The last eighteen months (I am writing this
in July 1988) have clearly brought about a public awareness
of, and, to a remarkable degree, a widespread discussion of
-- and acceptance of -- the "Contactee-Abduction
Phenomenon".¹ It may be more accurate to
state that this certainly holds true as regards North
America, but clearly other countries are focusing on their
own brands of interference and are reluctantly admitting that
they too are not immune.
Several authors, particularly Budd Hopkins
and Whitley Strieber, have certainly been responsible for
this opening of the door, with their books, plus the various
TV and radio programmes put out throughout Canada. And even
more astonishing, to me, was the overnight
"about-face" displayed by our media. As if on a
signal, the snide remarks and open laughter had all but
vanished.
To the "Old Guard", folk like
Jacques Vallée, John Keel, Leo Sprinkle, Brad Steiger, all
this public revelation was of course long overdue: they had
all been saying this for thirty years or more. In fact, John
Keel, in his letter to FSR (32/6) had called it "re-discovering
the wheel". That is very true, the only
difference being that we now have a very different audience.
We are into a whole new generation now of involved albeit
reluctant witnesses. When Adamski, Fry, Bethurum et al. were
tramping the lecture circuit, their voices were faint and
their audiences small. The shouts of "hoax",
"fraud", "money-seeker", were louder and
more numerous then. Today we have a generation who were then
either not yet born or small children, and who have grown up
in a climate that is vastly more "accepting"
towards "Space Age" ideas, and where the
"impossible" can at least be considered.
Spotlight on British Columbia
My purpose in the present report is to draw
attention to some possibly so far unnoticed aspects of the
phenomenon. Canada appears so far to be absent from the
recently published record. This country stretches for five
thousand miles from sea to sea. I must plead forgiveness for
citing this obvious fact, but it is necessary, lest I may
later find some sharp reader pointing out to me something of
which I am not yet aware. So, to "play it safe", I
shall concentrate on my own section of the country, the
Province of British Columbia, and direct my comments to this
Province alone.
Having been engaged in UFO research for
forty-two years myself, it was not until 1976 that I came
across my first "contactee/abductee". His story had
made the headlines in a small-town newspaper, about ten miles
from where I live. And his story was absurd -- but then aren't
they all? Having met this man, I could not help being
impressed by his personal conviction that he had been "chosen".
But there again -- aren't they all? And he "had
a mission -- a job to do". Don't
they all? Today, twelve years later, he and I are
still in touch, and his tenacity and sincerity are still as
impressive as on Day One.
Since that meeting with him, I have
recorded the stories of twenty-seven contactees, with the
majority of whom I still maintain a link. Along the way, I
have also met others, who have told me similar stories. Of
this group of 27, eight are men and nineteen are women, and
their ages range from about thirty to sixty. They are
principally of the white or Caucasian race, with the
exception of one native Canadian Indian. Thirteen of the
group are married or involved in a fragile relationship that
often shows signs of crumbling because of the ongoing UFO
involvement that is not of their seeking.
They also all have the annoying, almost
daily interference of "poltergeist" -
type activity, which is hard to accept and even harder to
ignore, and yet harder still to explain to another person,
particularly those of the "scientifically-minded"
variety.
This group of 27 individuals range from
those who report getting unsought images that appear on movie
film (one woman has OVER THREE HUNDRED SUCH MOVIES), to cases
of bank computers that shut down as soon as the lady in
question enters the room; cases of "one-armed
bandits" that cease to function at Las Vegas;
tape-recorders that refuse to work; TV sets that turn off by
themselves and come back on again showing a different
channel! In addition, we have street-lights that come on or
go out as the "subject" approaches the spot;
compact-disc-players that eject the record right across the
room; cars that won't start for their owners, but will for
anybody else; and telephones that are regularly replaced by
the Telephone Company every three months because the wires
burn out.
Then we have humming and buzzing noises
that drive the occupant from a room; odours that nauseate;
radio-telephones that switch to the emergency channel without
the aid of human hand; black helicopters that are unmarked
and have opaque windows; plus smaller red (and also blue)
"child-size" "choppers" traveling at high
speed at tree-top level, which pursue the victim or buzz his
home at roof-top level. You might think this enumeration is
enough. But it is only a part of the list!
Some of these people whom I have met have
other equally astonishing attributes or faculties. They can
see the radio waves inside micro-ovens; feel the degree of
heat that radiates from coloured paper; they are monitored
(?) by small balls of light; indulge in automatic writing;
or, without warning, find themselves involved in scenes from
the future or the past, in which they are the observers, and
yet themselves knowing all the thoughts and emotions of the
participants (sometimes a truly terrifying and disgusting
experience). They can read minds, see auras, and
detect the contents of a package without opening it. And so
it goes on...
"Body Implants"
In his article "What They are
Doing To Us", in FSR 33/3, Budd Hopkins examined
a topic about which, I venture to say, we know very, very
little indeed. He relates the story of a man whom he calls
"Earl", and the events surrounding
"Earl's" unfortunate wife. He describes her as
suffering nightmares, and clawing in her sleep at an area
near the bridge of her nose, between her eyes, and screaming
for them to "take it out -- it's
hurting!"
Well now, in the spring of 1988 I
interviewed a family man on Vancouver Island who, when I
asked as a mere matter of routine, whether he had any unusual
marks on his body, replied: "No. But I have
this little ball² by my left eye, near
the bridge of my nose". With that, he pushed
gently on the skin, and the resulting white mark showed a
small ball clearly delineated. When I asked him how long he
had had this ball, he replied: "About three months
before, it was down in my cheek, alongside my right
nostril!"
Some months later, I told this part of that
man's story to another very involved abductee, and she said:
"Oh -- I've got one too -- right here -- I always
wondered what it was!" With that, she pressed on the
indentation at the top of the bridge of her nose, and it
appeared also on her, though less than in the case of the man
quoted above.
In Budd Hopkins' report, "Earl"
was forced to watch his wife having a thin probe inserted
into her vagina. One woman contactee whom I interviewed in a
town north of Vancouver told me that she "had
something inserted on three occasions". And
she said, angrily, "They had tried to make me believe I
was doing it myself!"
When I asked her what it was that they had
inserted, she replied: "I don't know what
it was. But I do know what it WASN'T". This happened in her own bedroom, and during the
experience she was totally unable to move. This same young,
single, lady told me that she felt that "They" had
sex with her more than once. When I asked her how she knew
this, she replied: "Because of the odour
afterwards".
This same lady stated in a most emphatic
manner that she has a child somewhere,
and that she vividly recalls breast-feeding it. (Needless to
add that she denies ever having been knowingly pregnant.)
The Vancouver lady who has the suspected
implant on the bridge of her nose, recalls a very vivid,
all-too-real, "dream", in which she is an observer,
up in the far corner of a room, watching herself, in an
obstetrical position, giving birth to a scaly brown baby that
appears to be in a cocoon. Despite her revulsion at the
sight, she hears herself screaming "Don't take my
baby away!" The small shadowy white
figures pay no attention to her protests.
I know two ladies who became pregnant. Yet
the husband of one of them was sterile, and in the case of
the other lady, impregnation from her husband would have been
equally impossible, given the circumstances. The
first-mentioned of these ladies was visited during the night
by two figures that "looked at" the baby in her
abdomen, and showed concern for its welfare. And - strange as
it may seem - these two mothers, who show all the hallmarks
of having been abductees -- have sons called
"ADAM"!
A nurse who works in a hospital near to
where I live, tells of a male baby that was delivered in
1972. The mother was a sixteen-year-old native Indian. She
had no idea who was the father of the child. This particular
baby was so different from other children that the hospital
staff actually referred to it always as "THE
ALIEN". It was later adopted by a family in another part
of British Columbia. Again, in that same year, this same
nurse, who was working in the nursery of the hospital, saw
another child that struck her as extremely unusual. Over the
whole time that it was there, she said it never cried, nor
did it ever sleep -- at least never when she was on duty. It
seemed to communicate with its eyes, and required her to pick
it up, and this she frequently did, talking to it a great
deal. Although she had quite a large grown family of her own,
she says she had an overpowering feeling that this infant was
a part of herself. Even at that very early age,
she felt that the small being could communicate
telepathically. It would indeed be interesting to know how
many more "strange" babies have been noticed lately
in hospitals around the world.
On page 16 of the same issue of FSR (33/3)
Budd Hopkins touches upon the emotional upheaval involved in
alien contact, and its often tragic results. I too know of
one contactee who is now in a mental institution; of another
who is heavily into drugs and alcohol; of another that has
attempted suicide; plus one more who has seriously considered
suicide.
Along the way, over the years, I have
developed a strong rapport with some of these abductees. The
result is that they will tell me things that they won't tell
even to their own close relatives. This, in itself, can make
for some quite considerable and embarrassing difficulties at
times, of which one of the very least is the problem of
breach of confidence. As researchers in this field will
readily confirm, the participants in contactee cases are
usually quite paranoid about any disclosure that might in any
way identify them. (Knowing what they have gone through and
are still going through, I in no way fault them for being
unduly cautious.)
Sexual Assaults by "Humans"(?)
Recently something emerged that "blew
me away", as we say. In an interview which I had with a
single-parent lady, the question of choice of a living
location was touched upon. (Contactees appear to move around
a lot -- maybe subconsciously attempting to escape?) This
particular lady told me, jokingly, that her sister-in-law is
always "pulling her leg" about not living on the
ground floor. Suddenly alerted by this remark, I asked her
why? Then it came out that she had been attacked on the
street and sexually assaulted.
At that point -- figuratively speaking --
"the roof fell in" for me. For I suddenly realized
that this woman was the FIFTH abductee/contactee of whom I
knew who had either been sexually assaulted or sexually
abused. Later, when, in a tone of amazement, I was telling
all this to yet another woman abductee, she waited quietly
until I had finished my account and then added: "You
can make me Number Six."
Since then, I now make a point, if the
circumstances permit, of putting this very question to them
right at the outset.
Another contactee of whom I have heard was
also the victim of sexual assault. She lives in this same
Province of British Columbia, though many hours journey from
here.
Talk about double jeopardy! What a
horrendous load to have to carry around with you! I cannot
help but wonder how many victims of some sort of sexual
assault are also abductees, and whether there can be a link?
What more motivation for suicide could a woman have than this
duo!
Body Scars
I would now like to comment on another
point in Budd Hopkins' article, namely his mention of disfiguring
scars on the bodies of abductees.
It happened recently that a lady abductee,
a friend of mine, who was suspected of having breast cancer,
had to have a routine X-ray examination. While preparing her
for the examination, the nurse asked her: "When did you
have the operations on your lymph glands?"
"Never!" promptly replied my friend. "Oh,
come now", said the nurse. "You
must have. You have a scar under each arm!"
Since then, this lady has found that
her husband has a similar scar under one arm, and her mother
and her grandson have them too. It is quite possible that her
children also have them, but they refuse to comment.
By a remarkable coincidence (?) another
family of contactees, who live less than ten miles away, have
also reported that one of their members has such a scar.
And once again I ask: dare we to
dwell upon this, and dare we to wonder how many others there
are around the world who carry this hidden personal record?
And for what purpose? My own researches indicate what has
already been announced long ago namely that we have among us,
established here already within our society, a new breed of
"super-kid".
"The Light People"
We also have contactees who report holding
ongoing conversations (during sleep, they think), with beings
whom they call "the light people",
whose purpose seems to be to educate, to solve problems, and
to provide glimpses into the immediate future. Often these
contactees awaken in the morning with aching necks and
shoulders, complaining of feeling exhausted, as if they had
worked all night, rather than having supposedly slept the
normal eight hours.
Are these pure energy forms, described as
"the light people", also part of the same general
phenomenon responsible for abductions and impregnations and
monitorings, and for the removal of ova or of sperm (as one
male witness has told me happened to him on two occasions)?
Some Concluding Thoughts
In closing these notes, I wish to emphasize
once more that my statements relate solely to the Pacific
Coast area of this vast country of Canada. It is very
probable that other researchers across the nation will
confirm that similar types of events are happening in their
particular communities, be it Alberta, or Ontario, or Quebec,
or New Brunswick, etc. I suspect very strongly that they are.
In fact, I will go so far as to say that if ANYONE stretches
his arms out wide he or she will be able to touch, within
their own circle of friends, some person, or more likely some
persons, who are very much involved in this emerging
epidemic.
And, of course, I have come across other
oddities too. Living as I do in a racially mixed city, I
know of only one (first generation) Oriental abductee. I know
of no other Asians, and no blacks.
Furthermore, why is it that neither
blind people nor physically handicapped people, ever seem to
report involvement (The faculties of being able to see, or
being mobile, are not a required ingredient in the bizarre
complexities of the abduction scenario... OR ARE THEY?)
How does it come about, moreover, that I
never hear of reports from "street people" -- i.e.,
people on the streets? Many of them are very alert,
fast-thinking, philosophical too, and also extremely
observant. Am I to believe that nothing is happening to THEM?
Well, yes, of course it might be argued
that the answer is that I don't mix in those particular
social and ethnic circles. But on the other hand, I do have
numerous well-established "pipelines" that should
provide a trickle of something... And, to date, they
have not.
So far I know of five families
where three generations are clearly involved in
this process of "monitoring" and sample-taking. But
so far I am unable to detect any common denominators.
Certainly none are apparent on the surface. Does location
have any significance, I wonder? Also, what about such
aspects as profession, or religious
activity, or absence thereof?
The questions are endless, the answers
almost non-existent. And, as Whitley Strieber has already
commented, "THEY" will presumably only reveal the
solution if and when "THEY" want to. Until then,
the beat goes on.
NOTES AND REFERENCES
(1) I employ the terms "abductee"
and "contactee" interchangeably, since in so many
cases both contact and abduction are recognized. And, in
cases where only contact is admitted by the
individual involved, he or she may very likely be still
unaware that abduction also took place.
(2) [Note by Editor.] I have
personally observed, over a period of many years, the
presence of one of these immensely hard little balls just
below the skin of a human body. It had been there for
at least 40 years. Then, one day, the person, in
whose body it was, "woke up", and realized what the
thing might be. The man at once rushed to inspect and, lo,
the ball was already gone! It would be interesting if we
could hear of other such cases where an "implant"
vanishes as soon as its significance is perceived. --
G.C.
TO
EXPERIENCERS INDEX PAGE