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publicity should get in the newspapers, I would become the laugh- Had one of the members with whom I argued been able to get ing-stock of Bridgeport, and, worse, I might lose my job. My best into the box and remove the document? I used this as a mental friends would advise me to see a psychiatrist and I might even end argument because I did not want to believe that its disappearance up in a mental hospital. was a part of the phenomena the paper was written about. I knew that people throughout history have witnessed strange Soon afterward I would have the biggest shock in the chain of events but were unable to convince others they were telling the frightening events. I will never forget it as long as I live, and to truth. Many people are not convinced of these matters until they, me it is the greatest yet the most fantastic thing ever to happen to themselves, experience them—then they look for believers, only anybody on Earth. to be met by charges of "fake" and "fraud". It happened the day I returned from a two-week vacation. My It is a lonely position you occupy when you have looked into —_ room had been locked all the time I had been away, for my stepfa- the fantastic, and there is nobody to believe you have actually ther knew how fastidious I was about my room and seldom went done so. Picture yourself, say, alone on a beach at night, when into it when I was not around. On that hot July evening I carried suddenly out of the sky a flying saucer appears and lands a few my suitcases up to my den and unlocked the door. As I swung it feet from you. Strange figures get out and walk toward you. open, an inordinate smell of staleness met my nostrils—intermin- They greet you and then get back into the ship and sail away. gled with the sulphur odour. I opened all the windows. You go home and tell others what you have witnessed, but with Everything seemed to be in place, just as I had left it, but again no proof, other than your reputation for truthfulness, to offer. the radio was on. This time the set was so hot that it is a wonder They laugh and tell you that you should lay off the stuff for a it had not started a fire while I was away. I knew I hadn't left it on while, that you are seeing much more than the average person— _ before leaving on vacation. As usual, the dial was set to a portion they see only snakes! How could you convince them; how could —_ of the band where no station came in. I shut it off and told my you win when they are all against you? I felt stepfather about it when I went downstairs. up against the very same thing after the hap- He assured me nobody could have been in penings in my room. I did not know what to my room and that I had simply forgotten it do or where to turn. G when I left. After some time went by and nothing fur- The nearest planet to I ate a cold snack and decided to go to bed writ upthe whole thing in Space Review so | FARM atone time | eee to ny room, closed the door and I made a notation in the April number that I nurtured a great latched it. I had a washroom in my den and vou aig ron me | civilisation which was | ;{sbwsesrne w hes seepng er meeting and took them into my confidence destroyed by marauders the room, I sensed that something was just about everything that had happened. But from another system not right. Then the prickly feeling came at they were of the opinion that I had invented the back of my neck, and my eyes began to the story in order to gain more publicity for of planets in an orbit water. IFSB, and insisted they didn't want 7 their names dragged into it. They said beyond ours. They will they felt that the policy of the IFSB was once again make their to tell the truth and nothing but; if I . went ahead with my plans they would qm @Ppearance in the future drop out of the organisation, and such when they reach this same spot in their trip about the central body." Blue lights appeared from nowhere and swirled about the room. I grew dizzy as the areas above my eyes throbbed and again felt puffy. I stum- bled to the bed and threw myself upon it. As I did so, I felt my body grow icy cold. I could feel I had quickly come under the complete power of someone or something. The room seemed to grow dark, yet I could still see. I noted three shadowy figures in the room. They floated about a foot off the floor. My temples throbbed and my body grew light. I had the feeling of being washed clean. an action would make me appear as mentally unbalanced. From that time onward I had trouble trying to convince them of anything or to get them to do anything for me. One of them further threatened that if I pub- licised my "nonsensical plot" and he became connected with it, he would have me arrested. So after considering the attitude of these two people I decided against publishing any- The three figures became clearer. All of them were dressed in thing about it at that time. When the July issue came out without lack clothes. They looked like clergymen, but wore hats similar the scheduled announcement, many members wrote me, asking to Homburg style. The faces were not clearly discernible, for the why it had not appeared and what it was all about. ats partly hid and shaded them. Feelings of fear left me, as if Secretly I sat down and wrote up the experiences of C-Day, some peculiar remedy had made my entire body immune to fright. with the intention of mailing it to some official in Washington, The eyes of all three figures suddenly lit up like flashlight DC, possibly the Pentagon, to see if they would help me in my ulbs, and all these were focused upon me. They seemed to burn dilemma or if they, too, would share the reactions of our own offi- into my very soul as the pains above my eyes became almost cers. I locked the report away safely because I wanted to think unbearable. It was then I sensed that they were conveying a mes- about it for a few days before mailing it. When I did get up sage to me by telepathy. Their message went something like this: enough courage to mail it, I went to get it and could not find it. "You have dedicated yourself to the solution of the strange The inside of the box where I had locked it contained the now roblem of unidentified objects in your atmosphere. Your interest familiar odour of sulphur. I searched the box thoroughly, but the is deep and sincere and you have devoted many hours to it. We report had vanished. also know that such interest and determination might lead to "The nearest planet to Earth at one time nurtured a great civilisation which was beyond ours. beyond ours. They will _once again make their a ae — f.-4. NEXUS - 65 of planets in an orbit FEBRUARY - MARCH 1998