Phillip H Krapf - The Challenge of Contact A Mainstream Journalist’s Report on Interplanetary

A Mainstream Journalist's Report
on Interplanetary Diplomacy

The

Challenge of

Contact

by

Phillip H. Krapf

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2001 Phillip H. Krapf
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Krapf, Phillip H.

The challenge of contact : a mainstream journalist's report on interplanetary diplomacy / Phillip H. Krapf. 1st ed.

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LCCN: 2001088560

ISBN: 1-57983-008-0

1. Human-alien encounters. 2. Unidentified flying objects 1. Title.

BF2050.K73 2001001.942 QB101-700493

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This book is dedicated to the pioneers, the thousandsI don't know if anyone really knows the magnitudewho have gone before me, from a time stretching back decades at least, and perhaps centuries.

No one who has not had an experience can fully appreciate how profoundly it touches the very core of one's existence. And yet the reactions to such an event are as diverse as the individual members of the species itself, from tranquil acceptance to an energized quest for understanding.

Some have been traumatized while others have been inspired. There is deep confusion and enlightenment. There is anger, elation, serenity, puzzlement, and fear. Some have been intellectually stimulated while others harbor worrisome doubts. Some have had their faith in humanity and hope for the future renewed. others are conflicted.

Some have been eager and willing to speak about their adventure while others clutch it to their breasts like a dark secret.

Someday,
we will all understand.

Preface xv

Recap of My Initial Contact xix

The Summit Timetable xxv

A Walk in the Park 1

2 Surprise Visitor 23

3 Reunion 35

4 Serious Business 57

5 The Metaphysical Universe 71

6 Revelations 93

7 The Probe 109

8 The Grilling 118

Epilogue 137

APPENDIX:

Reporter's Notebook 139

It is remarkably strange to be a mainstream journalist who has encountered extraterrestrial creaturesall the more so given that I was recruited to literally speak on behalf of an alien race called the Verdants, to act as their designated reporter regarding their ongoing agenda for contact with Earth that involves an extensive program of interplanetary diplomacy. This book continues my reporting on my latest contacts with the Verdants, and provides an update as of March 2001 on their unfolding plans for imminent contact with the peoples of Earth.

When I first went public with this story in The Contact Has Begun in 1998, many of my friends and most of my former colleagues at the Los Angeles Times begannot surprisinglyto distance themselves from me. Simultaneously, I came into contact with a whole new group of people, researchers into the UFO phenomenon who have remained quite out of the mainstream eye, in my estimation, for much too long. This relatively small communitymany of whom strike me as credible, sincere, and courageousgrapples almost daily with a story of cosmic proportions. As the mainstream press stands by almost oblivious, a historic controversy now rages as to how to interpret the UFO/ET-abduction phenomenon. Arguably the most important issue of the last half century, perhaps of all time, still remains a largely underground phenomenon.

Among those who follow this story, there seems to be three or four schools of thoughtusually at oddson the reasons behind extraterrestrial contact. The first considers ETs to simply be ill intentioned, seeking to intervene in our affairs and our individual lives for their own benefit, without concern for the welfare of Earth or its peoples.

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The second group takes the opposite tack, contending that an organized federation of benign civilizations from other planets is here to share their more advanced technologies and ideas of peaceful living with a world that desperately needs themwhen that world is ready. A third and smaller group adds another layer, pointing to the possibility of an extra-dimensional presence, wise angelic observers who are watching and waiting to see how events unfoldand providing celestial influence as the occasion requires. Finally there are those who give the whole affair a political spin, arguing that it's not the aliens we have to fear, but rogue elements in our own government, acting in concert with "deep black" figures in the military and private industry to manipulate the human population with advanced systems of mind control and manipulationperhaps even deploying ET technologies that have been capturedand motivated by some sinister human agenda.

Naturally, I have been inundated by all sorts of theories, postulations, conjectures and so on regarding what "really" happened in the case of my abduction by the Verdants in 1997. Many of those who have written me, including established UFO researchers, have offered a variety of interpretations for my experience, unwilling to accept at face value the way I have described it. I'll admit that I have not closed my mind completely to some of these alternative explanations. But until someone can convince me otherwise, I must continue to believe what my sensory impressions tell methat my encounters were real and happened in the way I remembered and reported on them in my first book.

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Nevertheless, I have been tireless in trying to retain my objectivity. After all, being a natural skeptic, and a career news reporter and editor, I believe I have an open mind, and I still at times consider the possibility that others are right and I am wrong about the nature of my experience, that perhaps I was duped by unscrupulous ETs or it didn't really happen the way I remember it or that it didn't even happen at all.

Indeed, during those periods when I am alone with my thoughts, when the house is quiet and my mood pensive, when I am nagged by self-doubt, I begin to wonder if even the memories of what I had for lunch the day before can be trusted. Is it possible that memories that we are so sure of, that are so real, that actually help to define who we are, could be counterfeit? Can they be invented or even implanted by an outside source, by aliens with sinister motives or nefarious humansgovernment agents or otherwisewith secret technologies that are unknown to the general population?

To shake me from these spirals of despair, from losing faith in my own perceived reality and beliefs, I need only return to my mailbag of letters and e-mail or to recall the many conversations I've had with others to remind myself that I am not alone.

I am not alone. There is so much comfort in that thought. Many readers have thanked me for telling my story, for in doing so I have given confirmation to their own personal experiences, have helped excise self-doubts about their own states of mind, and have reassured them that there are others like themmany others.

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Indeed, there hardly remains any middle ground: Either these hundreds and even thousands of contacts and sightings are really happening, or the world is witnessing an outbreak of delusions on a pandemic scale, making it one of the biggest, virtually unreported sociological and medical stories of the millennium. Frankly, I find that scenario even more fantastic to contemplate than the fact that we may not be the only inhabited planet in the universe. And while I am still trying to come to terms with my own experience, I do believe that the ET/abduction phenomenon is real, and further, I find it deplorable that so few outside the community of those directly affected are taking it seriously.