UFO/Contact/Oddness Journal
by Daniel S. Duvall
September 10, 2019
Perusing a 1977 issue of Flying Saucer Review (Volume 23 Number 3), I noticed an article by Berthold Schwarz — part 2 in a series of articles he wrote about Betty Hill (whose contact experiences with her husband Barney were partially documented in the book The Interrupted Journey).
This article on pages 11-14 (and part of 31) contained information about Betty Hill I’d never before encountered. The article also has a passing reference to Stella Lansing.
Betty Hill in her teen years had dreams about the deaths of two friends (different events, both involving cars) prior to the incidents – precognition.
Betty’s sister Janet had children who interacted with what may have been the ghost of a child named Hannah who had (per empirical records) died at age 5 or 6. Janet also interacted with Hannah.
Visitors to that home (at least one) heard Hannah — somewhat tying in with the “crying baby” pattern that I first became aware of via season one of Hellier. “Somewhat” in the sense that — okay, this is a stretch — but per the Schwarz article, a scoutmaster from the local Boy Scouts showed up at the house to see Janet’s husband Donald, and while he was there, he heard Hannah crying “Mommy.”
Also, someone named Tom (who at the time of an encounter with Hannah was married to Betty Hill’s niece) heard Hannah crying while he tried to sleep in a room that Hannah favored.
12th of September, 2019
I just read an article in Flying Saucer Review that piqued my interest given its intersection of imagery from the lore of fae folk and UFOs — and the three entities described by a witness had “rainbow” wings. The article, titled The Winged Beings of Bluestone Walk (written by Eileen Morris), chronicles the testimony of Jean Hingley about her January 4, 1979 interactions with three beings; the article includes a sketch that looks to me like a conflation of a Grey with a wee winged entity.
September 14, 2019
Thoughts on an abduction encounter that happened on October 27th, 1974 as reported by Andrew Collins in two Flying Saucer Review articles (V 23 N 6 & V 24 N 1)…
4 of the 5 individuals involved stopped eating meat after the encounter; the adults subsequently periodically tried to eat meat & fish, but doing so made them feel ill. Makes me think of the reports that “EBE 1” (Roswell survivor) would not eat meat — and how ingesting animal flesh allegedly makes such entities ill.
Just a hypothesis here, but perhaps John & Elaine (the adult contactees discussed in these articles) were hybrids all along.
At the time of the incident, child Kevin was a below-average reader; after the encounter, his literacy skills improved, and by 1977 he was reading at a level well-advanced for his age. Post-contact intelligence increase fits a larger pattern.
Other kids in the car at the time of the incident: Karen & Stuart, who both apparently slept through the weirdness.
As I was reading the first article for the first time, I got to the description of the green mist on the road (the mist appeared after the family had seen a light in the sky but before their missing time), and I wondered if this was a fake ET encounter staged by the military. After parsing the entire report, I’ve concluded that this was a genuine ET contact experience.
Also, the green mist description stirred a memory, and I wondered if I’d read this article before — after reading the whole thing, I know that I hadn’t read this particular article before, so either I read about this case in some other context or there’s a different case that I read about involving green mist.
John & Elaine are/were cognizant of environmental issues, though the article doesn’t indicate if they had been prior to the contact.
A sub-section in the article (“Strange Occurrences Since the Encounter”) details low-grade harassment by humans, which got me wondering about the degree of surveillance (phone taps and perhaps video monitoring) in use in England at that time. Given the long history of “Shadow Box” tech etc, I wouldn’t be surprised if chatter about the family’s UFO encounter drew the attention of “Men in Black”-type “authorities.”
The first article mentions four other UFO encounters that John had; at least three of them were before the October 27, 1974 experience, and I find it odd that he’s not sure if the other happened shortly before or shortly after the “missing time” abduction.
During a hypnosis session on October 16, 1977, John said, “No visit – they are here always” in response to a question about “the purpose for their visit.” Made me think of my first ever psilocybin mushroom experience (spring 2002), toward the end of which I asked the entities I’d communicated with if I could communicate with them again another time — one of them replied, “Of course; we are always here.”
At the end of the first article, the family’s surname is given as “Avis” — last night (or early this morning), I found a relatively recent online interview in which Andrew Collins discusses this case and gives the family’s surname as “Day.” Other online research suggests that “Elaine” is a pseudonym for “Sue.”
The second article documents John’s recollection of a shaft of white light cutting through the green fog/mist and approaching the car. John recalls “a sensation of ascent” — characteristic of abduction experiences reported by others. Later in the article, Collins notes that Elaine also “had the feeling of ascent.”
John recalls the interior of an examination room having “no seams in either wall or ceiling” — this and other descriptions of wherever he was remind me of Bob Lazar’s descriptions of the smaller craft that he allegedly worked on reverse-engineering.
Elaine recalls being offered discs that resembled “pink peppermint creams” — she opted to not ingest any. Later in the article, there’s a description of a liquid that Elaine ingested, and she recalls being given the option to stay — all of which evokes fae lore about fairies offering food to humans as a way to bind them to the fae world. After the “pink peppermint creams” moment, an entity made music — another parallel with fae lore.
Elaine recalls seeing a star chart of the solar system that includes Earth, and she noticed 11 planets and not 9.
Sub-section titled “Computers” mentions an “organic computer” that the ETs can interface with via their minds, which reminds me of a thought that popped into my mind earlier this year: “Biology is a form of technology.”
The “examiners” on the craft as described by John & Elaine were shorter and in other ways quite different from the entities that the abductees interacted with. John asked about the examiners and was told, “Like yourself, they are of a different period of time.” This hints at the ETs being in some sense “time travelers.”
Near the end of the second article, Collins reports that Kevin “can recall ascending in the mist…”
I just read through all of my notes here and am ruminating about the fae lore parallels (a topic of interest to me in recent times) and the star chart on which Elaine saw 11 planets. I wonder what present-day astronomers would make of the latter.
September 20th 2019
I’ve been reading The Tujunga Canyon Contacts by Ann Druffel and D. Scott Rogo — I’m at the start of Part III (A Further Contagion).
In Flying Saucer Review Volume 26 Number 2, I read a review of a 1979 book called UFO Phenomena and the Behavioral Scientist (edited by Richard F. Haines), and the review noted that the book includes a 130-page section by R. Leo Sprinkle about the C. Higdon case, an incident that intrigued me when I read about it in FSR — that case includes a good amount of physical evidence (the bullet that Higdon shot and the medical records from before and after his encounter that document healing). I’m gonna start reading that section of the reviewed book soon, as I found a PDF of the tome online (NICAP).
On page 264 of UFO Phenomena and the Behavioral Scientist, there’s a section of a transcript in which Higdon describes the apparel of the beings he saw. As I read that section, I wondered if this may have been a MILAB-type fake ET encounter. One page 268, Higdon describes the food of the entities as “meat” — which seems to lend credence to the encounter being staged by humans, but there’s the puzzling physical evidence (bullet/healing). Do some ETs (non-Ebens) consume animal flesh?
Hypothesis: Carl Higdon was a MILAB victim; genuine ETs do not eat meat. So what could account for the strange stoppage of the bullet? A form of human-made electromagnetic force field unknown by the public? Regarding the healing evidence, the FSR article about this case (not sure which issue it’s in) indicated that the before/after x-rays of scar tissue were rather clear evidence that the scars had vanished; what I’ve read in this longer account so far is less definitive.
September 21, 2019
I stopped reading the longer account of the Higdon abduction once I concluded that it likely did not involve a genuine ET experience.
FSR Volume 26 Number 4 includes a review of The Tujunga Canyon Contacts.
Early in chapter 11 of the Druffel/Rogo book about the Tujunga abductions, there’s a quotation from a woman referred to as Lori (a pseudonym). Lori’s account (which I shall quote here) made me think of a quotation from the Betty & Barney Hill case (something I read in The Interrupted Journey, though I was unable to find the exact quotation when I looked in that book early this morning). Lori reported, “And then my eyes went up to its eyes. That’s the only thing I was conscious of. I don’t even know the power those eyes had, but they were extremely intense — almost as if they were lights, or something. They held me, and it seemed as if I were held in that gaze for eternity.”
September 22, 2019
Thoughts re: Chapter 12 of The Tujunga Canyon Contacts —
Lori says of the entities, “They have all these powers of light, but I don’t think they can hold a physical form for very long. They want to figure out how to combine what they are and what we are. That would make a better being, and it would last longer and have more powers.”
That quotation offers a new perspective on the “hybridization” scenarios. I’d never before encountered the notion that maintaining corporeal form was a difficult task for the entities.
Further along in the chapter, there’s info about a machine that Lori saw aboard a craft during her 1975 abduction; she believes the machine could “turn sound into light.” Makes me think of the DMT entities and Terence McKenna’s descriptions of such “elves” singing objects into existence.
September 30, 2019
ET/Fae encounters seem often (maybe always) customized for the individual(s) who perceive the weirdness. Thus, those who look for evidence of the entities as entirely material beings (and UFOs as only material objects)…
(thought to be articulated in more detail later)
Non-sequitur, maybe: I’m baffled by how some people can encounter entities during psychedelic experiences and after remain atheist or agnostic.
Intermittent Ramblings from Daniel S. Duvall 