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Speaker 2: Preston Dennett began investigating UFOs and the paranormal in nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty six when he discovered that his family, friends, and
Speaker 2: co workers were having dramatic, unexplained encounters. Since then, he's
Speaker 2: interviewed hundreds of witnesses and investigated a wide variety of
Speaker 2: paranormal phenomena. He's a field investigator for the Mutual UFO Network,
Speaker 2: a ghost hunter, a paranormal researcher, and the author of
Speaker 2: I Believe Now It is thirty one books and counting
Speaker 2: more than one hundred articles on UFOs and the paranormal.
Speaker 2: His articles have appeared in numerous magazines including Fate Atlantis,
Speaker 2: Rising Muffon, UFO Journal, Nexus, Paranormal Magazine, UFO Magazine, Mysteries Magazine.
Speaker 2: His writing has been translated into several different languages, and
Speaker 2: he's appeared on numerous radio and television programs. He's a
Speaker 2: frequent guest right here on Coast to Coast and his
Speaker 2: latest is Humanoids and High Strangeness Twenty True UFO Encounters.
Speaker 2: Preston Welcome back once again to Coast to Coast AM.
Speaker 2: How are you.
Speaker 3: I'm doing good. Yeah, thanks for chart.
Speaker 2: How are you very well? Very well. I'm always amazed
Speaker 2: how you're able to come to the four with stories
Speaker 2: that have not been told elsewhere, that that they share
Speaker 2: with you and almost exclusively. Why is that? What is
Speaker 2: it about President Dennett that people want to tell you
Speaker 2: and I don't know, unburdened themselves with these stories.
Speaker 3: Well, I do have a wide network, you know, as
Speaker 3: you said, I've been putting out books for a while.
Speaker 3: I have a website, you know, I appear on a
Speaker 3: lot of podcasts, so my name is out there. But
Speaker 3: I think I've gotten a reputation for being able to
Speaker 3: put off people's stories in an objective and accurate way.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of censoring going on. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of what I would call people putting forth to agenda,
Speaker 3: shoe fitting, cherry picking. I'm not doing that. I won't
Speaker 3: sense their person's story other than to vet it. Perhaps
Speaker 3: each person who I write about in this latest book,
Speaker 3: and they got their chapter, I sent it to them
Speaker 3: to ensure accuracy. So I think that's probably one of
Speaker 3: the reasons. But there's a lot of people out there
Speaker 3: who are having these encounters. It's not hard to find.
Speaker 2: I wanted to ask you about the vetting process because
Speaker 2: there are also I mean, there's no question there are
Speaker 2: people who have some kind of an encounter and experience.
Speaker 2: But there are other people who are, let's face it, fantasists,
Speaker 2: maybe delusional, perhaps some underlying mental health issue, or they
Speaker 2: just want to plane out, you know, spin a yarn.
Speaker 2: How do you vet these people?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you do it to the best of your ability,
Speaker 3: and having been doing this for a while, I think
Speaker 3: I've gotten pretty good at it. I can't obviously ensure
Speaker 3: completely that everyone is telling them the complete truth, but
Speaker 3: you do go through your standard sort of process of this.
Speaker 3: I will first do an interview that's not recorded. I
Speaker 3: will just take down notes and see if this is
Speaker 3: something worth looking into. I will then do a recorded
Speaker 3: interview and follow that up with at least a couple
Speaker 3: of other interviews. I will try to get character references,
Speaker 3: confirm a person's job, or do fact checking on everything
Speaker 3: that they tell me to the extent that I can.
Speaker 3: I always love it when a case has multiple witnesses,
Speaker 3: because I think that adds a level of credibility. And
Speaker 3: when you examine a person's report, you start to get
Speaker 3: a feel for it, because there are certain details that
Speaker 3: might not perhaps be super well known even in the
Speaker 3: UFO community. By that, I mean details about how the
Speaker 3: ets might be dressed, the tools they use, the clothes
Speaker 3: they wear, what the inside of a UFO looks like,
Speaker 3: the sequence of events that take place, and that sort
Speaker 3: of thing. And also you gauge at the person's emotional reaction.
Speaker 3: It's not uncommon for someone to say, you know, please
Speaker 3: don't use my name, or you know, I have no
Speaker 3: history of mental illness, and they qualify their testimony to
Speaker 3: a certain degree saying, you know, I've got a good job,
Speaker 3: I don't do drugs, this sort of thing. But ultimately,
Speaker 3: it's the emotion that they attached to their experience that
Speaker 3: can be a dead giveaway, because when someone starts weeping
Speaker 3: as they tell you something, or becoming very emotional about it,
Speaker 3: that is hard to fake. Not impossible, of course. But
Speaker 3: and many of these cases do have evidence of some kind.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's one case involving actual landing traces, and
Speaker 3: he sent me the photographs. I couldn't visit it. That's
Speaker 3: in Puerto Rico, but yeah, there is evidence.
Speaker 2: Well, tell me about these photographs. Of of a UFO landing.
Speaker 2: What can you describe these photos?
Speaker 3: Yeah, certainly I absolutely asked for them because this is
Speaker 3: what he was talking about. He had a ring of
Speaker 3: kind of crushed grass in his backyard, was following a
Speaker 3: number of close up UFO sightings and immediately prior to
Speaker 3: a humanoid encounter. And the photographs clearly show a perfect
Speaker 3: ring of grass in his backyard about six feet in diameter.
Speaker 3: He took it from different angles. It's clearly unusual and
Speaker 3: would be your sort of typical landing trace, which is
Speaker 3: always awesome because that's fairly rare to get a landing
Speaker 3: trace case.
Speaker 2: And because you know, the scorch marks were still there,
Speaker 2: this was a recent event, I'm guessing.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, absolutely was twenty gosh, let me see, I
Speaker 3: believe it was about twenty fourteen when that occurred.
Speaker 2: Right right, you know. Going through the book, and again
Speaker 2: there are twenty encounters it featured in the book, and
Speaker 2: such a diversity of entities mentioned, it's quite mind boggling.
Speaker 2: You've got grays, you've got human looking ets, mantids, reptilians, angels,
Speaker 2: nature spirits, ghosts, poultergeists, demons, bigfoot, supernatural entities of all kinds.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I really wanted to feature the fact that
Speaker 3: this the contact experience is much more varied than a
Speaker 3: lot of people realize, and coming along with it are
Speaker 3: a wide range of paranormal events. It's not just grays
Speaker 3: people taking people on bold physically examining them. There's all
Speaker 3: different types of ets, as you mentioned, human looking, little
Speaker 3: blue beings, tall whites, mantids. I love the manteed cases.
Speaker 3: They're not super common and quite interesting, but yeah, almost
Speaker 3: always contact, these will experience pharenormal events like astral projection, precognition, healing, levitation,
Speaker 3: even I mean, you name it. Across the board, these
Speaker 3: sort of things keep appearing, and I really wanted to
Speaker 3: embrace that because I know that oftentimes these really strange
Speaker 3: events get edited out of people's accounts. They've told me this,
Speaker 3: and I think it's important that we include all the
Speaker 3: events that are happening because they're clearly connected. Oh all right, well,
Speaker 3: let me see. I think one of my favorite cases
Speaker 3: in the book is involving a pilot from Argentina, and
Speaker 3: I like this case because this gentleman has no prior
Speaker 3: history of UFO encounters, and that's unusual because this is something,
Speaker 3: as you may know, does start from early childhood and
Speaker 3: generally speaking around age four or five, but goes on
Speaker 3: work through a person's life. It's rarely a one off.
Speaker 3: But this one gentleman, he had never had any encounter
Speaker 3: in his life. His name is Hector Hector Sawiak, and
Speaker 3: he's actually from Argentina. It's one of the things I
Speaker 3: really enjoyed researching this book. I was able to get
Speaker 3: cases from all over the world. And by that I
Speaker 3: mean certainly across the United States, but Canada, South America,
Speaker 3: Argentina and Peru, and across Europe as well, England, let's see, France, Germany,
Speaker 3: and even beyond that, partly in China actually. But this gentleman, Hector,
Speaker 3: is a great witness. He is a professor, a college professor,
Speaker 3: a commercial pilot, at one point a manager of the
Speaker 3: biggest bank in Argentina. It's a really smart guy. And
Speaker 3: he had heard about sightings in his area. This is
Speaker 3: in San Juan, Argentina, and I like this case also
Speaker 3: because it's recent. This was around twenty fifteen, and he
Speaker 3: decided he's going to go outside of San Juan and
Speaker 3: see if you can see all these UFOs. He wasn't
Speaker 3: even really sure if he believed in them, just had
Speaker 3: kind of a passing interest and drives an hour out
Speaker 3: of San Juan into outside of the city lights and
Speaker 3: he doesn't see anything, doesn't see a blood thing. Really disappointed.
Speaker 3: But that night he wakes up at three am to
Speaker 3: hearing his name being called telepathically. I mean he's in bed,
Speaker 3: and he jumps out of bed. You know this voice,
Speaker 3: a male voice is saying Hector, Hector, over and over again.
Speaker 3: He jumps out of bed, runs to the window, and
Speaker 3: as soon as he gets there, he sees the UFO.
Speaker 3: It blazes across the sky pretty quickly, slower than a
Speaker 3: shooting star, but definitely faster than any conventional craft. And
Speaker 3: being a pilot, he knows this. So he felt like
Speaker 3: these UFO occupants actually called him out of bed and
Speaker 3: he had communication with him. So in essence, this is
Speaker 3: a CE five because he went out looking for UFOs
Speaker 3: and while he didn't see him immediately, they came that night.
Speaker 3: But the real interesting part of this whole story is
Speaker 3: that he a couple of months later, was in his bedroom,
Speaker 3: woke up to the room filling with light and there
Speaker 3: were two entities, and one was six and a half
Speaker 3: feet tall, another about five and a half feet tall,
Speaker 3: standing in the doorway. And they had your sort of
Speaker 3: typical gray features, but weren't really exactly grays. They did
Speaker 3: have kind of grayish skin, bald heads, large eyes, but
Speaker 3: looked almost human soil perhaps hybrids, hard to say, but
Speaker 3: they were wearing green jumpsuits with red collars, red cuffs
Speaker 3: of red belts. He's filled with fear, absolutely terrified, until
Speaker 3: they say, you have no need to fear. We have
Speaker 3: not come to hurt you. And I love this part
Speaker 3: of the story because at this point he says he
Speaker 3: felt this amazing wave of love coming from them. Actually
Speaker 3: he described as being like a love like never before,
Speaker 3: all encompassing, overwhelming, even more and you know, falling in
Speaker 3: love with his wife or having his baby. And one
Speaker 3: of the shorter guy walks up to him, cradles his
Speaker 3: head in his arms, and Hector at this point is crying.
Speaker 3: This figure pulls out a little pill and says we
Speaker 3: have come to Helio and gives him the pill, which
Speaker 3: Hector takes, and that is the experience of a nutshell.
Speaker 3: He wakes up the next morning he can still fill
Speaker 3: the tears on his cheeks. The ets are of course gone,
Speaker 3: but his look on life has forever changed. It's a
Speaker 3: very strange case.
Speaker 2: How many of these twenty cases are our first first
Speaker 2: time experiences or contact ease? And how many of them
Speaker 2: you know that they're experiencing contact or encounters let's say
Speaker 2: more than once, or maybe even on a regular basis.
Speaker 3: Oh, the vas already involve multiple accounts. It's very rare
Speaker 3: that it's a one off, and there are a couple
Speaker 3: of cases in the book because that does happen. That
Speaker 3: often happens with people who go out looking for them.
Speaker 3: There's another case that does absolutely speak to that. But
Speaker 3: generally speaking, No, after you interview the witness and you
Speaker 3: start digging deep into their history, you uncover much earlier
Speaker 3: events that usually start around age five or so and
Speaker 3: continue sporadically throughout life. But that just wasn't true with Hector.
Speaker 3: I asked him over and over. I'm like, are you
Speaker 3: sure you had nothing going on in your childhood? Any
Speaker 3: parents who had encounters because this is often generational. But no, no,
Speaker 3: that was a one off.
Speaker 2: Let's talk about a case that involves missing time. There
Speaker 2: were two women. They were taking a trip across the
Speaker 2: USA and they were traveling along a remote day highway
Speaker 2: in Utah, I guess, and well you take it from there.
Speaker 3: What happened. Yeah, this is one of the more extensive
Speaker 3: cases in the book. This occurred in September in nineteen
Speaker 3: seventy eight. The main witnesses Susan Ware and her friend Karen,
Speaker 3: who did allow her real name to be used, was
Speaker 3: along with her, and they were both from the Navy.
Speaker 3: So this occurred in nineteen seventy eight. Susan's about twenty
Speaker 3: two years old, I believe, and they were delivering a
Speaker 3: car from California to North Carolina and had about a
Speaker 3: month to do it. So they were just going to
Speaker 3: take a nice, long, leisurely vacation, touching various hot spots,
Speaker 3: visiting various friends, and just have a good time with it.
Speaker 3: And they had just left the town of Cedar City
Speaker 3: or Enoch, in Utah. It was the middle of the night,
Speaker 3: and they were going to drive straight through to Colorado Springs,
Speaker 3: which is three four hundred miles. It's going to take
Speaker 3: them all night, but there was their journey was interrupted
Speaker 3: for sure because they're driving along this is just a
Speaker 3: two lane highway at that time, out in the middle
Speaker 3: of nowhere, it's a beautiful night with the moon and
Speaker 3: the stars, and suddenly they notice that the stars kind
Speaker 3: of disappeared, and so is the moon. There's just dead
Speaker 3: blackness all around them. So if she's hanging her head
Speaker 3: out the window like a dog. She's in the passenger seat,
Speaker 3: Susan trying to figure out what's going on, and Karen
Speaker 3: is also freaking out. At this point, they're just kind
Speaker 3: of puzzled, not really afraid. But then Karen slams on
Speaker 3: the brakes and this is weird. This is high strangeness
Speaker 3: for you. Standing in front of him on the road
Speaker 3: are about twenty or thirty four foot tall jack rabbits,
Speaker 3: which are normal because they are spaced perfectly evenly in
Speaker 3: kind of a random way, each foot from each other,
Speaker 3: all facing the opposite direction, and are perfectly still for
Speaker 3: the most part. I mean, they're moving. They can tell
Speaker 3: that they're actually leaving creatures of some kind but not
Speaker 3: normal jackrabbits. So they stop, you know, the cars stopped.
Speaker 3: They both get out, they walk to the front of
Speaker 3: the car. The music is on the radio, the headlights
Speaker 3: are on, the engine still running. When suddenly several things
Speaker 3: happen at once. These quote jack rabbits turn around and
Speaker 3: they're not jack rabbits. They now reveal themselves to be grays,
Speaker 3: and the car lights go off, the engine goes off,
Speaker 3: the music stops playing, and the enormous light blazes down
Speaker 3: from above and strikes them. Karen starts screaming at that point.
Speaker 3: The next thing they know, they're waking up, and they
Speaker 3: are many miles down the room in a little diner
Speaker 3: in Colorado Springs and really trying to orient themselves. They're
Speaker 3: feeling quite unwell. They've got basically a very severe sunburn
Speaker 3: all over their body and missing about, you know, six
Speaker 3: hours of time at least.
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