1 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:08,520 He was on his knees in the grass, his eyes blurring with 2 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:10,520 tears. He cried out again. 3 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:14,600 Please do not leave me here. He flung his hands out, grasping 4 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,640 the air, trying to close the distance, trying to catch hold 5 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:19,160 of the being standing beside him. 6 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:22,320 But each time he was stopped, held back by something he could 7 00:00:22,320 --> 00:00:25,320 not see. Only moments earlier he had been 8 00:00:25,320 --> 00:00:27,800 standing. Earlier still, he had been 9 00:00:27,800 --> 00:00:30,360 walking toward it in company, his heart pounding. 10 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:34,440 Not from fear, he would later insist, but from a strange 11 00:00:34,440 --> 00:00:37,880 excitement. Then the being beside him raised 12 00:00:37,880 --> 00:00:39,640 its hand and signed for him to stand. 13 00:00:40,800 --> 00:00:43,920 As he did, the eyes behind the glass hood glowed with a strange 14 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:47,280 light. A warmth moved through his body, 15 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:50,280 not like heat, but like a current passing through him. 16 00:00:51,160 --> 00:00:54,200 He was made to understand that he had been brave, that he had 17 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:57,720 also been lucky. Had he stepped even 1m closer, 18 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:01,040 directly beneath the machine, he would have been disintegrated 19 00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:05,239 only because the ring was still under control, had the magnetic 20 00:01:05,239 --> 00:01:07,560 field been held within the diameter of the craft. 21 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:11,320 He was told that he had been fortunate to see them so closely 22 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:15,880 and to speak with them at all, but that neither he nor any 23 00:01:15,880 --> 00:01:19,560 being from Earth could go with them or travel in their craft. 24 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:22,560 The being raised its arm in greeting. 25 00:01:22,880 --> 00:01:25,480 Then, without warning, the ground vanished beneath him. 26 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:29,400 A violent pressure caught his body and flung him far from the 27 00:01:29,400 --> 00:01:50,440 craft. Gordon Creighton is sitting at 28 00:01:50,440 --> 00:01:54,720 his desk in December 1979, unpacking A padded folder that 29 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:58,640 has just arrived in the post. Inside is a careful assembly of 30 00:01:58,640 --> 00:02:03,640 material, typed pages, handwritten notes, maps and a 31 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:07,960 small set of color slides. The case concerns a man named 32 00:02:07,960 --> 00:02:10,960 Walter Rizzi, and it has already travelled some distance. 33 00:02:10,960 --> 00:02:14,680 Before reaching him, Gordon picked up the cover sheet 34 00:02:14,920 --> 00:02:19,160 written by Hans Herman Markert. He and his wife, Daphne Markert, 35 00:02:19,280 --> 00:02:21,680 had first heard of the case when they attended a lecture in 36 00:02:21,680 --> 00:02:26,920 Germany in October 1979 given by a man named Walter Ritzy, who 37 00:02:26,920 --> 00:02:29,920 spoke publicly about a strange encounter he had experienced. 38 00:02:30,600 --> 00:02:33,320 After the talk, Hans and Daphne had the opportunity to speak 39 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:36,560 with Ritzy at length, and from his general manner and behavior, 40 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,040 and from the vivid yet consistent way in which he 41 00:02:39,040 --> 00:02:42,480 narrated his experiences, they were left with a very strong 42 00:02:42,480 --> 00:02:44,200 feeling that the man was genuine. 43 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:47,760 They wrote that they had kept in touch with Mr. Rizzi ever since 44 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:52,320 and continued to investigate the case from the sundry of other 45 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:55,840 items, including maps of the landing area and a number of 46 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:58,720 Rizzi's color slides showing the site and its immediate 47 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:01,400 surroundings. Gordon Creighton drew out the 48 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:05,040 testimony itself, written in German, and began to read it 49 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:08,040 with the same careful attention he had already given to the rest 50 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:12,080 of the material. Her market explained that in 51 00:03:12,080 --> 00:03:14,880 passing the material on to Gordon Creighton, it was his 52 00:03:14,880 --> 00:03:17,840 hope that Flying Saucer Review might be able to extend the 53 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:21,280 investigation still further and offer a critical evaluation of 54 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:24,200 the Rizzi case. Such a course, Crichton notes, 55 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:26,400 is regrettably not within their power. 56 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:30,000 The scene of the close encounter, if it occurred at 57 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:34,000 all, lies far from Britain and is said to have taken place 12 58 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:36,560 years earlier. And it is obvious that however 59 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:39,680 many investigators might be available and however much money 60 00:03:39,680 --> 00:03:43,240 might be spent, they would probably never be any the wiser. 61 00:03:44,240 --> 00:03:48,640 This UFO report, like all close encounter claims, ultimately 62 00:03:48,640 --> 00:03:51,800 stands or falls by the inner feeling one forms as to the 63 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:54,880 integrity and probity of the alleged percipient. 64 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:00,360 After sitting on the Rizzy case for six months, ruminating on it 65 00:04:00,520 --> 00:04:04,120 and wondering what, if anything, ought to be done, Creighton 66 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:06,640 finally brings his deliberation to a close. 67 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:09,240 He writes in his introduction piece. 68 00:04:10,120 --> 00:04:13,160 My personal feeling is that the story could very well be true. 69 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,519 If so, then the report is of great importance, for the Rizzy 70 00:04:17,519 --> 00:04:19,920 story contains a message for mankind. 71 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,720 This message is unpalatable to say the least, but it is a 72 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,800 message that happens to be borne out by an increasing volume of 73 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:31,240 corroboratory evidence coming from the most diverse quarters 74 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:35,280 and from individuals who by no means all believe in UFOs or 75 00:04:35,280 --> 00:04:37,520 know anything about the UFO phenomenon. 76 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:42,640 From this assessment follows A practical decision which he 77 00:04:42,640 --> 00:04:46,720 explains just as plainly. I came finally to the decision 78 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:50,160 that I ought to take the trouble to translate the report in full 79 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:54,120 and submit it to the editor of FSR for possible publication. 80 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:59,040 For Flying Saucer Review is not, nor has it ever claimed to be, 81 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:03,000 anything other than a forum wherein UFO accounts and UFO 82 00:05:03,000 --> 00:05:05,520 related claims might be ventilated and discussed. 83 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:09,560 If I were to go on sitting on it, our readers might in all 84 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:12,320 probability never hear of Senor Walter Ritzi. 85 00:05:13,160 --> 00:05:16,080 If the case is published, readers will be able to chew it 86 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:19,240 over at their leisure, seeking those features which strike them 87 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:23,680 as strong or weak. So now let us turn to the 88 00:05:23,680 --> 00:05:26,800 testimony itself, and listen to what it consists of. 89 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:36,600 The experience which I am about to relate befell me in July 1968 90 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:40,800 and made a profound impression upon me, indeed to such an 91 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:43,760 extent that in view of the ridicule with which I was 92 00:05:43,760 --> 00:05:46,840 greeted when I attempted to tell people about it, I have 93 00:05:46,840 --> 00:05:50,440 maintained total silence about it for 11 years until the 94 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:55,000 opportunity came to broadcast my story in 1979 on Radio Nord 95 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:59,560 Bolzano, A privately operated local station in the South 96 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:05,800 Italian Tyrol. My broadcast aroused great 97 00:06:05,800 --> 00:06:09,200 interest and as a result I was invited to go to Rome and tell 98 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:13,520 the story again on the Italian International Rai network where 99 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:16,520 I was introduced by the famous actress Sandra Milo. 100 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:20,920 Here again the transmission was a great success and LED to 101 00:06:20,920 --> 00:06:24,720 numerous requests for detailed information which is now induced 102 00:06:24,720 --> 00:06:27,040 me to give the following account of my experience. 103 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,760 In 1968 I was working with a Bolzano firm as their 104 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:33,600 representative for all Southern to roll. 105 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:37,560 Since I had been born in the Dolomite Mountains myself in 106 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:40,920 Campatello di Fasa, it has always given me great pleasure 107 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:44,120 to travel around in this region. And thus it came about that I 108 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:47,520 had my UFO experience. One night in July of that year. 109 00:06:49,080 --> 00:06:51,960 I had spent the evening in the company of a Dutch girl who was 110 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:54,760 holidaying at Saint Cassian in the Gator Valley. 111 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:59,320 I parted from her at midnight and decided to go via the 112 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:03,320 Grudner Pass and the Sela Pass to Campatello where my aunt runs 113 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:06,600 the Sport Hotel. The weather that night was not 114 00:07:06,600 --> 00:07:09,720 very good. The sky was overcast with very 115 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:13,160 thick heavy clouds and only rarely did I catch a glimpse of 116 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:16,320 any stars. At times my Rd. lay through 117 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:19,320 banks of mist which enveloped the mountains so that I had to 118 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:22,320 drive very slowly and stop to take my bearings repeatedly. 119 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:25,880 Several times I had been within an ace of driving off the road 120 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:29,120 and over the edge. So finally I decided that at the 121 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:32,320 first favorable opportunity I would pull up and park beside 122 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:34,360 the road and try to get a little sleep. 123 00:07:36,560 --> 00:07:39,440 After going over the Grudner pass, I came to a spot where 124 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:42,520 there was a heap of sand beside the road and I decided to stop 125 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:44,960 near there. I lowered my seat so as to 126 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:47,680 recline. It was about 1:00 in the morning 127 00:07:47,960 --> 00:07:50,640 and I was very tired and badly in need of sleep. 128 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:58,640 Then suddenly I found myself awake again and I smelt a strong 129 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:01,880 odor as though from something burning at once. 130 00:08:01,880 --> 00:08:05,680 I thought my Fiat 600 must be on fire or maybe I had a short 131 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:10,000 circuit somewhere in the wiring. I jumped out of the car quickly 132 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:13,280 and with my hand torch made a check up but found everything in 133 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:17,720 perfect order. As I was walking around the car 134 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:21,000 I caught sight of a light, about 500 meters or so it seemed, 135 00:08:21,200 --> 00:08:24,600 further on downhill on the other side of the road, shining 136 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:28,160 through the mist. It looked like the light from 137 00:08:28,160 --> 00:08:31,960 the terrace of some hotel and this set me wondering, for I 138 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:34,880 knew very well indeed that there were no hotels whatever in that 139 00:08:34,880 --> 00:08:38,640 area, and no houses either, the whole place being quite 140 00:08:38,640 --> 00:08:41,280 uninhabited. I knew the whole area like the 141 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:44,600 inside of my trouser pockets, as I must have been through there a 142 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:51,640 good thousand times in my life. Then the Bank of mist parted and 143 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:54,680 I saw this enormous thing there with a very queer white light. 144 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:59,800 My heart started to beat madly and simultaneously I recalled my 145 00:08:59,800 --> 00:09:02,880 meeting with a strange hermit during my time in the Italian 146 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:08,680 Army in 1942. At the time of the meeting I was 147 00:09:08,680 --> 00:09:11,320 serving as an interpreter between the Italian and German 148 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:14,760 air forces and was stationed at the Ghidorah airfield on the 149 00:09:14,760 --> 00:09:16,880 Greek island of Rhodes in the Near East. 150 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:20,680 The civilian population of Rhodes were suffering extreme 151 00:09:20,680 --> 00:09:24,160 privation at the time, and almost daily a little Greek 152 00:09:24,160 --> 00:09:27,160 girl, about 10 years old, came to me to beg for a piece of 153 00:09:27,160 --> 00:09:29,960 bread. I enjoyed a good deal of freedom 154 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:33,720 in my job, for I was always with the senior officers, and in 155 00:09:33,720 --> 00:09:36,920 actual fact they did not have any very tight control over me, 156 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:40,360 as at one time I would be at the German headquarters and at 157 00:09:40,360 --> 00:09:44,080 another time with the Italians. Consequently I had quite a lot 158 00:09:44,080 --> 00:09:47,040 of free time and I was able to fix it for the little girl with 159 00:09:47,040 --> 00:09:49,680 the Angel face to have some good food from the mess. 160 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:53,240 One day I asked her whether she took all the food home and how 161 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:55,400 many brothers and sisters there were in the family. 162 00:09:56,080 --> 00:09:59,000 She explained that she had only her parents and that she gave 163 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,880 half the food to a holy man who had been living in the mountains 164 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:05,040 for more than 100 years and never came down into the valley. 165 00:10:05,560 --> 00:10:08,320 And she said she was the only person permitted to take food to 166 00:10:08,320 --> 00:10:11,800 him and to talk to him. It took me many weeks before I 167 00:10:11,800 --> 00:10:14,840 could persuade her to take me to see the holy man, and when I 168 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:17,720 first set eyes on him, I was struck by his thinness. 169 00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:20,720 His skin was all wrinkled like a shrunken apple. 170 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:24,960 He was almost stark naked, with very long hair and beard, and 171 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:26,720 his eyes were pitch black and shining. 172 00:10:27,560 --> 00:10:30,480 He did not extend his hand to me in greeting, but did it by 173 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:33,800 raising his hand in the air. His look went right through me 174 00:10:34,040 --> 00:10:37,840 and he said to me, Esikala, meaning you are good. 175 00:10:38,800 --> 00:10:41,200 And so it came about that I spent a lot of time with the old 176 00:10:41,200 --> 00:10:44,200 hermit, sometimes for even as much as two or three days in a 177 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:48,360 row, in order to absent myself for so long without anyone going 178 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:50,600 to look for me. I would go to the Italian 179 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:53,320 headquarters and tell them I would be over with the Germans 180 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:55,880 who needed me, and then I would do the same thing with the 181 00:10:55,880 --> 00:10:58,560 Germans. And in this way I managed to 182 00:10:58,560 --> 00:11:02,000 keep out of trouble. The hermit told me he was over 183 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,120 100 years old, and he taught me how to read the most important 184 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:07,840 signs from the palm of the hand and how to tell a person's 185 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:11,000 character from his face. And he also taught me a prayer 186 00:11:11,000 --> 00:11:13,800 in magical ancient Greek words which had always to be 187 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:17,080 pronounced at precisely the same time of the day and in trance. 188 00:11:17,840 --> 00:11:21,640 This was, he explained, good for purifying the spirit and for 189 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:24,520 achieving a positive influence in the cosmic magnetic field. 190 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:29,120 Once a month the old hermit retired into isolation and 191 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:31,320 remained immobile like a statue for two days. 192 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:34,920 He told me that he was able to travel through the universe, and 193 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:38,120 there were countless numbers of planets far, far distant from 194 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:41,120 our solar system and inhabited by completely different 195 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:44,040 creatures. He prophesied that I would one 196 00:11:44,040 --> 00:11:47,240 day meet beings from the cosmos and that they would provide me 197 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:50,000 with the assurance and the certainty of the existence of 198 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:53,600 life throughout the universe. I asked him to tell me more 199 00:11:53,600 --> 00:11:56,760 about my future, and he said that the voice of my conscience 200 00:11:56,760 --> 00:11:59,880 was already seeking for the light and that all I needed to 201 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:02,160 do was to carry on along the same path. 202 00:12:02,920 --> 00:12:05,680 He told me that once I had attained perfect concentration 203 00:12:05,680 --> 00:12:08,360 in the prayer that he had taught me, He would be able to give me 204 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:11,560 a sign of His presence, and this would be simply by means of a 205 00:12:11,560 --> 00:12:16,360 powerful odor. Finally, after many years, I did 206 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:19,680 manage every three or four months or so to reach such 207 00:12:19,680 --> 00:12:22,720 concentration that wherever I might be, I would receive a 208 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:25,120 strong smell of roses and Lily of the valley. 209 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:33,560 Returning to the matter of the enormous object, I was instantly 210 00:12:33,560 --> 00:12:36,600 convinced that the moment had now come that had been foretold 211 00:12:36,600 --> 00:12:40,600 by the old hermit. The ground sloped away down from 212 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:44,160 the side of the road, and as it was very dark I had to take my 213 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:48,000 flashlight. Treading with great care, I made 214 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,720 my way down to the level area where the huge object was 215 00:12:50,720 --> 00:12:53,920 standing, and as I got closer I could see it more and more 216 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:59,400 clearly. There was now another break in 217 00:12:59,400 --> 00:13:02,120 the belt of mist and my heart started beating madly. 218 00:13:04,240 --> 00:13:07,320 I could feel the veins in my neck greatly swollen, but I had 219 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:10,000 No Fear. I have never feared anything. 220 00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:17,040 I was nearly terribly excited. The object was wonderfully 221 00:13:17,040 --> 00:13:20,920 beautiful, silvery in color and about 80 meters in diameter, 222 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:24,800 standing on three legs about two meters long and about two meters 223 00:13:24,800 --> 00:13:28,680 thick at the bottom. The UFO was bathed in a fleecy 224 00:13:28,680 --> 00:13:32,200 white light, and the burning smell that had awakened me was 225 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:35,720 intense and overwhelming. When I had got to a distance of 226 00:13:35,720 --> 00:13:39,480 about 3 meters from the object, I felt myself suddenly halted, 227 00:13:39,880 --> 00:13:43,320 blocked with a sensation, as though my body weighed 1000 228 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:46,120 kilos. I could not move another inch 229 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:48,320 and found that great effort was needed to breathe. 230 00:13:52,760 --> 00:13:55,640 The transparent cupola on the top of the craft now lit up 231 00:13:55,640 --> 00:13:59,080 brightly and I saw two beings in it who were looking down at me. 232 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:05,000 On the right hand side of the machine there was a robot about 233 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:08,360 2 1/2 meters high and with three legs and four arms. 234 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:11,840 It was holding the outside of the craft and making it rotate. 235 00:14:14,160 --> 00:14:17,040 From the center of the craft came a beam of light about two 236 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:20,320 meters wide and alternating between Violet and orange in 237 00:14:20,320 --> 00:14:22,480 color. And from within this beam of 238 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:25,680 light I saw coming down out of the craft a being dressed in a 239 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:28,520 tight fitting suit and with a glass hood over the head. 240 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:35,880 This being was about 1 meter 60 centimeters in height. 241 00:14:36,560 --> 00:14:40,360 He came right up to me until he was no more than 1m from me and 242 00:14:40,360 --> 00:14:42,680 raised the right hand in greeting just as the old hermit 243 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:46,480 had done. I find it quite impossible to 244 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:49,800 describe the emotion produced in me by the sight of this being. 245 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:56,960 He had very beautiful eyes which gave me a strange and very sweet 246 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:00,480 sensation. I felt myself as free and light 247 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:03,400 as a feather. At the same time I also felt 248 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:06,000 quite calm and I gazed at him eagerly. 249 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:10,120 He was just like us. The glass hood started at his 250 00:15:10,120 --> 00:15:12,200 shoulders and encompassed the entire head. 251 00:15:12,960 --> 00:15:16,400 I asked him in Italian where he came from, and no sooner had I 252 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:19,720 said it than I already had his answer inside my brain as though 253 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:22,400 I had always known it. The planet from which he had 254 00:15:22,400 --> 00:15:26,520 come is far distant from our Galaxy and is 10 times the size 255 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:30,840 of our Earth and has two Suns, one larger and one smaller. 256 00:15:31,480 --> 00:15:35,400 Their day is far longer than ours, 1/3 of it is less bright 257 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:38,840 than the rest, and their night itself is very brief. 258 00:15:39,760 --> 00:15:41,680 The vegetation there resembles ours. 259 00:15:42,320 --> 00:15:45,440 There are very high mountains and immensely tall trees. 260 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:49,960 They have two icy poles, as we do, and desolate Stony zones. 261 00:15:50,760 --> 00:15:53,720 They also have animals that resemble ours, but of different 262 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:58,440 structures and sizes. Then the thought came to me to 263 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:01,880 ask him how they live and what they eat, and straight away I 264 00:16:01,880 --> 00:16:04,760 had the answer. His mouth had moved slightly but 265 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:07,920 I heard no voice and I think it came to me by telepathy. 266 00:16:09,240 --> 00:16:11,640 He told me that they do not work, everything being 267 00:16:11,640 --> 00:16:15,280 automatic, they are all equal and each has whatever he wants. 268 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:18,360 There are also ape like creatures there that perform 269 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:21,360 certain work tasks, planting fruit and vegetables and reaping 270 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:25,000 the crops and so on. After I had studied the being 271 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:28,200 pretty thoroughly from top to toe, he gave me to understand 272 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:31,280 that his type of structure was the one best suited for life on 273 00:16:31,280 --> 00:16:34,320 his particular planet. The upper part of his head was 274 00:16:34,320 --> 00:16:37,440 wider than ours is, because their brain is twice the size of 275 00:16:37,440 --> 00:16:41,480 our brain, and they make use of the whole of it merely by means 276 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:44,520 of thought and by the emanation of waves of energy, they are 277 00:16:44,520 --> 00:16:46,640 able to do things that we cannot even imagine. 278 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:51,320 As his head and neck were completely clearly to be seen 279 00:16:51,320 --> 00:16:54,240 under the glass hood, there were, however, two smooth tubes 280 00:16:54,240 --> 00:16:56,600 behind the hood. I was able to examine him 281 00:16:56,600 --> 00:16:59,840 closely. His hair was quite short and of 282 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:01,400 the shade of a light colored Beaver. 283 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:04,839 It looked like fur. His eyes were marvelously 284 00:17:04,839 --> 00:17:08,800 beautiful, set further apart than ours and slanting slightly 285 00:17:08,800 --> 00:17:12,280 upwards at the outer corners and shaped rather like a cat's eyes. 286 00:17:13,400 --> 00:17:16,079 The part of the eye that is white in us was a chestnut brown 287 00:17:16,079 --> 00:17:18,800 in him, or one might say almost light nut brown. 288 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:23,200 The pupils themselves resembled ours, but their color was green 289 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:26,319 with blue reflections. In the center of them there was 290 00:17:26,319 --> 00:17:29,800 a black spot which from time to time changed shape and became 291 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:33,080 long and narrow. To begin with, before changing 292 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:37,680 shape, the black spot was round, then when it became elongated, 293 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:39,720 it was Oval, like the eye of a cat. 294 00:17:40,360 --> 00:17:43,120 His nose too was very small like a cat's. 295 00:17:43,720 --> 00:17:46,960 His lips were small and very thin and as I looked at them I 296 00:17:46,960 --> 00:17:50,680 thought of Greta Garbo. When he laughed, no individual 297 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:55,400 teeth were visible, but simply 2 very very white uniform rows. 298 00:17:56,120 --> 00:17:59,080 He told me that they have no use for teeth since they are not 299 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:01,600 flesh eaters. He said that we, on the other 300 00:18:01,600 --> 00:18:03,760 hand, have the body structure of animals. 301 00:18:04,360 --> 00:18:06,960 Their food is fruit and vegetables and seed grains. 302 00:18:07,560 --> 00:18:10,600 Furthermore, they possess devices which store up energy 303 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:12,400 and there is no sickness among them. 304 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:17,560 The being's skin was smooth and of a clear olive green shade, 305 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:19,280 looking as though made of rubber. 306 00:18:20,280 --> 00:18:23,120 When he turned his head, turning it right round to face 307 00:18:23,120 --> 00:18:26,640 backwards, not a single wrinkle was to be seen on his neck. 308 00:18:27,520 --> 00:18:31,440 I felt the urge to ask him why he had an olive green skin and 309 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:34,040 he told me that the color which I was now seeing was not the 310 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:37,400 true one because the system of the magnetic content of the 311 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:39,720 color was not the same as with them. 312 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:43,360 I did not understand what he was trying to tell me. 313 00:18:45,760 --> 00:18:48,760 His shoulders were very broad and he had a very slim middle 314 00:18:48,760 --> 00:18:51,760 part to his body. I also had a look at his feet 315 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:53,960 and arms. They were a little bit different 316 00:18:53,960 --> 00:18:56,600 from ours. The part of the leg running from 317 00:18:56,600 --> 00:18:59,560 the back quarters of the body to the knee was considerably longer 318 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:02,040 than the part below the knee, and it seemed to me, 319 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:04,800 furthermore, that the foot had somewhat of the shape of a 320 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:07,760 horse's foot. The upper part of the arm was 321 00:19:07,760 --> 00:19:12,160 also longer than the lower part. As regards the hands, I did not 322 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:14,920 have a good view of them, and I have the impression that he was 323 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:18,080 wearing gloves. His fingers must have been very 324 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:20,520 long. He told me that their Organism 325 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:24,360 is less complicated than ours. They have only one digestive 326 00:19:24,360 --> 00:19:28,560 tract and lack all the entrails that we have, but their heart 327 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:31,320 and lungs are very highly developed, since they require a 328 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:34,880 great deal of air to nourish the brain and to purify the fluid 329 00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:38,360 which flows in their veins, and which, moreover has a 330 00:19:38,360 --> 00:19:40,200 composition different from our blood. 331 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:44,760 Furthermore, they possess very powerful muscles required for 332 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:47,640 standing the great atmospheric pressure on their planet. 333 00:19:48,240 --> 00:19:51,880 In fact, when he came down out of the machine, he came towards 334 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:55,040 me with a hopping gate, just like the astronauts who landed 335 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:58,000 on the moon. This being due to the fact that 336 00:19:58,000 --> 00:20:01,040 our pressure is much less and also to the fact that their 337 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:02,800 composition is different from ours. 338 00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:09,240 I was still fascinated by his beautiful eyes, and I wanted to 339 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:10,800 ask whether he was a man or a woman. 340 00:20:11,640 --> 00:20:14,560 His eyes glowed more brightly for an instant and he smiled. 341 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:17,800 And he gave me to understand that he was neither, and that 342 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:21,080 when they desire to propagate themselves, they do not couple 343 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:23,920 as animals do. Since I was only a meter distant 344 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:27,400 from the being, I tried twice to touch him but was instantly 345 00:20:27,400 --> 00:20:31,160 prevented. Meanwhile, the robot was still 346 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:32,840 at work on the other side of the object. 347 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:36,760 It was like a ring sticking out to a distance of 2 meters and 348 00:20:36,760 --> 00:20:40,160 two meters high. It frequently bent down towards 349 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:44,440 the ground and its central part became sharp pointed, while 1/2 350 00:20:44,440 --> 00:20:47,120 moved towards one side and the other half towards the other 351 00:20:47,120 --> 00:20:49,360 side. I was about to ask the being 352 00:20:49,360 --> 00:20:52,360 whether that part of the robot formed a sharp point for the 353 00:20:52,360 --> 00:20:55,000 purpose of splitting the meteorites flying at tremendous 354 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,840 speeds against the machine. He laughed again and gave me to 355 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,800 understand that their method with meteorites was not to split 356 00:21:01,800 --> 00:21:04,120 them. He said they disintegrated them 357 00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:07,400 or displaced them. He said the outer ring was used 358 00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:10,160 by them only when they sought to enter the atmospheres of other 359 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:12,880 planets for the purpose of being able to remain there for a 360 00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:16,720 certain length of time. He said that in the depths of 361 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:20,280 the universe, they travel in their mothership, which remains 362 00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:23,880 outside of a magnetic field. The mothership is propelled by a 363 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:26,920 different sort of energy. It is of the same shape as the 364 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:31,360 craft, but is merely far, far bigger, I think, he said. 365 00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:35,120 With a diameter of five kilometers, the mothership 366 00:21:35,120 --> 00:21:38,480 carries many more of the smaller craft in addition to their own, 367 00:21:38,760 --> 00:21:42,160 and it also has a quite tiny type of unmanned craft which is 368 00:21:42,160 --> 00:21:45,800 sent out to gather information. These are operated by a 369 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:47,720 particular sort of magnetic drive. 370 00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:51,400 When not in an atmosphere, these small ones are subject to no 371 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:54,560 speed limit, and they suffer no effects from attraction or 372 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:56,800 temperature, et cetera, et cetera. 373 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:01,200 He said that aboard the mother ship, hundreds of their type of 374 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:03,800 beings are living just as they do on their home planet. 375 00:22:04,640 --> 00:22:08,040 He said that they fly along neutral channels which exist in 376 00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:09,880 the intermediate stretches of space. 377 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,480 This is done in order to avoid being drawn into the magnetic 378 00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:16,880 fields of other planets or encountering meteorites or dead 379 00:22:16,880 --> 00:22:19,920 planets. I asked him what sort of 380 00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:23,000 defensive weapons they had, to which he replied that they can 381 00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,640 disintegrate anything even at great distances. 382 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,080 He signed to me to pick up a stone that was lying about two 383 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:32,360 meters from me. I picked it up and he told me to 384 00:22:32,360 --> 00:22:36,000 try to throw the stone, which weighed about a kilogram, at the 385 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,680 cupola of the UFO. I swung myself around twice to 386 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:43,080 develop a better throwing speed and hurled the stone with all my 387 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:46,360 might right at the cupola. Whereupon a whitish lilac 388 00:22:46,360 --> 00:22:49,640 colored beam of light shot out from it and the stone exploded 389 00:22:49,640 --> 00:22:52,760 with a dull report and I saw not even a single fragment of it 390 00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:56,800 fall to the ground. I asked him why they are not 391 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,560 willing to help us with their technology and remain on our 392 00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:02,760 planet and also how long it would be before we had their 393 00:23:02,760 --> 00:23:06,240 kind of technology. He gave me to understand that 394 00:23:06,480 --> 00:23:09,360 firstly, they are not allowed to interfere in the development of 395 00:23:09,360 --> 00:23:12,720 another planet and that the time they spend in our solar system 396 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:17,640 makes them age far too rapidly. Secondly, he said we would never 397 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,840 reach their level of evolution since the crust of our planet is 398 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:24,480 far too variable and that in the near future there will be a 399 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:28,320 displacement of our poles. In the process of adjustment to 400 00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:31,640 this polar shift, an enormous crack would develop in the 401 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:35,120 surface of our planet and this would entail an upheaval on the 402 00:23:35,120 --> 00:23:39,240 earth that would destroy 80% of all living things here, leaving 403 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:42,080 the survivors to carry on on a habitable strip of the planet. 404 00:23:43,480 --> 00:23:45,920 At this point I asked him whether he believed in God. 405 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:49,760 He was a bit surprised at that and gave me to understand with a 406 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:53,840 cosmic turn of phrase that everything is God, we nature, 407 00:23:53,840 --> 00:23:57,680 the planets, rocks, grass, in fact everything that exists. 408 00:23:58,360 --> 00:24:01,480 I also asked him how they die and to what age they live. 409 00:24:02,120 --> 00:24:05,040 He replied that they die when the cosmic energy in them runs 410 00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:08,440 out and that they live about 100 times longer than we do, 411 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:11,800 reckoning on the basis of our planetary time cycle. 412 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:15,320 Meanwhile, the robot had stopped working. 413 00:24:16,120 --> 00:24:19,240 It became smaller, the cylinder grew narrower and moved towards 414 00:24:19,240 --> 00:24:22,880 the center of the UFO, where an orange light came on and it went 415 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:24,440 into the craft as though floating. 416 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,480 Consequently I understood that they were leaving. 417 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:31,840 Then the other being in the cupola signaled to me in 418 00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:34,680 salutation. I did not have a very good view 419 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,720 of him, but he looked the same as the one standing beside me. 420 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:40,920 During the whole time while I had been talking with this 421 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:43,840 being, the object had been enveloped in a fleecy white 422 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:46,960 light, which threw no shadows and did not hurt the eyes. 423 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:51,120 I now asked him whether he could not give me something of theirs. 424 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,600 He said no, since it would be harmful for me. 425 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:58,000 I was so fascinated by this being that I asked whether he 426 00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,760 could not take me with him, saying it would be all the same 427 00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:02,480 to me whether or not I ever returned. 428 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,440 Then I was overcome by a great wave of emotion at the mere 429 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,960 thought that I would not see them again, and I started to 430 00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,760 weep. I even knelt down and begged him 431 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:14,960 to take me with them, and I tried to put my arms around him, 432 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:17,160 but every time I did so I was stopped. 433 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:21,720 He signed to me to stand up. His eyes glowed with a strange 434 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:24,320 light which sent a feeling of warmth right through my whole 435 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:28,000 body and he gave me to understand that I was very brave 436 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:31,000 and that I had moreover been lucky on 2 counts. 437 00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:35,200 Firstly, had I gone so much as 1m nearer to the machine, that 438 00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,440 is to say right underneath it, I would have been disintegrated, 439 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,960 but as they had been controlling the ring, their magnetic field 440 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,360 had not been permitted to extend beyond the diameter of the 441 00:25:45,360 --> 00:25:48,200 craft. Secondly, I had been lucky to 442 00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:51,280 see them at such close quarters and to be able to talk to them, 443 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:55,360 but that neither I nor any being from this earth can be with them 444 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:58,080 and even less travel with them in their spacecraft. 445 00:26:00,120 --> 00:26:03,480 He raised his arm and greeting to me as at the beginning, and I 446 00:26:03,480 --> 00:26:06,200 was flung far away from the machine by a powerful force. 447 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:10,600 While the being returning to the machine disappeared into the 448 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:15,160 brightly lit ring up in the cupola, the other being waved to 449 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:18,080 me with his long arms. The white light of the machine 450 00:26:18,080 --> 00:26:20,960 was now growing dimmer and meanwhile this force which I 451 00:26:20,960 --> 00:26:23,800 have just mentioned had continued to push me away till I 452 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:27,160 was at a distance of some 300 meters or so, where I found I 453 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:28,880 was once more able to move freely. 454 00:26:30,280 --> 00:26:32,480 The light from the cupola had now turned to Violet. 455 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,400 The outside of the craft was Violet too, with transitions now 456 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:39,720 and then into orange. At this point the machine was 457 00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:42,480 making a noise like a circular saw being started up. 458 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:47,000 It began to move and rose to about two or three meters or so 459 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:50,720 above the ground, and I watched the three legs one after the 460 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:55,640 other being retracted. The light from light Violet was 461 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:59,480 now growing steadily whiter until at last it was totally 462 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:01,800 white. Then I heard for a moment a 463 00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:04,280 sharp whistle that I felt was going to blow my head off. 464 00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,480 The machine started to dip from side to side as though bidding 465 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:12,600 me goodbye, and slowly it rose to a height of about 300 meters 466 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,680 or so. Then, in the twinkling of an 467 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:19,080 eye, it shot straight up into the sky at a terrifying speed 468 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:22,240 and was gone. I was by now utterly 469 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,600 thunderstruck. The tears were running down my 470 00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:26,960 face and I was overcome with despair. 471 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,160 For the first time I became aware that I was drenched with 472 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:33,040 sweat. The air seemed warm and I 473 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:35,080 touched the ground and it felt tepid too. 474 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:39,760 The mist had now cleared. It was quite dark and the sky 475 00:27:39,760 --> 00:27:42,840 was full of stars. I wanted to use my flashlight, 476 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:45,480 but it no longer worked. So I had to grope my way to my 477 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:49,440 Fiat 600I simply could not get over what had just happened. 478 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:52,760 I pricked myself with a pin to see whether or not I was awake. 479 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:56,920 Then I relieved myself and got into the car and drove over the 480 00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:59,560 cella pass to my aunt's hotel in the FASA Valley. 481 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:08,480 Next morning in the hotel, I had once made drawings and sketches 482 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:12,200 of what I had just experienced. I tried to tell my cousins about 483 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,920 what had happened to me, but they simply laughed in derision 484 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:18,280 and jeered at me. Then I tried to talk to more 485 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:21,640 serious people about it, but their reaction too, was anything 486 00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,240 but favorable. So I decided not to say anything 487 00:28:24,240 --> 00:28:27,520 to anyone. After that, I wrote to my 488 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:31,240 daughter who was married to an American in California and asked 489 00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:33,880 her to put me in touch with authorities who deal with UFO 490 00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:40,640 matters. 20 days after the event, I drove back to the spot 491 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,960 where the UFO had stood in order to take photographs of the marks 492 00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:47,240 left by the weight of the craft. When I got back to them, the 493 00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:51,280 marks were still visible. One thing that has astounded me 494 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,920 greatly is that near where the opening was, in the craft from 495 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,440 which the light was beamed out, the grass had grown to be 3 496 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:00,720 times as long as the rest of the grass around. 497 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:05,400 I used a screwdriver to dig up some plants, complete with roots 498 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:09,280 and earth, and put them into a nylon bag in order to take them 499 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:13,480 to America with me. Two days later I flew to 500 00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:16,400 California. At the San Francisco airport, 501 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,880 the official on duty opened my bags and checked my passport and 502 00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:24,240 said in a contemptuous tone, Oh, you Italiano emigrant. 503 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:28,080 I answered as best I could with my meager knowledge of English, 504 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,560 that I was not an emigrant and that I wanted to spend my 505 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,080 vacation with my daughter, who is married to one of the 506 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,000 directors of Pan American Airways. 507 00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:39,040 The official promptly changed his tone and inquired very 508 00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:42,400 politely whether the plant in my nylon bag was marijuana. 509 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:46,200 I replied that it was not, but was a chrysanthemum that I 510 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,840 wanted to plant on the grave of my daughter's father-in-law. 511 00:29:49,360 --> 00:29:52,960 So he said OK and let me go without having the plant 512 00:29:52,960 --> 00:29:56,440 analyzed. When I got to Sacramento, I went 513 00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:59,680 with my daughter to get copies made of my sketches, and I spent 514 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,160 a whole morning writing letters to addresses given in 515 00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:06,120 publications about UFOs. Not a single one replied to me. 516 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:09,920 So I again decided to keep my experience entirely to myself. 517 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:14,360 But I was starting to get very interested in UF OS, and I have 518 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,720 often had to laugh over articles disseminating so much complete 519 00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:21,000 nonsense. Very few of the articles struck 520 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:27,400 me as being genuine. As an afterthought, I feel I 521 00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,200 should mention that the only consequence of this encounter is 522 00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,280 that I found my watch was losing as much as two hours in a day. 523 00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,480 I took it to the watchmaker to be put right, but it was no use, 524 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,600 so I had to buy a new one for about a month. 525 00:30:40,600 --> 00:30:43,920 I felt very tired the whole time and I lost a lot of my hair. 526 00:30:44,680 --> 00:30:49,160 I cured myself with fresh honey, coffee, egg yolk and Brandy, a 527 00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,240 preparation that I had learnt from my grandmother. 528 00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:54,880 I also bought garlic pills and took two thrice daily. 529 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:58,720 Before two months were up, I was in good shape again and my hair 530 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:02,480 had begun to grow again too. Straight away, after I'd seen 531 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:06,520 this UFOI went out and bought myself binoculars, an ordinary 532 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:08,960 camera and a scene. A camera in the hope that I 533 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:11,800 might have the luck to see another UFO and to photograph 534 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,960 and film it. I never did have such luck. 535 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:19,280 The experience changed my character greatly and had a 536 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:22,360 profound effect on my attitude to all questions of religion or 537 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:25,320 politics. I have come to the realization 538 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:29,040 that we humans are really still very crudely constituted and 539 00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:32,800 that as the being said to me, we have animal like tendencies. 540 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,200 One detail in Reezy's account stands out more than any other 541 00:31:40,200 --> 00:31:43,960 in later discussion, the claim about Earth's instability and a 542 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,480 coming rupture tied to a displacement of the poles. 543 00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,840 This is the element that is most contested online. 544 00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:52,960 Walter Reezy reports being told that there will be a 545 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:56,280 displacement of the poles and that during the adjustment an 546 00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:59,440 enormous crack will develop in the surface of Earth, causing 547 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:03,480 upheaval that destroys 80% of living things, leaving survivors 548 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:07,440 only on a habitable strip. If we treat that seriously in 549 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:10,520 geological terms, the first question is what kind of pole 550 00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,520 shift is even being described, because there are two very 551 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:17,200 different things people call a pole shift one possibility that 552 00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,240 is often invoked as a reversal or at least a substantial 553 00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:22,640 alteration in the Earth's magnetic field. 554 00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:27,640 This is not a speculative idea. Such reversals are well attested 555 00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:30,640 in the geological record and have occurred repeatedly over 556 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:33,920 very long spans of time. They're traces preserved in the 557 00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:38,520 magnetization of ancient rocks. What is crucial, however, is 558 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:40,640 what this does and does not imply. 559 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,680 A magnetic reversal does not involve the physical 560 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,760 displacement of the Earth's crust, nor does it entail 561 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:49,720 continents sliding across the globe in any sudden or 562 00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,640 catastrophic manner. It is a change in the 563 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,720 orientation of the magnetic field, not a mechanical 564 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:57,440 rearrangement of the planet itself. 565 00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:01,680 The other is a rapid shift of Earth's rotation axis relative 566 00:33:01,680 --> 00:33:04,880 to the crust, meaning true polar wander or a sudden 567 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:08,000 reorientation. The catastrophic version of 568 00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:11,160 that, which would be a fast global reset producing sudden 569 00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:14,840 crustal rupture, is not supported by plate tectonics or 570 00:33:14,840 --> 00:33:17,360 by the geologic record as it is understood today. 571 00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:21,880 Now the crack in the Atlantic. There is already a long 572 00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:25,000 continuous spreading center running down the Atlantic, the 573 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:29,080 Mid-Atlantic Ridge, where plates move apart and new ocean crust 574 00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:31,760 forms. It is not a single future tear 575 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:35,960 that suddenly appears, It is an ongoing process, and its average 576 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:38,720 spreading rate is on the order of a few centimeters per year. 577 00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,640 Iceland matters here because it literally sits on that divergent 578 00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,840 boundary, one of the few places the Ridge is above sea level, 579 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:49,280 which is why you can see rift valleys and active volcanism 580 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:53,480 tied to plate separation. Could a major event occur in the 581 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:57,240 Atlantic? Certainly large earthquakes and 582 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,200 major volcanic eruptions do happen, and there are real 583 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,720 catastrophic hazards associated with them, including powerful 584 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,680 earthquakes, large eruptions, and tsunamis. 585 00:34:07,520 --> 00:34:10,719 But these events are regional or at most basin scale. 586 00:34:11,679 --> 00:34:14,440 They bear no resemblance to the notion of a sudden planet wide 587 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,760 shift of the poles that would RIP open the Atlantic. 588 00:34:22,350 --> 00:34:25,710 Alongside the geological claim, Rizzi also describes an 589 00:34:25,710 --> 00:34:27,909 experience of oneness during the encounter. 590 00:34:28,670 --> 00:34:31,550 This appears most clearly when he asks about God. 591 00:34:32,190 --> 00:34:35,230 He does not describe receiving an explanation or a statement in 592 00:34:35,230 --> 00:34:39,230 ordinary language. Instead, he reports a sequence 593 00:34:39,429 --> 00:34:42,989 first, a state in which everything present himself, the 594 00:34:42,989 --> 00:34:47,679 beings, the surroundings, and what he understood as God was 595 00:34:47,679 --> 00:34:50,239 experienced as a single, continuous reality. 596 00:34:51,280 --> 00:34:54,080 Only after this did a formulated response follow. 597 00:34:54,719 --> 00:34:57,560 This part tends to stay with people because it presses on 598 00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,080 something older and less comfortable than the rest of the 599 00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,960 account. It resonates with other cases 600 00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:06,080 where the encounter hooks into a sense of belonging that arrives 601 00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:10,760 without invitation, but about a sudden sense of belonging that 602 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:14,320 arrives without invitation. It is closer to Vertigo than to 603 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,600 understanding. There is no insight offered and 604 00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,920 no reassurance given. What appears instead is 605 00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,040 something that grips without explaining itself. 606 00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,640 When people encounter descriptions like this, many 607 00:35:26,640 --> 00:35:28,480 report a faint echo of that state. 608 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:30,640 It does not tell us we are special. 609 00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,280 It does not tell us the future will make sense. 610 00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:36,200 It does not even tell us the universe is friendly. 611 00:35:36,720 --> 00:35:39,560 It leaves us small, confused, and slightly exposed. 612 00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:43,520 Those of us who, for whatever reason are touched by it cannot 613 00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:46,520 help but recognize the uncertainty and with it the 614 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:49,280 quiet search for something else through which to account for our 615 00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:54,720 own existence. But Gordon Creighton ends on a 616 00:35:54,720 --> 00:35:57,600 more practical note. He asks us to do something 617 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:02,480 simpler than believe or dismiss. He asks us to read carefully, to 618 00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:06,360 sit with the account and to decide which part strike us as 619 00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:08,680 strong and which strike us as weak. 620 00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,080 And that is where we'll leave it for this time. 621 00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:16,640 As always, thanks for joining us. 622 00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:20,160 We love connecting with you and if you want to support our work, 623 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:22,480 a like and a subscribe goes a long way. 624 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:26,600 Hype if you have the possibility because it really adds to our 625 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,000 reach. And a very special thanks to our 626 00:36:29,000 --> 00:36:32,720 channel members and Patreons. 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