"The Keys"

 Article by Meiron Hughes.

"Amongst the plethora of UFO sighting and alien abduction stories, and of Grey Aliens, Hammerhead Aliens, Reptilians etc., there is one very common experience of contact that for years has been going largely unnoticed by the burgeoning UFO investigation and publishing industry. The vast majority of these contactees do not report or publicize their experience; the contacts are with beings who appear to look just like us; and thousands of these contacts could be taking place globally and unnoticed each year in mundane, public and seemingly ridiculous openness.  There is an indication that these aliens are perhaps living and working towards their own agenda, right in amongst us.

     So why are these thousands of contacts unreported? And how can we know that these "human-types"(sometimes referred to as "talls" or "nordics") are actually extraterrestrial?

     The answers are complex. Firstly, despite a profound effect that the experience has on the contactee, it appears to be a very personal, private and almost sacrosanct experience that the contactee feels instinctively should not be divulged. Secondly, the experiences generally occur in mundane and public locations such as hotel lobbies, airports, bus and rail stations and sometimes out in secluded country areas.

     There are common, identifiable denominators to these human / human-alien contacts: 1) The contact appears to be initiated somehow by the contactees themselves. 2) There is a telepathic element used by the alien to help the contactee confirm that it is an extraordinary event. 3) The physical appearance of these "visitors" at close quarters reveals that they are in fact very different to us in a number of subtle ways. 4) The experience has a profound and often "life changing" influence on the contactee - they have had confirmation that something which could not possibly be real is in fact true.

     The key elements, sometimes referred to as "the keys" by these contactees, are within those denominators, and are generally kept secret by the contactee.

     This "secrecy" obviously means it is difficult for any investigator to report this type of experience with any sense of meaning to a wider world. One of the causes of this attitude is that compared with the mass of dramatic contact and abduction stories circulating on the web and published en-mass in the UFO books, the contact incidents seem somehow mundane and even trivial. The contactee feels that although he or she has experienced a truly remarkable event - contact with an extraterrestrial life-form that looks just like us, and who are moving largely unnoticed amongst us - the experience will have no value to anyone else because the only way to prove it is to have experienced it. They decide that there is little point reporting the contact as nobody else will ever believe it. There is, however, a growing tendency by some of these contactees to give out clues and hints of these experiences that they know will only be recognized by others who have shared similar events.

     UFO investigators sometimes offer these clues in their books, and also, as in the case of Timothy Good, perhaps gives us an insight into why Tim Good, who was a leading musician with a Symphony Orchestra, suddenly abandoned that career to become a UFO investigator. In 1967 Good was in New York for a series of concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra. He already had an interest in the UFO phenomenon and had spoken to many witnesses during his travels around the world. A rare percentage of these witnesses had given him accounts of contact by human types in mundane surroundings, and the telepathic nature of the way in which the contact was "invited". A skeptical Tim Good decided to try an experiment during a moment of boredom while he was waiting in the lobby of the Park Sheraton Hotel. He describes "sending out a telepathic request" and how contact was made within minutes. He gives very few details and sums it up thus: "As far as I am concerned the experiment was a success. It is not the sort of experiment that would meet the approval of radio astronomers. I believe that it was intended as personal proof and encouragement for me, and, as such, was of no value to others." Good carefully avoids describing his contact and in his books gives an occasional clue about "protecting the keys". These two elements - the mundane almost casual account of the contact; the separate and seemingly unconnected references elsewhere to "protecting the keys" - are recognition signals for others who have had identical experiences.

     There was also a NASA scientist who made the mistake of revealing his experience to his employers. He was forced to flee the United States with his family and assumed a new identity in Europe. He was interviewed by BBC Radio in 1991 in a programme about which the interviewer and journalists at the BBC made evident during and after the interview that they considered this Scientist's story as reliable, remarkable and "earth shattering". They were perhaps disappointed that the interview never made it to the mainstream news and was only broadcast in the early hours of the morning.

     Then there is the case of author Mike Bloom, who had one of these experiences in 1992. He was then a trade union negotiator.  His contact occurred while he was waiting for a train after an important meeting in a British city. It had such a profound effect upon him, leaving him with a deep rooted sense that he "had a task to perform", that his career floundered. There were also follow-up experiences, which he describes as "downloads" of a "telepathic, but apparently "subliminal" nature. He also has a perhaps naive faith that the experiences arising from his contact are beneficial to him.

     The nearest he has come to revealing the details of his contact to a wider audience, is in a fictional book, "The Selected", in which he projects a mix of possible negative and positive consequences for humanity arising from what he knows.

     Just why Bloom chose to place his novels with such an obscure web-based publisher is beyond me, but apparently perfectly logical to him. The Selected, it is reported, has not been submitted to even one mainstream publisher. His publishers guard his real identity carefully and Bloom will only communicate by e-mail (a form of contact that I was able to establish via his publisher). He admits that the main character in The Selected goes through events that occurred in his real life and that he has scattered clues to "the keys" throughout his book. But he refuses to be specific about the keys, stating, "the experience was personal, and would be of no value to anyone else. Spelling out the "keys" might result in them being used by frauds and hoaxters. Others who have met the "other guys" will recognize my account if they read it, and there is a certain amount of carefully worded communication between contactees going on. I always welcome hearing from others and the big question in my mind is: "what, if anything, are we going to do in response to this knowledge?"