Whitley Strieber - 19 Sept

CONFIRMATION

By Whitley Strieber

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Meet the Author

Whitley Strieber is the author of The Wolfen , The Hunger , Communion , Majestic and many others. Most recently, he has published Solving the Communion Enigma and the Alien Hunter series. His weekly radio program Dreamland appears on Unknowncountry.com .

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Dedication

In memory of Dr. Paul Hill the author of Unconventional Flying Objects, a thirty-year veteran of NASA and a true hero of our age.

This book is dedicated to the children of the close encounter experience. Our generation will find the answers, but it is theirs that will gain the heavens.

I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

3 JOHN 4

Contents

Acknowledgments

I would like to acknowledge the work of my wife, Anne Strieber, without whose brilliant, patient, and insightful support, Confirmation could never have been written.

Monsignor Corrado Balducci, Tim Edwards, Britt and Lee Elders, Karen and Jose Escamilla, Michael Hesemann, Alice Leavy, Dr. Roger Leir, Jesse and John Long, William Mallow, Jaime Maussan, Daniel Munoz, and Richard Strieber all gave generously of their time on behalf of the book.

I would also like to thank Dr. Mark Carlotto, Kim Carlsberg, Colonel Philip Corso, Jim Dilettoso, Dr. Jack Kasher, Tom King, Derrel Sims, Yvonne Smith, and John Bro Wilkie. Their contributions to the understanding of the UFO and close encounter experiences were of enormous help to me.

In addition, I would like to thank the witnesses who contributed their stories to this book, as well as the many unnamed scientists, military and medical personnel who gave generously of their time and expertise.

Any errors in this book are my own.

Introduction

Something Truly New

U FOs are nonsense and alien abduction is a fantasyso says science and so says the press. But science also keeps the door open, as it has for the past fifty years, waiting for some sort of evidence that would make the subject worthy of study.

Such evidence has been found and will be discussed in detail in this book.

In an interview with Nova in 1996, the late Dr. Carl Sagan said that for the UFO phenomenon to be taken seriously, you need physical evidence that can be examined at leisure by skeptical scientists: a scraping of the hull of the ship, and the discovery that it contains isotopic ratios that arent present on earth, chemical elements which form the so-called island of stability, very heavy elements that dont exist on earth, or material of absolutely bizarre properties of many sortselectrical conductivity or ductility. There are many things like that that would instantly give serious credence to an account.

The new evidence deserves just that sort of approach. From the beginning, the scientific community has, very appropriately, supported a policy of isolating the UFO phenomenon and everything connected with it from the mainstream of its efforts because there just wasnt any way to support the incredibly improbable idea that there could be anybody here except us. So the whole phenomenon has been explained as a combination of hallucinations, confused misperceptions of ordinary events, and outright fraud. In any case, what possible tools of science could be used to extract hard evidence from a collection of wild stories?

The evidence exists, and so do the tools. An organized effort can be made in three different major areas that will reap a scientific harvest substantial enough to offer us, no matter its origins, a rich return of new knowledge. Moreover, this effort may well answer the key questions once and for all: Is somebody here? If so, what are they doing?

In my ten years of experience as a publicly identified close encounter witness, I have met dozens of scientists, political leaders, reportersall sorts of people who might be concerned with a matter like thisand, with a few exceptions, I have found them open-minded and fascinated but unwilling to change their position of denial until substantial amounts of physical evidence became available. I have agreed completely with this posture, because science should not spend time and money tilting at windmills, and the public should not be seduced by misplaced scientific and official interest into believing that aliens are here if that isnt true.

But many scientists are becoming aware of what is happening, and even as I write this, there is a new level of interest building. On October 10, 1997, a panel of nine scientists released a statement that some UFO evidence may be worthy of scientific investigation. Before coming to this conclusion, they reviewed evidence provided them by UFO investigators and promised a report in a few months that makes recommendations for further research.

Among the scientists involved were panelists from France, Germany, and the United States. France was represented by Jean-Jacques Velasco, who heads the ongoing official investigation of UFO reports being conducted by CNES, the French space agency. Also attending were Thomas Holzer of the High Altitude Observatory, Peter Sturrock of Stanford University, Randy Jokipii and Jay Melosh of the University of Arizona, James Papike of the University of New Mexico, Guenther Reitz from Germany, and Francois Louange and Bernard Veyret also from France. These scientists were not asserting any particular belief about UFOs but only seeking to play a more active role in helping to unravel this fifty year old mystery.

In addition to scientific support, the religious community is beginning to respond to the growing evidence. I am grateful that Monsignor Corrado Balducci of the Vatican has allowed an interview with him to be added as an appendix to this book in which he states his opinion that the growing body of witness testimony should not be ignored, and that superstitions about our visitors being demons should be abandoned along with official denial of the reality of the phenomenon. Among other things, Monsignor Balducci is an expert on demonology.