I Want to Believe

I guess there is a Mulder in each of us. We want to believe. We want to believe that there is intelligent life in space and some sort of alien life force here on this planet living among us. But can we really believe?

The extraterrestrial phenomenon is very much like our religious attitudes. Unless the waters part for us, individually, we just aren’t going believe. Fortunately, most of our religious beliefs are well rooted in faith and for so many of us it’s not just blind faith. Many of us can testify to a personal relationship with our God. Hence, there are so many people that can’t accept most religious beliefs because they have no real personal experiences of their own to draw from.

Although the famous writer, Whitley Strieber, author of the best selling book, “Communion” says he has this kind of relationship with aliens that visit and communicate with him on a regular basis. There are others that testify to the same thing. To many to mention, and, again have no real proof of their experiences except for a lot of subjective personal experiences, dreams, and the usual things that go bump in the night.

More and more people like Whitley Strieber, intelligent and articulate have come forth with their own personal testimonies of personal encounters with alien life forces. Some of them very compelling. While an author such as Whitley Strieber might have found a wealth of new material to write about there are no obvious reasons why some people come forth sharing their experiences with aliens.

One of the most compelling stories and certainly a man that had nothing to gain but everything to lose is the Travis Walton story, “Fire in the Sky”. His book, “The Walton Experience” was later made into the movie, “Fire in Sky”, accounts for his alien abduction in 1975 near Snowfalke Arizona.

Walton’s account and personal drama are not that much different than the account we get of a demon possessed girl in the movie, ”The Exorcist”. People of faith tend to at least accept this movies basic premise, that demon possession is possible. Most people of little or no faith consider the movie entertaining but nothing more.

“The Exorcist”, is based on the real life experiences of a boy instead of a girl as portrayed in the movie. The exoticism is said to have lasted a good bit longer than what was portrayed in the movie as well. But without going into great detail about the exorcism or the movie “The Exorcist”, the real exorcism was sanctioned by the Catholic church as a bona fide case of possession.

We could probably all agree that unexplained phenomenon does exist. For the most part, all of us find ways to live with things we don’t have the answers to, at least not right away. Personal experiences speak louder than all the scientific journals in the world whether the subject of investigation is religious or extraterrestrial.

Probably the most fascinating phenomenon that gets grouped into the same category as UFO’s are the cow mutilations’ and crop circles. Both of these phenomenon’s leave evidence even though we don’t seem to get much out of the evidence. But there is no denying that something is mutilating cows and forming crop circles. Some of the crop circles and their investigations’ reveal strong evidence that they were not made by hand nor man. Of course others have panned out as hoaxes. But the mutilations of a living thing, even a cow, is really a crime.

I don’t recall any UFO stories or investigations that have involved murder or the killing of a life. There is a story, once again, only a story, of the 44 dead. The legend tells of an event very much like Steven Spielberg’s movie, “Encounters of the Third Kind”. Back in the 1980’s our government made contact with an alien civilization. Or rather they made contact with us. A meeting was set up some where out in the desert, probably near Roswell, New Mexico. Scientist from all over the world where called in for this occasion and opportunity to make contact. According to the legend something happen and the Aliens killed 44 of our special ops men. It appeared as an accident had happened and a treaty was agreed upon. There were several kinds of exchanges’ made and the relationship between our government and the aliens although strained at times is still continuing to this day.

I suppose if the average American had an opportunity to see all the cutting edge scientific innovations’ our scientist are capable of producing we’d wouldn’t be so parody about aliens but more suspicious of Big Brother.

We Americans have always felt threaten for every corner in our world even in space I would imagine. We spend so much time defending our borders I can’t see where our logic would be any different looking up into space.

Truly our world is made up of some wondrous phenomenon.
Whether of a spiritual nature or scientific nature there is still so much about this world and others left to know, learn and explore.

Within ourselves is one mystery after another mystery waiting to unfold. What is the origin of man? Will we ever finish mapping the human mind? Who knows what we will find within ourselves in the future. DNA research is coming to light and still so much to learn about our inherited human genome.

The answers to personal experiences like what was portrayed in both “Fire in the Sky” and “The Exorcist” just may be found within ourselves. Like Mulder, I want to believe.

While driving home to New Hampshire from a vacation in Canada in 1961, Barney and Betty Hill noticed a star that seemed to be moving.  After a while, it got closer and appeared to be following them.  They stopped their car and got out to get a better view of the craft.  Looking through his binoculars, Barney could see windows and people.

The next thing they knew, the Hills were back in the car and driving home again.  But they had “lost” two hours!  The next day, they called Pease Air Force Base and spoke to Major Paul W. Henderson.  Henderson told them that their radar had tracked an unidentified flying object the night before. During the nights that followed, the Hills had terrifying nightmares.

In order to get relief from their nightmares and to find out what had happened to the missing two hours, the Hills sought help from a psychiatrist.  He used regressive hypnosis which revealed that Betty and Barney had been taken aboard an alien spacecraft and subjected to medical tests.

Travis Walton

Travis Walton was a member of a seven-man crew that was clearing trees in a national forest in Arizona.  In 1975, the men saw a luminous object in the woods while driving home.  Walton got out of the truck to get a better look at the craft.  Suddenly, a blue beam hit him and knocked him to the ground.  The other men panicked and drove off.

After a few minutes, the six men turned around and drove back.  They could find neither Walton nor the craft.  They drove to the nearby town of snowflake and reported the incident.  The next morning, a massive manhunt was begun but no sign of Walton could be found.  However, he returned five days after he disappeared. It eventually came out that Travis had been abducted by aliens.

Whitley Streiber

Author Whitley Streiber’s abduction took place at an isolated cabin in northern New York state when he found a strange creature in his bedroom.  That was all Streiber could remember until he found himself outside a few hours later.  When a Dr. Donald F. Klein performed regressive hypnosis on him, Streiber was able to recall floating out of his bedroom to a strange craft

On board the UFO, Whitley Streiber underwent a number of medical tests.  This included the insertion of a long needle into his brain.  He was diagnosed by Dr. Klein as having temporal lobe epilepsy which can result in hallucinations of voices, music, people, smells or tastes.  Streiber never accepted this diagnosis and wrote about his experiences in the book “Communion”.

Conclusion

To me, the best and most likely of the three cases is the Betty and Barney Hill incident.  The Hills had the same nightmares.  Skeptics explain this as resulting from Betty hearing Barney talk in his sleep and incorporating this into her dreams.  But I believe this is really stretching.  I believe the regressive hypnosis confirms that Barney and Betty had a shared experience.