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The
In spite of such setbacks as unfulfilled prophecies, a good many of the contactees continue to be instilled with an almost religious fervor to spread the message that has been given to them by the
How do the flying-saucer contactees encounter the
They first saw a
Next, a warm ray of "light" emanated from the craft and touched the contactees on the neck, the crown of the head, or the middle of the forehead. They may have lost consciousness at this point and, upon awakening, may have discovered that they could not account for anywhere from a minute or two to an hour or two of their time. Those contactees who later claim direct communication with
Many contactees are told that they were selected because they really are aliens, who were planted on
After the initial contact experience, nearly all contactees seem to suffer through several days of restlessness, irritability, sleeplessness, and unusual dreams or nightmares.
After a period of a week to several months, the contactee who has received a message from the
None of the flying-saucer contactees seem to feel any fear of their solar brothers and sisters and most of them look forward to a return visit from the
Most
Hard-nosed
Some researchers have observed that the
Although most of the contactees claim an initial physical contact with a
It is impossible to estimate how many men and women claim to receive messages from
While the number of
Dr.
In 1976
Sprinkle hypnotized Higdon a number of times and gained remarkable details of the experience. Higdon had gone to the north edge of the
Higdon heard a twig snap, and he turned to face a strange-looking entity more than six feet tall, about 180 pounds, with yellowish skin color. The being possessed a head and face that seemed to extend directly into its shoulders, with no visible chin or neck. The humanoid had no detectable ears, small eyes with no brows, and only a slit of a mouth. Two antenna-like appendages protruded from its skull.
The alien being raised its hand in greeting to Higdon and floated a package of pills in his direction. Higdon remembers that he swallowed one of the pills upon the direction of the entity, and the next thing he knew, he was inside a cube-shaped object with the being, at least one other alien, and the five elk. Higdon was strapped to a seat with a football-like helmet on his head. Then he underwent a bizarre trip through
Most of the details of Higdon's fantastic journey were gleaned during the hypnosis sessions with Sprinkle. Higdon told the doctor that he witnessed portions of what appeared to be a futuristic city of tall spires and towers and revolving multicolored lights. After a physical examination, he was returned to the
The
Higdon apparently experienced a miraculous healing of a tubercular-type scar on his lung. A problem with kidney stones also disappeared after his trip to outer
In the course of the numerous hypnotic regressions that he conducted with
Harder and other researchers have discovered that a high percentage of people who have been abducted have undergone multiple experiences with
In most cases, the entity usually tells the children that it will be back to see them throughout the course of their life. It also admonishes the children not to tell their parents about the encounter.
Harder has also discovered that during the adult abductee experience, those men and women undergoing the encounter will often report having a vague memory of their abductor, and they will later say that they feel as though they have seen the entity before. In Harder's opinion, the multiple
The abductees speaking at the
Strieber went on to say that he had received thousands of letters from other abducteesfamily:Lucida Sans Unicode;">—people who do not welcome publicity, including entertainers, political leaders, and members of the armed forces in high positions. According to Strieber, all of these abductees had reported a basic progression of emotions, moving from uneasy, fragmented recollections to a clear memory accompanied by fear. If the abductees consented to undergo hypnotic regression, they usually became even more terrified. Instead of attempting to glean more and more information about the abductee through hypnotic regression, Strieber suggested that concerned researchers should be trying to help these individuals with their fright and helping them gain more understanding about what had happened to them.
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After Adamski published Flying Saucers Have Landed (1953), coauthored with
The death of
According to
Sometime during the next few days, Adamski showed Leslie a memento that he said no one would ever take from him, and he produced an exquisite gold medal with
When Adamski was asked how he had received it, he answered that
Leslie said that he later checked with
Adamski had cried out, "That's my man!", greeted the papal official, and was led in for an audience with the pope. Zinsstag said that when he reappeared about 20 minutes later, Adamski appeared to be in the same state of excitement and rapture as witnesses had described him being in after his desert contact with the
When Leslie later asked an abbot what he knew about the medal, the clergyman was amazed and said that such a medal would only have been given to someone in the most exceptional circumstances, and that no one, so far as he knew, had yet received this particular medal.
Leslie admitted that he had initially disbelieved that Adamski had received such an audience with the pope, but this confirmation from the abbot with regard to the medal had overcome his former disbelief. When Leslie asked Adamski what the
Later, Adamski told Leslie that he thought the package had contained instructions and advice for the
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Edwards, Frank. Flying Saucersfamily:Lucida Sans Unicode;">—Here and Now!
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Zinsstag, Lou, and Timothy Good.
Daniel Fry's initial contact with beings that he claimed were
engineer with Aerojet General at the time that he claimed to have met the
According to Fry, he missed the bus that would have taken him into town to observe the traditional July Fourth fireworks, so he decided to take a walk in the desert. What he had at first believed to be a strangely behaving star landed about 70 feet away from him and revealed itself to be a flying saucer. A friendly, but invisible,
Although Fry later changed the date of his initial contact to 1949, he claimed to have been contacted by Alan three more times between 1950 and 1954. The
Fry established Understanding Incorporated in 1955 as a means of better spreading the teachings of Alan, who had told him that he had been chosen to act as the liaison between
Fry,
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Gibbons, Gavin. They Rode in
Klass,
Sachs, Margaret. The
Story,
The case of Betty and
On September 19, 1961, Betty, a social worker, and Barney, a mail carrier, then in their 40s, were returning to their home in
Fascinated, Barney walked into a nearby field where from that perspective he could perceive what appeared to be windowsfamily:Lucida Sans Unicode;">—and, in the windows, beingsfamily:Lucida Sans Unicode;">—looking back at him. The feeling that he was being watched frightened Barney, and he ran back to the car, got in, and began to race down the road. Then, as if obeying some internal directive, he drove down a side roadfamily:Lucida Sans Unicode;">—where the Hills found five humanoid aliens standing in their path. Suddenly unable to control their movements, Betty and Barney were taken from their car and, in a trancelike condition, led to the
The sensational details of the Hills' story were recalled later while under hypnosis, for the couple had a complete loss of memory concerning the nearly two hours that they were abducted by the UFOnauts. According to information later retrieved under hypnosis, Betty and Barney were returned unharmed to their car with the mental command that they would forget all about their abduction experience. The
Perhaps the remarkable encounter would never have been brought to light except for two factors: they began to experience strange and disconcerting dreams that they could not understand, and they could not explain the unaccountable two missing hours in their journey home from
Betty decided to seek the help of a psychiatrist friend, who suggested that the memory of those lost hours would return in time, perhaps in only a few months. But the details of that unexplained "interruption" remained in a troubled limbo of fragmented memories until the Hills began weekly hypnosis sessions with Dr.
Under Simon's guidance, the couple revealed an astonishing pastiche of bizarre physical and mental examinations at the hands of an extraordinary group of extraterrestrial medical technicians. The individual accounts of Betty and Barney agreed in most respects, although neither was made aware of what the other had disclosed until later. In essence, both told of being treated by aliens from
Much has been made of the Hills alien medical examinations, and their much-publicized experience may have provided the prototype for thousands of other individuals who have claimed alien abductions with their requisite physical and sexual exams. However, the single aspect that may be most essential in giving the Hills' story credibility is the star map that Betty said she was shown by the extraterrestrials while on board the
Under hypnosis in 1964, three years after their alleged alien abduction, Betty, with little or no understanding of astronomy, drew her impressions of the map with a remarkable expertise that concurred with other, professionally drawn, star maps. As an important bonus, Betty's map showed the location of two stars called
Jacobs, David M. Secret Life: Firsthand Accounts of
Klass,
Randle,
Sachs, Margaret. The
Story,
Ever since organized flying saucer research began in the early 1950s, a number of
Official disclaimers by the
the
The legend of the three Men in Black, the MIB, began in September 1953 when
The three Men in Black told Bender that among the many researchers he had been the one to stumble upon the correct answer to the flying-saucer enigma. Then they filled him in on the details. Bender became ill. He was unable to eat for three days.
Bender went on to say that when people found out the truth about flying saucers there would be dramatic changes in all things.
In 1962, Bender decided that he would at last tell his story to the world in Flying Saucers and the Three Men. This perplexing volume served only to confuse serious researchers, as it told of Bender's astral projection to a secret underground saucer base in
In the opinion of many
Within a few months after Bender had been silenced,
"I have a feeling that some day there will come a slow knocking at my own door,"
Responding to accusations from civilian researchers who demanded an investigation and who suggested that the air force was somehow behind such silencings, Colonel
Broadcaster Frank Edwards (1908family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">–1967), who became well known for his best-selling Flying Saucersfamily:Lucida Sans Unicode;">—Serious Business (1966), made much of what he believed to be an official plot that had been set to silence him. Before becoming interested in UFOs, Edwards had been conducting a highly successful radio show sponsored by the
In spite of thousands of letters protesting the firing of Edwards and the silencing of his
Edwards was only temporarily silenced, and he soon had in syndication a radio show that dealt almost exclusively with flying saucers and other strange phenomena. But his sudden death on June 24, 1967, the 20-year anniversary of
Stories of the Men in Black have continued unabated since their origin in the early 1950s. In 1997, the motion picture Men in Black starring
If the
Many researchers of
Barker, Gray. They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers.
Beckley,
Bender, Albert K. Flying Saucers and the Three Men.
Keel, John A. The Mothman Prophecies.
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Sachs, Margaret. The
Story,
When he published Communion in 1987,
According to Strieber, on December 26, 1985, he underwent the first of a series of close encounter experiences with alien beings that he would go on to describe in his books Communion, Transformation (1988), and Confirmation (1998). As millions of readers followed his accounts of extraordinary occurrences, Strieber went on to tell of being abducted in his childhood, undergoing physical examinations at the hands of the "visitors," and suggesting mind control and government involvement in the
Reflecting upon his encounters in his "journal" on his website (
Strieber has stated that he believes the evidence of the
Story,
Strieber, Whitley. Communion.
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"Whitley's Journal."
After the
In August of 1952,
Ashtar and his fellow
Gibbons, Gavin. They Rode in
Sachs, Margaret. The
Story,
family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">—family:Lucida Sans Unicode;">—. I Rode a Flying Saucer.
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