Reptoids and Martians Invade Silicon Valley - Bay Area UFO Expo

The Bay Area UFO Expo took place at the Doubletree Hotel in San Jose, August 26 and 27, 2000, bringing together some of the top names in UFOlogy. I attended sporting a press badge to represent the SKEPTICAL INQUIRER and no one even looked twice at my hat from Nevada's Area 51 showing an alien quaffing some suds. With approximately 3,000 tickets sold, the conference was a commercial success, although the big money was apparently not made from the registration fees of $25-55. Instead, each speaker conducted a two-hour "workshop" following his or her lecture, with tickets $20-25 each, to which my press pass unfortunately did nor admit me, so I missed out on some of the wildest-of-the-wild stuff. However, what I did learn from each speaker's "free" 45 minute lecture provided more than enough excitement for one weekend.

David Jacobs, the noted UFO abductionist, painted a scary scenario of clandestine activity by one or more alien races, whose agenda is secret. Fortunately, we have been able to penetrate many of their secrets owing to the recollections of abductees, despite the aliens' best efforts at making them forget. Jacobs is greatly obsessed by the "tables" in the saucers, where the examinations of abductees supposedly takes place. They are obviously built to accommodate humans, not the little guys who pilot the saucers. And there are lots of tables. Indeed, there are rooms with nothing but tables. Virtually everything that is inside the UFOs seems to be constructed for the sole purpose of abducting humans, an agenda the ETs appear to be pursuing with single-minded ferociry.

The insectoid creatures, says Jacobs, are clearly in charge. Some people describe reptilians, although it is possible that this may he just another description of the praying mantis insectoid. (Which is understandable, I think, since insects and reptiles are easily confused.)

Angela Browne Miller is a psychotherapist who has transmitted work into this dimension from Albert Einstein and Karl Marx. She is encouraging people to get in touch with their brain waves, urging us to "monitor your brain waves for foreign conscious-nesses." We should be "highly conscious" (although not paranoid) when we travel interdimensionally, so we can properly map out the territory.

She represents a new movement calling itself Synaptic Liberation, which will lead society to Utopia. She plans to transform it into a political party, and one of their principal demands will be for completely unrestricted interdimensional travel.

James Gilliland is in "telepathic contact" with aliens who are said to be "spiritually advanced," although unlike many others he has only been on board a ship only once. He has a ranch near Mt. Adams, Washington, on which he operates the Self Mastery Earth Institute. He claims the ability to vector in UFOs for his visitors to see. They appear very much like "balls of light," except that they are interdimensional. He calls this "ECETI," for "Enlightened Contact with Extraterrestrial Intelligence." A "higher council" seems to be in charge among visiting UFOnauts, which is somehow tied in with the Ascended Masters. The question of how these splendid aliens can be reconciled with the horrific scenario painted by David Jacobs did not seem to trouble anyone.

David Shoemaker set up a vendor's table in the hallway with a big sign reading "UFO Crash Debris." He claims to have debris from two different crashes. One crashed in Missouri three days after the famous 1947 Roswell incident. The other was picked up at the "hot landing site" in New Mexico in 1998. He claims to have conducted extensive scientific testing that proves that these samples have anomalous isotope ratios, and impossible combinations of rare earths. You can judge his claims for yourself at www.crashdebris.com.

Shoemaker additionally claims shamanic powers, as well as being an "exorcist" and an "intuitive healer." He also claims to be able to "shape-shift," although unfortunately not in public. He says that while at last year's UFO conference, he healed several people with fatal diseases. He claims that most of the UFO movement is actually run by the government, bent on disinformation. He accused one prominent UFOlogist of trying to poison him. "Dark agents" have been sent against him, which he was able to kill using his shamanistic powers, and so the conspirators have stopped attacking him.

The Mexican UFOlogist Jaime Mausson showed a photo allegedly taken by a Mexican TV viewer of coverage of Neil Armstrong's moon walk in 1969. Supposedly it shows a "life form" on the Moon, although he conceded that "we have not been able to see them on the original tapes." The photo is labeled, "1969 El Hombre de la Luna." It looks like a blurry image of a clay figure, against an indistinct background looking decidedly non-lunar.

At Metepec, Mexico, a UFO landed in 1994, and out came a luminous extraterrestrial. He showed us a drawing of something looking like an upright slug, with an ET head affixed, but unfortunately to see the video you'd have to attend the workshop. Apparently the ETs in Mexico have recently become luminous, and such creatures are more frequently being seen, especially in the mountainous deserts of Baja California Norte. Maussan says he has seen these glowing beings himself once. Unfortunately, when he tried to take photos and videos of them, he could not, although he didn't explain why. All he can do is swear to us he's telling the truth. He expects that UFOs are going to land openly very soon.