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107 life work. She still lives in Tulsa but I usually don’t share stories of my investigative work with her. Too crazy, she thinks. And in a way I agree with her. Nobody in their right mind would ever get into UFO-alien research if they could help it. It’s far too dangerous. I was born to do this work. Years before, while we were still working together, the “accidents” or happenings and the warning which once came to me telepathically before a terrifying incident, caused me to discuss these problem with Jacques. In fact, I had never had such warnings before I began my work with Jacques Vallee. When I told him about the warnings he lay my problems, my “warnings,” at the feet of coincidence and tried to laugh the whole thing off. Sometimes I persuaded myself that I was being silly and I laughed with him. But things escalated and my laughter died. During the time that I first formed a working partnership with Jacques Vallee I had a warning. Three days before I first left for Arkansas I was working in my kitchen trying to get things in order before I departed. A telepathic message sounded inside my head. The message was, “If you go on this trip, one of your children will pay.” I was galvanized but determined. I continued to prepare to leave. The next day, again during house cleaning, I heard, “One of your children will pay the price if you leave on this trip.” On the third day the message was, “Are you really going to sacrifice one of your children for this trip?” I heard what was said but I couldn’t really believe the words. I consulted Bob and he told me I was imagining things. After I thought it over I agreed that I had indeed been imagining things and I picked up my stuff and left for Arkansas. but no one answered. I called my mother-in-law. “They’re all at the hospital,” she told me. Barbara: The Story of a UFO Investigator On the day I was to return from Arkansas I called home