Reply #6: Kucinich ain't the only person of prominence who this has happened to [View All]

July 25, 1998, Saturday, 7:30 PM

Former newspaperman Phil Krapf went from a staunch skeptic to a firm believer in three days. A retired copy editor of the Los Angeles Times, he shared in the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the LA riots in the early 1990's.

Four years into retirement in June of 1997, he was enjoying the good life when his life changed forever. In his book, The Contact Has Begun, Phil chronicles his three-day abduction experience. This former skeptic who previously scoffed at tales of alien abductions finds himself in the uncomfortable position of coming to terms with his own experience. He is now absolutely certain there is such a phenomenon as alien abductions, a condition he previously flatly rejected as preposterous.

A revelation of this magnitude and exposure from a prominent journalist comes with a very big price to pay. After speaking on Art Bell's Coast to Coast program several months ago, Phil found this out! So in addition to speaking about his experience, he will touch on the heavy personal, social and psychological price that accompanies going public with an abduction story.

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White Sands Incident - Daniel Fry - physicist
I had gone about half a mile past the rifle range on this road when I first saw it. The sun had been down for some time, and there was practically no daylight left, but the sky was bright with stars, and the moon, though not yet above the horizon, was

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producing considerable diffused light in the sky. As I looked up at a group of especially bright stars hanging just over the peaks of the mountains, one of the stars suddenly went out. This, of course, immediately riveted my attention on that spot, for stars don't .just go out, (not in a cloudless sky anyway). At first I thought that a passing plane had cut off the light, but even with the thought, I knew it couldn't be that, for a moving plane would require less than a second to pass a given spot, and the star starred out. Also, in the silence of the desert area around the proving grounds at night, a plane could be heard much farther than it could be seen, and there was no sound at all. No weather balloons were sent up at night, and a weather balloon would be rising quite rapidly: therefore it would only eclipse a star for a few seconds. Then another star just to the right went out, and a few seconds later two more just below. By this time a strong prickling sensation was traveling up my spine. Whatever it was that was cutting off the light of the stars. was increasing rapidly in apparent size and since the bearing remained constant, it could only mean that it was coming directly toward me.

Then finally I saw it and at the same time realized why I had not been able to see it sooner. It's color appeared to be so neatly that of the night sky that even when it was quite close it was difficult to see

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anything but the outline. It was still coming toward me, and I felt a strong inclination to run, but long experience in blasting and rocket work had taught me that it is foolish to run from an approaching missile until you are sure of it s trajectory; since you are just as likely to run into it, as away from it. Also, you have no chance to judge it s trajectory while you are running.

The object was now very close, and I could see. that it was an ovate spheroid about thirty feet in diameter at the equator or largest part. It was now traveling at not more than fifteen or twenty miles per hour and seemed to be decelerating at a rate that would bring it to zero velocity by the time it reached the ground. I could also see that unless it changed course, it would miss me by at least fifty feet. Somewhat reassured by its slowness of motion, I remained where I was and watched it glide in as lightly as a bit of thistle down floating in the breeze and settle to the ground about seventy feet away without the slightest bump or jar. Except for the crackling of brush beneath it, it hadn't made a sound. For perhaps twenty or thirty seconds I stood staring at it like a child at his first circus performance.

I have been working for some years in the field of rocket and other missile development, and through my work and connections at White Sands, I had thought that I was fairly well acquainted with most

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of the developments in the aircraft field. But here was a craft so far advanced over anything I had ever heard of, that I felt like the backwoods farmer who, on first seeing a giraffe, said, "Well I see it, but I don't believe it." My first conscious thought was, "if the Russians have ships like this, God help America!" But with the thought came the realization that this could not be a craft from Russia, or anywhere else on earth for that matter; for whoever had built this craft had solved a lot of problems of which our best physicists are only beginning to dream.

The ship's operation was silent. There had been no thrumming of propellers, no flash and roar of incandescent gases being hurled from nozzles to produce thrust. The ship had simply coasted quietly in from the "great blue yonder" and settled gently to earth. Perhaps that was the answer. The craft had been coming down since I first saw it. Perhaps it was just gliding in; but before landing it had slowed down to only a few miles per hour and had shown no evidence of falling. Only a helicopter or a "lighter than air craft" could do this, but there were no propeller blades whatever on this vehicle, and the fact that the brush was crushed flat under it when it settled to the ground proved conclusively that this was no "lighter than air" craft.

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