Raymond E. Fowler - The Watchers 2: Exploring UFOs & the Near-death Experience [abridged-transcripts only]

Exploring UFOs and the Near-Death Experience

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Copyright 1995 by Raymond E. Fowler. All rights reserved.

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Fowler, Raymond E. 1933
The Watchers II: Exploring UFOs and the Near-Death Experience/ Raymond E. Fowler,
p. cm.

Sequel to The Watchers
includes bibliographical references (p. 375) and index.
I. Title.
TL789.3.F682 1995
001.9'42dc20 95-11066
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1. Unidentified flying objectsSightings and encounters.

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Prior to launching into the high-strangeness accounts and speculations recorded in this book, I will dwell briefly upon the growing awareness of the UFO abduction phenomenon by both UFO researchers and the public at large and then comment upon its ramifications. Thus, this prologue, in effect, is my way of conditioning the reader for what one might dub the "Twilight Zone" component of ufology!

Today, abduction accounts are no longer relegated to the headlines of tabloids. In the past several years, serious treatment of them has been given in major newspapers and journals including the Washington Post Magazine} the Wall Street Journal , 2 the Harvard Magazine , to name just several examples. Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind has been followed by a number of movies and TV documentaries on this aspect of the UFO phenomenon. The typical abduction scenario is now even creeping into the plots of TV sitcoms and major TV commercials.

The people that I have investigated and communicated with appear to be just a small fraction of those who have knowingly or unknowingly had an abduction experience. Studies relating to hundreds of reported abduction experiences indicate that this phenomenon probably has been going on under the noses of UFO researchers for decades, perhaps for centuries, prior to the advent of modem UFO research.

In fact, I was privileged to hear Barney and Betty Hill tell of their close encounter with a UFO and of Betty's dreams of an abduction. This took place long before they were investigated and their story made public. I listened politely and honestly and wondered how these two apparently sincere people could lie with such straight faces.

Looking back in retrospect, it should have been clear from the start that these objects seen maneuvering in the sky would have been piloted or controlled by intelligent entities. Thus, seeing entities in relation to objects seen close at hand should have been expected.

It also should have been obvious that in addition to an alien interest in earth's advancing technology, prime interest would be in the harvesting and examination of earth's life forms, including human beings.

Our past, and indeed present, blindness to such things can in part be attributed to our egocentricity and geocentricity. We consider ourselves as the dominant species on the only world we know. We routinely eat, control and study lower life forms. If we wanted to study a woodchuck, we simply would pump a little gas down its hole, lift it out, study it and place it back. When it woke up, it would remember little or nothing of what had occurred.

In the light of our deeply ingrained self-centeredness, how could we even begin to conceive of unearthly super-intelligent entities that are able to periodically and instantaneously at will pluck human beings out of a car, field or building with a beam of light, study them, experiment on them and place them back exactly as they had been found with little or no memory of what occurred?

It would be even harder to conceive of entities with the ability to do the same thing on an apparent non-physical level. Some abductees report being abducted via an out-of-body experience into another dimension that looks and feels just as physical as the reality we know on an every day basis! These things are reportedly happening not only to just a few, but also to perhaps thousands of usually unsuspecting people.

Such experiences, for the most part, have been and still are imperceptible to the general populace who, like the persons in Hans Christian Andersen's story about the emperor who wore no clothes, have been programmed by society not to perceive them. Let me illustrate.

Not far from my home, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) operates a huge radar control center. Radar operators peer at their screens around the clock guiding hundreds of aircraft from around the country and the world to safe landings at Logan International Airport in Boston, MA.

In addition to these aircraft, hundreds of other aircraft fly about the sky almost totally ignored by the radar operators. Why? Because only those equipped with transmitters called transponders are of interest, unless there is an imminent danger of collision with aircraft that they are controlling.

Society has equipped us with the transponders of social acceptance. Taboos do not only exist within primitive cultures. We who live in technological cultures are subject to them as well. Scientists create models of reality, the models soon are treated as reality, and we are told what can be and what can not be based upon a model.

Theologians, psychologists and philosophers also build models of reality. The models soon become dogma and we are told what can be and what cannot be.

Reports of UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects), OBEs (out-of-body experiences), NDEs (near-death experiences), ghosts and a host of other "paranormal phenomena" do not fit these models. So, the reported experiences, like aircraft without transponders, are not being perceived as being part of reality.