cheap dapoxetine uk In August, 1967, Gray Barker sent John a long letter that he’d received from a college student in Tampa, Fla. The student, Sarita, was puzzled by a former boyfriend, Tom, who had claimed that he was in contact with Nordic aliens from the Pleiades. He called them “Eaureaphythians,” and said that they had an underground base in the Mojave Desert, and had taken him to their planet. Sarita thought that he was making it all up, because he knew she liked science fiction, but wanted to know what a UFO researcher thought of the story. After Barker referred her to John, she also mentioned that another friend of hers claimed an encounter with a bedroom visitant in a checkered shirt. Sarita, by the way, met no aliens or visitants herself.
Here’s Barker’s letter (which, as you can see, seems to be deliberately garbled), a star map from Sarita, and one of John’s letters to her. This last is a good example of the kinds of questions John asked witnesses. She may have been offended by his “very intimate question,” however, since their correspondence seems to have ended there.
Thanks so much for updating more frequently, I absolutely love this site! One of the very few true regrets in my life is that I never met Keel in person.
Comment by Vincent Treewell — June 28, 2016 @ 10:57 pm
I try to update once a week. It was less frequent in the last few months because I moved, and it took a while to set up the new place and get organized. But I’m back on track!
Comment by Doug — June 29, 2016 @ 8:11 am
Doug – Thanks once again for taking the time and effort to share these papers. I’m glad to hear you’re settled in and will be able to share more often again. I look forward to reading more.
Comment by Marshall Cook — June 29, 2016 @ 1:23 pm
Do you have a copy of Sarita’s letter to post?
This is the first I have read of contactees being told when they are going to die. Is there anything else that you have read in John’s material that talks about this?
Thanks for the great website, it is truly the most interesting read out there.
Comment by Solomon — June 30, 2016 @ 9:12 am
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John kept two of Sarita’s letters; I didn’t post them because they were long, and concerned her relationship with Tom more than his experiences. I was mostly interested in the questions John asked. I hadn’t heard of contactees being told when they were going to die; that’s a new one to me.
Comment by Doug — July 2, 2016 @ 10:58 am
I was under the impression that John thought UFOs were not alien space craft but spirtual “elementals” which have been around for centuries. Was this letter written before John developed his elemental, non outer space theory as to the nature of UFOs, aliens, etc? He clearly believes in alien visitation at the time he wrote this letter. It is almost any early Bud Hopkins.
Comment by John Gerard — July 3, 2016 @ 9:57 am
John’s ideas did change over time. In 1967, he was just starting to try to figure it out. Even back then, though, he was not convinced that “alien” necessarily meant “extraterrestrial.”
Comment by Doug — July 3, 2016 @ 10:12 am
Thanks for posting this. This site is quickly becoming my favorite night-time read.
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