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Other Worlds: Eight Amazing Alien Encounters
Posted on Friday, May 05, 2006 (CDT) by Thoth
 To the sceptic, encounters with extraterrestrials can usually be dismissed as the result of fantastic claims by unreliable witnesses. All too often the media in general dismisses these reports as hoaxes, delusion, or the result of suggestion through hypnotic regression.
When cases are looked at individually, it is perhaps easy for people to dismiss unexplainable irregularities detailed in these reports because society dictates that there is no clear evidence for there being life outside of our planet.
For those prepared to question whether we are really alone, the number of cases speak for themselves, as does the credibility the witnesses concerned. In this article, we take an objective look at eight of the best cases of close encounters taken from a cross section of society all over the world, from Africa to America, and leave you to make up your own mind.
Often
reports from witnesses are confused, contradictory, fragmented or
simply bizarre, leaving critics ample opportunity to discredit them.
These discrepancies should not be taken as evidence of a lack of
honesty on the part of the witness. What we have to bear in mind is
that these are ordinary people, sometimes just children, who without
warning have found themselves in quite extraordinary situations. Often
these witnesses are attempting to describe events and relate
communications that have been made telepathically rather than verbally,
they are in unfamiliar environments and being faced with situations
that a lifetime of conditioning has taught them should not exist.
The Dutch Millionaire
 Not all witness accounts
offer vague and indecipherable facts; there are some contactees that
are able to provide an enormous amount of detail concerning their
experiences. One of the most interesting and least reported cases is
that of a Dutch millionaire who received telepathic communications from
an extraterrestrial race named the Iargans from a planet called Iarga
in the 1960’s. The witness has never revealed his true identity for
fear of compromising his standing in the business community; instead he
uses a pseudonym given him by the Iargans. They referred to him as
"Stef van den Earde" (Stef of the Earth) from which the name Stefan
Denaerde was derived.
Researchers describe
Denaerde as being a very well educated and highly articulate master
mechanical engineer and an architectural artist. Most of his
communications were made through telepathic communication. What is
interesting is that at the time the witness claimed to be receiving
these telepathic communications, a NATO installation in The Netherlands
recorded a strange, unidentified radio frequency being directed to the
area. Whether this represents coincidence or evidence is a matter for
the individual reader. In the case of the Iarga contacts, the message
was clear: that the earth did not exist in splendid isolation and that
to evolve humanity, the Earth had to become a peaceful, non-violent
planet. The experience proved so powerful and he felt the message was
so important, that he eventually wrote a book, ‘Planet Iarga’ detailing
much of what he knew. The book, which has long since gone out of print,
talked about his experiences and repeated the message of the Iargans. A
PDF version of the book can be found in our e-book library for those
interested in learning more.
The Australian Author
 Another contactee who
reported his contact with extraterrestrials as being a very positive
and rewarding encounter is Michel Desmarquet from Cairns, Australia.
Desmarquet claimed extraterrestrials physically abducted him in June
1987. These highly evolved extraterrestrial visitors, who, Desmarquet
stated, were millions of years ahead of us in terms of conscious and
technological evolution took him to the planet Thiaoouba in Pleiades.
He states “They took me physically to their planet on a journey that
had a time lapse of nine Earthly days. It was not an astral travel, nor
an astral contact - I was there with my Physical Body, incredible as it
may seem.” He describes his journey thus “By transubstantiation, we
travelled through the light barrier, moving in and out of space and
time, instead of moving through it.”
The Thiaoouba explained
that they had made contact with Michel Desmarquet because their studies
of civilizations all over our galaxy had led them to recognize that we
are at a critical turning point in human evolution.
Like with the Iargans, the
message of the Thiaooubians was one that emphasised spiritual
enlightenment and philosophy as the way for humanity to evolve.
Interestingly both Michel Desmarquet and Stefan Denaerde were
specifically asked to write books detailing their experiences so as to
pass on the messages they had been given and both were treated with the
utmost respect during their contact with these beings. Neither appears
to have written their accounts for commercial gain, indeed Michel
Desmarquet’s book, Abduction to the Ninth Planet or The Thiaoouba
Prophecies as it was renamed is available in PDF format for free for
those who can’t afford to pay for it or at a low cost for those who
can.
The US Military
 One of the most fantastic
and controversial contacts is that surrounding Project Serpo. There is
still much speculation as to whether this is a genuine Top Secret
project or an elaborate hoax, however its supporters point to the
authenticity of the data provided by the anonymous source, by
validating many facts that are not in the public domain. If the source,
a retired senior official within the US Defence Intelligence Agency
(DIA) is to be believed, following the 1947 Roswell incident, in 1964,
the US military sent a team of twelve scientists to a far away planet
in the Zeta-Reticuli system at the invitation of its inhabitants: The
Eben.
According to the anonymous
source, one of the aliens, from the Roswell crash survived and was
taken to Sandia Army Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico before being moved
to Los Alamos. In time, the US military permitted the Eben visitor to
communicate with his home planet and this developed into a dialogue
between the two planets. The surviving Eban apparently died in 1952 but
communications continued and in 1965, an exchange program was
established between Earth and the Eban’s home planet.
It took the team nine
months, travelling in the alien craft to reach the Eban planet, which
the US Military named Serpo. Although they had problems acclimatising
to their new environment, the team actually remained there for much
longer than the ten years the mission was originally scheduled for,
finally returning in 1978. The team consisted of two doctors; three
scientists; two linguists; two security personnel; two pilots and was
lead by an air force colonel. Only four of the team actually returned
to Earth when the mission was completed, two members of the team
actually died during the mission and four of the team elected to remain
on the planet when their mission was over.
The Couple on Vacation
 Project Serpo’s alleged
communication being from a planet in the Zeta-Reticuli system is not
actually unique. In September 1961, Betty Hill, a 41 year-old social
worker and her husband Barney Hill, a postal worker, also encountered
extraterrestrial visitors from this star system after witnessing a UFO
close up at Indian Head, north of Woodstock. Having observed a strange
light as they travelled home from vacation, they were perplexed by its
erratic movement and kept track of it as they drove. Eventually Barney
stopped the car and they got out to let their dog stretch its legs,
still watching the approaching light. As it got closer, Barney realised
that the object, which now seemed to be moving toward him was saucer
shaped and had multicoloured lights, and rows of windows. The object
moved to within a hundred feet of him, at which point he could see
occupants inside, presumably watching him. Frightened, he ran back to
his car where Betty waited and they hurriedly continued the journey
home. Calculating the time and the mileage from the area where Barney
stopped the car to home it was obvious that it had taken two hours
longer than it should have, but neither of them could account for the
missing time. The following day, Betty called her sister Janet and told
her about their experience. Janet urged her to report the UFO sighting
to nearby Pease Air Force Base. Despite Barney's objections, Betty did
so; Major Paul W. Henderson of the 100th Bomb Wing took the report but
it was not considered significant at the time and the incident appeared
closed.
It was only a year later
after suffering from flashbacks and terrifying dreams that the truth
about what had happened that night was finally revealed. After
undergoing a series of hypnotic regression treatments conducted by
psychiatrist Dr Benjamin Simon, it was discovered that Betty and Barney
had been taken aboard an alien vessel and subjected to a series of
invasive tests, Betty was given a pregnancy test and had skin, hair and
nail samples taken and Barney had semen extracted and his dentures
examined. Although they were treated well, they were clearly regarded
as specimens by the humanoid beings on the ship. An odd fact that came
out during the regressions was that the aliens seemed to have no
concept of time, or of colours. When Betty asked where the alien
visitors were from she was shown a ‘star map’ by one alien, which she
described as being three-dimensional, like looking through a window.
Afterwards Betty, who had no prior knowledge of astronomy, was able to
reproduce an accurate map showing exactly where the Zeta-Reticuli
system was located in relation to Earth. Interestingly, there were
features on her map that even astronomers couldn’t confirm existed
until 1969.
Eager to avoid unnecessary
attention, the Hills who were a middle-aged mixed race couple – a
rarity in the 1960’s, tried to keep their story out of the press, but
when an inaccurate version was leaked, they were forced to step into
the spotlight and clarify what had happened. The result is of course
history as the abduction phenomena made media headlines around the
world.
The Farmer in Brazil
 Betty and Barney Hill
certainly weren’t the first to experience being abducted by
extraterrestrials because in 1957, a 23 year-old Brazilian farmer named
Antonio Villas Boas and his brother observed a strange red light in the
night sky. The brothers thought it unusual but dismissed it as
something and nothing. The following night they noticed it again but
again they thought it was interesting but nothing more.
It was a few days later
when working in the fields on his tractor that Jose was to discover
first hand the origin of the strange red light. To his amazement, a
saucer shaped craft landed close to the field where he was working.
Terrified, Boas tried to drive away, but as the craft touched down the
engine on his tractor mysteriously failed. Boas attempted to run but
found himself unable to, the aliens seemingly exerting some kind of
control over him. He was apprehended by a group of humanoid aliens,
which he describes as being about 4 feet tall. Despite their stature
they were easily able to subdue the terrified man and take him aboard
their ship.
Once on board, he was
stripped naked and his whole body covered with a gel of some kind. Two
of the aliens took a blood sample from his chin and left. He noticed
puffs of smoke or vapour that made him sick to his stomach, coming from
vents in the wall, which caused him to vomit. After a while what he
describes as a ‘beautiful’ female alien came into the examination room
and made it clear that she wanted to have sex with him. Boas had little
choice but to comply although he described the alien as being very
clinical, without any feeling or emotion. Once she had been
successfully impregnated, she pointed to her abdomen and then the sky,
which Boas interpreted as meaning that she would give birth to the
hybrid child in space.
Boas was then given a tour
of the ship, but said that the aliens were generally emotionless and
not forthcoming or particularly friendly, before being released. Still
in a state of shock, he watched as the craft shot off skyward. Reports
of Boas’ encounter was generally kept out of the press due to the
explicit sexual nature of the contact, which wasn’t considered suitable
for publication at the time. In time Boas married, had a family of his
own and became a lawyer, right up until his death in 1992, he
maintained that his abduction experience was genuine and that somewhere
out there is a hybrid child that he fathered.
The Child from Arkansas
 In 1953, Riley Martin was
just seven years old when he states that he was abducted by an
extraterrestrial race called the Biaviians and kept for three days
aboard their ship. While there, he claims he was shown a number of
humans living on the alien’s home planet. He also claims to have seen
domed gardens aboard an egg shaped alien mother ship that he said
contained other humans or possibly hybrid humans and several other
species of aliens.
In many ways, Riley Martin
represents the kind of stereotypical witness that gives critics a field
day; however Martin is honest about his shortcomings and lack of formal
education as an adult and leaves it up to the individual to decide what
to make of his story. People who have spoken to Martin describe how he
has a deep and broad knowledge of science considering his less than
privileged background and are at a loss to explain the eloquence and
consistency with which he speaks. Martin is a perfect example of the
diversity of the type of people who have been contacted by
extraterrestrial beings.
From Martin’s accounts, the
Biaviians seem to be at an earlier stage of development both
technologically and spiritually than the Thiaooubians or the Iargans,
although they are still far more advanced than us. According to Martin
they have a limited capacity to understand mankind and are perceived in
many different ways by contactees, some see them as angelic beings
while others see them as terrifying, cold and clinical. Martin’s
experiences are in the main positive and his primary physical contacts,
a male named Tan and a female named Nela seem prepared to answer his
questions, but as Martin himself admits he lacks the education to
always understand the scientific and revelatory nature of the contact.
He is however quite sure that the Biaviians seem to view humanity as
kindred spirits albeit inferior ones and as such their hope is to
somehow prevent us from facilitating our own extinction, even if this
involves evacuating the most enlightened humans off the planet should
our self destruction appear imminent.
What’s interesting about
his account is that not only does he have continued contact with the
Biaviians who originally abducted him, but he also speaks of a second
alien race of reptilian origins called Targzissians, who he says are
keen to suppress knowledge concerning the existence of extraterrestrial
life.
Martin’s book, ‘The Coming
of Tan’, a sample chapter of which can be read on his website offers a
fascinating account of his experience as an abductee and the past,
present and future of humanity and the Earth.
A School in Zimbabwe
 Children it appears, are
just as likely to be contacted by extraterrestrials as adults are. On
14th September 1994, a cigar shaped UFO was observed moving across the
sky over the town of Ruwa, Zimbabwe. It was seen by a number of people,
but at the time it was assumed that the witnesses had spotted the nose
cone from a Russian satellite.
Two days later during
morning, a group of children attending Ariel Primary School in Ruwa
watched in fascination as three silver balls hovered in the sky over
the school, before disappearing and reappearing several times. One of
the UFO’s slowly landed on an area of rough ground next to the school.
While some children ran off in terror, a number of curious children ran
over to the school boundary fence to investigate from a safe distance.
Sixty two of the children, most of which were ten and eleven, later
gave a variety of descriptions to investigators but the common report
was of a large, glowing, saucer shaped craft with three legs.
To the children’s
amazement, three beings had emerged from the craft, all dressed in one
piece suits. The children described them as moving in slow motion and
as having large black eyes. According to the children, when they looked
into the creatures’ eyes, they received telepathic messages from them.
The message they received was one expressing the need for humanity to
take action to stop further environmental damage from occurring to the
planet, as if we didn’t, we would be doomed as a species.
The whole encounter lasted
less than five minutes and by the time teaching staff had been alerted,
the UFO had disappeared. At first the teachers believed that the
children had simply imagined the event, but soon began to realise that
something out of the ordinary had happened that recess; some of the
children were hysterical with fear, while others were overcome with
excitement at what they had witnessed. Although there were
discrepancies, researchers point to the fact that under the
circumstances this was understandable. What stood out weren’t the
differences, but the obvious similarities between the accounts and
honesty of the children concerned.
A Canadian Engineer gets burned
 Getting too close to a UFO
can have serious drawbacks as one Canadian engineer and amateur
geologist discovered to his cost in 1960.
Much criticism surrounds
the so-called lack of physical evidence that surrounds abductees. As
we’ve already demonstrated, there are reports of close encounters out
there which offer an amazing amount of information for those interested
enough to study it. Physical evidence is often much harder to come by,
however in this last case there is physical evidence of unexplained
injuries to support the witness’ account of what he experienced.
On May 20th 1960, a 52
year-old Stephen Michalak was out looking for minerals near Falcon
Lake, eighty miles east of Winnipeg when he spotted two disc shaped
craft overhead. One flew away, but the other landed. Curious, Michalak
approached the craft and got close enough to touch it. This was
obviously a huge mistake as it was so hot it immediately melted his
glove. At that point, the craft took off with a blast of light from an
‘exhaust panel’ hitting him in the chest. Dazed, burned and in shock,
he managed to make it back to the road some two miles away where he was
picked up by a police officer. A police report written at the time by
the police officer that picked him up highlights
his clearly distressed state.
Over the following months,
Michalak suffered from all kinds of illnesses associated with radiation
sickness from low blood lymphocyte count to infections, nausea, ulcers
and blackouts. A total of 27 doctors examined Michalak, most of which
did so at his own expense. Fifteen months after the incident, a grid
like burn appeared on his chest where he’d said the beam of light from
the craft had hit him. Michalak wrote a book detailing his experience,
the purpose of which was to detail his experience and search for an
explanation as to what he saw and what he was suffering from. Michalak
showed himself to be consistent, intelligent and sincere, and not the kind
of person who is prone to irrational acts or publicity seeking. After
going public with his experience, he was subjected to both ridicule and
criticism from many sources. While annoyed at his unexpected notoriety,
Michalak never wavered in his story, although many say that he
regretted ever making the incident public.
Conclusion
What many of these reports
highlight is the reluctance of the witness to come forward for fear of
ridicule but the need for answers and closure of some kind means that
they are forced to make a choice between keeping their identity a
secret and letting the world know the message they have to tell.
One of the most interesting
points to arise from this section is the apparent difference in these
extraterrestrial visitors. The fact that some people report tall
humanoids and others describe far shorter beings such as greys leads
many to conclude that we are not being visited by one alien
civilization, but by many races with a variety of intentions. One thing
that does stand out is the fact that all these extraterrestrial
visitors seem to view us as primitive aggressors that need to be
studied but kept at arm’s length.
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