The Mutual UFO Network UFO JOURNAL
Number 314, "The UFO Press"

The Alien Jigsaw
by Katharina Wilson

In the last few years we have seen the appearance of a veritable sea of books about the UFO/alien abduction experience. While they are all informative in one way or another, they are not always enjoyable to read. The Alien Jigsaw by Ms. Katharina Wilson, Introduction by Budd Hopkins, is a shining exception. I found myself eager to read about her next experience, hoping to get another piece to the puzzle of her life.

Wilson knew very little about UFOs and alien abductions when she first came to realize the meaning of the strange goings on throughout her life. She came to know that experiences like hers were happening to many other people. She wondered how many others might be having these interactions and were asleep to the memories or, worse still, afraid to share or ask for help out of fear of ridicule. Because of her deep conviction to the truth, she wanted as many people as possible to know about the aliens' activities. The only story she knew well enough to tell was her own, so she began speaking publicly and wrote a book about her visitations. Several times during the writing of The Alien Jigsaw, she debated whether to exclude some parts because of their personal nature. Luckily she did not. She felt that presenting all of the details and accounts was more important than her reputation or pride. I commend her for her courage and conviction.

Wilson, a meticulous diary scribe since age twenty three, is easily able to reconstruct the pattern of events that indicate a lifetime of interaction with other-worldly beings. She writes them in such a way that you do not have to wait until the last chapter to understand the story. Each of her journal entries is preceded by the events she now knows to be significant relative to the alien encounter. The verbatim journal entry then shows her memories, thoughts and feelings at the time of the experience. She then examines these memories as the lucid adult she has become. She explains how each occurrence changed her and how she now feels about them. The book is written as if each journal entry was a whole story and yet, at the same time, a part of a larger story. An alien story. One that shows an alien influence interwoven into just about every person, place and thing in Ms. Wilson's life.

Her family is not exempt from alien rendezvous and many times she reports going on board with or seeing her husband, friends, mother or father during an on board visit. She tells of many experiences that deal with hybrid or alien babies in nursery-like settings and has had the full range of genetic interbreeding experiments run on her.

Some of these experiences are very positive and emotionally fulfilling, others are hard for Wilson to understand given her intense love of all animals. This love of animals has been tested many times by the aliens sometimes asking her to choose between animals and people. She feels these challenges are tests, perhaps so the aliens can better understand our emotional responses. Occasionally she is given free run of the ship and finds herself strangely familiar with its layout. Some of the aliens she encounters are emotional, compassionate creatures and others are cold and even cruel. Many of the fifteen different aliens described work together (the good, the bad, and the ugly). Several of these types are described here for the first time in print. She also reports the presence of what appears to be U.S. military personnel working with the aliens. Her accounts also include what she calls "teaching dreams" wherein she was instructed and trained or shown what may be the future.

As one moves through these experiences with Ms. Wilson, you can sense the growth of her understanding and consciousness. I have been lucky enough to meet her and found a person very different than the one at the beginning of the book. She is confident and kind, eloquent and strong. There is a peace about her. The power of her conviction is evident in her actions and words and I respect this greatly. As always, these experiences, good, bad, or neutral, are transformative. When you read her book you will find that she is not fighting a war-she is fighting a "sleep." A sleep that we all must awaken from whether we are having face to face alien experiences or not. She poetically expresses her deepest feelings about this limited view of reality in the Epilogue with a verse called "The Painting."

This book is enjoyable for the casual reader wanting to know more about the alien abduction/contact phenomenon and the avid researcher with a hunger for details. I think The Alien Jigsaw is one of the best books written by an experiencer about alien experiences. This book should be considered a "must have" for the researcher because it contains details about a wide variety of aliens and their business, many of which have never been published. The chapter that details the different types of beings titled, "The Guys," is worth the purchase price alone. Looking through the lens of Ms. Wilson's experiences one can get a clearer view of the large and complex picture of human-alien interaction.

-Forest Crawford © June 1994

Forest Crawford is a hypnotherapist and the Director of Illinois MUFON. He has been investigating and lecturing about UFOs and the abduction phenomenon for over twenty-five years and has published several articles in the MUFON UFO JOURNAL.

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