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Sample from a book on UFO's called 'Breakthrough'
BREAKTHROUGH SAMPLER--TEXT ONLY VERSION
Copyright C 1995, Whitley Strieber
May Not be Reprinted Without Permission.
The media usually rips me apart, so these early reviews are surprising.
"Fans will be captivated; others will be skeptical or wonder what it all
means." --Publisher's Weekly
"He presents some highly convincing evidence of a government cover-up
regarding UFOs." "Strieber's purported proof of alien visitors will at
least give you serious pause." --Kirkus Reviews
Text Of The Spoken Message In The Multimedia BREAKTHROUGH Sampler
BREAKTHROUGH is probably among the strangest books you will ever read.
I think that this is because it is an honest account of contact with
people and a culture very different from our own, but obviously very
concerned with us, in their own way. The book contains proof that they
are real, and one respected book review, the Kirkus Reviews, has already
stated, that it will "give you pause." BREAKTHROUGH is very different
from most books about visitors and aliens. First, there are many named
witnesses who are willing to step forward. Second, it is not a horror
story, but rather the story of a struggle that remade a man
intellectually and spiritually. In this sense, it is much more like
real life with the visitors than the scary stories that come out of the
UFO community. Only a small percentage of people who wrote me told such
stories. But obviously, we should proceed down this very new path with
caution. But also, I think, with curiosity and love. Welcome to
BREAKTHROUGH
SAMPLES FROM THE BOOK
The Introduction is called SOMETHING VERY NEW
Steadily rising over the past fifty years, a chorus of voices has been
claiming that unidentified flying objects are real and mankind is coming
into contact with extraterrestrials. Other voices, as loud or louder,
have claimed that this is all nonsense. As the evidence has built,
official denial has become more strident. At the same time, the number
of people who do not believe the government, science and the press has
grown until it is now a substantial majority. One of the reasons is
that the denials are not convincing. Another is that more and more
people are having the contact experience. Thirty years ago, practically
nobody knew of a person who thought they might have encountered
visitors. Now, most of us know, or have heard of, such a person. And
we also know that this person, in the vast majority of cases, is as
normal as we are.
PUBLIC PROOF Comes In Many Forms. This Is One
In February of 1988 my book Transformation was being bound and shipped.
Thus, nothing in the book could now be changed, and only I, my editors
and some friends knew its contents. Reviewers were just beginning to
get copies. In the second week of March, a first few books would appear
in stores in the larger cities. It was at this precise moment in the
life of Transformation--after it had been finished and could no longer
be altered, but before the public knew about it--that the proof came.
On February 27, 1988, eighteen months to the day after the incident of
the nine knocks at my cabin that I reported in Transformation, but
before they could have been publicly known, a large number of people in
Glenrock, Wyoming were awakened at 2:45 a.m. by a series of nine knocks
in three groups of three on their cars, on the sides or roofs of their
houses, on their doors. The Glenrock Independent reported on Thursday,
March 3 that "strange, unexplained noises interrupted the slumber of
many Glenrock residents early Sunday morning. The three part series of
three dull thuds at 2:45 a.m. was reported by many residents who
believed it was made by direct physical contact on the outside of their
dwellings." In other words, despite the near-simultaneity of the
sounds, numerous people thought that their individual homes were being
affected. That they all heard the sounds at virtually the same time is
supported by the sudden surge in police calls. Residents hearing the
knocks, "discounted the possibility of a hoax being performed on a
seemingly random number of houses. The residents quickly either looked
outside or physically inspected their property..." A UFO was also
observed in the area.
In the end, the Independent said, "the UFO, like the knocking, remains a
mystery." A careful investigation that included confirmation by the
National Earthquake Center in Colorado that there had been no seismic
activity in Glenrock that night further substantiated that the visitors
had really been there, and had created this subtle proof of their
existence in a manner that was tailor-made to be explained in a book.
A Fully Conscious Witness Sees A DARK, REFLECTIVE EYE
A witness called Raven Dana became the first person I'd ever heard of to
touch a visitor while in normal consciousness. She had face-to-face
physical contact which, incredibly, was corroborated by another witness,
Lorie Barnes. It happened at my cabin in upstate New York when a
documentary film crew was present. Although they did not get footage of
the visitors, some of them also had encounter experiences, much to their
amazement. I asked Raven to remember back.
"Could you describe what happened that night?"
"Well, the first thing I remember is waking up because the automatic
lights had come on outside. I looked out the window, and then opened it
because I was feeling hot, even though it was kind of cold out. Then I
fell asleep for a while. Then I woke up again, because something I
thought was a raccoon or a skunk or a cat had come through the window,
as if something had stepped in onto the window ledge and was coming down
onto the bed, like an animal or small child. I felt it pressing against
my leg."
"Did you know that the window had a locked screen in it?"
"The thought never even occurred to me. My first thought was, oh, great,
if I move I'm going to get skunked."
The mind seeks the normal, always. The stranger the event, the harder
it tries to wend its way back to what it knows.
"How heavy did you feel that this object was?"
"Small dog, large cat, small child."
We have cats, but we'd left them in our city apartment because there
were going to be so many people in the house that weekend.
"What weight, would you estimate?"
"Maybe about twenty to forty pounds, hard to tell. But a definite sense
of weight, and I could feel it stop moving suddenly when I woke up.
Like it had sensed it and stopped moving. I had the feeling that if I
was very still I could see it before it jumped back out the window."
"And what happened then?"
"I very slowly turned my head, until I could see the outline against the
window."
She had known that something was there, but unlike me had not been
plunged at once into terror. I have always envied Raven Dana her poise
in the face of this experience. But I must also add that she has
reported her share of fear, as have we all.
"What kind of an outline?"
"Like a small child."
"How tall?"
"It was crouched. In that position, two and a half feet. It had a knee
bent and a foot on the bed."
Her memories remained detailed, even after all this time. It was
fascinating to talk to her, to look into her eyes. She'd been so close
to them, so very close.
"An aggressive crouch?"
"It wasn't an aggressive crouch. More frozen, like it hadn't expected
me to wake up. That kind of a crouch. I wanted my eyes to adjust to
the light."
I reminded her that it had been a cloudy night, but that there was a
fair amount of ambient light.
"Well, I could see, but not a lot of detail. I was very acutely aware
of its presence in a way that I can't physically describe. Except where
it was touching my leg, I could sense a sort of electric charge. Not
unpleasant. I could feel it through the sheet. It was the kind of
sensation you might feel if your hair was standing on end, or if
somebody was holding a tuning fork against me."
"Any other sensation?"
"Light pressure. Like a small child or animal. I remember thinking how
normal this seemed. How much like an animal this was. There was an
incredible awakening of my own animal nature. At that point, I thought,
should I get up, get out of the bed, or what? I didn't want to frighten
it, but I was a little frightened myself. As I was thinking, 'what do I
do,' it raised its hand. I could see the outline against the window."
"At this point, what exactly had you seen?"
"The outline, and when it turned its head, I could see the cheekbone--a
high cheekbone--and one of its eyes. A long, black eye. I have thought
long and hard about those eyes. Why are they like that and--above all--
why do they have that effect on us? Those eyes take you to your
conscience, those brilliant eyes."
"What sort of eye and face did you see?"
"A little bit longer than usual, mostly human-looking face with a bald
head. The eye had no pupil. Just a dark, reflective eye."
I Got Thousands of Letters From THE HIDDEN CHOIR
From the publication of Communion in 1987 until September of 1994, I
received 139,914 letters. Between my wife, myself and our secretary, we
read them all. Personally, I have read about forty thousand pieces of
mail. We saved a representative sample of about thirty thousand, eight
thousand of which have been retyped and mostly scanned into computer-
readable format. This was paid for by the Communion Foundation, which
is a private foundation funded by me out of earnings on my books. As
far as possible, we answered each person, at least thanking them for
their effort.
The letters have not been statistically tabulated or professionally
analyzed. This awaits both very substantial funds and access to the
scientific professionals needed for the work. We have created some
rough statistics regarding our letters. Eighty percent of them reflect
either positive encounters or encounters where the visitors seemed
neutral. Sixty percent specifically mention fear. Twenty percent
report negative encounters. Three percent specifically mention hypnosis
by UFO researchers, and nine out of ten of these perceived their
encounters as negative. (This is probably not an outcome of hypnosis.
These people sought help because of their bad experiences.)
Most witnesses are articulate, concerned people who are very genuinely
puzzled about what has happened to them and are seeking knowledge. I
have received letters from many prominent people, including military
officers from Australia, Belgium, Russia, the United Kingdom and the
United States. All of these people have been guaranteed total
confidentiality, and in cases where it has been asked that no record of
correspondence be kept, as was the case with a general who had
encounters along with his wife and children, the request has always been
kept. Most of my correspondents were writing not to get an answer so
much as to clarify their own memories and gain the satisfaction of
telling somebody else what had happened to them.
Something's Rotten Behind the Scenes and CONGRESS SMELLS A RAT
This is a brief section of an interview with a congressional aide who
has been privately investigating the cover-up since 1992. BREAKTHROUGH
is the first time he has spoken out about his findings. One of the most
interesting things that he has pointed out involves the fact that, since
congress has not been duly informed about the coverup, it is illegal.
Everybody who is engaged in it is party to a felony, whether they have
signed a National Security Oath or not.
"If it is deliberate disinformation," the investigator said, "then I
think it's probably a violation of the law, because propagandizing the
American public is forbidden by statute." He continued, "my sense of
this is that some of what has gone out is probably disinformation, and
it's very troubling to me. If there is an official kind of locomotion
to this, that officials are orchestrating this, then we are in a very
serious situation. They are in violation of the law, and whoever is
responsible for it is guilty of a conspiracy to defraud the American
people. It's a problem area that troubles me. These people may just be
quacks who have been in the military. But if there is a concerted
official effort to confuse the public about what's going on, there are
serious violations of the law involved."
With regard to the Roswell Incident, he concluded that, "based on what
I've read about it and the investigating I've done, the evidence is
almost overwhelming that this debris was not a balloon and it was a
sophisticated device of the great importance to the national security
establishment. There has never been any kind of a briefing or
explanation to the congress that it was anything other than a weather
balloon or another known object. The weather balloon story is false.
I'm driven, given my investigation, to conclude that this was not
American, it was not under our control, and it was of great interest to
us. Whether it was terrestrially based or not I do not know. The fact
is, that something happened of great importance and it was covered up.
It was covered up in a way that indicates a very concerted, organized
effort at the highest levels to do so. Given the statements of witness
and all the other evidence, one is led to believe that a security event
of the first order occurred. That is my conclusion."
My Own Conclusion is Called AEON
It should be understood clearly that the characterization of the visitor
experience as fearful and evil has four sources:
1. People who want to create theimpression that the visitors are
Biblical Demons.
2. Disinformationists who want to spread fear as a control mechanism.
3. UFO researchers who have only had contact with the small number of
people calling for help.
4. Witnesses, like myself, who have had a hard time, at least at first.
Where do the visitors fit into our future? Wherever we want them to.
They stand ready to respond in any way they can. I see no reason why
scientists, gaining contact with them, cannot expect to obtain a great
acceleration of all their disciplines. I think that many ordinary
people are going to discover that they possess the potential to lead
extraordinary lives.
My method of getting to the visitors has always been to indicate my
availability by challenging my fears and maintaining a meditative and
contemplative state of mind. As more and more of us turn our faces
toward the them, I anticipate that they will become less secretive. As
we embrace our potential by demonstrating that we can make use of it,
the pressure will get less and we will finally begin to see who is
really behind those fearsome masks.
If my own experience is any example, the visitors are prepared to give
us the exact minimum amount of knowledge that we need to do things on
our own. They are not here to carry us, but to tempt us into walking,
which is why they will always stay just out of reach. I suppose that
science will remain institutionally in denial for some time, but I also
know that there are already a few physicists who are struggling with
their own contact experiences, and I expect that their secret discovery
that the visitors are real will soon begin to spread through the
scientific and academic undergrounds. The most difficult thing that our
intellectual community will have to face is not that very real visitors
of many different kinds may be here, but that physical being has this
enormous unguessed dimension that the past identified as the soul, and
the Age of Reason rejected as a source of superstition and religious
enslavement.
I hope that this BREAKTHROUGH sampler encourages you to try the book.
Thank you for giving me your valuable time and attention. For what it's
worth, I might add that six of the first twenty readers had contact
experiences during or after their reading of the manuscript. If you
want it, I hope you get the same.
Whitley Strieber
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