What do you do when you've grown up in the UFO-Alien Mecca of the
world—Area 51—and have not only seen multiple UFO sightings but had a
run-in with an alien entity not once but twice in your life time?
· Try to get on the Larry King show to tell your story?
· Never tell another soul for fear of a lifetime of straight jackets
and psychotropic medications?
· Face the fact that you are doomed to a lifetime attendance of Star
Trek, Star Wars, Battlestar Galactia, and Babylon 5 conventions dressed
in really scary costumes?
· Write a book about your experiences?
I chose the last option. I've written an 80,000 overview, a kind of
primer, for the uninitiated who knows little to nothing about the
UFO-Alien Phenomenon. I have slanted the book not towards the well
informed Ufologist or Abductologist but rather toward those who regard
this phenomenon as an American sub-culture or cult.
In the fall of 2007, the wife and I were at some Mexican friend's house
watching a History Channel Special on the UFO-Alien Abductions issue. I
began telling my stories, something I do not often do for fear of
ridicule, of my childhood I spent living in Area 51. In fact, my Dad
worked in Area 51 and did some from 1960-1968. For one year we moved to
a place called, Tonopah, Nevada, where Dad's job became even more top
secret.
My friends encouraged me to write my experiences in a book. I have done
exactly that. Though I do not yet have a publisher for the manuscript I
do have it available in "Galley" form if you click here. This allows people to buy the book "in the rough" and for me to get feed back on the book before submitting it to a publisher.
Anyway, I finally let a member of my family, with whom I am close, know
about the project. She has yet to respond. She is probably plotting my
involuntary committal even as I speak and trying to figure out how to
lure me out of Mexico, where my wife and I live, so she can have me put
away.
Below is a segment from the manuscript:
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I Lived in Area 51, UFO-Alien Hotspot of the World
I've often wondered whether the alien abduction phenomenon was really
as well known in groups that are not particularly inclined to learn
anything about this subject. You know the type I mean. There are scores
of folks, some whom I know personally, who not only have never heard
of, or have scarcely had a reason to hear about alien abductees. They
don't read science fiction, they've heard of but never watched a Star
Trek or Star Wars movie, and would generally regard sci-fi fans (they
believe only sci-fi fans have alien abduction experiences) as having a
screw or two loose.
They just are not into a genre even remotely related to this phenomenon.
I was recently at a friend's birthday party when my wife spilled the
beans that I was writing a book called, "I was Once Abducted by Aliens,
but They Threw Me Back." The room suddenly went silent and all eyes
were on me. So, I took advantage of that unpleasant pause in the
conversation to begin my diatribe, based mostly on the evidence I was
finding for the book, on alien abduction. When I conveyed my personal
experience with UFO's and Aliens, that's when their stories began
flowing faster than the beer and margaritas.
I was surprised that the subject, and mind you these were not sci-fi
folks, was so readily accepted and that some of them had stories of
their own or those of relatives who had been experiencers. Though you
do read in the literature that some of those claiming to have had an
alien abduction experience do have the basis of being versed in the
paranormal and sci-fi literature, there are a lot of experiencers who
have never in their lives picked up a book or watched a Discovery
Channel program on UFO's or Aliens. Many alien abductees were just
going along in the humdrum of their lives trying to eke out a living,
watching reruns of All in the Family and I Love Lucy, when they
suddenly and quite unsolicited have a really bizarre experience which
might be the result of something out of this world!
I have to admit my bias at this point. I do have a huge background in
science fiction literature, science fiction television and movies, and
any cable program that has this phenomenon as its theme. I not only
watched them all but I am afraid I could give stage directions and
quote dialogue for almost all of the Star Trek TV shows. That's just
how "into" this I am. So, that is definitely something a reader should
keep in mind when reading my articles and my book, which I have
finished and am currently editing.
However, my interest came a long time after I had become an Experiencer-quite against my will-at a very early age.
Though the first Star Trek series, of the Kirk-Spock era, began in
1966, I was unaware of this program until much, much later when I was
in my teenage years. That was mainly because we had one television
during that time and my parents would never in a million years have
allowed something so vapid (their view of sci-fi) into the living room
when there was Lawrence Welk and Bonanza to watch (I think Hoss
Cartwright and Lawrence Welk were aliens). But, what sparked my
interest in this UFO-Alien question, what would set me off on decades
of continued interest, would be my sightings of some very strange
events which included, but is not limited to, UFO's, an alien entity or
two, and at least two missing time events, one that took place in the
sixth grade and the other during my sophomore year of college.
It would turn out that all these years of watching cable TV programs on
this phenomenon would begin a slow process for me in connecting the
dots, so to speak, that I had actually grown up in one of the hottest
of the UFO-Alien Hotspots of the world - Area 51. And, the reason I
grew up there is because my father worked in the Area 51 general area.
He took the very same airplane, from the very same airfield, that all
those working on back engineering of alien spacecraft and interviewing
those pesky little grey aliens went to work.
We lived in Las Vegas but did spend a year in an even spookier placed
called, Tonopah, Nevada, where my Dad worked on an even more secure,
top secret area that was farther north of the main Area 51 site.
Long before Area 51 had become a household word in the vocabularies of
Ufologists and Abductologists, I lived there. Long before there were
cable TV programs on The History Channel or Discovery Channel dealing
with this issue, I lived there. Long before the term, "Alien Abduction"
became a worldwide phenomenon; I lived at Area 51 and had, while there,
at least one encounter with some sort of entity as well as multiple UFO
events.
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I WAS ABDUCTED BY ALIENS - But They Threw Me Back
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