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208 greater than earth's atmosphere at sea level. As a teenager I was excited by the prospect of making contact with the visitors or, at the very least, catching a glimpse of their ships over these remote desert regions. This was not a formal investigation of contactees. I had very few doubts then. I felt that the contactees were not concocting stories. Little did I know that an era wee Ae-- daa 2 ae TTI LL eee teo-- sata ee ea was passing, that a future day would come when UFO researchers and investigators would dismiss and debunk contactees as frauds who possessed motives of greed and a need for attention and adulation. Little did I know that the contactee of the future would report a different kind of experience, that of menacing abductions and examinations conducted by humanoid, but non-human entities. Little did I know that the future would bring greater mystification rather than enlightenment. A contactee by the name of George Hunt "Rick" Williamson had written a book in which he had detailed his experiments in telepathic and radio communication with the saucer pilots. He had started these experiments using a board with letters and numbers drawn out and using a glass tumbler as a "planchette" to allow the communicating intelligence to direct his hand to the correct symbols and spell out a message. Like the Ouija Board, others had reported success in using this device as a means of communication. Later, Rick met Lyman Streeter, a radio operator for the Santa Fe Railroad. The board had instructed his party to attempt to use radio. Often they would broadcast a message on one frequency and receive an answer in ag toma a c I decided I was going to try an experiment of my own. Thad made friends with a school chum, a French-Canadian, by the name of Yves Lauriault. Yves and I started a regular routine of skywatching and conducting experiments with ESP. During one of these experiments I remember hearing my name being called out, yet Yves had not spoken. On another night we heard a strange tone permeating the room, but coming from outside. Upon rushing outside to look at the sky, we saw nothing, but the strange humming sound continued. One night in May, 1957 our experiments paid off. We were laying on the grass outside of Yves' house in Alhambra when a small disk, glowing red, traversed soundlessly overhead on a course from south to north. Yves initiated a telepathic request, hoping to communicate with the minds behind this disk when the disk maneuvered as he requested. We were under the impression that the disk was a small probe sent down to monitor our experimental activities. The instant the disk responded to our telepathic request, I had a sudden feeling that we were dealing with something unearthly. Even if I could explain this object as an unusually lighted aircraft, I could not explain its response to our silent communication. The first disk was followed by others. At one time, two flew in tandem and executed telepathically requested maneuvers. One of the maneuvers included the disk stopping its forward motion and retracing its flight path, a maneuver impossible for an airplane. From that day on and for a period of three years, I had frequent sightings and the UFO became a proven reality. Later that month I had a brief sighting while observing a forest fire in the mountains. It appeared to be a silvery, metallic disk. Clouds of smoke later covered it from view. All during the summer of 1957 I sighted many erratic moving lights, fireballs, disks, cigar- shaped and cone-shaped craft making nocturnal appearances over the San Gabriel Valley. In most instances, I ruled out the possibility of conventional objects such as stars, planets, airplanes, clouds, or meteors. I had a growing interest in amateur astronomy and purchased my first telescope, a 50X refractor. I had become familiar with the planets along the ecliptic, various constellations, and the names and locations of some of the primary stars in these constellations. One could view the sky as a clock with v various hours and minutes of azimuth A all Le teat ee ee ~-- -£--- ys ee oe Pe ee and degrees of elevation for the purpose of communicating the sighting of objects to friends. Many of the unidentified objects I saw defied conventional aerodynamic behavior while exhibiting patterns of intelligently-controlled maneuvers. In some cases these objects would Morris Code on another frequency. a a pe