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Life After Abduction
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
KellyAnn Kelso
Host of upcoming UFO convention describes his experience with extraterrestrials
Scotts Valley resident Robert Perala, 57, is in a rush today. At the top of his to-do list: preparing to emcee UFO CON, which will be held in Santa Clara on Sept. 15 and 16. Perala will introduce, connect and shepherd a guest list of hundreds of extraterrestrial enthusiasts—some of whom will come as lighthearted Trekkies; others, on serious business.
While hurriedly eating a sandwich at a local café, Perala does not hesitate to lean over the table, look me dead in the eyes and address me by name. He’s exacting in his dates and details—habits that lend intriguing specificity to his tales of extraterrestrial encounters.
“All right, the story goes like this,” he responds to the question, “how did you get here?”
The year was 1977. Twenty-one-year-old Perala, deep into books on transcendental meditation as well as one on UFOs, was staying at a ski resort with his family in South Lake Tahoe, Calif. From these books he gleaned that the Universe was “a very live entity. And if you send out a thought form out into the Universe … someone or something can hear that—and might even respond to it.”
The night after Christmas, Perala opened his arms to the sky and informed the stars that if anybody was out there, he would like to communicate with them and use the interaction for good.
“Of course, nothing happened,” Perala chuckles. He quiets for a moment before continuing, “At about 2:30 in the morning I was startled awake by what sounded almost like a train going through my living room … the room became very charged with … what looked like lightning, flashes of lightning—blue, green, violet, indigo, purple—and suddenly, out of nowhere, beams down three of these.”
Here, Perala holds up a photograph that depicts a human-like figure in a metallic suit. Perala discovered the photograph, which was taken in 1973 by Falkville, Ala. Police Chief Jeff Greenshaw, in UFO Magazine, months after his 1977 encounter.
“Somehow they were able to freeze me in a blue encasement of some kind,” Perala continues. He says he was terrified but unable to scream as he watched the side of the house open up.
“You ever seen the movie Contact? … That is a very accurate depiction of what it looks like to go through a wormhole,” Perala says. “All you are is kind of a particle point looking for an anchor for itself … I didn’t have any kind of physical form.”
Perala says that he finally arrived in a rounded room where he “interfaced” with a glass object, which somehow “absorbed” him—but he was abruptly yanked back through the “tunnel of light,” back to Earth and his bedroom, where he says three cosmonauts remained.
“And then, without warning, everything just sort of disappeared … and there was nothing,” he says.
Perala’s recollection shares some similarities with other alleged abductees, who often recount being abducted while sleeping and being unable to move.
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Life After Abduction
Tuesday, 11 September 2012
KellyAnn Kelso
Host of upcoming UFO convention describes his experience with extraterrestrials
Scotts Valley resident Robert Perala, 57, is in a rush today. At the top of his to-do list: preparing to emcee UFO CON, which will be held in Santa Clara on Sept. 15 and 16. Perala will introduce, connect and shepherd a guest list of hundreds of extraterrestrial enthusiasts—some of whom will come as lighthearted Trekkies; others, on serious business.
While hurriedly eating a sandwich at a local café, Perala does not hesitate to lean over the table, look me dead in the eyes and address me by name. He’s exacting in his dates and details—habits that lend intriguing specificity to his tales of extraterrestrial encounters.
“All right, the story goes like this,” he responds to the question, “how did you get here?”
The year was 1977. Twenty-one-year-old Perala, deep into books on transcendental meditation as well as one on UFOs, was staying at a ski resort with his family in South Lake Tahoe, Calif. From these books he gleaned that the Universe was “a very live entity. And if you send out a thought form out into the Universe … someone or something can hear that—and might even respond to it.”
The night after Christmas, Perala opened his arms to the sky and informed the stars that if anybody was out there, he would like to communicate with them and use the interaction for good.
“Of course, nothing happened,” Perala chuckles. He quiets for a moment before continuing, “At about 2:30 in the morning I was startled awake by what sounded almost like a train going through my living room … the room became very charged with … what looked like lightning, flashes of lightning—blue, green, violet, indigo, purple—and suddenly, out of nowhere, beams down three of these.”
Here, Perala holds up a photograph that depicts a human-like figure in a metallic suit. Perala discovered the photograph, which was taken in 1973 by Falkville, Ala. Police Chief Jeff Greenshaw, in UFO Magazine, months after his 1977 encounter.
“Somehow they were able to freeze me in a blue encasement of some kind,” Perala continues. He says he was terrified but unable to scream as he watched the side of the house open up.
“You ever seen the movie Contact? … That is a very accurate depiction of what it looks like to go through a wormhole,” Perala says. “All you are is kind of a particle point looking for an anchor for itself … I didn’t have any kind of physical form.”
Perala says that he finally arrived in a rounded room where he “interfaced” with a glass object, which somehow “absorbed” him—but he was abruptly yanked back through the “tunnel of light,” back to Earth and his bedroom, where he says three cosmonauts remained.
“And then, without warning, everything just sort of disappeared … and there was nothing,” he says.
Perala’s recollection shares some similarities with other alleged abductees, who often recount being abducted while sleeping and being unable to move.
CONTINUE READING: www.gtweekly.com/index.php/santa-cruz-news/36-santa-cruz-business-news/4159-life-after-abduction.html