Alien Base:: The Evidence For Extraterrestrial Colonization Of Earth

450 Pages·1999·21.85 MB·English

by  Timothy Good

Alien Base
Earth's Encounters with Extraterrestrials
Timothy Good
Published by Century in 1998
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Contents
Acknowledgements(cid:9) vi
Introduction(cid:9) 1
PART ONE
1 Strategic Reconnaissance(cid:9) 11
2 A Pantomime of Unrealities(cid:9) 29
3 A Festival of Absurdities(cid:9) 45
4 Steps to the Stars(cid:9) 57
5 Proliferating Encounters(cid:9) 79
6 The Space People(cid:9) 100
7 Claims, Contradictions and Corroborations(cid:9) 126
8 From the Benign to the Bristly(cid:9) 158
9 Alien Fantasia?(cid:9) 177
10 Cosmic Shock(cid:9) 197
PART TWO
11 Let Humanity Beware!(cid:9) 223
12 Continuing Contacts(cid:9) 239
13 Neither Rhyme nor Reason(cid:9) 258
14 Contrasting Encounters(cid:9) 280
15 The Plantation(cid:9) 301
16 Perplexing Trends(cid:9) 327
17 Disquieting Developments(cid:9) 344
18 Beyond Belief (cid:9) 362
19 Alien Base — Earth(cid:9) 286
Appendix: Some Recommended UFO Journals 405
Index(cid:9) 406
To Gordon Creighton
Acknowledgements
It would be impracticable to acknowledge here all those who have con-
tributed directly or indirectly to the production of Alien Base, but I
would like to record my thanks in particular to the following individuals
and organizations:
The George Adamski Foundation; Walter Andrus and the Mutual
UFO Network; Rafael Baerga; Margaret Barling; Juan Jose Benitez; Ted
Bloecher; Ralph and Judy Blum; Jonathan Caplan QC; Filiberto Caponi;
Gerry Casey and the Western Flyer (Tacoma, Washington); Ronald
Caswell; the Central Intelligence Agency; Paul Cerny; Antonio
Chiumiento; Jerome Clark and the J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO
Studies; Arthur C. Clarke; Terence Collins; Stephen Darbishire;
Domenica del Corriere; Britt and Lee Elders; the Federal Bureau of
Investigation; Ugo Furlan; Bruno Ghibaudi; Dr Daniel Rebisso Giese;
Horacio Gonzales; the Göteborg (Sweden) Information Centre on
UFOs; Charles Gourain; Antonio Giudici; Jane Thomas Guma; Bill
Gunston; Dr James Harder; Carol Honey; William E. Jones; Peter
Jordan; Tony Kimery; Kevin McNeil; Carlos Manuel Mercado;
Lawrence Moore and Central Independent Television; James W.
Moseley; the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA);
Hector Antonio Picco and Cronica (Buenos Aires); Norddeutscher
Rundfunk (NDR); Lieutenant Commander Rolan D. Powell, US Navy
(Retired); the Public Record Office; Madeleine Rodeffer; Pedro
Romaniuk; Herbert Schirmer; Dr Berthold E. Schwarz; Dr Irena Scott;
William T. Sherwood; Warren Smith; Dr Leo Sprinkle; Lieutenant
General Thomas P. Stafford, US Air Force (Retired); Ray Stanford; Hal
Starr; Bill Steele; General Boris Surikov, Soviet Air Force (Retired);
Neil Thomas and the Staffordshire Newsletter; Donald R. Todd; Marc
Tolosano; the United States Departments of the Air Force, Army and
Navy; Dr Jacques Vallee; Walter N. Webb; Don Worley; the Wroclaw
(Poland) Club for UFO Popularization and Exploration.
I am especially indebted to: Warren Aston, for his research material
relating to the case of Udo Wartena; Jeannie Belleau, for terrific trans-
portation around New Mexico in 1997; Mark Ian Birdsall, for research
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material from his forthcoming book Flying Saucers of the Third Reich and
for his report on the Jan Siedlecki case; Mark Booth, my editor at
Century, for his unswerving loyalty; Lieutenant Colonel Philip Corso,
US Army (Retired), William J. Birnes and Pocket Books (Simon &
Schuster), for extracts from The Day After Roswell; Gordon Creighton,
to whom Alien Base is dedicated, for huge chunks of material from Flying
Saucer Review, of which he is editor; Frederique, for advice and help
relating to her mother Joelle's contact story; Rachael Healey and Katie
White, my publicists at Century, for first-rate promotion; Air Marshal
Sir Peter Horsley and his publisher Leo Cooper, for lengthy extracts
from Sir Peter's autobiography, Sounds From Another Room; Desmond
Leslie, for much material from Flying Saucers Have Landed (which he co-
authored with George Adamski), a great deal of additional information,
and for some unforgettable visits to Castle Leslie; Andrew Lownie, my
agent, for his loyalty, support and sensible advice; Jorge Martin and his
wife Marleen, for a great deal of material from their magazine Evidencia
OVNI, for additional information, and for driving me around Puerto
Rico to meet witnesses. Their courage and dedication, often in the face of
adversity, arc admirable; Howard Menger and his wife Connie, for much
material from their books, in particular Howard's From Outer Space to
You; Joel Mesnard, editor of Lumieres Dans La Nuit, for articles and
drawings; Carlos L. Moreno, for translations, and for acting as inter-
preter and providing transportation in Puerto Rico; Ludwig F. Pallmann
— wherever he may be — for the story of his remarkable encounters with
extraterrestrials; Sue Phillpott, for superb proof-reading; Bob Pratt, for
extracts from his book UFO Danger Zone; Walter Rizzi, for the report
and sketches of his encounter; Liz Rowlinson, Mark Booth's assistant at
Century, for her patience and professionalism; Jane Selley, for superb
copy-editing; Captain Graham Sheppard, for his transcription of the
voice tapes relating to the America West encounter over New Mexico,
and for additional advice relating to matters aeronautical; Jean Sider, for
the use of extracts from his book Ultra Top-Secret and for additional help
and advice; Neville Spearman, publisher of Flying Saucers Have Landed
(Leslie and Adamski) and Inside the Space Ships (Adamski), for lengthy
extracts from these books; Lieutenant Colonel Wendelle C. Stevens, US
Air Force (Retired), for accounts from several of his books; Mrs Leonard
Stringfield, for reports from her late husband's books; Sir Mark
Thomson, for his contribution and support, including the funding of a
reconnaissance flight to Dulce, New Mexico; Dorothee Walter, for help
with word-processing and translations; Carroll and Rosemary Watts -
wherever they may be — for their report and photographs of Carroll's
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encounters; Haroldo Westendorff, Michael Wysmierski of The Brazilian
UFO Report and the Grupo de Pesquisas Cientifico-Ufológicas (GPCU,
Pelotas, Brazil), for material relating to the Lagoa de los Patos incident.
Finally, I am indebted to those who have contributed or helped but are
not named.
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Introduction
It seems that scarcely a week goes by without some sensationalist story in
the media about little bug-eyed aliens abducting a hapless victim and per-
forming all manner of sinister experiments upon his or her person. A
proliferation of films, television documentaries, books and magazines on
the subject has contributed not only to growing interest in the UFO
phenomenon but also to an acceleration of wild claims.
Following publication of best-selling books on alien abduction, such as
those by Budd Hopkins, Whitley Strieber, Dr David Jacobs and Dr John
Mack, many people began claiming that they, too, had been abducted by
small, grey, bug-eyed creatures (the so-called 'Greys% sometimes even
taken from their beds, beamed aboard spaceships and subjected to
physical procedures such as the extraction of ova, for the aliens' declared
purpose of creating a hybrid race.
Having met many abductees, I have no doubt that some of them have
interacted with alien life-forms; however, while it is feasible that an
explanation for the proliferation of such claims might be simply that
witnesses feel more inclined to come forward due to increased public
awareness, a corollary is that many such stories may be contaminated. Is
it coincidental that in the United Kingdom, for example, abduction
reports increased with the landing of The X Files television series on
British shores?
Another problem with the abduction phenomenon is the alarming
increase in the number of 'backstreet abductionists'; unqualified
hypnotherapists with little or no knowledge of general medicine and
psychiatry, who conduct hypnotic regression sessions with the thousands
of people now claiming to have been abducted. Most leading invest-
igators urge caution in this undefined area. 'I feel that the present fad of
hypnotizing "abductees", which is being engaged in by untrained invest-
igators, will inevitably lead to suffering,' wrote Strieber. 'These
investigators usually make the devastating error of assuming that they
understand this immense mystery.'1 In 1991, Strieber went further: 'The
"abduction reports" that they generate are not real,' he wrote. 'They are
artifacts of hypnosis and cultural conditioning.'2
Stories of alien abduction have become fashionable. This has led, in
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my opinion, to an unbalanced perspective. One of the principal reasons
for writing this book is to redress the balance, by recounting many stories
of the so-called 'contactees', some dating back as far as 1920; accounts
now either forgotten, confined to early literature collections, privately
published, or taken from my own hitherto unpublished files.
It is now mandatory to scorn contactees, due in part to sometimes
banal and evangelical messages imparted to them by the 'space brothers',
and because the extraterrestrials they have encountered do not conform
to preconceived notions of alien appearance, behaviour, or purported
planetary origin. Budd Hopkins, whom I admire for his pioneering work
and intelligent approach to the abduction phenomenon, encapsulates this
attitude succinctly in his important book, Witnessed:
In the 1950s and early 1960s a number of so-called contactees claimed to have
ridden in flying saucers to Venus or Mars or elsewhere in our solar system,
and there to have received from beautiful Space Brothers and Sisters antiwar
messages and warnings about the environment . . . virtually all of their
accounts were designed to make them seem special - honoured Earthlings,
proud recipients of the Space Brothers' flattering attentions and intergalactic
wisdom.3
This overstates the case. First, claims of non-abducting contacts with
extraterrestrials not only pre-date the 1950s but, though increasingly
rare, have continued to the present time. Secondly, most of the lesser-
known contactees did not seek attention in any way; rather, the contrary.
Thirdly, with respect to 'antiwar messages and warnings about the
environment', Hopkins overlooks the fact that this is precisely what some
abductees report having heard. Equally banal messages have sometimes
been imparted to the abductees. In these and other respects, therefore,
differences as between abductees and contactees can be marginal and
confusing.
It is not enough arbitrarily to dismiss reports by contactees in terms of
ego-gratification, hallucinations, an overly vivid imagination, and so
forth. There are too many such accounts from too wide a variety of
sources and countries, all of which contain scientifically interesting data
elements in common. These beg for analysis, interpretation and
explication. 'The statements of those who purportedly have had actual
contact with "space people" should not be dismissed offhand as mere
romance,' declared Rear Admiral Herbert Knowles, a graduate of the US
Naval Academy, in 1957. 'Perhaps there is some real information here.
Ofound."4 ne cannot afford to be dogmatic in this matter if the truth is to be
As I have stated in my previous books, it is my opinion that a secondary
reason behind the reluctance of governments to acknowledge the alien
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presence is fear of ridicule. No one likes to look silly, least of all political
and military leaders. Those few who have admitted to such a presence -
such as President Ronald Reagan, who hinted at it during an important
speech before the United Nations General Assembly in 1987,5 and Javier
Perez de Cuellar, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, who
reportedly was abducted together with his security guards and others in
19896 — invariably are mocked by the media, thus effectively stifling
serious discussion on these matters and discouraging others in high office
from coming forward. In 1997, Air Marshal Sir Peter Horsley, former
Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Strike Command, and for seven years
in the personal service of Her Majesty the Queen and HRH Prince Philip
as Equerry, revealed in his autobiography that in 1954 he had had a
meeting with an apparently extraterrestrial being (see Chapter 10). The
reaction was predictable. 'Oh God,' commented a former Ministry of
Defence senior officer. 'How unfortunate that the public will learn that
the man who had his finger on the button at Strike Command was seeing
little green men.'8 In a patronizing article in The Times, entitled 'Air
marshal's flight of fancy', Dr Thomas Stuttaford suggested that the air
marshal was either deluded or had suffered an hallucination,' over-
looking the fact that the meeting had been arranged via a British Army
general and that a witness had been present throughout the two-hour
discourse.
My own investigations show that delusion (as well as deception) does
indeed feature in a number of reports by both abductees and contactees.
One example will suffice. In 1981, I interviewed a South African
contactee, the late Elizabeth Klarer, a cultured, striking lady who claimed
to have given birth to a child fathered by a spaceman. Klarer's initial
encounter with 'Akon', her lover from Venus, supposedly occurred in the
1950s. In her fascinating 1980 book, however, Akon's origin changed to
'Meton, one of the planets of Proxima Centauri'10 (4.26 light years from
Earth). During my interview with Klarer in Johannesburg, she men-
tioned casually that Akon still visited her from time to time. 'Do you have
any kind of evidence to show me?' I asked. 'Oh yes,' she replied, 'he
brought me this beautiful plant!' I took some photographs. On my return
to London, I soon discovered that the plant was the very terrestrial
maidenhair fern (of the genus Adiantum), and I duly informed Elizabeth.
I never heard from her again. Perhaps, like other claimants, she did have
a genuine experience of some sort but later began to fantasize and
embellish it. I believe that a number of well-known abductees and
contactees have inflated their claims, either to nourish their egos or retain
a following, or both. These motives alone do not negate the validity of all
their claims.
Another reason for this book is to show that alien species are more