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