I'm in the middle of the UFO Congress, the annual conference in Laughlin that brings together the heavies in the UFO industry?abduction experts, videographers with images of crop circles and craft, specialists on the reverse engineering of alien technologies. I'm fascinated by the topic and so beg for the chance to cover it each year?when I get a call that really drops me into the rabbit hole.
My editor says someone heard I was at the conference and wants to talk to me. She hangs up and the phone rings almost immediately.
"You don't know me," the caller begins. He talks in a blur of names and locations, military acronyms and dates, interspersing the fact that "someone" told him I'd be interested in this kind of thing. Blazing through a world of intrigue, each story an X-Files-esque tale that takes more than the few microseconds he allows to absorb, he comes to the finale: "Have you ever heard of remote viewing?"
At my first UFO Congress five years earlier a man claiming NASA credentials talked about using remote viewing to go "out-of-body" to view sights and scenes from around the world. I thought it was little more than snake-oil sales.
The caller begins to talk again, his speech machine-gunning intricate details of things he knows and descriptions of people he's met through a lifetime of searching. Government types with top-secret clearances who see into the future, the past, on the moon and aboard alien craft.
Most of his information is common knowledge for those who've been around the Area 51 "circle" for a while, and while I'm not an insider, I'm very familiar with the topic. So I start asking him questions to see if he's in the loop, to see if he can offer more than the standard government-conspiracy-New World Order diatribe?all of it interesting but almost none of it provable.
"So what's on the moon?"
He replies that some remote viewers have seen a base on the moon face that's turned away from the Earth (exactly what many of these people believe). "What about all this End Times talk?" Some remote viewers, he says, are unable to see past 2012, the year the ancient Mayan calendar ends. And, he adds, under the ice of Antarctica lies a metallic object whose radiation is creating an atmosphere much like that found on one of the moons of Jupiter; to locate it, he recommends renting the X-Files movie and looking at the coordinates on Mulder's GPS gizmo, which he says gives the location of the sub-ice object.
He had me for a while. Maybe it was my brain's attempt to preserve my sanity, or maybe it was the sneaking feeling that he may be a bit over the edge. So I ask him another question, this time personal, and he laughs. "Never touched drugs," he replies. "And the difference between schizophrenics and myself is that I'm not schizophrenic."
Before he hangs up, he gives me a directive. "Get in touch with Paul Smith."
The phone goes dead. As soon as I have a chance, I find an Internet connection and run an online search. Smith is a Boulder City native, once employed by the U.S. Army to train remote viewers ...
Source: http://www.lvlife.com/2006/05/feature2.html
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