Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode, we're talking about the Mojave incident.
That's correct, the Mojave incident.
And this was an alien abduction case that happened back in
October of 1989, involved a couple people by the name of
Steve and Don Hess. Now this first article comes to
us from themedium.com, written by Dave Partridge in its title,
The Mojave Incident, and begins by saying it's one of the most
frightening alleged alien abductions of recent times.
Yet very few have heard of the events surrounding Steve and Don
Hess begins, He says when you think of alien abductees, your
mind immediately flashes the names of Travis Walton, Betty
and Barney Hill and Whitley Shriver, maybe even Samantha
Mulder's sister of The X-Files, Fox Mulder.
You also get the names of Betty Andreessen or Antonio Villa
Bois. If you're particularly cleared
up, what you probably won't think of are the names of a
California couple, Steve and Don Hess.
Their experience in subsequent hypnotic regression is covered
in a book by crime author Ron Felber called The Mojave
Incident, and it is a truly terrifying and at times mentally
draining read, it says. On the weekend of the 20th and
21st October 1989, the young couple had scheduled a trip to
the Mojave Foothills and Steve's father's truck, leaving their
two small children in the care of his parents.
The pair were looking forward to the trip, and after a minor
success on the slots at Whiskey Pete's Casino just inside the
Nevada border, they were headed for the Mid Hills camping ground
when inclement weather meant a night in the truck by the side
of the road. By morning, the fog and mist had
cleared and they started on toward mid hills again.
Situated between the New York and Providence Mountains and 70
miles southwest of Las Vegas as crow flies, the campground is
pretty much in the middle of nowhere with dusty, uneven roads
leading to a perfect retreat away from the bustle of city
life. And you can see the picture
here. I mean, it looks like a
moonscape. Now I'll leave links at the Buy
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the map that kind of share what this is at.
Definitely in the middle of nowhere.
The previous weekend Steve had been with his brother and father
in the same area and had spotted a large buck so had brought his
12 gauge shotgun and 7 millimeter Browning rifle with
him intent on taking the deer back to his father after the
weekend. Naturally, Don wasn't too
impressed to Steve stop the truck every so often to get out
and scout around the area on foot.
By the time they arrived at Mid Hills camping ground, the place
was unusually full for that time of year.
Not even a bad spot available, Steve had commented, so the
couple had no option but to find an alternative hitting upon the
idea of going off road. To find a secluded spot between
Tabletop and Woods Mountain, a valley from where they could
look out over the desert floor, Steve drove the Twowheel drive
truck down the Creek beds surrounded by sagebrush, juniper
trees and granite rocks, a trail more suited to a Fourwheel drive
vehicle. If you look at the picture of
the stuff, you can see the the landscape's really rugged.
I'm not even sure. I mean, I'm thinking maybe you
would need like a four Wheeler to get back in there.
Not a, not a 2 wheel drive pickup truck.
So anyway, he did it. It says Don's apprehension
though, seemed to be growing. Something just didn't feel right
to her. When they finally stopped, it
was dark and the silhouetted outline of Tabletop Mountain
rose high above them, a mere 500 yards away.
As Steve set up a camp and got a fire pit going to cook steaks
and beans Don afforded herself, Don afforded herself to relax a
little. The first incident of note
occurred as Steve was tending to the stakes.
He was absent, mindedly looking at the stars when he saw a light
moving above Woods Mountain. That half awoke a forgotten or
suppressed memory and froze him temporarily.
Well, there you go. Awoke A suppressed memory.
Looks like maybe this guy's been abducted before.
Anyway, when Don's voice snapped him out of it, he played it
down. But an uneasiness had already
embedded itself in his mind after the meal.
And as a couple looked at the stars drinking wine, Steve was
pointing out various constellations like Leo Arrows
and Pegasus, and was explaining that the demon star algo shines
so bright because it was a double star.
Then Don drew his attention to an even brighter object,
suggesting it was a triple star. As it came closer, they
witnessed 9 orbs of light shining so bright that they
couldn't possibly be stars. Steve tried to dismiss it using
the old US Air Force favorite weather balloon explanation, and
later as and later as secret military maneuvers from Knowles
Air Force Base nearby. But as the lights got nearer and
started blinking as if in communication with each other,
they noticed the desert had suddenly gone eerily quiet.
So they're looking at the stars. They see one that oh wow, that's
a super bright star. It shows up and it's got 9 orbs
around it and everything goes quiet.
Sounds like a UFO encounter to me.
As the lights appear to position themselves above Steve and Don's
position, the flashing intensified before blinking out
altogether, only to reappear somewhere to the West of the
truck. Steve tried to reassure a
frightened dawn as she cried out.
Hundreds of small flashing lights have had begun descending
to the valley floor ahead of them.
It goes on, it says. In the hours that followed,
Steve and Don were terrorized by a number of beings.
At first, Steve was intent on protecting Don using his rifle,
but was warned that it wouldn't end well by Don, who had
received some sort of telepathic message.
Then what seemed like thousands of small, redeyed gremlins ran
amok in the desert outside the truck.
They were leaping on the surrounding sage brushes and all
over the vehicle in an exciting childlike frenzy.
Wow, now that's crazy. It says what seemed like
thousands of small, redeyed gremlins rent a muck in the
desert outside the truck, leaping on the surrounding
sagebrush and all over the vehicle in an excited childlike
frenzy. I'm not sure I would describe
that childlike so much as more like a shark feed.
It sounds like there were two bizarre sentient beings
stationed to the rear who appeared to track the couple's
every movement in the truck. Each time Steve moved toward the
tailgate, these beings countered the move, ensuring they were
effectively trapped in the back of the Ford.
If that wasn't enough, 9. If that wasn't enough, 9 tall,
thin, translucent beings with large, deep, featureless black
eyes started to surround the truck.
Peering in through the windows, Steve and Don experienced a wide
range of emotions during their enforced confinement.
Pride, anger, fear, panic and Love both remembered important
life events, good and bad. One especially horrific
experience in Don's case, while at the same time having thoughts
protected into her minds, including a nightmare scene
involving their son. Were these tall beings
responsible for what they were experiencing or was a part of a
panic and do psychosis? The beings appearance is
certainly consistent with other abduction reports over the
years. Goes on and says in the distance
they could see a huge craft beaming light down to the
valley, in which various flora and fauna was being transported
toward an opening on the underside, almost like a giant
slow moving vacuum cleaner. Gradually the small gremlins
disappeared back to the craft, as did the taller beings after
the appearance by a luminous figure who emitted a feeling of
intense calm over the couple. Drained by their ordeal, Steve
and Don were both overcome by extreme fatigue and lay down
falling asleep immediately bathed in a soft white light.
When they awoke, it was morning and the surrounding area was
totally devoid of any evidence of the previous night's
activity. No footprints, no bodily marks
save a couple of small pinpricks on Don's neck.
Nothing in the vicinity to suggest something otherworldly
had occurred. As a couple looked at each
other, they both made the conscious decision to keep their
experience to themselves. They they hightailed it back to
their home in Los Angeles and thinking it all a bad lucid
dream until they saw a large Dick disk shaped craft following
them. Now that would be a true
nightmare there. I mean to have experienced the
situation with these gremlins running all over the place.
You're trapped in this truck, you can't get out.
They finally see these things leave.
But then on the way home this spaceship shows up and they must
have followed. Both Steve and Don were badly
affected by their experience so that weekend and eventually told
their parents in February the following year.
There are also a number of bizarre incidents in the home
involving their children and feeling and the feeling of being
watched by something or things in their bedroom.
Don even was assaulted physically on one occasion,
nearly two years to the date of the incident, they met with
author Ron Felber. For the complete story says, we
recommend you read the book The Mauve Incident.
That's extremely strange. Now this article here comes to
us from ufoinsight.com. It says although it isn't a
widely known incident, the apparent alien abduction
encounter of husband and wife Steve and Don Hess is one of the
most disturbing, if thought provoking, of relatively
speaking recent times. And of more importance, the
encounter contains several intriguing details that not only
show up in other alien and abduction encounters, but also
resonate with the overall picture of what we know about
the alien abduction phenomena, both in terms of the deduction
themselves as well as why they are happening in the 1st place.
Since. Furthermore, the location
itself, both the Mojave Desert and the wider state of
California, is a part of the United States that is no
stranger to UFO encounters, with the Golden State having more
sightings than many other parts of America.
This detail might force us to ask if the reason for this
higher than average number of UFO and alien encounters is down
to an alien base somewhere near the area.
Or might we instead turn our attention to the many military
facilities in the region to find explanations, ultimately the
alien abduction? Ultimately the alien abduction
encounter of Steve and Don Hess is as compelling as it is
terrifying and is one that adds more proof that something,
whatever it might be, very strange, is taking place in our
world. It goes on, I says.
Well, many media platforms have documented and examined this
fascinating, if unsettling encounter.
It was explored in full by author Ron Felber and the Mojave
Incident. Now it says here the story
begins on October 20th, 1989 with Steve and Don Hess were
heading out to the foothills of of the Mojave Desert, having
after having left their two children with Steve's parents
before borrowing his father's truck to make the journey.
They were heading to the Mid Hills camping grounds, just
inside the state limits of Nevada.
However, the weather turned, usually unsettled, to the opt
and pull to the side of the road and remain there for the
evening, says The following morning.
With a heavy fog now clear, the pair set off once more toward
the Mid Hills camping Ground, a location incidentally that was
in the middle of nowhere When they eventually arrived, arrived
early in the evening. However, they were a little
shocked and disappointed to find the camp was completely full.
So a full in fact, that there was nowhere to park.
With nowhere for them to stay for the night, the couple
decided to head to a secluded valley in between Tabletop and
Woods Mountains where they could camp for the night.
Steve eventually brought the vehicle to a stop in a
particularly secluded location, with the monstrous dimensions of
Tabletop Mountain tearing over them.
Although Steve was perfectly relaxed with their surroundings
as he began to start a fire short distance from the truck to
dawn, something didn't quite feel right.
Although she couldn't quite put her finger on it, she couldn't
shake the feeling that something untoward was heading their way.
As Steve began to cook steak and beans over the open fire, Don
pushed the feelings from her mind.
Goes on, it says. As a food cook, the pair marvel
to how clear the night sky was. A clear a crystal clear
blackness with multiple stars twinkling overhead.
However, Steve went to turn the stakes.
He noticed something unusual. What What he at first thought
was a star, he realized, was an unusual light moving over Woods
Mountain almost immediately after noticing.
Noticing that Steve seemed to go into some kind of strange
trance, as if his subconscious mind was attempting to reveal a
forgotten memory to him. He wasn't sure how long he was
locked in a seemingly trance like state, but it wasn't until
you heard Don calling his name that he came out of it.
This is something that we see a lot of times the people that are
experiences or abductees, when they have this second encounter,
they're almost like they're going into a subconscious state.
Although he was more than a little unnerved by the episode,
like Don earlier, he pushed it from his mind and the couple ate
their meal before sharing a bottle of wine as it looked up
at the stars once more. And it's called normalcy bias,
when you just want things to be normal and something unusual
happens and you just ignore it. That kind of refuting your
situational awareness, I guess you could say.
However, like earlier, Steve's attention was drawn toward a
star that appeared to be out of place in the sky.
And like before, when the star began to move, Steve realized it
wasn't a star at all. This time he didn't sink into a
catatonic like state. And what's more, Don can see
this cosmic anomaly too. Even more remarkable, the couple
soon noticed multiple other lights also moving in the sky,
eventually counting 9 in total. As these lights moved, they
appeared to have navigated into a strange M formation.
Then things turned even stranger.
To begin with, the couple believed they were witnessing a
strange aircraft experiment from the nearby Newell's Air Force
Base. However, when the light came to
a stop before before smaller red lights emerged from them and
headed in their direction across the desert, they realized they
were witnessing something truly out of the ordinary.
So you they see these this mothership basically show up and
these other lights just emerge from the ship, these red lights,
and head toward them. As these lights moved, they
appeared to pulsate and glow temporarily brighter each time
they did. Of more concern, they appeared.
There appeared to be so many of them that the couple couldn't
count them all. Bizarrely, despite the surreal
nature of the moment Steve and Don also both later recalled,
they were aware that the the usual nighttime sounds of the
desert could not be heard, as if everything had suddenly stopped.
Before they knew it, the lights were above and all around them,
seemingly dancing in and around each other as the flashing,
pulsating light continued. The flashing movements began to
increase in intensity for several seconds before they
suddenly seemed to just go out, as if someone had flicked the
the switch off, Steve and Don took a moment to briefly
comprehend what had just happened.
Before they could fully do so, though, each each could hear the
sound of scampering feet nearby. And what's more, it just wasn't
one pair of feet, but many. And here these gremlins are
talking about again, These sounds snap, both of them back
to attention, and each scrambled to get back to the truck.
As soon as they were inside, Steve reached for the rifle they
had brought with them. When he looked out of the window
of the truck's cabin, he could see not one pair, but many pairs
of what appeared to be glowing red eyes that seems to be that
seemed to be watching and circling them.
At one point, a sudden jolting of the cabin appeared to suggest
one of these creatures had jumped onto their vehicle, and
these red eyes remind me of what we often hear about with the
Bigfoot or some of these crypto site crypto sightings.
This was happening. Steve raised the rifle and was
about to take a shot in the direction the creature appeared
to have appeared to have headed. Don though urged him not to
shoot, studying that it wouldn't be a good idea even if she said
it. She questioned if these were her
thoughts or whether she was somehow being manipulated.
Well for one thing, if you would have fired that rifle off inside
that truck, it would have made a tremendous racket.
Believe me, they remained still for several minutes.
Then two of these strange creatures came closer.
The couple looked on, horrified, as these strange entities
approached the parked truck. They were so strange and unlike
anything either of them had ever seen that the only way they
could describe them was small, redeyed gremlins.
At this point, the already terrifying counter turned even
more so the creatures, almost as if they could sense the couple's
fear and terror, begin to approach the truck closer and
closer, until eventually they jumped onto it or banged several
times on it as they rushed by. Actions that Steve and Don were
convinced were to were to increase your fear even more.
As this was happening, the pair could also hear the creatures
seemingly speaking to each other, although it was a
language that they were not at all familiar with.
We we hear about this sometimes too with these aliens, where
they seem to communicate verbally, and you know, we have
to think that they are quite capable of communicating
telepathically. So if they're doing this
verbally, it must just be to intimidate and frighten the
people that they're harassing, it says, seemingly coming out of
the darkness for 9 tall beings with overly thin frames with
particularly large black eyes. These entities continued to
approach until they completely surrounded the truck, looking
straight into the truck at the now horrified couple.
As this was happening, each of them experienced a sudden surge
of thoughts, images and emotions that flowed through their minds,
and each of them was convinced that these were placed there
telepathically by these strange entities.
Even stranger, in the distance behind the tall beings, A
bizarre disk shaped object descended out of the sky before
coming to a stop a short distance from the ground
overhead and in front of them. As it hovered, various
vegetation was drawn toward it and seemingly disappeared into
the underside. Wow, like they said, this thing
is just acting like some sort of giant sky vacuum.
Then before they could contemplate what was happening,
a thick fog like substance appeared all around them and no
time at all had penetrated the vehicle and a moment later each
of them blacked out. When they awoke, the thick mist
had cleared. Furthermore, the night had been
replaced with the redness of the rising morning sun.
Of more importance to the couple, the strange creatures
also appeared to have gone when they summoned up the courage to
peer out of the truck and examine their immediate
surroundings. They could find no evidence of
their presence, such as footprints or other markings.
They did however discover two small red dots on Don's neck as
if something pin like had pierced the skin.
And this is the sort of thing we hear a lot about with alien
abductees this these two pin like marks on the skin, usually
around the neck area. The pair took several moments to
gather the thoughts. Neither can remember anything
after the bright lights of the UFO and the strange myths that
filled their truck, and neither could put forward anything close
to a rational explanation for what they had witnessed prior to
that. They did, though, agree that
they had been Privy to something extraordinary and, more
importantly, very real. They also agreed that it would
be best if they kept the experience to themselves.
The couple then quickly gathered the things back into the truck
and set out for home in Los Angeles, suddenly more than
eager to leave the area and the incident behind.
As they traveled along the lonely highway, however, they
each noticed a disk shaped object, almost identical to the
one they had been that they had seen descending the previous
evening, seemingly following them.
This continued for several miles before the object disappeared.
They eventually arrived home and attempted to pick up their lives
from the point where they headed to the from the point before
they headed to the Mojave Desert.
However, they would soon discover that this would prove
to be easier said than done. It goes on, it says has a
picture of them here, and it says.
Although they did not speak of a strange encounter to any of
their friends and family, they would continue to feel to feel
the effects of the bizarre incident as the days and weeks
went by. For example, both Steve and Don
would experience sudden, intense headaches, as well as feeling
equally intense bouts of nausea. Furthermore, would furthermore,
both would experience particularly intense nightmares
unlike anything they had experienced before.
Kind of reminds me a little bit of the Havana syndrome that
Nolan was investigating. There were, though further, more
ominous and outright creepy experiences.
Each of them would begin to see lights in the sky that appear to
be following them. They also both began to hear
particularly strange sounds inside their house.
Even more concerning, both couldn't escape the feeling that
someone or something was watching their every movement.
However, when their children began telling them that strange
creatures with bright red eyes were appearing in their rooms at
night, they realized that the incident was far from behind
them. One particular night, the couple
was dragged from sleep by the sounds of their son screaming in
terror. When they rushed into his
bedroom, they were shocked to see him levitating in the air
while spinning like a top, as if being spun by a pair of
invisible hands. This has gotten to absolute
poultry rights level, I think. By the time Don began reporting
being grabbed and pushed by an apparent and visible entity, the
pair decided they had no option but to undergo hypnotic
regression and an attempt to unlock their memories and find
out just what happened that October night in the Mojave
Desert. Look, at this point, I don't
know if this could be like a hitchhiker effect like we've
heard, you know, talked about with with Travis Taylor.
Talked about happening out there at Skin Walker Ratch.
It almost sounds like they need an exorcist more than they need
hypnotist. I don't know.
This is some pretty bad stuff. It says the couple would
eventually contact Doctor William and Angsetter, who would
agree to hypnotically regress a couple in an attempt to unlock
their suppressed memories. Ultimately, they would.
They would recall that after they had lost consciousness, the
strange tall creatures had taken them from the vehicle onto the
disk shaped craft. Once on board, they were both
then subjected to many different test experiments and procedures.
Both recall that not only do these procedures at times cause
them considerable pain, but one of them resulted in the strange
marks they had noticed on Don's neck.
Essentially, it would appear that Steve and Don Hess
underwent a typical alien abduction.
However, we might question if this was the only such encounter
in their lives. Might they have been abducted
before, perhaps multiple times over the course of many years?
It seems like that, doesn't it? As some researchers have pointed
out, the fact that these experiments are carried out and
apparent records are kept to them, as suggested, of a
purposeful, ongoing program. Whatever that is a case, whether
that is the case here, or whether Steve and Don Hess were
simply in the wrong place at the wrong time as perhaps open to
debate, you know, this is the kind of thing I would have liked
to have seen at that congressional subcommittee
hearing. There was the one particular
interesting of worrying part of the session that that was worth
highlighting. It says not only did Dawn begin
speaking in a voice that was not her own, as if she had been
possessed by another intelligence, but she stated
that quote, I know the universe ends before elaborating that the
universe ends when it's matter stops mattering to us and starts
mattering to them. That's bizarre.
What was meant by this from those from whose perspective it
was said, remains unknown. Well, it was certain, as the
Hess family already knew, it was something very strange and
perhaps ominous that took place in the valley that Mojave Desert
that October evening in 1989. Well, something.
Yeah, it's no guess To me. This was definitely ominous.
It goes on and talks a little bit about Ron Felber's
investigation, how he met, how he met them and and you know,
basically went through and details the abduction even more
what you see here. I think it's just kind of the
dark side of this whole alien abduction thing that doesn't get
a lot of coverage in the news. So often times we get Stephen
Ger's viewpoint that they're here to help and you know help
expand our consciousness or whatever and that they're not
here to hurt anybody and that all of these negative abductions
are are somehow just something created by the Deep State.
But I think it'd be, I think it's a little simplistic to look
at it that way. I mean, if if they can be good,
you have to also wonder if there's not a bad side of the
coin. And this is a really weird
abduction case. You know, the gist of this is
they're out there in the Mojave Desert camping.
They get basically assaulted by these Redeye Gremlin creatures
abducted on this craft. They can't even remember also
that happens to them and but they know it's bad.
And then the complicate matters to kind of add insult to injury
when they get back home, they have their own kids are being
attacked by this poltergeist. You know, she walks in the
bedroom, this kids, you know, levitated off the mattress.
It's spinning like a top. This is all some really dark
strange stuff which this isn't the only alien abduction case
that this sort of thing has come up in.
But it does seem like it's ignored a lot.
It's ignored by a lot of people that are interested in UF O's,
but I think just because it's it's a negative story, it's kind
of a buzzkill. And it's also ignored by the
mainstream media because they just find it's too fantastic.
Or maybe they don't want to present that side of the UFO
phenomena until next time this is UFO warning over and out.