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In my book, Amazing Grace, | chronicled a number of my own experiences of surpassing strangeness, though I never thought of these events in terms of “aliens”. Until I was 41 years old, I never saw anything that I might have thought - by any stretch of the imagination - could be a UFO, and when, at that late date, I finally did see something of such extraordinary configuration and behavior, I immediately tried to find a “plausible excuse” for it so I could “go back to sleep”. But, as Hynek said, there are certainly things for which we cannot find a common sense solution. It is at such a point, when all avenues of identification and explanation have been exhausted, that the individual who is “motivated by a haunting curiosity” goes to work in the field, gets their hands dirty in the raw data, and realizes that there is, most certainly, a signal even if it is a signal that suggests an intelligence so strange and foreign to our daily terrestrial mode of thought that we are stunned by the implication. That implication can be shattering to our sense of safety: that the UFO phenomenon may be signaling “an entirely new domain of the knowledge of nature as yet totally unexplored, as unexplored and as unimagined as nuclear processes would have been a century ago”. It was partly as a consequence of this event that I began the experiment that resulted in the Cassiopaean Transmissions. After a certain amount of research, after facing the High Strangeness factor repeatedly, I understood clearly something that Jacques Vallee proposes in his paper cited above: The cognitive mismatch or Incommensurability Problem between human and ET cultures will guarantee that the latter will develop communication techniques other than radio. ET cultures may be sending radio and optical signals to Earth now but they may also be sending signals in a variety of other forms such as holographic images, psychic or other consciousness- related signals, modulated neutrinos, gamma ray bursters, wormhole- modulated starlight caustics, signals generated by gravitational lensing techniques, modulated X-rays, quantum teleported signals, or some quantum field theoretic effect, etc.* Vallee has touched upon the very issues that my husband, Arkadiusz Jadcezyk, has discussed in the Foreword to this book. Most of this material included in the foreword was published by him long before Vallee wrote the above paper, though it seems likely that Vallee was moving in this direction for quite some time as evidenced in his book Forbidden Science. In the Epilogue Vallee talks a little bit about “Thid. Author’s Letter to the Reader physics, parallel realities, hyperspace etc.: