Alien Base: CONTINUING CONTACTS
On one occasion, Joelle said she was invited to inspect a spacecraft at close quarters. This turned out to be the same craft as the one she saw at a distance in September 1963. On this occasion, in the vicinity of the Welsh border, one of the scientists was being taken to a base in South America. Joelle told me she was poor at judging sizes, but estimated that the width of the landing legs was about three inches and that the inverted mushroom-shaped pads were possibly an inch or so wider. Apart from series of round portholes, no further details of the craft could be discerned, as it was dark at the time. Also, the entry point was out of her view. She was not allowed to go aboard, though she did touch the hull, which later caused her to feel ‘slightly ill’. Shortly afterwards, she and Rosamund drove up to the top of a nearby hill to watch the craft take off. With a sound as of a swarm of bees, it rose vertically, slowly at first, then shot off, illuminated, at an angle.
Joelle said she helped the visitors in a number of ways. Once, they asked her to translate a certain Russian manuscript at the British Museum. Also, on more than one occasion, she cooked meals for them at her London flat. Both Mark and Val had ‘perfect manners’, enjoyed drinking wine with their food, and had a great sense of humour. They stressed a desire to be treated normally. ‘We may be thousands of years in advance of your people,’ they said once, ‘but please don’t look on us as angels.’
Mark and Val did not rely on telepathy to communicate between themselves; they also spoke their own language. When communicating at a distance with the scientists, they used a type of radio system with prearranged ‘secure’ frequencies, using tiny radios strapped to their wrists. More sophisticated methods of communication could be used, as Joelle was to discover. Arriving back at her flat on one occasion, she was astonished to see Val standing in the living room ‘How on earth did you get in?’ she asked, as she went to greet him. ‘Don’t come near me — don’t touch me!’ he said. ‘Just calm down. I’m not actually here.’
Val went on to explain that what she saw before her was a projected image, effected mentally between minds as a means of enhancing communication from a distance. ‘Maybe it was, as he said, just a picture in my mind,’ Joelle told me.
After a short discussion and a farewell, the ‘picture’ simply faded out. This particular phenomenon has been reported in a number of contact cases, including that of Cynthia Appleton