Alien Base: The Evidence for Extraterrestrial Colonization of Earth: A POLICEMAN ABDUCTED
One of the most fascinating and, for me, compelling alien contact reports is that of Nebraska police patrolman Herbert Schirmer, who encountered a landed craft and its crew in Ashland, Nebraska, in the small hours of 3 December 1967.
Initially, Schirmer recalled having seen a ‘flying saucer’ on the edge of the highway at 02.30, reporting it as such in the police logbook. Further details emerged six months later, during time-regression hypnosis with a professional hypnotist, Loring Williams.
As Schirmer got out of his patrol car to investigate, quasi-human beings approached, paralysed him temporarily with a ‘greenish gas’, then took him on board the football-shaped craft, which rested on tripod landing legs. A small exterior catwalk surrounded the centre of the craft. He found himself in a room about 26 feet by 20 feet and about six feet high, with portholes, ‘computer-like’ screens, and two triangular-backed chairs. The four crew members were nearly five feet tall, dressed in tightfitting silver-grey uniforms that enclosed their long, thin heads, with a short aerial-type antenna coming from one side, belts with a flashlight-like ‘gas-gun’ in a holster, and gloves and boots. They had an emblem on their large chests that looked similar to that of the ancient winged serpent (akin to the caduceus reported by Dan Fry — ). The skin on their faces was sort of grey-white, a pasty dough colour,’ Schirmer told the journalist Warren Smith. They had thin, slanting eyebrows above large, oriental-type eyes. ‘These eyes were not actually like oriental eyes,’ he explained, ‘they looked more like cat’s eyes.’ The nose was longer, flatter and more prominent than those of humans. ‘There wasn’t much lip to them. They were more of a slit in the face . .
One, who appeared to be the crew leader, communicated to Schirmer that they were extracting electricity from a nearby power-line, an operation he observed through a porthole. Later, the electricity taken was replaced. ‘When they land, an invisible [electromagnetic] force field is thrown around the ship in a circular pattern [as] a defence mechanism,’ said Schirmer under hypnosis. ‘In some way which I do not understand, they draw a type of power from water. This is why we see them over rivers, lakes and large bodies of water.’
The craft, just over 100 feet in diameter, was propelled by ‘reversible electromagnetic energy’, creating inertia-less, gravity-free flight. A crystal-like rotor in the centre of the craft was linked to two large columns. ‘He said those were the reactors,’ Schirmer recounted under hypnosis. ‘Reversing magnetic and electrical energy allows them to control matter and overcome the forces of gravity.’ The craft supposedly was made from pure magnesium.
Schirmer was shown a small, saucer-shaped device that could be launched from the larger craft. As also described identically by George Adamski, the device could transmit real-time audiovisual data. ‘They send the little saucer down to check out an area before they bring the big ship back in,’ Schirmer told Smith. ‘The pictures from the little baby saucer show up on the vision screen inside the ship. The best way I can describe [it] is to compare it with a baby moon hub- cap, which the kids buy to dress up their cars.’
Allegedly, the aliens came from a nearby galaxy, but had bases in our solar system, including on Earth. ‘I’m not certain they are from the places they said,’ explained Schirmer. ‘This might be something to throw us off guard.’ The crew leader said that, to protect themselves, the aliens deliberately confused us; that contacts were selected on a random basis for that very reason. ‘He said they left things to pure chance. If there isn’t any rhyme or reason to something, it is bound to puzzle the governments of the world and UFO investigators . . . I was very impressed by their security.’
After about 20 minutes, Schirmer was escorted off the craft, and he recalls watching it take off. Accompanied by a high-pitched whine, a reddish-orange glow appeared on the bottom of the ship, the tripod legs retracted and the craft shot into the sky.
‘I had a bad headache that morning,’ Schirmer told Warren Smith. ‘There was a weird sort of buzzing sound in my head. If I started to fall off to sleep, the buzzing noise got louder. I also had a red welt running down the nerve cord on my neck, right below my left ear.’ For a long time after the encounter, Schirmer suffered from severe headaches.
Schirmer’s case was brought before the University of Colorado UFO study group. He was flown to Colorado for standard psychological tests, including a hypnosis session, attended by Dr Edward Condon himself, head of the study group. Staff members told Schirmer that a negative report on his experience would be given. ‘They said their work was being checked by the Air Force and other government agencies before it was published. I was told that the whole Condon Committee was a cover-up designed to get the Air Force off the hook following so many sightings in 1966.’ Schirmer continues: Some of those guys felt that the Central Intelligence Agency was messing around. One staff member had done a lot of the field investigations. He was picked up on a narcotics charge. The police went right to his house and directly to a cache of marijuana. I know police work. You have to have a tip- off to know where to find something like that. Several people believed that this fellow was probably set up, framed, because of something he had found out during his field work