ALIEN MEETINGS. by Brad Steiger a ace books A Division of Charter Communications inc. A GROSSET & DUNLAP COMPANY 14120 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10036ALIEN MEETINGS Copyright © 1978 by Brad Steiger All rights reserved. No portions of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher except for brief quotes to be used specifically for reviews. An Ace Original First Ace Printing: January 1978 Published simultaneously in Canada Printed in U.S.A.CONTENTS Introduction CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE ™~ CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT vii Close Encounters with Humanoids L ’ They Have Always Been with Us 7 Establishing Contact with Alien Intelligence 20 The Little People: UFOnauts or Leprechauns? 4 UFO Repairmen 69 Robots and Androids 78 The Wretched Uglies 92 The Men-in-Black: UF Ology’s Bad Guys 109CHAPTER NINE UFO Encounters May Be ' Hazardous to Your ° Health! 195 CHAPTER TEN Interrupted Journeys and Cosmic Kidnappers 150 CHAPTER ELEVEN Angels in Spacesuits 181 Bibliography and Notes 211 ‘NINTRODUCTION In our day of space-age sophistication and instantane- ous communications media, the number of reports of men and women who have confronted what appear to be alien beings has increased remarkably. Since the modern age of UFO sightings began in the United States, with Kenneth Arnold's sighting of “flying sau- cers” near Mount Rainier on June 24, 1947, recent national polls have indicated that as many as twenty million Americans claim to have seen unidentified aerial objects. A significant portion of those who have become a part of the UFO experience have stated that they have observed or encountered alien beings as- sociated with the enigmatic phenomenon that -haunts our skies. ~ Dr. J. Alien Hynek, currently a professor of astron- omy at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, served for nearly twenty years as astronomical con- sultant to the U.S. Air Force on the Project Blue Book study of Unidentified Flying Objects. Dr. Hynek has ‘freely admitted ,that when he first heard accounts of men and women who claimed encounters with occu- pants of UFOs, his natural prejudices prompted him to exclude the episodes from his study. Alleged contacts between humans and humanoids never failed to receive a great deal of notoriety, but they were given exceedingly short shrift by Air Force viiALIEN MEETINGS ° investigators. And, with but few exceptions among the civilian UFO-research groups, cases involving sightings of UFOnauts were dealt with summarily and with superficial assessments of the mental stability of the wit- nesses, Stubbornly, the “little-green-man syndrome” per- sisted in UFOlogy, and Dr. Hynek, who now directs his own Center for UFO Studies, has conceded that “no scientist should discard data simply because he doesn’t like it.” * It was in his book The UFO Experience (Regnery, 1972; Ballantine Books, 1974) that Dr. Hynek pre- sented his six major classifications of UFO reports: Nocturnal Lights: colored, globes that maneuver about the sky as no conventional aircraft can. Daylight Discs: metallic appearing objects that can be tracked on radar, give off a humming noise, and move with tremendous speed. . Radar Cases: objects which may be verified by sightings from the ground or by airplane pilots as -well as with radar visuals. Type Four: near approach of a UFO with no physical effects. Type Five: close encounter with physical evidence. Type Six: close encounter involving humanoid occupants. According to Dr. Hynek, Type Six, the close en- counters of the third kind, “constitute what is prob- ably the most incredibly bizarre aspect of the UFO enigma.” Dr. Hynek told writer Timothy G. Beckley, for UFO Report's August 1976 issue, that the Center for UFO Studies has an estimated cight hundred sightings of the third kind on file. viiiIntroduction There seems little question that this “incredibly - bizarre aspect of the UFO enigma” holds a great deal of fascination for men and women with even a cursory interest in Unidentified Flying Objects. The contention than’ an unseen world peopled with beings that can now and again become visible and interact with human- kind has long fascinated our species. Whether such in- telligences be considered angelic, elfin, or extrater- restrial, our global literature, sacred and secular, mysti- cal and. mundane, is replete with accounts of Homo Sapiens encountering beings from other dimensions of reality or from other worlds and other universes. . One can debate whether these entities are psycho- logical or physical in origin and whether they can truly exist apart from the human psyches which attest to them, but the accounts of humankind and its involvement with “the Other” are as old as the cave paintings and carliest oral traditions of our species. In this book, I hope to document not only that Third Kind encounters stil] occur on a global basis, but that the phenomenon is happening more frequently than ever before, If we are being conditioned for a mass landing of UFOnauts or a program of increased inter- action with the Other, then this book may help us to prepare far such an alien confrontation. . BRAD STEIGER February 19, 1977CHAPTER ONE Close Encounters with Humanoids At least as long as man-has been Man, there have been accounts of another intelligence—manlike in appear- ance, yet somehow different, seemingly superhuman— that has been interacting with the struggling and evolv- ing species of Homo sapiens. The “Others” have been called Angels, Star People, Shining Ones, and perhaps,’ on occasion, demons and devils, as well as gods and overlords. Whatever the name applied, the scenario has remained constant throughout the ages and consistent from culture to cul- ture. The mysterious visitors arrive in fiery chariots, mysterious globes of light, strange aerial vehicles, Oc- casionally they have appeared in blinding flashes of light; at other times they have approached the witnesses to their activities in a tranquil manner, as though they were friendly travelers one might encounter on a lonely road, transiently shared. At this stage in our investigations one should attempt to avoid any dogmatic assertions as to the exact identity of these mysterious humanoids, But because man ap- + pears by nature to be a cataloguer and a labeler, I feel- 1ALIEN MEETINGS it may be useful to list hypothetical explanations of Third Kind encounters which UFOlogists, psychical researchers, and other explorers of the unknown have offered and which we shali be exploring in the present book. Each reader may soon select his favorite hy- pothesis, the one theory that seems to make the most sense to him. Or he may come to suspect that two or more hypotheses may be responsible for Third Kind confrontations. . 1. The Extraterrestrial hypothesis: The entities | are astronauts who come from one or more extraterrestrial civilizations. They appear to have had Earth under surveillance for centuries. They have chosen to con- duct their activities secretly for some undetermined reason. . . ’ 2. Military Secret hypothesis: The UFO occupants are actually terrestrial astronauts conducting secret military maneuvers with classified aerial vehicles. This hypothesis could only apply to those sightings in which the UFOnauts look exactly like Homo sapiens. 3. Secret Society hypothesis: Perhaps centuries ago a secret society of scientist-alchemists developed an ad- vanced technology, which they have managed to keep hidden in underground or Undersea cities. They may be subtly guiding us—or they may be awaiting the ap- propriate moment to conquer the entire world. - 4, Programmed Deceit and Delusion hypothesis: - Both the UFOs and their occupants are something similar to holographic projections or elaborate special effects created by some unknown agency (hypotheses 2 and 3) for some ulterior and as-yet- randetermined motive. an 2 -Close Encounters with Humanoids ~ 5, Unknown Terrestrial Life hypothesis: The UFOs may actually be unrecognized life forms indigenous to the upper reaches of Earth’s atmosphere. They may be plasmic, electrical, nearly pure energy forms which have the ability to assume a variety of guises. 6. Astronauts from Atlantis hypothesis: The UFO- nauts are the descendants of an ancient civilization on Earth, who developed space flight and who return from time to time to visit the home planet. 7. Time Traveler hypothesis: The UFOnauts are our descendants from the future, studying mankind by using the past as a living historical museum. 8. Other Dimensions hypothesis: The UFO entities come not from some other physical planet but from an adjacent space-time continuum, actually coexisting on Earth with us, but on another vibrational Jevel. 9. Planetary Poltergeist hypothesis: The UFO oc- cupants may be the result af some as-yet-unknown physical law that can at times activate (or be activated by) the unconscious mind: This law—or energy— might not. itself be intelligent, but it would be able to absorb, reflect, and imitate human intelligence. 10. Projean-Psychoid hypothesis: According to writer Michael Talbot: “They [UFOs] are ‘protean’ because they are all part of the same chameleonlike phenomenon that changes to reflect the belief struc- tures of the time. They are ‘psychoid’ in that they are a paraphysical phenomenon and are related to the psy- chological state of the observer.” 1t. Psychic Need hypothesis: Jerome Clark and 3