Part Eight
Looking Back
The Controllers Revisited
In 1989 Martin Cannon came forward with a bold new
hypothesis for alien abductions in his monograph The
Controllers: A New Hypothesis Of Alien Abduction. Martin
Cannon formulated his hypothesis after discovering the
following results from his extensive and ongoing research
into the subject of mind control. [35]
"1) Although misleading (and occasionally
perjured) testimony before Congress indicated that the CIA's
"brainwashing" efforts met with little success, striking
advances were, in fact, made in this field.
2) Clandestine research into thought manipulation has not
stopped, despite CIA protestations that the CIA no longer
sponsors such studies.
3) The CIA was not the only government agency involved in
this research...many other branches of government were
involved.
To these conclusions I would append the following - not
as firmly established historical fact, but as a working
hypothesis and grounds for investigation:
4) The UFO Abduction phenomenon might be a continuation
of clandestine mind control operations." [36]
Cannon discusses his findings about the relationship
between mind control reports and abduction reports in his
highly-praised monograph. [37] Although his entire monograph
is a "must read," there were a few areas that immediately
got my attention because I had similar questions about the
points he brought up. The first two focus on the Betty and
Barney Hill abduction case, specifically Betty Hill's
"pregnancy test," and the "star map."
The Pregnancy Test
Regarding the alien pregnancy test, Cannon writes: "At
one point during the alleged UFO abduction, the 'examiners'
inserted a needle in Betty Hill's navel, telling her that
this practice constituted a test for pregnancy. Some
ufologists rashly assume that Betty Hill's 'pregnancy test'
is evidence of advanced extraterrestrial technology, since
her 1961 account pre-dates the official announcement of
amniocentesis." [38]
I had similar questions about Betty Hill's pregnancy test when I
published my Researcher's Supplement. [39] I decided to include
information from a paper published in a medical journal that stated
laparoscopy, (a more complicated procedure than amniocentesis), had
its origins over fifty years ago. I found it curious that I
never heard a word about this information from other abduction researchers.
[Since the original publication of this monograph in 1996, Dr. David
Jacobs has also addressed this subject.]
To determine if Betty Hill's 1961 alien pregnancy test
really predated the use of a procedure like laparoscopy or
amniocentesis, I visited a medical library. What I found was
surprising. Below are some quotes from a few of the
published medical studies that I was able to locate in less
than two hours:
"John Bard performed the first successful
laparotomy (related to laparoscopy) for an extra-uterine
pregnancy c.1746; he was named New York's first public
health officer..." [40]
"The first step in the development of laparoscopy
occurred in 1806, when Bozzini developed an endoscope to
observe the cervix." [41]
"The method of laparoscopy, mainly being introduced as a
diagnostic tool, has developed into an important therapeutic
procedure during the last decade. This development is
associated with the name of the German gastroenterologist
Heinz Kalk. Born in Frankfurt/Main in 1895, he first
published about laparoscopy in 1929 and also designed a new
laparoscope with a prograde optic. He realized the great
value of laparoscopy in the differential diagnosis of liver
disease. During the 1940s, Kalk introduced laparoscopically
guided liver biopsy and was involved to a great extent in
research of hepatic diseases, especially Hepatitis
epidemica. The work of Kalk was of decisive influence for
the development of laparoscopy in Europe..." [42]
"Since the beginning of the Twentieth Century physicians
have promoted laparoscopy as a valuable adjunct to the
diagnosis of diseases of the abdominal cavity....The first
diagnostic laparoscopy in the United States was carried out
in 1911 by Bertram Berheim, who used a proctoscope and
ordinary light to examine the abdominal cavity...Raoul
Palmer of Paris promoted monitoring of intra-abdominal
pressure as early as 1947...Janos Veress of Hungary
developed a new needle for inducing pneumothorax in 1938.
Almost an identical version of the Veress needle is still
frequently used today." [43]
Moving back to the original topic of amniocentesis, my
search took less than half an hour. According to a paper
published by the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation:
"Amniocentesis is a simple medical procedure
used to obtain a small sample of the amniotic fluid
surrounding the fetus. It was first tried in 1882, and has
long been used in late pregnancy to assess fetal anemia in
Rh disease and to find out if the fetal lungs are mature
enough for delivery." [44]
And finally:
"The first studies of amniotic fluid were
done in the early 1950s for the evaluation of bilirubin
pigment in the amniotic fluid of Rh-sensitized mothers. By
looking at the optical density of the fluid, the analyst
could determine the degree to which the fetus was affected."
[45]
Martin Cannon is correct in stating that abduction
researchers use Betty Hill's pregnancy test to help support
the advanced alien technology theory. It is clear that all
of the dates I have provided for laparoscopy and
amniocentesis predate Betty Hill's alien pregnancy test.
Furthermore, scientists are now using a blood test to
isolate fetal blood cells that circulate in the mother's
bloodstream. If humans already possess this technology, why
would advanced aliens use a cruder pregnancy test, such as
the "long-needle-probes" to test if women are pregnant?
Ufologists and abduction researchers cannot assume that
Betty Hill's pregnancy test is evidence of advanced
extraterrestrial technology, because her 1961 account
absolutely does not pre-date the use of amniocentesis
or laparoscopy.
Betty Hill probably reported exactly what occurred to her
and she is in no way to be faulted for the mistakes made by
the UFO research community. I, too, have had an experience
during which I had an alien insert a needle six inches long
into my abdomen. Like Betty Hill, I experienced a great
amount of pain and when I touched the hand of the alien
Being, my pain went away and I lost consciousness. That
aliens or "someone" inserted a long needle into our abdomens
is not the issue. The issue is that we cannot automatically
assume that a technology or procedure is extraterrestrial
simply by identifying it with a particular time-frame, or
because someone was the first to report it. "First Cases" do
not prove anything.
The Star Map
Regarding the star map, Martin Cannon writes, "The Hill
case provided a particularly controversial piece of evidence
- the celebrated "star map" recalled by Betty Hill under
hypnosis. In later years, an Ohio schoolteacher named
Marjorie Fish made an ingenious and laudable attempt to
discover a match for this map by constructing an elaborate
three-dimensional model of nearby star systems; whether she
succeeded remains a matter for keen debate." [46]
Cannon also references Jacques Vallee's book
Dimensions, in which Vallee states that he does not
believe the map makes any sense as a navigational aide and
that the stars are not drawn to scale. Equally important is
another point Cannon brings up: "Allegedly, the map points
to Zeta Reticuli as the aliens' home system and pictures
Zeta Reticuli as a single star, a view consistent with
scientific opinion of the 1960s. Yet in later years,
scientists discovered that Zeta Reticuli is binary."
That so much could have been made of this map over the
years is really what is interesting about this entire
discussion. Other abductees have seen star maps and have
been told by the aliens where they come from. Very little
(if anything) has been made about these abductees' claims.
What is also interesting is that some of these other
abductees remembered their information immediately after
their experiences and without the use of hypnosis.
Examples of other abductees being told where the aliens come from
follow. The first example comes from Doreen Imper whom I've written
about before. Doreen writes:
"My next memory was of standing outside of this structure
and seeing two dark-skinned Greys coming out. It was very,
very dark outside and I wasn't sure how to get home. I
approached the Greys to ask them how I could get home and
they would not respond or interact with me at all. I kept
asking until another entity approached me. I could not see
this entity clearly. He handed me a map that I looked at
while he described the best and fastest route home.
After this experience and during the course of the
afternoon of the following day I started to remember my
experience. I sketched, to the best of my ability, the map
that was shown to me.
I was told to follow a specific route (marked by the
arrow) instead of the route to the left of it, which at the
time seemed to be the most logical way to get home.
During the next week I was able to look at a star chart
that belonged to a co-worker. I have never looked at a star
chart before, but I was immediately drawn to Perseus. I
recognized the area of the star chart that I had seen during
the experience.
What I had sketched out from memory was not a perfect
match, but it was close enough for me to think it was more
than a coincidence."
The second example is from my husband Erik. He was not
shown a star chart, but instead was given a description, or
perhaps directions:
"We go on the deck. I ask him, 'Are you from the
Pleiades?' The Being adamantly replies, 'No.' I ask him
where he is from. We look in the sky to see the Big Dipper.
He says, 'See the Ursa Major?' I reply 'Yes.' The Being then
tells me, 'The star cluster to the right and below. The one
with the triangle to the left and the little stars in
between...we're from that one. The fourth planet from our
sun.' " [47]
When asked what his planet was like, the Being told Erik
that he had never seen his home planet because he had been
born on their ship and had lived his entire life in space.
[48]
Another account that was published in my book follows:
"Erik and I are with the light gray aliens and we are
looking up at a large map on the wall of their craft. It
must be three dimensional - it has many layers to it. Erik
and I are reading the map - I'm asking the aliens, 'Do these
lines represent the different levels or dimensions of
space?' One of the aliens replies, telepathically, 'Yes.' I
continue, 'And when you travel on this route, as opposed to
this one (pointing to the map), you have to add different
levels of water and (chemical unknown to me) into your fuel
supply so your craft can travel through this particular type
of space?' Again the alien replies telepathically, 'Yes.'
...The map has different colored lines representing the
different types of space they travel through. There are
black lines, but the majority of the lines are white and
red." [49]
At least two of these descriptions give us a general area
(constellation) from which the Beings are saying or implying
they come from. If I were to ask other abductees, I'm sure I
would find several who had been given similar information by
the aliens. However, this other information does not often
show up in the literature and is not "promoted" at
conferences. Yet, that is what has been done with the Hill
star map to such an extent that for the past two decades,
somewhat of a myth has been created. The myth says that the
Greys are from Zeta Reticuli, and - by the way - they are
not called Greys anymore, they are now referred to as "The
Zetas!" - And we wonder why the scientific community does
not take our claims seriously?
Surprisingly, some scientists did take the Hill star map
seriously and it led to the publication of "The Zeta
Reticuli Incident" in Astronomy magazine in 1976. The
article was written by Terrence Dickinson with related
commentary by: Jeffrey L. Kretsch, Carl Sagan, Steven Soter,
Robert Scheaffer, Marjorie Fish, David Sauders and Michael
Peck.
Since this controversial article was written, planetary
astronomy has changed its general view about the types of
stellar bodies that planets can orbit. I also found some of
the premises of the authors too assuming, for example, "The
sun must be on it [the Hill map] (since the alien was ready
to show Betty where 'we' are)..." [50] I could find nothing
saying or indicating that the alien was going to show Betty
were "we" were located on the map. Despite these shortfalls, I recommend "The Zeta Reticuli Incident" to those interested in this continuing
debate. [51]
What if it was Mind Control?
On the opposite end of this discussion is an idea that
Cannon brought up in The Controllers: that Betty Hill
had actually been "directed to store that chart within her
subconscious." Cannon continues, "The celebrated star map
ought to be recognized for what it was: a prop, a seemingly
confirmatory circumstantial detail meant to convince her -
and perhaps us - of the reality of her abduction."
This brings us back to the argument about whether an
artifact of abduction - whether it be a scar, an implant,
and yes even a star chart - is really of alien or
terrestrial origin. It wouldn't be such a bad idea if say,
you were a black-ops agent conducting mind control
experiments, that you would come up with the idea of making
your subject think its aliens (instead of humans) and
reinforcing the fabrication with a map of where the
imaginary aliens come from.
On the other hand, if these really are aliens who are
telling us where they come from, why should we believe them?
If we do in fact choose to believe them, why would they ALL
have to come from the same place? Researchers should
investigate abduction reports involving star maps that other
abductees have seen and remembered (immediately and without
the use of hypnosis) before concluding that the aliens' home
world is Zeta Reticuli. It is highly probable that they come
from several different planets, of which Zeta Reticuli
may be one.
Experiences Involving EDOM and Gun
Staging
EDOM: Electronic Dissolution Of Memory
As you will recall from Part
Two, the Electronic Dissolution of Memory is
accomplished by "electronically jamming the brain" thereby
causing the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, "to create
static which blocks out sight and sounds leaving the victim
with no memory of what they saw or heard." [52]
An unusual event occurred to me in March of 1991 that may
have involved an EDOM-type device. I had an experience
during which I actually saw a woman wearing a mask depicting
the face of a Grey alien. To top it off, I ended up in the
back seat of my car which was being driven by another
female. There were two females sitting in the front seats of
my car, and two (very thin) males in the back seat with me.
An excerpt from that experience follows:
"Now we are moving along the darkest road I have ever
seen...I can see a few trees and then an opening. There is a
fence with a security person at the gate. He is checking to
make sure we have the authority to enter. Now the female
Being is driving my car through the open gate."
[I called her a Being. I assumed she was an alien since
she was telepathic.]
"There is a huge dome-shaped object to my right...this
thing looks to be the size of a coliseum...I'm trying to
hear - to somehow tune in to what these aliens are saying
telepathically to one another, but now, suddenly, there is a
loud and powerful voice inside my head. It is coming from
the dome-shaped object and it is intentionally preventing me
from hearing what these aliens are saying to one
another...As soon as I hear the voice I can't remember what
it just said..." [53]
In December of 1993, I found myself with two women and
one man who I thought were friends from high school, but I
was aware on some level that it wasn't really them. I also
knew I was away from my home and in a house that was
unfamiliar to me. I felt as if something was occurring
outside that I should see, so I walked outside:
"I'm outside on a patio or balcony. There are woods close
by... I'm looking up at the night sky...There are objects up
in the sky - they are ships. I say to the woman next to me
as I'm pointing up at the sky, 'Look - right there! It's a
ship!' "
"Oh - suddenly I know. My vision is failing. They are
taking my vision away from me...Everything is black now. My
eyes are wide open but everything is black. They have taken
away my sight. They always do this to me - they used to do
this to me as a child - it is a very familiar sensation. I
am blind but my eyes are wide open...I'm standing outside
and I'm being very still because I cannot see. They want it
this way..."
I also saw some human children who were in the house (or
apartment) and I saw a young woman who looked as if she had
been physically battered. She was being forced to stay in
the house with the children against her will. My next memory
was of being in downtown Portland in the middle of the
night:
"I don't have my purse, I don't have any money and I
don't have my car keys. God, how am I going to get home? I
have to get home - I feel stranded - I feel like a
prisoner."
"I awakened feeling extremely tired and on edge. There
was a drop of blood on my sheet where my lower back or hip
area would have been had I been lying down. I looked all
over my night shirt, but there wasn't any blood on it and no
marks on my body, that I could find." [54]
Is it possible that EDOM was used on me during these
experiences? Although I did not write it in my journal,
while I was standing on the balcony (during the 1993
experience) blinded by someone or something, I also could
not hear. In other words, I cannot account for what
transpired while I was standing outside with the other
people. Notice also that there were no aliens or hybrid
children in this encounter either. Also of interest are the
craft: they were elongated and shaped like missiles, not
round or saucer-shaped. Was this some kind of conditioning?
Did someone use a device on me that made me become "blind
and deaf" when I saw the craft in the sky? Was I seeing
something someone did not want me to remember?
Gun Staging
In The Controllers, Martin Cannon relates a story
told by Budd Hopkins at a "UFO Abduction Workshop" he gave
at a March 1988 Whole Life Expo. Cannon writes:
"Hopkins' informant [the abductee]...was given a gun by
the aliens. Not a Buck Rogers laser weapon - this was
something Dirty Harry might have packed. The abductee was
also given someone to shoot. Not a little grey alien -
another human being, tied to a chair. The 'visitors' told
their armed abductee that this captive had done 'evil on
Earth, and he's a bad person. You have to kill him.' If the
abductee didn't do as asked, he would never leave the
ship...Ultimately, the abductee turned the gun on the aliens
and said, 'Nobody's going to get shot here.' According to
Hopkins, 'The aliens said "Fine. Very good." They took the
gun from him; the man (presumably the captive) got up,
walked away, disappeared, and they went on to the next
thing.' " [55]
Cannon believes that rather than this being an example of
an alien incursion, it "exactly parallels numerous
experiments in the hypnotic induction of anti-social action
as revealed both in the standard hypnosis literature and in
declassified ARTICHOKE MKULTRA documents." [56]
I have to agree that something very unusual is occurring
when alien Beings place an abductee in a situation such as
the one just described. Consider the following experience
that occurred to me in June of 1991:
"Somehow I know that a man is going to hurt my little
three year old nephew. This man is over six feet tall, has
dark hair and dark skin...I'm running toward my nephew's
house [three houses away] - I must be here now - Someone is
handing me a gun and a knife. The gun is cocked. This 'dark
man' is standing in front of me - I think he is waiting for
me to kill him. He is giving me a clear opportunity to kill
him...I'm thinking... 'Yes - I will kill him to protect my
little nephew.' I'm pressing on the trigger - "
"Suddenly a male has materialized between the 'dark man'
and me. He is taking my weapons away from me...He says he
will take care of the perpetrator, the 'dark man,' for me."
[57]
Originally, I believed that the aliens were testing me to
see if I would kill to protect my nephew. However, it is
somewhat disconcerting that I did not actually see alien
Beings during this encounter. I saw two men, my nephew, and
a lot of white light. Was this an attempt at conditioning me
- and if so, who was doing the conditioning?
Anyone who has read Martin Cannon's The
Controllers, knows that he brings forth and discusses
several good arguments for his hypothesis that the UFO
abduction phenomenon might be a continuation of clandestine
mind control experiments. Cannon also offers much in the way
of documentation to back up his claims. However, until we
can explain multiple abductions and cases involving multiple
witnesses, I do not think we can, at this point, say that
all alien abductions are government mind control
experiments. However, it seems that some alien abductions
are mind control experiments. If I am wrong, then why
would I have had the opportunity to actually see "The
Controllers" after one of my abduction experiences?
"I'm holding some papers in my hand. Everyone else has
papers in their hands too. I think they are for
identification purposes...I'm writing my name on the top of
these blue papers in very large letters. I'm going to leave
them in a slot in the wall with the rest...I have to do this
so the Beings will know I participated...I'm turning around
- there's an elevator. Oh, the controllers are coming
out of the elevator and are walking toward me. Now they are
walking down a hallway..." [58]
With these few examples, I hope it is becoming clear that
the line between alien abductions and human abductions is
not cut in stone. Are the "Controllers" aliens or humans?
Are they both? In this recent example, they looked
completely human.
Animal Mutilations
In 1991, I presented my first public lecture about my
abduction experiences to the Pensacola, Florida, MUFON
group. During the question and answer period after my
lecture, I was asked what I thought about the cattle
mutilations. I confidently told the audience that I felt
most of the mutilations were being done by humans and were
probably government related. Needless to say, my answer did
not go over very well with my hosts, or the audience in
general.
I haven't changed my opinion much over the past five
years. I assert that many animal mutilations are carried out
by sick and evil people. Some are civilians, and some are
military personnel. I also believe that most are affiliated
with one or two particular agencies in the United States
government.
Dr. Richard Sauder also addresses the subject of cattle
mutilations in his book Underground Bases and
Tunnels. He writes, "For many years, the working
assumption has been that human involvement in the
mutilations was not possible because there is presumed to be
no known 'earthly' technology that could carry out these
mysterious mutilations. Reasons given include such factors
as the surgically precise, 'laser-like' incisions and wounds
(allegedly impossible with contemporary medical technology);
lack of footprints; and absence of blood around mutilated
carcasses." [59]
Dr. Sauder presents evidence to support his argument,
including that "The Phillips Laboratory at Kirtland Air
Force Base, in Albuquerque, New Mexico recently announced
that it has developed a 'very compact device' called the
'Laser Medical Pac'..." [60] This laser medical pac just
happens to be portable and "completely self-contained." The
portable medical pac laser can "cut like a scalpel, as well
as coagulate bleeding, and close wounds," and the output
wavelength "can be designed to provide different tissue
interactions." [61]
Sauder supports his position by explaining how these
mysterious cattle mutilators might carry out the mutilation
process and why. He also discusses how specific governmental
agencies like the EPA track, sample, and analyze milk from
milk sheds across the United States. The government not only
tracks our milk, but it also tracks animals and certain
families who live near nuclear test sites. What are they
looking for? Ostensibly, the degree to which nuclear
radiation has spread and infected our environment.
Why would the government, or even the aliens, need to
take cattle from their fields clandestinely in the night
when they could take all the udders, blood, rectums, eyes,
and other soft tissues they want from any slaughter house in
this country? It does not seem logical, unless someone is
introducing something into specific animals and is then
returning after a certain amount of time to analyze the
effect that "something" had on the animal. It would not be
difficult to relocate the infected animal by the use of
implants or even by spraying the animal with a special
substance that only shows up under certain lights. For
example, a light that is shown down onto a herd of animals
from a hovering helicopter.
Dr. Sauder also addresses an unusual "coincidence in
time" between the government's EPA milk testing program,
abductions and animal mutilations. "As it happens, the human
abduction and animal mutilation reports began to occur in
large numbers over the last twenty years." [62] The key
words in this phrase are "in large numbers." According to
abductees who were abducted in childhood, abductions were
occurring prior to twenty years ago. However, if we look at
this time-frame with less emphasis on human abductions, it
would appear that the government's EPA milk testing program
and animal mutilations may be connected.
In Project MILAB (which is also published on this
web-site), Dr. Helmut_Lammer discusses his findings relating
to abduction cases involving harassment of the abductee by
black unmarked helicopters and military personnel, and their
association with animal mutilations. Dr. Lammer writes, "The
mysterious helicopter activity goes back to the late sixties
and early seventies, when they showed an apparent interest
in animal mutilations, but not in alleged UFO
abductees...The helicopter activity began to increase in
relation to UFO abductions during the eighties up to the
present day...[and] it also continued to be reported in
proximity to animal mutilation sites across North America."
[63]
According to documents obtained by Sauder, the EPA was
established in 1970, and the EPA is the agency that is
running this government testing program. The information
that Dr. Sauder and Dr. Lammer have presented indicates
there is a high probability that the government is
behind many, if not most of the animal mutilations and their
related helicopter activity.
One final question about the subject of animal
mutilations: What about abductees who claim to have
witnessed an animal mutilation by aliens or a UFO? It is
possible that both government personnel and alien
Beings are involved in the mutilation of animals especially
if government black-ops personnel are working with some of
the aliens. However, we should also consider what we have
learned about behavior modification and mind control. With
the use of implants, as well as the use of hypnosis and
drugs, it has been proven that you can make a person see and
feel almost anything. Did the abductee or witness see lights
in the sky associated with the mutilation, or did they see
an actual craft?
It is possible that some abductees are pawns who are
being used to reinforce the "alien" theme to further a
cover-story for some covert government operation. For
example, perhaps there is more to the Human Genome Project
and the reports of cloning than the public knows, or perhaps
the government simply wants to perpetuate the "evil aliens"
theme.
We must always remind ourselves that just because "we the
public" are not aware that a particular technology exists,
this does not mean the technology being described by a
witness is extraterrestrial. It is very likely that those
billions of tax dollars of ours have been used to develop
advanced technology about which we know absolutely nothing.
The government apparatus will use whatever technology it can
without making it public until civilian corporations that
are not affiliated with the government invent the same or a
similar technology. It is when this occurs, or when the
technology becomes obsolete to the government that the
public is usually made aware of the "new" technology.
# # #
Project Open Mind (MILABS) concludes with
Part Nine. Topics include
Review with Questions, Proof and Eyewitness
Testimony, Technology Overlap, Personal
Observations, A Disturbing Time-Line, The
Human Genome Project, and some final words from
abductees.
Preamble |
Introduction |
Part One | Part Two
| Part Three | Part Four
| Part Five | Part Six
| Part Seven | Part
Eight | Part Nine |
Part Ten
by Katharina Wilson ©1996 |
