Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: THE CRAFT
Suddenly, in a clearing, Villanueva caught sight of a large shiny craft, unlike anything he had ever seen. As Leslie wrote: In form it had the shape of two huge soup plates joined at the rim. Above it was a shallow dome with portholes. The entire structure, about 40 feet across, rested on three giant metal spheres or landing balls. Unless this was some secret invention from the United States, it was surely a ship from another world.
As they approached, a faint humming came from within the craft and a portion of the lower hull opened outwards, much in the manner of the rear entrance to a Martin 404 airliner, so that the inner side of the panel formed a staircase to the craft and the supporting cables became handrails. The two men went up the short flight of steps, pausing on the top to turn and look at their earthly companion. ‘Would you care to come inside with us?’ they asked. Fearing that he would not see his family again, Villanueva shook his head, turned, then ran for his life. Back on the road, he watched as the craft lifted off the ground.
Something glowing white rose slowly into view, hovering for a moment, then gaining speed it began a kind of pendulum motion, a backwards and forwards arcing movement, like a falling leaf going up instead of down. It attained an altitude of several hundred feet by this method; then, glowing brighter, shot up vertically with incredible speed. In seconds it was lost from sight. Only a faint swishing sound marked its passage.
When he finally reached his home in Mexico City, Villanueva told no one except his wife about the experience. Fortunately, she believed him.
‘THE KEY’
Desmond Leslie visited Salvador Villanueva in Mexico in November 1955 and came away with a very good impression of his character. ‘I found him quiet, unassuming, [and] well-mannered,’ he reported. ‘He gave me every impression of being a trustworthy, reliable human being, the kind you would trust to take your jewelry to a bank or to look after your children if suddenly called away. I liked him very much, and I thoroughly believe his story . . . All who have investigated him have come to the same conclusion. He related and re-enacted the story to his examiners without change or contradiction.’
Villanueva did not believe his visitors were from Venus, he told Leslie. ‘He had the impression from their talk, though they did not name any planet, that they had come from somewhere much farther than Venus, maybe from worlds beyond our vision entirely.’
Desmond Leslie claims to have been given (by George Adamski, I believe) what is known as ‘the Key’. ‘By this,’ he explained, ‘I mean that every man who has received a true and physical contact with men from other worlds has been given a certain “Key” whereby it shall be known that he is speaking truly. No man . . . could ever stumble upon this key by guess or chance; least of all a simple countryman. Unless Villanueva had spoken to a spaceman in truth he could not have known it. Possibly I am the only “layman” to hold it. It is the “Key” which all falsely claiming contacts through vain or neurotic reasons fail to give. Villanueva gave it without hesitation.