I Grew Up In Area 51

I've often wondered whether the Alien Abductiondefinitely something a reader should keep in mind
Phenomenon was really as well known in groupswhen reading my articles and my book, which I
that are not particularly inclined to learn anythinghave finished and am currently editing.
about this subject. You know the type I mean.However, my interest came a long time after I
There are scores of folks, some whom I knowhad become an Experiencer-quite against my
personally, who not only have never heard of, orwill-at a very early age.
have scarcely had a reason to hear about, AlienThough the first Star Trek series, of the
Abductees. They don't read science fiction,Kirk-Spock era, began in 1966, I was unaware of
they've heard of but never watched a Star Trekthis program until much, much later when I was in
or Star Wars movie, and would generally regardmy teenage years. That was mainly because we
sci-fi fans (they believe only sci-fi fans have alienhad one television during that time and my
abduction experiences) as having a screw or twoparents would never in a million years have
loose.allowed something so vapid (their view of sci-fi)
They just are not into a genre even remotelyinto the living room when there was Lawrence
related to this phenomenon.Welk and Bonanza to watch (I think Hoss
I was recently at a friend's birthday party whenCartwright and Lawrence Welk were aliens). But,
my wife spilled the beans that I was writing awhat sparked my interest in this UFO-Alien
book called, "I was Once Abducted by Aliens, butquestion, what would set me off on decades of
They Threw Me Back." The room suddenly wentcontinued interest, would be my sightings of some
silent and all eyes were on me. So, I tookvery strange events which included, but is not
advantage of that unpleasant pause in thelimited to, UFO's, an alien entity or two, and at
conversation to begin my diatribe, based mostlyleast two missing time events, one that took
on the evidence I was finding for the book, onplace in the sixth grade and the other during my
alien abduction. When I conveyed my personalsophomore year of college.
experience with UFO's and Aliens, that's whenIt would turn out that all these years of watching
their stories began flowing faster than the beercable TV programs on this phenomenon would
and margaritas.begin a slow process for me in connecting the
I was surprised that the subject, and mind youdots, so to speak, that I had actually grown up in
these were not sci-fi folks, was so readilyone of the hottest of the UFO-Alien Hotspots of
accepted and that some of them had stories ofthe world-Area 51. And, the reason I grew up
their own or those of relatives who had beenthere is because my father worked in the Area
experiencers. Though you do read in the literature51 general area. He took the very same airplane,
that some of those claiming to have had an alienfrom the very same airfield, that all those
abduction experience do have the basis of beingworking on back engineering of alien spacecraft
versed in the paranormal and sci-fi literature,and interviewing those pesky little grey aliens
there are a lot of experiencers who have neverwent to work.
in their lives picked up a book or watched aWe lived in Las Vegas but did spend a year in an
Discovery Channel program on UFO's or Aliens.even spookier placed called, Tonopah, Nevada,
Many alien abductees were just going along in thewhere my Dad worked on an even more secure,
humdrum of their lives trying to eke out a living,top secret area that was farther north of the
watching reruns of All in the Family and I Lovemain Area 51 site.
Lucy, when they suddenly and quite unsolicitedLong before Area 51 had become a household
have a really bizarre experience which might beword in the vocabularies of Ufologists and
the result of something out of this world!Abductologists, I lived there. Long before there
I have to admit my bias at this point. I do have awere cable TV programs on The History Channel
huge background in science fiction literature,or Discovery Channel dealing with this issue, I lived
science fiction television and movies, and anythere. Long before the term, "Alien Abduction"
cable program that has this phenomenon as itsbecame a worldwide phenomenon; I lived at Area
theme. I not only watched them all but I am51 and had, while there, at least one encounter
afraid I could give stage directions and quotewith some sort of entity as well as multiple UFO
dialogue for almost all of the Star Trek TVevents.
shows. That's just how "into" this I am. So, that isThere's more to come...stay tuned!