“When the Mr. Ed story is finally exposed, UFO research may be permanently damaged in the government. It will be useless to bring it up again for ten years or so,” Kit says. (23 Oct 1988)

The long-awaited University of California conference has taken place, the first instance of a discussion of UFOs in the context of parapsychology. I spoke there in spite of Jim Harder's repeated admonitions against “those people who believe in ghosts!” (26 Feb 1973)

It's an eleventh century marvel, its polychrome columns painted in bright colors, evidence of sophisticated Arab influence. I walked around the altar admiring the lutrin, a carved piece where a huge eagle with widely open wings held the heavy book of prayers. (15 Jun 1976)

The world is changing. This city has been shaken by sudden political upheaval. History is accelerating. I can feel it turning from its usual elusiveness to the consistency of a liquid or a jelly. (20 Mar 1958)

People will be locked and entertained within their own little spheres. They will be allowed to evolve slowly with the ebb and flow of directed fashion. The ruling class will be a refined group of old anonymous minds. (9 May 1969)

At Bob Chartrand’s house in Chevy Chase I just spent two interesting hours with his friend Tom Belden, currently on the staff of the DCI. We spoke of the history of computing, network conferencing, and aerial photography in the Intelligence world. (20 Oct 1980)

Sky Ranch Inn. Back in the States, traveling again. A sunset full of red shadows slides between the vertical cliffs. Here the desert turns into a Wagnerian scene, a power spot. (19 Mar 1999)

Ingo was relaxed. He told us anecdotes about the early days of the project and the experiments that led the government to fund SRI: The first big success had to do with a certain structure, a large crane near a landing strip in Russia, never seen before, confirmed by spy photographs. (24 Jan 1982)

He took me to see his new offices above Kepler's bookstore, an amusing location for a classified research center. “I’d heard one couldn't tell a book by its cover,” I joked as the elevator took us to the third floor. “Apparently that also applies to the whole bookstore.” (15 Jun 1991)

I had dinner with the Cufos team: Mark Rodeghier and George Eberhart, Jerome Clark and his wife-to-be. I was struck by the degree to which they had become obsessed with abduction reports however shaky they might be, and impressed by the books of Budd Hopkins and David Jacobs. (18 Sep 1988)

I spent the evening with Richard Sigismond, the prospector and psychologist who once went into Professor Condon's office and challenged him to focus on UFO landings. His experiences are those that Lee Sanella has catalogued for the awakening of the Kundalini. (22 Feb 1977)

“You're using self-hypnosis?” Asked Anton. Aimé acknowledged it, adding: “I've stopped doing it. The entities behaved like those in the Tibetan Book of the Dead.” “You were in contact with the mind that is held by no head,” remarked Anton, who laughed in a sardonic way that chilled us. (21 May 1972)

Dan Tolkowsky kindly took us to Jaffa for a fish dinner on the edge of an ancient pier. One of the world's oldest cities, an Egyptian harbor, later used by Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans, Crusaders and pilgrims, Jaffa is filled with the memories of a hundred wars. (2 Oct 1992)

“I'll come to see you in Paris on the 21st,” he said happily. “Good, we'll celebrate the Solstice together...” “Yes, like Druids!” he said, now laughing like a kid. “We'll go into the woods of Meudon. As in olden days, wearing white robes,” I joked. (9 Jun 1977)

Bill Cooper called me and, after some pleasantries about a book whose reference he had given me, casually said: “I understand you’re going to speak at the Mufon conference in Las Vegas about the human mutilations you’ve investigated in Brazil?” (8 Jun 1989)

They saw a globe of white light, slightly larger than a baseball, about 100 yards away, 20 feet off the ground, in front of a large tree. It blinked four times. Two dogs who had been cavorting became silent and still: “Each dog took up a position behind us, so close they touched us." (5 Jun 1997)

The Learning Channel saw my recent study about the Philadelphia Experiment hoax and called. I put them in touch with Ed Dudgeon and rear-Admiral Houser. They even dredged up old Al Bielek, nearly blind, obsessed with the notion that he fell through time when the Eldridge vanished. (8 Oct 1994)

"At Lake Kickapoo, Texas, a 10-million-watt RF signal is generated and transmitted, in an extremely narrow east-west pattern termed 'the fence,' covering the entire U.S. Objects that fly through this 'fence' of RF energy reflect a portion of it back to the ground." (8 Sep 1996)

We went to La Javie together on a dizzying mountain road that stopped a few miles from a point Pat Price had indicated to me, by remote viewing from SRI, as a possible location for a UFO base, but local people scoff at the idea of an undiscovered cave in the vicinity. (31 Jul 1974)

He argues... that the Baalbeck terrace is not only hard to explain in terms of weight, transportation, assembly and precision of the stones, but that it would form an ideal base for the launching or the arrival of spaceships. (24 Apr 1966)

We had lunch at Tokaj. I asked Puthoff: “You've mentioned scientology several times, and so has Ingo Swann.” “I took the training,” Hal answered. “I've reached the stage we call Clear. Ingo too.” (31 Oct 1972)

Was that visit related to a letter I recently mailed to Monsieur de Grossouvre? Do these FBI guys think everybody is stupid, or crooked? Why don't they just ask direct, honest questions? (2 Sep 1992)

Keith had invited two expert hypnotists as well as Diana Reiss, a specialist in animal communication who works with dolphins and orcas. We spent the evening discussing the use of hypnosis in abduction research. (15 Aug 1987)

“And I'm a Knight of the Rosy Cross, on special assignment from the Cosmic Forces,” I reply to tease her, “I need a sacred space on Earth as a base for my mission to save the Galaxy.” “Ask your psychic guide, then,” she says, sending me an evil look, “maybe he'll tell you who's right.” (1 Feb 1997)

Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the Kenneth Arnold sighting. A press conference included Leo Sprinkle, Betty Hill, Curtis Fuller, Arnold himself, Allen and me. Betty was holding a bust of her extra-terrestrial abductor, tenderly caressing his bald head. (25 Jun 1977)

Now I read the Journal of Abbé Mugnier (1879-1939), friend of every writer of the Belle Epoque: Daudet, Proust, Huysmans... He knew Gide and Cocteau, preached in Les Halles, dined on Boulevard Saint-Germain, a “humble and sincere” figure, a simple priest with patience and integrity. (1 May 1999)

The most magical site was Montségur, reached by a steep 40-minute hike over jumbled rock, straight up to the massive grey-blue walls of the Cathar citadel. The last hundred feet of the ascent are made over marble boulders, broken and polished up by centuries of climbing feet. (21 May 1994)

“Do you ever dream about the 1959 incident?” I asked him over coffee. “Yes,” he answered simply. “Anything unusual about those dreams? “Funny you should ask that. Few people inquire about these details. I dream about something that happened an hour after the object flew away.” (28 Sep 1977)

A hundred lighted ships became visible in the rain over Hong Kong harbor when we broke through the clouds. There was water all around the aircraft as we landed, water as we took off again, a planeful of businessmen tired and sweaty with stubble on their chins and blood in their eyes. (15 Oct 1995)

""They might use you as a channel, all right, but for disinformation. Remember, you don’t have any facts.” It is a credit to Allen’s almost childlike innocence that he couldn’t grasp my argument, so we dropped the subject. (17 Feb 1985)

The Pentagon has rejected our proposal once and for all. This solves our problem. Clearly the Air Force does not want to see any serious study of its files carried out. What are they afraid we would find? (29 Aug 1966)

""They say it's a higher being called God—you know, that's why there are all those churches around...” “Yeah... well?” He didn't seem to buy that at all. “Well, they say he made everything right out of nothing.” “And where was he, all that time, eh? Flying around like a bird?” (1 Jun 1971)

Bob mentioned the Navy holographic projectors, built by Philips and Hughes. He thinks such devices have been used to simulate UFOs in field tests and military psychological experiments. (17 Jul 1988)

We’re back in Paris after our brief excursion. Yesterday Janine and I had coffee with Guérin, more nervous and irritable than I had ever seen him. He never listened to anything we said, simply ranting and raving about ugly Aliens. (1 Oct 1991)

A problem arose when we tried to separate artificial languages, which computers are using, from natural languages. We agreed that natural languages arose from human usage, while artificial ones were based on machines, but we could not define it in such an "intuitive" way. (22 May 1969)

“There's a new rumor,” he said, almost as if he was about to accuse me of some dreadful crime. “It's about you!” I had to laugh: “What did I do this time?” “My sources tell me that while you were in Brazil, the military down there showed you some films of alien autopsies.” (13 Mar 1995)

About 14 September a Russian immigrant from Nazareth named Uri Iskov claimed he was abducted from his house by short bald humanoids with three-fingered hands. They pulled him by the hair, he claimed. (4 Oct 1996)

It was fascinating to see Ira operate among the nine executives who were listening to us, dynamic business types, facing both a crisis and an opportunity. The key was a drastic reorganization which meant firing their own CEO. (8 May 1976)

“Microwave weapons are of two kinds,” he said, “those that act against electronics, either frying circuits or confusing them, and those that act against personnel, especially at the alpha frequency. An entire region can be exposed, with the inhabitants rendered confused or sick.” (17 May 1994)

I cannot join either camp on the basis of the data I have accumulated. Sometimes I get the awful feeling that I am the only human being who doesn't know what UFOs are. (Epilogue, Vol. 1)

We have brought back details of about twenty cases, two of them involving characteristic chupa injuries. So far there is no proven instance of any death related to the objects. (31 Jul 1988)

For the last time as President, Mitterrand climbed up the hill of Solutré for his yearly pilgrimage. Early in the morning a shirtless man had taken position at the top, beating a drum “to contact extraterrestrials.” “Let him play,” Mitterrand said. He shook the fellow's hand. (23 May 1994)

In the lobby Leah Haley and Marc Davenport described to me the incidents in which ordinary humans were staging false “UFO abductions” that involved harassment and overt attempts at mind control. (9 Oct 1995)

“How do you recognize your true friends?” Janine asked. “Easy,” he said. “True friends get stoned with you; and no one over thirty.” Not very nice for us. At least we know why we get used. (16 Sep 1970)

In a Champs-Elysées library yesterday Simonne thumbed through Holy Blood, Holy Grail where a passage mentions General De Gaulle and a man named Plantard, presented as a key man for the right-wing Comités de Salut Public that brought him back to power. (3 Mar 1983)

At a recent conference of forensic pathologists Kit heard disquieting reports about a sharp increase in human cases of ritual mutilations. In two years the number of such crimes has gone from two or three to over 200. (7 Mar 1987)

I had to laugh at this. “I did go to Brazil, but there weren’t any mutilations. I did look into cases of human injuries, but we found none of the evidence that had been alleged about UFOs directly causing deaths, or bodies being drained of blood.” (8 Jun 1989)

“I thought you guys had all the latest gadgets,” I joked. He answered with a wink: “We do, but we have to go buy them somewhere, from people who are four or five years ahead of the Agency." (11 Feb 1974)