A Personal Breakthrough: A Huge Question Answered
Thursday October 16th, 2003
By Whitley Strieber
http://www.unknowncountry.com/journal/

Ever since I realized that something strange had happened to me on December
26, 1985, I have held the question open of what that might have been. In
Communion, I was careful to preserve this question throughout the book, and
I have always stayed loyal to this question, no matter how much pressure I
have been under to resolve it in one way or another.

However, I have also always believed that it is essential not to cling to
questions after they have been answered, and this one has been answered. I
know what happened to me on that night, and I know, if not who did it, then
certainly who did not. I also know that the United States government is
actively engaged in a process of debunking the truth about the situation,
and the �why� of that.

It has taken me nearly twenty years to reach these conclusions. Oddly, the
change in my position has not been a slow process but a relatively quick
one. Let me tell you how it came about.

In 1989, I was in anguish. I knew that something truly extraordinary was
happening to me, and also that our degenerate culture was laughing it off
with rectal probe jokes. I am a very private man, and on a personal, sexual
level very conservative, and I found this not only humiliating but
depressing. It was depressing to see that the amazingly rich and complex
experience that I was having was being rejected. But I also knew that there
was no historical record of anything similar. I had made a very special sort
of a breakthrough that could have been a rich source of new scientific
knowledge, but it was being treated as a joke.

In those days, radio and television shows, eager to be as cruel to me as
possible for the entertainment of their audiences, used to try to obtain
copies of my second hypnosis tape. They wanted to get a laugh out of a man
describing how he had felt while being raped.

I would sometimes send them copies, if they were especially vicious in their
threats of how they would treat me on the air if I didn�t, but I would
remove from the copies everything about the �rectal probe.�

Then I stopped altogether even taking calls from the media. I confined my
media appearances to book tours only. But then, as I was publishing
Confirmation, Parade Magazine suddenly published a false article stating
that I had admitted that I had temporal lobe epilepsy and had become a
celebrity supporter of the Epilepsy Foundation.

This was completely false, literally made up out of whole cloth, and I was
able to force Parade to print a retraction as prominent as the original
article. The editor confidentially told me that the source of the story had
been Parade�s publisher. I soon discovered that he was a prominent U.S. Air
Force personality, a general in the reserves, and an Air Force loyalist.

I have always believed that this story was concocted as part of a debunking
effort being carried out by the Air Force. Also as part of this effort, the
U.S. intimidated agents, film studios and television outlets into not doing
anything with Communion, even though it was a tremendous bestseller and
would obviously make a highly successful movie. As a result, no studio would
touch the book, and the film was made independently on a tiny budget and was
hardly distributed at all.

Finally, I quit writing about my experiences so that I wouldn�t have to go
on book tours. Art Bell took me in like a orphan in a storm, giving me a
frequent voice as a guest on Coast-to- Coast AM, and eventually giving me
Dreamland. So I still had an ability to tell people what I was doing, but
without exposing myself to the humiliation, willful ignorance and rabid
lying of the general media.

Long before the publication of Confirmation, I had become unable to listen
to the second hypnosis tape. In fact, I lost it. All I had were a couple of
copies of the edited version. The last time I listened to the whole tape was
in late 1986, to transcribe it for Communion. I all but sweated blood during
that process.

Until about two weeks ago, I thought that the tape was gone forever. Then I
had the experience that I described in my last journal entry, �The Capture
House.� The tape reappeared. It showed up in the drawer of my bedside table.
I am too careful to claim outright that it hadn�t been there all along,
because I cannot prove that, but frankly, I have looked in that drawer
hundreds of times in the years it has been beside my bed, and I never saw
the tape.

A few days after I found the tape, I received an e-mail from a reader of
this website that proved to be of tremendous, even epochal, importance in my
life. The reader theorized that I had been the victim of something called
electroejaculation. This involves the insertion of a probe into the rectum,
and the application of an electrical current that stimulates muscles to
erect the penis and cause an ejaculation. It is used in animal husbandry and
in sex clinics.

I had never heard of such a thing, but a little research quickly revealed
that the machines exist and have been around for years. In listening to the
tape again, it became obvious that I was describing being electroejaculated.
First, I describe the insertion of the probe into my body. A moment later, I
express surprise that I have suddenly gotten an erection, then react as I am
aware of my ejaculation. I remember one of the creatures who were doing this
to me running off with it in a little container.

The innocent confusion on that tape is eloquent. I was being subjected, back
in December of 1986, to a clinical procedure that I did not even known
existed until October of 2003. My description of what was happening to me is
an exact description of the procedure.

To me, this has closed the door on any possibility that what happened to me
that night was in any way imaginary or illusory. It was a real event, and I
do not believe that it was done by people in disguise, but by nonhuman
creatures of unknown origin. The reason that I am so firm about this second
part is that I believe not only my own eyes, but the testimony of hundreds
of thousands of people, and most especially, the recent British Columbia
abduction case of �Cynthia,� which is the best documented case of this kind
in history.

Cynthia was not alone when she entered the initial phase of the encounter.
She was with another witness who shared her perceptions and her experience,
exactly as people do in normal life. Not only that, both women suffered
physical after- effects, and the other witness experienced a mysterious burn
above her coccyx that was severe enough to require medical attention. In
addition, researcher Brian Vike has identified witnesses who observed
unusual lights in the sky in the area where Cynthia and the other witness
were having their encounter, at the time that it was taking place.

Even if I did not have thousands of other abduction cases to point to, I
would have to be very thick-headed indeed to continue to entertain the idea
that there was anything imaginary or false about this. It is real
experience. It involves abduction by creatures that do not walk the streets
here on earth, and it is concerned with the taking of tissue and/or sexual
material from the victims.

Not only that, the United States government is engaged in a ferocious
coverup of this activity. I say ferocious because I believe that a lot of
the debunking that goes on is carefully designed by professional
sociologists. What was done to me in Parade Magazine showed sophistication
and skill, and did immense damage to me. If I could ever obtain proof, I
would certainly sue the United States, although I have no doubt that they
would claim that it had been done legally, in the name of national security.

And they would be quite right to make this claim. The Air Force doesn�t have
a vendetta against me. It is evidently charged with controlling public
acceptance of the UFO phenomenon, and is simply carrying out orders.

But why? Why not warn us that somebody might enter our bedrooms in the night
and steal our most precious contents from us? Why not attempt to protect us
instead of seek to make it easier for them to do this?

The conclusion is inescapable that the government is making sure that the
public remains passive and thus vulnerable. The U.S. government is
proactively assisting the creatures that are attacking us. If there was
general public knowledge, people would take steps to protect themselves.
Ways and means could and would be found. If this was not true, if we were
indeed helpless, then there would be no reason for the secrecy. The
creatures would simply come and do their will in an open and obvious way and
that would be that.

Government secrecy is a weapon. It is being used against us. When the Air
Force debunks and lies about UFOs and close encounters, it is attacking the
American people with a powerful and brutal weapon. When the CIA lies and
says it knows nothing about this, it is striking a blow against the country
it is supposed to serve.

They aren�t doing this out of hatred of the American people or the people of
the world. They are doing it out of fear that, if they don�t do it, we will
suffer even worse consequences.

What might they be? What danger would be great enough to turn a government
against its own people�indeed, its own species and its world? My uncle, Col.
E. M. Strieber, told me that he was aware of the arrival of materials from
the Roswell crash at Wright Field in the summer of 1947. He also told me
that he�d understood that the secrecy initially came from concern that they
might represent a new type of Soviet craft, but later that there was a
threat, if the secret of the presence of these intruders was not kept, to
destroy the earth in an instant.

General Arthur Exon, who was for many years my uncle�s commanding officer,
told me that he had been a member for the Air Force of a committee that
studied this situation for many years, and indeed, as late as 1988, was
still attending meetings at Wright-Patterson. He said that his belief was
that the secrecy was for a more positive reason, which was that we would be
culturally destroyed if we were exposed to much higher visitor knowledge,
much as primitive civilizations have been destroyed on earth when exposed to
scientifically advanced cultures.

As I have written in these columns before, I also believe that there is
another possible reason for the secrecy, which is that official admission of
the reality of the visitors might be a sort of trigger that enables them to
come swarming into our world�to actually make our world part of theirs.

Certainly, in dealing with an unknown as toxic as this one is on so many
different levels, any government would be extremely cautious. If it found
that it had to give up a little of the dignity of a few of its people, and
perhaps a few lives, in return for not causing the collapse of civilization
or worse, the total destruction of the planet, then there is no question
that it would decide to sacrifice the lives.

Unfortunately, I cannot tell you where the truth about these various dangers
lies. I can only tell you this: the visitors are entirely real and they are
here taking sexual material and tissues from human beings. I am sorry that
it has taken me so many years to feel that I can make this statement
unequivocally, but I am not given to asserting things that I don�t think I
can back up. I can back this up. The evidence is sufficient.

In addition, the U.S. government is actively covering up the activities of
whoever is doing this, denying that they exist and seeking to destroy the
reputations and credibility of anybody who makes an efficient effort to
convince the public otherwise. I think that the operation that was carried
out against me in the pages of Parade magazine is sufficient evidence of
this. But that is really such a small part of the overall picture, it hardly
even qualifies as an iceberg tip. The evidence of coverup and official lying
is literally vast. It has been addressed elsewhere by many others, and,
except insofar as it concerns my own personal experience of it, is not the
subject of this journal entry.

So, what is to be done? Should people continue to press for official
disclosure, even suspecting that the consequences could be extremely dire?

This is a powerful and important question, but it is one that I am not yet
prepared to answer. I do not have enough evidence, but I do have some
building ideas that I intend to work on. Chief among them is a need, that
strikes me as quite urgent, to understand what the motives of our visitors
might be. Why are they taking this material from us?

If we make that our next key question, then I think that we will also,
inevitably, gain knowledge of whether or not the coverup is a valid means of
protecting mankind, or another lie in a tissue of lies that is designed not
to protect us, but to make us vulnerable to somebody who needs us a good
deal more than we need them.

Subscribers to Unknowncountry.com can listen to my second hypnosis session
in the subscriber section of this website. It can also be stolen from there
and spread widely, and passwords to this section can be given away, as is
being done, in order to reduce our income from the website and thus our
ability to keep it going.

But, if you do this, please reflect on the importance of what you are doing.
You are helping the visitors and the government to accomplish a task they
must very much want to accomplish, which is to see my voice silenced. Do you
really want to help the rapists of mankind?

In my next journal entry, I will get into the question of why they don�t
simply kill people like me and Budd Hopkins and the others who are
presenting credible and believable evidence to the public. We are oppressed
by the masters of the lie and their minions, no doubt of it, but there is
good out there, too, as we shall see, and it comes from a very surprising
direction.