Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth – CORROBORATION
Some employees of the Argentine National Telecommunications Board told reporters that the telegraphic link between Winifreda and the nearby town of Eduardo Castex was interrupted in precisely the same area, and at the same time, as Platner’s abduction. Furthermore, two of Platner’s neighbours said that the pictures on their TV sets disappeared for several minutes, also at the same time. Horses in a nearby paddock seemed unusually disturbed: the following day they were found on another part of the estate and it took a lot of effort to return them to their normal grazing area.
Platner had an excellent reputation locally, and most people believed him. His physician, Dr Adolfo Pizarro, showed the press marks on Platner’s right wrist and elbow where blood had apparently been extracted, one of which was right on a vein.
Julio Platner’s encounter took place three nights before that of Alfred Burtoo, who was abducted in Aldershot, England. There were interesting similarities, and because we may be certain that neither witness was aware of the other’s story, it is worth putting those similarities on the record. Initially, Burtoo was attracted by a brilliant light as he was fishing beside the Basingstoke Canal in the small hours of 12 August 1983. He was then approached by two small beings and escorted into a craft parked on the canal towpath. Two other, similar beings were on board. As in Platner’s case, all four beings were of the same size, dressed in pale-green one-piece coveralls that covered the hands and feet, and which appeared to be moulded on to their thin bodies — ‘like plastic’, Burtoo told me. No facial features could be discerned, unfortunately, because these were covered by visors.
Burtoo’s abduction was recalled consciously, and though Platner blacked out at the moments when he was taken on board and released from the craft, he recalled most of the event without recourse to hypnosis.
MADAME X AND THE HANDSOME HUMANOIDS
In the stereotypical abduction scenario, small bug-eyed beings appear in witnesses’ bedrooms prior to beaming them aboard their spacecraft. In the following case, four beings appeared suddenly in a witness’s bedroom — but they were neither small nor bug-eyed; neither did they abduct the witness.
Mme X was asleep in her bedroom near Sospel, 20 kilometres northeast of Nice, France. It was 02.00 on 30 April 1983. Awakening, she saw a red football-sized object. She tried unsuccessfully to awaken her husband beside her. The light then vanished; she assumed it was ‘ball-lightning’. Mme X arose and went to an adjoining room to open the window. When she returned, she was startled by the sight of four quasi-human beings, about 1.75 metres in height. They were of a very athletic gait, with long, pale faces and long thin noses and mouths. The eyes were very elongated, with blue irises. Most surprising was the position of the pupils: rather than centred, they were close to the inner corner of the eye, giving them a ‘cross-eyed’ appearance. They had blond eyebrows. In spite of their peculiar features, Mme X thought they were handsome.
There was another marked difference from normal human beings. ‘Whereas all humans have a recess or indentation at the point where the nose is joined to the forehead, this was, she said, non-existent in them,’ reported Marc Tolosano, one of the investigators. ‘Neither did they possess the little vertical furrow which we all have between our nose and our mouth. They did have teeth.’
She did not see their hair, for their heads were covered by little skull-caps like those of frogmen, but with this difference: [they] were not part of the whole one-piece suit, and merely covered the entire skull and ears. [They] were wearing small bars, coloured green and yellow, ‘like badges of rank’ . . . Their hands, gloveless, were soft and delicate and a little larger than normal human hands.
Although Mme X was not afraid, she made another attempt to waken her husband. ‘It is useless,’ said one of the men, who seemed to be the leader, speaking in normal French. The German shepherd dogs, normally aggressive towards strangers, cowered under the bed. In reply to the witness’s question as to whether they spoke other languages, they said they knew all the languages on Earth. Calmly, Mme X invited the strangers to be seated. ‘Do you know who we are?’ enquired the leader. ‘You’re robots!’ she replied. Smiling, the leader stretched out his hand for her to feel.
‘Then,’ she said, noticing the soft texture of their skin, ‘you are extraterrestrials’, to which they responded in the affirmative. All the while, Mme X experienced difficulty in thinking and formulating questions. It was, she said, as if her will-power had been ‘slowed down’.
PROJECTED IMAGES OF EARTH’S HISTORY
The entities suddenly rose from their seats, explaining that they wanted to show her how familiar they were with Earth’s history. Following them outside, she was surprised to see other, similar beings in the courtyard. The first four inspected the courtyard. ‘Here it’s fine,’ they announced. ‘We are going to make a projection for you.’
Curiously, although a thick fog had developed, and it was chilly in Sospel at that time of year, Mme X did not feel cold. Now joined by three other quasi- humans, holding black spheres in their hands, she and the others watched as predominantly sepia-coloured images, about three metres high, were projected on to the fog without any visible beams of light emitting from the spheres. The ‘film’, which ran from prehistory to the Second World War, retraced our wars, sometimes stopping at individual ‘frames’. Mme X told them she was uninterested in wars, to which they responded that armed conflicts were all humans knew about, and that they themselves only knew this planet in that light.
FURTHER DISCUSSION — AND DEPARTURE
When the show had finished, Mme X returned to the house, accompanied by the beings. Her husband was still asleep, and the dogs remained quiet. She asked some questions on matters that she felt would be of interest to scientists: about time, distances in space, and so on. To each question they replied that she would not be able to understand. When she asked why the visitors were all men, they replied that sometimes women did accompany them, though not on this occasion.
Despite her difficulty in communicating, Mme X felt quite at ease with her guests, and invited them to eat, drink — or even to smoke, if they wished! They smiled but declined courteously, promising that they would dine with her during their next visit, six months later (a promise not kept). Meanwhile, some of the visitors glanced out of a window, as if to check that everything was all right. At 04.00, the strangers decided it was time to leave. ‘They rose, shook Mme X by the hand, and she accompanied them to the door,’ reported Tolosano.
She then perceived a long, dark-coloured oval object, about 15 metres or so in length. She could see a door in it, and inside, through the door, a diffused light. The fog was still there, everywhere around. The distance from the house to the craft was only about 30 metres. From the entrance of the craft came a gangway, and, after walking across the corrugated-iron roof of a shed, the entities went up onto this gangway . . . Mme X never saw the under-part of the craft at any moment, as it was hidden by the dense fog and by an intervening plank.
The craft then flew away, emitting a faint whistling noise. When she returned to bed, Mme X’s heart began to pound violently and ‘she was seized with an indescribable panic’, despite having maintained her composure throughout the encounter.
Was this a delayed reaction to what would normally have been an alarming experience? Almost certainly. There have been a number of cases where the composure of witnesses seems induced by the aliens.
Mme X wondered whether or not she should contact the local priest and the Gendarmerie, but decided to tell no one about her experience, not even her husband, in case it was thought she had gone mad. Two weeks later, she told a friend, and the story eventually leaked out to UFO investigators. ‘She has stood the experience pretty well,’ commented Marc Tolosano of the UFO Research Group in Menton, who, together with investigator Claude Dufour, was favourably impressed by her character. ‘And she is still amazed, thinking of their kindness, their amiability, their smiles. She thought they were handsome, and she still asks herself the question: “Why did they choose me?” ‘
However farcical certain encounters appear to be, they should not be rejected a priori, solely on the grounds that they fail to conform to our preconceived notions or that they challenge our favourite hypotheses regarding alien species and their agenda. Regrettably, many investigators and writers have done just that. One must wonder how many cases have never seen publication, owing to their seemingly ludicrous content. The fact of the matter is that numerous credible witnesses have reported thoroughly incredible encounters.