AN ALIEN FACE LOOKING BACK IN THE MIRROR

By Sean Casteel

UFO literature is replete with frightening accounts of kidnapping and other forms of assault by diminutive grey aliens and the taller intruders with distinctively reptilian features. But what is perhaps even more frightening are the less often reported “human-looking” aliens that can pass among us completely undetected and carry out their missions unhampered by “genuine” humans.

This is the aspect of alien life examined in “Mimics: The Others Among Us,” coauthored by Tim R. Swartz and myself, with contributions by numerous other stalwarts of UFO journalism and research. The cover explains that “They’ve Been Called Many Names Throughout Time – Gods, Angels, Demons, The Good Folk, Shapeshifters, Extraterrestrials. They Look Human . . . They Act Human . . . But They’re Not Human. They Are THE OTHERS.”

Mimics – The Others Among Us

That sounds like it was taken from the promotional poster to a sci-fi movie from the 1950s, unashamedly sensational and intended to shock. But what takes that sense of shock to a higher level is the fact that the various writers for “Mimics” each make an excellent case for the presence of human-looking aliens being grounded in real-world facts and the stuff of nonfiction. We could indeed be surrounded by nonhuman entities that look exactly like us, which begs the question, how could we ever know?

Perhaps we CAN know by piecing together bits of evidence collected over the years of the modern era of UFOs as well as the historical record of scripture and folklore compiled over the millennia. There are enough clues on the surface to help us draw conclusions about what lies underneath, which is the approach taken by “Mimics” and its many contributors.

DISAPPEARING DAVID

David Daniels claimed to be a shapeshifting reptilian.

In one chapter, written by Philip Kinsella, a clairvoyant medium and UFO investigator, we examine the story of a woman named Brenda Butler, who was an author of a book called “Sky Crash, A Cosmic Conspiracy,” about the famous 1980 Rendlesham Forest UFO incident involving U.S. Air Force personnel. Butler coauthored the book with Dot Street and UFOlogist/author Jenny Randles.

In November, 1984, Brenda received a distraught phone call from her writing partner Dot, who seemed to be in a state of complete shock.

“Dot proceeded to tell her,” Kinsella writes, “that a strange man had come to the door asking for Brenda. What scared Dot the most was the fact that one minute the man was standing in front of her, and the next he’d simply vanished, and had then appeared in her living room!”

Dot begged Brenda to get to her house as soon as possible, and Brenda reluctantly drove the thirty miles to her friend’s home. The strange man had particularly requested speaking with Brenda personally. When Brenda finally arrived, she was introduced to a tall, slim man with blonde, cropped hair, neatly parted in the middle. His eyes were the bluest she’d ever seen. His hands and fingers were exceedingly long. He looked to be in his late thirties and was extremely handsome.

“The man eventually spoke,” according to Kinsella. “He said his name was David Daniels and incredibly proclaimed that he was from the Pleiades and had arrived in a spacecraft.”

Brenda felt that was a little farfetched, to say the least, but, after researching the events at Rendlesham, it seemed that anything was possible. Brenda felt drawn to David, but Dot reacted to him in uncharacteristic hostility. David’s apparent ability to move from one place to another in the blink of an eye had obviously shaken Dot to the point where everyday logic went straight out the window.

In spite of the anger and hostility David brought forth from Dot, she nevertheless allowed him to stay in her home. Curiously, he never mentioned Rendlesham or the women’s book on the subject, though Brenda felt that that was what had drawn David to seek her and Dot out. Meanwhile, Dot explained that David only ate loads of greens, along with sweets to keep his energy levels up, and was reportedly appearing and disappearing in front of Dot all the time. She kept telling Brenda that David was dangerous and that she feared for her life.

Shortly after that, David decided to show Brenda his true self. He began to shake, and Brenda noticed the veins in his hands, neck and temple rose to about half an inch. This was followed by his appearance changing into what she could only describe as a Reptilian. His skin was like that of a snake. This shapeshifting episode lasted for about two minutes, and while he was in this state he began to speak in a strange language which Brenda could not identify. As he came around, his alien appearance disappeared. He was shaking, felt cold and remained silent for a moment while a shocked Brenda gathered her thoughts. She now no longer doubted that David was the alien he claimed to be.

While this dramatic transformation right in front of Brenda’s eyes certainly makes for a fascinating story, there is even more told in “Mimics” about David’s paranormal abilities and the humans who bore witness to them. But we’ll leave that to readers of the book and not give too much in the way of “spoilers.”

THE OUTER EXTREMES OF WHITENESS

Chris Holly wondered if she actually saw people who were not from this world.

Paranormal writer and experiencer Chris Holly contributes a chapter in which she writes about a strange family of albinos who used to live in her neighborhood when she was a teenager. Later, as an adult, her mother casually mentioned the family to her, who she hadn’t thought about in years.

“My mother went on about how striking they were,” Holly writes, “and how well dressed and groomed they were. My mother commented many times back when she saw them how beautiful the family was and always noticed what they were wearing, I never thought much about it then as I was in my teens but, as my mother went on and on about the albino family, I realized how very strange they really were.”

The family consisted of two adults and three children, all of them albinos. Holly had seen only a few other people with the albino condition but didn’t notice much difference between them and the family in her neighborhood. But, in talking to her mother, she began to realize how they were truly unusual people and not like other albinos.

The five members of the family were all over six feet tall, including the mother and the daughter. When they walked through the department store, they stood a head above most of the other shoppers. Each of them had thick, full, pure white hair. They had high cheekbones and model-like features. They all had the same color eyes, clear, big and very light blue. They kept to themselves and seemed to be quiet, polite people.

Holly would come to realize that they were a very “different” group of people. How likely was it that two beautiful albinos who looked so much alike in height and facial features would meet and marry?

“Although this is possible,” Holly writes, “I knew the odds had to be nearly impossible.”

Holly would recall reading an article about the eye problems that befell albinos and that their eyes tended to be pink or reddish. Her research did not turn up any albinos with blue eyes. The family in her neighborhood were either the result of some kind of incredible happening or they were simply NOT a family of human albinos.

Years after discussing the subject with her mother, Holly ran across a few articles on the Internet that talked about an alien species called the “Tall Whites.” When she looked at an artist’s rendering of the Tall Whites, she was completely taken aback as she saw the same tall people with the same beautiful faces – white hair, blue eyes, and high cheekbones – as the albino family that used to live in her Long Island, New York, neighborhood in the 1960s.

“I will never know,” Holly concludes, “if that strange, gentle family of tall, beautiful people was simply a very rare family of albinos or if they were a group of entirely different beings.”

Holly’s efforts to track down the family in the years since have proved fruitless. She was never able to find anything anywhere that would explain this odd group of people, adding that, “Maybe they just moved away to another state – or planet!”

HAUNTED BY THE LIVING

Ghosts of the living.

There exists a phenomenon that may seem new to you, called a “Living Ghost.” In a chapter by Paul Dale Roberts, a ghost hunter and UFO researcher, he discusses some little known sightings of various apparitions of people still living.

For example, in Chicago, Illinois, in 1974, a couple moved into a new neighborhood. They began to feel their recently purchased home was haunted because, always around 2 am, they repeatedly saw an apparition of a man walking over to the couch, after which an apparition of a woman appeared. The man confronted the woman and began slapping her. Then they both dissipated and vanished. The couple that had moved into this house saw this incident four times.

The couple was later invited to a neighborhood block party traditionally held every year on Labor Day. The host offered to let them thumb through his photo albums with photos of past events taken at the annual party.

As the woman perused one photo album, she was shocked and surprised to see the couple that had manifested in her home. She yelled out, “These are the ghosts in my house!” The host looked at the photo and said, “They are not ghosts. Both people are alive. They had domestic disputes and the police had been to the house a few times. They got a divorce. The woman lives five blocks down the road and the husband moved out of state. They are very much alive.”

“This is an example of ‘living ghosts,’” Roberts writes. “The negative energy released into this home replays itself over and over again. Very strong negative residual energy. You do not have to be dead to be a ghost.”

Roberts notes that in Japan they also believe in living ghosts, but their interpretation is somewhat different. Their version involves a disembodied spirit that leaves the body of a living person and subsequently haunts other people or places, sometimes across great distances. This is in contrast to the spirit of a person who is already deceased.

Roberts also writes about the better known “Doppelganger” phenomenon, in which an exact duplicate of a living person is seen. He was called in to assist a family suffering from an invasion of ghosts, some of whom mimicked the appearance of the recently widowed mother of the household as well as her granddaughter. At the end of the investigation, Roberts conducted a Roman Catholic cleansing of the home, which was a very emotional process for the mother.

THE TEENAGE DOPPELGANGER

A doppelganger could be a visitor from a parallel reality.

Researcher, writer and radio show host Paul Eno also writes about a “Doppelganger,” again a circumstance suffered by a family enduring minor poltergeist phenomena in the mid-1970s. Kitchen cabinets would rapidly open and close on their own, books and other objects in different rooms would move, and family members and guests heard occasional heavy footsteps in the attic and on the stairs. There were loud banging sounds on several occasions.

The phenomena seemed to follow the family’s fifteen-year-old daughter Lucy, not only at home but at the homes of friends. On investigating the case, Eno began to feel that the entities causing the poltergeist activity were not your normal haunting “demons” but seemed instead to be more like “provocateurs” or “cosmic mosquitos,” focusing on causing negative emotions in people, like anger, fear and frustration. They would “eat up” the energy of these unhappy feelings like “food.”

Lucy’s experiences had been triggered by her experimenting with a Ouija Board, with which she eventually summoned a spirit calling himself “Arten” and several of his associates.

“This was the classic pattern,” Eno writes, “a parasite-mimic finding an ‘in’ to make a girl, and perhaps her entire family, into a hot lunch. The Ouija Board and the ‘Arten’ persona were the ins. The resulting phenomena stirred up fear and other negative emotions that fed the parasites.”

In the midst of all this spiritual drama, various members of Lucy’s family saw a female with long, blonde hair – looking just like Lucy – looming over the girl’s bed while she was asleep. This took place not only at their family home in Glastonbury, Connecticut, but nearly 100 miles away, at their vacation home in Rhode Island.

Was the Lucy-like figure the family members saw really a mimic? Or perhaps another facet of Lucy from a parallel life looking in on her out of concern?

According to Eno, “We have seen overwhelming evidence that the latter is possible, because parallel worlds often have very different laws of physics, and thus heightened layers of multi-versal awareness and access.”

In the ensuing years, Eno has run into many more parasites who were mimics, and he shares a few more of those encounters in “Mimics: The Others Among Us.” Again, those stories are better off left to readers of the book.

OUR UNNAMABLE REFLECTION?

In his introduction to the book, publisher, editor and writer Tim R. Swartz writes: “We have tried throughout the centuries to put names to that which tries to remain hidden and unnamable. Nevertheless, despite their efforts to keep to the threshold of human awareness, it’s clear that the others have been with us since the beginning, taking on the roles of teachers, messengers, protectors, tricksters and adversaries.

“Modern UFO lore,” he continues, “from the very beginning of the 1950s contactee era, referenced how the Venusians, along with other visitors from nearby planets, looked so much like us that they managed to clandestinely secure jobs in major corporations and even high-ranking political positions.”

Is that idea really just a matter of “over-the-top” paranoia? Join contributors Timothy Green Beckley, Scott Corrales, Paul Eno, Chris Holly, Hercules Invictus, Philip Kinsella, Brent Raynes, Paul Dale Roberts, Gene Steinberg, Lon Strickler, Nigel Watson and John Weigle as they grapple with the idea of mimics from various intriguing approaches in their attempt to provide answers to the many mysteries posed by the presence of those who look just like us but are different – different in ways that are both profound and terrifying.

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ALIEN ARTIFACTS: HAS THE HARD EVIDENCE BEEN HERE ALL ALONG?

By Sean Casteel

In the more than 70 years since pilot Kenneth Arnold first sighted a strange formation of nine shiny airborne objects near Mount Rainier in Washington State, usually cited as the beginning of the modern UFO era, skeptics have relentlessly claimed that no “hard evidence” for the UFO phenomenon has ever been produced. Sightings, they claim, tend to happen in backwoods swamps where no credible witnesses are present and no reliable photos are taken. How can you prove the existence of something with only thin air with which to argue your case?

ALIEN ARTIFACTS: Incredible Evidence of Exotic Material From UFO Encounters

But a new book from the recently formed publishing imprint Zontar Press dares to differ. The long overdue tome is called “Alien Artifacts: Incredible Evidence of Exotic Material from UFO Encounters.” Drawing on the contributions of more than ten topnotch researchers, work on the book began some months before the untimely passing of publisher, editor and author Timothy Green Beckley, to whom the completed work is fondly dedicated.

WHAT ARE ALIEN ARTIFACTS?

Beckley’s initial concept was deceptively simple: We know that throughout the last several decades, UFOs have landed or crashed, their occupants have made contact with human experiencers, and the visiting strangers have at times left behind materials of various kinds that defy analysis. Why not gather together stories and legends about that aspect of the UFO phenomenon into a single volume that provides an overview of some of the most compelling of such incidents?

In his introduction, publisher and writer Tim R. Swartz explains the idea this way:

“We have named it ‘Alien Artifacts,’” Swartz writes, “but actually we are using this term not so much to say that we believe that we have recovered things from ‘extraterrestrial spaceships,’ but because what we are discussing in this book is ‘alien’ as they don’t appear to have a ‘normal’ explanation for their origins. On top of that, we are also going beyond the strange bits of metal that have surfaced following UFO encounters. An ‘alien artifact’ can be a lot of different things, and we want to open your eyes to that fact.”  

AN ALIEN BREAKFAST TREAT

Joe Simonton and his “outer space pancake”

As an example, Swartz tells the story of Wisconsin farmer Joe Simonton, who was shocked to see a metallic UFO land outside his house. He rushed outside and saw a hatch opening from the craft, looking “just like the trunk of your car.” Inside were three “little men” about five feet tall and wearing dark turtleneck shirts and helmets. One of the creatures held up a metallic jug, gesturing that he would like to have it filled up with water. Simonton filled up the jug and returned it to the little man.

Simonton looked inside the ship and saw another little man cooking “pancakes” on a smooth, square, grill-like surface. Hoping to start a conversation, the farmer gestured that he would like to try the food. The man handed him four of the pancakes, which Simonton said were “hot and greasy.” Out of politeness, Simonton tried one of the pancakes, which he said tasted like cardboard. The food was so unappetizing that he speculated it might account for the creatures’ diminutive size.

The pilot then indicated that Simonton should step back and closed the hatch. The craft rose up vertically, “like an elevator,” shot off into the sky and quickly disappeared.

Swartz goes on to write that, unlike thousands of other UFO reports, this one came with actual physical evidence in the form of strange, bubbly textured pancakes. After the story got out, the Air Force sent their top UFO investigator, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, to look into the case. According to Hynek, there was no doubt the Simonton felt his encounter was a real experience. The Air Force had the pancake sample tested and found they were ordinary “buckwheat pancakes” consisting of fat, starch, buckwheat hulls and soybean hulls. In spite of the earthly origin of the pancakes, the Air Force labeled the case as “unknown.” “Alien Artifacts” includes a photo of Simonton holding one of the pancakes.

ANCIENT SCALE MODEL AIRCRAFT

Some of the Quimbaya pieces bore an uncanny resemblance to modern aircraft.

I contribute a chapter called “The Alien Glittering of True Gold” in which I discuss works of art created by the Quimbaya, natives of Columbia, South America, who were believed to inhabit the region from 300 to 1550 CE and are best known for their precise gold and metal work. Most of the Quimbaya pieces discovered by archeologists were an alloy of gold and 30 percent copper, called “tumbaga,” and very similar to a metal mentioned by Plato in his dialogues about the Lost City of Atlantis. The objects included golden models of several types of insects along with devices that are aerodynamic in nature and shaped like no insect known to exist.

Some of the ancient pieces look very much like the designs of modern airplanes and incorporate a number of features that essentially prove that the Quimbaya knew and understood principles of flight. Some of the models include tail rudders and propellers. The existence of so many similarities to modern-day airplanes supports the “Out-of-Place-Artifact” theory: they seem too advanced for the Quimbaya.

It has been theorized for years that some of the Quimbaya objects are scale models of airplanes or flying machines. Two aeronautical engineers, Peter Belting and Conrad Lubbers, used the dimensions of the Quimbaya artifacts to create large-scale models which proved successful in flight testing. They proved that the designs fly with both simple single-propeller power and jet power. It’s more than just a coincidence that the artifacts can be scaled up and actually fly.

There is another intriguing phenomenon at play here, which happens after a remote culture is visited for the first time with technology present. Isolated tribes visited in both Africa and South America by airplanes have demonstrated shifts in religious beliefs after the visit. One of the tribes welcomed the plane on its second visit with ceremonial fire and statues constructed in the shape of the airplane. Tribal people even went so far as to line themselves along a runway to greet the visitors.

If remote cultures exhibit this sort of behavior during the world’s modern technological era, then likely the same concept has played out before. From this angle of thinking, theories then suggest that the Quimbaya may have been influenced by another ancient culture, or, perhaps, some sort of alien civilization.  

THE ENCOUNTERS OF JOHN LENNON

The artifacts phenomenon also has connections to not just remote and ancient cultures but to current day pop culture as well. In a chapter by Nigel Watson, called “John Lennon’s Egg,” the story is told of how the aliens gifted a metallic egg to the late lamented Beatle and solo artist rocker.

Lennon announced he had seen a UFO on the sleeve of his “Walls and Bridges” album, writing on the back cover: “On 23 August 1974, I saw a UFO. J.L.”

Lennon was estranged from Yoko Ono at the time and was living with girlfriend May Pang in a New York apartment. It was a hot night and May was taking a shower when Lennon called to her from the terrace, where she found him naked and pointing at a strange object in the sky.

May said it looked like a large flattened cone with a bright red light on top of it at a distance of only 100 feet away. As the object came closer, it revealed a dazzling row of flashing white lights along its rim. The couple made an unsuccessful attempt to photograph the object before it moved off out of sight. The UFO returned a bit later and, although they were prepared this time with a telescope, the object was too bright to discern any further details.

May Pang and John Lennon

On another occasion, Lennon was in bed with Yoko when he awakened suddenly to see a powerful searchlight shining outside the bedroom door. On opening the door, he found four thin, human-sized bug-like entities whom he attempted to force out of his home. But before he could even touch them, some invisible form of power held him back. They gently held his hands and pushed his legs into a tunnel of light where he was shown an “outstandingly beautiful” movie of his life. Then his mind went blank and he woke to find himself lying in bed with Yoko again.

Lennon was sure he had not been tripping or dreaming. As evidence of this encounter he found an egg-like metallic object in his hands when he woke up next to Yoko. The solid object with no markings was too weird even for Lennon. He speculated that it was a ticket to an alien planet but he was quite happy with New York.   

He gave the egg to psychic spoon-bender Uri Geller, who has kept it ever since. Geller would later say, “When I hold the cold metal egg in my fist, I have a strong sensation that John knew more about this object than he told me. Maybe it didn’t come with an instruction manual, but I think John knew what it was for.” Geller said he has never submitted the egg for scientific analysis because he wants to maintain its “mysticism.”

GOING HAND-IN-GLOVE

Before he died in 2021, Timothy Green Beckley had been in the UFO game for 60 years and it was hard to impress him with anyone claiming to have the “real thing,” or concrete proof that aliens had visited Earth and left behind artifacts that irrefutably demonstrated that reality.

In an interview Beckley conducted, along with his cohost Tim R. Swartz, on their podcast “Exploring the Bizarre,” one of the rarest examples of just such an artifact was the subject of their conversation with John Peele, a health food restauranteur and long distance runner, whose story was spine-tingling in the extreme.

“It’s a very strange and odd case,” Beckley began. “One of the most peculiar I’ve been involved in. It includes meeting Mr. John Peele in late 1978 or early 1979 in Florida. At the time, he owned a health food store and restaurant and had a very unusual artifact that he had located while running across the Arizona desert. It is one of the few alien artifacts that we can actually point to as existing.

“We hear about the Roswell UFO crash,” Beckley continued, “and deceased alien bodies strewn across the desert, but there’s very little proof – Roswell fanatics will go for the jugular on this one – there is very little proof that any of that took place.”

Beckley was editing “UFO Review,” a tabloid newspaper focused on the titular phenomenon, and had published a small number of books, when he first met Peele while on a promotional tour and fact-finding mission in Florida. Along the way, Beckley got Peele’s phone number and Peele invited him to visit his home.

Tim Beckley’s “UFO Review” Magazine

BECKLEY SEES THE ARTIFACT

“He showed me this – well, I call it an alien artifact – I don’t know what else you would call it – and it took my breath away,” Beckley recalled. “There’s been nothing like this before.”

Beckley said he has discussed the find with several people and has been greeted on occasion by total disbelief. Where is the artifact? Where is the witness? Decades later, Beckley found Peele on Facebook and invited him to appear on “Exploring the Bizarre.”

Peele found the artifact in 1977, while on a long-distance run from Daytona Beach, Florida, to Santa Monica, California. (Peele is such a well-known cross country runner that he was consulted by the makers of the hit movie “Forrest Gump,” who wanted firsthand information on what it’s like to run the kind of distances portrayed in the movie by actor Tom Hanks.) Peele and his running companion averaged 48 miles a day.

In Arizona, Peele and his companion parted ways, which they often did, having run out of conversation after spending so much time side-by-side.

“You go your different ways and discuss it later,” Peele explained.

PEELE STUMBLES INTO RESTRICTED TERRITORY

Peele said he had unknowingly run into a government restricted area, where he came upon railroad tracks that resembled a roller coaster ride.

“It was pulled out,” he said, “and because of the way that railroads are connected, one rail to the next, it literally made loops. It was quite bizarre and I did not know what I was seeing at the time. I’m still not a hundred percent sure. But I went over towards that and started following it. And at one point I came upon a large – what looked to me, and I’m a fighter pilot, so I say this with some knowledge – I saw what looked like a wing.”

The “wing” was extremely thin and, though it was eight-feet long, it was so light that Peele was able to use two fingers and from the end hold it horizontally with no problems. The wing was also very strong but it was still possible to bend it. He began to gather other little “remnants” of what he felt was an obvious crash. There was a kind of Plexiglas or carbon glass present that was unbreakable, although some of it had shattered from impact into the rocks in the desert.

“But you could pick up a piece of it and you could not break it,” he said. “I didn’t bring any of that. I was a little bit concerned that this might be radioactive. I didn’t know what I was dealing with.”

 AND THERE IS THE GLOVE

Peele’s gloves were too small to be worn by human hands. (Reproduction…not the actual gloves)

“And then I found the glove,” Peele said.

There were actually two gloves. Again, not knowing if the objects were radioactive, and whether he might have to at some point simply get rid of the gloves, Peele hid one in a small cavern under some rocks. He acknowledges that the markings he used wouldn’t be there now, but he has enough of a visual memory stored in his mind that he feels confident he could find the glove and wreckage debris again.

One of the two gloves was in much better condition than the other, so, in case he eventually had to get rid of them, he preferred to keep the one in good condition hidden away in the Arizona desert. Since it turned out he was able to keep the glove, he said, he should have brought the good one home.

In any case, the gloves were made with some sort of a hide. They had a pressure valve on the outside/backside of the hand. There was a zipper that worked from the inside and enclosed something very similar to Nomex, a fire retardant fabric first developed by DuPont in the 1960s.

The glove was so small that there was no way it could have fit a human hand. There was a prehensile or “opposable” thumb, meaning a thumb that can be placed opposite the fingers of the same hand, thus allowing the digits to grasp and handle objects. Opposable thumbs are characteristic of primates, such as human beings, and were a crucial step in our evolution.

“When you hold it,” Peele said, “you understand that it is not from Planet Earth. You can’t look at it and see how it was made and see how detailed everything is. But there’s no hand that would fit it that could be used for any particular reason that we know.”

The glove also had what seemed like writing, mainly incomprehensible and most likely nonhuman words. But Peele was able to read the English words “secure” and “large.”

A ‘CHILLING’ FIND

At this point in the interview, Beckley interjected, “In this field, physical evidence like an alien artifact is almost impossible to come by and is always in dispute. But there is something so strange and peculiar about this that it almost sends chills up and down one’s spine. OK, here’s the glove. We don’t know who it belonged to. Would an alien race be that close to us that they would have a glove? And have four fingers and a prehensile thumb? It would indicate to me that we might be talking about something from the future or something from a parallel universe.”

Peele replied, “I’ve certainly given the parallel universe concept much thought. But that’s what was so cool about this glove. People would hold it and say, ‘Ooh, it’s like my hands are tingling.’ Everybody who saw it – I don’t want to say they were freaked out, but they WERE freaked out.

“A large number of people did see it,” he continued, “because I would show it in my store. It was called 21^st Century Foods and was the first vegetarian restaurant and health food store in the area. I would keep it in the restaurant there and people would come in. They had heard about it because it did have some news media coverage.”

People would ask to see the glove and it sometimes caused some of the curiosity seekers to become so unnerved that they would exit the restaurant.

“Most people watch ‘Star Trek’ or whatever,” Peele reasoned, “but they don’t really want that to be real. Other people DO want it to be real. I’ve always felt we cannot be egotistical enough to think we are the only humanoid-type beings in the universe. Think about the variety of people on our planet and then expand that to over a few thousand light years away. We have to have others that are similar to us – more advanced, less advanced. Not as nice, nicer. They’re out there.”

Strange metal fragment recovered in January 1983 near Aberystwyth in mid Wales.

“Alien Artifacts: Incredible Evidence of Exotic Material from UFO Encounters” also features chapters on subjects like the falling of “angel hair” from the sky, a miniature UFO “captured” by young boys in Japan, and much more, making it an impressive collection of paranormal lore and educated speculation on some of what the aliens have left behind after their encounters with earthlings. The book quite likely stands alone in that regard, approaching the UFO subject from a truly unique vantage point that brings the scientific analysis of the bizarre remains at least into the realm of possibility.   

Sean Casteel

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BIZARRE BAZAAR: TIM BECKLEY’S MARKETPLACE OF THE STRANGE

By Sean Casteel

When Timothy Green Beckley died in May 2021, he left behind a paranormal publishing empire that will forever be a testimony to one man’s drive and determination to learn the truth about both our world and the hidden worlds that surround it. His catalogue of books devoted to the strange and supernatural now numbers in the several dozens, dating from the present all the way back to the 1960s, when he began his first publishing ventures as a teenager.

Tim R. Swartz and I have shared the privilege of finishing up some of the incomplete projects that remained after Tim Beckley’s passing, the latest of which is called “Timothy Green Beckley’s Bizarre Bazaar.” The book is a compilation of shorter pieces authored by Beckley, Swartz and I, beginning with an introduction by Beckley’s longtime working partner Carol Ann Rodriguez.

Timothy Green Beckley’s Bizarre Bazaar

Carol provides a rundown of the many authors Tim Beckley brought to the world’s attention over the years, such as contactees George Adamski and George Hunt Williamson, as well as Nick Redfern, John Keel, the Rev. Barry Downing, and Hungarian-born psychic Maria D’Andrea. Tracy Twyman’s “Sex Slaves of the CIA” is an indication, Carol says, of how controversial some of Beckley’s titles can be, making him the “King of Fringe Publishers,” a title he humbly welcomed.

Beckley also edited newsstand publications, like “UFO Universe,” for decades, and paid his dues by working as a freelance contributor to the “Enquirer.” He was invited to speak on the subject of UFOs to a closed-door meeting of the House of Lords in London and visited Loch Ness while in the UK.

Carol concludes by saying, “Truly, it can be said of Timothy Green Beckley what has been said of other greats: His like will not be seen again.”

THE TORCH IS PASSED

As one era ends, another begins. Beckley’s imprints of Inner Light and Global Communications are still in business, (mostly on Amazon.com) but have now been joined by a new imprint run by Tim R. Swartz called Zontar Press. “Timothy Green Beckley’s Bizarre Bazaar” is the first book released by Zontar Press and the hope is that there will be many more.

What can perhaps be most easily appreciated about “Bizarre Bazaar” is how it opens up a window into a large assortment of other books Beckley brought into the world. One of the more “controversial” titles worked on by Tim Swartz and myself, as well as by several other contributors, was “Screwed by the Aliens: True Sexual Encounters with ETs.”

THE SEXUAL FACTOR IS EXPLORED

In a chapter in “Bizarre Bazaar” entitled “The Sexterrestrials Are Here – And They Want To Breed With You,” the opening bullets ask: “Are you ready to explore a region of the paranormal that is typically relegated to the ‘ghetto’ neighborhood of UFO research? Does the idea of sex with aliens thrill you or repel you? You will likely be surprised to learn how commonplace sexual incidents onboard the ships and among the aliens truly are. It’s a frequent happenstance, but is rarely talked about, even among diehard believers in alien abduction.”

By employing several writers to tackle the subject of sex with aliens, Beckley was able to provide numerous perspectives on the issue that run the gamut from extremely hostile accusations of rape to more benign beliefs, like a benevolent hybrid breeding program that will ultimately save mankind from total extinction. It was Beckley’s intention to confront the sexual issue head on, from many points of view, and as honestly as the data allow.

 A longtime acquaintance of Beckley’s, the artist David Huggins, claimed to have a romantic interstellar relationship with a pretty female alien called “Crescent,” whom Huggins called his “soul mate.” Their relationship lasted for decades and resulted in Crescent bearing the children of Huggins. He filled many canvases depicting his amorous adventures with the otherworldly woman and also put together a movie on their relationship called “Love and Saucers” that is available for streaming On Demand on iTunes, Amazon, Vimeo, Google Play and YouTube. It’s a fascinating reversal of the more frequently encountered horrifying atrocities of sex-related UFO experiences and may truly be a case of “Love Triumphant.”

Artist David Huggins insists he has mated with Crescent, a female alien, since the age of 17, and has produced a number of alien children.

When Beckley and his team of researchers were writing “Screwed By The Aliens,” the word “exophiliac” was unearthed. It means “a person who craves sex with aliens.” If, on the other hand, you shy away from the aliens and want them to keep their hands to themselves, you are a bit harder to classify, Beckley explains. “Astrophobia” is a fear of outer space and everything in it, so that would include ETs. “Xenophobia” is a fear of anyone from another place, often defined as “a fear of foreigners.” In any case, Beckley grappled mightily with finding language to fit the phenomenon.

BECKLEY’S SALAD DAYS

A young Tim Beckley speaks at the 1966 Congress of Scientific Ufologists in Cleveland, Ohio.

Beckley’s own contact experiences, as is so often case with those who have a history of encounters, began in his childhood.

In an early chapter of “Bizarre Bazaar,” Beckley writes, “While it is open for debate, I can trace my UFOlogical roots back to 1957, when I sighted two objects revolving overhead in the sky. One was hovering over an abandoned factory building across the street from where l lived in New Jersey, while the other stood still almost perfectly above the house that my grandparents owned. I didn’t observe any portholes, ‘little green men’ didn’t wave at me, but I fully realized – despite a pronouncement by the authorities in the paper a couple of days later to the effect that we were all hypnotized by the appearance of a couple of weather balloons – that these lights, objects, craft (call them what you may) seemed to be under intelligent control. Indeed, they were not bobbing and weaving in the air current. In fact, they seemed to know what they were doing (whatever that was), which I think – at least partly – was to get my attention and push me into unknown territory.”       

The sighting experience changed Beckley’s life. He bought all the material he could find on the subject, including a copy of “FATE Magazine,” for whom he would later write as an adult. He started writing letters to the local newspaper, as well as pestering a couple of reporters he knew who shared his thinking on the subject, meaning that we were being observed by someone or something else.

In the ensuing decades, Beckley became an expert on the subject, published several nationally distributed newsstand magazines on UFOs, and eventually built his own micro-mini “empire,” publishing nearly 300 volumes on the paranormal. To see most of them, simply go to Amazon.com and type in Inner Light – Global Communications under Books.

Even more of Beckley’s well-spent youth can be discovered in a reprint of his earlier work called “Inside the Saucers,” which deals further with his adolescence in the thrall of the UFOs. The reprinted book is subtitled “Mr. UFO’s Teenage Years,” and was published in 2017.

Inside the Saucers – Mr. UFOs Teenage Years

“STUMBLE BACK INTO TIME,” the back cover beckons, “WITH THIS GENUINE COLLECTOR’S REPRINT OF A RECENTLY REDISCOVERED UFO CLASSIC.

“HERE, AFTER FIFTY YEARS, ARE THE CONFESSIONS AND RECOLLECTIONS OF A TEEN UFO RESEARCHER TURNED SPACED-OUT ‘STUD.’

“As UFO satirist and ‘Exploring the Bizarre’ co-host Tim Beckley so righteously puts it, ‘A lot of boys my age were probably starting to think about girls and sneaking a peek at their father’s “Playboy” collection. Well, it took me a few years to get into the sins of the flesh (as it turned out, about ten years later I became a reporter for “Hustler” magazine). Instead, at 14 or 15, I was reading magazines like “Fate” and “Flying Saucers From Other Worlds.” And along the way I hooked up with a small collective of other blossoming teenage UFOlogists who eventually became part of the backbone of the field as it exists today: Allen Greenfield, Dave Halperin, Gene Steinberg, Rick Hilberg, Jerry Clark – this is as much the story of the early days of their calling as it is mine.’

“In 1962, Tim Beckley placed a notice in the Club News section of “Flying Saucers” magazine requesting correspondence and an exchange of information with like-minded individuals willing to share their knowledge about those silvery ships seen around the world, best known in those days as ‘flying saucers.’

“Through the personals column of this relatively obscure publication, he met several other teenagers who had started to form their own UFO organizations, so ‘Timmy’ followed suit by setting up “The Interplanetary News Service,” which issued a semi-professional publication that garnered a worldwide circulation of 1500 plus. Many members of his ‘youth group’ were well-established UFO experiencers and elder statesmen in the field. The INS became the third largest UFO group in the nation, behind NICAP and APRO.

“In order to finance his mushrooming enterprise, Beckley began to issue privately published UFO books and literature that would help further the cause and defray his expenses. ‘Inside the Saucers’ was the first such work. It was printed on an old fashioned (appropriately enough) spirit duplicator, and had a print run of 300 copies, which sold out in a matter of months. This ‘new’ edition is an exact replica of that first work, with only the addition of several photos and the elimination of typos.

“Regardless of the age of the authors, as can be rapidly determined, the writing is polished and sophisticated for its time in the history of UFO research. In this reprint of a rare collector’s item, you will become personally involved in a discussion of the following ‘long lost’ topics: A possible solution to the mystery of the Men In Black; How some UFOs may be the product of Nazi technology (a prediction made years before this concept was put forward seriously elsewhere); Possible synchronicities associated with the Great Pyramid; The Unidentified Submerged Object that plunged into a New Jersey reservoir; A recap of the most dramatic UFO sightings and encounters from this period by “UFO Encyclopedia” author Jerome Clark; A detailed summary of 15 years of UFO research by George D. Fawcett; AND MUCH MORE!

“The late Brad Steiger, a longtime master of paranormal literature, had these fond comments: ‘Bless all those Teen UFOlogists! They were great supporters of a young Brad as he began his UFO career with “Strangers From The Skies” in 1966. . . Forever allies!’”

A DEMON WITH BLOOD ON ITS HANDS?

Amityville.

The very name of the small Long Island, New York, community instantly conjures visions of horror, of a death-dealing psychopath laying waste his parents, two sisters and two brothers with a Marlin rifle. The egregious murders were chronicled in both a bestselling book and a major Hollywood studio movie and have become, pardon the pun, a “household name”: The Amityville Horror. 

The convicted killer was Ronald DeFeo, Jr., whom one judge called “the devil incarnate.” DeFeo told varying versions of what happened the night of November 13, 1974, including the claim that he was possessed by an evil spirit and had committed the crime through no free will of his own.

While it is of course impossible to decide the existence or nonexistence of the devil and his demons in a court of law, the evil-spirit-possession argument was entered along with an insanity plea. Ultimately, Defeo received a 25 years to life sentence for each of his victims and remains in prison today.

But is it so easy to simply scoff at Defeo’s claim to have been an unwitting agent for the devil? Could it possibly be that Defeo was telling the truth of what happened?

This is one of many issues dealt with in the book issued by Timothy Green Beckley’s Global Communications/Conspiracy Journal publishing house. Entitled “Amityville and Beyond, The Lore of the Poltergeist and Other Petrifying Paranormal Phenomena,” the book breaks new ground in making some overdue correlations between spirit possession, ghosts and even the UFO/alien presence. What Beckley and his writers are aiming for is to make apparent an overarching “theory of everything” that ties up the loose ends of many different forms of paranormal activity in the world today.

A PARANORMAL RESEARCHER’S EARLY POLTERGEIST ENCOUNTER

Paul Eno

Paul Eno is among the topnotch researchers Beckley assembled for the writing of “Amityville and Beyond.” Currently Eno hosts, along with his son Ben, a radio show called “Behind the Paranormal” based in Woonsocket, Rhode Island.

“American history is full of poltergeists and nasty and vengeful spirits,” Eno writes. “We’ve written about the Bell Witch that frightened a U.S. president so badly that he fled in the early morning hours from a Tennessee homestead. Furthermore, this book contains the full story of the dreadful Amherst poltergeist, which is just as scary as any similar saga of evil you are likely to hear about from an historical perspective.

“My attitude about such cases,” Eno continues, “is a bit more ‘radical’ than the views of other researchers, who tend to treat such poltergeist outbreaks as either restless spirits gone awry or put them in the general category of a purely psychological manifestation attributable to the witnesses’ psychological state. I see such outbreaks more akin to a crossing of parallel dimensions by a variety of beings often mistaken for the undead – though they seem to have, in many instances, the same attributes as so-called ‘aliens.’ Even cryptids from the darkest realms of our minds have recently been brought into the poltergeist equation.”

Here Eno has very succinctly expressed the overall theme of “Amityville and Beyond,” that aliens and cryptid creatures like Dogmen are cut from the same cloth as “noisy ghosts” and possessive demons. Eno at one time was an assistant to the famed Ed and Lorraine Warren, the husband/wife paranormal researchers whose work has been the subject of the movies “The Conjuring” and “The Conjuring 2.” 

In November 1974, Eno found himself on Lindley Street in Bridgeport, Connecticut, along with Ed, Lorraine and Father William Charbonneau, and an indeterminate number of police and reporters. And a very frightened little family.

The Goodin house in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

“The latter consisted of Gerard Goodin and his adopted daughter and only child, Marcia (pronounced Mar-SEE-a),” Eno writes. “Shortly Mom (Laura Goodin) returned from the St. Vincent’s Hospital Emergency Room with her right big toe bandaged. It had been broken by a flying television set. The house itself was a mess. ‘The Thing,’ as Laura called it, had been tearing pictures, especially religious objects, off the wall all morning. A priest had come to bless the house, apparently to no avail.”

Calling it the best-witnessed poltergeist event in history, Eno says that violent phenomena were witnessed by almost 100 people in the Bridgeport outbreak. Eno was on the scene himself when some of the bizarre incidents transpired.

“I stood in the kitchen,” Eno writes, “with three firefighters on one side of me and three police officers on the other and watched the refrigerator float off the floor, turn right, turn back, then settle gently back to the floor. Late in the evening of that first day, I was sitting at the kitchen table with Lorraine. Also in the kitchen was a huge police officer, Ed Warren and a reporter from WNAB Radio. Lorraine suddenly let out a yelp. I watched as a second-degree burn, with its trademark white blister, appeared on Lorraine’s left hand, between thumb and forefinger. This was all caught on the radio reporter’s tape, which still exists. You can hear a youthful me stating, ‘There’s a blister forming!’”

TOUCHING THE NEAR-INVISIBLE

At another point during Eno’s visits to the Bridgeport home, he was alone in the house with the Goodins, playing monopoly with Marcia to pass the time and to help her relax.

“Suddenly an acrid smell, like ozone mixed with sulfur, came from the kitchen,” Eno recounts. “Instantly Gerard Goodin was up, dashed into the kitchen and started chanting in Latin! My skin tingled with an electrical charge that I now associate with the electromagnetic ‘branes,’ as physicists call them, presumably the boundaries between parallel worlds.

“A whitish, gauzy cloud began to form in the kitchen,” Eno continues, “and Goodin was back in the living room at once. I was convinced that four entities were ‘arriving’ in the kitchen from Marcia’s adjacent bedroom. They weren’t entirely invisible, and there were four distinct shapes coming from the kitchen in a line. They were each about four and a half feet high and had rounded tops, with no discernible head or shoulders.”

Goodin saw the figures also, and he followed one as it moved from the kitchen. As the mystery entities entered the living room one by one, Laura Goodin started to cry while Marcia clung to Eno for comfort. Then one of the almost-invisible things approached Eno and stopped.

“That’s when I made my mistake,” Eno confesses. “I began to feel angry toward this thing, which at the time I thought was a demon in the classic, theological sense. I was angry because it was obviously trying to get to this child. The whatever-it-was simply fed on the negative energy I was releasing and grew stronger.

Poltergeist victim Marcia gives her pet a big hug while trying to put the events of the past out of her mind.

“What happened next was the biggest shock I’d experienced in paranormal work up to that time. As the entity moved to get around me and at the girl, I instinctively pushed toward it. It resisted as though it was entirely material. In fact, I felt flesh and bone structure as if this were a solid being. These ‘demons’ were supposed to be spirits!”

Eno says it took him many years to come to grips with the experience, let alone explain it in terms of parallel worlds. He never even reported it to the Warrens, and it was decades before he could write or speak about it.

“While I stood there dazed,” he continues, “the entity got around me and threw Marcia across the living room. She ran back to me, crying. Finally, as the gauzy cloud inundated the whole interior of the house, and as I tired from, I would say today, being drained by this powerful parasite, I ordered everyone outside.”

Although the police had cleared away the crowds and cordoned off both ends of Lindley Street, there were still thousands of onlookers gawking from each end of the block.

“I could hear a voice in the crowd,” Eno writes, “preaching something about all this being a ‘sign of the end.’ These being the days long before cell phones, I had to use a neighbor’s phone to call the Warrens. It took them an hour to get back into the city because of all the traffic caused by this paranormal circus. When they finally arrived at about 9:15 P.M., we all reentered the house. Things were quiet.”

When Eno writes about the creature he pushed against as being almost invisible yet possessing a flesh and bone structure, what manner of being is this? It sounds not unlike the physical-yet-not-physical “bodies” of the familiar gray aliens whose stock in trade is the abduction of chosen subjects for whatever dark reasons are left for us to discover. As Eno so clearly explains, the aliens and demons who cross between dimensions may be one and the same entity but are given different names in scripture and folklore that vary according to who encounters the strange interlopers.   

AND THEN THE TERROR SPOKE . . .

Evil speaking voices are also dealt with in a chapter of “Amity and Beyond” by Tim R. Swartz called “When the Poltergeist Finds Its Voice.”

“It can be terrifying enough,” Swartz writes, “when a poltergeist makes its appearance in a household. Rocks thrown about, strange bangs on the walls, moving furniture, items disappearing and then reappearing – this is enough to set anyone on edge. However, when a poltergeist finds its voice and starts to talk, you know that events have decidedly taken a turn for the worse.

“Poltergeist activity has been recorded throughout history,” Swartz goes on, “and is probably the most prolific of all supernatural events. A poltergeist is extremely aware of its surroundings and will often quickly respond to suggestions by observers and other external stimuli. This shows that there is some kind of ‘intelligence’ behind its pranks and not just some random psychokinesis (PK). This intelligence, along with an ability to communicate, will manifest in a myriad of ways. Pieces of paper with strange messages appear; writing on the walls; children’s toys will be arranged to make words; and, perhaps the most shocking, they will sometimes start to speak out loud.”  

A poltergeist is known to create all sorts of havoc in a household.

According to Swartz, when a poltergeist achieves speech, it generally starts as animal-like growls and whispers that slowly evolve into discernible words. Most poltergeists never reach this stage in their development, but, once they do, a clear “personality” emerges from what were previously just random events.

Swartz recounts some case histories in the annals of poltergeist hauntings in which the intruding spirit spoke to its victims.

The 1817 case of the “Bell Witch,” the name for the poltergeist who took up residence among a Tennessee farming family headed by John Bell, Sr., is an interesting example. “The Witch” was extremely talkative and could imitate the voices of people from the area.

“The poltergeist was said to speak at a nerve-wracking pitch when displeased,” Swartz reports, “while at other times it sang and talked in low musical tones. In one instance, it was alleged to have repeated, verbatim, sermons administered by two preachers, occurring at separate locations, that took place simultaneously. The sermons recited by the witch were verified by people attending the churches as being identical in voice, tone, inflection and content. The poltergeist was even known to attend church and sing along with the congregation, using the most beautiful voice anyone had ever heard.”

Stories of a talking mongoose named Gef, who bedeviled an Irish family in the 1930s, as well as the tale of a Spanish family who heard maniacal laughter and voices emanating from their kitchen stove, help to round out Swartz’s examination of real-life incidents of “talking” spirits.

He also touches on the Middle Eastern folklore and Islamic theology dealing with the “djinn,” or genies, who can take possession of buildings or locations and torment any person who goes to live there. The djinn can levitate and cause objects to disappear as well as take any physical form they want – humans, animals and anything else. They can mimic the voices of deceased humans, claiming to be spirits or Satan. They enjoy playing tricks and frightening people. In fact, they can sense strong emotions such as fear or grief and gain energy from those powerful feelings.

“Like humans,” Swartz writes, “the djinn have distinct personalities. There are those who are of low intelligence, quick to anger and fond of playing tricks. Others have a superior intellect and act more along the lines of guardian angels rather than tricksters.”

Tim Beckley looks to hitch a ride with a friend to the mothership.

“Timothy Green Beckley’s Bizarre Bazaar” is, as the title suggests, a marketplace of the strange that has been gathered and assembled through years of hard work and painstaking research. When you buy this book, you are also buying a guide into a library of the strange that will take you to many destinations. Each chapter deals with its own unique paranormal-themed book that can be added to your personal reading list and provide you with an invaluable education in UFOs, aliens, ghosts, demonic spirits, angelic spirits and more.   

Sean Casteel

SUGGESTED READING:

TIMOTHY BECKLEY’S BIZARRE AND UNEXPLAINED WORLDS

TIMOTHY GREEN BECKLEY’S UFO SPIN DOCTORS

TIMOTHY GREEN BECKLEY’S BIZARRE BAZAAR

“DULCE WARRIORS,” A PARTING GIFT FROM TIMOTHY GREEN BECKLEY

By Sean Casteel

Dulce Warriors

As the saying from many centuries ago declares, “In the midst of life, we are in death.”

Timothy Green Beckley, Tim Swartz and I were completely absorbed in the book project that was to become “Dulce Warriors: Aliens Battle for Earth’s Domination.” It was the usual back and forth between new material, proofreading and illustrating the various chapters and sections, a routine the three of us were used to after working as a team for nearly twenty years.

Then fate, Father Time, or whatever name you wish to give it, took Tim Beckley from us before the project was completely finished. As a tribute to our much revered publisher and editor, Tim Swartz and I decided to complete the project – just the two of us – along with more than 20 other contributors. “Dulce Warriors” is now available on Amazon.

The book opens with tributes from a few of Tim B’s friends and coworkers, in which they offer memories of how Tim helped to guide their career and gave them an opportunity to explore various aspects of UFOs and other paranormal subjects.

Tim Beckley visits with a friend in Sedona. (Photo by Charla Gene)

Tim Beckley also authored the first chapter, entitled “A Terrifying Introduction: What Happened On Our Way To Dulce,” in which he presents a laundry list of frightful rumors about the underground joint human/alien installation reputed to be located in Dulce, New Mexico, which is near the Four Corners region of the American Southwest.

Archuleta Mesa on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation in New Mexico is the location of an alleged alien-human facility known as the Dulce Base. 

“When we speak of Dulce,” Beckley writes, “we speak of: Monster Factories, Alien Cloning, Underground Tunnel Systems, MK-Ultra Soldiers – Disguised as Greys, Aliens Torturing Humans, Children Disappearing, Government Germ Warfare Weapons, Human and Animal Mutilations, and the Suicide Or Murder Of Numerous Researchers Associated With Dulce.”

A SCIENTIST STUMBLES INTO THE UNKNOWN

But where did it all start?

Beckley felt the whole macabre saga started with an engineer by the name of Paul Bennewitz, who believed aliens were communicating with him over a radio receiver. He also observed and photographed UFOs flying over nearby Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico, specifically the nuclear storage facility there, called the Monzano Storage Area, the country’s largest underground nuclear storage facility.

Norio Hayakawa

Perhaps the most vocal and visible expert on the Dulce mysteries is Norio Hayakawa, who has written many articles on the subject and appeared numerous times on radio and television programs dealing with the town. Hayakawa says the proximity to Albuquerque is very important because it is where German scientists were first transferred in 1945, immediately after World War II, through the Operation Paperclip Program. In addition to German scientists, skilled intelligence officers were imported as well.

According to Hayakawa, “Dulce is a location filled with mysteries that are still ongoing. I believe it is far more interesting than Roswell, Yes, Roswell was significant in that it is the alleged location of the crash of extraterrestrial vehicles in 1947. But, you know, that was it. But Dulce is something different. It is an ongoing thing that is still taking place.”

Dulce has the highest percentage per population of UFO sightings, Hayakawa says. Almost the entire population has experienced a sighting of strange objects in the past three to four decades.

THE GOVERNMENT TAKES AN INTEREST

Paul Bennewitz

But back to Bennewitz. The story goes that Bennewitz was a scientist living near Kirtland Air Force Base. In 1979, he began to observe the flights of mysterious objects from his home and to photograph them as well. When he attempted to report to official channels on the strange aerial activity he was witnessing, he immediately drew the interest of the government.

One theory is that the bewildered Bennewitz was seeing test flights of what are called “UAVs,” or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, pilotless aircraft that are remotely controlled either on the ground or programmed by onboard computer systems. Whatever the secret flights involved, the government did not want Bennewitz to know the truth.

It is alleged that the government brainwashed Bennewitz into believing that he was witnessing flights of alien discs over Kirtland Air Force Base. Bennewitz received a message somehow, either by radio or over his computer, saying that there is a secret base 150 miles north of Albuquerque in the mountains underground. Bennewitz was provided with the exact coordinates of this alien base, which, of course, turned out to be Dulce.

Bennewitz was never able to prove either the existence of aliens over Kirtland or the government’s manipulations of his attempts to document the mysterious overflights. He sank deeper and deeper into an increasingly paranoid frame of mind, unable to cope with the bizarre scenario in which he had been ensnared.

REVEALING HELL ITSELF

The underground base at Dulce is allegedly an alien/U.S. military collaboration where unspeakable experiments on kidnapped human victims are taking place.

While Bennewitz’s personal struggles certainly deserve our sympathy, his revelations about the underground base at Dulce were nothing short of spectacular. The rumors that have circulated since then are full of nightmare scenarios, like huge vats of human and animal body parts used in genetic experiments, perhaps in further efforts to create an alien-human hybrid species or an even stranger chimera that is part human and part animal.

It is speculated that the government and the aliens may be working to create a “perfect soldier,” one that is capable of fearlessness and obedience beyond that of a normal GI grunt.

Additionally, there is the case of a female abductee who claimed that she was in one of the lower sections of Dulce when an alien walked right through the wall and raped her. That kind of forced copulation may also be a component of the genetic experimentation said to take place in Dulce, the goal being to impregnate the human female with alien seed and see what is produced, a scenario already familiar from other stories of abduction.

BOTH HUMANS AND ALIENS TAKE UP ARMS

Bill Birnes, the noted author, researcher and television personality, says he doubts that Dulce has any genuine alien presence. But he did pass along what has become an incident repeatedly referred to in discussions of Dulce, the “Firefight at Dulce.”

”The story goes that way back in the 1980s,” Birnes said, “the extraterrestrials were giving a lecture to some scientists. In that demonstration, a lot of the scientists were getting sick because of what the aliens were doing. So some of our military guards, who were prohibited from entering the area and prohibited from carrying any kind of weapons into the area, suddenly burst in to protect the scientists.

“And the aliens reacted,” Birnes continued, “by basically turning their weapons on the security guards, killing them. Some aliens were killed and some scientists were killed. Supposedly we all worked very hard to try and patch it together so there wouldn’t be any more incidents like that.”

“Dulce Warriors” also contains chapters with other similar real life sci-fi overtones and the stories of whistleblowers who have since died, many under suspicious circumstances.

WHAT SECRETS DIED WITH HIM?

During one of his lectures, Phil Schneider showed the audience injuries he allegedly received during a firefight between humans and extraterrestrials.

Tim Swartz provides the story of Phil Schneider, who claimed to be an ex-government structural engineer who was involved in the building of underground military bases around the country. Schneider also said he was one of only three people to survive the incident between the alien greys and U.S. forces that Bill Birnes describes above.

For two years prior to his death, Schneider had been on a lecture tour talking about government cover-ups, black budgets and UFOs. His ex-wife, Cynthia Drayer, believes that Schneider was murdered because he publicly revealed the truth about the U.S. government’s involvement with UFOs, which he said dated back to the Eisenhower administration.

To get the details of this fascinating story, as told by Swartz with the assistance of Drayer, it is probably better to read the chapter in the actual book, which will provide much more spine-tinging detail than is possible in this article.

In guiding Tim Swartz and me through the editorial process, Tim B. displays his usual sure hand in selecting the people to contribute their work to the book, as well as covering the subject of Dulce thoroughly and with a vast array of on-the-scene participants, rumors and researchers. People who are unfamiliar with the subject of Dulce will get a valuable education in the subject and it will likewise be appreciated by those who have heard some of this before.

When Tim Swartz and I put “Dulce Warriors: Aliens Battle for Earth’s Domination” to bed with the printer, we agreed that Tim B. would be proud.

Timothy Green Beckley catching a ride to the mothership.

SUGGESTED READING

Dulce Warriors: Aliens Battle for Earth’s Domination

The Dulce Wars

Underground Alien Bio Lab At Dulce: The Bennewitz UFO Papers

Alien Strongholds on Earth: Secret UFO Bases Exist All Around Us

Timothy Green Beckley’s UFO Spin Doctors

DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF TIMOTHY GREEN BECKLEY

July 13, 1947 – May 31, 2021

When Timothy Green Beckley passed away on May 31, 2021, he left behind a body of work that has few equals in the realms of Ufology and the paranormal.

A dapper Timothy Green Beckley

Tim steadfastly pursued the truth underlying the great mysteries of human existence, beginning as a child, hiding underneath his bed covers to read “FATE Magazine” by flashlight or listening to all-night paranormal radio host Long John Nebel, whose call-in show on a major New York station became the template for shows that came later, like Art Bell’s Coast to Coast. In the early 1960s, Tim began his publishing efforts as a teenager, grinding out UFO magazines on an old-fashioned mimeograph machine and building a goodly-sized mailing list of subscribers.

Working as a freelance stringer for The National Enquirer, he covered a great many stories of UFO landings and alien abductions. Tim thus earned a kind of “street cred” as a journalist of off-the-beaten-path type subjects. For a time he published a newsstand magazine called “UFO Universe” that ran for several years, as well as the newsletter “The Conspiracy Journal,” which got its title long before Q-Anon gave conspiracy theory a bad name. 

Tim was even better known for the books he published through his Global Communications and Inner Light Books publishing houses. Most of them are still available from Amazon.com. Do a search there and you may be pleasantly surprised at the wealth of what is on offer.

For the sake of paying homage to “Mr. UFO,” we have assembled memories and testimonials from some of Tim’s most prolific and – and grateful – authors and friends.   

TIMOTHY BECKLEY- ALWAYS A FREE SPIRIT

By Maria D’Andrea   MsD, D.D.,DRH

Maria D’Andrea is a fulltime psychic who wrote several books that Tim published, books she always adamantly declared were written to be used only in the most positive of ways. She wrote several “How-To” books that teach the reader to awaken the psychic powers within and put them to benevolent use for a myriad of reasons. One of Maria’s titles is “Supernatural Words of Power,” part of her “Yes, You Can!” series in which she helps the reader achieve a kind of “self-empowerment.” She also contributed chapters to many books Tim assembled as group efforts in which several writers would offer their insight into a given paranormal topic.    

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Tim affected so many lives while he was on this planet that we can’t even count all of them. With his passing, we are also finding out about things he did to help others that he never spoke about. He just helped everyone he cared about without looking for a “thank you” or acknowledgements. He never mentioned when he was buying food for someone, paying someone’s rent, contributing to helping someone’s career or any of the other selfless things he did. He truly came from his heart and will be deeply missed.

Tim Beckley searches for akualeles/UFOs on Oahu.

I met Tim in 1985, when I was working at a psychic event doing Readings. He was already accomplished doing eight million things in his life, and was there promoting his books as a publisher. We started chatting and realized we had much in common and were in sync on a friendship level. Because of our levels of knowledge in the spiritual, psychic, paranormal and UFO fields, he asked me to write a book for him. I explained that I’d never written one. He countered by explaining that I COULD and gave me a subject he needed a book on at the time. So I gave him the first chapter. After he stopped laughing, he said, “I told you so. And we’re going to do a lot more.”

Now I laugh because Tim started me on this path with support and friendship. I have somewhere around 60 books out, including several that I co-authored with talented people.  I was a guest on Tim’s radio show with his co-host Tim Swartz, (Tim was also gracious enough to be on my TV and radio show). I was also able to do numerous  types of media work, as well as teaching and speaking in my fields and so on…and it ALL stemmed from him having a gigantic heart and introducing me to many different fields years ago.

He was my confidant, close friend, family, travel partner, publisher and partner in crime. Free spirits tend to be this way, right? Tim was always funny. He would come up with hilarious thoughts in an instant and then forget about them. I wish I remembered all of them because they would have made a great book.

He would go to some of the same places to eat in his neighborhood in Manhattan and got to know the people who were working there. At times, some of us would get together and go. He would already know what to recommend off the menu that was good and he knew each of us enough to recommend food that fit our individual tastes. Tim loved to get us experimenting with different foods. He was very aware and thoughtful that way.

He knew at an early age what his Path of Life was. He started a magazine while young and expanded his horizons as he went along life’s pathways.

I remember when we would go ghost hunting in various states. Even though it was for work, we always had fun. I would find the spirit, if there was one (if a sighting wasn’t real, he would never make something up) check it out, deal with whatever came up and Tim would write about the experience as a prolific author and speak about it in the media. He loved to enlighten the public on the odd things in our universe.

His sense of humor was always there. We would send pictures back and forth as friends and then we would have separate work pictures. He would call me and come up with a title and just say for me to write a book about the subject. Teamwork is always a good thing. So on one occasion, his title for me was “Traveling The Waves Of Time” and he put a “friend” picture on the back cover. First I was a little upset, because it was a picture of me on my motorcycle, and here I am being professional. When I called him, Tim said he thought it worked because the book was on travel and that’s what I was doing. He thought it fit and was fun. What can I say? That was Tim.

Psychic and Spiritual Counselor Maria D’Andrea

Another time we spoke about our various UFO experiences He had a few and he also had experiences channeling. He traveled to numerous places on a global level. Tim said one of his favorite places was Bora Bora. I remember him telling me about his visit to Hawaii and the book that came from traveling there. After his book came out about Kahuna Power, for a while we were calling him Daddy Kahuna. He always found out the most interesting, obscure information and then wrote about what he discovered. He was a phenomenal researcher and author. Tim was interested in everything from science to the mystical and the other realms beyond.

He was a filmmaker and also acted in some films, plus he was in a book where he looked very “dapper.”

Once during our travels, we were reminiscing, and he told me how, many years ago, he went to a party thrown by the Beatles with sitar music and rock stars among the guests. I was asking more about the party and he looked at me and said it was just one more great party he went to. He loved parties. It just goes to show you how much he got around. Tim was an experienced promoter and had his own band for a while. That is only one example of the interesting contacts he had and many turned into lifelong friends. Tim was really great at anything he set his mind to.

He loved to travel and when we would go on a trip I would love to listen to his stories and adventures. He was a larger-than-life person without any ego and a soft heart.

We would go to UFO conventions and people would know him and ask his opinion on various matters. He would take the time to give them a real answer from his point of view and not just give a meaningless quick one, even when he was tired.

The title “Mr. UFO,” as Tim was known in many circles, came about due to his articles, lectures, books and magazines being on the supernatural, the odd, the offbeat and the unexplained.

There’s no doubt that I loved Tim very much and that he was there for me when it came to my work and my personal life. But if I were to sit here and write about all of his adventures I would be afraid that the police would have to dig him up and arrest him.

I am sure there are beings in various realms mourning Tim and wondering what he is up to where he is. After all, being inspirit doesn’t mean it is an ending, just a different vibrational shift.

He was so diverse that it’s impossible to mention all that he was and all that he did. Anyone knowing Tim was going to enter into unknown territory in a wonderful way. I feel blessed to have been his friend and considered part of his family.

FIRST CONTACT! – WITH TIMOTHY GREEN BECKLEY

By Diane Tessman

Diane Tessman is another fulltime psychic, in her case in partnership with an alien named “Tibus” that Diane has been familiar with since childhood. She wrote for Tim extensively and he published her first book in 1983, as well as serving as a constant source of guidance and encouragement for her as a writer. When you read what Diane says below here, you will likely agree that Tim was truly a great romantic at heart. He frequently referred to Diane as a “Time Traveling Star Goddess,” among other worshipful monikers.

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Diane Tessman with her dog Hannah

In 1979, I was teaching school in St. Petersburg, Florida, and, in my spare time, I was chasing UFOs and their secrets, as always. I enjoyed UFO Review, published out of New York City by Timothy Green Beckley. I decided to submit an article to it. However, nothing happened, no response, and I thought, “Oh, well.”

Then one evening at home in St. Pete, I heard a knock on my door, and there was Timothy Green Beckley! I was shocked and delighted; I asked if he always flew around the country to see someone who had sent him an article.

Tim responded, “Well, you sent your picture too.”

Yes, Tim and the ladies were a match made in heaven.

Tim Beckley with Diane Tessman at drumming circle.

He took me to dinner at the fanciest place I could find in St. Pete (that was his request), and we did have a good talk regarding those elusive UFOs and their occupants. The next day, Tim took my daughter Gianna and me to the beach. Then he flew back to New York.

We kept phone contact but not a whole lot of it, and in 1982, my daughter, our animals, and I, moved to San Diego. I had intended to get into teaching out there but could not. A hiring freeze was in effect due to a recession, plus I didn’t have my master’s degree.

I was soon in real financial trouble out there. However, there was a knock on my door in San Diego, and there was Timothy Green Beckley, again!

This time he stayed a while, and he suggested to me that I do psychic readings door to door. I had never heard of such a thing, but he put an ad in the local Reader, and I nervously began a psychic career. It turned out really well; Tim had gotten me out of my financial bad straits.

Soon I was writing my own publication, The Star Network Heartline, and Tim promoted my work, suggesting I write my first book, “The Transformation.” I did, he published it, and it sold thousands of copies. My life’s career had begun, and I’ve never looked back. Thanks, Tim!

Also, my lifelong friendship with Tim Beckley had begun. We were business friends, we were personal friends. I treasure the Christmas I spent with him and Brad and Sherry Steiger. Tim had come to Iowa to spend Christmas with us and we had a wonderful time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8vAxXRbgy8

I miss you, Tim.

THE HONOR OF WORKING FOR TIMOTHY BECKLEY

By Hercules Invictus

Hercules Invictus is a fairly recent addition to Tim’s stable of writers, though he took inspiration from Tim for many decades. Hercules takes his name from the hero of Greek mythology and believes the gods of Olympus live on in our modern world, albeit filtered through a technological haze that we call UFOs and aliens. Over the past few years, Hercules has contributed chapters to books like “Incredible Alien Encounters,” for which he wrote “A Confrontation With Greys,” as well as numerous others.

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Hercules Invictus

I first became aware of Tim Beckley and Inner Light/Global Communications back in the 1970s. Having had paranormal experiences throughout my (then) young life, I eagerly sought some answers, and Tim’s publishing companies provided not only reprints of obscure and hard to find texts but collections of ongoing phenomena on our planet and in the heavens above.

Comforted by learning that I was not alone, I fervently hoped that someday my own accounts would be added to these chronicles. I started writing down some of my own experiences.

In the latter half of the decade (though still technically a teen) I was the Deep Trance Medium for a small Theosophical-Spiritualist group in New York City and had started speaking publicly on matters metaphysical.

Invited to visit relatives in New Brunswick, New Jersey, I leapt at the chance. Though I truly loved these relatives and sincerely wished to see and spend time with them, I also had an ulterior motive: New Brunswick was the point of origin of my cherished tomes from Inner Light/ Global Communications. Questing for the writers and their offices did not prove fruitful on that occasion – but I tried, given the time I had.

During the 1980s I attempted to live a “normal” life. Tim Beckley (aka Mr. UFO) and his intrepid band of explorers and chroniclers of the unknown provided me with a much-needed connection to the unusual life (I thought) I’d left behind through their many publications.

Tim and his late friend the highly controversial John Keel, author of Mothman Prophecies and other pop items.

The 1990s dawned with my re-embracing my totality and diving back into the fringes of reality. I finally met Tim Beckley and some of my other heroes at the Fortean Society’s formal meetings and informal gatherings in the Big Apple.

In the early 2000s I reconnected with Tim (aka Mr. Creepo) and got to know him. He was, during this period, cheerfully engaged in publishing, making movies and having other exciting adventures. I reviewed some of these books, CDs and films and interviewed some of the folks involved on my podcasts – including Tim Beckley.

This continued on and off for over a decade. I got to meet many interesting people through Tim and have gotten close with some of them. The end of the 2010s saw me as a contributor to Tim’s paranormal anthologies and by the start of the 2020s my writings had appeared in sixteen of these books.

Tim, alas, passed on May 31st, 2021. Though we were not buddies, we were friendly and had communicated for a long span of years. I greatly enjoyed working (and interacting) with Tim. He was one of my role models growing up and I was greatly honored to be part of his band of otherworldly chroniclers. Looking back, my only regret is my decision to wait until he felt better before I called to say “Hi! How are you?” and explore what projects were looming on the horizon.

Thank you, Tim Beckley, for enriching over half a century of my life with your unique self-expression, generosity and unbridled creativity! And thanks to all who have kept and who will continue to keep Tim Beckley’s legacy alive!

Onwards!

Hercules Invictus

TIMOTHY GREEN BECKLEY: THE TEACHER WHO OPENED MY EYES

By Sean Casteel

By the time Sean Casteel began writing for Timothy Green Beckley, he had already spent years toiling in the world of mainstream journalism, writing about government programs that worked to help the poor and disabled and other attempts to cure America’s social ills in general. When Casteel discovered the world of UFOs and alien abductions, an entirely new career opened up for him and he never looked back. Casteel contributed articles to “UFO Universe” and “The Conspiracy Journal” for many years before Tim began publishing Casteel’s books. Tim not only let Casteel write books on his own favorite topics, like UFOs and religion, he brought Casteel into new worlds the freelancer had never even dreamed of. Casteel’s first book was called “UFOs, Prophecy and the End of Time,” and is still available on Amazon.com.

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Tim Beckley and Sean Casteel

In spite of knowing that Tim had been in failing health for the last several years, his sudden death by heart attack still came as quite a shock, a shock that lingers now and a loss that will be felt forever.

I first began to work for Tim in earnest in the winter of 1995, after he had published my Q and A with pioneering abduction researcher Budd Hopkins and subsequently my Q and A with film director Robert Wise, who had helmed the UFO classic “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” Thus began the 26 years of our relationship, which would involve magazine articles, books and appearances on Tim’s podcast, “Exploring the Bizarre,” cohosted with Tim R. Swartz.

Tim Beckley once told me that there were two basic kinds of UFO enthusiasts. There are the dilettantes, who are at first totally absorbed by the topic, but then, when their personal pet theory doesn’t work out or they must confront the fact that absolute answers to the various mysteries remain elusive, abandon the subject in frustration.

Then Tim said that the other kind of UFO enthusiast is a “lifer,” someone whose devotion to finding out the truth is at times obsessive but never flags or weakens as the years go by. Tim was certainly such a lifer himself, and he died in the midst of laboring over yet another book, in this case an examination of the alleged joint human/alien underground facility said to be located in Dulce, New Mexico. He left no stone unturned as he chipped away at the boulder that is the unknown and the paranormal.

Like many of his generation, Tim started out as a “nuts-and-bolts” believer, at first convinced that UFOs were a higher physical technology piloted by flesh-and-blood aliens. As the years passed, he more and more embraced the nonphysical, paranormal approach, believing that the visitors were from another dimension and capable of many phenomena we call “supernatural.” Or at least an advanced technology that seems supernatural to we humans.

Tim ultimately espoused the theory that UFOs, ghosts, NDEs, spiritualism, etc., were all part of one continuum and that mankind was subject to a large spectrum of phenomena that sprang from a single source. When you studied one facet of the paranormal, it always included ties to another facet.

In his later years as a publisher, Tim struggled mightily with the dark side of the subject. Titles like “Screwed by the Aliens” and “UFO Hostilities and the Evil Alien Agenda” mince no words about his sometimes negative take on the UFO occupants.

Tim in Jerome, AZ. Photo by Charla Gené

But he will likely be remembered for his lighter take as well. The last book Tim and his team of writers completed before his death was “Alien Lives Matter, It’s OK To Be Grey.” Even though some of us on Tim’s team thought the title might be seen as “trivializing” the Black Lives Matter Civil Rights movement, Tim countered by saying that the concept had been appropriated already by Hawaiians (Hawaiian Lives Matter) and Jewish people (Jewish Lives Matter) and there was even a section on Amazon where a totally separate business was selling “Alien Lives Matter” t-shirts.  

The book turned out to be a struggle for Tim and our entire team, but it also turned out to be a relative bestseller for us. Whenever I spoke the title to someone, it never failed to get a chuckle and a word of encouragement about how it would be a popular title, and it was. Tim made sure to include several chapters on Black UFO experiencers and believers as well, people whose contacts were for the most part very positive.

I can never thank Tim enough for exposing me to so many aspects of the paranormal that I had never taken an interest in prior to working for him. I was called upon to research subjects like ghosts and hauntings, mediums and séances, even the clairaudience of Joan of Arc and the spiritualist beliefs of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Tim had a way of leading me down paths I’d never trod before and expanding my horizons considerably.

Toward the end of his life, he did combat with his own understanding of the determinism of “the Matrix,” and gathered his team together to do a book on it with the wordy title “The Matrix Control System of Philip K. Dick and the Paranormal Synchronicities of Timothy Green Beckley.” It was a subject he sometimes saw the malevolent side of as he wondered whether “synchronistic” experiences, or “nonrandom coincidences,” somehow undermined human free will. If our lives are not under our own control, then who IS controlling everything? Like Jacob wrestling with the angel in the Book of Genesis, Tim made a determined combat to maintain his sense of personal autonomy.

Tim Beckley will always be an inspiration to me and a person I am glad to have shared my life with. 

MY FRIEND, TIMOTHY GREEN BECKLEY  

By Tim R. Swartz

One of the first books about UFOs that Tim R. Swartz bought from Gray Barker’s Saucerian Press turned out to be the first book that Timothy Green Beckley wrote…”The Shaver Mystery and the Inner Earth.” Even thought they didn’t realize it at the time, Tim R. Swartz and Tim Beckley’s paths would cross several times before they actually met. Starting when he was a teenager, Tim R. Swartz investigated and wrote about UFOs and the paranormal for various UFO-related magazines, but his career in television often sidelined his interest and research in the world of the weird. Thanks to Timothy Green Beckley, Tim was able to renew his love for the unexplained and reach a worldwide audience who was eager to learn just how wonderfully strange our universe actually is.

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Tim Beckley and Tim R. Swartz on Exploring the Bizarre

Timothy Green Beckley was such a unique and charismatic character that I wish the way we first got to know each other was as spectacular as the way he lived his life.

Our first introduction, however, came about thanks to the United States Air Force.

In 1983, when I was working for a television station in Dayton, Ohio, I was able to secure an interview with UFO investigator J. Allen Hynek.  Hynek was in town to give a talk about Project Blue Book at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. 

After my story ran on the local news, it was picked up by the CBS satellite feed, which allowed CBS stations all across the country to run the story as well.  Timothy Green Beckley saw my story on WCBS in New York and managed to track me down to ask for a VHS copy and a transcript, which I was happy to provide for him.

From that point on, barely a week went by where I didn’t hear from Tim one way or another.  He would either call me, or send me a letter (this was pre-internet), to talk about UFOs, movies, or any of the other things that we were mutually interested in. 

When he started publishing “UFO Universe,” he asked me if I would be interested in providing him with some articles, do research and help punch up articles from other writers.  Of course I was excited to help out with his new UFO magazines…I had written articles for magazines like “Saga’s UFO Report” when I was in college, but it had been years since I had written anything for publication.

Tim Beckley, aka “Mr. Creepo” with his alien entourage.

From magazines to books, to direct to video movies, Timothy Green Beckley was always coming out with new and interesting things for us to attempt. I often thought his ideas were insane, and I would tell him so…but, for the most part, I was always game to go along with his crazy ideas simply because they sounded like fun.

If you listen to any archived episode of our radio show “Exploring the Bizarre,” which aired on the KCOR Digital Radio Network, you can hear how much fun we were having, and Tim was always a treasure trove of UFO knowledge.  In fact, the rare times that at the last minute, one of our guests couldn’t do the show, Tim and I could easily do the entire two-hours just talking about all of the weird things in this world that forever intrigued us.

It is difficult to write about all the great times that Timothy Green Beckley and I had because I never thought they would end. I keep expecting him to call me up with another of his wild adventures…in fact, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if he did manage to do so from wherever he has gone after leaving this mortal coil. 

So when my days on this planet draw to a close, I hope that Mr. UFO swings by on his mothership to pick me up so we can continue on with our adventures.  This time, however, there will be no limits; we will have the entire universe to explore.  I am looking forward to that.

SUGGESTED READING

Alien Lives Matter: It’s OK to Be Grey

Deja Vu UFOs Over And Over Again

The Matrix Control System of Philip K. Dick And The Paranormal Synchronicities of Timothy Green Beckley

David Bowie, UFOs, Witchcraft, Cocaine and Paranoia

Tim Beckley’s Bizarre and Unexplained Worlds

Episodes of Exploring the Bizarre can also be seen on Tim Beckley’s YouTube channel

UFOS AND THE FUTURE OF HUMANKIND – PROPHECIES FROM ALIEN REALMS

By Sean Casteel

Are we, as mankind, on our own against all that threatens our survival? Will we be left to fend for ourselves against unthinkable odds?

Author, publisher and editor Timothy Green Beckley and his stable of writers say that we shall not perish in our own self-destruction but will instead get help from entities that are sometimes called the “Space Brothers,” a word equivalent to “angels” filtered through a high-tech, modern-day lens.

Over the many decades that Beckley has been publishing UFO and occult books, he has provided a thorough survey of the aliens that runs the moral gamut, from heavenly angels to snarling demons to extraterrestrial scientists bent on genetically blending themselves with human DNA. There are innumerable ways to view the aliens as benevolent or malevolent, and Beckley has long covered the wide range of moral approaches.

Two new releases from Beckley’s publishing house, Global Communications/Inner Light, are definitely on the positives end of the moral spectrum. One is called “Carol Ann’s Psychic and UFO Revelations for the Twenty-First Century,” and the other is entitled “Cosmic Messages from the Space Brothers and Ashtar Command.” Both books rely on the principle that the Space Brothers are living entities with whom people can communicate fairly directly through a method called “channeling,” in which the aliens “speak through” a chosen human subject, who is sometimes in a trance and at other times in a more normally conscious state of being.

If one will allow that this alien contact is real, what are the Space Brothers actually saying as they articulate themselves through human contactees? One may be surprised to learn that there is a certain amount of doom-saying inherent in the message, which is tempered by an even bigger preponderance of hope. The Space Brothers promise that a happier, healthier world will eventually come, but only after a period of “cleansing,” much like the tribulation years prophesized in the Bible.

WHAT FORMS MAY OUR POSSIBLE DOOM TAKE?

People have envisioned many ways that the world could end.

In a chapter from “Psychic and UFO Revelations,” writer Tim R. Swartz takes up the unhappy subject of encroaching doom.

“For those who believe in the Space Brothers,” Swartz writes, “we have been warned time and time again that there are many pitfalls and perilous events that could befall us given the least opportunity. That things are ‘shaky,’ because of our attitude toward impending matters both local and international. As the space people see it, all things are interconnected. What you sow is what you reap. The predictions made by the ‘Visitors’ are varied and involve many scenarios as to how civilization as we know it could come to an end.”

Swartz says that how and when the end will come is presently a matter of speculation and debate.

“Will the world end with a bang or with a whimper?” he asks. “By ice or by fire? By our hand or the hand of fate?”

Swartz then provides his own list, based on messages from the Space Brothers as obtained through various “channels,” of possible end-times events. For example, we could suffer a collision with a comet or asteroid. A polar shift could cause the Earth to flip over like an out-of-balance gyroscope. Could humanity be wiped out by a deadly disease? Could climate change be a harbinger of mass destruction? There is, of course, the threat of nuclear warfare, as well as the possibility of an accidental nuclear reactor explosion that could spread deadly radiation throughout the world. There is also something Swartz calls “Death By Divinities,” by which he means the fulfillment of Biblical prophecies of the Antichrist and the inevitable Battle of Armageddon.

“Is the end in sight?” Swartz asks. “Are there signs, portents and hints of catastrophes that we continue to miss out of ignorance? If the end is close, would we choose to try to avert it, or continue to argue about politics, religion and money until it is too late? Or maybe we don’t have to worry about any of this, as some of the Star Commanders, twisting and turning about in our atmosphere, have said they will rescue us and remove the ‘chosen ones’ in a world evacuation. They suggest having a bag packed and ready to go. Decision making time is upon us.”     

THE HOPI PROPHECIES

Beckley writes in “Psychic and UFO Revelations” that it is not just one particular sect, cult or religious denomination that is responsible for these forecasts of doom.

“Just about every culture on Earth,” he writes, “seems to realize that we are treading on dangerous ground and that the future looks quite bleak. For example, the great Native American tribe, the Hopi, feel strongly about this subject.”

A few years after the atom bomb was dropped on Japan in 1945, Hopi prophets attempted to get inside the United Nations in New York so they could present their findings regarding the End Times to the General Assembly. The Hopis based their warning on a sacred stone tablet that had been in their possession for many generations. They asked that the White Man’s ways be mended before it is too late.

Hopi Chief Dan Katchongva

According to Hopi Chief Dan Katchongva, “Many people, living at this time, will live to see the White Brother return to the Earth, and when they do they will live to consider what they could have heard if they had permitted the original inhabitants of these, the Americas, to give a message to that great body of people.” Chief Katchongva was not allowed to deliver his End Times message to the U.N. delegates, and for this he voiced his sad resignation. The following Hopi prophecies are given as signs we should be aware of:

*** A series of earthquakes will be felt throughout this land, and will come as warnings to the people to repent. If they do not heed these warnings and repent before it is too late, a bad earthquake will strike, devastating many cities and resulting in the death of large masses of people.

*** Floods will be seen in places where they have never been seen before.

*** There will be a great climate change worldwide; hot/cold, dry/wet. In each case, it will be the worst in recorded history.

*** There will be famine, pestilence, disease and plague throughout the land.

*** The Hopi were warned not to depend upon great inventions that would be brought to them by the white race. They were told that a lighting system would be established throughout the land and all one had to do was touch the wall to light the room. However, one day, the Hopis were told, this system would be cut off at once and the people would be left in panic. The Hopis were also warned against running water that would come into their homes. This water will be polluted and anyone depending on it will die or get terribly sick.

*** There will be terrible fighting all over the land. City against city, village against village, and family against family. The Hopis were warned to stay on their reservation.

*** The moon will turn to blood, and the sun will hide its face with shame.

*** The seasons will change and ice will flow from the north countries.

As a counterweight to all that gloom, the Hopis also believe that a messiah, a true White Brother wearing a red cap and cloak, will return to Earth and attempt to rescue an errant mankind from its wicked ways. UFO sightings are a common occurrence for these Native Americans, and their belief in their version of the Space Brothers is strong.

TUELLA AND THE ASHTAR COMMAND

Tuella

We come now to the most encouraging of prophets, Tuella and the Ashtar Command. According to Beckley, the main representative on Earth of the Ashtar Command, a commonly referenced aggregate group of guardian Space Brothers, was an elderly woman named Thelma Turrell, who later changed her name to Tuella. As unlikely as it may seem, a frail old woman was the aliens’ choice to receive and record their cosmic messages. The channeled messages are the exact opposite of much of the darker UFO and alien abduction literature.  The channeled material deals with bliss and euphoria and how to build a better world.

“They take a higher spiritual tone,” Beckley says, “than a lot of the other contacts and experiences. People always ridicule this and say it’s a lot of New Age fluff. And they’re right. A lot of the things the channelers say cannot really be verified. But it’s a very positive message that they bring, although of course it’s hard for many people to follow or believe in this chaotic world that we live in.”

Nevertheless, Beckley dares to present Tuella and the Ashtar Command on their own terms, with transcripts of Tuella’s channeling sessions with Ashtar and the other Space Brothers who serve with him. The cover of the new book, “Cosmic Messages from the Space Brothers and Ashtar Command,” credits its dual authorship to both Tuella and the Ashtar Command, acknowledging both the human and alien elements of the process used to create the book. Shortly before Tuella passed away, Beckley bought the rights to her writing and has published it in various forms ever since.

Tuella said that the messages from the Ashtar Command were received “through mental telepathic impressions while fully conscious,” not in a trance state, as is sometimes used by other channelers. The messages came to her from “interdimensional and interplanetary spacecraft.” The vocal communications were tape-recorded as they were delivered and later transcribed, as presented in the book.               

The Space Brothers are concentrating equally hard on sending out positive thoughts of goodwill and brotherly love.

For her part, Tuella states upfront that “The content of this volume stands on its own merits. I do not justify it or in any way come to its defense. It will defend itself. I do not debate nor argue with anyone, or apologize for any messenger who has come forward to speak. To those who do not seek, no argument is possible. To those who do, no argument is necessary.”

The ultimate ruler of the alliance of Space Brothers is an entity who calls himself Kuthumi. In his Foreword to “Cosmic Messages” he tells readers that “The plan for this book has existed on spiritual levels for considerable time. That moment has come when we of the Hierarchy now focus our energies for its manifestation upon the physical plane. The words go forth under my sponsorship. We release them in a simplicity that all might understand.”

Among Kuthumi’s helpers, an umbrella organization called the Cosmic Symposium, are those who represent the Angel Kingdom, the Great Central Sun Government, the Heavenly Host, the Great Karmic Board, the Chohans of Earth Solar System, Universal Masters, and the great Alliance of the Intergalactic Confederation. A divine thread intertwines through all of them, in a united warning of the times and a spiritual call to preparedness.

JUST WHO ARE THESE OTHERWORLDLY MESSENGERS?

One of the entities who speaks through Tuella calls itself “The Elohim,” which is a Hebrew word for God Almighty as a collective-type entity.

“We, the Elohim of God, send our message to the Planet Earth in this appeal to the flesh of this generation to accept the blessings offered to man by the Elohim of Heaven. Unless humanity is willing to accept the outstretched hand of Love, there will come to this planet spasms of tremendous upheaval and loss of life. The forces of destruction that are within the Earth cannot be contained unless your world community will yield itself to a spiritual awakening. Be still and listen to the beat of your hearts and know that within collective creation all hearts beat in tempo with your own. Know that all of life finds its source in the pulse of the Universe.”

This is a message hammered home time and time again in Tuella’s channeled testimony. There is a loving source, the giver of all life, who asks that we repent, change our ways, and accept the love being offered. We have a free will that allows us to receive or reject the gift of world salvation, and our planet’s survival depends on our ability to see the worth and necessity of changing our ways. We can collectively CHOOSE for our planet to live on and become a relative paradise, but the path to that outcome is not an easy one, as the heavenly entities freely admit. It is fraught with danger and trouble like no other time in the history of mankind.

THE LAWS OF NONINTERVENTION

Cosmic guardians are watching over the Earth during these troubled times.

But the heavenly forces can only exert a limited amount of control over our planet and humankind. They are restrained by a policy of nonintervention that cannot be disobeyed, by laws that govern their interaction with us and require us to uplift ourselves by genuine repentance and the willingness to serve the higher purposes.

The Archangel Michael speaks through Tuella of “The Invisible Fortress of Love,” and describes a scenario where he CAN intervene.

When the dark clouds of thought forms of war or international emergencies gather in the heavens surrounding the Earth, Michael says, he intervenes in a concerted action to disperse and scatter these clouds, weakening or dissolving their propulsion’s and destructive energies. But there still remains the threat of nuclear war and the time has come when men of military stature and the statesmen of the world must look beyond the security of their own borders and carefully weigh the threat to humanity everywhere of their decisions.

Michael comforts us by saying, “Let fear not be found among you. Fear hath no place in the heart filled with Light and Love. As your planet enters its next dimension, many will fall or be taken, or meet with mishap, right up to your very doors. Stand ye in Faith and Love, calling upon the Angels of God to stand with you, until this too shall pass.”

Tuella also channels Mother Mary, Jesus the Christ, Saint Germain, Lord Maitreya, Hilarion, Lord Arcturus and James, the Brother of Jesus, to name a few. There is a cohesive energy that binds the various entities together as they warn mankind to repent and accept the love we are being offered, a unified message from a large assortment of faiths and philosophies who seem to simply want our trust. 

BEARING ARTISTIC WITNESS

Carol Ann Rodriguez

We need to say a word or two about the artist Carol Ann Rodriguez, who has partnered with Timothy Green Beckley since the 1970s, when they met at Beckley’s New York School of Occult Arts and Sciences. Carol has long been a careful student of channeled entities, and she continues to seek out the messages from the great beyond in the present day.

Carol’s fertile artistic imagination has conjured many a beautiful image of the Space Brothers, their spacecraft and the spiritual powers driving the collective transformation of the Chosen Ones in these strange, unsteady times. Beckley calls Carol the “female Peter Max,” and her work does have a kind of spacey quality that recalls those long ago psychedelic times beautifully. Carol’s drawings and paintings are used throughout “Psychic and UFO Revelations” and “Cosmic Messages,” and her unique touch is part of what makes the books worth Beckley’s asking price.

IS THERE HOPE FOR HUMANKIND?

UFO channel Diane Tessman, who first engaged with her alien friend Tibus while growing up in Iowa, says we shouldn’t give up hope, that all is not lost by any means. The honey blond haired abductee has been providing spiritually-oriented discourses from her human-looking “cosmic contact” for several decades, having done so shortly after meeting Tim Beckley – circa 1980 – following on the heels of a series of dramatic UFO synchronicities in Florida, where she served as a representative for both MUFON and APRO. Diane was subsequently hypnotized by the well-known UFO researcher Dr. Leo Sprinkle, a psychology professor from the University of Wyoming, in order to validate her experiences. 

Diane Tessman proclaims UFOs could be occupied by time travelers.

Unlike most UFO experiencers, Ms. Tessman holds to the belief that her ET is not a “real” extraterrestrial in the normal sense of the word, and comes a-calling not from deep space but from another time in space, being that he is essentially a time traveler. 

In her recently published “Future humans And UFOs” (Flying Disc Press), Diane maintains that future man is coming back to visit us and to share a bit of wisdom and knowledge that hopefully will be to our advantage and allow us to expand the consciousness of our species and ward off any possible danger.

DIANE TESSMAN’S PHILOSOPHY OF A COSMIC FIRE DRILL

In “Psychic and UFO Revelations for the Twenty First Century,” Diane lays down her theory in a most expressive way, explaining her philosophy that prophecy concerning the future well-being of the human race is like a “fire drill” for what could transpire, but which can still be avoided if we pass the drill wholeheartedly. 

“The super-storms which we predicted are now regularly happening all over the planet,” writes Diane, “sometimes with torrential rains, flooding, and F4/F5 tornadoes. Other times with debilitating snowstorms. Also, there are massive wildfires, droughts, mudslides and sink holes as never before. Volcanoes and earthquakes are revving up. 

“What have I learned about making predictions over these 38 years?” she continues. “I have learned that when fire breaks out in a crowded theater, someone has to hit the alarm bell. Everyone perceives the fire, everyone would hit the bell, but it seems to be the purpose of those of us who write books and who receive messages from beyond to hit the alarm as long and hard as we can. This is part of our spiritual connection and responsibility; we are the designated pullers of the alarm. It is my hope that by ringing the alarm bell, human consciousness will come together and wake up! If we can wake up, we stand on the threshold of an amazing step forward in evolution. I believe the galactic community awaits our step forward.”

Yes, dark days could be on the horizon, but sunny days could follow.

“These dark days are part of humanity’s great freedom struggle,” Diane warns, “to become a united people, overcoming three huge, enslaving aspects of all of our lives. There are three aspects to our struggle: 1. We will secure ourselves the use of free, endless energy 2. We will achieve Disclosure of the fact we are not alone in the universe 3. We will begin interaction with UFO occupants as one intelligent galactic (and/or dimensional) species to another

“The first shackle to cast off is our dependence on oil and similar energy sources. We know of our ridiculous enslavement to big oil; however, natural gas now uses the fracking method which has already caused numerous earthquake clusters, because it literally guts the Earth’s water table and rock structure. This is a damaging, dangerous method of extracting natural gas. Generating electricity gobbles up oil and the other finite resources, wounding Mother Earth in the process and all the while placing trillions upon trillions of dollars into the pockets of multi-national conglomerates which have such far-reaching tentacles we cannot even fathom them. Their enslavement of all of us is so insidious that most of the enslaved do not even know we are enslaved.

“Our Sun pumps out a half a million tons of electrons every second. It has been doing this for billions of years. There is an unimaginable amount of raw power in its purest form out there, waiting for us to learn how to tap into it. Why should we need to generate electricity at all, when the electron is so abundantly and freely available? What we do need is to devise a way to simply collect it.

“The second aspect of the next great freedom fight is that ‘We, the People of Earth,’ will succeed in our demands that the existence in our skies of UFOs and their occupants be made known to us in full. We will succeed in obtaining the truth about the history of our planet as well. No, we will not run in panic into the streets in utter chaos, as our government tells us will happen. Our struggle will be intelligent and peaceful; we can handle the truth.”

Very well spoken. Hopefully the news ahead – especially from the Space Brothers – will be of a positive nature and there will be a long period of peace and harmony for our great world as it spins in space, not alone, but lovingly nurtured by benevolent forces instead.

Meanwhile, Kuthumi, the highest authority quoted in “Cosmic Messages,” says the channeled words of Tuella and the others are “not for eloquence, entertainment or intellectual fare . . . neither profound nor prophetic, but rather timely and emphatic. They are lowered into the physical octave specifically for preparing certain souls who are now ready to receive them.”

And as Tuella herself declares, “Read not to contradict, nor to believe and take for granted, but to weigh and consider.”

Sean Casteel.

SUGGESTED READING:

“PSYCHIC AND UFO REVELATIONS FOR THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY.”

“COSMIC MESSAGES FROM THE SPACE BROTHERS AND THE ASHTAR COMMAND.”

“FUTURE HUMANS AND UFOS,” BY DIANE TESSMAN

“TIM SWARTZ’S BIG BOOK OF INCREDIBLE ALIEN ENCOUNTERS” (includes Diane’s UFO synchronicities.)

YouTube Channel – Over 400 Interviews – “Mr. UFO’s Secret Files.”

THE MAD, MAD WORLD OF THE CONTROLLERS – THE GREAT COSMIC CONSPIRACY

By Sean Casteel

The stock wisdom is that for any government to succeed, it needs to win the “hearts and minds” of its people. Leaving aside the sentimental overtones of “hearts,” perhaps the biggest struggle is to win the MINDS of the people – not by persuasion but by force. That leads us to the ugly term “mind control,” which is the primary focus of the new, expanded, and revised “The Controllers,” recently published by Timothy Green Beckley and his Global Communications publishing house.

The Controllers

There are many elements to this book. Almost every conspiracy you could think of is tackled. The basic concept is that there is an outside intelligence operating behind almost everything we do, plotting against us even before we awake in the morning. Beckley draws on his pool of writers and researchers – namely the mysterious Commander X, Tim R. Swartz, William Kern, and Beckley himself – to produce an engrossing study of the subject of mind control as perpetrated by both human and alien oppressors of mankind.

A NAVY INSIDER PREDICTS A COSMIC PICTURE SHOW

There are many “false flags” and disinformation programs being thrown at
us. William Kern accuses various government agencies of collusion in a program called “Project Blue Beam,” a deception intended to take captive the minds of people throughout the world by methods that may surprise you. Kern spent 20 years in the U.S. Navy and takes belief and non-belief in the UFO phenomenon very seriously, though he is not at liberty to divulge most of what he knows. Kern nevertheless describes what he thinks Project Blue Beam is all about.

“The basic purpose of Project Blue Beam,” Kern writes, “is to establish a New Age religion in the world. According to conspiracy theorists, without the universal belief in a New Age religion, the success of the New World Order will be impossible.”

The United Nations and NASA are two of the entities named by Kern as conspiring to bring this massive deception to life. According to Kern, there is a four-step plan laid out and waiting to be implemented “In the first step,” Kern explains, “the government will fake earthquakes at precise locations all around the planet. The widespread occurrence of natural disasters will sow fears in the minds of the general public and pave the way for step two of the project.”

Step two marks the real beginning of Project Blue Beam.

Project Blue Beam.

“This step involves a gigantic space show,” Kern continues, “where three dimensional projections will be used to project holograms in the skies all around the globe. As per theorists, the projections will be made in the shape of particular deities which are dominant in particular regions. At the end of this gigantic cosmic show, all the projected gods will merge into one sole entity, ‘The Antichrist.’” Even comparatively mundane UFO sightings are said to be figments created by Project Blue Beam, intended as a method of checking the efficiency of their projecting hardware.

Step three is the most complicated phase of Project Blue Beam.

“In this phase,” Kern writes, “using Telepathic Electronic Two-Way Communication, authorities will make people think that God is talking to them directly. Extremely Low Frequency waves will be used to manipulate the thoughts of the general public. However, the feasibility of the successful completion of this phase still remains a dilemma.”

In step four, people will be led to believe that a global alien invasion is imminent and that accepting the New World Order is the only way to be saved. A falsified Second Coming and a technologically faked Rapture are also part of the overall blueprint for enslaving the minds of all humankind.

THE SUPERMODEL’S SECRET LIFE

Candy Jones

Another kind of mind control is discussed by Tim R. Swartz in a chapter called “Mental Armageddon: The Quest For Mind Control.” Swartz begins by
giving us the history of an unfortunate victim named Candy Jones – whom publisher Tim Beckley knew very well, being a frequent guest on her all-night talk show when she took over for her late husband, Long John Nebel, who died of cancer.

“Candy Jones was a woman who seemed to have it all,” Swartz writes. “She was a successful model who owned her own modeling agency. She was a popular author who wrote such books as ‘Make Your Name in Modeling and Television” and ‘Candy Jones’ Complete Book of Beauty and Fashion.’ She was married to Long John Nebel, the country’s most listened to late-night talk show host, who broadcast on New York radio station WOR. However, it soon became apparent to her new husband that Candy’s world was far more complex than even she could ever imagine.”

Nebel became aware that Candy suffered from insomnia and that there were abrupt changes in her usual congenial disposition. Candy told Nebel that years before their marriage she had been approached by the FBI and asked if she would allow them to use her office as a mail drop. She had said yes, and also agreed to deliver mail for the FBI when traveling on business because she thought it was her patriotic duty. She had no idea what she was getting into.

While under hypnosis, which Nebel had suggested would help her insomnia, Candy began speaking in another voice that identified herself as
“Arlene Grant.” This second personality revealed that Jones had once delivered a package for the FBI to a doctor in Oakland, California. The doctor, known by the pseudonym of “Gilbert Jensen,” offered her money to allow him to hypnotize her, and she accepted because she was recently divorced and nearly broke at the time. Afterwards, Jensen told Jones that the hypnosis had not worked, but the Arlene personality told Nebel that it had.

“Under hypnosis,” Swartz goes on, “Jensen told Candy that she was to be a messenger for the CIA in a secret unit whose employees were not listed in headquarters records. Jensen said she needed a passport under an assumed
name, as she would sometimes travel abroad. The name she chose was Arlene Grant. In order to serve, she needed to be in top health and was given injections of vitamins. But rather than vitamins, Jones was given drugs designed to bring out and reinforce the Arlene personality.”

When she assumed the Arlene personality, Jones wore a dark wig and changed her style of dress and her speaking tone. Arlene was supposedly sent to training camps where she learned to kill with her bare hands, a hatpin or anything else that was handy. The Arlene personality could be triggered by a telephone call with particular sounds, and, after the mission was completed, the normal personality remembered nothing. These missions frequently involved world travel to deliver messages. Jones was once even subjected to torture at a seminar at CIA headquarters as a means of demonstrating the psychiatrist’s control over his subjects.

Photo from a passport issued under the name of “Arlene Grant” – but was actually Candy Jones in disguise.

As crazy as all this sounds, Swartz contends that there is some evidence to support the story. Candy told Joe Vergara, her editor at Harper and Row, that she sometimes worked for a government agency as a courier and might disappear occasionally. There was also a letter she wrote to her attorney, William Williams, to cover herself in case she died or disappeared suddenly or under unusual circumstances; she told him she was not free to reveal exactly what she was involved in. Also, a passport was discovered among Jones’ possessions that had been issued under the name Arlene Grant. The photo showed Jones wearing a dark wig. Freedom of Information Act requests have revealed that the CIA does have a substantial file on Jones but refuses to release any part of it. Jones died of cancer in 1990 at the age of sixty-four. Meanwhile, there are other cases with similarities to Jones’ story. The disturbing question is, how many other innocent victims of hypnotic manipulation are unknowingly being used to further someone else’s secret agenda?

The recordings of Jones’ hypnosis sessions were published in a 1974 book
called “The Control of Candy Jones” by Donald Bain. At the time, tales of CIA mind control and brainwashing were considered the stuff of espionage fiction. “However, since then,” Swartz writes, “new revelations on mind control experiments have been uncovered showing that not only the CIA but intelligence agencies all over the world have been pursuing mind control programs and the ultimate control of the human mind.”

THE MILITARY AND MIND CONTROL

Swartz also provides a history of the military’s interest in mind control in a section of his chapter called “Cleansing of the Mind.” “Most of human history,” Swartz writes, “has been a series of efforts by some people to control what other people think. The notion that the human mind could be influenced by an outside source was popularized by Edward Hunter in his 1951 book ‘Brainwashing in Red China.’ During the Korean War, American prisoners renounced their citizenship in radio broadcasts and many signed confessions against American interests, including charges, still debated today, that the United States was engaged in germ warfare with anthrax. For Americans to abandon their ideals, the Communists must have devised some nefarious new means of thought control – or so it was thought.”

Hunter suggested that a new process of indoctrination had been developed
by the Chinese Communists and that they had discovered an intense manipulation process that had the insidious power to actually alter the mental outlook of those who fell victim to it. “Brainwashing” was Hunter’s version of the Chinese term “hsi-nao,” loosely translated as “cleansing of the mind.” Hunter wrote that the word “brainwashing” had a more “flesh-and-blood” quality than a more clinical alternative, “menticide,” which means “murder of the mind.” “At the end of the war,” Swartz recounts, “it was determined that some of the primary methods used on American prisoners included sleep deprivation and other intense psychological manipulations designed to break down the autonomy of individuals.”

Programming certain American servicemen to renounce their country provided some propaganda benefits. It also helped to keep prisoners docile and easier to guard.

ALONG CAME JONES

Swartz offers up the possibility that modern research and experiments in the field of mind control go back as far (and probably farther) as World War II. Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the War Department in Washington summoned George Estabrooks, chairman of the Department of Psychology at Colgate University, to consult with him about the possible use of hypnosis as a weapon of war.

Estabrooks reportedly told the War Department that he believed that one in five adult humans is capable of being placed in a trance so deep that they will have no memory of it. They could be hypnotized secretly by using a “disguised” technique and given a post-hypnotic suggestion. Using this method, a dual personality could be created, a perfect double agent with an unshakable cover.

George Estabrooks

In a 1971 article in “Science Digest,” Estabrooks detailed how he “programmed” American spies with hypnosis. During World War II, he hypnotized a Marine lieutenant named Jones and split his personality into Jones A and Jones B. Jones A, once a “normal” working Marine, became entirely different. He began to spout communist doctrine quite sincerely and was welcomed by communist cells. He was deliberately given a dishonorable discharge by the Corps (who was aware of the plot) and became a card-carrying Communist Party member. However, Jones B, while under hypnosis, had been carefully coached by suggestion.

“Jones B was the deeper personality,” Swartz continues, “and knew all the thoughts of Jones A. Jones B was a loyal American and was imprinted to say
nothing during conscious phases. All Estabrooks had to do was hypnotize the whole man, get in touch with Jones B, the loyal American, and there was a pipeline straight into the communist camp. The technique worked beautifully, according to Estabrooks. This amazing admission by Estabrooks on the use of hypnosis to create the perfect spy or soldier shows that the human mind can be easily harnessed for the purposes of others. It is hard to believe that even more sophisticated techniques for hypnotic mind control have not been perfected in the years since those early experiments.”

MIND CONTROL OF THE NONHUMAN KIND

Richard S. Shaver

Not all mind control is the result of human cloak-and-dagger machinations. “The Controllers” also presents information on mind control as perpetrated by creatures we might call “paranormal.”

One example would be the work of Richard Shaver, a Pennsylvania autoworker who heard “voices” through his welding gun and would come to write at great length about underground beings, their control of surface society, and the constant war against humanity being waged by a sinister group of subterranean dwellers he identified as “the Dero,” which stood for “degenerate robot.”

Richard Shaver’s “Dero” were first introduced to the world in the March, 1945 issue of “Amazing Stories” magazine.

In spite of laughter and scorn, Shaver stuck to his guns throughout his life, telling those who would listen about the reality of these savage inner “eartherians” whom, Shaver insisted, actually kidnapped thousands of humans each year, kept them in small cages, controlled their minds through ancient ray machines, had all manner of perverted, and unthinkable, sex with their captives, and even ate the flesh right off the bones of their kidnapped victims. Shaver believed that the Dero hope to gain mastery of the surface and are able to control the minds of many world leaders to force them to commit inhuman acts against their own citizens, including starting large-scale wars. No one is safe from the Dero, Shaver said. He also believed that much of what we call the UFO phenomenon is actually a matter of ships coming from the interior of the Earth (as opposed to outer space) or illusionary projections created by the Dero ray machines in the caverns down below.

Interwoven throughout “The Controllers” are stories of the alien abductors popularized by writers like Whitley Strieber and the late Budd Hopkins. It was Hopkins who coined the term “screen memories” to describe how an abductee’s mind has the true conscious recollection of whatever the encounter consisted of, which is often repellent and horrifying, replaced by a more “acceptable” memory that makes the abductee feel safe and non-violated.

This ability to control the thoughts and memories of their chosen human subjects is attributed to the ubiquitous gray aliens and the less frequently seen reptilian/serpentine aliens. This complete level of control may be achieved through the use of so-called “alien implants,” particularly implants inserted through the nasal passages on up into the brain. Such devices have been seen in MRI scans of the brain, as in the case of Whitley Strieber, but are located in places that make surgical removal impossible.

When faced with all the evidence for both human and alien mind control, there are those who dream of somehow resisting “The Controllers” by any means necessary. Then there are others who believe that struggling against the superior powers and technologies of the mind-controlling entities is a futile effort, as well as being a lonely kind of combat that the majority of our fellows will not even acknowledge is real. And if we cannot trust our thoughts to be our own, we can only hope that some vestige of the truth is still contained within them. For those open to a “paranoid” history of our Earth and its many counterfeit races, this is a must-read for you. The Illuminati is fair game as is the New World Order and any other secret society – planetary or interplanetary – that wants to enslave humankind – thus the title, “The Controllers.”

Sean Casteel.

SUGGESTED READING

The Controllers-Who Really Controls Planet Earth?: Exposing The Existence of the Soulless Ones, the Elders, the Dero, the Illuminati, the Counterfeit Race, and the Greatest Conspiracy on Earth

Project Alien Mind Control – UFO Review Special: The New UFO Terror
Tactic

Matrix Of The Mind: UFO Abductions – MK Ultra – And Electronic
Harassment Technology Designed To Warp Your Brain

The Matrix Control System of Philip K. Dick And The Paranormal
Synchronicities of Timothy Beckley

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THE STUNNING COLOR PHOTOS OF UFO CONTACTEE PAUL VILLA — TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE?

By Sean Casteel

UFO contactee Paul Villa produced a plethora of credible photos of UFOs/flying saucers that are just as vital today as they were when they were taken decades ago. Villa’s wonderful full color pictures of hovering alien spacecraft have never been successfully debunked even after the passage of more than 50 years. Not that the skeptics haven’t tried. Those who know a bit about the photo process have to admit these are much better, and more authentic looking, than those of Billy Meier.

Paul Villa

Publisher Timothy Green Beckley has recently made available a book called “The Secret UFO Contacts of Paul Villa” and spared no expense with the printing costs. While many similar books offer only grainy, blurry, black and white smears called “authentic” photos, Villa’s photos here are sharp, clear and in living color. Some, Beckley boasts, have never been published before!

The Secret UFO Contacts of Paul Villa

Beckley first became aware of Villa when the publisher received a box of postcards in the mail from UFO aficionado Gabriel Green, who was also a publisher, convention sponsor and promoter. (Both the postcard and the original photo are included in the new book.) Green had carved out a niche for himself as the chief supporter of the New Age branch of the flying saucer movement, meaning he believed the UFO occupants were a benevolent race whose goal was to rescue mankind from the doom it seemed so inevitably to be heading toward.

The postcards featured the photo of a flying saucer that Beckley described as “almost too realistic looking to be legitimate. Many of the serious-type UFOlogists took it as a hoax, but they did not have the opportunity to see the full array of pictures taken by this gentleman, whom everyone said was almost a recluse, hiding out in his trailer before the Men-In-Black – or some other sinister group – attempted to burn his living quarters to the ground.”
According to Beckley, probably a hundred thousand of the Paul Villa postcards were distributed.

One of the postcards from UFO aficionado Gabriel Green.

“For a long while,” Beckley writes, “this was the most frequently published picture of a UFO, gracing many a newspaper and periodical. Gabe was going to see that the postcard was distributed far and wide because he had a great interest in what Paul Villa had to say about his contacts with extraterrestrials from Coma Berenices.”

Along with UFO abductee and channeler Diane Tessman, Beckley visited Gabe Green at his home, where some of Villa’s photos adorned the walls.
“There are some who thought that Mr. Green was overly passionate,” Beckley writes, “in putting his faith into what Villa and the other contactees had to say, so strange were the descriptions of their ongoing encounters and contacts, which included claiming to meet highly advanced beings from the other side of the cosmos and in some cases actually going for rides in their craft from the stars.”

Beckley provides even more background on Gabriel Green, who became a regular attendee and speaker at popular saucer events and organized his own group, the Amalgamated Flying Saucer Clubs of America (AFSCA). Green also taught others how they too could make psychic contacts with far-distant beings. Green ran for president in 1960, against Richard Nixon and John Kennedy. He put together a complete campaign platform, covering a range of economic and social policies based on information received from the Space People. Despite some early enthusiasm for his campaign, Green withdrew from the race in October and endorsed Kennedy.

Super channel and UFO investigator Diane Tessman poses with Gabe Green in his Joshua Tree, California, home, with some of Villa’s photos on the wall behind them.

Green died in 2001 in Yucca Valley, near Giant Rock, the original nexus of the Saucerian Movement, where he had continued his work as a medium, relaying messages from the Space People and the Ashtar Command to their true believers. Prior to Green’s passing, Beckley bought the rights to a book UFO researcher Col. Wendelle Stevens had compiled on Paul Villa, originally published as “UFO Contact from Coma Berenices.”

Wendelle Stevens was a leading UFOlogist for more than 50 years and the creator of one of the largest private UFO photo archives known. He became interested in the UFO phenomenon while he served in the Air Force after World War II and encountered mysterious radio transmissions while working on a classified project to photograph and map the Arctic wastes using new technology. In 1979, after retiring from the Air Force, he published the four-volume “UFO Contact from the Pleiades,” which detailed the alien encounters of Edouard “Billy” Meier, who also had taken impressive-looking photos of UFOs near his home in Switzerland. Stevens was the Director of Investigations for the now defunct Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) and a founder of the International UFO Congress. He died in 2010.

Col. Wendelle Stevens

Stevens became aware of Villa when Gabriel Green published some of Villa’s photos in his “UFO International” publication in October of 1965. Beckley reprints a portion of Green’s original newsletter, which Beckley called “the journalistic voice of the contactees, who spoke of friendly aliens.”

In his preface to his book, Wendelle Stevens writes, “Very little has ever been written about Apolinar (Paul) Villa and his remarkable long-term ongoing UFO contacts with alien extraterrestrial human beings and his several remarkable series of photographs of the posed alien ships. His contacts began, like most others, with sightings, then an awareness of their presence when they were here. This eventually developed into face-to-face contact and personal interaction with them, the extraterrestrials.

“When they invited him to bring his camera,” Stevens continues, “a simple Japanese 120 box version, they flew their ships slowly, hovered, and posed the craft for good pictures, which he did get in series and sequence. Handicapped by a slow shutter speed and a simple low resolution lens, he nevertheless managed to get a number of excellent color photographs.”
Beckley says one of the most fascinating elements of several of the photos consists of several “ball bearing-like” smaller craft which can be seen to circle the much larger disc. “I do not understand how they could be kept aloft if the larger UFO had been tossed into the air. It’s like they defy gravity . . .”

THE MAN HIMSELF

Paul Villa was born on September 24, 1916, in Albuquerque, of NativeAmerican/Spanish descent. While he did not complete the tenth grade, he had a good working knowledge of mathematics, physics, electricity and mechanics and was particularly gifted at detecting defects in engines and generators. His wife, Eunis, was a “war bride” from Germany; the couple met when Villa was serving as a sergeant in the U.S. Army occupational forces after the war. He brought Eunis back from Europe, and they settled in Southern California.

COMING TO KNOW THE SPACEMEN

Villa said he first spoke with spacemen in 1953 when he worked for the Department of Water and Power in Los Angeles. While on the job one day in Long Beach, he had a strong urge to go down to the beach, a feeling he did not then understand. There he met a man about seven feet tall. Villa’s first impulse was to run away, but the man called him by name and told him many personal things about himself.

“He knew everything I had in my mind,” Villa said, “and he told me many things that had taken place in my life. He then told me to look out beyond the reef. I saw a metallic-looking, disc-shaped object that seemed to be floating on the water. Then the spaceman asked me if I would like to go aboard the craft and look around. I went with him.”

For Villa, the aliens were entirely human-looking, though more uniformly attractive than Earth people and definitely more refined in face and form. They took Villa on a tour of the saucer and confided in him that the whole galaxy to which Earth belongs is a grain of sand on a huge beach compared to the unfathomable number of inhabited bodies in the entire universe.
They said their craft are constantly active over our planet and that they are here on a friendly mission to help Earth people.

THE PHOTOS BEGIN

The extraterrestrials spoke to Villa in his native Spanish but also spoke English fluently with him as well. They told him they had been observing the development of our “dubious civilization” from observation platforms on our Moon, Mars and Venus.

It is difficult for even the most critical skeptic to debunk Paul Villa’s color UFO photos.

Initially, Villa’s photos were greeted with some suspicion, even within the UFO community. Coral Lorenzen, who co-founded, along with her husband, Jim, the aforementioned Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, visited Villa at his home and asked him pointblank how he had faked the photos.
Villa responded, sarcastically, “Well, my dear lady, you just make yourself a model and toss it in the air and photograph it.”

Stevens later wrote that such a deception is not easily carried out. In fact, he tried doing it himself and, by the third photo, his model was ruined. It was also impossible to get the model in the correct attitude and angle simply by tossing it up in front of the camera.

The photos Villa took are breathtaking to look at and do appear to show actual flying saucers set against lovely desert scenery. There are different types of ships from photo to photo, which is consistent with UFO witness accounts since the 1940s and has led some analysts to think we are being visited by several different alien races and civilizations. That theory accounts for the many types of occupants reported, from the grays to the reptilians to the blonde, human-looking Nordics.

Villa took this photo of a “mini-UFO,” accompanied by several “silver balls,” on January 19, 1966.

AN UNHAPPY CASE OF FAME

The notoriety that came with being “chosen” to take the photos did not make life easy for Villa, however. He suffered many instances of harassment, including an incident that happened when he stopped off at a local tavern on his way home from work. As Villa was sipping his beer, a complete stranger walked up to him and said, “So you’re the nut that said he is talking to spacemen?” The stranger next punched Villa in the nose, drawing blood.

Villa never forgot that moment of genuine violence. He was often forced to move his wife and household to new locations after such incidents, which included neighbors attacking his mobile home and even some very frightening visits from the dreaded Men-In-Black. People who found him in Albuquerque, where he had relocated his family from Los Angeles after the photos appeared in the “UFO International Journal,” took things from around his home for souvenirs.

The thoughtless interlopers infuriated him and the incidents necessitated another move, this time to an obscure small town in the remote desert south of Albuquerque.

Tim R. Swartz, a writer, Emmy Award-winning producer and Tim Beckley’s co-host on the podcast “Exploring the Bizarre” on the KCOR internet radio network, provides some further insight into this aspect of Villa’s story in the book “The Secret UFO Contacts of Paul Villa.” “From all accounts, it seems that Villa was very much a reluctant contactee,” Swartz writes. “His encounters are almost textbook examples of the ‘typical contactee meeting.’ In his interviews, Villa talks of friendly space people who are beautiful, almost angelic, in appearance, offering up explanations on how the universe works and what role Planet Earth plays within it.

On September 24, 1972, Villa captured this photo of a small UFO slowly flying around his truck.

But Villa didn’t hit the UFO conference circuit to promote his experiences or sell photos. He pretty much stayed quiet about the whole affair unless he was asked first.

“Thanks to Gabriel Green and his ‘International UFO Journal,’” Swartz continues, “Villa’s photographs became widely publicized, yet, at the time, almost nothing was known about the man who took them. Col. Wendelle Stevens, the primary author of this book, actually took the time to visit Villa at his home and listen to his story without passing immediate judgment.”
Swartz writes further that Villa, for the most part, shunned publicity, refusing to talk to the press or even to UFO researchers.

“He claimed that his life had been threatened,” Swartz goes on, “and once someone even took a shot at him while he was in his pickup truck. Those who did talk with him found him credible. The late Bill Sherwood, who was an optical physicist and a senior project development engineer for the Eastman-Kodak company said that, ‘Villa never tried to use his personal experiences for monetary gain. To me, he always seemed humble and sincere; unimpressed by the attention he received from the Secretary-General of the United Nations, U Thant, who called him at his workshop to discuss his experiences with the extraterrestrials.”

Villa shared his beliefs with well-known UFO researcher and author Timothy Good, telling him that there were three distinct groups of aliens visiting Earth, including “certainly one that is good.” Villa stated that the space people had hundreds of bases within our solar system on Earth, Mars and the Moon. The group Villa belonged to worked with about 70 contactees in the U.S. and about 300 worldwide.

“Unfortunately,” Swartz writes, “there is still a lot of information about Villa’s contacts that will never be known. Like many other contact cases, we are left to ponder the strange circumstances of the reluctant contactee Paul Villa and his mysterious friends from beyond.”

Villa died of stomach cancer in 1980 at age 64 and was buried in Santa Fe. Some of his photos were never made public, including a series that was reportedly taken on another planet. Wendelle Stevens writes that he had lost touch with Villla’s widow, Eunis Villa, and appealed to readers of “The Secret Life of Paul Villa” for any information they had that would enable him to contact her and get a look at those rumored, long lost photos. We may never know everything the UFO occupants revealed to Villa, but the idea that there is further photographic evidence to be seen is certainly a tantalizing one.

“The Secret UFO Contacts of Paul Villa” also touches on the 1963 photos of miniature UFOs photographed by Christian Lynggaard in Aalborg, Denmark. The book includes two of Christian’s photos. There is also a brief account of Harold Trudel, who photographed two tiny, silvery, metallic, disc-shaped flying objects in July 1966 at Woonsocket, Rhode Island.

The book has an added bonus feature, a chapter on the Italian “Friendship Case” from 1956, illustrated with a photo from 1976 of an alleged alien over 8 foot tall who seems to dwarf the trees in the background. In the interest of disclosure, I wrote the “Friendship” chapter and another chapter that provides a basic overview of Villa’s personal history.

But the real beauty of “The Secret UFO Contacts of Paul Villa” is, of course, Villa’s photos. This new full color and expanded edition is more than worth the cover price for its faithful rendering of some of the best, most believable and historic UFO photos ever captured on film. You will turn the pages in wonder and awe as the reality of the alien presence penetrates your consciousness through the medium of Villa’s photos.

Sean Casteel.

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OUR HOLLOW EARTH — A PLACE BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL?

By Sean Casteel

Timothy Green Beckley’s “Our Hollow Earth: An Inner World Paradise, Or a Gateway to Hell?”

Do heaven and hell actually exist as physical locations? Can one step outside of the boundaries of religious and cultural conditioning that for millennia have told us that the two places exist outside the physical realm as places to be found only in spiritual dimensions that are unreachable by the living?

Timothy Green Beckley and his stable of venerable writers and researchers invite you to consider the possibility that the territories we think of as the afterlife – the dichotomies of heaven and hell – are in fact physical places concealed throughout eternity in the bowels of the Earth. 

This is the theme of Beckley’s latest group project, the book called “Our Hollow Earth: An Inner World Paradise, Or A Gateway To Hell?” Since the book provides excellent arguments to support either case, it is up to the reader to determine which authors’ testimonies are more credible.

Beckley’s introduction pulls no punches when he writes: “Frankly, the text books – the truth according to our ‘experts’ – are all wrong! If you think life exists only on the surface of the planet, you have been listening to the ‘party line’ way too long, for there are those who see the Earth as being multilayered, and that what goes on ‘above’ definitely goes on ‘below’ – and maybe more so to the extreme.”

THE NOTION OF HELL BENEATH US

Richard Shaver wrote about an ancient race of beings that he called the Dero who moved underground eons ago when the surface world became inhospitable for them.

“One case for an Inner Earth hell,” Beckley continues, “is found in the wickedly profound tales of one Richard S. Shaver, who claimed he knew about a race of underground beings he called the Dero. For eons, the Dero had been polluting humankind’s minds with murderous thoughts and were responsible for plagues, ‘natural’ disasters, wars and all manner of evil deeds. They inflicted these woes upon humankind through the use of ancient laser-like ‘stem rays’ shot forth from their cavernous dwellings, hidden out of sight below the very bottoms of our feet.”

According to Beckley, Shaver said there was a real hell and it was located not in some mythical place but down below, right beneath us, toward the center of the earth. Like it or not, fundamentalist “scholars” tell us quite clearly that hell is for real and located inside the earth, making reference to Ephesians 4:9, which says of Jesus: “Now in saying that He ascended, what does it mean but that He also descended into the LOWER PARTS OF THE EARTH?” The reports of some who have experienced a Near Death Experience say they were thrown into the fiery lakes of hell and that “this place seems to be UNDERGROUND or WITHIN THE EARTH in some way.”

Shaver’s belief in a literal, physical hell was the result of demonic voices in his head.

“From as far back as I can remember,” Shaver writes, “there were the voices. They weren’t there all the time, but they were there enough that they played an important role in my early childhood development. At first I thought that everyone heard the voices. I thought there was nothing strange about being awakened at night with the hideous screams of someone being torn limb from limb ringing in your ears. I thought it was normal to hear the maniacal laughing of an invisible someone who thought it was a fine joke to see an innocent soul run down by a speeding train. I thought everyone knew that the voices were with us all of the time, watching, waiting, and scheming for our bloody deaths. But I was wrong. It seemed that I was the only one who heard the voices. I learned quickly not to talk about them, lest I be thought a maniac.”

Shaver’s voices gradually faded from his life and became only a distant childhood memory. They returned, however, when he was an adult working at an auto plant in Detroit. He began to hear them through the noise of the machinery, conversing among themselves about gleefully tearing the skin off a woman as she screamed for mercy or causing cars and planes to crash. 

“From as far back as I can remember,” Shaver writes, “there were the voices. I thought there was nothing strange about being awakened at night with the hideous screams of someone being torn limb from limb ringing in your ears.”

He concluded he must be quite insane, quit his job, began to live a hobo life and took to alcohol to try to block the voices out. He found himself confined to a prison or mental hospital – he seems unclear on which – and came to believe the voices came from people living in caves beneath the institution where he was incarcerated, tormenting him and the other prisoners with strange technologies he compared to some kind of x-rays.

Shaver writes: “My problems, I realized, did not stem from some kind of mental impairment. I wasn’t crazy in the traditional sense, even though at times I felt like I was being driven mad by the hateful rays that were being beamed at me by the people below. No, I was sane in an insane world.

“I have often wondered,” he continues, “how many people who have been institutionalized because they were diagnosed as crazy were in fact victims, such as myself, of the damnable rays. Did they themselves think that they were insane because of the voices they heard in their heads and voluntarily committed themselves? Even today I still wonder if most forms of mental illness are not actually insidious attacks from the world below.”

Over time, perhaps as a method of coping with the voices, Shaver began to develop a myth or a narrative to explain them. He writes about the coming of the “Titans,” a humanoid race that migrated from their home planet and settled on Earth long before mankind was created. The Titans created the first civilization on the Earth, a social and scientific utopia that has never been equaled since.

But there came a time when the sun began to flare in dangerous ways and Earth was flooded with world-destroying radiation. The Titans had no choice but to flee, but some of them stubbornly refused to abandon their homes and instead moved underground or beneath the seas. They took their great machines and scientific knowledge with them, in hopes of someday finding a solution to the solar radiation and returning to live on the Earth’s surface.

But even deep within the Earth, the solar radiation continued to affect them. They tried moving deeper into the planet, but to no avail.

“Those who did not die immediately,” Shaver writes, “suffered genetic damage that was passed down from generation to generation. Eventually, this once mighty race was reduced to mutated horrors, retarded in intelligence and social structure. Worse still, these monstrosities still had access to the self-repairing machines of their ancestors. But instead of using them for their intended purposes, they used them to satisfy their sick, twisted desires. These are the demons of ancient myth and folklore.”

They are the masters of a very REAL Hell! 

IS THE CENTER OF THE EARTH TEEMING WITH LIFE?

Of course, stories about various locales inside the Earth are nothing new. Unlike Shaver’s tales of the demonic Dero who inhabit a cavern world, the inhabitants of the actual Hollow Earth, located at the planet’s core, are also said to be peaceful in countenance, but wish to keep their existence a secret for fear that the surface “warmongers” will want to invade.

A few years ago, when Beckley reprinted the long out-of-print edition and expanded upon the original version of “The Smoky God And Other Inner Earth Mysteries,” he knew going in that there isn’t anything new under the sun – even the central sun said to light the interior of our planet!

The story of the Smoky God is dramatic and tells of a fantastic journey by father and son to a place inhabited by gentle giants. In contrast to the rather admittedly demented Richard Shaver, who made no effort to conceal his hearing voices inside his head, voices that drove him nearly insane (he is said to have been locked in an insane asylum for several years), most of the tales of a Hollow Earth are rather benign. As a further example, one need only examine the works of Tibetan mystic T. Lobsang Rampa, who called the paradise located in the Inner Earth “Agharta.” Beckley’s Global Communications publishing house has republished many of Rampa’s books in excellent new editions.

THE DARKNESS OF THE HUMAN ELEMENT

Admiral Richard E. Byrd.

But the story of the Inner Earth does not always involve supernatural entities like demons or highly-evolved, benevolent, heavenly personages. There is also plenty of everyday human evil thrown into the mix. Take the story of Admiral Byrd, for instance, about whom many questions remain.

Admiral Richard E. Byrd is thought of as an iconic American hero. But what was he concealing from the public, and why did he swear to secrecy a handpicked group from among the crews that accompanied him on his polar expeditions?

In 1938, the Nazis asked Byrd to join their expedition to the North Pole, which the admiral quite naturally declined. The Nazis went there without him, seeking to make contact with a hidden race of supermen by finding a doorway into the Hollow Earth that was believed to exist in the icy northern wastelands. Did the Nazis succeed in making that contact? Did they get alien assistance in building their own disc-shaped aircraft?

Investigator Tim Cridland has delved deeply into the death of President Kennedy and the existence of a Hollow Earth.

Ace Fortean advocate Tim Cridland presents not only photographic proof of the existence of massive holes at the North and South Poles, which are usually covered with a thick cloud layer, thus disguising the entrances there, but also explores the close connection between a member of the Byrd family and the assassination of a beloved president. 

The admiral’s cousin, David Harold Byrd, was an oil-rich financier from Texas who funded some of Admiral Byrd’s earlier polar expeditions. By virtue of his wealth, Harold Byrd was part of the inner circle of the rich and powerful in Texas, which included Lyndon Johnson and John Connelly. Did the secret cabal somehow have a hand in the assassination of John F. Kennedy? Was the conspiracy of murder birthed in a Houston hotel room?

In any case, to many in the UFO and conspiracy theory communities, Admiral Richard E. Byrd is not merely some benign fatherly figure smiling at us from the pages of 20^th century history. While Byrd is commonly thought of as a national hero and a courageous explorer of the forbidding wastelands of the Polar Regions, those who look a little deeper soon discover a disturbing darkness and subterfuge that entangles the American icon in many a wicked web.

MICAH HANKS ON THE NAZI CONNECTION

From the darkness surrounding Byrd, his cousin and the JFK assassination, we move along to what may be even darker terrain, as described by author and podcaster Micah Hanks.

Ohio State University scientists claim to have located some kind of “gravitational anomaly” located below Wilkes Land, Antarctica.

“It’s one of the most famous conspiracies,” Hanks writes, “associated with the end of the Second World War: that a group of Nazis escaped to Antarctica, where they had a secret base established to aid in the furtherance of their top secret flying saucer development program. Such tales have been the stuff of legends for decades now, and the persistence of rumors like these offer an alternative to popular theories about alien visitors that remain a hallmark of modern UFO lore.”

Hanks refers to a 2006 discovery by Ohio State University scientists who claim to have located some kind of “gravitational anomaly” located below Wilkes Land, Antarctica. It was later speculated in the tabloid press that the anomaly could be the long-sought “secret Nazi UFO base” in question.

There is some legitimacy to this idea, according to Hanks, stemming from the fact that the Nazis did mount an expedition to the South Pole in 1938-39, though there is no proof they attempted to establish a more permanent stronghold there. Ironically, according to Hanks, the idea of Nazi UFOs in Antarctica has less to do with anything the Nazis actually did than with what Admiral Byrd himself said about it.

Hanks quotes from a 1947 interview with Byrd, published in a Chilean newspaper, thusly: “The admiral stated that he didn’t want to frighten anyone unduly but that it was a bitter reality that, in case of a new war, the continental United States would be attacked by flying objects which could fly from pole to pole at incredible speeds.”

“As one can see,” Hanks continues, “such wording easily lends itself to the idea of a connection between the Nazi UFO mythos and something going on at the South Pole.”

THE HOLLOW EARTH AS CLASSIC LITERATURE

Photo purports to show opening at the North Pole.

Jules Verne’s 1864 novel, “Journey To The Center Of The Earth,” is often credited with being the first book to deal with the concept that the Earth could possibly be hollow. But, in actuality, Verne’s classic tome was written about a hundred years after the release of a book that purports to be a real account of the author’s exploits in the underworld.

As far as is known, Niels Klim’s “Underground Travels,” originally published in Danish as “Nicolai Klimii Iter Subterraneum” (1741), is a purportedly real journey as described by the author, Ludvig Holberg. It is being published here in English by Global Communications without tampering or unneeded editing. The complete title in English is: “NIELS KLIM’S JOURNEY UNDER THE GROUND, BEING A NARRATIVE OF HIS WONDERFUL DESCENT TO THE SUBTERRANEAN LANDS, TOGETHER WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE SENSIBLE ANIMALS AND TREES.“

Ludvig Holberg is the most eminent writer among the Danes in the 18^th century. University-educated and well-traveled, he wrote treatises on law as well as histories, satires and comedies.

“There are many persons of both sexes in my country who believe in fairies and supernatural beings and who are ready to swear that that they have been conveyed by spirits to hills and mountain caves,” writes Holberg.

The work starts with a foreword that assures the reader that everything in the story is a real account of the title character’s exploits in the Underworld. The story begins in the Norwegian harbor town of Bergen in 1664, after Klim returns from Copenhagen, where he has studied philosophy and theology at the University of Copenhagen and graduated magna cum laude. His curiosity drives him to investigate a strange cave in a mountainside above the town, which sends out regular gusts of warm air. He ends up falling down the hole, and after a while he finds himself floating in free space.

Klim, the hero of the tale, is said to be transported to the world underground, where he meets with some “surprising” adventures. Many strange creatures inhabit this new world. Trees are introduced that have the power of speech and musical instruments discuss questions of philosophy and finance.

It is thought that the hollow Earth is a lush tropical paradise that very likely houses an assortment of animal life and possibly an advanced race of humans.

This introduction is followed by a short section called “Apologetic Preface,” in which descendants of Klim the Great add a prefix to the new edition where they swear to the authenticity of the story and seek to amend the bad reputation with which the publisher has unfairly been burdened by readers who believe the book is all fantasy.

Whether or not one lends total belief to the story told by Holberg and Klim, it is in any case a fascinating tale of adventure, redemption and coming to know one’s true self in a world previously unknown to mortal man.

“Our Hollow Earth” also includes a chapter by Hercules Invictus, a frequent contributor among Beckley’s writers. Hercules writes about the physical heaven and hell as described in Greek mythology. The Rivers of the Underworld, also an element of Greek mythology, are neatly summarized by Deanna Jaxine Stinson. Deanna’s husband, Paul Dale Roberts, recounts the story of a cave in Guatemala reputed to be an entrance to a Hollow World where the UFO occupants are said to reside. Scott Corrales covers similar territory in the wider exploration of Latin American entrances to the Underworld.

Beliefs in and about the Hollow Earth span the centuries and cut across all cultural and metaphysical lines. If you’re new to the subject, “Our Hollow Earth: An Inner World Paradise, Or A Gateway to Hell?” will provide the introductory overview that will start your education along the right path. If you’re a longtime student of the strange, you owe it to yourself to read the contributions from writers of the present time along with the resurrection of Ludvig Holberg’s breezily fascinating 18^th century adventure story, which you likely are unaware of.

Just what IS down there? Is there an unseen enemy beneath our feet, threatening to conquer us with mind-blowing wicked technology when they feel the time is right? Or is there some gentle race of Inner Earth inhabitants who guard their secret paradise from us savages here on the surface?  

The complete duality of the Hollow Earth mystery inevitably gives one pause, does it not?

Sean Casteel

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OUR HOLLOW EARTH: AN INNER WORLD PARADISE, OR A GATEWAY TO HELL?

SUBTERRANEAN WORLDS INSIDE EARTH by Tim Beckley

BEST OF THE HOLLOW HASSLE by Mary Jane Martin and Tim R. Swartz

RICHARD SHAVER: REALITY OF THE INNER EARTH by Tim R. Swartz

ADMIRAL BYRD’S SECRET JOURNEY BEYOND THE POLES by Tim R. Swartz

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SPIRIT? GHOST? POLTERGEIST? GEF THE TALKING MONGOOSE BAFFLES RESEARCHERS

By Sean Casteel

Gef The Mongoose

If there were such a thing as a top ten list of unexplainable phenomena throughout history, Gef would rank right at the top.

Fortean researchers, parapsychologists and skeptics alike would have to admit that they have never encountered such a bizarre but apparently well-documented case that is so completely devoid of hysteria in the timeless annals of the unexplained.

If Gef the talking mongoose is what it is claimed he is, he should certainly turn the heads of the scientific community, who at first glance would probably consider this to be a case of mass hysteria.

There is – as we shall see – every reason to recognize this talking animal as the Eighth Wonder Of The World, a title for which he is wholly deserving, for it is said that Gef, an otherwise unassuming small rodent, could:

** Sing songs.

** Mimic the sounds of other animals.

** Read minds.

** Move objects through the air although he was nowhere near them.

** Chat with visitors from around the world, sometimes using vulgar language.

** Hide himself from curious eyes and become invisible whenever he wanted to.

Whatever the powers that lurk behind the curtain of paranormal mystery truly are, they usually manifest in dark and frightening ways. They are not shy or apologetic about inducing extreme levels of terror in the hapless percipients who encounter them.

But in the case of Gef, the Talking Mongoose, it seems as though the spirits are having a bit of childlike fun, indulging in a whimsical playfulness where no one is really injured or frightened – just perplexed and made curious by a creature who crossed over from the other side and took up residence in the home of a farming family living on the Isle of Man, located in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Ireland.

Publisher Timothy Green Beckley has done his readers a favor by resurrecting an out-of-print book about Gef that is not only extremely rare but very costly. The book is called “The Haunting of Cashen’s Gap: A Modern ‘Miracle,’” by Harry Price and R.S. Lambert, and was first published in 1936. Original copies sell for up to $1000 nowadays, but Beckley can provide not only the original text but the updated research of present-day writers like Tim R. Swartz and Hercules Invictus for the price of an everyday paperback.

“James Irving and his family found themselves in the crosshairs of a series of increasingly strange events,” Swartz writes, “that would dominate their lives for years to come. James ‘Jim’ Irving, an educated man, had previously been a traveling piano salesman, and although the farm was his retirement project, it was proving insufficient to support his wife, Margaret, and their young daughter, Voirrey. The farm was called Doarlish Cashen – Manx Gaelic for ‘Cashen’s Gap.’ There were no neighbors nearby nor was there a telephone or electricity.”

Beckley’s updated reprint is called, simply enough, “Gef The Talking Mongoose,” and opens with a chapter by longtime paranormal researcher Tim R. Swartz. Swartz provides an excellent overview of the Gef saga and equips the reader with the basic facts as a precursor to the more detailed treatment by Price and Lambert.

GEF INTRODUCES HIMSELF

Gef made his first appearance on September 13, 1931.

Voirrey and James Irving stand on the front porch of Cashen’s Gap.

“According to Jim Irving,” Swartz writes, “he first saw a small, weasel-like animal in his farmyard that could bark like a dog and meow like a cat. Even more amazing, when Irving made other barnyard animal noises, the little animal would repeat the sounds back immediately. It wasn’t long before the Irvings became aware that this creature had found its way into their home, announcing its presence with random scratches, rustling and general activity between the walls and the matchwood paneling.”

Thinking the sounds were caused by rats or other pests, the family set traps but caught nothing. Jim made a last-ditch attempt by growling like a dog at the invasive vermin, only to hear something growl right back. He then realized it was the animal he’d seen outside.

“Whatever it was,” Swartz recounted, “it proved to be a talented mimic. It would repeat Irving’s imitations of various animals and birds, and soon he had only to name an animal and it would promptly respond with the appropriate sounds. At other times it made a gurgling sound like a baby that soon changed into actual words.”

Voirrey, the family’s young child, was fascinated by the new guest and would ask the creature to repeat nursery rhymes, which it would do in a clear, high-pitched voice. The family called the interloper “Jack,” but he soon told his hosts he preferred to be known as “Gef,” spelled G-E-F. He claimed to have been born in Delhi, India, in 1852, and he was brought to the island twenty years earlier when a farmer had imported mongooses to the area hoping to curb the local rabbit population. Gef said he had always understood human speech, but he learned to speak himself more recently, having been taught by Jim.

As rumors of the strange creature spread throughout the Isle of Man, it was often claimed that Voirrey was fooling everyone by “throwing her voice,” an explanation that Swartz skillfully debunks.

“This is not to say that Voirrey didn’t at times imitate Gef’s voice,” Swartz admits. “In practically every poltergeist case that centers on children, there are instances where the child is seen to throw something or bang on a wall if they think they are not being observed. Voirrey was probably guilty of this when Gef would become stubborn and refuse to make an appearance. But it is unlikely that Voirrey could have managed to keep such a long, drawn out hoax going for as long as the phenomenon lasted.”

Investigators speculated from the beginning that Gef was a haunting of some kind – possibly a poltergeist.

Jim Irving using a pair of knives to show the depth of a crack in the matchboard paneling from where Gef threw a packing needle at Capt. Mcdonald.

“Gef could produce knocks and raps all over the house practically simultaneously,” Swartz writes. “He was also fond of throwing things at the Irvings and their guests from cracks in the paneling. As well, Gef claimed to be able to travel all over the island and repeat various conversations that he had overheard. He also had a rich vocabulary of swear words and loved to sing songs that were unknown to his hosts. These antics are very similar to poltergeist pranks and even Jim Irving thought at times that Gef was more than just an ‘extra clever mongoose.’”

The case attracted attention from the media. News of the mystery first reached London in October 1931, when an item concerning a “man-weasel” appeared in the press. A newspaper called the Daily Sketch published a photo of the Irving cottage with the caption “The Talking Weasel Farm,” and the Daily Mail and other journals briefly reported strange events at Doarlish Cashen. The northern newspapers took a larger and more sustained interest in the affair because the talking animal was a near neighbor and naturally paid more attention than the London newspapers.

Newspapers around the world reported on the mysterious “Talking Weasel” from the Isle of Man.

Early in 1932, the Manchester Daily Dispatch sent a reporter to the Irving farm in order to investigate the mystery at its actual location. He was fortunate enough to hear Gef speak.

“The mysterious ‘man-weasel’ of Doarlish Cashen has spoken to me today,” the journalist wrote. “Investigation of the most remarkable animal story that has ever been given publicly – a story which is finding credence all over the island – leaves me in a state of considerable perplexity. Had I heard a weasel speak? I do not know, but I do know that I have heard today a voice which I should never have imagined could issue from a human throat; that the people who claim it was the voice of the strange weasel seem sane, honest and responsible folk and not likely to indulge in a difficult, long, drawn-out and unprofitable practical joke to make themselves the talk of the world; and that others had had the same experience as myself.”

Jim Irving told the reporter the story of how the animal had taken up residence in the family home but denied that the place was haunted.

“There are no spooks here,” Irving declared.

WHO OR WHAT WAS GEF?

The Haunting of Cashen’s Gap by Harry Price and R.S. Lambert

The publicity in various media outlets quickly piqued the curiosity of psychic investigators Harry Price and R.S. Lambert, who would team up to write the aforementioned paranormal classic “The Haunting of Cashen’s Gap,” based largely on their own onsite investigation of the Irvings and their mysterious houseguest.

In their introduction, the pair writes: “The following pages are an essay in the Veracious but Unaccountable. Whether looked at from the point of view of psychology, of psychical research, of anthropology or of sociology, this true story of Gef is very odd. We have been moved to set it down in as full a form as possible in order that everyone interested – including, we hope, posterity – may be in a position to form their own judgment about it.

“To believers,” they continue, “it will represent proof of a miracle; to skeptics a lesson in the laws of evidence. Some will call it nonsense from first to last; others will admit it to be at least as good as most ghost stories. Throughout we have sought to avoid mere credulity on the one hand and prejudiced skepticism on the other. There may be readers who will be disappointed that we have at the end no cut-and-dried solution of the mystery to offer, but this only suggests that the facts, as we have honestly tried to set them forth, are susceptible of various explanations.”

The authors comment that although the farm yields little or no produce and that most people would find their lifestyle nearly intolerable, the Irvings are still a “united, cheerful and healthy trio of normally intelligent persons. Nevertheless, into their lives has entered a mystery, perhaps one of the most curious and unaccountable mysteries of our times. Their solitary farm has become the scene of what is alleged to be a supernatural visitation – such a visitation as was common enough three hundred years ago, when the reality of witches and their familiars was acknowledged and feared.”

And what does Gef call himself? He cannot be relied on, the two investigators write, to tell his hosts exactly what he is. At various times he has called himself a mongoose and an “earthbound spirit.” This last description, they write, is a “purely spiritualistic term,” adding that Gef is thought to be afraid of dying, so he cannot be assumed to have made the transition to the world of the dead.

The Irving’s did not see Gef as a frightening creature but more like the family’s pet, one who could feast on biscuits, chocolate and bananas and helped them keep the stoves lit. But to others he was considered a “monstrosity,” a freak of nature, an abomination to God.

Gef himself seemed confused about his identity. He once said he was from another dimension, that he was a spirit, but took that back by intimating, “If I were a spirit, how could I kill rabbits?” When quizzed on why he was so reclusive, Gef said he was not a pleasant sight to behold. That some might be frightened and see him as a “real freak.”

Gef suddenly took to singing and speaking in strange tongues. The authors were told that “the voice is extremely high-pitched, above the human range, with a clear, sweet tone.” He began to sing more and more: songs, hymns and ballads. Some of these the Irvings knew, some were new to them. His singing became almost a nuisance.

ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY?

Though the Gef phenomenon seemed at times to center around Voirrey, she told the authors that she had no great love for him. However, she saw more of the animal than anyone else and was the only one to see all of him. Her parents frequently pleaded for him to show himself fully but were always refused. They sometimes saw a portion of him sitting on a beam or glimpsed something flashing past a gap in the hedge, but that is all. When they asked him to come out in the open, Gef answered them by saying, “I am a freak. I have hands and I have feet, and if you saw me you’d faint. You’d be petrified, mummified, turned into stone or a pillar of salt!” 

That last remark about a pillar of salt led the researchers to speculate that Gef must have attended Sunday school somewhere. Gef also found enough amusement in his living situation to make the Irvings familiar with the sound of his laughter.

“If laughter indicates happiness,” the two researchers reasoned, “then Gef must be supremely contented in the bosom of the Irving family. He laughs all day. He possesses an extensive repertoire of laughs. To quote Jim’s description, ‘Sometimes it resembles the tittering laugh of a precocious or mischievous child; at other times I would say it was the chuckling laugh of an aged person, and another distinct type is one which I would say was satanic laughter, or the laughter of a maniac. We all have a most intense dislike to this last laughter, as it is very trying. But, fortunately, we do not get this kind very often.’”

 TRYING TO EXPRESS THE ULTIMATE TRUTH

Price and Lambert can only offer three possibilities as to ultimate reality of Gef. First, Gef exists and haunts Doarlish Cashen, substantially as the Irvings say he does. Two, that Gef is a product of hallucination and fantasy. Or three, that Gef is a product of conscious deception. Acceptance of the first conclusion rules out the other two, but the second and third conclusion are not exclusive of each other and may be entertained together or separately.

In assessing the reality of Gef, the authors are unwilling to sweep away the many trustworthy outside witnesses who heard Gef and were certain of his independent existence. They take very seriously the findings of people who also visited the farm, such as spiritualists, teachers, hikers, relations and neighbors, and are unwilling to discount their statements.

One of several photos allegedly of Gef taken by Voirrey Irving.

Given the reality of Gef, the authors speculated that had he been rather more docile and agreeable in his behavior, less elusive in his manifestations, and more pleasing in his personality, he might have become in time the center of a sort of cult. In spite of his deficiencies, he gained a circle of admirers eager to hear his latest doings, ready to pay periodic visits to his shrine, and to bring small gifts to win his good will.

“It is the stuff of which oracles are made,” Price and Lambert write, “and the foundation on which temples are built. Gef rejects spiritistic interpretations of himself, and yet will not or cannot reveal his own identity. He has no message to give out, no real miracles to work. It is certain that ‘doubters’ will abound and that the faithful themselves will be able to do little more than acclaim Gef, with all his wit, malice and tomfoolery, as A VOICE AND NOTHING MORE.”

But what a fascinating voice! Whether it came from a “clever” mongoose or a poltergeist in animal form, reading “Gef The Talking Mongoose” will more than satisfy occultists and students of the supernatural like few other works available today. This priceless reprint of 1936’s “The Haunting of Cashen’s Gap” coupled with the 21st century efforts of Beckley and his pool of writers is a must-have item for both collectors and newcomers to the subject.

Oh, and by the way, there is even an account in the book of a talking stove – yes, I said talking stove – that goes well beyond the boundaries of Gef’s abilities as an animal to speak. The universe gets stranger all the time. Where are John Keel and Charles Fort when you need them the most?

Tim R. Swartz is the author of the book “Gef The Talking Mongoose The “Eighth Wonder of the World.”

SUGGESTED READING

GEF THE TALKING MONGOOSE – THE EIGHTH WONDER OF THE WORLD

WEIRD WINGED WONDERS: THE TWILIGHT WORLD OF CRYPTID CREATURES

AMERICA’S STRANGE AND SUPERNATURAL HISTORY

YouTube Channel (400 plus interviews posted) – “Mr. UFOs Secret Files”

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