In these photos Maurizio Baiata, Ann Eller and paola Harris
AE: Well, when I came back from Wyoming after my experience, when these beautiful Beings appeared in the room at the college…I was with a medium named Connie, and she changed from the waist up. She became these Beings, one right after the other. They were all female, they were stunning. They were just very – this first group was very human-looking, and they had these ornaments, certain things on their heads. One had a headdress on.
PH: Could anybody else see this?
AE: Yes, there were just the three of us in the room, and she, of course, couldn’t see it. Connie and her husband Doug were there with me. All night long we experienced it. We lost count after the first five came through, but at some point it stopped and the one person who was there started speaking. She held up her hand and made some kind of a motion, like this, like she was greeting us. When she did that, Doug and I both put our hands up and did the same thing. It was so weird. I asked where they were from, and the name was in my head, right there. It was written out in the long form, and then the shorter one, the way we might write Los Angeles, and then LA.
PH: Did you remember it?
AE: It was there, and the being said, “Yes, that’s correct,” and then it was gone.
PH: So the being said that in your mind, and not through the mouth of the medium?
AE: The being spoke through the medium. It sounded kind of like Connie’s voice, They were using her vocal cords, but some of the words that they used would not have been associated with Connie, they wouldn’t be in her vocabulary. At one point, they said, “We will now depart, for a higher power to come through.” And at that point, they took Connie way out, she had no recollection of that whatsoever. What came through then was ancient…ancient. Take an ET’s face, and make it rounder, and a little more human-looking…still with the long neck, and the wrinkles all the way down. But these eyes…were about three times larger than ours but rounded not cat eyed.
PH: Would you say it was a grey being?
AE: It was a female. They were all females. I asked them if the mission was on target. I had no idea what the mission was, but I seemed to know what the mission was when I was talking to them. They said yes, everything was fine. I said, “Will you stay with me?” And they said, “We have always been with you.” I said, “When can I join you?” and they said, “When the time is right.”
PH: So they said these things, and then they just left?
AE: Eventually, they left. Connie just keeled right over onto the floor.
PH: So this was at the dormitory, during the University of Wyoming conferences with Leo Sprinkle, in the year 1985, the year before Allen Hynek died.
AE: Leo and I also did a couple of sessions. One was to see if there had been any encounters and the second was very different. He has a conversation between you and your soul? He talks to your soul and takes you through several past lifetimes. Did he do that with you?
PH: No, he didn’t, but he did do one with reincarnation where he told me all about past lives that I’ve had.
AE: He told me about one life that Allen and I had had in which he was an astronomer and I was his assistant, in about 1400 or 1500, somewhere around there, and that Alan saw the ships in his telescope in that lifetime. He wouldn’t tell anybody, but he let me look through the telescope and see them. But he said, “you cannot talk about it.” I felt the same way this life. We can’t talk about this. He was doing the same thing. I think that’s why I said what I did in the conference, about the government knowing all about it. I was not going to be gagged in this life!
PH: Tell me, did you ever record this experience with this medium?
AE: Yes, as soon as I got back. I made Allen sit right down and I turned the tape recorder on, and I made him sit there for over two hours while I relayed this whole experience to him. You can hear him in the background there. The first thing he caught was the missing time, when we ran out of gas at the ranch and then when we arrived at the restaurant. We had about an hour and a half, two hours of missing time at that point. That was during the time when I was shown the five symbols.
PH: Do you have the symbols anywhere?
AE: Yes. I have them. At the McGuire Ranch, there were ships coming through, and in the mountains out there There is a depression like a portal. This is where the ships came through, you couldn’t see them but there was a whole herd of animals, Antelope. And when one of those ships came through, the whole herd just scattered. There were three ships. I didn’t see that, but Connie’s husband , Doug, said he thought there were three ships and described what they looked like. He squatted down with a stick and drew them in the dirt. I was mentally picking up a woman with flowers in her hair, and I said, “There’s a man here with her, and I don’t know what they’re saying.” Doug said, I think we need to ask permission. At that moment, my spiritual master came right in and gave permission, and then left. From then on, we just started picking things up. That’s when the whole experience started.
PH: What about Allen? Did you ever get the feeling when you were telling this to Allen, that he wished he was there?
AE: No. He talked about it, but he was mainly interested in the ship. We didn’t touch the ship. The ship didn’t materialize. The other stuff, I got the feeling was just a little too airy-fairy for him. He just couldn’t quite understand how these beings could come through the Medium.
PH: I remember once when I was at his house, he turned to me and said, “I wish I’d know the truth before I die.”
AE: All the time, I said to him, “Come on, you must have had some psychic /UFO/Alien experiences. Tell me about them.” I just said it all the time, and he just laughed, but he’d never say anything. The last time I went to visit him, he looked me in the eye and said, “I want you to know that I’ve had my own experiences.”
PH: He said that?
AE: He said that. Verbatim.
PH: And what did you say? Did you talk about it?
AE: No, he was too weak. But I treasured that, because I felt that he validated me. And I also told him before I left his office and went back to the hospital, “And he said, “I know.” Just consider that we have some karma together, because he and I used to talk about karma a lot.
PH: He also didn’t want to leave Mimi without money.
AE: They were excited about retirement.
PH: She was doing archaeological digs, she would accompany him everywhere.We would do everything together. We were out once in Santa Fe, New Mexico and he asked me to tango, so I’m out there dancing the tango with Allen Hynek, and finally he turned to me and said, “We better get off the dance floor, people will be speaking about us.” (Laughs). Mimi was also dancing.
AE: Several nights, I had been seeing this bright, bright light at about three o’clock every morning. I kept telling him about it, and I said, “I don’t think it’s a planet, and I know it’s not a star. You need to look at it.” So he said, okay, the next time you see it, give me a call. So the next night, I saw it at three o’clock, and I picked up the phone and called him. He said, “Okay, I’ll be right over.” I said, “You don’t have to come over here, just go outside and look.” He did go outside and look, and he called me back and said, “Sorry, it’s Venus.”
PH: So you said that eventually he began to go downhill, and that’s when he had some experiences. Did he ever lead you to what you should read that would help explain some of these things?
AE: No, I was more concerned about giving him spiritual books, because he was really interested in it. I thought that this was probably going to help him more. So I was more involved in reading books to him and making sure he was reading these.
PH: Did you leave Phoenix?
AE: Yes, I moved over to California. I went back to the hospital in October and worked there until January or February, when I moved over to California. My daughter was expecting her first child. So I was in California when Allen died. Before I left, I got to see him. And he told me that he had known all of his life, because he was born when Halley’s comet came through, that the next time Halley’s comet came back he’d go out. It was that year.
PH: Did he talk about that a lot about being ready to go?
AE: We talked about the disease process a lot, because I was a nurse. He was seeking the best help he could find. But he tried to keep up a brave face for everybody, saying, “Yeah, I’m going to be okay,” but he didn’t believe it. He knew he was dying and he knew that the comet was taking him out. He was a Rosicrucian, too, and nobody knew that. And I’ll tell you something else. You remember the big portrait that was on his living room wall? Remember the ring that was on his finger? That ring as I recall it had a Maltese cross on it. The Maltese cross was one of my symbols.
PH: The other portrait that I remember from his house was the one with the children and the big UFO running up the hill.
AE: I don’t remember that.
PH: It was a very realistic painting of a circular UFO that looked like the world, and a picture of them running up a grassy hill.
AE: I think a lot of people talked about getting messages from Allen after he died. The gal helping with the book said that he talked to her in her dreams the last couple of weeks. She’d wake up and say, “He’s telling me what to put in the first three chapters, but I can’t remember it!”
I wanted to tell you about this other thing. He showed me the contract that he had with Spielberg, and the wording in there is just amazing. He bought from Allen for one thousand dollars, the rights to use the words “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” anywhere in the universe. That’s the way it was worded.
I found a letter that had not been opened, and it was from the early 1950’s. I thought, that was just typical of him, you know, that he had never opened it. So I opened it, and it was from someone with an oriental name at Ohio State University Astronomy Department, and this person was simply documenting the fact that he had identified transmissions through his radio telescope from the area of Venus. What he was doing was just documenting it in this letter to Allen. Allen never opened it because he already knew what was in it, and he was just holding it for the guy in case anybody later said, “I just discovered these signals from Venus,” because this guy had found them first.
PH: He told you this?
AE: No, but I realized what had happened. So I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know whether I should throw it away, or hide it, or tell someone about it, or take it away. I gave it to Allen and said, “I’m sorry, I opened this letter and it seems to be rather important.” I was blown away, 1952. Signals were being picked up from the vicinity of Venus.
PH: So he took the letter?
AE: Put it in a drawer and never said a word.
PH: I don’t even know where to begin with this.He’d call me every now and then, excited about a sighting. I didn’t even go into “ the contact scenario.2 when I worked with him. He had gone a lot farther in 1985. Did anybody come to see him when he was really sick?
AE: The only ones I remember from that summer are Richard Sigismond. Nice guy, I liked him.. Jacques Vallee, I liked him right away. Willie Smith came, and they were like twins, he and Allen, they were cut out of the same cloth. They were nose to nose with each other, I got the feeling that their computers were connected. (Laughs.) I don’t remember anyone else.
PH: No one from the military?
AE: Not that I knew of, and I was there every day. I would have known.
PH: He was in pretty good shape for most of that time. He didn’t have any lowering of energy or anything?
AE: Well, yes, there was a lowering of energy. Keep in mind that I left in October, so we had only known about it for three months when I left. When I came back, I could see the changes in him.
PH: He became frail? Did he respond to the therapy?
AE: Yes, he became frail. He did respond somewhat to the radiation and chemotherapy. When he died, I was in California and Mimi Hynek called. My name was on the Will, and I forget now what it was. She had to get something or wanted to send me something. But I didn’t go to the funeral or the burial.
PH: Did you know his collaborators in Arizona?
AE: Well, they were drawing up the will that one day, and they needed witnesses. I have a picture of the four of us and the attorney when we all signed the Center into the International Center for UFO Research. The photo was on Coast to Coast.
PH: What is the name of your book?
AE: Dragon in the Sky: Prophecy from the Stars
from Authorhouse Publishing. Available September 2009.