LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD FOR LT. COL. WENDELLE C. STEVENS

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
TO HONOR POSTHUMEOUSLY
RET. COL. WENDELLE C. STEVENS
"GRANDFATHER OF UFOLOGY"
FOR A LIFETIME OF SERVICE

By Aileen Garoutté

Wendelle Stevens was my good friend. I feel that since he has passed over to the other side we should remember all the wonderful things he did while he was here. We should never forget his achievements. He wrote a total of 57 books. His daughter CeCe has them all in Ebooks now. All his work can be found at http://www.ufophotoarchives.com

Wendell put so many years into his work, and was considered the Grand Father of UFOlogy. Many people got their start from Wendelle and his work.

I met Wendelle in 1981 at the National UFO Conference put on by Tim Beckley and Jim Moseley in Tucson, Arizona. We became fast friends. At the time I lived in Mesa, Arizona so it was easy to go and visit Wendelle periodically.

Wendelle was so knowledgeable about so many contact cases. I never tired of hearing a new story. Wendelle was instrumental in setting up the first International UFO Congress in Tucson, Arizona. He asked me to be one of the hostesses because of our friendship and because I was Director of the UFO Contact Center International. I met several persons at that Congress that remain as my friends today. If it wasn’t for Wendelle the IUFO Congress may never have become as popular as it is today. It was because of his efforts and the persons he brought to the Congress from foreign countries to share their cases that made it so interesting.

An important case he worked very hard on was the Billy Meier case in Switzerland. Lee and Britt Elders and Wendelle went there and thoroughly investigated Billy’s claims. The three of them published beautiful books about Billy’s case. It became the most popular case in history. It still is. They enlisted scientific labs to prove his pictures and the metal sample.

Because of Wendelle many “contact” books were written. He typed almost all of them himself and had them published in a hard bound edition. Can you imagine how much work that was? If he hadn’t of known of those foreign cases and wrote the book about them people would never have known about what took place with the different people throughout the world. We learned so much!

It is time to honor Wendelle Stevens for all the work he submitted to UFOlogy and for his knowledge. We should never forget him. I am so sad that so much that he knew went with him. I would like him to know how many persons cared for him and honor his life time of work in this subject. There will never be another like Wendelle. I hope in some way he sees this award from our hearts. We will miss you always Wendelle.

Some of the books he published were:

UFO CONTACT FROM ACART
UFO CONTACT FROM UNDERSEA
UFO CONTACT FROM THE PLIEADES - 6 BOOKS
UFO CONTACT FROM MIRRASOL
ALIENS IN STARSHIPS
UFO CONTACT FROM MIRANGA
UFO CONTACT FROM UMMO - 2 VOLUMES
UFO CONTACT FROM ANDROMEDA
UFO PHOTOGRAPHS - 2 VOLUMES
UFO CONTACT FROM RETICULUM
UFO CONTACT FROM IARGA
UFO CONTACT FROM ITIBI RA
UFO CONTACT FROM BOTUCATU
And many others

FROM TED LOMAN:

Back in,1988 I had no idea that on July 1 my life would be propelled into a direction that would change my life forever.

I owned my own business and moon lighted with a friend as a assay lab tech purifying gold and silver extracted from high tech military components. It was early Sunday morning , my wife and our kids packed up for a 12 hour drive to her relatives in New Mexico while I stayed home to finish the work we contracted for. In a hurry to get this contract finished and out the door, I made a mistake that would send me into the hospital leaving me blind. After many operations I was left with my left eye blind and partial vision in my right eye.
My father asked me to fly up to Northern Idaho for a visit. He would read to me information on the UFO subject and that is when I heard for the first time Ret Lt. Col Wendelle C. Stevens name.

My Dad said, “If you are interested in this strange field of UFO’s then why don’t you contact this Stevens guy in Tucson?” I had to admit that the subject was interesting and Mr. Stevens was living in the same town, so when I got home I did just that.

I had my wife look his name up in the phone book and dialed the number.

“Hello , Stevens here.”

I was pulled back for a minute, he caught me off guard. I was expecting to hear the voice of a female secretary,

He said again , “Stevens here , anyone there?”

I then said, “Yes Sir my name is Ted . I’m looking for answers to the UFO subject.”

His response was “so are a lot of other people.”

I then replied, “Is there somewhere I can get more information?” He then gave me the name and phone number of a Mr. Allen Benz .

Then the next twenty years is history.

Wendelle and I became GOOD friends and as time went on Wendelle appeared on our TV program over ten times along with MANY field investigations through the state of Arizona AND New Mexico.

Wendelle was a person, that you could trust, confide in, and know that anything you told him in confidence would be kept . He was a man of his word. I’ll never know and most likely forget more than WENDELLE had compartmentalized in that fantastic total re-call of his.

He was amazing.

This sometimes crazy field of Ufology name calling can be brutal and self-serving but in all my years knowing this gentle man, he never once said an ugly remark about any of his contemporaries. I gave him plenty of chances too.

Pages and pages can be written about this giant of a man and will certainly happen in the years to come. For now I’ll end with this.

If anyone of you that are reading this and have had the pleasure to come in contact with Wendelle you know what I speak and for you, those that never got the chance , I can only hope that what I’ve written can bring you closer to one of the greatest investigators of modern time in the field of Ufology. .

Ret. Lt. Col . Wendelle C. Stevens was a man of adventure, a prolific author, a collector of books , pictures, and artifacts, along with a keeper of many secrets.

FROM ED BARTH:

Wendell Stevens, who in life was the voice of unembellished UFO reporting. An unimposing, kind and gentle man whom I called friend. He refused to be silenced. Even in death, his works still speak volumes about his passion for this type of investigation. Every case was an adventure and it was very important to get the facts right, unlike some in the field who may put forth their own interpretation of the facts. He was a kid who refused to grow up when it came to his research and investigation of UFO cases.

I first made contact with Wendell in the early 1980’s after acquiring the coffee table picture book in San Diego, and later, volume one of the contact notes of the Billy Meier case. I called him to find out if there was going to be a volume two. I believe I have all the books pertaining to the Meier case and then some. I stopped by his home in 1992 while returning to Washington state after a trip to San Antonio, Texas. $150.00 lighter, I had more of Wendell’s books and the three pictures he and the Elders had enlarged for analysis, during the Meier investigation and the tapes made by Nippon TV. I consider the Meier case, the most important case in the history of the world and if it hadn’t been for Wendell and the Elders, little would be known of this case today.

It was my great pleasure to have known him. He is missed.

Edward Barth

EL TOCUYO, VENEZUELA

During 1977 to 1979, before moving from Venezuela to Puerto Rico, Senor Ramon Rosa Alvarado had a series of unique experiences as an observer in a local Venezuelan UFO Group which was being contacted by UFOnauts who told the local contactee there that they came from the PLEIADES.

At that time Alvarado and his wife were living near Giudad El Tocuyo, Districto Moran, Venezuela in a sugar cane growing district. Reports of strange disc-shaped aerial objects were occurring almost every night. They would be seen approaching from below the crest of a small sparsely vegetated mountain above the sugar cane field, and would fly about in the sky in all directions in a random fashion. Word had gotten out about the almost nightly visits, and people from all around began coming to the area to witness the phenomenon.


One night around eight P.M. Sr. Alvarado and his wife watched many different colored glowing objects of luminous disc-form flying over the cornfields. They were of blue, green and amber radiance and were estimated to be 15 to 20 feet in diameter. Ramon counted 25 such craft on this occasion. Some of them approached quite close, and some hovered low over the corn tops and in other places only a couple of feet above the ground. The upper level of these operations was only about 400 to 500 feet above the ground surface.

On this particular night the witnesses saw a large number of shiny silver metallic balls, nonluminous but highly reflective, also flying around in the dark sky. Though these spheres were not luminous, they could nevertheless be easily seen in the light of the other disc-shaped UFOs. The balls reflected the many lights of the larger craft flying about. There may have been as many as several dozen such shiny balls only a few inches to a few feet in diameter, in several sizes. The silver balls kept moving rapidly and did not stop and hover like the luminous disc-shaped larger craft.


On another night a few weeks later, Ramon and his wife joined a group of about 80 people who had come to witness the phenomena. It was a Wednesday evening (the objects seemed to be most active in mid-week) and they had seen the lights below the top of the large hill.


Suddenly they saw three of the blue and green 15 to 20 foot diameter glowing disc-shaped flying objects about 400 to 500 meters to the north of their position. The objects were situated, one over the river to the north near the left road, another to the right of dead center, between the two roads, and a third over the cornfield across the road to the right. As one of the witnesses started down the road to the left with a Jeep, to get closer, the one to the far right began to approach up the right road. Alvarado and his wife were standing to the right and the light came slowly toward them. Suddenly a ball of white light about one meter in diameter burst into view in front of them and began to fly a tight vertical circle about 12 to 15 meters in diameter only a few feet away. Mrs. Alvarado fainted from fright.



Then a much larger round glow of light came on in the distance, across the river towards the hill. It must have been huge, because all of the disc-shaped craft and the white ball of light raced toward it and went inside, and the whole thing rose and flew away as one object. Before they departed, however, the disc-shaped luminous craft on the right that was approaching up the road stopped, and an array of horizontal light beams of several colors including blue, green, violet, amber and orange came "ON" on top of the object and radiated out horizontally. Then they began to rotate like helicopter blades, in a counterclockwise direction. These light beams blinked out before this object went toward the larger light in the distance and went into it.



There was a principal witness in that vicinity whom these alien visitors picked up and contacted directly. They addressed the contactee in his native Spanish but they conversed among themselves in another language. When he asked what language it was, they called it IRDIM. They said it was a proto-Sumerian tongue used long ago on Earth by their predecessors here, and that most other languages used on Earth today were derived from it. They said that their ancestors came from what we call the PLEIADES.


The space beings said that they lived lifespans of 1,000 to 1,200 years of our time in a single physical embodiment. They said that they live simultaneously in the 3 dimensions we normally think of, - plus a 4th dimension we know very little about at the present time. They said that the laws of the 4th dimension are entirely different, and that the speed of light in our dimension does not apply in the physics there. They said that they simply shift all matter up to the 4th dimensional state and the laws of time and space change. They have offered scores of detailed descriptions on very scientific subjects, including other dimensions and other beings. Sr. Alvarado estimated the contact notes and dialogue he has seen amounted to several hundreds of pages.



These Pleiadians, like those visiting Switzerland also describe two other planets in our Solar System not familiar to us today. They called one of them Nemus and the other Siris (these are our spellings from the phonetics used). They say that these planets will be found in orbits between what we call Neptune and Pluto. The visitors to Switzerland said they were both beyond the orbit of Pluto. The visitors to Acaya said one was side and one outside the orbit of Pluto. We are unable to account for these disparities, however the fact that all spoke of only two may be significant. They all mentioned undiscovered moons for the sub-suns Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, and they have now been proved to be correct in 3 out of 4 and one still to be survey by close observation.


They all said that there were many inhabited planets in the vast Pleiades systems.They were all aware of other human and non-human visitors to our planet at this time, and each was in active contact with some of those others.



A friend of one of the sugar farmers, Sr. Guillerr Torres of' Hacienda Las Cruces, near Ciudad El Tocuy successfully photographed one of the larger ships visiting this locality. It is seen as a large lens-shape circular craft with a wide low profile transparent translucent dome on top. It occasionally radiates light from the rim, and some of this light is seen in the photograph. The skin surface of the craft seems to be matt gray in color and has a brushed metal finish. Two craft was an estimated 400 meters away when the picture was made.



They all operated, used or shared bases of limited accessibility in high mountain peaks and in equally inaccessible under ocean locations.





The UFO Cosmonauts contacting the Colombians told that group that they came from what we call the PLEIADES. To those there involved, these new contacts were so mind-boggling and so profound, and so far exceeded their internal knowledge of what was going on elsewhere in the world that they carefully guarded their secret within their own immediate circle for three years, and then only confided it to very trusted friends in UFO research also. None of them or their friends had ever heard of Eduard Meier.


Those in Switzerland, on the other hand, now conducted themselves in a similar fashion. Stranger still, the Pleiadians, in neither case, made any mention of contacts with the other groups of terrestrials, and they even used different styles of equipment and spacecraft, although at the same time, there were similarities in some respects.


Both groups used a variety of spacecraft for different functions. Both the Swiss and the Colombian contactors employed part organic/part mechanical creatures in labor operations aboard the spacecraft, and both used a large mother-ship in space as an operating base. Both had similar technological wonders aboard the spacecraft that came to the surface of our planet, and in both cases the environment aboard the mother-ship was 99% recyclable and almost standards. In both cases the cosmonauts seemed to be fully aware of the ancient history of our Earth.
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It is odd that the contact in Switzerland was told that the people he was in contact with were from the Plejaries, not the Plieades. They only told him that they were from the Plieades so that copy cat contacts would be known as making up their stories. Finallly he was told to tell where they really came from. So it is puzzling why these aliens would say they were from the Plieades? - P. Urial

Deputy Terminated for Contradicting Horse Mutilation Official Findings

EPSO photo: Former El Paso County Reserve Deputy Sheriff, Chuck Zukowski

(I detest injustice and this is blatant injustice! - P. Urial) From Phantoms and Monsters blog

tucsoncitizen - A UFO investigator in Colorado has been terminated from his volunteer deputy post following a horse mutilation investigation.

Back in November 2010, Fox31 News in Denver posted an article about a strange horse mutilation incident at the Schneider family ranch in El Paso County, Colorado. The family found two of their horses dead and badly mutilated on their ranch last August. After the discovery, the family filed a report with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Department and called in paranormal investigator, Chuck Zukowski, to search for answers.

The horses were discovered with their throats slit and chests cut open. The genitals, tongues, and eyes of the horses were removed. The family stated that there were no footprints around the horses and no blood evident. Since El Chupacabra, humans, predators and satanic cults would leave footprints, Zukowski blamed UFOs, according to the report by Fox31 news.

Zukowski’s findings, as reported by bloggers and the media, were contradictory to the official findings of the El Paso County Sheriff’s Department, for whom Zukowski served in a volunteer capacity for for 8 years.

Following the posting of the original post in the Tucson Citizen in November, Zukowski blamed ‘bad journalism’ on the parts of Fox31 and the Tucson Citizen for misrepresenting his statements. He stated that the family and area ranchers believed that the horse mutilations were alien or military-related, but that his written findings always conclude as “unknown death”. Zukowksi referred to his publicly posted investigation findings for clarification, which were considered prior to the November posting. However, the statements attributed to Zukowski, as reported by Fox31, were included in the Tucson Citizen post, clearly attributing Zukiowski’s statements to the interview with Fox31.

The official findings from the El Paso County Sheriff’s Department pointed to predators as causing the demise of the horses. Zukowski’s publicly available online report and statements made to the news media, does not come to the identical conclusion, which contributed to his termination

Zukowski’s termination letter from the department states among other things:

“The termination is a result of you conducting paranormal and unidentified flying object investigations into animal mutilations, and then publicly contradicting and being critical of official Sheriff’s Office investigations in a public forum. Although you have claimed not to have represented yourself as a Sheriff’s Office Reserve Deputy, the media reports allude to you as “volunteer El Paso County Sheriff’s Department deputy.” This adversarial position, without having full knowledge of the information gathered by detectives, is unacceptable.”

Zukowski told NewsFirst5.com in an interview: “I know in the letter it says that I contradicted their statement, but I didn’t contradict them per se. Where I mentioned El Paso County Sheriff’s Department was wrong, I’ve never, ever done that.”

A fresh piece of information included in the Tucson Citizen‘s post from November, was the fact that Zukowski served as a volunteer deputy for the El Paso County Sheriff’s Department. This information was publicly available in his bio page, on his UFO investigation website, to outline his relevant experience. Although the information is now updated to read: “a former Reserve Deputy Sheriff with El Paso County Sheriff’s Department, Colorado”.

Ten days after the post on the Tucson Citizen, an article posted at the website thehorse.com, also identified Zukowski as a reserve deputy for the department. Zukowski told News5 that he never represented himself to the author as a reserve deputy.

Whether the information of Zukowski’s volunteer post with the department was found on the Tucson Citizen or Zukowski’s public website, was not stated in thehorse.com article.

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Chuck Zukowski's response:

ufonut - Throughout the course of the television show, The X-Files, agent Fox Mulder was continually threatened with dismissal from the FBI due to his passionate and serious pursuit of supernatural phenomena, paranormal events and government conspiracy. This pop-culture series made clear that our government and law enforcement agencies around the country are not open, philosophically or intellectually, to take seriously the field of paranormal investigation.

One thing I pride myself in, is being honest about my investigations. Now I want to be honest about an event which developed not only from one of my investigations, but circumstances which arise due to media attention I get.

The following blog is about what happens when a person (me) challenges authority and now deals with the outcome. (I deal with the outcome by telling you.) At no time do I mean any disrespect to the fine men and women who work for the El Paso County Sheriff’s Department, I’m simply stating the circumstances which involved me and now letting the readers (you) decide if I made the right decision.

Chuck Zukowski

On February 9th 2011, two deputies from the El Paso County Sheriff’s department stopped by my home and relieved me of my badge, gun and ID. Most people visiting my website had no idea I was a Reserve (volunteer) deputy, since I’ve never blogged about it. My Reserve title was posted on my bio because I was proud of it.

The following are two segments from the termination letter handed to me.

First segment:

“The termination is a result of you conducting paranormal and unidentified flying object investigations into animal mutilations, and then publicly contradicting and being critical of official Sheriff’s Office investigations in a public forum. Although you have claimed not to have represented yourself as a Sheriff’s Office Reserve Deputy, the media reports allude to you as “volunteer El Paso County Sheriff’s Department deputy.” This adversarial position, without having full knowledge of the information gathered by detectives, is unacceptable.”

The previous segment is referring to the August 2010 Rush Colorado Horse mutilation. The “publicly contradicting and being critical of official sheriff’s Office investigations in a public forum” started with an interview I did with Heidi Hemmat – KDVR Fox News Denver.

The statement “Although you have claimed not to have represented yourself as a Sheriff’s Office Reserve Deputy, the media reports allude to you as “volunteer El Paso County Sheriff’s Department deputy”. This is referring to news media who have picked up any stories I’m in, and then researched me.

The statement,” Although you have claimed not to have represented yourself as a Sheriff’s Office Reserve Deputy” is because in the eight years with the department. I’ve never conducted an investigation while representing the department.

Also in the segment with Fox News I said, “Local law enforcement, they’re really not trained to look at something like this.” And this is true! I’ve learned some deputies have taken a one week course on investigating animal deaths, but this doesn’t give them the experience needed to decide if it’s of a paranormal nature.

Generally when detectives are called to a potential mutilation site, they’re training involves looking for evidence which could tie it to possible human intervention which caused the death of the animal. This could make it a criminal case in which they would need to pursue the incident further. If lack of human intervention evidence is seen, (ie. footprints, tire prints, animal drag markings) then law enforcement representatives will assume a natural cause of death may have occurred. Without previous study in animal mutilation phenomenons, law enforcement representatives can make the wrong assessments determining the death of the animal. Lacerations in uncommon areas, circular incisions, missing tongues, lack of an abundance of blood, and strange animal behavior of the surviving ranch animals, are the clues ranchers see which points to a kill which they’re not familiar with. This may be difficult for law enforcement representatives to understand if never fully understanding the mutilation phenomenon.

So what type of experience does a UFO/Paranormal investigator have?

My experience includes years of research, interviews, conferences, networking with other animal mutilation experts, and my own investigations. I’m also in direct communication with representatives from Colorado State University’s veterinary lab on every case relaying information to them. The majority of my investigative techniques searching for clues of an animal’s death are also learned by talking to the ranchers themselves. They know the predators which frequent their property, they’re familiar with natural deaths which take down their animals, and they can spot the signs when pointed to something very unfamiliar to them. In 2009 the five ranchers for whom I investigated their mutilated animals had over 300 years of combined ranching experience between them! Manual Sanchez who lost four calves within a month’s time is a “third” generation cattle rancher! If he says he doesn’t know what killed his animals, you can pretty well bet, I’ll listen to him.

Simple communication between law enforcement agencies and animal mutilation investigators could increase the odds needed to find the answers both parties are looking for. Unless law enforcement agencies step up their investigative techniques by increasing the possibilities the animal deaths could be of an unknown nature, they’ll never be able to solve these particular cases. Also, the more law enforcement agencies disregard an experienced cattle/horse rancher’s opinion, the more often a loss of respect will exist between the ranchers and the agency. This is a direction I see time and time again. If the ranchers were comfortable with the investigating law enforcement’s assessment of the animal’s death, then there would be no need for them to involve the press and call investigators like me.

Second segment:

“Furthermore, when spoken to by Reserve Sergeant (name on file), it was suggested you refrain from conducting paranormal and unidentified flying objects investigations, which could be viewed as a conflict of interest if being investigated by the Sheriff’s Office. You clearly indicated this was not acceptable and you would not recuse yourself from such investigations.”

Of course I can’t agree to this. The department could use any type of UFO/Paranormal sighting including animal mutilations which were reported via 911, as being investigated by the department. I would have to refrain from investigating every occurrence in 2200 square miles of El Paso County which 911 was utilized. This would also exclude working with MUFON as one of their STAR investigators, or OpenMinds, or UFO Matrix, or or or…. Get the drift?

Now some questions to ponder:

Is having a volunteer deputy sheriff running UFO/Paranormal investigations on his personal time considered an eye sore to the Sheriff’s department? So much so, that they want him out of their department?

Or, should they utilize his personal skills in the paranormal field?

How about just generally asking:

Should law enforcement personnel acting out of uniform in a non official position be restricted from contradicting statements released by their departments?

Imagine what would happen if our own congressional men and women were terminated for publicly disagreeing with the president who is within their own political party? Could this be a violation of the First Amendment? Freedom of Speech?

Law Enforcement agencies along with some high courts generally make it tougher for police officers who cry 1stAmendment, as a relevant argument. Most cases I’ve read side with the department not the police officer when the statements made by the officer are offensive to the department. This protects the integrity of their department.

So is disagreeing with the Sheriff’s department’s assumptions on a horse mutilation considered so detrimental to the department’s integrity, that it constitutes a dismissal?

Now in my defense:

When I was confronted by the sergeant about this incident, I asked to talk with my commander to explain my position. I also requested to give a lecture on animal mutilations to the deputies who investigate animal deaths so we could compare notes. This would have also given me the opportunity to find out if I was stepping over an invisible boundary.

A meeting was never granted, my sergeant never had updates when I confronted him, and I never received the opportunity to defend myself. Well so much for the First Amendment and the 14th Amendment as well (Denial of Rights to Represent Yourself Properly).

After receiving the termination letter, I emailed the Sheriff’s office in my defense. As of the writing of this blog, I have not received a response from them.

I’ve worked as a volunteer with EPSO for over eight years along side some of the best deputies in the state of Colorado. On duty I would have laid my life on the line for them, and they would have done the same for me. I’ve never had any type of conflicts with the deputies I’ve worked with, and they’ve never had any negative comments about me. (As far as I know.)

Now back to animal mutilations. There have been law enforcement agencies who have investigated cattle mutilations in the past and who have stepped up to the challenge. The following are just to name a few.

April 7th, 1993 the Fyffe Police Department, Fyffe, Alabama released a press conference about 30 animals which had been discovered dead in pastures with various internal and external organs missing.

March 28th, 1997, the State of Florida formed a task force to investigate mysterious wounds found on cattle in Brevard, Seminole, Lake and St. Lucie counties.

August 11th, 2001, Police in Montana investigating cattle mutilations were so frustrated with their lack of progress, that they asked the National Institute for Discovery Science, a Nevada research institute dedicated to the study of anomalies, for help. (Great Falls Tribune article)

So there are law enforcement agencies which are quite concerned about mutilation cases. Remember, since the media release of Snippy (Lady) the horse’s mutilation near Alamosa Colorado in 1967, there have not been anyone caught, tried and convicted of any mutilation crime. And just for the record, the Rush horse mutilation wounds were very similar to the 1967 case. Of course law enforcement wouldn’t have known that unless they studied previous mutilation cases.

So what do you think, did I make the right decision?

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The following are full posts on reference to these mutilation incidents:

Colorado Horse Mutilations Raise Questions and Disagreements - 11/9/2010

tucsoncitizen - The Schneider family in El Paso County, Colorado found two of their horses dead and badly mutilated on their ranch. After the discovery, the family filed a report with the El Paso County Sheriff’s department and called in a paranormal investigator to search for answers.

The horses were discovered with their throats slit and chests cut open. The genitals, tongues, and eyes of the horses were removed. The family stated that there were no footprints around the horses and no blood evident. Since El Chupacabra, humans, predators and satanic cults would leave footprints, the paranormal investigator on the case blamed UFOs, according to a report by Fox31 news in Denver.

News reports make no mention of how long the horses were missing prior to the discovery of the carcasses.

The paranormal investigator on the case, Chuck Zukowski, examined the horses and determined that UFOs were to blame. With 8 animal mutilations in Colorado.this year, Zukowski said that the evidence points to the horses being mutilated in a manner that would support his assertion.

The El Paso County Sheriff’s department doesn’t agree with the conclusion of Zukowski’s investigation.

Although they did not examine the horses closely, since the animals were “badly decomposed”, they say that the state of the horses were consistent with a predator attack.

Zukowski and the Schneiders state that they know what predator attacks look like and choose to believe that this was an alien-related mutilation. The family is fearful that it could happen again.

According to Zukowski’s website UFONut, he has 30 years of experience in the paranormal and specializes in “a diverse area including UFOlogy, Roswell, alien abductions, cattle mutilations, UFO investigations and ghost hunting”, Zukowski is also “a Sworn Deputy Sheriff for Colorado’s El Paso County Sheriff’s Reserve Unit”.

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kwgn - A Colorado family is searching for answers after finding their horses carved up and left to die.

"I just started to cry," Glenda Schneider told FOX31 News.

Schneider discovered two of her horses had been mutilated, with their throats slit and their chests cut open. Their genitals, tongues and eyes had been removed.

Yet, there was no blood, no footprints, and no witnesses to the crime.

"You wonder what happened," Schneider said. "What took place? What did it?"

The Schneider‘s filed a report with the El Paso County Sheriff’s Department and they contacted paranormal investigator Chuck Zukowski.

Zukowski examined the horses and determined the horses died from unknown causes, and said there was plenty of evidence indicating the animals were mutilated.

"The straight cuts, the open rib cage, the flesh taken off. Those are red flags," Zukowski said. He believes UFO’s could be to blame.

The Schneider’s are not alone. Paranormal investigators say there have been 8 animal mutilation cases in Colorado in just the past year.

Hundreds of animal mutilation cases across the country have been documented since 1967.

But the El Paso County Sheriff’s Department disagrees with Zukowski's assertion.

They believe the horses were killed by predators, though they admit investigators weren’t able to examine the horses as closely as they would like to because the animals were so badly decomposed.

Still, the Schneider’s insist they know what predator attacks look like, and what happened to their horses is anything but.

They fear whatever killed their horses could come back, and it has shattered the peace on their quiet ranch.

NOTE: Bottom line - the El Paso County Sheriff's Office is attempting to cover up the truth or to cover their collective asses...Lon

ABDUCTION NEAR MT. ST. HELENS

MT. RAINIER WITH LENTICULAR CLOUDS





Since I am from Washington State this item was of interest to me!

The following is an interesting post from July 2008: (From Phantoms and Monsters Blog)

Woman Claims She Was Abducted By Aliens Near Mount St. Helens

Joy French is fully aware that it sounds a little far-fetched to say that she might have been abducted by an alien near Mount St. Helens more than two decades ago.

But since she began hosting UFO meetings in April 2007, she has seen and heard so much evidence of extraterrestrial encounters that she wishes she had spoken up earlier. Now the energetic octogenarian devotes her life to opening closed minds.

“We are the only country trying not to tell the truth about UFOs,” she said. “The government is not being honest with people.”

French, 84, of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, will host a meeting for believers in UFO sightings — and those who want to believe — at 7 p.m. Friday in the Cowlitz County PUD meeting room.

French lived in Longview from 1965 to ‘67. In the early 1980s she was staying in a small trailer on Lake Merwin. A friend camping in the area, Don McMann, called her on the CB radio and invited her to watch a video with him.

Most of that night is a blank. She remembers starting to drive downhill to his trailer, and the next thing she remembers is being a passenger in her car, with him driving.

“I’m an independent person,” she said, so being a passenger made no sense to her. “I usually drive my own car.”

She doesn’t recall watching the movie. She said neither of them drank.

This took place around 10 or 11 p.m., in the thick darkness of a mountain forest. Suddenly the sky lit up as bright as daylight, and her 1966 Cadillac stopped dead.

McMann, a mechanic, hopped out and lifted the hood. He checked the engine and shrugged.

“There’s nothing wrong with your car,” he said. He slammed the hood, and the car started.

“That’s the last thing I remember until the next day,” French said.

In the morning, she called McMann on the CB and arranged to meet at the community kitchen.

“I told him, ‘What happened last night, that’s what happens when a UFO’s around,’ ” she said. “He said, ‘I thought of that, too.’ ”

They never spoke of it again, nor did they mention it to the other campers at Merwin because they were afraid of ridicule.

“Now I wonder if the others saw and didn’t tell,” she said.

She believes the light came from a spaceship, and that she and McMann were taken into the craft and examined. Their memories of the incident were erased before they were returned to her car, she believes.

McMann died in 1998. A couple of years ago, French, now living in Idaho, discussed the incident with a childhood friend — and discovered the friend once saw a UFO when she was picking huckleberries.

“The government told her never to speak of it,” French said.

She has read numerous books about extraterrestrials, met investigators and scientists and heard many people share their experiences, including Gloria Hawker, author of “Morning Glory,” an account of being impregnated by an alien.

“Some of this stuff blows my mind,” French said. “It’s kind of hard to swallow.”

She’s positive she didn’t have the same experience as Hawker.

“If they took me and checked me out, they probably threw me back because I had a complete hysterectomy and I’m no good to them,” she said.

French believes extraterrestrials have been visiting Earth for centuries, citing the Egyptian pyramids as one example of their work. She also believes aliens can be credited with the world’s rapid advancements in technology during her own lifetime.

“I can’t believe the government is still covering up,” she said.

She thinks extraterrestrials want to save our world.

“I don’t think they want to hurt us. I think they want to save us from destroying our planet,” she said. “Or pick us up after we destroy it.”

She understands that many people are afraid to come forward and admit they believe in UFOs. She offers her meetings as a safe place to learn more.

“People with closed minds never learn a thing.”

PAVEL POLUYAN

Soviet Union witnessed invasion of US-made UFOs in 1980s

31.03.2007
The first “flying saucers” could not cover long distances, and Americans had to use submarines to deliver those saucers to the Soviet shores. The Pentagon was testing the third generation of flying saucers when the Soviet Union just started development of similar mechanisms. A correspondent of PRAVDA.Ru is going to break the secrecy requirement and publish a story told by a former engineer of an enterprise where UFO components were manufactured.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the USSR witnessed an invasion of unidentified flying objects. Some of the “visits” were particularly curious. In December 1989, policemen in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk came to a scene of actio and witnessed “some dark apparatuses with colored lights” were experimenting on a power line going to a local aluminum plant. Other acquaintances of the man who told the story witnessed objects flying over the Yenisei River and the city of Krasnoyarsk. The man himself saw an UFO earlier, April 26, 1989 in the Ural Region. Where did the strange machines that were obviously made by humans come from?

In news films about the history of aviation one can see a strange device resembling a huge motorized and manned umbrella. This umbrella can twitch up and down, and can even hover in the air for a second when twitching down. Inventor Chance Vought tested the umbrella plane in 1911 in America.

The device is an ancestor of contemporary flying saucers. The 1911 umbrella plane looks funny, but it is unlikely that the American inventor spent money on making the machine just for fun. The flight principle based on generating compression under a vibrating plane is no worse than the flight principle of traditional airplanes. When the device was being created, engineers realized that it would give a higher lifting force. Step by step it turned out during the tests that the device could perform a flight if the oscillation frequency was measured in megahertz and the amplitude of oscillation in millimeters. But at that time there were no technologies to get the total power of vibration and achieve supersonic frequency.

The aircraft-building company of Chance Vought cooperated with the Naval Department. The Skimmer flying saucer that appeared after WWII was a result of the cooperation. It is believed to be an experimental variant of a propeller-driven airplane, however it is not ruled out that Chance Vought made the model especially for running tests of the aerodynamic lift of electrokinetic engines.

In the late 1940s, first flying saucers appeared in the US. They resembled telephone loudspeakers: impulse electromagnets made one or several huge membranes beat the air at a megahertz frequency. And a streamline top part of the device provided the difference of drag forces on the top and on the bottom. But still some facts pertaining to the strange device remained unclear.

A flying saucer could not generate any lifting force until it threw something off the way rockets did. This is a ring whirl: it does not leave vacuum to intake a flying saucer. It is necessary to keep a saucer on the ring whirl just for a couple of microseconds, the period within which a new whirl is generated.

Flying saucers with impulse electromagnets were heavy and could not cover long distances. So, Americans had to use submarines to deliver them to the Soviet shores that gave rise to stories telling that UFOs emerged from under water. Later, new devices appeared where no electromagnetic field was used to shake a propelling membrane. The bodies of such devices were made of piezoceramic, and vibration appeared thanks to the piezoelectric effect (we know that piezoelectric tweeters make the sound in electronic alarm clocks and mobile phones). The new generation apparatuses were no longer saucers but spheres, ellipsoids and other three-dimensional figures haloed with ionized gas.

The USSR got UFOs of its own in the 1960s-70s. Once, Soviet Academician Shklovsky asserted in the popular informational program Vremya (Time) that there were no other creatures besides earth dwellers in the Universe. It sounded like an official statement of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party saying that no aliens ever existed, and all reports alleging that people witnessed UFOs were misinformation. Special committees immediately started censoring newspaper publications and deleted everything that could be connected with UFO visits and aliens. Also, the Tekhnika Molodezhi (Technics for Youth) popular magazine issued a publication about civil use of a secret technology, the electropulse de-icers that cleared ice mounds off IL-86 wings. The publication was also supplied with a scheme of impulse supply going to inductors that made aluminum planes vibrate.
At that very period Americans already had the third generation of flying saucers, dark objects with just few zones on them glowing. Those were whirl activators: the glow on the bottom to make the object fly and the glow on the side (so-called illuminators) to make it move to the sides.

Flying saucers are not in fact fantastic aliens landing this planet with antigravity machines but quite earthly apparatuses with electrokinetic engines that went up and down thanks to creating vortex rings. This is an absolutely unusual and strange idea to us indeed. However, as far as we believe in the existence of aliens we should also recognize a new flight technology that was invented some time ago and has been kept secret until recently. When explained clearly, the principles of the technology are quite understandable and do not seem to be fantastic. We know that vortexes are also very important in generating the lifting force of flying insects, take a dragonfly for instance.

Now that we know the principle of flight of flying saucers we can trace the development stages of the technology. But despite of the fact the American military are not going to declassify the technique. These days UFOs can be often observed in Iran that proves that the US keeps on employing its secret apparatuses.

A question arises why the break-through transport technology has never been declassified and officially used? In fact, application of the revolutionary breakthrough technology would have inevitably resulted in transforming the entire of the civilization and infringed upon the interests of a great number of people. Such apparatuses could help easily cross governmental borders, the thing that would have made them a cherished dream of terrorists and drug dealers. Such machines could be more popular than transport using petrol which would inevitably mean bankruptcy of oil tycoons and automakers. And the key reason of the secrecy in this situation is the fact that use of such flying saucers contradicts the international law; these machines cross governmental borders without notification of authorities. So, the advantages are worthy of keeping the invention secret for so many years. And this is why the secret of flying saucers was kept for so long.

The man who told the story about the secret of UFOs says it is time to say goodbye to a nice legend about aliens no matter how we like it.

Pavel Poluyan

AMAURY RIVERA TORO

Many of you know Amaury's story already but then there are those who don't. Amaury gave permission only to the UFOCCI to publish his story. I think others have also published it since. However, for those who don't know about him here is his personal story written by him. I met him in Las Vegas many years ago at the UFO Congress. - P. Urial

MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
New York

I was born and raised in New York city. I was working as a waiter in one of the major hotel chains when I received an alarming phone call from one of my aunts. She informed me that my grandmother was terrible ill. My grandmother was the woman whom I considered to be my mother. I just had to go to Puerto Rico where she lived to see her.

PUERTO RICO 1988

When I arrived on the island I was amazed by its beauty. After being there a few days my grandmother recuperated and I was able to make my brief visit a real vacation. Upon returning to New York City I found myself constantly thinking about Puerto Rico. Something was pulling me -- drawing me in like a magnet. I phoned my aunt out in P.R. and expressed to her my feelings. I told her that I wanted to come out and live on the island. She reminded me that the employment situation on the island was pitiful.

Without knowing why I lifted my roots. I either sold, or gave away everything that I owned and headed towards the island. Even though it was the birth place of my parents I really didn't know P.R. I was like a stranger in my own land. Even its roads were unfamiliar to me.

One of my cousins had heard over the radio about a job opening at a local night club. The waiters job suited me perfectly. I landed the job and bought myself an old jalopy of a car as a means of transportation to and from my new job.

Everything went fine until the night before Mother's Day. A few days before this event, the same cousin who had helped me obtain my job called me up to ask a favor of me. She asked me to please photograph one of her favorite musical groups, which was going to be appearing at the night club where I was working.

The night before Mother's Day I arrived at the nightclub toting my cousin's 110 Instamatic Camera. The club was packed and I was barely able to snap some pictures of the musical group called "El Gran Combo." I managed to take a few. When the night was over I headed home. My feet were aching and all I could think at the time was about getting home and having something to eat.

I took the usual route home, the one which one of my other relative has showed me to utilize going to and from the night club. I was driving very slowly. It was about 4:30 a.m. I had to keep in mind what some of my family members had warned me about; they said that while driving along these country roads one had to watch our for stray cows or horses that often wandered on to the roads. What they really should have warned me about was something else!

As I drove through this lonely stretch of unpopulated country road named "La Bajura" (literally translated means "the low part"), I came across a thick mass of fog. I didn't find this strange because I had encountered this cloud of fog other times on my way home from work. I slowed down even more and kept my eyes on the road at all times. Suddenly I heard what I initially thought were the sounds of hooves on the paved road. Calves? The sound was emanating from the left side, the driver's side, my side.

I turned my head towards where the sound was emanating from and to my great surprise what I saw in that moment changed my whole sense of reality. Jogging alongside my old car was a... midget? child? "What the ____ is it?", I remember thinking to myself. My mind was going wild. I didn't know what to think. Demons? "Oh, my God, it's a demon," I thought. I was scared beyond description. This thing was about three or four feet tall. It had a huge head and black bulging eyes. The eyes are what really freaked me out. The being looked at me with those black pools it had for eyes and it had a strange effect on me. This thing had eyes that seemed to penetrate my very being. They were like those of a Pekingese dog except a lot larger. Its skin was white, almost like if it were wearing clown makeup. The nose was a pugged one and the mouth was not more than a slit. It wore what seemed to be a small one piece suit; the color being olive green. What in hell was this? The farthest thing from my mind was that this strange creature was an extraterrestrial being. At that place in time I didn't think about space beings or UFOs. My mind did not ponder into those realms.

I didn't believe in UFOs so I didn't think about UFOs or their occupants. I was so frightened and nervous that when I attempted to speed away from the horror, instead of stepping on the accelerator I stepped on the brakes. When I was about to move on I see movement on the right hand side in front of my car. Coming in from the fog was that same creature. How could this be? I thought. How did it get from where it was running beside my door to where it was located now? In those few precious moments in which I debated whether to run the thing over with my car something even more unexpected occurred. Someone or something opened my car door. I jerked my head to the left and there it was staring at me. There were two. Not one -- but two. I gasped and held tight to the steering wheel. My foot felt like lead on the brake pedal. Mentally I prayed to God and asked him to forgive my many sins. I urinated in my pants and helplessly passed out.

When I woke up I had no idea of my whereabouts. I was still seated in my car but I was no longer on the road. I found myself in a strange place where there were other cars. These other cars were empty. I distinctly remember looking around for a sign that would read "Exit." There were none in this place that looked like an underground parking lot. There were no doors that I could see; no windows either. The colors on the walls were a non metallic light gray. As I sat there confused and gripping the steering wheel, the thing appeared next to the drivers seat door - mine. This time I did not hear it approach my car. I just happened to look towards my left in search of a way out and there it was. Those eyes! It reached out to me with its skinny arm. The hand, I noticed, had five fingers but they were all about the same length. With his white hand he, or it, touched me. He placed the palm of its tiny hand upon my forehead. With this action on the creatures behalf, I faded into darkness.

When I regained my mind I found myself seated in another room along with 14 other people. This room was also the same color as the previous one; a light gray. There were no light fixtures visible to the eye, yet the place was illuminated. I saw no doors or windows. The rest of the people looked as terrified as I felt. None of us spoke. Out of what seemed nowhere, from some point of departure behind us, walked in the two small beings and right behind them came a man.

This man was dressed in a black shirt and black pants. His shoes were of the same color. His skin was a dark tan complexion. Like the skin color of an Arab or a Hindu. He did not appear to be tall; maybe 5 feet 7 inches or so. He stood before us and the two small beings situated themselves - one to his right, the other to his left. This man with long black shoulder length hair spoke to us in perfect Spanish. He claimed to be as human as we are but from a different planet, another world which rotates around an alien star (sun).

In this room the extraterrestrial human displayed to us all various projections which seemed to be totally real in appearance. At the end of these events, the small beings (the ones that the E.T. human had informed us were in fact made by his people) touched everyone of us on the forehead. Everything went away and I awoke seated in my car.

It was now daylight outside and I was in a different area of my home town. At the time I didn't have any idea of where I was. I knew this was not the "Bajura Road." Where was I? I had woken up in a total state of confusion and I couldn't stop crying. The Bajura was a paved road and this was a dirt road!

The next thing I knew I heard the roar of military jets flying above. When I looked out the window of my car I saw it for the first time. It was hovering without making a single sound. The F-24 tomcats were on their way back. Like a zombie I took hold of my cousin's camera and found the disc-shaped object through the lens. I just stood there observing it through the lens when suddenly out of nowhere I started to hear a strange beeping sound. Automatically I would snap a photo on every second beep. Beep-beep-snap-beep-beep-snap.

The disc tilted itself at an odd angle and shot off straight into the sky. The jets flew into formation and they took off frustrated in their attempts to ground the alien aircraft.

After this experience my life was never the same. These photographs have brought me lots of grief. In the near future I hope to be able to publish my book which I'm now completing, where my experience in its totality will be described in depth. There are many wonderful things out there awaiting us, but let us not forget the many wonderful things that we have right here on earth....Amaury Rivera Toro

This case was printed in the Missing Link magazine published by myself in November 1992. There are three pages of pictures included.
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I do not know if Amaury completed his book. If anyone has information on this, please let us know and we will tell where you can obtain it from.

SANDY NICHOLS

Sandy Nichols is a friend of mine, as is Brent Raynes. Thank you Brent for this write up.
Brent’s new web site address is: http://apmagazine.info/
P. Urial

SANDY NICHOLS, the founder and director of the Alien Research Group (A.R.G.), lives in Thompson Station, Tennessee. An “alien abductee” himself, he formed the ARG in 1998 to provide help for other abductees. The author of Different Child, a book that recounts his early memories and his emerging awareness of what had previously been suppressed by his consciousness, Sandy Nichols provides additional information and updates on his website at: www.alienresearchgroup.com.

Brent Raynes: It was a little over ten years ago that we did an interview for this magazine (back when we were a print publication) and I think that it’s probably about time that we brought things more up-to-date. As I recall, shortly before we had met you had recently formed the Alien Research Group to help UFO abductees, which you count yourself as one too. You have expressed a desire to reach out to others who may be going through experiences similar to what you have been going through as well. You try and help them find therapists, if they need hypnotherapy or something, or you’re there if they simply need someone to talk with.

So how’s it going so far?

Sandy Nichols: Oh, pretty good.

You know, I wasn’t a new abductee. I’ve been an abductee since childhood, but what was happening at that time was back around 1995 and ’96, is that things just kind of came to a boil, and I needed to figure out what was going on with my life, regarding the strange dreams and strange experiences that I was having and that people were telling me were not real.
That’s when I went to see a counselor, but it took me about nine months and that was toward the end of October 1996. I was real secretive about that and it was the summer of 1998 when I formed the ARG (Alien Research Group) and since then, like any other organization, it kind of goes slow at first, but I did a lot of networking, I sent out emails to people, talking about my experiences and learning about those of others, and then one thing led to another and so what happened was that people started hearing about me, because I’m not shy to speak, and so I started getting interviews and people began asking me to write articles for them, and so that’s what I’ve been doing. I’ve never lost the main purpose of why I started up ARG, and that was to help other abductees to find support groups and other people they could share with in person, or like what I went through, with counseling if needed.

Brent Raynes: Anyone who wants to reach you or to visit your website how should they do that?

Sandy Nichols: The best way is to reach me through my website: www.alienresearchgroup.com. There are several things that they can do on my site. They can click “contact,” which provides my cell phone number, or if they want to send me an email then all they have to do is fill out a simple form and then it goes straight to my main email address. If they want to contribute an article they can, after which I will be notified by my website that something is pending, and so then I can go into my website and read the story or article and make sure that no one is trying to Spam me or put dirty things on there. Once I read it and approve of it, then I just hit “accept” and then “submit” and it’s then automatically posted on the site. They can include photos, drawings, or documents too if they want to.

Brent Raynes: Okay. That all sounds good.

I know that some UFO investigators have tried to work around the alien abductee/contactee experience, trying to deal, they say, with strictly nuts and bolts UFO reports, so to speak. I know that early on NICAP (National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena) they didn’t even like to publish a UFO report if a being was associated with the case. The founder and director, the late retired Major Donald Keyhoe, had been very vocal in his opposition to the contactee stories of people like George Adamski, who he clearly perceived as a troublesome hoaxer.

Sandy Nichols: Yes, in the early days of what we call the contactee movement there were some sensational stories of encounters with beings from Venus and such and there essentially was no real evidence to back these accounts up. The contactees reported friendly encounters. There were no negative abduction experiences that were coming from these people like Adamski and his followers, and all of those that used to gather at California’s Giant Rock airport. So all of the organizations kind of shied way from them, which is something that I really can’t blame them for back then.

Of course, to just limit it to just the nuts and bolts of UFOs only they did sometimes tend to forget that these things had to be piloted by something. You know, MUFON wasn’t very fond of taking abduction cases very seriously either because of the fringe element or a lack of physical proof. But again, you have a UFO and somebody has got to be driving it.

I think that the real breakthrough came with The Interrupted Journey case with Betty and Barney Hill because that made Look magazine. Then when Hopkins and Strieber came along the media market had expanded so much that that was what really helped them to take off and get really noticed. Whitley Streiber was a highly successful science fiction writer and Budd Hopkins was a successful New York artist. So I think good timing was the key to their success. It was timing and the public was just ready.

But I think that it really started with the publicity generated initially by Betty and Barney Hill. That was like one of the first cases and it was very well documented by a well known psychiatrist.

Brent Raynes: Right, the psychiatrist was one Dr. Benjamin Simon, and John Fuller wrote the book about their experience, entitled of course, The Interrupted Journey.

Sandy Nichols: Right, and there was a movie made about it. Then with the books by Streiber and Hopkins the timing was right and the internet also came along. Then there were the UFO sightings at Gulf Breeze, Florida, so a bunch of things were coming along together.

Brent Raynes: So here you had good, average, typical people describing encounters that didn’t sound like a mixture of fantasy in there about the Space Brothers and didn’t go on about planets like Mars and Venus, which our space scientists tell us do not have the living conditions suitable for the lifestyles that the early contactees told us went on at those places.

Sandy Nichols: At least down on the surface that we can see, although there is some evidence that Richard Hoagland is pointing out about the Mars Face and what appear to be pyramids up there.

You’ve also got to look at this too. Before Strieber and Hopkins came out with their books, the media had often portrayed the people who reported UFOs to be uneducated and just regular blue collar type workers, and then here was Strieber and Hopkins, with Strieber already a successful author with several books that had already been turned into movies, and then you have a successful artist, Budd Hopkins. So then it moved up into white collar reporting then, with Strieber talking about his own experiences and Hopkins about those of others whom he had investigated.

Brent Raynes: Going back again to the 1950s, Jim and Coral Lorenzen of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) had a lot of credible reports, many of them from South America, involving the beings. In 1957, in Brazil, there was a seemingly credible case of a young male farmer who was abducted and had sexual relations with a female alien. So there were some serious researchers back then who were looking at some of this data and gradually more and more serious investigative work was undertaken into such cases. Of course, cases like Travis Walton, and also Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker down in Pascagoula, Mississippi, back during the ‘70s, all of this increased our awareness.

Sandy Nichols: Oh yeah, and I’ll tell you something else. The skeptics and debunkers have kind of changed their tune as more and more white collar, professional type people began coming out and coming into this field, as well as more military people coming out too, doctors, pilots, and like for me, in the Life magazine article that was written a few years ago, they couldn’t make me out to be uneducated or to have come from a bad family because I came from a great family that was very well-known in the business world, and so this writer did a switch, and that was to make me out to be a spoiled little rich kid who was fantasizing about UFOs and aliens.

So skeptics and debunkers are a dime a dozen and they’re going to spin a story, one way or another, if they don’t believe it. No matter what your education or background is.

Bent Raynes: So that the people who are reading this, who may not know about your experiences, do you want to go ahead and tell them about some of the experiences that you’ve had over the years that have really puzzled you?

Sandy Nichols: The crafts that I’ve been on, the technology is just unbelievable. Human’s are like in the Stone Age when our technologies are compared to their technologies. I’ve been taken up in what I call light elevators where you are put in a beam of light and then the next thing you know you’re in the craft. Another thing with light is that they’re walking you down a hallway and a light is illuminating where you’re at but there is no light, or it’s real, real dim light, in front of and in back of you, but where you are is brightly lit, but you keep on walking and then the next section becomes lit and the one you were just in dims down, and then this goes on and on. Then you’re taken into another room and that room is dimly lit and then when you get into the room and you’re able to look back at the doorway that you just came through the hallway, where you were, in front of the doorway, is still brightly lit while the room is still dimly lit. But the lit out in the hallway does not come into the dimly lit room. That light literally stops at the doorway and so they have a way to manipulate light.

Now I had one experience here with a light phenomenon, and it happened two nights in a row at this house that I had built and lived in with my wife for ten years over in Brentwood, Tennessee. I was walking up the driveway at about 10:30 at night, taking my dog up to the end of the street to run around for a few minutes before putting him up for the night. Across the street was a Victorian style home with light colored siding on it. In their front yard they had cedar trees. All of a sudden, I saw what I can only describe as a dark light. That is, it was a dark light, from no visible source, that was creating a rectangular pattern probably about 20 feet vertically, up and down on this tree, but the tree was dark. There were no street lamps in my neighborhood and I was away from the city lights, so the trees were dark, and it was a dark light that illuminated on a dark, almost black looking tree. The first thing I thought of was how in the heck does dark light illuminate on a dark surface, and then after about 10 or 20 seconds it just wasn’t there any more.

The next night I was doing the same thing, which was part of a regular routine with my dog, and I was up there and this time I saw the same bar of dark light but instead of being illuminated vertically on a big old cedar tree it was illuminated horizontally on the siding of the house across the street, in the exact same yard, but instead of being on the tree it was it illuminating on the light color siding. Now I can understand clearly how a dark light can illuminate on a light color siding, but it was almost, this second time, like a confirmation of what I had seen the night before.

They can do some amazing things with light.

Brent Raynes: When you say illuminated then it’s contrasted. It didn’t actually illuminate the tree.

Sandy Nichols: Well, it did kind of illuminate the tree because where it was shining on it I could see the tree better. So it was illuminating the tree, but only in the rectangular part. Like I say, this thing was perhaps somewhere between 10 to 20 feet long, and I’d say more likely 15 to 20 feet, if I remember correctly, and then I’d say it was a foot to a foot and a half wide. So it wasn’t a small beam.

So the cedar tree looks black almost in the nighttime but where the rectangular bar of this dark light was it was actually letting me see this cedar tree more, which in reality it shouldn’t have been doing.

The dark bar was in front of the cedar tree which was like no more than 50 feet away from me at that time.

Now another technology that amazes me is that the UFO itself, and I don’t know if this pertains to all the UFOs, but my very first experience, which I wrote about in my book, is that when these little short, what I know now are grey aliens, came and got me, when I was 5 or 6, at my grandmother’s house over in East Nashville, floating me out of her yard literally through a wire fence into this neighborhood that had not been built up, the people had gone bankrupt or something, so the grass was high in all of the lots, and when I got to the craft itself I could almost sense that the craft was alive, in some way. Even though it looked like it was made of solid metal, like what we have.

Now in an experience much, much later, because I went through a long period of denial that these things were occurring, but this was after 1996 that this experience happened. I was being taken down a round hallway. In fact, everything inside the craft is rounded. There wasn’t a square corner in there. I was being escorted by small greys on both sides of me. Then the next thing I know the small greys were not there and I’m not floating now, I’m actually standing on the floor in this rounded hallway, and it was not brightly lit but it wasn’t dim. And I leaned up against this curved wall, and it was not a smooth wall. It almost looked like the wall had veins or something like that, and so I leaned up against it and all of a sudden I heard, in a telepathic way, “please do not lean against me.” It startled me and I jumped forward and I turned around going, “Okay, whose talking to me?” I thought maybe it was a grey communicating with me, who was somehow invisible, but I realized that it wasn’t a grey, it was the wall itself communicating with me. I think that Katrina Wilson said (and other people have said) that they also get the feeling that the craft is alive, that part of the UFO is a living being of some sort. So I was standing there starting to have a conversation with this wall and the wall was communicating back with me and it was not some type of subliminal bull crap. It was a genuine live conversation, just like I’m having with you right now, but through mental telepathy or whatever. Then the next thing I know the two greys appeared and they came and got me and the next thing I know I’m floating down the hallway and I’m kind of ticked off because I wanted to continue having a conversation with the wall. (We both laughed at this point)

Then a very interesting thing happened to me, about two years ago. I awakened one night, from what I thought was a dream, and in this dream I’m in an underground complex way, way down in the earth. This underground complex is absolutely enormous. We’re talking a thousand miles wide, you might say. In this particular experience, I came out of a janitors closet into the middle of a school, in the hallway of a high school, and I ran through it to the other end of the high school and ran up these stairs and hit a landing, hung a right, and then through another doorway, and I was then in another part of the complex, but I’m miles away, even though the distance from the school was only say several hundred yards, the distance between both doors, in reality, was several hundred miles. But down in this complex, part of this complex is part of this living creature that I experienced on the craft and these aliens have somehow captured this creature which can basically be used as a structure, though it’s a living structure, and they have to control it. It’s not a willing participant. The aliens use this living creature that can be used as a solid structure and they manipulate it and use it as part of their construction process. But they have to be very careful because they have to control the living creature and get it to do what they want it to do because if they lose control then the creature itself can literally transform/morph from a solid structure into a flexible creature, you might say, and would literally attack those who had it under their control. It’s some type of creature that apparently lived on another planet somewhere.

Brent Raynes: It sounds kind of like a recent Doctor Who episode where there was a city on the back of this creature that was flying through space.

Sandy Nichols: Oh, I saw that, and the creature itself was keeping the city alive. Yeah, I saw that episode. That was pretty cool.

When they go get the creature, from whatever planet, then the creature is like any other life form. It’s flexible, okay? But they have a technology to be able to control this creature and turn it into a more solid, rigid structure.



Editors Note: Yeah, I think on Doctor Who they call that a chameleon circuit which allows his ship, the TARDIS, to shape shift, except his is broken and his mode of transportation through time and space always looks like a British police box.

Well, you know what they say about how fact may be stranger than fiction. This is pretty strange, even by Doctor Who standards!

As a final note on this interview, in Sandy’s book Different Child (2001), he noted how “many abductees seem to possess great psychic abilities.” He added, “The subject of ghosts, like activities associated with abductees, is not written about very much. Abduction authors tend to stick to the meat of the abduction experiences and mention ghostly activities only in passing.” However, Sandy addresses it some in this book, and with myself, my wife Joan and daughter Chandra and Bret and Gina Oldham of Halo Paranormal, we recently formed a group called Specialized Paranormal Investigations (SPI). To me, it’s no surprise that Sandy has become a “ghost hunter,” as did another long-time “abductee” in our newly created group. I too have found over the years that “abductees” are most often no stranger to paranormal and ghostly events.