Carla Rueckert - Secrets of the UFO

Secrets Of The UFO

Don Elkins and Carla L. Rueckert

Secrets Of The UFO

First Printing, May , 1977
Second Printing, November , 1977
Third Printing, October , 1978
Fourth Printing, March , 1983
Fifth Printing, September , 1983
Sixth Printing, April , 1985
Seventh Printing, January , 1987
Eighth Printing, July , 1988
Ninth Printing, October , 1990

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On the cover of t hi s reissue of Secrets of the UFO is the original illustration that appeared on the first edition. The drawing was commissioned for Don Elkins by Gray Barker, who asked an artist to create his interpretation of the tall, hour-glass shaped structure described by a contactee in Chapter Eight, pag e .

Dedicated to Hal and Jo Price

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Sir Francis Bacon

Acknowledgements

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following publishers for permission to reprint excerpts from the following copyrighted works:

Helios Publications and Dr. Francis I. Regardie, for permission to use excerpted material from THE ART AND MEANING OF MAGIC, .

Thorsons Publishers Ltd. for permission to use excerpted material from THE MAGICIAN: HIS TRAINING AND WORK, .

Doubleday & Co., for permission to use excerpted material from THE COSMIC CONNECTION, by Carl Sagan and Jerome Agel, .

Doubleday & Co. for permission to use excerpted material from THE ROMEO ERROR by LyallWatson, .

Harvest House Publishers, for permission to use information taken from UFOS: WHAT ON EARTH IS HAPPENING, .

Indiana University Press for permission to use material excerpted from THE UFO CONTROVERSY IN AMERICA, by David M. Jacobs, .

Mark-Age MetaCenterfor permission to use material excerpted from VISITORS FROM OTHER PLANETS, by Nada-Yolanda, .

Ministry of Universal Wisdom, for permission to use material excerpted from THE COUNCIL OF SEVEN LIGHTS, by George Van Tassel, .

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Mr. Walter Rogers, Jr. for permission to use material excerpted from his unpublished material sometimes called The Brown Notebook, copyrighted as of this date.

Mr. Dewey B. Larson, for permission to use material excerpted from QUASARS AND PULSARS, published by North Pacific Publishers, .

Prof. J. H. Bruening, for permission to use his letter published in Gray Barkers Newsletter, Feb. , , .

Carla Rueckert, for permission to use material excerpted from VOICES OF THE GODS, unpublished manuscript, .

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Table of Contents

Proem

A ufologist is a detective who is exploring the single largest mystery of our time. As he wends his way through the elaborate maze of red herrings, misinformation, cover-ups, fanatics, skeptics, true believers and nonbelievers, he may well find that his most valuable ally in his search is a good sense of humor. Or, as Groucho Marx said, Either hes dead or my watch has stopped!

Don Elkins
Carla L. Rueckert

Louisville , 1976

Chapter One

A Very Strange Phenomenon

The information in this book is either nonsense or it is the most centrally important thing that you could possibly learn. It is allegedly the answer to the strange riddle of the UFOs. The information contained herein is not speculation or theory, but a condensation and edited arrangement of received communications from the UFOs. The obvious weakness of this contacteeinformation is that evidential proof of its validity is not obtainable. Its strength lies in its sheer bulk and in the similarity of messages produced by sources widely scattered around the world. The las t years have produced millions of words of these communications allegedly originating within the UFOs.

Approximatel y million people in the U.S. have reported seeing UFOs, more tha n contact cases have been reported, and abou t landings have left trace evidence.[ ] There is no longer any real doubt that UFOs exist. The question is: who are they? And why are they here? It is quite possible that understanding them is the most important endeavor which we can undertake.

There are thousands of people around the world who are quite certain that they know at least some of the answers to the riddles of these elusive manifestations.

How did these people acquire the needed information? Their answerone which many find hard to believeis that they have been in contact with the occupants of the UFOs. There has been a widespread and growing pattern of people who claim contact with UFOs since the early s. At this point, the claims are so widespread that they constitute a pseudo-secret subculture, a sort of underground group, all over earth. I say pseudo-secret because even though many of these contactees tell their stories, the information is of a type that our culture does not easily accept. The insiders in this underground all seem to be getting approximately the same information, and they can be found in many places both in the United States and all over the world.

They are not all wide-eyed cultists, three steps in front of the men in white coats, nor are they little old ladies fresh from the mediums parlor. Primarily, contactees are normal people of average intelligence and background. Each year produces more of them. Few of these people receive or desire publicity.