Inside UFOs
True Accounts of Contact with Extraterrestrials
Contents
Introduction…4
Chapter One: Invited Aboard…14
Chapter Two: Taylor’s Extraterrestrial Friends…29
Chapter Three: Flying Saucer Sickness…55
Chapter Four: A Giant Grasshopper Alien…67
Chapter Five: The Woh-Geh…77
Chapter Six: The Alien Outside the Window…85
Chapter Seven: Harry and the Aliens…89
Chapter Eight: Encounter on a Navy Ship…101
Chapter Nine: A Nine-Foot-Tall Alien with Orange Hair…113
Chapter Ten: “We Haven’t Come to Harm You”…132
Conclusions…163
About the Author…173
Books by Preston Dennett…175
Introduction
I have investigated UFOs for thirty years. In that time I’ve come to know the phenomenon quite well. So when someone sits down before me and says, “I think I may have been contacted by aliens,” I already have a pretty good idea of what they’re going to say. However, despite my close familiarity with the subject, as the witness begins to reveal their story, I still feel the same sense of awe and disbelief that I felt when I first began to research UFOs.
UFOs are real--I am now far past the point of any doubt. There is simply too much evidence, including eyewitness testimonies supported by lie detector tests, photos and films, radar-return cases, medical evidence (including injuries and healings), animal reaction cases, electromagnetic effects, implant removal cases, landing trace accounts, not to mention thousands of pages of government documents supporting UFO reality. And yet, each time I hear the firsthand account of somebody who has experienced face-to-face contact with extraterrestrials, I can only shake my head in wonder. How can something like this happen? Are people really being abducted by aliens? Why does mainstream society ignore this subject? Will we ever be ready to face the truth?
This is the fourteenth book I’ve written about UFOs. As many ufologists will confess, once you become involved in this subject it can be very difficult to extricate yourself from it. Those who know me have learned long ago to put up with my obsession with the subject. While I still get strange looks and skeptical comments, I have also become something of a local clearing-house for UFO stories. Publicly many people may profess their skepticism of the subject. But privately, these same people often approach me with their own dramatic accounts of UFO contact. Clearly, this type of experience is considerably more common than most people believe.
That has been the main inspiration for writing this book. So many people are having very close UFO encounters, and yet almost nobody is talking about it. When I first interview a UFO witness, many will start their testimony with some variation of the caveats: “I’ve never told this to anybody; I don’t take drugs; I’m not crazy; I’ve got a good job; I’m well educated…” As they hesitatingly reveal their account, I can see them gauge my reactions--testing the waters--to see if they should continue with their story. Only after I reassure them do they quakingly and emotionally gush out their story. Still as they speak, they continue to study me, looking for my reactions.
I try, of course, to remain calm and objective. But inside, my mind spins. I’m thinking, I’ve heard this before. Investigators call them “red flags,” rare but consistent details which help verify and corroborate the accounts. After you begin to recognize these clues, the consistency of the accounts destroys any possibility of denial. Despite hearing such stories for more than thirty years, I still become shaken when the red flags appear.
People are having face-to-face contact with extraterrestrials. People are being taken inside UFOs, into what appear to be extra-terrestrial spacecraft. Inside these craft they experience a wide variety of events. That is what the evidence is showing us.
This book reveals ten new cases of very close encounters with UFOs. All the cases are firsthand, original and unpublished. All the accounts involve extensive interaction between the witnesses and the phenomenon. All are absolutely true.
I personally find that true UFO stories are among the most profound of all human experiences. Many witnesses describe their UFO encounters as a pivotal or peak event in their lives. They were pushed to the edge of reality by an incident that challenged them on multiple levels, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. A very close encounter with a UFO can leave a person completely transformed. Certainly, most of the witnesses feel this way, and this has become a major theme of the book.
This book, I believe, explodes the myth that the UFO contact is primarily about missing time abductions and medical examinations by gray-type aliens. Instead we see that contact occurs in a wide variety of ways, with abductions being only a small portion of a much larger spectrum. Much more common than abduction, in fact, is face-to-face contact with ET entities on Earth, usually in people’s own homes. ETs reveal their presence to the witnesses in a wide variety of ways including poltergeist-like manifestations, dreams or even, believe it or not, by cell phone.
While some accounts do reveal an interest in hybridization on the ET’s part, an equally prominent pattern is the revelation of warnings and prophecies involving upcoming disasters. ETs also exhibit an interest in teaching people about alternative healing methods, alternative energy sources, and various psychic abilities. There is a much wider variety of ET-types being reported including not only grays, but insectoid, humanoid and even completely human-looking ETs. Clearly we must move beyond the standard abduction-examination model of contact if we want to attain a full understanding of what is really going on.
Much of the recent research in the field of extraterrestrial contact has been skewed towards missing-time abductions, with memories of the events retrieved through hypnotic regression. Of the ten cases in this book, however, only two involve the use of hypnosis, and these cases easily stand up without the use of hypnosis. Therefore, any arguments of false memory syndrome or hypnotically-generated memories can be easily laid to rest. All the cases in this book involve extensive interaction with the phenomenon and would be classified under the J. Allen Hynek system as close encounters of the third or fourth kind.
This book is about what really happens when people are contacted by extraterrestrials. It presents an honest and accurate sampling of cases from across the United States and the world, involving both men and women of varying age, sex, religion, education and race.
Onboard UFO experiences appear to be a historically new event for humanity. While many researchers have attempted to link these events to other historical paranormal phenomena, such as elves, fairies, demons and angels, the connection to UFOs appears to be tenuous at best. There are some intriguing correlations and similarities, but there is a glaring absence of evidence of actual alien contact. There are few or no historical accounts before the 1900s in which people claim to have been taken inside a flying object.
The earliest abductions on record seem to date about the 1920s. Prior to that--while strange flying objects were seen in the sky--nobody (excepting perhaps Ezekiel in the Bible) claims to have been inside one. However, even while abductions were taking place in the first half of the 20th century, the events were neither recorded nor publicly known.
The first glimmerings of the possibility of face-to-face contact with ETs and/or onboard experiences arrived in the mid-1950s when a small group of individuals (mostly from the United States) claimed to have not only seen UFOs, but to have been inside them.
These people have come to be known as “contactees.” The first and most prominent among them was amateur astronomer, George Adamski of Palomar, California.
When several waves of sightings swept across the state, Adamski became intrigued and began to photograph the objects. He eventually took hundreds of photos, only a few of which captured the objects in any detail. However, interest in his photos was high, and Adamski was inspired to continue. He soon discovered that, on occasion, the UFOs seemed to appear before his camera, as if posing.
In 1953, Adamski dropped the bombshell with his book, Inside the Flying Saucers, in which he described how, in Desert Center, California, he and a group of friends attempted to make contact. Adamski wrote that a UFO landed in the desert and he conversed (using mostly hand-signals) with a beautiful human-looking ET male. This event was viewed from a distance by his friends, each of whom verified Adamski’s version of events, and despite the controversies which followed, have never retracted their statements.
While Adamski’s contacts continued, several other people--mostly men--claimed to have similar experiences. In 1954, Truman Betherum of Nevada released his book which detailed his numerous onboard experiences.
The floodgates were now open and the contactee age had begun. In 1955, Orpheo Angelucci revealed in his book how he had been taken inside a UFO and given messages of a spiritual nature. In 1956, Howard Menger of New Jersey released his book, From Outer Space to You, which detailed his encounters with a group of human-looking ETs.
Many others followed including the Mitchell sisters (some of the only females claiming UFO contact), George Van Tassel and others.
In 1966, an engineer and scientist from New Mexico, Dr. Daniel Fry, put his reputation on the line with his account of being taken inside a flying object which took him on a ride, and where he was given information.
While the contactees were whole-heartedly embraced by an eager society, today their accounts have divided the UFO community. Some major UFO researchers have categorically labeled them as outright hoaxes, while others support the veracity of these accounts.
Sometime around the late 1960s, the contactee age ended, or more likely, was forced underground. While encounters with friendly human-like ETs continued, these accounts were being pushed aside and overwhelmed by a new phenomenon known as a UFO abduction.
The first abduction to receive any widespread publicity was that of a Brazilian farmer by the name of Antonio Villas Boas.
On October 16, 1957, Villas Boas was plowing his field in the early morning hours when a bright light (which had been seen intermittently over his farm for the past several days) suddenly dropped out of the sky and landed in his field, revealing itself to be a small metallic craft. Two beings exited the craft and dragged an unwilling and terrified Villas Boas inside, where he was subjected to a strange examination and then was forcibly seduced by a short humanoid woman before being released. Afterwards, Villas Boas suffered symptoms that doctors would now likely diagnose as radiation-sickness.
When the case was publicly revealed, it had little impact beyond the UFO community. Even though there were outside witnesses and physical evidence to support his account, the details were so bizarre that few took them seriously.
The real bombshell that changed everything occurred in 1966 with the release of John G. Fuller’s book, The UFO Incident, which detailed the experiences of Barney and Betty Hill.
Five years earlier in 1961, the Hills encountered a UFO while driving through the mountains in New Hampshire. Initially, they believed they had experienced only a sighting. However, when they returned home, several details indicated that something beyond a simple sighting had occurred.
They had arrived home too late and could not account for about two hours of time. A strange ring of warts had appeared on Barney’s groin. Their car had several strange polished spots on the hood, which were magnetized. The dress Betty had worn that evening was ripped and stained in a manner that she could not explain. And finally, Betty--and to a lesser extent Barney--began suffering from nightmares and flashbacks of being taken inside the object.
When the nightmares continued, Betty sought counseling and eventually went under hypnosis. Later, Barney was also hypnotically regressed.
The Hills were a well-respected professional couple and when their story was publicly revealed and the book published, the results were like an atomic explosion. The Hills became celebrities. Their stories were discussed in numerous newspapers and magazines, and they appeared on a wide variety of radio and television programs.
The Hills’ 1961 onboard UFO experience was a watershed event, and for the first time, the concepts of missing time and UFO abduction entered the public consciousness. Their experience not only revealed that the Earth was being visited by aliens, it opened the door for other people to reveal their own accounts.
While the United States’ military continued to secretly study UFOs and publicly deny and ridicule civilian witnesses, UFO abductions were occurring regularly to our citizens. The U.S. military’s decision to debunk a phenomenon that was clearly real caused the formation of numerous special interest groups dedicated to studying UFOs. Most prominent among these was a small citizen’s group headed by a young couple named Coral and Jim Lorenzen from Arizona. The Aerial Phenomena Research Association (APRO) became the biggest group of its kind and was the predecessor for other later influential groups such as the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), the National Investigative Committee of Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), and the now largest group, the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
The Lorenzens were pioneers of the UFO movement and they were quick to recognize UFO abductions as a valid. Their seminal book, Abducted!, was published the same year as Fuller’s book about the Hills, and revealed a half-dozen new cases from across the United States, and was the second book ever published on the subject of UFO abductions.
Robert Kent’s book, The Terror above Us, was published one year later in 1967, and detailed the two-days-long abduction of two brothers, Jason and Robert Steiner in upstate New York in 1958.
For many years, these three books remained alone in the UFO abduction literature. No new major books detailing onboard experiences were published for the next decade. Abduction cases continued to occur, but most were not reported and only a very small number of cases received any kind of publicity.
In 1967, Patrolman Herbert Schirmer of Nebraska encountered a UFO and experienced a period of missing time. Under hypnosis he recalled being taken onboard a craft by human-looking ETs. They showed him the engine room, warned him of upcoming disasters, explained that they had nearby bases and promised to see him again. The fact that Schirmer was a police officer and had no motive to concoct such a story propelled him into the media spotlight and his case became the most famous of that year.
In 1969, researcher Charles Bowen released his landmark book, The Humanoids, which revealed dozens of cases of face-to-face encounters and forced many UFO researchers to accept the fact that UFOs were piloted by entities.
The abduction phenomenon continued steadily, but it wasn’t until 1973 that any cases received significant media exposure. On that year, two fishermen from Pascagoula, Mississippi--Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker--were fishing when a flying object landed next to them. They were rendered paralyzed as a robotic figure exited the craft and dragged them inside. Parker fainted in fear, but Hickson remained calm enough to observe the surroundings. He was placed on a table as a large bright light attached to an instrument of some kind descended from the ceiling and examined his body. He lost consciousness and both men woke up to watch the object ascend into the sky.
The men rushed to the police who, after investigating, became convinced of the men’s honesty. UFO researchers converged upon the case and were similarly convinced of its authenticity.
Two years later, a woodcutter from Snowflake, Arizona would become one of the most famous abductees to date. In 1975, a group of six men were in the Sitgreaves National Forest when they saw a UFO hovering alongside the dirt mountain road. One of the woodcutters, Travis Walton, had always been interested in UFOs--having known people who had seen them--and on impulse, he rushed out of the pickup to stand beneath the object.
At that moment, there was a strong electrical discharge which struck Walton and rendered him unconscious. The men in the pickup fled in fear and when they returned to the scene, Walton was missing. A manhunt ensued during which the woodcutters were suspected of murdering Walton and covering up his death.
Five days later, Walton phoned from a telephone booth alongside a local road. He had been taken inside the UFO, he said.
The sensational nature of Walton’s case propelled him into the media spotlight. The fact that six other men had seen him struck by a beam of light from the UFO and had never varied their story, and had passed lie detector tests (except for one man who was so emotionally distraught that his test was inconclusive) made their case one of the best authenticated. Walton’s experience became the subject of two books, one which was Walton’s own autobiographical account, which later became the basis for the Hollywood blockbuster, Fire in the Sky.
Also in 1975, Air Force Sergeant Charles Moody of New Mexico was abducted inside a UFO. He had gone out in the evening to view a meteor shower when a bright light dropped out of the sky in front of his vehicle. His memory became shrouded and he experienced missing time. Over the next few weeks, his memory returned and he recalled his experience in full detail.
Moody said that human-looking figures had taken him forcibly from his vehicle and into the craft. He was laid out and examined and given various messages and returned. During the scuffle he had been injured in his back, and he recalled that the ETs had healed him with a cylindrical device.
One year later on January 6, 1976, three friends, Louise Smith, Mona Stafford and Elaine Thomas were driving near their homes in Stanford, Kentucky when a UFO began to hover over their car. Thomas, who was driving, sped up and tried unsuccessfully to outrun the craft. Next the car was pulled upward off the highway and into the sky, and then sucked up into whatever was hovering overhead.
Their next memory was finding themselves further along the highway. The object was still overhead, but it was now retreating and more than an hour had passed. Each of the women suffered a frightening array of symptoms including first degree burns on their neck and chest, bruises, severe eye irritation, nausea, loss of appetite and weight loss.
They also suffered from bizarre and frightening nightmares and flashbacks. Each of them was placed under hypnosis and recalled a harrowing ordeal during which they were separated and placed into different rooms and subject to painful examinations.
Three years later, a housewife from Massachusetts by the name of Betty Andreasson became the subject of an intense investigation. The Andreasson Affair, by pioneering researcher Raymond Fowler was released in 1979 and told Andreasson’s experience of being taken inside a UFO and subjected to a wide variety of procedures. The book was followed up by several others which detailed her ongoing encounters.
While the number of abduction cases was mounting, they were still so rare as to be statistically insignificant. By the end of the 1970s, only a few dozen cases at most had been publicly revealed. Nevertheless, the phenomenon of UFO abductions had been firmly established.
The 1980s, however, would change the way everybody felt about UFO abductions. In 1981, artist Budd Hopkins of New York released his book, Missing Time, which detailed several cases of UFO abductions. Written in a forthright style, with transcripts of the hypnosis sessions, the book did very well and was picked up by another major publisher and turned into a best-seller.
Hopkins became the leading abduction investigator in the United States, researching hundreds of cases from across the United States and the world. His first book was followed by several others.
Then in 1988, the abduction phenomenon caught fire when a successful and well-known horror novelist by the name of Whitley Strieber released his book, Communion: A True Story, which detailed his abduction by apparent aliens from his cabin in upstate New York. Strieber was the first celebrity to come out of the UFO closet and his book broke publishing records, and was the first book about UFOs to hit the number one spot on the New York Times bestseller list.
By this point, the abduction phenomenon became cemented into American culture, with a continuous outflow of books, articles, radio shows, television programs, films and a later explosion of UFO material across the internet. A small but growing group of therapists and investigators formed to handle the burgeoning caseload. People like Budd Hopkins, David Jacobs Ph.D., John Mack MD, James Harder Ph.D., Leo Sprinkle Ph.D., Barbara Lamb MFCC, Tim Beckley, Yvonne Smith, John Carpenter MD, Dolores Cannon, Edith Fiore Ph.D., Philip Imbrogno and many others (I might mention myself here!) investigated scores of cases and worked hard to disseminate the information to the general public.
Today UFO abductions are becoming a recognized part of the human experience. Those who have experienced contact with extraterrestrials have no choice when it comes to believing in UFOs. As a result of their experiences, they know the truth. And it is these people who have allowed their stories to be told in book.
The stories in this book are true. All information and conversations were derived entirely from extensive interviews with the witnesses.
Chapter One
Invited Aboard
“I’ve been in contact with aliens since I was ten years old.”
Kevin Kamman looked at his best friend, Larry Larson [pseudonym] in shock. “You’re kidding!” They were in their cabin aboard the Navy ship where they had been assigned.
Larry shook his head. He told Kevin that they had taken him from his farm when he was a kid in Indiana and followed him his entire life. He said that he was still in touch with them, and that they had actually taken him to their planet and to several other planets.
Kevin shook his head in disbelief. He had known Larry for about four years, ever since August of 1978 when they were both assigned to the same compartment aboard ship. Kevin was one of two hospital corpsmen on the ship, and Larry was a personnel clerk. They were both in their mid-twenties.
Living in the same compartment, they quickly became friends, and before long, whenever they had “liberty,” they would leave the ship and explore the foreign ports together. Kevin was amazed by the way Larry seemed fearless of experiencing new things, and marveled at the way he gobbled down all of the bizarre foreign delicacies. One time Larry gleefully ate a big bowl of cream-of-fish-head soup, complete with fish eyeballs, while Kevin looked on in horror.
Currently it was 1982 and they were located in the Pacific Ocean, a few days out from the Philippines. The subject of UFOs came up and Larry was now coming out of the blue, claiming that his “alien friends” had taken him to other planets.
Kevin instantly thought back to the term paper he had done in high school. Everyone in class was expected to write a paper on a controversial subject, and thinking he could disprove the phenomenon, he chose UFOs. Instead, he came away convinced and wrote his term paper concluding that UFOs exist. However, he had never actually seen one.
He told Larry that while he believed in UFOs, he couldn’t help but be a little skeptical of his claims. Larry just smiled.
Two days later, Kevin was in their compartment when Larry walked in and said, “I just got back from a trip to your house.”
Kevin looked at him with disbelief. His home was in San Diego, thousands of miles from where they were. No aircraft had come and gone from the ship. There was no possible way Larry could have visited his home. “What do you mean by that?” he asked.
“My friends took me to your house,” Larry repeated. “I was at your house. I just got back.”
“Yeah, sure, you were,” Kevin said.
It was at this point, that Larry looked him in the eye and told him to listen. “He started describing things about my house,” says Kevin. “He described a 1966 Ford Galaxy 500 that my parents had, down to the chocolate milkshake stain on the backseat. I didn’t have any pictures of that particular car, he had never seen any pictures of that car, so he had no idea that we even owned it. And yet he had a lot of details about it correct. Then he started describing some of the furniture that was in the house, and the carpet that we had. The details were too accurate to know that he was making this up. He described my bedroom. He had so many details and he had them so right, I was wondering how he had his information. And he said his friends had come and gotten him and taken him to my house.”
Kevin was shocked, and wondered if Larry might be hooked up with the CIA or something. But even that wouldn’t explain another very strange detail. Everything that Larry was describing, while totally accurate, was at least ten, maybe fifteen years in the past. The 1966 Ford Galaxy had been sold in 1970. The furniture and carpet Larry described had also been thrown away more than ten years earlier. Even the details about Kevin’s bedroom--while correct--applied to the early 1970s.
This bizarre “out-of-time” aspect of Larry’s descriptions upset Kevin more than the accuracy of the information itself, mainly because it seemed to be an impossibility. While Larry had apparently been to Kevin’s house as he claimed, the only way he could have seen what he did was if he had somehow time traveled. Of course, this was impossible, he assumed, but what other explanation was there?
Whatever the reason, Kevin was intrigued. Perhaps, he thought, his friend was telling the truth after all. He turned to Larry and said, “Okay, then. I want to meet your little green friends.”
Larry raised his eyebrows and smiled. “Well, I’ll talk to them and see what they have to say. I’ll let you know in a couple of days.”
While Kevin was convinced that there had to be some truth to Larry’s claims, he still didn’t really take his promise to talk to the aliens seriously. Two days later, however, Larry came up to Kevin and said, “Well, I talked to them, and they said that they’ll be more than happy to take you for a little ride.”
Kevin laughed. “Sure, no problem,” he said, still thinking that it was somehow a joke. “When?”
“Tomorrow,” Larry said.
The next day started normally. Kevin reported to his post and performed his daily duties. On the ship, lunch was served from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM. Kevin ate his lunch in the mess hall and returned to his compartment. It was just a few minutes after noon when Larry popped his head into the room. “They’re here,” he said.
“What? Who?” Kevin asked.
“Go ahead,” said Larry. “Go up on the main deck. You’ll see them.”
Still skeptical, Kevin left his cabin and walked the short distance to the main deck. The moment he got on deck, he saw it: an enormous, diamond-shaped object hovering alongside the ship at an altitude of only a few hundred feet.
True Accounts of Contact with Extraterrestrials
Contents
Introduction…4
Chapter One: Invited Aboard…14
Chapter Two: Taylor’s Extraterrestrial Friends…29
Chapter Three: Flying Saucer Sickness…55
Chapter Four: A Giant Grasshopper Alien…67
Chapter Five: The Woh-Geh…77
Chapter Six: The Alien Outside the Window…85
Chapter Seven: Harry and the Aliens…89
Chapter Eight: Encounter on a Navy Ship…101
Chapter Nine: A Nine-Foot-Tall Alien with Orange Hair…113
Chapter Ten: “We Haven’t Come to Harm You”…132
Conclusions…163
About the Author…173
Books by Preston Dennett…175
Introduction
I have investigated UFOs for thirty years. In that time I’ve come to know the phenomenon quite well. So when someone sits down before me and says, “I think I may have been contacted by aliens,” I already have a pretty good idea of what they’re going to say. However, despite my close familiarity with the subject, as the witness begins to reveal their story, I still feel the same sense of awe and disbelief that I felt when I first began to research UFOs.
UFOs are real--I am now far past the point of any doubt. There is simply too much evidence, including eyewitness testimonies supported by lie detector tests, photos and films, radar-return cases, medical evidence (including injuries and healings), animal reaction cases, electromagnetic effects, implant removal cases, landing trace accounts, not to mention thousands of pages of government documents supporting UFO reality. And yet, each time I hear the firsthand account of somebody who has experienced face-to-face contact with extraterrestrials, I can only shake my head in wonder. How can something like this happen? Are people really being abducted by aliens? Why does mainstream society ignore this subject? Will we ever be ready to face the truth?
This is the fourteenth book I’ve written about UFOs. As many ufologists will confess, once you become involved in this subject it can be very difficult to extricate yourself from it. Those who know me have learned long ago to put up with my obsession with the subject. While I still get strange looks and skeptical comments, I have also become something of a local clearing-house for UFO stories. Publicly many people may profess their skepticism of the subject. But privately, these same people often approach me with their own dramatic accounts of UFO contact. Clearly, this type of experience is considerably more common than most people believe.
That has been the main inspiration for writing this book. So many people are having very close UFO encounters, and yet almost nobody is talking about it. When I first interview a UFO witness, many will start their testimony with some variation of the caveats: “I’ve never told this to anybody; I don’t take drugs; I’m not crazy; I’ve got a good job; I’m well educated…” As they hesitatingly reveal their account, I can see them gauge my reactions--testing the waters--to see if they should continue with their story. Only after I reassure them do they quakingly and emotionally gush out their story. Still as they speak, they continue to study me, looking for my reactions.
I try, of course, to remain calm and objective. But inside, my mind spins. I’m thinking, I’ve heard this before. Investigators call them “red flags,” rare but consistent details which help verify and corroborate the accounts. After you begin to recognize these clues, the consistency of the accounts destroys any possibility of denial. Despite hearing such stories for more than thirty years, I still become shaken when the red flags appear.
People are having face-to-face contact with extraterrestrials. People are being taken inside UFOs, into what appear to be extra-terrestrial spacecraft. Inside these craft they experience a wide variety of events. That is what the evidence is showing us.
This book reveals ten new cases of very close encounters with UFOs. All the cases are firsthand, original and unpublished. All the accounts involve extensive interaction between the witnesses and the phenomenon. All are absolutely true.
I personally find that true UFO stories are among the most profound of all human experiences. Many witnesses describe their UFO encounters as a pivotal or peak event in their lives. They were pushed to the edge of reality by an incident that challenged them on multiple levels, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. A very close encounter with a UFO can leave a person completely transformed. Certainly, most of the witnesses feel this way, and this has become a major theme of the book.
This book, I believe, explodes the myth that the UFO contact is primarily about missing time abductions and medical examinations by gray-type aliens. Instead we see that contact occurs in a wide variety of ways, with abductions being only a small portion of a much larger spectrum. Much more common than abduction, in fact, is face-to-face contact with ET entities on Earth, usually in people’s own homes. ETs reveal their presence to the witnesses in a wide variety of ways including poltergeist-like manifestations, dreams or even, believe it or not, by cell phone.
While some accounts do reveal an interest in hybridization on the ET’s part, an equally prominent pattern is the revelation of warnings and prophecies involving upcoming disasters. ETs also exhibit an interest in teaching people about alternative healing methods, alternative energy sources, and various psychic abilities. There is a much wider variety of ET-types being reported including not only grays, but insectoid, humanoid and even completely human-looking ETs. Clearly we must move beyond the standard abduction-examination model of contact if we want to attain a full understanding of what is really going on.
Much of the recent research in the field of extraterrestrial contact has been skewed towards missing-time abductions, with memories of the events retrieved through hypnotic regression. Of the ten cases in this book, however, only two involve the use of hypnosis, and these cases easily stand up without the use of hypnosis. Therefore, any arguments of false memory syndrome or hypnotically-generated memories can be easily laid to rest. All the cases in this book involve extensive interaction with the phenomenon and would be classified under the J. Allen Hynek system as close encounters of the third or fourth kind.
This book is about what really happens when people are contacted by extraterrestrials. It presents an honest and accurate sampling of cases from across the United States and the world, involving both men and women of varying age, sex, religion, education and race.
Onboard UFO experiences appear to be a historically new event for humanity. While many researchers have attempted to link these events to other historical paranormal phenomena, such as elves, fairies, demons and angels, the connection to UFOs appears to be tenuous at best. There are some intriguing correlations and similarities, but there is a glaring absence of evidence of actual alien contact. There are few or no historical accounts before the 1900s in which people claim to have been taken inside a flying object.
The earliest abductions on record seem to date about the 1920s. Prior to that--while strange flying objects were seen in the sky--nobody (excepting perhaps Ezekiel in the Bible) claims to have been inside one. However, even while abductions were taking place in the first half of the 20th century, the events were neither recorded nor publicly known.
The first glimmerings of the possibility of face-to-face contact with ETs and/or onboard experiences arrived in the mid-1950s when a small group of individuals (mostly from the United States) claimed to have not only seen UFOs, but to have been inside them.
These people have come to be known as “contactees.” The first and most prominent among them was amateur astronomer, George Adamski of Palomar, California.
When several waves of sightings swept across the state, Adamski became intrigued and began to photograph the objects. He eventually took hundreds of photos, only a few of which captured the objects in any detail. However, interest in his photos was high, and Adamski was inspired to continue. He soon discovered that, on occasion, the UFOs seemed to appear before his camera, as if posing.
In 1953, Adamski dropped the bombshell with his book, Inside the Flying Saucers, in which he described how, in Desert Center, California, he and a group of friends attempted to make contact. Adamski wrote that a UFO landed in the desert and he conversed (using mostly hand-signals) with a beautiful human-looking ET male. This event was viewed from a distance by his friends, each of whom verified Adamski’s version of events, and despite the controversies which followed, have never retracted their statements.
While Adamski’s contacts continued, several other people--mostly men--claimed to have similar experiences. In 1954, Truman Betherum of Nevada released his book which detailed his numerous onboard experiences.
The floodgates were now open and the contactee age had begun. In 1955, Orpheo Angelucci revealed in his book how he had been taken inside a UFO and given messages of a spiritual nature. In 1956, Howard Menger of New Jersey released his book, From Outer Space to You, which detailed his encounters with a group of human-looking ETs.
Many others followed including the Mitchell sisters (some of the only females claiming UFO contact), George Van Tassel and others.
In 1966, an engineer and scientist from New Mexico, Dr. Daniel Fry, put his reputation on the line with his account of being taken inside a flying object which took him on a ride, and where he was given information.
While the contactees were whole-heartedly embraced by an eager society, today their accounts have divided the UFO community. Some major UFO researchers have categorically labeled them as outright hoaxes, while others support the veracity of these accounts.
Sometime around the late 1960s, the contactee age ended, or more likely, was forced underground. While encounters with friendly human-like ETs continued, these accounts were being pushed aside and overwhelmed by a new phenomenon known as a UFO abduction.
The first abduction to receive any widespread publicity was that of a Brazilian farmer by the name of Antonio Villas Boas.
On October 16, 1957, Villas Boas was plowing his field in the early morning hours when a bright light (which had been seen intermittently over his farm for the past several days) suddenly dropped out of the sky and landed in his field, revealing itself to be a small metallic craft. Two beings exited the craft and dragged an unwilling and terrified Villas Boas inside, where he was subjected to a strange examination and then was forcibly seduced by a short humanoid woman before being released. Afterwards, Villas Boas suffered symptoms that doctors would now likely diagnose as radiation-sickness.
When the case was publicly revealed, it had little impact beyond the UFO community. Even though there were outside witnesses and physical evidence to support his account, the details were so bizarre that few took them seriously.
The real bombshell that changed everything occurred in 1966 with the release of John G. Fuller’s book, The UFO Incident, which detailed the experiences of Barney and Betty Hill.
Five years earlier in 1961, the Hills encountered a UFO while driving through the mountains in New Hampshire. Initially, they believed they had experienced only a sighting. However, when they returned home, several details indicated that something beyond a simple sighting had occurred.
They had arrived home too late and could not account for about two hours of time. A strange ring of warts had appeared on Barney’s groin. Their car had several strange polished spots on the hood, which were magnetized. The dress Betty had worn that evening was ripped and stained in a manner that she could not explain. And finally, Betty--and to a lesser extent Barney--began suffering from nightmares and flashbacks of being taken inside the object.
When the nightmares continued, Betty sought counseling and eventually went under hypnosis. Later, Barney was also hypnotically regressed.
The Hills were a well-respected professional couple and when their story was publicly revealed and the book published, the results were like an atomic explosion. The Hills became celebrities. Their stories were discussed in numerous newspapers and magazines, and they appeared on a wide variety of radio and television programs.
The Hills’ 1961 onboard UFO experience was a watershed event, and for the first time, the concepts of missing time and UFO abduction entered the public consciousness. Their experience not only revealed that the Earth was being visited by aliens, it opened the door for other people to reveal their own accounts.
While the United States’ military continued to secretly study UFOs and publicly deny and ridicule civilian witnesses, UFO abductions were occurring regularly to our citizens. The U.S. military’s decision to debunk a phenomenon that was clearly real caused the formation of numerous special interest groups dedicated to studying UFOs. Most prominent among these was a small citizen’s group headed by a young couple named Coral and Jim Lorenzen from Arizona. The Aerial Phenomena Research Association (APRO) became the biggest group of its kind and was the predecessor for other later influential groups such as the Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS), the National Investigative Committee of Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), and the now largest group, the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
The Lorenzens were pioneers of the UFO movement and they were quick to recognize UFO abductions as a valid. Their seminal book, Abducted!, was published the same year as Fuller’s book about the Hills, and revealed a half-dozen new cases from across the United States, and was the second book ever published on the subject of UFO abductions.
Robert Kent’s book, The Terror above Us, was published one year later in 1967, and detailed the two-days-long abduction of two brothers, Jason and Robert Steiner in upstate New York in 1958.
For many years, these three books remained alone in the UFO abduction literature. No new major books detailing onboard experiences were published for the next decade. Abduction cases continued to occur, but most were not reported and only a very small number of cases received any kind of publicity.
In 1967, Patrolman Herbert Schirmer of Nebraska encountered a UFO and experienced a period of missing time. Under hypnosis he recalled being taken onboard a craft by human-looking ETs. They showed him the engine room, warned him of upcoming disasters, explained that they had nearby bases and promised to see him again. The fact that Schirmer was a police officer and had no motive to concoct such a story propelled him into the media spotlight and his case became the most famous of that year.
In 1969, researcher Charles Bowen released his landmark book, The Humanoids, which revealed dozens of cases of face-to-face encounters and forced many UFO researchers to accept the fact that UFOs were piloted by entities.
The abduction phenomenon continued steadily, but it wasn’t until 1973 that any cases received significant media exposure. On that year, two fishermen from Pascagoula, Mississippi--Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker--were fishing when a flying object landed next to them. They were rendered paralyzed as a robotic figure exited the craft and dragged them inside. Parker fainted in fear, but Hickson remained calm enough to observe the surroundings. He was placed on a table as a large bright light attached to an instrument of some kind descended from the ceiling and examined his body. He lost consciousness and both men woke up to watch the object ascend into the sky.
The men rushed to the police who, after investigating, became convinced of the men’s honesty. UFO researchers converged upon the case and were similarly convinced of its authenticity.
Two years later, a woodcutter from Snowflake, Arizona would become one of the most famous abductees to date. In 1975, a group of six men were in the Sitgreaves National Forest when they saw a UFO hovering alongside the dirt mountain road. One of the woodcutters, Travis Walton, had always been interested in UFOs--having known people who had seen them--and on impulse, he rushed out of the pickup to stand beneath the object.
At that moment, there was a strong electrical discharge which struck Walton and rendered him unconscious. The men in the pickup fled in fear and when they returned to the scene, Walton was missing. A manhunt ensued during which the woodcutters were suspected of murdering Walton and covering up his death.
Five days later, Walton phoned from a telephone booth alongside a local road. He had been taken inside the UFO, he said.
The sensational nature of Walton’s case propelled him into the media spotlight. The fact that six other men had seen him struck by a beam of light from the UFO and had never varied their story, and had passed lie detector tests (except for one man who was so emotionally distraught that his test was inconclusive) made their case one of the best authenticated. Walton’s experience became the subject of two books, one which was Walton’s own autobiographical account, which later became the basis for the Hollywood blockbuster, Fire in the Sky.
Also in 1975, Air Force Sergeant Charles Moody of New Mexico was abducted inside a UFO. He had gone out in the evening to view a meteor shower when a bright light dropped out of the sky in front of his vehicle. His memory became shrouded and he experienced missing time. Over the next few weeks, his memory returned and he recalled his experience in full detail.
Moody said that human-looking figures had taken him forcibly from his vehicle and into the craft. He was laid out and examined and given various messages and returned. During the scuffle he had been injured in his back, and he recalled that the ETs had healed him with a cylindrical device.
One year later on January 6, 1976, three friends, Louise Smith, Mona Stafford and Elaine Thomas were driving near their homes in Stanford, Kentucky when a UFO began to hover over their car. Thomas, who was driving, sped up and tried unsuccessfully to outrun the craft. Next the car was pulled upward off the highway and into the sky, and then sucked up into whatever was hovering overhead.
Their next memory was finding themselves further along the highway. The object was still overhead, but it was now retreating and more than an hour had passed. Each of the women suffered a frightening array of symptoms including first degree burns on their neck and chest, bruises, severe eye irritation, nausea, loss of appetite and weight loss.
They also suffered from bizarre and frightening nightmares and flashbacks. Each of them was placed under hypnosis and recalled a harrowing ordeal during which they were separated and placed into different rooms and subject to painful examinations.
Three years later, a housewife from Massachusetts by the name of Betty Andreasson became the subject of an intense investigation. The Andreasson Affair, by pioneering researcher Raymond Fowler was released in 1979 and told Andreasson’s experience of being taken inside a UFO and subjected to a wide variety of procedures. The book was followed up by several others which detailed her ongoing encounters.
While the number of abduction cases was mounting, they were still so rare as to be statistically insignificant. By the end of the 1970s, only a few dozen cases at most had been publicly revealed. Nevertheless, the phenomenon of UFO abductions had been firmly established.
The 1980s, however, would change the way everybody felt about UFO abductions. In 1981, artist Budd Hopkins of New York released his book, Missing Time, which detailed several cases of UFO abductions. Written in a forthright style, with transcripts of the hypnosis sessions, the book did very well and was picked up by another major publisher and turned into a best-seller.
Hopkins became the leading abduction investigator in the United States, researching hundreds of cases from across the United States and the world. His first book was followed by several others.
Then in 1988, the abduction phenomenon caught fire when a successful and well-known horror novelist by the name of Whitley Strieber released his book, Communion: A True Story, which detailed his abduction by apparent aliens from his cabin in upstate New York. Strieber was the first celebrity to come out of the UFO closet and his book broke publishing records, and was the first book about UFOs to hit the number one spot on the New York Times bestseller list.
By this point, the abduction phenomenon became cemented into American culture, with a continuous outflow of books, articles, radio shows, television programs, films and a later explosion of UFO material across the internet. A small but growing group of therapists and investigators formed to handle the burgeoning caseload. People like Budd Hopkins, David Jacobs Ph.D., John Mack MD, James Harder Ph.D., Leo Sprinkle Ph.D., Barbara Lamb MFCC, Tim Beckley, Yvonne Smith, John Carpenter MD, Dolores Cannon, Edith Fiore Ph.D., Philip Imbrogno and many others (I might mention myself here!) investigated scores of cases and worked hard to disseminate the information to the general public.
Today UFO abductions are becoming a recognized part of the human experience. Those who have experienced contact with extraterrestrials have no choice when it comes to believing in UFOs. As a result of their experiences, they know the truth. And it is these people who have allowed their stories to be told in book.
The stories in this book are true. All information and conversations were derived entirely from extensive interviews with the witnesses.
Chapter One
Invited Aboard
“I’ve been in contact with aliens since I was ten years old.”
Kevin Kamman looked at his best friend, Larry Larson [pseudonym] in shock. “You’re kidding!” They were in their cabin aboard the Navy ship where they had been assigned.
Larry shook his head. He told Kevin that they had taken him from his farm when he was a kid in Indiana and followed him his entire life. He said that he was still in touch with them, and that they had actually taken him to their planet and to several other planets.
Kevin shook his head in disbelief. He had known Larry for about four years, ever since August of 1978 when they were both assigned to the same compartment aboard ship. Kevin was one of two hospital corpsmen on the ship, and Larry was a personnel clerk. They were both in their mid-twenties.
Living in the same compartment, they quickly became friends, and before long, whenever they had “liberty,” they would leave the ship and explore the foreign ports together. Kevin was amazed by the way Larry seemed fearless of experiencing new things, and marveled at the way he gobbled down all of the bizarre foreign delicacies. One time Larry gleefully ate a big bowl of cream-of-fish-head soup, complete with fish eyeballs, while Kevin looked on in horror.
Currently it was 1982 and they were located in the Pacific Ocean, a few days out from the Philippines. The subject of UFOs came up and Larry was now coming out of the blue, claiming that his “alien friends” had taken him to other planets.
Kevin instantly thought back to the term paper he had done in high school. Everyone in class was expected to write a paper on a controversial subject, and thinking he could disprove the phenomenon, he chose UFOs. Instead, he came away convinced and wrote his term paper concluding that UFOs exist. However, he had never actually seen one.
He told Larry that while he believed in UFOs, he couldn’t help but be a little skeptical of his claims. Larry just smiled.
Two days later, Kevin was in their compartment when Larry walked in and said, “I just got back from a trip to your house.”
Kevin looked at him with disbelief. His home was in San Diego, thousands of miles from where they were. No aircraft had come and gone from the ship. There was no possible way Larry could have visited his home. “What do you mean by that?” he asked.
“My friends took me to your house,” Larry repeated. “I was at your house. I just got back.”
“Yeah, sure, you were,” Kevin said.
It was at this point, that Larry looked him in the eye and told him to listen. “He started describing things about my house,” says Kevin. “He described a 1966 Ford Galaxy 500 that my parents had, down to the chocolate milkshake stain on the backseat. I didn’t have any pictures of that particular car, he had never seen any pictures of that car, so he had no idea that we even owned it. And yet he had a lot of details about it correct. Then he started describing some of the furniture that was in the house, and the carpet that we had. The details were too accurate to know that he was making this up. He described my bedroom. He had so many details and he had them so right, I was wondering how he had his information. And he said his friends had come and gotten him and taken him to my house.”
Kevin was shocked, and wondered if Larry might be hooked up with the CIA or something. But even that wouldn’t explain another very strange detail. Everything that Larry was describing, while totally accurate, was at least ten, maybe fifteen years in the past. The 1966 Ford Galaxy had been sold in 1970. The furniture and carpet Larry described had also been thrown away more than ten years earlier. Even the details about Kevin’s bedroom--while correct--applied to the early 1970s.
This bizarre “out-of-time” aspect of Larry’s descriptions upset Kevin more than the accuracy of the information itself, mainly because it seemed to be an impossibility. While Larry had apparently been to Kevin’s house as he claimed, the only way he could have seen what he did was if he had somehow time traveled. Of course, this was impossible, he assumed, but what other explanation was there?
Whatever the reason, Kevin was intrigued. Perhaps, he thought, his friend was telling the truth after all. He turned to Larry and said, “Okay, then. I want to meet your little green friends.”
Larry raised his eyebrows and smiled. “Well, I’ll talk to them and see what they have to say. I’ll let you know in a couple of days.”
While Kevin was convinced that there had to be some truth to Larry’s claims, he still didn’t really take his promise to talk to the aliens seriously. Two days later, however, Larry came up to Kevin and said, “Well, I talked to them, and they said that they’ll be more than happy to take you for a little ride.”
Kevin laughed. “Sure, no problem,” he said, still thinking that it was somehow a joke. “When?”
“Tomorrow,” Larry said.
The next day started normally. Kevin reported to his post and performed his daily duties. On the ship, lunch was served from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM. Kevin ate his lunch in the mess hall and returned to his compartment. It was just a few minutes after noon when Larry popped his head into the room. “They’re here,” he said.
“What? Who?” Kevin asked.
“Go ahead,” said Larry. “Go up on the main deck. You’ll see them.”
Still skeptical, Kevin left his cabin and walked the short distance to the main deck. The moment he got on deck, he saw it: an enormous, diamond-shaped object hovering alongside the ship at an altitude of only a few hundred feet.
