Cahill Kelly. - Encounter

Kelly Cahill is a twenty-nine-year-old mother of three who lives in Gippsland in country Victoria.

Since 1994 she has been promoting public awareness of UFO activity. Liaising with the mainstream research community, as well as with numerous first-hand experiencers, she also conducts her own research into the more obscure aspects of UFO phenomena.

She is currently writing a book detailing the personal accounts of other Australians who have had similar, unexplained encounters.

Some names in this book have been changed to protect the identity of those involved.

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Cahill, Kelly.

Encounter.

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1. Cahill, Kelly. 2. Unidentified flying objects - Sightings and encounters.

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WHY selected a reason

HOW designed a way

WHERE decided the place

WHEN chose a time

WHAT saw its substance

then WHO found itself

Dedicated to the seeker of truth within each and every one of us.

During the course of writing Encounter, many individuals stood by me with their support and encouragement. Each one has contributed to making this book become a reality, whether by means of a friendly phonecall or a more arduous task.

In particular, I would like to thank: Geraldine Seymore, Mum, Peter and Vivian Khoury, the PRA research team, Raigan and family, Linda Wright, John and Lisa Auchettl, Les and Denise Borrett, Bill Chalker, Keith Basterfield, Sherry Stumm, Duncan Roads and the staff of Nexus magazine, Eva and family, Matthew Favaloro, Rob Tilley, Mark Kastelein, Mae Young and Jim.

Last of all, but not least, I would especially like to thank all the members of the public who sent such beautiful letters of encouragement.

by John Auchettl,

Phenomena Research Australia

In the early hours of Sunday morning, 8 August 1993, two independent groups of people travelling in two separate cars were confronted with the shattering possibility of a vision that overwhelmed logic and rational thought. So powerful was the vision seen that morning and so outrageous were the truths and possibilities, due to unknown forces or circumstances directly related to the event it was struck from the conscious mind and placed into the less tangible world of the subconscious. Nevertheless, the event was as real as these pages you hold in your hand.

On that morning, Kelly Cahill was with her husband in the car. Due to Kellys vivid recollection of the events that followed, this extraordinary encounter came to our attention for important research on 4 October 1993.

If not for the unusual style, independence and strength of character inherent in Kellys makeup, this event would be lost in the virtual reality realms of the mind, lost in a private but internal battle that many such witnesses face every day. It is a battle that includes constant self-examination or voices that loop over and over inside the mind, endless questions What is wrong with me? Something has happened to me; was it real? Am I losing my mind? Would I lose my job if I told anyone else about it? Who can I tell? Then, like a lightning bolt, comes the sudden and emotional realisation: It really is trueI have had a close encounter.

The majority of such battles are unfortunately lost. This happens when the witness suffers self-doubt, sickness and mental trauma, or when the event is repressed by the witnesss own uncertainty or by the mechanics and circumstances of the encounter. In the end, the images may be locked away, never to be revealed to anyone, filed under restricted and private information. But never does not mean always, and on occasions the events are released to us.

On the night of 16 September 1993, just forty days after her memory was erased, Kellys lightning bolt struck, coming just as suddenly and with all the emotion we expect to find. The book you are about to read is the product of her revelations.

We had suggested to Kelly (as we do to most people who report such encounters to us) that she write a book as a means of therapeutic release. I have found from similar cases that putting the event down on paper eventually helps the contactee in his or her search for understanding. I call it therapeutic purging. Even if nothing else is ever achieved, others may find the truth in Kellys words. In the long run, we are left with a powerful remedy: a problem shared is a problem halved.

I cannot overemphasise the importance of this close encounter. In the original research, Kelly described seeing another stationary car, and its two occupants, behind her own vehicle. This was a very important factor, and therefore the case became a high priority for research.

What happened to the others in this car, and who were they? Our search started with a detailed, thorough investigation and a number of specially worded advertisements in local papers. On 17 November 1993 I received a telephone call. We had struck pay dirt the other car with its two female and one male occupants were now known.

With the realisation that we had not only found three other possible witnesses to support Kellys description but had also established a non-biased and independent link that offered wonderful possibilities, we could now cross reference and correlate the case.

How can you or I accept such data as fact when presented with such anonymous and anecdotal evidence? Granted, in most cases, seeing is believing, and we all want to know the truth. On talking to the witnesses, one soon believes that they did see something! But is that good enough for us? Did they see all that they now report, or is it just prefabricated illusions, created in influenced minds; or hallucination? We really dont know. The evidence is a mixture of physical and verbal data, somewhat disjointed and always elusive. Yet to the UFO researcher it is real and needs our attention.

The first hurdle we face in all such subjects is the question of health. When we have been presented with mental or emotional problems beyond the range of our mandate, we always assign the case to professional medical practitioners. Our research policy is a policy of investigation! There is no substitute for good medical and psychological assistance. When we are satisfied that there is no problem, we are then presented with the witnesss supposition that We are not alone!

Academics from all levels of research and discipline are confident that the universe is full of life. There are, statistically, 1,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the visible universe that are orbited by planets that could support life. The only limiting factors that scientists employ to literally crash the UFO theory are the vast distances in the universe and a lack of a future-technology paradigm to traverse them.