I initially met Whitley at a UFO gathering in Manhattan in the 1980s - meeting off and on through the decades at similar events. Whitley's upstate alien experiences remind me that my family and I spent summers in the Catskill mountains when I was young - returning years later with my husband and children - then with fellow UFO investigators and friends in Pine Bush (the Hudson Valley) as it was a hotbed of UFO sightings.

Like Whitley I was Taken, but only once and didn't have the traumatic experiences he shares in his book. There's something about our alien connections and the fact that we're the same age - both born during WWII - which officially ended September 2, 1945 months before the July 1947 Roswell UFO crash.

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Last night I had another off-world dream featuring my friend George (pic above) - which always triggers memories of who we are ... elsewhere. We were at an event that reminded me of the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas where the latest in technology was being shown. I felt like a child in a toy store, wanting to try everything as we walked around, seemingly familiar with what we saw, though futuristic as we experience reality here. George and I have seen each other through the 'extraterrestrial lens' as remote viewers and in shared dreams. I had the sense of other entities around us, but didn't bring back visuals of who they were.