1st Extract

My first sighting took place when I was a student at Hull University. I had recently been introduced to The Aetherius Society by my very close friend Dr John Holder, who was doing his PhD in biochemistry at the time, and I was wondering whether or not to buy some Aetherius Society books and tapes. I wanted them very much, but I had very little money, and I also needed some new gym shoes. After prevaricating for some time I decided to go without the gym shoes and get the books and tapes.

A few days later, John saw a UFO in the area, which he had seen from the postgraduates' common room window. He drove home and told me, and, in great excitement, the two of us drove off in our battered old Austin A55 to get a better look at the "cigar-shaped object".

It was quite low - lower than the moon or the stars - moving very slowly, brightly illuminated in the night sky. We parked the car, climbed over a tall fence and walked across the damp field to get a better look, but it became obscured by a large oak tree. I happened to glance down.

Under the oak tree was - a brand new pair of gym shoes.

There was nothing extraordinary about them. They were an ordinary brand. They hadn't been manufactured on the moon or anything like that. In fact I don't even believe that the UFO had anything to do with their being there. It was the synchronicity that struck me, nothing else. Of all things to find - and of all times to find them - gym shoes under an oak tree couldn't have been a better sign as far as I was concerned. Here was a literal example of the principle of "what you reject is laid at your feet" right before my eyes.

A small thing - yes. But for me a significant one.

2nd Extract

On the morning of April 25th, 1986, in a very ordinary hotel in Arizona, a very extraordinary thing was to happen. I was part of a team who were with Dr King to assist him with some important spiritual work he was going to be doing in the area. I was sitting in his hotel room ready to help him in whatever way was necessary. He asked me to set up a table with pen, paper and some water, which indicated to me that he was about to get a Mental Transmission. This was only to be expected in view of the work we were doing. He then proceeded to take the Mental Transmission from a Cosmic Master, writing it down as he received it, while I sat in attendance in case he should need anything.

The information which came through was of a very unexpected nature. He was told that the Spiritual Energy Radiator in Los Angeles, was to be turned on in half an hour's time, indicating that a world emergency was imminent - a classic example of channelling being used for something of phenomenal importance.

A few hours later, on the other side of the world, at 1.23am Moscow time, the worst nuclear reactor disaster in history was to take place - the infamous explosion at Chernobyl, which the Soviets did not admit to for three days.

In 2002 the Russian newspaper Pravda revealed that eyewitnesses saw a UFO hovering above the fourth power-generating unit - the one which was destroyed - for six hours from when the trouble began. Many believe that the UFO prevented the disaster from being even worse than it was. The explosion which occurred was a thermal blast. If a nuclear explosion had taken place, it is thought that half of Europe would have been wiped off the map.