THE UFO CASEBOOK- UFO Magazine Issue # 286, Issue date, 12-17-07

Tuesday December 11th, 2007-At 4:53 in the morning on Friday, December 7, I saw a strange object over Santa Monica, California. This was fantastic enough, but the events that preceded the sighting were almost certainly a contact experience. If so, it was the first I have had in years. I'm going to begin with the sighting, and then go back to the beginning of the previous evening, and describe what I think was one of the most phenomenal experience I can remember.

My wife and I were in a friend's apartment that we borrow in Santa Monica when we are having meetings in Hollywood. We were the only two people in the apartment that night. I had an unusually disturbed night. Almost every night, I wake up between three and four in a state of fear, something that has now been happening to me since my close encounter in December of 1985. But this was special, and it was powerful, and very unusual, as you will see.

We went to bed at about 11:30. I was up again shortly thereafter, struck with a powerful need to meditate. Then I went back to bed, but soon woke up once more. At 2:17 I was writing business emails. Shortly thereafter, I went back to bed. There followed something that may or may not have been a dream. I'll get to that in a moment.

I woke up at 4:53 because somebody was clutching two fingers of my right hand, which had been dangling off the bed. Anne was asleep on the other side of the bed.

I opened my eyes and saw the lit clock on my wife's side of the bed, and beyond it the window. I had a view of the sky through the window on the far side of the bed. The vertical blinds were three quarters open.

Gliding straight toward the house at what must have been a low altitude was a very complex object that must have been very similar to the 'drones' that were photographed by a number of people last summer. The thing was moving right under and in the cloud cover. It was stormy and the clouds were racing, but the object had a stately, gliding motion that was totally unaffected by the weather.

My immediate thought was that it was a drone. I could not see any of the upper structures that are visible in some of the pictures, but only the body of the thing as it glided toward me. It was not far away at all, maybe just a few hundred feet.

As I got out of bed, I said to Anne, "there's a drone outside the window." We both got up. As I crossed the room to the windows, I grabbed my cellphone in hope of taking a picture. But when we looked out, we could see only the low, rushing clouds.

After a couple of minutes staring at a thickening in the clouds and wondering if that was the object, I went back to bed.

As soon as I put my head on the pillow, I could see the object again, this time moving west toward the ocean. I grabbed the cellphone and woke Anne up again. We rushed to the window and once again saw nothing.

When I lay down again, I could see the object. I finally realized that it was the angle that was enabling me to see the thing, and I went for the cellphone while still lying in the bed. But at that moment, the thing moved beyond the edge of the window, and I never saw it again at any angle.

The most prominent thing that I saw was a white circle on a rectangular object heading directly toward me. It looked exactly like part of one of the pictures taken over Big Basin in Northern California last summer. I have included a clip of what I saw. The only difference is that the circle was facing directly toward me.

That evening, I had felt a compulsion to read the Key. I don't often read it, so this was unusual. But I couldn't seem to put it down, and kept reading and re-reading the same passage. The next morning, I opened the book again, and found that the passage had a great deal of meaning in view of what had taken place.

In the first two hours past midnight, I slept fitfully. I kept thinking that there was somebody in the apartment, and got up to check a number of times. But there was nobody there except the two of us. (To be frank, I was certain, once or twice, that somebody was there. I didn't see anybody, though.)

At about two, I started awake and felt as if I was not going to be able to get back to sleep. So I got up and decided to work. I wrote a few emails, then decided to meditate. I don't often do this in the middle of the night. But this time, when I did it, the sensation was remarkably powerful. I felt as if I could sense much more than my physical body, as if my nerves didn't end in my skin, but extended around me like a living electric field. It was a delightful, wonderful sensation and I stayed there until about three.

This time, the moment my head hit the pillow, I was asleep. At once, I found myself in a really, really peculiar state. The moment I fell asleep, I had a dream that Anne had inexplicably, but out of the kindness of her heart, let a pack of feral dogs into the house, and they were all under the bed.

I was startled awake by this, and went back toward the living room--and was confronted with what was just about the surprise of my life. It almost beat waking up among the visitors on December 26, 1985.

What I saw was a completely different living room. I was in another house, and it was a very strange one, with four large artificial trees in it, of all things. I turned around to go back to the bedroom, only to find that there was a wall there, and a hallway leading off in the opposite direction.

I was shocked, to put it mildly. Then horrified. I couldn't get out of there. I couldn't get back where I belonged.

Then I was in bed again, and aware that I was asleep, and not only that but I was dreaming about the lives of five different Whitley Striebers unfolding in five parallel universes at the same time, one of which was the one I was in.

While this was happening, the five of them were distinct, and I was inside five different selves at once. There was no confusion, and I wasn't on the outside looking in. I was in these lives, living them, all at the same time. I wasn't in the least confused by this. It seemed extraordinary, of course, but also perfectly possible.

In four of these lives, Anne was also present, but not in the fifth, and that was a life I very much wanted to leave. In it, I was walking down a path with a small boy, toward a quay where there were a number of men. The quay was on a pellucid bay, its water an exquisite turquoise-green color. It was daytime in this universe, midday. In this universe, Anne had died of her stroke, and I was walking with my grandson, who was about three.

In another, Anne and I lived in my old family home in San Antonio. It was very worn and run down, and she was bravely trying to clean the kitchen. We were obviously very poor, and clinging to what once had been fine. Here, it was late afternoon.

In a third, we were living together and in an apartment. We were asleep in this universe, and the dogs were under the bed. It was in this universe that the fingers had grasped my hand and were tugging at it.

When I woke up and went to the window, it might well have been in this other universe, which was a close approximation to the one I am living in now. But, to tell the truth, since that night, I don't feel all that fixed anywhere. I am not sure where I am, only that my life is unfolding.

The fourth universe was the one where the trees were in the living room. They were decorative, and the fashion, I was aware, had been adopted from pictures from another world. What was so exciting here was that TV transmissions from another planet were being picked up and rebroadcast by SETI, and they were a gigantic sensation.

This all ended with the yanking on my hand, the awakening at 4:53 and the observation of the drone outside the window.

So this experience actually crossed waking and dream. The first time I got out of bed and walked into the living room and saw the trees, I was wide awake and actually moving across realities physically. Then, when I slept and dreamed, the realities unfolded around me. When I saw the drone, I was possibly in yet another universe, different from this one.

So the logical question, at least to me, is this: how could anyone even write such far-fetched nonsense, let alone believe that it really happened?

For two reasons. The first one is that I have experienced this before, and the last time it was in the company of another person who was also quite conscious of the fact that we were in a radically different world.

I refer to an incident I have described before, of turning off Route 17 in New Jersey with one of my son's friends in the car, and finding myself in a different world, an experience I describe in my book Breakthrough. As then, there was not the slightest sense of movement between worlds. Everything suddenly changed completely, without warning.

After I was drawn awake this time, I believe that I moved physically through at least three parallel universes, this one, the one where the drone was moving toward the building, and the one where the strange foliage was in the living room. I literally walked from universe to universe as I moved around the house, seamlessly traveling between realities.

The second reason is that there is a good bit of serious scientific work suggesting that they may be physically real. For Unknowncountry.com's stories, click here.

So their existence isn't at all far fetched, it turns out. However, could we really move among them? I think that my experiences show that we can. It would not be physical movement, though, not into universes where we also exist. I think that what was happening was that I was sharing consciousness between my various bodies, and I suspect that there was technology being applied that was enabling this, and that it was being controlled from the object in the sky outside.

So that leaves me with a question. Not 'where am I?' but 'am I anywhere, or should that be everywhere?' What happens to me in the other universes when I am not like I was early Friday morning? And could I be arbitrarily moved to another universe while remaining conscious of my life in this one--say, to one in which I didn't previously exist?

Burning questions. Also unanswerable.

Now to the part of the Key that I read with such eagerness the evening before, and pointed out to Anne the next morning.

The passage was this, from pps 34-35:

Have you traveled to other worlds? I belong to many worlds.

Are you from another planet that is like ours? I am human.

What's it like, going to another planet? The details from world to world can be very different, but the basic laws of reality remain the same.

I think that this passage is actually talking about being in a state that we have not realized even exists. When he says, 'I belong to many worlds,' I believe that he is really saying that he is conscious of many lives unfolding at the same time, and I find that concept remarkable. However, I know that it's possible because I have now done it.

As I said on my recent author tour and at Chet Snow's conference in Tempe, I think we are, each of us, more a wave front moving across time than a single individual. Each 'person' that we are exists in a single bubble in the foam of this wave, a bubble which reflects only its own reality.

However this extraordinary experience and the words of the Master of the Key reflect a much larger reality, one that is described very well by Meister Eckhart, when he admonishes us to "become as a clear glass through which God can shine."

When you do this, you cease to belong to the illusion of a single world, and become one with many.

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Aliens Apart by Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer, SETI

06 December 2007-For years scientists have wrestled with a puzzling fact: The universe appears to be remarkably suited for life. Its physical properties are finely tuned to permit our existence. Stars, planets and the kind of sticky chemistry that produces fish, ferns and folks wouldn't be possible if some of the cosmic constants were only slightly different.

Well, there's another property of the universe that's equally noteworthy: It's set up in a way that keeps everyone isolated.

We learned this relatively recently. The big discovery took place in 1838, when Friedrich Bessel beat out his telescope- wielding buddies to first measure the distance to a star other than the sun. 61 Cygni, a binary star in our own back yard, turned out to be about 11 light-years away. For those who, like Billy Joel, are fond of models, think of it this way: If you shrank the sun to a ping-pong ball and set it down in New York's Central Park, 61 Cygni would be a slightly smaller ball near Denver.

The distances between adjacent stars are measured in tens of trillions of miles. The distances between adjacent civilizations, even assuming that there are lots of them out there, are measured in thousands of trillions of miles � hundreds of light-years, to use a more tractable unit. Note that this number doesn't change much no matter how many planets you believe are studded with sentients � the separation distance is pretty much the same whether you think there are ten thousand galactic societies or a million.

Interstellar distances are big. Had the physics of the universe been different � if the gravitational constant were smaller � maybe suns would have been sprinkled far closer together, and a trip to your starry neighbors would have been no more than a boring rocket ride, kind of like cruising to Sydney. As it is, no matter what your level of technology, traveling between the stars is a tough assignment. To hop from one to the next at the speed of our snazziest chemical rockets takes close to 100,000 years. For any aliens who have managed to amass the enormous energy reserves and ponderous radiation shielding required for relativistic spaceflight, the travel time is still measured in years (if not for them, then for those they've left behind).

This has some obvious consequences (which, remarkably, have escaped the attention of most Hollywood writers.) To begin with, forget about galactic "empires" or more politically-correct "federations." Two thousand years ago, the Romans clubbed together an empire that stretched from Spain to Iraq, with a radius of about 1,200 miles. They could do this thanks to organization and civil engineering. All those roads (not to mention the Mediterranean) allowed them to move troops around at a few miles an hour. Even the most distant Roman realms could be reached in months or less, or about one percent the lifetime of your average legionnaire. It makes sense to undertake campaigns designed to hold together an extensive social fabric when doing so requires only a percent or so of a lifetime.

In the 19th century, steamships and railroads increased the troop travel speeds by a factor of ten, which extended the radius of control by a similar amount. The British could rule an empire that was world-wide.

But here's the kicker: Even if we could move people around at nearly the speed of light, this "one percent rule" would still limit our ability to effectively intervene � our radius of control � to distances of less than a light-year, considerably short of the span to even the nearest star other than Sol. Consequently, the Galactic Federation is a fiction (as if you didn't know). Despite being warned that Cardassian look-alikes were wreaking havoc and destruction in the galaxy's Perseus Arm, you couldn't react quickly enough to affect the outcome. And your conscripts would be worm feed long before they arrived on the front lines anyway.

In other words, aliens won't be getting in one another's face.

There's a similar argument to be made for communication. We seldom initiate information interchange that takes longer than months (an overseas letter, for instance). More generally, we seldom begin any well-defined project that lasts more than two or three generations. The builders of medieval cathedrals were willing to spend that kind of time to complete their gothic edifices, and those who bury time capsules are occasionally willing to let a hundred years pass before the canisters are dug up. But what about a project that takes several centuries, and possibly millennia? Who's willing to do that? Only Stewart Brand's "Long Now Foundation" seems to have the guts for this type of enterprise, proposing to build a clock that will keep time for ten thousand years.

Clearly, these simple observations must have implications for SETI which, as we noted, involves transmissions that will be underway for hundreds to thousands of years. In particular, if there are signals being bandied about the galaxy for purposes of getting in touch, either (1) the aliens are individually much longer-lived than we are, which � if you're a fan of circuit- board sentience � implies that they're probably not biological. Or (2) we're missing some important physics permitting faster- than-light communication, and extraterrestrial signaling efforts don't include burping light and radio waves into space.

Many readers will, in a display of endearing perversity, choose (2). Maybe they're right, but that flies in the face of what we know. And what we know argues something worth bantering about at your next cocktail party � namely, that the time scales for travel and communication are too long for easy interaction with beings whose lifetimes are, like us, only a century or less. So while the cosmos could easily be rife with intelligent life � the architecture of the universe, and not some Starfleet Prime Directive, has ensured precious little interference of one culture with another.

Reader Describes UFO Sighting in Modesto, California

12-11-07-Tonight around 8 pm, over the rooflines of my neighbors' houses in Modesto, I saw two orange lights in the sky, flying in a slow straight line west to east/northeast.

They were flying quite slowly, and at first I thought they were trailing planes in the distant night sky, but they did not have any of the blinking strobes I normally see on planes at night. Moreover, as they approached I could tell their lights were too big to be so far away.

It occurred to me that maybe it was a blimp, but the trailing light appeared to be catching up with the lead light as the lights moved from west to east. Both lights stopped in the sky as they reached my next door neighbor's roofline (I am speaking from my vantage point and angle while standing in my driveway - I do not mean to imply they were hovering over anyone's house.)

The stranger thing is that while stationary, the rear light began pulsing and fading. It looked like it was burning out, almost like a sparkler. I actually saw what looked like sparks falling from that rear light and then the light extinguished.

The lead light began moving again, more in a northeasterly direction and it soon started to pulse and fade. Two minutes later it burned out as well.

All this took five minutes. It was clear as can be tonight, no noticeable wind, around 41 degrees F. I have no idea what this could have been. Never seen anything like it.

Posts over the past couple years about Modesto have described similar stories.

Submitted by Reader

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Unknown Object in Photograph over Aichkirchen, Austria

Hello, my name is Patrick Weninger. I am 16 years old, and from Aichkirchen in Austria. June, 14, 2007-6:38 PM-on the photo you can see at the top of the left corner an object. On this day it was windy and some time later it was beginning to rain. You also see that it was very cloudy.

At the time when I shot this photo I didn�t know there was an unknown object on it. I've been interested in UFOs for two years. And last week I thought, now I look at all my photos and maybe I will find some "abnormal" thing(s) on the pics. I also found some more pics but this photo is the best I shot.

I shot this photo in Aichkirchen (4671) in Upperaustria (Austria). On this day there was not a special sound or anything else.

My theories are maybe it�s a bird, but we don�t have so white birds here. The other is maybe it�s a weather balloon which is falling down. Or it�s a satellite or outer space trash. I don�t know.

Thanks and best wishes from the alpen country of Austria,

Patrick

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UFO Videotaped over Arkansas

Reader claims that he may have filmed a UFO in broad daylight in Arkansas on 12-09-07. The object had the form of a flying saucer or cigar shape. The object is very clearly seen as it turns and flies through the air.

Report was made through MUFON.

MUFON submitter 8587

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(right click on link, from menu select "save target as")

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1971-Abductee Involved in UFO Crash near Edwards AFB

Perhaps because I was personally involved, I feel the importance of having my experience logged in the UFO Casebook site. Please consider. Thank you.

Lori

Originally Compiled by Albert Rosales

After 1970 went out with a whimper, 1971 began in much the same manner, but a trend was beginning to form. High strangeness reports were becoming more and more commonplace, memories of 1966-1968 came alive. Something was coming down the pipe; something incredible was going to happen. A change was in the air, 1973 was just around the corner, and the world would never be the same.

Location. North of Edwards AFB, California

Date: Summer 1971

Time: unknown

A small mushroom-shaped craft crashed close to Edwards AFB. It was dull gray (gun-metal) in color with greenish lights, about 3-3, 5 m in diameter and 1.5-2m in height. 3 gray humanoids, including one that was still alive and a human female abductee (Lorraine Dvorak Cordini) were found onboard. The craft, bodies and survivors were moved to Edwards AFB. The witness Debbie Clayton reported that she heard a loud roaring sound and then a loud crash. Outside she could see a cloud of dust several blocks away. She walked over to the crash site and while other civilians were studying the craft, the military arrived, weapons drawn. One of the civilians had been taken photographs and an Air Force officer ripped the camera from his hands and smashed it but didn't try to remove the film. The craft had no markings but seemed to be scratched.

There were no windows or seams, and it appeared to be molded in one piece. The texture was smooth. The military told the witnesses to leave or be arrested. The military then covered the craft with a large canvas and lifted it with cables attached to the canvas. Once it was loaded, the military left and there was no mention of the incident in the newspapers. The cause of the crash was later established to have been a technical malfunction. Lorraine Dvorak Cordini later was able to remember (despite the fact that the military attempted to erase her memory with the use of drugs, hypnosis, etc) that she had been traveling onboard the UFO from a mothership in space. She was dressed in a tight-fitting pink body suit. Three extraterrestrial crewmen were returning her to Earth in a small pod-like craft.

Lorraine soon found herself standing amid the wreckage. One dead alien was far to her left, barely visible from where she stood, another dead alien was about 20 feet in front of her. A military person was apparently kicking the alien's dead body. The third alien crewmember was alive and standing about 20 feet from her, dazed, confused and disoriented. She too felt this way. Suddenly she felt a jerk as a military person grabbed her arms, brought them around her back and handcuffed her. As they were hauling her off she received an image in her mind of the "captain" onboard the mothership. It was a tall, 6' humanoid in a long white gown, short brown hair, female, which was communicating to Lorraine how sorry she was for not being able to help her and the other aliens, for if they did they would be detected. Her sorrow was apparent. Other aliens were around her and the same feelings of helplessness and frustration were felt. The other aliens resembled small gray humanoids (similar to the ones seen in the movie "Close Encounters"). Lorraine was then thrown into the backseat of a black limousine. Her next memory was what surfaced in the hypnosis session.

Lorraine was lying on a cold metal table in a hangar. Three military persons stood to the left of the table. One may have been an officer because he had a different cap than the fatigue uniforms of the other two persons. Another uniformed military man was at Lorraine's head and to the right and to his left was an alien whom Lorraine described as having a pumpkin-shaped head. He had appeared in a childhood experience that previously surfaced during the same hypnosis session. In the childhood experience he was in a spacesuit... Lorraine's child's mind saw him dangling outside the window in a deep sea diver's suit. This alien was about 4 ft tall, his body bulbous and brown.

His head bulbous and pumpkin like. Lorraine "heard" the alien thinking how great he felt about himself and how proud he was to be in the service of the earth military men... he had a smug attitude and the military man next to him showed contempt towards the alien. She was very confused and disoriented. Her next memory was of being yanked off the table and being dragged outside the hangar. There she saw many flashing red lights and screamed, "My God, that isn't a space ship that is the police, my God it is the police." The military men then sat her on a bus and she ended up in San Francisco stranded and lost.

HC addendum

Source: Anton Anfalov, CSETI

Type: H & G?

High Strangeness Index: 9

Reliability of Source: 10

(Scale of 1-10)Type G: When there is direct contact or interaction between a witness or witnesses with the human or entity, either against as a result of a forced abduction or a voluntary contact.Type H: When there is a report of an alleged crash or force landing of a UFO with recovery of its occupants. Or when an anomalous entity is captured or killed by either a witness or military personnel.

-lori cordini, Boone, NC

"I have walked among the stars, I have talked with the angels and sang their songs."

Submitted to the UFO Casebook by Lori Cordini

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Arizona-Red Lights

Casa Grande & Phoenix-Nov 30 2007-Time: 11:30 PM-Pinal or Marricopa county-My brother and I were driving to Phoenix and somewhere after Casa Grande a bright light about 45 degrees to our right caught both of our attention.

At first I thought is was a airport light until I noticed that it wasn't rotating and was extremely bright and blue. It glowed constant for about 4 seconds then flashed brighter 2 or 3 times and then got so bright I could the entire landscape. That lasted maybe 3 seconds and it was gone.

After about 30 seconds later I finally said to my brother, "now what the f*** was that". He said he didn't know but that it was brighter than anything he had ever seen. We both agreed that it was about 30 miles away and have no idea what caused it. I don't think I can express how bright it was. source: http://www.ufoinfo.com/sightings/usa/071130a.shtml

Minnesota-Object with Red & White Lights

12-07-We were on our way up to our lake place. My son was driving and it was around 9:00 PM driving down 169 north. We were talking and then we noticed that there was a object that had bright white lights underneath with some red lights and a red light on the top and some on the sides. It was a little ways away down the highway.

Then it started to descend on our side of the highway and shot straight across the highway stopped - like it was waiting for us to get closer. Then flew over the car. My son rolled down the car window and watched it go over. It stopped and was sitting next to a tower that had red lights.

It turned off the bright white lights and all you could see was the red ones. It was like it was hiding and did not want anyone to see it. We went further down the road watching in the rear window and it turned the white lights back on a left. source: www.mufon.com

New Jersey-Craft with Multi-Colored Lights

12-03-1.Witnesses: Debbie, Brienn and Chanel Fusco ages 53-30 and 26 respectively, were standing outside smoking cigarettes at the rear of my mother-in-law's home in Seaville, NJ at around 11 PM on Monday December 3rd, 2007.

A very large, low flying craft (perhaps 80 feet long) containing many different colored lights and producing a very odd mechanical whooshing sound suddenly appeared from the left side of their field of vision and slowly hovered around the perimeter of the house in a straight line.

They "all" felt as if they were being observed. They all felt a sensation of fear when they realized the object was not an airplane. They had no desire to observe where the object was heading after it left their field of vision. (They were all scared)

They reported no wings on the low flying craft that was below the tree line at the rear of the home. They never heard or saw anything like it before. source: www.mufon.com

England-Three Red Lights

1988-While working in the Adelphi Theatre in London, England in 1988, a workmate (Pete) and I were sitting on the roof having a cigarette during the interval (our section of the backstage area - the fly floor - exited straight out to the roof.) It was a warm spring evening and the sky was very clear.

Looking at some of the surrounding roofs, we both saw three red lights of a projectile moving at very high speed and very high altitude. It covered about 3 miles in two seconds. When it was lost to sight behind the roofs we looked at each other and said "What the ___ was that?"

We both agreed it was too high and traveling too fast to be any kind of jet - even a military jet. There was no sound or smell associated with the occurrence, but, again, it was at an extreme altitude (I guess about 40,000 to 50,000 ft.) Ralph Porter-source: UFO Casebook online report

South Africa-Elliptical Shaped Object

November 21, 2007 Time: 10:00 PM-Richtersveld South Africa. Number of witnesses: 2 Number of objects: 1 Shape of objects: Oval. An author (name removed) and a journalist (name removed) doing a road trip through southern Africa were staying alone at a remote bush lodge on the banks of the Orange River in the Richtersveld when they saw an elliptical shaped object emanating a yellow/gold light move across the sky directly within their vision at an angle of about 70 degrees. The object had a trajectory that seemed parallel to the earth and this trajectory continued for about seven seconds.

The object then turned south and seemed to maintain its parallel course before disappearing entirely in a nanosecond. Both parties have no explanation for this sighting which was several hundred kilometers from any airport. source: http://www.hbccufo.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3386

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