authored "THE ELVIS-UFO CONNECTION." They are Richard Vaculig and Daniel Guyll...' (p.179 author biog.)
I've only ever seen three references to this book in any literature
ever.
With the benefit of considerable hindsight, we can put forward a few possible
reasons why
Elvis-UFO Connection was not more successful:
[1] Expensive - due presumably to high-cost small print runs.
[2] No pictures of Elvis anywhere, and no illustrations except on cover.
[3] The author was perhaps over-keen to persuade/convince the reader of the rightness of every point he makes to support his theory with much use of capitalised letters. A theory might be basically correct, though wrong in certain details - the author makes little or no concession to any more reasonable sceptical view any reader could maintain.
[4] The theory of alien intervention in the life of Elvis Presley, though supported in many respects by seemingly factual accounts of those who actually knew Elvis through the years, is, nevertheless, extremely challenging to currently held beliefs about the world we are living in, including to the beliefs of fans of Elvis.
[5] Other evidence could have been found by the author to support his alien intervention theory if he had done more research before writing and publishing the book - only one of Elvis's published UFO sightings is, for example, considered in the book.
It isn't hard for me to come up with these points now, as I've done a lot of research on Elvis Presley since I bought and read this book; but in 1990 I had probably done no more reading about Elvis than the author (possibly less).
It seems to me that, of the five reasons I've given for the book's lack of popularity or acclaim, number [4] is the crucial one, and that, ultimately, 'Elvis-UFO Connection' will be acknowledged as historically significant.
People generally may wish to bury the subject matter described in the title of this book through silence, casual dismissal, ridicule, jokes etc.; but anyone who cares to read the books about Elvis by Ed Parker and Jess Stearn/Larry Geller - to name two of the most pertinent - will, if they are at all reasonable and intelligent as human beings, have to acknowledge that UFOs were a vitally important part of Elvis Presley's life.
To those of you who would like to imagine that this book is simply rubbish and a joke, I can only say that sometime in the future people will look back and know that your idea about this book is rubbish. Ultimately, the joke will be on you.
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