Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth – A Pantomime of Unrealities – LATER DEVELOPMENTS
Albert Coe’s meetings with Zret — and others of his group — continued into the late 1970s at the rate of 10-12 times a year. He kept his promise and told no one about these meetings; until 1958, that is, when, with the go-ahead from Zret, he told his wife. ‘She thought I was kidding at first,’ Coe told Dr Berthold Schwarz, a psychiatrist and UFO researcher, in 1977. ‘And then she wanted to meet him.
Of course, that’s a no-no. You see, these people are very secretive. They have very good reasons to be, and I wouldn’t want to be the one that let that secret out.’
Coe was also given permission to bring some of his story into the public arena. He began to give interviews on various radio and television stations in Washington, DC, and wrote a book detailing some of his experiences, privately published in 1969. He also claimed to have had several meetings with US Government officials in Washington. ‘And they’d pump me,’ he said, ‘always trying to break down my story.’
In 1958 Coe began to receive the attention of what he assumed were federal agents. ‘For one year, they followed me all over,’ he claimed. ‘I used to live in Beverly, New Jersey, and I had a little apartment next to a barber shop. The barber was a very good friend to me, and said these men used to pump him. They wanted to know where I went, what I did, who my friends were, and so on.’
Many contactees in the 1950s, such as George Adamski, were investigated by federal agents, as numerous FBI files — released under the Freedom of Information Act — show. Interestingly, when asked by Dr Schwarz what he thought of Adamski whose much later encounters contain many parallels — Coe replied simply that he was a ‘faker’!
What are we to make of Albert Coe’s outrageous story? Coe had an excellent work record as a mechanical engineer, and, so he told Dr Schwarz, had not suffered from delusions, encephalitis, hallucinations or paranoia, nor had he spent time in a mental hospital. Having listened carefully to the 90-minute interview with him conducted by Dr Schwarz, 5
and studying his book, The Shocking Truth 6— both of which are used here as references — I conclude that he told the truth; at least, the truth as he believed it.