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Interview by Lowell Cunningham
The weather was ominous... as I drove to my rendezvous. A series of thunderstorms raged through the Appalachian foothills, darkening and dampening the long Memorial Day weekend. Accidents dotted the highway and power outages were commonplace. It was a rather auspicious prelude for my interview with UFO and Paranormal enthusiast Stacey Allen McGee, Founder and International Director of the United States UFO Information and Research Center.
McGee's interest in UFOs began when he was about ten years old and witnessed a UFO while waiting for his school bus to arrive. This is how he describes the ship which he witnessed from the back seat of his mother's car: "It was a diamond shaped-object which appeared to me to be multifaceted. It had beautiful colors and at any one point there were three or four different colors which seemed to oscillate from place to place on the craft. It had depth and dimension to it."
Though he can't explain why, McGee's attention seemed to have been drawn to the craft. "I don't know what made me turn and look out the back window. I didn't really look around. I just looked right at it, as if I knew what I was looking for and I knew exactly where it would be," he says, noting that as far as he knew he was the only witness to the event.
Then, the craft began to move, McGee says, almost as if it were in tune with his thoughts. "I remember how beautiful it was and thinking to myself, `What is that?' As soon as those thoughts went through my head, this object began to move in the sky. It seemed to be very stationary at the time, and it started to move in an undulating figure eight pattern."
The aerial acrobatics didn't last long, however. "As soon as I ask the second time -- `What could it be?' -- it shot off across the sky at an unbelievable rate. It didn't gradually accelerate into motion, one instant it was there, the next instant it was a streak across the sky and it disappeared into the morning twilight." Though the ship disappeared, a vivid memory remained, affecting McGee even now.
Since McGee seemed to see his experience as positive, I asked him how he felt about extraterrestrial encounters in general. "There is evidence to indicate that contact with extraterrestrial beings is both negative and positive, meaning that some beings that humans encounter are positive and some beings that they encounter are negative," he told me.
In the U.S., at least, the aliens known as "greys" are most frequently associated with abductions, and they are typically described as aloof and technological. McGee is not so quick to make blanket statements, however. "It's a very broad statement to say the greys are this way or the greys are that way," he told me. "There are abductees that report very tremendously positive encounters with the greys, where they learn a great deal of information from them while on board the ship. There are instances where people are taken aboard ships where they have encounters with greys that seem to indicate that they (the greys) solely functioning for their own benefit, using investigative techniques that do not seem to be respectful of their subjects."
The more negative encounters are unwelcome and invasive, McGee says. "It would be like females being impregnated with human-alien hybrid babies, then being made to carry these babies for the duration of their pregnancy, being taken again and the babies being removed, again being violated by these beings. That of course is a very intrusive thing and hits on a very private area with people and creates a lot of feeling." It's this sort of encounter, McGee believes, which builds on the sort of media-fed fear that began with the broadcast of Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" radio program.
McGee, through the USUFOIRC, hopes to alleviate some of this fear and inform people of some of the positive aspects of the abduction phenomenon. "People must understand that they do not have to fear every alien being or encounter," he claims. "The positive type encounters are those when (abductees) are taken aboard ship and come back with the feeling that they have gained and learned from their experience. They come back with a feeling that their experiences have helped them become more aware of the living Earth, of themselves, of our species."
McGee believes that aliens have been visiting Earth for thousands of years. "They've had a hand in the actual evolution -- biological, mental, spiritual and otherwise evolution of the human race -- and perhaps they come to check in on us from time to time. To a certain degree, an in my opionion, I think they do have a bit of selfish intent, but I think in the long run it would prove to be mutually beneficial for us and them." The study of UFOs will be vital to mankind's future, McGee adds. "As the awareness of mankind progresses and we learn in this phenomenon, things aren't so weird to us as they once were. Things become more accepted, they become less strange to us."
Acceptance is a watch word with McGee and the Research Center, because an open attitude is important in encouraging UFO witnesses and abductees to come forward. "We don't hold fast to any particular philosophy at the center, we keep an open mind and allow people to express themselves in whatever way they feel is right for them and what is the truth in their heart," McGee says.
Every report is not considered genuine, however. "Over seventy thousand reports come into UFO organizations around the world every year," McGee acknowledges. "One out of ten of these sightings might prove to be extraterrestrial and quite possibly more than that." He adds, "I think some degree of skepticism is prudent and needful because there has to be some "weeding out" of the obvious hoaxes and less than reputable reports. You have to maintain a very strong foothold in reality as we know it and explore the other possible realities that we know very little about."
Still, McGee feels that skepticism can be overdone. "There is a level of skepticism that you can reach that becomes incredible. Some people allow their skepticism reach a degree to where they will not accept even the evidence that is there and incorporate that before they reach their conclusions," he says. "It's up to each individual to come to their own idea what the truth is in their heart."
McGee points to a number of sources as evidence of the validity of the UFO experience. For example, crop circles, "the inexplicable markings that are left in the crops of England and around the world. They seem to be some type of writing that is beyond our understanding. That's entirely conjecture, but one thing is certain, these markings are having an affect on people, on the awareness of humanity." Another set of markings that lead to speculation concerning UFOs are the Nazca lines, which McGee describes as, "Indentions in the earth that cause a lot of controversy about their origin and purpose, but can't be seen in their entirety from the surface. They have to be seen from orbit, or at least an aerial view."
I asked about the very well-publicized "alien autopsy" video, checking McGee's attitude about a film widely considered to be a hoax. "I'm not saying that there's not any truth to the alien autopsy video. My inner feelings tell me there is truth to it, but you must somehow separate fact from fiction, and in that, I trust my feelings." McGee answered. "When I watch the footage, I do not get the feeling that I'm looking at a being. I get the feeling I'm looking at a fabrication of something, a mannequin, a representation of something that might be real."
This feeling leads McGee to speculate that the autopsy video could be disinformation. "One of the modus operandi our government has utilized to maintain the cover-up for many years is to allow some information to get out but to color it with disinformation so people don't know what to believe. I think this is a good example of that. To get people thinking about the subject and just give them enough information to whet their appetite, but not enough to make informed decisions." Consequently, McGee and the Center choose not to dwell much on autopsy film. "We try to concentrate on the live beings, not the dead ones."
Furthermore, at the meetings McGee says "people gain from the sharing and they learn from others who have either been witness to their sightings, or encounters, or who may have had a close encounter of their own. I think it's important everyone can share what's happened to them with others and not feel like the first thing that you will get back in return is disbelief and ridicule." McGee added, "I would encourage anyone to pursue this avenue of interest and study as an opportunity to increase your emotional, spiritual and mental level of awareness."
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