Dr. Moser finally stepped down from the lectern, he left all the journalists gathered in the room, including myself, speechless.
By chance, a few hours after the end of the press conference, I suddenly found myself in front of the ZDF (German public television) foreign studio in Washington. »Shouldn’t the German public be informed that such research results are being discussed in America«, I asked myself. Of course, it was clear to me that the chance to sell my film material about »alien implants« here was virtually zero. Nevertheless, I spontaneously decided to try and rang the doorbell. I was politely welcomed.
But I did not even get to put in my tape. Because when I explained what it was about, I was just as politely complimented out again with the sentence »We’ll pass it on to Mainz [location of the ZDF studio].« The research results of Doctors Leir and Moser were probably not even revealed to the Mainz men [cartoon characters created by the ZDF].
I had expected that reaction of my ZDF colleagues. Nevertheless, this incident revealed to me the difficult situation that abduction research is in: there is virtually no media coverage of it, because there are too few tangible facts to be found on the radar of a mainstream colleague. And once they do show up, it’s better to ignore them. Because they do not fit into the prevailing social consensus in Germany that there are no UFOs, no aliens and therefore of course no kidnappings by the latter. And if someone should seriously claim to have been abducted, then he or she must certainly have lost his marbles.
Pensively, I returned to Germany. How would it be possible to take away people’s fear of the »maximum strangeness« and prepare them for the possibility of making contact with extraterrestrials while at the same time, quite a number of affected people report disturbing, traumatizing, sometimes extremely painful experiences? From now on I followed the developments in the field of abductions with greater attention and increasingly worked on them. But at first I had a hard time with a publication. Only after the death of Dr. Roger Leir in 2014 did I decide to publish his presentation from the National Press Club in German. The entire video, which lasts about half an hour and contains the research results mentioned above, is now viewed almost 280,000 times on YouTube.*
From then on, letters from those allegedly affected began to accumulate. I receive e-mails almost every month from people who claim to have had such experiences. They are people of different origins, religions and ages, people with all possible levels of education and from all possible social classes. The only thing these people have in common is their conspicuous reticence about what they have experienced. Most of the time, they do not want their experiences to go public.
This circumstance alone should alert sceptics, who often accuse alleged abductees of merely trying to attract attention with their strange stories. Almost always, the people who write to me merely indicate what happened to them without going into detail, and ask me if I can’t find someone who knows something like that.
For years, I didn’t really know how to deal with such requests. Although the UFO research organization MUFON-CES had a psychologist on its team for a while who dealt with patients, they had to fill out a long questionnaire beforehand – a hurdle that only a few patients were willing to take, since they were not interested in becoming a study object, but simply wanted to process their experiences. I was accordingly happy when one day the hypnotherapist Dr. Marcel Polte contacted me.
Since then, I have a permanent contact person for inquiries from possible abductees and have been able to forward several cases to him. Dr. Polte is more familiar with the international state of affairs in Germany than almost anyone else and has excellent connections with research organizations in Germany and abroad. With this book he makes an important contribution to the scientific debate in this field. Not only does he summarize the key findings from the specialist literature, he also supplements them with current case studies from his own practice and gives consideration, for example, to the possible motives of the strangers or the paranormal aspects associated with them, without being dogmatic.
You don’t necessarily have to agree with every thought one hundred percent to find his book interesting. As the author convincingly presents, weighty reasons speak for the reality of the abduction phenomenon, and it is time to acknowledge and explore this.
Like hardly any other phenomenon, abduction experiences also point to a larger, unknown reality that we are just beginning to understand. May this book help us to be more open to the mysteries of the universe, to transform our primal fear of the foreign into curiosity, and to prepare ourselves for the moment when we all realize that we are not alone in the universe.
Leipzig, February 2018
Robert Fleischer
Founder of Exopolitics Germany (www.exopolitik.org)
Publisher of ExoMagazin.tv - the magazine for freethinkers
* You can find it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se5DkifWMDE.
Introduction
Dear reader,
Maybe you read already in December 2017 in the New York Times or Washington Post about the Pentagon’s secret UFO program AATIP. Or, later on, you have seen on CNN or Fox News the UFO videos filmed by U.S. Navy fighter jets. You may have also heard in June 2019 about the classified briefings of former President Trump and several U.S. senators on the subject. At least, you will be aware of the extensive media coverage of the 2021 Pentagon report on UAPs (unidentified aerial phenomena).
Either way, you might now want to know what this is all about. What is behind the so-called UFO-phenomenon? One thing is clear after all these astonishing developments. The phenomenon cannot be ignored any longer. Against this background, this book is trying to provide you with some legitimate answers. You will learn about facts that you would never have expected to be real, even in your wildest dreams.
Now, take your time to absorb and process the information that I present in the following. I have tried to structure these unusual facts in a logically comprehensible order. Previous knowledge is not required.
One should actually think that, under these premises, every reader should reach the same conclusions – which would be:
1 UFOs are a real phenomenon.
2 There are thousands of contacts with non-human intelligent beings.
Unfortunately, things are not that simple. Understanding these events is not a question of intelligence. The problem is not on a cognitive or mental level. The reasons why some will find it difficult to acknowledge certain facts and their consequences are much deeper. They are based on dogmas embedded in our subconscious that we have been taught since our earliest childhood. The enormous task of each individual is thus to overcome these traditional, loved but false beliefs. One of these dogmas could be: There is no such nonsense as UFOs. Another could look like this: Aliens don’t exist. And if they do, they’re far away. These dogmas are not based on facts but have been communicated to us by our environment – by parents, teachers, the media, science and all the external influences that make us who we are.
The problem we are facing is therefore comparable with the concern of Albert Einstein in 1905, when he published his Special Theory of Relativity. Not only the general public, but also the scientists at that time were of the firm conviction that time would
