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Foreword Midday sun through the wall of glass illuminated my office as I sat contemplating the beauty of autumn and the willow branches softly skimming the pond, laden with ducks. The harsh tone of the phone abruptly jolted me from my rev- erie, but the voice on the other end was the welcome sound of my colleague and confidant, Dr. Karla Turner. She began to relate details regarding a man who consciously recalled a group alien abduction encounter. Having documented a simi- lar case in a rural area on the outskirts of Tulsa, I readily agreed to help her research the case. November third, two weeks after Dr. Turner’s initial call, Ted Rice stepped over my threshold, and secure reality as we once had both known it was never to be the same again. At first glance you sense his intelligent, warm personal demeanor. Shortly thereafter, I came to appreciate his infec- tious style of humor that would leave a living room audience begging for mercy during one of his numerous side-splitting comedic routines. Paradoxically, the serious side of Ted Rice reveals an extraordinary psychic, sensitive ability which allows him to peer through the veiled, darkened corridors into an alien netherworld. Yes, we asked to see the truth, knowing ‘the truth would set us free.’ Yet neither one of us was prepared for the discov- eries about to be revealed. I have investigated hundreds of abduction reports through the years, documenting evidence that in most cases has been recovered only in partial, incom- plete glimpses of the events. The memories of these events are consistently blurred by strata of confusing and mislead- ing screens which prevent the abductees from discovering the actual nature of their encounters. And I have developed methods that assist abductees to penetrate these screens. Masquerade of Angels