Submitted by: Doug Bower
The story I have to tell you is strange.
First of all let me say that I wholeheartedly understand and agree that there is a factor that must be considered when evaluating experiences. In some cases, maybe even a lot of cases, you have to consider the possibility of falsehoods and mental illness with all that lies between those two possibilities when someone reports experiences of the super-normal. I fully accept that scrutiny for myself and expect to be challenged when I present my story about my involvement in the alien abduction-UFO issue.
I wrote a book. That is something that should be considered when someone asks me to recount my experiences. "Is he just trying to sell books with lies and hype?" I get that. I accept that. That is a proper use of the ad hominem. Does he have a bias? I do since I have a book I want to sell. However, I am predominately a travel writer and wrote the book of my UFO connection at the behest of my wife and friends. And, currently I have not published it but do have it on LuLu.com as a galley copy.
What is so strange that as I wrote the book, I began putting together pieces of my life that I simply never considered before researching for this book. There was so much I did not know about alien abductions and the U.S. government 's probable involvement. The material I read for the book's research was so staggering to me that I began thinking more and more about my father's involvement in Area 51 and what we experienced as individuals and as a family with this phenomenon.
So, I wrote the book and am waiting the final editing before submitting to a publishing house. When I finished the manuscript and posted it on LuLu.com as a galley, something I do with all my books to garner reviews and comments, things began to happen. Around the last week and a half of January 2008, at the dinner table, my wife dropped a bomb: She had some sort of encounter in our bedroom with two alien "things".
What she described was not only incredible from the perspective of what she saw could have actually happened—aliens in our bedroom—but also that she would experience this. She is not a Sci-Fi fan, she had never read material on the Alien-UFO phenomenon, and the only info she knew is the short stories I shared with her from my research. She had not even read my manuscript. She is not given to fantasy and was in college a science major. We are the extreme of one another in that regard. I admit my bias for all things Sci-Fi while she ignores that genre.
If you are interested I can have her write her experience and send it to you. I do not want to paraphrase it since I could not do it justice. What she described is a grey alien, shorter than what most abductees tell in their accounts, and a much taller alien being to which the smaller one seemed to respond to as a leader. The taller one was like a regular man, according to my wife, only wearing a hood and some sort of robe like a monk would wear.
My wife said she was not frightened. She claimed to be wide awake and was suffering from insomnia. She didn't want to move to wake me since she thought it could elicit some sort of response from the aliens (and I am assuming the were aliens and real). She said she kept trying to send them "mental messages" since that is what she recalled from my telling her accounts from abductees that they could possibly be telepathic. She said once she felt she could move and turn to wake me, they disappeared into some sort of smoggy, foggy, swirling vortex cloud.
I told you this would be strange!
I was floored by her account and that she was not frightened.
I checked her over for any sign of surgical marks, "scoop marks", etc… and found nothing. She seems ok with it, she has not dwelled or obsessed about it, and I do not know what to make of this.
A few days later I was awakened by a small, high pitched, screechy sound. It was not loud but woke me. When I opened my eyes, I saw the section of our bedroom, where we sleep, engulfed in a pale, almost pastel blue light. It was totally engulfing the room. It was as though we were grapes in a Jello mold. It had a wall of this light that sectioned off the rest of the bedroom where we have our dresser and computer. It was distinct and separated one half of the room from the part we were in. I immediately thought of my wife and turned around to grab her since I thought she could have been taken. But, my hand caught her shoulder which immediately reassured me. I could not wake her. The blue light was "sucked out" through the ceiling and reminded me of a toilet being flushed. It spun in a vortex and that's all I can say. It made no sound.
I told you this was very, very strange.
I decided to share this with a medically-retired attorney here in Guanajuato. She is Colleen Cote and is an American expatriate. She and her lawyer husband live very near to us. I shared with them I was writing the book and thought they would be interested in hearing about our contact experience. What heightened the my emotions, sending me way past "floored" and "overwhelmed", was that during the approximate time of our possible "alien visitations", she and her Mexican handyman saw a UFO over the mountain that sits in back of where she lived. She reported it hung in the sky, hovering, for the longest while. I cannot recall how long she said so I don't want to venture a guess.
I have found, during that same approximate time, the sightings of UFO's during that week and a half and when Colleen said she saw it. I will include the websites at the end of this email where you can see there was UFO "activity" during the time Colleen and her handyman had their sighting and when we had our "visitations".
I did not know of the sightings during the last week and a half of Jan 2008 and found out about them after the visitation in our home.
Another bias that should be considered is that I have had a psychiatric diagnosis of mild to moderate depression for which I take a sub-clinical dose of Prozac daily. My wife, on the other hand, has no psychiatric illnesses or diagnosis.
If you are interested I can send you the last chapter of my manuscript in which I give the account of my experiences. I can send it as a file. The bombshell in that chapter that I share is that in 2000 I had an MRI for a tingling sensation on the left side of my brain. Two, count them, two small white objects, smaller than a pea, maybe the size of bee-bee's, were in the MRI of my brain. The neurologist said she did not know what those where. I never had a follow-up MRI or X-ray.
Let me know what you think if you have the time,
Doug Bower
Guanajuato, Gto.
Mexico
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