The UFO Abduction Of Whitley Strieber While He Was Writing Sci-Fi
Beech Tree BooksWhitley Strieber’s “visitors” have been interpreted by many to look like these creatures depicted on the cover of his book Communion.
Whitley Strieber has written fiction for more than 40 years, with notable titles including the horror novels The Wolfen and The Hunger. Strieber contends that his writing streak was interrupted one night in the late ’80s by an alien abduction in upstate New York.
Strieber recounted this experience in his non-fiction title Communion in 1987. The alleged incident occurred on the night of Dec. 26, 1985, as Strieber slept alone in his cabin in the woods.
Woken by a strange noise, he purportedly saw a small non-human entity approaching his bed. Suddenly, it was morning. Not only had he awoken disoriented, but he felt oddly aggressive, too. It was during a session of regressive hypnosis a few months later that some of the memories returned. According to Strieber, beings that he has since referred to as “visitors” entered his home and abducted him.
While seen as a work of fiction added to his catalogue of alien stories by many, Strieber never wavered from his position. In fact, his later work only doubled down on the notion that aliens were visiting him — in his book The Key: A True Encounter, Strieber detailed another alien encounter that he claims took place in Toronto.
Asleep in his Delta Chelsea Hotel room in the middle of the night on June 6, 1998, Strieber claimed to have been visited by another mysterious stranger.
“I got up to open the door, thinking it was the room service waiter,” Strieber recalled. “It was not. It was a man I described as about five and a half feet tall, older-looking, like someone in his 70s. He wore dark-colored clothing, a turtleneck and charcoal slacks.”
Strieber claimed the visitor stood motionless by the window for nearly an hour, expounding on the dangers of creating an intelligence more evolved than its creator. Strieber said it was “the most extraordinary conversation I have ever had in my life.”
Many are skeptical of Strieber’s alien abduction claims, but one former Green Beret Commander and developer of weapons at Los Alamos, New Mexico, John B. Alexander, believes him:
“For more than two decades, I have been interacting with Whitley Strieber and found him to be one of the most intelligent and thoughtful researchers in the field,” said Alexander. “There is no doubt he has had some very strange experiences — ones that even he does not claim to fully understand.”
The Pascagoula Alien Story That Saw Two Fishermen Subjected To Experimentation
Wikimedia CommonsThe Pascagoula River at the turn of the 20th century.
It was Oct. 11, 1973, when Calvin Parker and Charles Hickson went fishing on the banks of the Pascagoula River in Mississippi. At first, when Parker saw blue lights reflected in the water, he thought police had come to instruct the two to leave.
“A big light came out of the clouds,” Parker recalled. “It was a blinding light. It was hard to tell with the lights so bright, but it looked like it was shaped like a football. I would say, just estimating, (it was) about 80-foot. (It made) very little sound. It was just a hissing noise.”
Parker then claimed that three legless creatures floated out of the vessel toward him. He described all three as having mitten-shaped claws; while one was neckless and gray, the other appeared to be more feminine. When one of them tried to wrap its hands around Parker’s neck, his natural response of fear oddly subsided.
“I think they injected us with something to calm us. I was kind of numb and went along with the program.”
Parker alleged that he and Hickson were taken aboard the alien vessel and experimented on; afterward, the two terrified fishermen found themselves back on the riverbank as though nothing had happened. They drove to the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office and told Captain Glenn Ryder and Sheriff Fred Diamond the entire story.
“When I got in there they had me,” Hickson told the police. “There were no seats, no chain, they just moved me around. I couldn’t resist them. I just floated, felt no sensation, no pain. They kept me in that position a little while, then they’d raise me back up.”
Hickson claimed that a machine resembling a giant eye looked over his entire body. He said he was surrounded by inhuman, five-foot tall monopedal beings.
Capt. Ryder didn’t believe the two men. He stepped out of the interrogation room but left a secret recording device running in hopes of obtaining proof that their alien stories were fabricated. But what he later heard on this recording made him think twice:
“Jesus Christ, God have mercy, I thought I’d been through enough of Hell on this earth and now I’ve got to go through something like this,” said Hickson to Parker. “But they could have, you know, I guess they, well, they could have harmed us, son. They had us. They could have done anything to us.”
“I just want to cry right now,” added Parker. “What’s so damn bad about it is nobody’s going to believe us.”
With no physical evidence of their abduction, Calvin Parker and Charles Hickson’s alien story remains a mystery. Parker stayed quiet about the event for decades, but after Hickson’s death in 2011, he wrote a 2018 book on the matter. Its publication prompted others to come forward — claiming that they, too, had seen a UFO that night.
“It makes me feel pretty good I’m not the only one who saw something,” he said. “Most of these people are credible people.”
