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Secrets Of The UFOBy Don Elkins With Carla Rueckert

Secrets Of The UFOFirst Printing, May, 1977Second Printing, November, 1977Third Printing, October, 1978Fourth Printing, March, 1983Fifth Printing, September, 1983Sixth Printing, April, 1985Seventh Printing, January, 1987Eighth Printing, July, 1988Ninth Printing, October, 1990Copyright 1977 L/L Research, which is a subsidiary of the Rock CreekResearch & Development Laboratories, Inc.All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or used in anyform or by any means—graphic, electronic or mechanical, includingphotocopying or information storage and retrieval systems—withoutwritten permission from the copyright holder.ISBN: 0-945007-00-0L/L ResearchP.O. Box 5195Louisville, KY 40255-0195

Dedicated to Hal and Jo Price“Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”Sir Francis Baconiii

AcknowledgementsGrateful acknowledgment is made to the following publishers forpermission to reprint excerpts from the following copyrighted works:Helios Publications and Dr. Francis I. Regardie, for permission to useexcerpted material from THE ART AND MEANING OF MAGIC, 1971.Thorsons Publishers Ltd. for permission to use excerpted material fromTHE MAGICIAN: HIS TRAINING AND WORK, 1963.Doubleday & Co., for permission to use excerpted material from THECOSMIC CONNECTION, by Carl Sagan and Jerome Agel, 1973.Doubleday & Co. for permission to use excerpted material from THEROMEO ERROR by Lyall Watson, 1974.Harvest House Publishers, for permission to use information taken fromUFO’S: WHAT ON EARTH IS HAPPENING, 1975.Indiana University Press for permission to use material excerpted from THEUFO CONTROVERSY IN AMERICA, by David M. Jacobs, 1975.Mark-Age MetaCenter for permission to use material excerpted fromVISITORS FROM OTHER PLANETS, by Nada-Yolanda, 1974.Ministry of Universal Wisdom, for permission to use material excerptedfrom THE COUNCIL OF SEVEN LIGHTS, by George Van Tassel, 1958.Oahspe Publishing Association and Palmer Publications, Inc., Amherst,Wis. 54406, for permission to use material excerpted from OAHSPE, byJohn Ballou Newbrough, 1882.Prentice-Hall, Inc., for permission to use material excerpted fromPSYCHIC DISCOVERIES BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN, byOstrander and Schroeder, 1970 by Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder.G.P. Putnam’s Sons, for permission to use material excerpted from ALIENSIN THE SKIES, by John Fuller, 1969.Saucerian Publications, for permission to use material excerpted fromFROM OUTER SPACE TO YOU, by Howard Menger, 1959, 1967.Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., for permission to usematerial excerpted from THE MAGIC OF URI GELLER, by James Randi, 1975.iv

AcknowledgementsBallantine Books, a Division of Random House, Inc., for permission to usematerial excerpted from UFO’S PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE, byRobert Emenegger, 1974.Neville Spearman, Ltd., for permission to use material from THESAUCERS SPEAK, by G. H. Williamson, 1963.Neville Spearman, for permission to use material excerpted from OTHERTONGUES, OTHER FLESH, by G. H. Williamson, 1953.The Viking Press, Inc., for permission to use material excerpted fromSUPERMINDS, by John Taylor, 1975.Doubleday & Co., Inc., for permission to use material excerpted from URI:A JOURNAL OF THE MYSTERY OF URI GELLER, by AndrijaPuharich, 1974.BBC Publications, for permission to use material excerpted fromEINSTEIN: THE MAN AND HIS ACHIEVEMENT, edited byWhitrow, 1967, 1973.Leaves Of Grass Press, Inc., for permission to use material excerpted fromSECRET OF THE ANDES, by Brother Philip, 1961.Prentice-Hall, Inc., for permission to use material excerpted fromREVELATION: THE DIVINE FIRE, by Brad Steiger, 1973.Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following individuals forpermission to reprint excerpts from the following copyrighted works:Mr. Clyde Trepanier, for permission to use material excerpted from MAN,CONSCIOUSNESS AND UNDERSTANDING, VOLUME FOUR,published by Understanding of Detroit in 1962, 1962.Baird Wallace for permission to use material excerpted from THE SPACESTORY AND THE INNER LIGHT, published by the author, 1972.Mr. Walter Rogers, Jr. for permission to use material excerpted from hisunpublished material sometimes called “The Brown Notebook,”copyrighted as of this date.Mr. Dewey B. Larson, for permission to use material excerpted fromQUASARS AND PULSARS, published by North Pacific Publishers, 1971.v

AcknowledgementsProf. J. H. Bruening, for permission to use his letter published in GrayBarker’s Newsletter, Feb., 1976, 1976.Carla Rueckert, for permission to use material excerpted from VOICES OFTHE GODS, unpublished manuscript, 1974.Dr. T. Lobsang Rampa for permission to use material excerpted from THEHERMIT published by Corgi 1975.vi

Table of ContentsProem8Chapter OneA Very Strange Phenomenon9Chapter TwoThe Telepathic Contact28Chapter ThreeReality, Etc.36Chapter FourThe Nature Of Man54Chapter FiveA Solution To The Mystery Of The Ufo62Chapter SixThe Development Of Man93Chapter SevenA Solution To The Mystery Of Uri Geller116Chapter EightThe Wanderers132Chapter NineDeath, Destruction, Chaos, And Other Bad Stuff189Chapter TenConclusion199Endnote Listings212Bibliography220vii

ProemA ufologist is a detective who is exploring the single largest mystery of ourtime. As he wends his way through the elaborate maze of red herrings,misinformation, cover-ups, fanatics, skeptics, true believers andnonbelievers, he may well find that his most valuable ally in his search is agood sense of humor. Or, as Groucho Marx said, “Either he’s dead or mywatch has stopped!”Don ElkinsCarla RueckertLouisville, 19768

Chapter OneA Very Strange PhenomenonThe information in this book is either nonsense or it is the most centrallyimportant thing that you could possibly learn. It is allegedly the answer tothe strange riddle of the UFO’s. The information contained herein is notspeculation or theory, but a condensation and edited arrangement ofreceived communications from the UFOs. The obvious weakness of thiscontactee information is that evidential proof of its validity is notobtainable. Its strength lies in its sheer bulk and in the similarity of messagesproduced by sources widely scattered around the world. The last 25 yearshave produced millions of words of these communications allegedlyoriginating within the UFOs.Approximately 15 million people in the U.S. have reported seeing UFOs,more than 2000 contact cases have been reported, and about 700 landingshave left trace evidence.1 There is no longer any real doubt that UFOs exist.The question is: who are they? And why are they here? It is quite possiblethat understanding them is the most important endeavor which we canundertake.There are thousands of people around the world who are quite certain thatthey know at least some of the answers to the riddles of these elusivemanifestations.How did these people acquire the needed information? Their answer—onewhich many find hard to believe—is that they have been in contact with theoccupants of the UFOs. There has been a widespread and growing patternof people who claim contact with UFOs since the early ’50s. At this point,the claims are so widespread that they constitute a pseudo-secret subculture,a sort of underground group, all over earth. I say pseudo-secret because eventhough many of these contactees tell their stories, the information is of atype that our culture does not easily accept. The insiders in thisunderground all seem to be getting approximately the same information,and they can be found in many places both in the United States and all overthe world.They are not all wide-eyed cultists, three steps in front of the men in whitecoats, nor are they little old ladies fresh from the medium’s parlor.Primarily, contactees are normal people of average intelligence andbackground. Each year produces more of them. Few of these people receiveor desire publicity.9

Chapter One: A Very Strange PhenomenonI’ve been studying paranormal phenomenon for 25 years, and for the past 14years I’ve specialized in unraveling the contactee riddle. You will find inreading through this book that it requires some background in paranormalstudies. The first three chapters of the book are intended to function as asynopsis of this background, and the bibliography is available to those whowish to pursue this field in greater depth. A great deal of apparentlyunrelated material begins to substantively add to the evidence available inthe UFO contactee literature, once this mountain of contactee data iscondensed. I am now in a position to make such a condensation, and thisanalysis of the contactee story turns into an explanation of the nature,purpose, origin, and ultimate objective of at least one large group of UFOs.The entire situation regarding the contactees reminds me of somethingwhich the late Dr. James E. McDonald said to Congress in 1968. He wasreporting to the House Committee on Aeronautics and Astronautics on hisconclusions regarding UFOs. He described a situation in northern Franceyears ago, where many peasants reported stones falling from the sky. Sincethe reporters were “dumb” and “unscientific,” they were ignored at first.Finally a scientist took the reports seriously and investigated the thing fully.Thus was born the science of meteoritics. Dr. McDonald suggested toCongress that in dealing with UFO reports, we now face a “very similarsituation in science. We have tended to ignore it because it didn’t make anysense. It definitely defies any explanation, and hence the situation hasevolved where we can’t get going because we aren’t already going.”2Consider the case of Travis Walton of Snowflake, Arizona, taken aboard aUFO on November 5, 1975, in plain sight of six witnesses. The witnesseswere given lie detector tests. All tests showed the witnesses were telling thetruth. Travis himself showed up five days later. He was twelve miles fromthe place he had been taken on board. He had a story to tell that involvedhis waking up inside the ship and finding several very odd-looking creaturesexamining him, as well as four perfectly normal-looking human types.Now, these details are pretty solid. Dr. James Harder, director of Researchfor the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, personally investigatedthe case and stated that he felt there was no hoax involved. The lie detectortests given to the witnesses support the data. All indications are that thiscontact is authentic.In spite of this, the news coverage was so conditioned by the old ridicule lidof the 1950s that few Americans found out about it until months after theoccurrence.10