It's true! I had a close encounter with a mysterious alien space craft when I lived in
North Hollywood in the California San Fernando Valley. I was a teen ager and read the classic science fiction books by Robert
Heinlein, The Red Planet Mars and Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles. Flying saucers had been in the news since the Kenneth
Arnold and Ray Palmer sightings and I wanted to see one.
Astronomy was an interest of mine and I would take my encyclopedia with the map of the
constellations in it and go out in my back yard at night and study the skies. Perhaps it was my enthusiam and desire to see
a flying saucer that attracted the space people to me. It must have been a mutual attraction, though, because I suddenly decided
to go out one night and look at the stars. They knew I was looking for them.
We lived a few miles from the Burbank airport and the planes would roar in very low above our house and the
house would shake from them. This night as I looked up a plane was coming in low, almost above me. Suddenly it seemed to plunge
lower as I saw its red and green lights getting closer. I thought "Oh, no, it's going to crash!" Then I realized there was
a separate black submarine shaped object that was flying along beneath the plane.
It dove straight down and swerved around making a forty-five degree angle like a boomerang and came around
right over me, cruising slowly so I could see it had a flat bottom, no wings at all, and it had red and green lights on it
like an airplane does. The airplane had flown on by then--unaware it had been used as a cover for an alien craft--and this
flying object did not emit any sound. It was so black that it showed up against the Los Angeles sky which is lighter because
of the street and building lighting.
I deduced that the lights on it were so it could blend in with the airliner it was hiding beneath. At the
time radar technology was not as advanced as now and they had an ideal way to explore Earth and remain unnoticed and undiscovered.
And the logical corollary is that they were physical and vulnerable. They could register on radar and did not want any confrontations.
Thus, they hid from us unless they wanted to show themselves.
I definitely had the impression that they were trying to attract my attention and were interested in me personally.
I wrote a letter to the Pentagon describing the sighting but received no anwer; however, I'm sure they investigated.
I attended the first world flying saucer convention at the Hollywood Hotel at Hollywood and Cahuenga Boulevard.
The original famous trio of contactees were there:
George Van Tassel
Orfeo Angelucci
George Adamski
Van Tassel was a nice looking man, but with a cold, remote attitude. Silver blonde hair, pale blue eyes, he
talked emotionlessly, gazing over the audience as if he were not in touch with us. He claimed to be in contact with a space
ship commandeered by an etherean named Ashtar. According to him the space entities were surveying our planet recording thoughts
and looking for certain types of people.
Adamski seemed a very normal man, he gave the impression of sincerity, shorter than Van Tassel, his dark hair
graying, he told of his encounters with a long-haired blonde, green-eyed man wearing a one piece suit of a metallic cloth,
who said he was from the planet Venus.
Orfeo, dark eyed, dark hair, shorter, small build, talked excitedly, gesturing as he told with emotion of
his meetings with a beautiful pair of space beings called Lyra and Neptune. He first encountered them when he saw a red sphere
floating above Elysian Park, Los Angeles. I was most impressed with Orfeo. He seem genuine, he was excited about the story
he was telling. He had printed up a newspaper telling about his adventures with the space people and had written a book on
"The Nature of Infinite Entities." Lyra and Neptune claimed to have known him a long time ago when he was part of their planetary
group, but separated from them when a disagreement developed between factions. They told him they had evolved into a nonphysical
form, that many of the Earth's inhabitants were from their planet. They try to convey messages to Earth's people every so
often and would like to rescue their people, but they cannot interfere in our affairs. It is prohibited in their cosmic law
to interfere in another planet's evolution. They can "only turn a hair at a time." They are sorrowful and dismayed at the
state of affairs on Earth at present.
I believe these early contactees were genuine. They had all had some type of visionary experience and were
seeing the extraterrestrials through their individual eyes and unique personalities. Of course many people got in on the popularity
of the flying saucer craze and capitalized on it for money's sake.The l950's and 60's were an idealistic time, Yoga and Buddhism,
esotericism, mysticism were rampant and eagerly pursued by the younger people. The discovery of Lysergic Acid Diethylamide
was a blessing from the beyond which opened up a window to the beautiful reality of the Universe we materially bound humans
cannot see naturally. In an interview with National Public Radio in 1986 Ken Kesey said, "LSD is a blessed drug. It came along
when the nation's soul was sore."
The beautiful rapture of the 60's and 70's dissolved into a welter of greed and materialism never before seen,
but predicted by the ancient Hindu masters who had said that at this time the Earth was entering the Age of Kali when Man
would turn from spirituality to absolute belief in the material world. And this prophecy seems to be manifest in the later
80's and 90's as multi-national corporations bind the populace ever tighter in debt, consumed with a continual striving to
buy and borrow to pay.
We who had looked to the stars with excitement and hope for a beautiful descending of the glowing space ships
found ourselves abandoned and left with images of disturbed people claiming they were abducted by prurient aliens performing
genetic experiments and goblin aliens who chased a man around his cabin in the middle of the night. Those stories and that
of a man who claimed to have worked for the United States government at the Nevada Test Site where he discovered there was
a conspiracy between the government and the "greys" who were trading alien technology for what? have occupied the public's
mind, ugly anxiety replacing serenity and beauty.
Recently, the UK organization that keeps track of alien ship sightings announced they were folding up their
tent because sightings have become so rare. The space people have packed up and left. Why? Some people say they just finished
their surveying project, others wonder if it's because the political and social state of Earth has deteriorated so badly recently
that they've either given up trying to talk reason or don't want to be around to see what's coming next.
It seems obvious that there are various types of manifestations by the other worldlies, some definitely physical,
others metaphysical. I know one thing for certain, they utilize hypnosis and telepathy in their encounters with humans. Why
they use different means of communications in their appearances to different people is one of the subjects I explore in The
Cosmic I.
That close encounter had a profound effect on me which changed my thoughts about the Cosmos and consciousness.
Since that time I have felt the hidden influence of the extraterrestrials. The Cosmic I recounts this event and other supernatural
experiences in my life and my perspectives on them.
