Here are some questions and answers that I did for Svetlana  who is a free-lance writer living in  Russia.  She is a frequent contributor for a UFO magazine .  We could not communicate by phone so I sent her our book via 3-mail, condensed, and she wrote the questions and I wrote the answers back to her:

1.  “Did your two friends (named Lois and Don) bother to have a look at the   clock when they arrived home that night of November 16^th, 1996?”

-          No, Lois and Don just felt it was “late”.  Probably a reaction to oversleeping the next morning and having the crew awaken them at 5:30 a.m.  Don always got up at four thirty a.m., that’s why he usually went to bed at 9:30 p.m. each night.  I did not have to work on Saturday so I have no exact time remembered that I awoke the next morning, probably around 9:00 a.m. which would have been sleeping in, for me.

2.  Why is the Big Guy so often associated with a lizard?  Except his skin, was there anything else in his appearance that could have caused such associations?

-          I was not aware I alluded to the Big Guy as “lizard” in appearance.  Actually he looked like a typical gray.  His skin had, from a distance, a rough alligator or lizard outward look to it but it was literally very soft like velour or dog pads.  Perhaps “worked leather” is a better phrase like an old comfortable leather coat feel.  That’s probably a better description of his skin.  I never felt the small grays, only the Big Guy’s face.

3. How can you distinguish “your” grays, if they all look alike?  You mention that in your childhood, aliens let you play ball with alien kids.  And there were several human kids too.  Did you ever see any hybrid children?  If not, what for would the grays collect the sperm samples?

-          I asked that same question of myself!  How did I know those two adult grays were the same kids I played with at five, seven and twelve years of age?  They do all look alike at a quick glance.  It is similar, I suppose, to thinking that all Eskimos look alike until you get to know one well.  Then, that particular Eskimo looks different from the rest.  There must be subtle facial differences.  If I sound like I am unsure, I am.  How do I know they were all male?  I don’t know – I just do know that they were male.

-          I don’t know if I was sophisticated enough to know a hybrid from a human person.  I would imagine that if a child looked “acceptable” to me as a five year old child, I would deem that child a human.  I know that the word “alien” was not in my vocabulary at five years of age.  I would have just thought of the alien kids as “very different” from other kids.  Actually, you just triggered a memory from my childhood.  We had a boy in my catholic school who joined all of us in the 3^rd grade.  (We had 52 kids in our class       and one nun taught all the subjects.)  The boy was named Zach.  Zach was an albino.  White skin, pink squinty eyes and snow white hair.  Our teacher spent an hour explaining Zach’s ‘condition’ in hopes of avoiding some or all of us making fun of Zach.  As odd as Zach looked, I kept thinking that he had a very familiar look to him.  Familiar to me or – alien?  I didn’t think he looked weird like the other kids did.  We became very good friends.

-          Did the grays even have hybrid children in 1946?  I don’t know.  My sperm samples started at age twelve, which was in 1953.

DISCREPANCIES:

4.  You write:  “My childhood period was from 1941 through 1957…Nadine was not born at the time.”  However, the two of you are the same age, right?  And you not only wrote to me in one of your messages but also you mentioned it in the book itself:  “Peggy and I are both fifty-five years of age that year.  Our birthdays, Peggy and mine, are just one week apart.”  How is that?

Nadine is not our age.  Nadine is much younger.  Peggy, (my wife) and I met in 1992.  I was previously married for twenty years until my wife died of complications of Diabetes.  Peggy’s birthday is May 22, 1941 and my birth date is May 15, 1941.  We are the same year, one week apart.  Peggy had three grown daughters when I met her.  One daughter only, Carmen, has three girls of her own now ages five, ten and twelve.

These are all step-daughters and step-grandchildren to me.  I have no children of my own.  I don’t think of them in those terms so I did not use that exacting terminology in the book.

5.  You state you had been abducted many times but the 1996 time was the first for Peggy, why her and why more abductions?  She is past childbearing years, correct?

-          Even Peggy has raised the question of why.  If that first abduction of hers was simply opportunity, why three times more?  Also, those abductions happened while I was home and I was not abducted at the same time.  No, Peggy has not been able to conceive for many years, long before I met her. 

6.About the time of your arrival home.  You mention that you saw 2:01 on the clock and Peggy keeps saying it was 4:01.  Was the inconsistency ever explained?

  -          Peggy still sees 4:01 a.m. on the clock and I see 2:01 a.m.  We have never reconciled those two times.  We have not even tried to explore the reasons for the differences.

7. In one piece you mention that from the age 16 you already voluntarily undressed and folded your clothes aboard the ship, without the help of aliens.  Why then on the 15 of November 1996 you were coming back to your car with your clothes so strangely out of order?  Weren’t you supposed to have been undressed and then dressed all by yourself?

-          That’s a good question.  I truly have no idea why they either “helped” or dressed me.  I only know, like most humans, I never put my clothes on incorrectly.

8. You claim it was a one-way communication with aliens, yet you still mention questions and answer conversations.  Isn’t that a contradiction?

-          Perhaps I should have been more specific.  Most communication was in picture or thought form.  Some words and phrases do not have picture equivalents for the mind.  For example:  “Do not be afraid, we will not hurt you.”  Those were words told to me, not pictures.  The word “tala” was told to me, as well.  No picture.  Further when I say “I asked” or “I said”, nothing was verbal.  Only the question-thoughts formed in my head and the grays knew and read the thoughts.  I verbalized no words, out loud, at any time that I know of.  I do think I mentioned this in the book.  The worker grays and the Big Guy all recognized my thoughts as soon as my mind formed them.

THOUGHTS AND OBSERVATIONS:

9.  I am sure some skeptics and professional critics will pour an avalanche of criticism upon your book.  Just as one example using hypnotherapy regression.  Are you ready for that?

-          Hey!  No critic could ever be as tough as all the newspapers reports back in 1996.  Every single paper found a rebuttal witness who claimed to be an ‘expert’ in the field, to refute the sighting.  It seemed to me as if those reporters had a moral duty to prove it could not have happened.  A very similar scenario exists with the famous “Phoenix Lights” which thousands of people saw, dozens videotaped and yet, the discrediting effort continues, from March of 1997 to the present day.  Nine years of denial and silly pseudo-explanations.  (i.e. flares dropped from planes in a row.)

10.  You watched the tapes while writing the book, does this not “contaminate” the evidence?

-          Yes, we both watched “some” of the videos.  I watched all of them in order to transcribe it to a book.  There are two reasons for this:

1. I don’t consciously remember even half of what is written in the book.  Peggy can’t even consciously remember ten percent of what is in the book!  By the time we had driven home from each hypnotic session, we lost almost all frontal memory of what had just transpired.  The alien instruction to “forget” is more powerful than any drug or inducement I have ever known.

2. I first wrote all this as a record of what happened.  I knew so little, at the time, about alien abduction I had no knowledge of “tainted testimony”.  Peggy’s recollections under hypnosis were always vague, compared to mine.

Only Peggy’s last three abductions are clear in detail and I know nothing about those in any depth.  I was not a witness.  I was not there after the abduction.

Finally, it took three years, twenty-six agents and eighty-nine publishers who all refused to publish the work before I found two great guys, Paul and Phil at the Invisible College Press who were brave enough to do the deed.  We truly appreciate their fortitude.