The VISION-D8

1 - I can do better 2 - Jury's out 3 - Pretty darn good 4 - Splendiferous 5 - Awesometastic by 1 person | Log in to rate

Ranked #1,200 in Autos, #93,890 overall

The UFO Sighting of Old Orchard Beach, Maine (1983)

I'm making this page about The VISION-D8 (a UFO) because... well, I was one of the people who saw it. It was late summer/early fall of 1983. I was eight years old. It had a lasting effect on my life, that still stands today.

The events mentioned here on this page took place in the Ross Forest of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, USA in 1983.

 

 

 

Q. The ship which you believe to have crashed, the VISION-D8, is the same ship you write about in your Twighlight Manor stories, correct? People who have read the Twighlight Manor series, are familiar with the intergalactic star ship known as the VISION-D8, and its tiny white skinned drag queen Captain/Pilot Etiole Swanzen a.k.a. The Goldeneagle. It bothers some of your readers, that for some one who never took physics or astronomy, you write some pretty vivid and scientifically accurate details about star ships and solar systems. Than they find out your were only 8 years old when you wrote those things and marvel even more. How do you explain this?

EelKat:
I am able to write with vivid clarity the things which I write about, because I can see them with vivid clarity. I was once asked, why I never write any stories set beyond the current date, and my answer was quite simply this: "Because I don't know today what will happen to Etiole and his family tomorrow." Oh, yes, if you come to my house, I'll attempt to introduce you to Etiole. I'll even take you to where I saw the VISION-D8. To date, no one but me has seen them, except for twice, but I'll show you where it happened, and I'll even show you the famous Goldeneagle, the car whom so many locals fear and hate.

The first time I saw Etiole back in the 1970's I was not alone, and those with me saw him too, though they later denied ever seeing him at all, after being pressured by their parents.

The first time I saw the VISION-D8, flying in the sky overhead, was in 1983, I was not alone, and we all saw it: not just me, but the entire town. They are aliens from another galaxy, and they are very real, however, to say you have not only seen, but also spoken to and made friends with aliens from another galaxy, well, that's the quickest way to get labeled as a crazy person, some thing I sadly learned the hard way, and so actual details of the real sightings were replaced by fictional versions (the Twighlight Manor series) in order to avoid being labeled *crazy*, because quite frankly those labels hurt. Labeling is a form of bullying, wither people want to believe it or not. I don't like it when people start labeling me like that.

In the early 1980's my Twighlight Manor stories were straight up retellings of my sightings of these aliens and their ship. By the late 1980's-early 1990's my LDS Bishop had set out to contacting doctors, psychiatrists and psychologists. Because of this, I stopped writing my stories as non-fiction sightings, and instead rewrote all of the original stories into new fictional versions.

I drew the charts, maps and retold the details of the solar system they came here from, based on what Etiole has told me. Is any of it accurate scientifically? I have no idea. My math is drastically limited. I can do most addition and subtraction problems, and I can count by twos, fives and tens, but beyond that I have zero math skills. I never was able to figure out multiplication, division or fractions, and because I failed both, basic math and pre algebra, I was not allowed to take any high school science courses requiring a knowledge of mathematics. As a result, I have never studied physics, chemistry, technical sciences, or astronomy, so I can not verify that anything I wrote was accurate or not. My high school science was limited to Biology, Zoology, Botany, and Ornithology.

Though I tried, I can not get a GED because I could not do any of the math problems on the test. Because of my math problem, as a teen I was constantly told I was lazy and needed to study more. I don't think any one have ever tried to learn the times tables any more than I did. I studied math for hours, each and every day, for weeks on end, but no matter what I tried, numbers never stuck in my brain. I spent many sleepless nights of my high school years in tears, broken down by the shear frustration of trying to remember the numbers that I had seen on a page only minutes earlier. I know today, that this was caused by dyslexia. I no longer try to figure out how to do math, as I've come to accept that fact that numbers are simply something that my mind is not capable of translating.

But anyways, I know the details of the VISION-D8 inside out because it is a very real star ship. Again, this is a case of me writing what I know.

 

Q. On this lens, is a painting you did of Etiole's star ship, the VISION-D8. You have seen the VISION-D8. What can you tell us about the VISION-D8? Other people saw it. You say the whole town saw it? What happened?

EelKat:
What can I tell you about it? I'll pick up where I left off a few questions back:

I first saw Etiole when I was 4 years old, and at that point was referring to him as "The White Monkey". It wasn't until I was 8 years old, however, when my story of the white monkey changed dramatically, that I started having the problems with adults.

What startled everyone into looking up in the first place, I don't know. But, nearly everyone was thinking there had been some sort of big explosion, so every one was running around expecting to see a mushroom cloud somewhere. All anyone saw though was the same thing I saw. When I was 8, me and a friend from school (I was still in public school than) were playing in the woods, right under the very same tree where the white monkey had first been seen four years earlier, when a bright blinding white light flashed across the sky, and scared the daylights out of us. Her parents, out in their yard, had seen it too, (mine, in the house, had not). Most every one on our street, who was out doors at the time, saw it. It was seen across an area some two miles in diameter, and for the next 2 or 3 weeks, every one on our street, all the kids in school (I was still in public school at the time, but was pulled out of public school, just one month after this incident), and a few local reporters had one topic of conversation: UFOs and alien invasion. By the end of the month the US Navy had made an official announcement which said that what we had seen was the explosion of a weather balloon, they had been testing off the beach, over the ocean. Most people were satisfied with this answer. I was not, because what I had seen was not an explosion. Our conversation alone, that day, proved that.

What I saw, was a huge football-ish shaped silver orb, which hovered directly above our heads. The conversation between my friend and me went like this:


    FRIEND: "Oh my god! Look at the size of that blimp!"

    ME: "That's not a blimp. I've seen blimps. That's no blimp."

    FRIEND: "Than what is it?"

    ME: "I don't know, but that's not a blimp."


The thing stayed there motionless, and than faded into the clouds, or rather, became part of the sky, so to speak.

It was, as our conversation had stated, a somewhat blimp like shape, but the shape was wrong. Blimps were all hot dog shaped and this was much rounder, more circular. It was too shiny to be a blimp. This thing was polished metal. Blimps are fabric. Blimps are nothing more than glorified hot air balloons. This thing was nothing like a glorified hot air balloon.

A trip to a hot air balloon show about a year prior to this sighting, had taught me all about hot air balloons, shiny silver weather balloons, blimps, and zeppelins. At the time I could have told you anything you wanted to know about hot air balloons, weather balloons, blimps, and zeppelins, because after seeing them in person, I had gone on a rampant study of them. I grew up in Old Orchard Beach in the 1970's, for crying out loud, there was a war going on (Vietnam), and we had the best beach there was to test things. People came from all over the world to test out weird flying objects, the government was always here with their big silver weather balloons and black batwing jets, the military even trained their paratroopers on our beach. I used to sit on the roof of our house, and keep track of all the weird flying things we had zipping around. I used to count how many paratroopers they dropped out of planes each day. I know I was only 8 years old and "normal" 8 year olds aren't supposed to do these types of things, old scientists are supposed to act like that, but as an adult it's now said I have Asperger's Syndrome, which is marked by being a scientific bookworm nerd at a very early age. I certainly was that, and my keeping track of how many paratroops jumped from planes out onto the beach, pretty much proved that.

Due to our beachfront location, we (the local residents) always had things zipping around over our heads, so it was just natural for locals to be looking up to see what the latest thing being tested on our beach would be. I had written up charts, and kept track of the ones I had seen and this, this thing now hovering over the trees, this wasn't any of those things. For starters, it was just too damn big. Whatever it was we were looking at, not only was it too big to be a blimp, it was dwarfing the biggest jumbo jets. I couldn't explain what it was, and when the military suddenly announced it was an exploded weather balloon? Honey, I've seen weather balloons, they were testing weather balloons on our beach all the time. This was no weather balloon. I didn't know what it was, but I knew with out a doubt that it was no weather balloon, and it certainly hadn't exploded, either, cause it was perfectly hovering there in one solid piece.

    Everyone saw it.
    Everyone wanted to know what it was.
    The military had a lame story of an exploding weather balloon.
    Everyone believed the military story.
    I said the military story made no logical sense.


It became my obsession.

I would spend the next six years drawing pictures of it and writing up long detailed scientific diagrams about it. People at church suddenly became terrified of me, because here I was the 8 year old child of "an uneducated farmer", barely starting school, and who not only had no knowledge of advanced sciences, I had no knowledge of any kind of sciences at all, yet, I was drawing up technical schematics and diagrams of both the insides and outsides of a star ship that could travel trough space using tiny holes in the galaxy to shoot it across the universe like a bullet. Adults around me, started acting very strange, but at that point, I did not understand that it was because the things I was drawing and writing had absolutely terrified them.

When asked how I could draw and write these things, I could not answer. I had no explanations for how I was doing it. I didn't know what it was I was drawing and writing. I didn't know how I knew these things. And what scared people the most, was the fact that I said, the pictures were appearing in my head like a movie and I was writing them down as I saw them. A doctor at the Cape Elizabeth LDS church, recommended sending me to a Dr. Collins. My family stopped going to church. I wouldn't find out who this Dr Collins was until I was 15 years old. He, worked with Pine Land Center, an insane asylum.

 


One year after that sighting, my friend who had seen it with me, was banned from speaking to me. The police showed up at our door with a paper I had to sign to say that I would never have contact with her for the rest of my life. Her parents were so terrified of me, that they took out a restraining order on me. I was just one week from turning 9 years old, and that, was just the beginning. I didn't return to school that next year either. I was 12 years old before my family started going to church again.

While the White Monkey I had seen 4 years earlier, was viewed as an over active imagination, this thing, this star ship, it would be what would forever label me as crazy. It was why people said I had schizophrenia. I was being accused of having schizophrenia, an illness that afflicts young adults, people in their 20's and 30's, and I was only 8 years old.

What had we seen, and what was I drawing? According to Etiole: The VISION-D8, a star ship, his star ship. A star ship the size of a small planet and made out of a mirror finished nearly impenetrable silver metal which reflected all things around it, making it completely invisible to the Human eye. (Etiole calls the metal: Lubriderm, though I'm not sure I'm spelling that right.) The only time anyone ever saw it was either just before leaving or just after entering the Earth's atmosphere, when the debris from the impact was still swirling around it, and causing it to be unable to reflect the sky and clouds around it. Its entry and exit points are nearly always over oceans, for two reasons:


    1.) The ocean is reflecting the clouds above it, thus, the bottom of the ship, will also reflect the clouds above, making the ship almost impossible to be seen by Humans.

    2.) If it crashed over the ocean, it would not be severely damaged, and could easily take off again from the surface of the water.


It moved by harnessing the high gravitational forces in certain tiny pinhead sized areas, all across the universe. Once the ship came into contact with these pinholes in the atmosphere, the pinhole opened up swallowing the ship and spitting it out on the other end of the tunnel, which could be elsewhere on the planet, or someplace on the other side of the galaxy, or all the way on the other side of the universe. Every pinhole opened up to different areas, each pinhole always went to the same place each time. The star charts used on the VISION-D8 map where all of these pinholes are and where all of them go to. The pressure caused by going through these pinholes is so great that they can travel from one side of the galaxy to another, in almost a split instant, with no time passing at all from point A to point B. The one over our town doesn't connect to outer space, but rather is a short jump connecting to a spot in Northern Maine. At that spot there is a second pinhole which connects to another galaxy. It is from there that they get to and from this region of our planet. They than use the short jump pinholes to go back and forth to different places on the planet.

The pinholes are every where, but most of them are not useable, due to where they come out. Preference is given to ones that open over oceans. These are the ones used on a regular basis. If no ocean is available, other preference points are large old growth forests, deserts, and grasslands (prairies, etc.) These are the ones used often, but not as often as the ocean ones. Only very rarely are ones used, that are known to open over heavily populated areas. Two reasons:


    1.) It's easier for the ships to be spotted by Humans, which they would rather avoid.

    2.) There's the risk of the ship crashing and hurting people on the planet. Another thing they want to avoid, as they are peaceful by nature and not intent on hurting any one.


Basically they are simple travelers. I suppose you could say they were like wandering gypsies or nomads or the like, just traveling about seeing the sights.
This ship itself is an unusual shape, which is best described as football shaped, except that's not completely accurate. It looked like a some what squashed football, but very smooth, very rounded, with no harsh edges.

It was a perfectly smooth, very white, sliver color, like platinum. The finish of it was like a mirror, and the top of it, was reflecting the sunlight, so it looked like the thing was glowing with lights, but there were no lights on it, it was just the sunlight reflecting off of it.

Horizontally, around it's center rim, was a band of carvings, which looked some what like Egyptian hieroglyphics, but I can read Egyptian hieroglyphics and that's not what these were. The markings were more like Celtic runes than hieroglyphs, I think. You know, more letter, less picture. It was defiantly writing of some sort. It was much too organized to have been a drawing or design.

Q. Why is it called VISION-D8 and how was it built?

EelKat:
The title VISION-D8 it what Etiole says to be the "English translation" of what they call the ships. The word V.I.S.I.O.N. is short for the title of the type of ship it is (there are other types), each letter standing for a word in the title. The D8 hyphen identifies this particular VISION ship from other VISION ships. There are 13 of them, which Etiole identifies as D1 through D13. I'm not sure what exactly the letter D stands for or if it stand for anything at all, or if it's just Etiole translating weird. Etiole's ability to translate words, letters, and numbers from his native tongue into English is under question here. Firstly, he translates from his language to French and than from French to English, English being his third language. Secondly, having been on Earth for well over 300 years, he seems to have forgotten large portions of his native tongue.

The smaller ships being the ones used to get from one place on the planet to another. It is the smaller ships which most people see, when reporting seeing a UFO, and the huge VISION ships are very rarely sighted.

The VISION ships are not native to Etiole's home planet, or even to his solar system. Etiole has no idea how the VISION ships are built. His people didn't build them, his people do not have the technology for space travel. He doesn't know what they are made out of, but that they are built of a silver-white metal that can not be damaged or melted by anything we have on Earth. They are ancient ships, alien to Etiole's home planet. He says that they were built by the Diontite Scientists, and that all but two of them (the VISION-D6 and the VISION-D8) are still owned and used by the Diontite scientists. Etiole's people took possession of the VISION-D8 and the VISION-D6 during a war.

Q. I'll ask about the Diontites in a minute. Right now I'd like to continue focus on the ship itself and your experience of it. It is common for those who have seen a UFO to experience lost time. Do you remember anything like that?

EelKat:
You got to keep in mind something here: I was 8 years old when I saw the VISION-D8. I barely had a concept of time at all, let alone a concept that time could become lost. If I did loose time, I don't remember it.

Q. Have you ever lost time at any point since than?

EelKat:
No idea, and no way of knowing. I didn't start wearing a watch until I got my job at Macy's in 2006. Before than I had absolutely no need for time at all. I never left my house except for to go to church or to go to the library, or to wait for one of my mom's many doctors appointments, none of which required my needing to know the time. I simply went where ever my family went when ever they said it was time to leave.

Actually, I have great difficulty telling time. I did not discover this until I was 31 years old and bought my watch so I could get to work at Macy's on time. It has, you know, those hand things that go around, but I can never remember which one is which, and than I have to stop and count each space before I can figure out which hand is pointing at which number. I usually mix up the 15 and the 45 too. People are always getting mad at me because they'll ask me what time it is and than they have to wait 3 or 4 minutes while I count the numbers and than I'll say five fifteen and they'll think they are early, but than they look at the clock and it says five forty-five and they are late, and they start yelling at me and saying I told them the wrong time on purpose to get them in trouble. When I try to explain to them that I never learned math, and I don't know how to read clocks they get angry and say I'm just making up excuses.

 

It's awful when they make me run the cash register and I have to give the costumer change back, because I can't count money any better than I can count the numbers on a watch. I try to avoid running the cash register when ever possible, because it involves the two things that I have never learned how to do: talking to Humans and doing math. It's been so many years since I've spoken words to a Human, that it's really hard for me to do now. And I never did learn math at all. I can count okay, and I can do most addition, and some subtraction, but beyond that, math is lost on me. And well, time falls into that category. So when you ask about lost time, I can't answer that, because I have always used the sun and the moon and the stars to tell time by, I've never used watches and clocks before and I really don't know how to. I grew up on a farm. I got up with the sun. I did the heavy yard work before the sun got too hot at mid-day, I did my writing and drawing when it was too hot to do the yard work, and when the sun moved over the swamp I feed the animals so that they would have time to eat before the sun set. When it got dark I went to bed. I've done this for 34 years now. It's the only way I know how to tell time. For the whole lost time thing, I would have to know specific hours and minutes, and keep track of them. So in answer to your question, have I ever lost time? I don't know. I have no way of knowing.

Q. Do you ever attend UFO conferences?

EelKat:
UFO conferences? Never heard of them. What is that, like, a place where scientists and abductees get together to talk about aliens? That would be pretty weird, being around people, Humans, who believed in aliens and UFOs. I can't say I have ever met any one who believed me before.

I've never attended a conference of any kind at all. I'm not too big on being in confining spaces, especially, if it's a room with a lot of people. I don't do too well around people. I do even less well around people when I'm in a building.

Q. So you have never gotten together with any other abductee or contactee type people than?

EelKat:
No. Why should I? I've never even met another person with any type of alien or UFO experience. Actually, I didn't even start referring to Etiole as an alien until just a couple of years ago. I've always called him "the white monkey" or "my merman from space". I don't know, I guess I just never really thought of him as an alien.

Q. Don't you think that it would be better if you got together with other people who have had alien contact? You know, to share details, compare stories, or just to have a fellow believer with which to talk to?

EelKat:
I suppose, yeah, in a way, it would be nice to have some one to talk to about this, someone who isn't going to start waving a Bible in my face and start calling me Satanic, I mean. That's the normal response I get: religious hysteria. I guess, you can tell I grew up in a pretty religious community, not that I would call it much of a community, not in the true sense of the word at least.

But, yeah, it would be nice to have some one I could just sit down with and talk to about this stuff. I don't know if I could just sit down and talk to anyone anymore though. It's been thirty years now, where, every time I say anything, I get laughed at, ridiculed, told I'm crazy, told I'm evil, or have people react with out right fear or violence. I've pretty much stopped talking. Not, stopped talking about aliens or UFO's, but actually stopped talking. I can go for days, weeks, or months without ever saying a word now. It just got to the point where it was useless for me to say anything thing about any subject, because no one would listen to me anyways, so I just stopped using my mouth for anything other than eating. Yeah, it'd be nice to have some one to talk with, about anything, just a Human willing to have a conversation with me at all, would be nice.

Q. So would you consider going to a UFO conference?

EelKat:
No.

Q. Can I ask why?

EelKat:
Thirty years of cruelty at the hands of Humans. Why would I want to seek out contact with them now? I sought contact with adults throughout my entire childhood and teen years. I continued seeking Human contact throughout my young adult years. Now in middle age, I've given up hope of ever finding another Human willing to treat me like I was an equal. I am an outcast. I've finally had to accept that. I don't seek out contact with other Humans anymore. It's too painful to keep getting rejected, over and over again. I'm tired of the name calling. I'm tired of the ridicule. I'm tired of their laughter. I'm tired of the lectures. I'm tired of the preaching. I'm tired of the fear. I'm tired of the hate. The one thing I wanted was the one thing I never got: kindness, love, and understanding. There was always cruelty but never compassion. Every one is always too busy laughing at me to try laughing with me. The year of the tent, changed me. What hope I had of finding friendship, left me the year of the tent. What faith I had in the Human race, left me than. They took everything from me. The paint balls, the guns, the fire, what they did to my books and records; it just opened my eyes once and for as to just how much these people really hated me. Than, after everything they did, living under a tarp for a year, seeing what life was like for the homeless people, seeing how Humans treated people on the streets. It showed me just how little people cared about anyone out there. That's why.

 

Q. Your story of Etiole and his ship attracted military attention, is that correct?

EelKat:
Yes. It did. That's what lead up to my being homeless by 2006. Because I tried to find out what Etiole was. What the VISION-D8 was, and, I mean, at 8 years old, you don't think about things like, not telling certain people about what you saw. You think it's alright to tell your relatives about it. I mean, I knew my uncle worked for the Air Force and all, I didn't know what he did. I knew Etiole didn't like him, I didn't know why. It just never occurred to me, to not tell my uncle what I had seen. I just wanted to know what Etiole was. I never could have imagined my uncle would do the things he did.

Q. So you, at one point in your life, did in fact try to find out what exactly Etiole was and where he came from, is that correct? It resulted in your doing a massive study into, not aliens, but rather Fairies? What can you tell us about this?

EelKat:
Yes. Actually it was only in the last 2 or 3 years that I started referring to Etiole as an alien. For most of the past 30 years, the thought that he was an alien had not even occurred to me, and since relatives and church members kept saying he was a demon or a poltergeist, I just went along with it and called him either a demon or a poltergeist, simply because I was a kid and I assumed that the adults knew what they were talking about.

Of course, since becoming an adult myself and getting out in the world and having contact with adults not related to me and not from my church, I have come to realize that my relatives and the members of the church I grew up in, are a bunch of freaking nuts and that's when I stopped thinking of Etiole as either a demon or a poltergeist and made the move to trying to figure out what it was he is.

I was about 27 years old the first time I heard about the Greys and the theory of alien abductions. I didn't know what either thing was, cause I'd never heard of them before, and so I started asking people what the hell an alien abduction was and what are these things called Greys. That's when I found out that there are thousands of people out there who have seen creature similar to Etiole. It was a sudden revelation to me, the fact that I was not alone and that I was not the only person out there claiming to have seen a creature like Etiole. I was stunned by learning this, because all my life I had been told that I was the only one and that it was proof that I was suffering from schizophrenia (even though three doctors have told me I did not have schizophrenia or any other mental disorder at all.) The really weird thing is, that I have since found out that the Greys and alien abduction stories are often suppressed by Air Force agents. Will, here's the weird thing: my uncle, the one who told my bishop I was a threat to national security? He is an Air Force intelligence officer working out of Nevada. The fact that he lived in Nevada and me and my bishop both lived in Maine, always puzzled me as to why he was set on writing letters to my bishop and trying to have me put in a mental institute. But than, once I found out about the Air Force involvement in the Greys, suddenly, all those years of letters from my military officer uncle, suddenly made sense and everything he had said and done over the years, now fit together like a puzzle. Near as I can figure, my story of the white monkey/Etiole and the VISION-D8, had hit a nerve on something that my uncle was working on in Nevada, and he started doing everything in his power to shut me, because if word got out the things I was saying, he would end up getting in trouble, because his higher officers (he was a Major) would think he had told me something about his secret work in Nevada and than he'd get in trouble. And all these past 30 years I just thought it was my uncle being mean to me for no reason at all. Now it make sense the things he did and said (and continues to do and say even to this day, even though he'd been retired for the past 10 or 12 years). But like I said, that's all resent, stuff I found out just in the past 5 years. Before I heard about the Greys and alien abductions, my theory was that Etiole was a Faerie of some sort.

Q. I'd like to interrupt real quick, and ask, how many of your uncles are in the military and what do they do.

EelKat:
My grandparents had 12 children: 8 boys and 4 girls. Being super strict Orthodox LDS, most all of them have had multiple spouses, with the highest number currently being 8 (8 spouses for one spouse... yeah, I told you, my extended family was really weird, and there are a lot of reasons why I have disowned myself from their relations.) This explains how I came to be one of 264 cousins in this huge multi generational family. Of those multitudes of aunts and uncles, nearly all of them joined the military during the 1960's through 1970's, but only three of them stayed on and worked in the military (now all retired). One with level 2 security, one with level 3 security, and one with level 5 security.

The one with level 3 security, was a mechanic in the air force, worked out of Utah and claims to have worked on experimental air crafts built using extraterrestrial technology.

The one with level 5 security was a Marine. He was stationed in Nevada, Utah, Virginia, and Washington D.C. and worked in what he called "boarder patrol" for the government, and "officially" his job was to keep Mexican immigrants out of the USA, however, after retiring he bragged that that was just a cover story for the fact that he was really working on a secret project communicating with UFOs and that quote: "Hailbop was NOT what the US government is telling people it was." Whatever that is suppose to mean, I don't know. He claims to "know things" which he hopes that someday the world will be "ready to hear."

I don't know wither or not to believe the claims of either uncle. Both started making these claims in the last 5 years, after they had retired.

The third uncle, the one with level 2 security, was an intelligence officer in the Air Force, worked out of the Pentagon, and was a part of the "Ollie North trials". Though he was never on one of the shuttle flights, he claims to be an astronaut and there are many photos of him in his full astronaut gear. Before making the move to Major, he was a pilot, but is only authorized for single passenger flights, and refuses to talk about the planes he flew saying that they were a secret. He was moved around a lot, but most of his time in the military (a space of about 40 years) he was stationed in Nevada, Nebraska, Illinois, Florida, and Germany.

"Officially" he is listed as a US Spy on Russia. He is more of less famous in military realms and there have been at least 2 books written about him, that I know of, though I think there are actually 4 or 5 books out there about him. I have never read any of the books so I don't know what they say about him; I find the whole military history pretty dull and boring. But seeing how there are books (biographies) written about my secretive religion crazed domineering Major uncle, I suppose it wouldn't be too hard for you to look him up and read about him for yourself.

He was forced to retired after some sort of a controversy, something to do with an "iron curtain" he said once, but what the controversy was, I do not know. I never did figure out how you could make curtains out of iron or what that had to do with anything, so I figure it must have been the name of something and not actual curtains made out of iron. What I do know, is that shortly after retiring he returned from Russia with a Russian wife, and I suspect that had something to do with his forced retirement.

The two uncles who brag about working on extraterrestrial technology, both claim that their brother the Intelligence Officer Major was the one who did most of the work covering up such stories and seeing to it that the public never found out about aliens and UFOs. Both joke that he was one of the so-called "Men in Black". Is that true? I don't know. But I do know, that this same Major uncle of mine, was the one who wrote the letters to my bishop saying I was a threat to national security, and telling my bishop that I was a dangerous schizophrenic who must be institutionalized. And I do know that he wrote these letters because of my refusal to deny the existence of Etiole and the VISION-D8.

NOTE: Due to the nature of the letters in question, that info is not being posted online. I've had enough threats as it is from my military uncle, I don't want any more. He's going to hit the roof as it is, should he ever find out about this website. Sorry.

 

Q. Okay, I just wanted to make sure that our readers knew this fact about your uncles. Now, please continue with how you came to think Etiole was a Faerie.

EelKat:
I was about 10 or 12 years old, not sure when exactly it was, but as part of a research project for school, I had gotten a book out at the library. I was supposed to write a report on ancient mythology, and was becoming increasingly bored with Greek and Roman mythology, so looked into Norse and Celtic mythology instead. I ended up checking out the book Faeries by Brian Froud. I read the entire book, cover to cover in about three days, and it was than that it occurred to me that Etiole was not Human. I don't know why it had not occurred to me earlier, but the thought had never really crossed my mind. Etiole was just there, so I never thought about how he had come to be there before. Of course the was the ship and all that, but still, it had not occurred to me hat the ship itself was anything that unusual either. I knew my talking about Etiole and the VISION-D8 bothered adults, but I had yet to understand why adult were getting upset over it. At some point, while reading Faeries, it hit me: "That's why adults get upset! Etiole is not Human, Etiole is one of these things!" After that I took to studying everything I could get my hands on about fairies in general and dryads in particular.

My original assumption was that Etiole was some sort of a white birch dryad, and that was what I started calling him for a short while. I had come to this conclusion, based on the fact that he had white skin, and prior to living in my car, he had lived in the trees surrounding the swamp. This dryad theory lasted for 6 or 7 months, with me focusing all of my energy on studying all that had ever been written on dryads, but that it occurred to me, that dryads were strictly tree dwelling spirits and something here just wasn't adding up. First starters, Etiole was not a tree dweller per say, as he was simply hiding in the trees from Humans; he preferred to live in, around, or near water, making him a water dweller, not a tree dweller. Secondly, dryads were spirit beings without solid bodies, and though it's small and thin, Etiole does have a pretty solid body, making him not a spirit creature. So, my dryad theory flopped and for a while I gave up on the whole Etiole as a faerie theory.

It didn't end there though. In about 1993, some 6 or 7 years after the dryad theory, I took Brian Froud's book out from the library again, this time doing research into Phookas, the evil shape shifting creatures that would become one of the staples in my Twighlight Manor books. I ended up reading the entire book all over again, and this time, being older and having known Etiole for many years by this time, the chapter on water faeries stood out to me.

Q. This would be when you was writing the revised and much expanded and somewhat controversial 1993 version of Friends Are Forever, correct?

EelKat:
Yes.

Q. So this was also when you created the race known as the Salt Water Eel Sirens, which became the main race used in your books from that point on?

EelKat:
Yes, that's when I wrote up my theories on sirens and created the concept of eel mermaids or eel sirens, which is what I believe Etiole to be. The sirens in my Twighlight Manor books are based on my studies of the history of merfolk, combined with what I know about Etiole. Etiole is very much a merman. He matches the French folk stories about women who sat on the shore singing and luring men to drown themselves. Etiole matches the stories of angry mermaids who sent fierce hurricanes, wind storms, and lightening bolts to punish Humans who had harmed their loved ones. It became very clear to me than, that Etiole was in fact from the race of creatures that had haunted the shores of France in the 1500's - 1800's.

That's when every thing fell into place and the big "AH-HUH!" moment happened. I had finally found what Etiole was, or close to it, at least. Etiole, had lived in France, I knew this. Etiole was a water creature, there was no doubt of this. He had lived in France during the time when sailors were telling mermaid stories left and right, not only that, he had lived in France when sailors were supposedly capturing mermaids and selling them to side shows. It was like I had had this big puzzle scattered all about and than suddenly all the pieces just fell into place on their own.

There were differences of course. For one thing, nearly all of the old sailors' tales told of mermaids not mermen. The stories were saying that these merfolk were a race of Fae, which traditionally is an alternate plane of existence or an alternate dimension, which exists on top of and over lapping our existence with Humans and Faeries living side by side on a daily basis but each not seeing the other except for on rare occasions.

It was like I had unlocked some ancient long lost secret. I took all the things I knew about Etiole, and used them to fill in the blanks about merfolk. Than I took everything I now knew about the ancient merfolk and I used them to fill in the blanks about Etiole. The end result was my Eel Siren theory.

Q. For those readers who are not familiar with your Twighlight Manor series, could you please explain, just what it is, that the Eel Siren theory is?

EelKat:
My conclusion is, keeping in mind here that this is just a guess, is that the ancient mermaids seen by sailors were in fact very real creatures. However, my theory is that, contrary to traditional beliefs, they are not from Earth, but rather was a group of intergalactic travelers who crash landed in the ocean. The ship was eventually repaired and took off again, however, several members of the crew, got left behind, presumed dead. Etiole being among those left behind. Being water creatures, they adapted and adjusted to their new home taking to the Earth's oceans and living along coastal cliffs. Etiole is not, the traditional, half human half fish, you often see in paintings. He has legs, not a tail, but his body has a definite fish like nature to it. If I was to look at Etiole and than look at the creatures in our oceans and compare him to any one of them, it would be the eel. It is for this reason I took to calling Etiole an Eel Siren.

My theory continues onward and speculates even farther, that it may be possible that somewhere out there is a planet or maybe even an entire solar system, which is in fact named by it's people: Fae, and that this is where the Eel Sirens came from. If this were true than all Faeries are in fact aliens, and this would explain the centuries long sightings of these various unexplained creatures.

The Faerie mythology tells of openings in the Earth, where one can walk through and step out instantly on another world, a world known as the Realm of Fae. Well, this fit too, because the VISION-D8 travels through wormholes and gets from here to there and there to here in an instant. So, it just plain made sense to me.

About Etiole: 

Etiole is the retired Captain of The VISION-D8. More info about him can be found here:

What Happened Because I Told People About This: 

Reader Feedback 


Thank You Kitty

I love comments. Like one of my lenses? Just want to say hi? Go ahead and leave comments.

You know what else I like? Links! I'm one of the few lensmasters you will find who requests links in comments! If you have a lens of the same topic as this lense (ufos, aliens, paranormal, etc.), feel free to leave a link to it. I am constantly adding other people's lenses as featured lenses on my own.

PS: Don't forget to leave a star rating too. (See top of lens page). Thanks!

Got an idea you'd like to suggest for a lens? I'd love to hear it! I'm constantly creating new lenses and updating my old ones.

While you are here, why not check out these other lenses:

Create your own banner at mybannermaker.com!

Create your own banner at mybannermaker.com!

Nearly All of my lenses support The Pidgie Fund:

Create your own banner at mybannermaker.com!

For info on how to make banners for your own lenses check out this site: Make your own banner at MyBannerMaker.com!

purple dotblue dotpurple dotblue dotpurple dotblue dotpurple dotblue dot

submit

Wikipedia 

Unidentified flying object (commonly abbreviated as UFO or U.F.O.) is the popular term for any aerial phenomenon whose cause cannot be easily or immediately identified by the observer. The United States Air Force, which coined the term in 1952, initially defined UFOs as those objects that remain unidentified after scrutiny by expert investigators,Air Force Regulation 200-2 text versionpdf of document, initially defined a UFO as "any airborne object that by performance, aerodynamic characteristics, or unusual features, does not conform to any presently known aircraft or missile type, or that cannot be positively identified as a familiar object." The Air Force added that "Technical Analysis thus far has failed to provide a satisfactory explanation for a number of sightings reported." A later version [http://www.foia.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-070703-004.pdf] altered the definition to "Any aerial phenomena, airborne objects or objects that are unknown or appear out of the ordinary to the observer because of performance, aerodynamic characteristics, or unusual features," and added "Air Force activities must reduce the percentage of unidentifieds to a minimum. Analysis thus far has explained all but a few of the sightings reported. These unexplained sightings are carried statistically as unidentifieds." though the term UFO is often used more generally to describe any sighting unidentifiable to the reporting observer(s). Popular culture frequently takes the term UFO as a synonym for alien spacecraft. Cults have become associated with UFOs, and mythology and folklore have evolved around the phenomenon.Vallée, J. (1990). Alien Contact by Human Deception." New York: Anomalist Books. ISBN 1-933665-30-0 Some investigators now prefer to use the broader term unidentified aerial phenomenon (or UAP), to avoid the confusion and speculative associations that have become attached to UFO. A good example is the National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena or NARCAP. [http://www.narcap.org/newspage.htm] Another widely known acronym for UFO in Spanish, French, Portuguese and Italian is OVNI.

Studies have established that the majority of UFOs are observations of some real but conventional object?most commonly aircraft, balloons, or astronomical objects such as meteors or bright planets?that have been misidentified by the observer as anomalies while a small percentage of reported UFOs are hoaxes.For example, the USAFs Project Blue Book concluded that less than 2 % of reported UFOs were "psychological" or hoaxes; Allen Hendry's study for CUFOS had less than 1 % Only a small percentage of reported sightings (usually 5 to 20%) can be classified as unidentified flying objects in the strictest sense (see below for some studies).

Some scientists have argued that all UFO sightings are misidentifications of natural phenomenaMenzel, D. H.; Taves, E. H. (1977). The UFO enigma. Garden City (NY, USA): Doubleday and historically, there was debate among some scientists about whether scientific investigation was warranted given available empirical data.McDonald, James. E. (1968). Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects submitted to the House Committee on Science and Astronautics at July 29, 1968, Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Rayburn Bldg., Washington, D.D.COMETA Report: http://www.ufoevidence.org/topics/Cometa.htm Politicking and Paradigm Shifting: James E. McDonald and the UFO Case Study http://www.project1947.com/shg/mccarthy/shgintro.htmlhttp://news-service.stanford.edu/news/1998/july1/ufostudy71.html Very little peer-reviewed literature has been published in which scientists have proposed, studied or supported non-prosaic explanations for UFOs. Allen Hynek was a trained astronomer who participated in Project Bluebook after doing research as a federal government employee. He formed the opinion that some UFO reports could not be scientifically explained. Through his founding of the Center for UFO Studies and participation at CUFOs he spent the rest of his life researching and documenting UFOs. The movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind had a character loosely based on Hynek. Another group studying UFOs is Mutual UFO Network. MUFON is a grass roots based organization known for publishing one of the first UFO investigators handbooks. This handbook went into great detail on how to document alleged UFO sightings.

UFO reports became frequent after the first widely publicized U.S. sighting, reported by private pilot Kenneth Arnold in 1947, that gave rise to the popular terms "flying saucer" and "flying disc." Since then, millions of people have reported that they have seen UFOs.For example, recent 2008 U.S. and U.K. opinion polls [http://www.reporternews.com/news/2008/jul/26/you-are-not-alone/] indicate that at least 8 % of these populations say they have had UFO sightings

About Me 

Lensmaster EelKat has been a member since April 18 2007, has rated 6,048 lenses, favorited 3,139, and has created 404 lenses from scratch. This member's top-ranked page is "Publishing Methods". See all my lenses

My Bio



I am Wendy C Allen, Doll Maker and Independent Avon Sales Representative.
I love Eels. I love Bobcat. I am a Giant Squid and a Squid Angel.
I am an author and artist who rescues animals & raises Ranchus.
View my page on I Believe.
Are you on FaceBook? Become a fan.
You can find out more about me and my life here: About Me & On Being Homeless
I believe in Faeries, Phookas & Faith Not Religion.
I was a witness to a UFO sighting in Maine.
I am a CosPlayer.
My favorite actor is Vincent Price.
I love reading and writing and spending time with nature.
My favorite author is Keith Laumer and his best book is Retief & the Warlords.
Thanks for visiting my lens.



If I were a month, I would be August.
If I were a day of the week, I would be Friday the 13th.
If I were a time of day, I would be twilight.
If I were a planet, I would be Jupiter.
If I were a sea animal, I would be a giant moray eel.
If I were a direction, I would be East.
If I were a historical figure, I would be ______ ?
If I were a liquid, I would be Moxie.
If I were a bird I would be a turkey vulture.
If I were a cat I would be black.
If I were a dog I would be a Cocker Spaniel.
If I were a tree, I would be a great white pine.
If I were a tool, I would be _______ ?
If I were a flower, I would be a blue flag.
If I were a type of weather, I would be a warm spring day.
If I were an animal, I would be a bobcat.
If I were a season I would be Autumn.
If I were a holiday I would be Halloween.
If I were a color, I would be orange.
If I were an emotion, I would be love.
If I were a sound, I would be laughter.
If I were an element, I would be the water.
If I were a car, I would be a Cadillac.
If I were a food, I would be macaroni and cheese.
If I were a place, I would be Otter Cove.
If I were a body of water I would be the North Atlantic Ocean.
If I were a song I would be "Come Hell or High Water" by Poison.
If I were a book I would be Jane Eyre.
If I were a gemstone I would be a pigeon blood star.
If I were a metal I would be platinum.
If I were a word, I would be unforgettable.
My favorite color is orange.
My second favorite color is blue.
I also like pink.
My favorite city is Old Orchard Beach.
My favorite place to walk is The Ross Forest.
My favorite view is the rocky coast of Maine.
My favorite Disney character is Scrooge McDuck.
My favorite super hero is Darkwing Duck.
My favorite Disney villain is NegaDuck.
My second favorite Disney villain is SteeleBeak.
My favorite super villain is the Joker.
My favorite Disney non-duck character is Tiger.
My favorite trees are white pines.
My favorite flowers are purple iris & blue roses.
My favorite animals are eels & bobcat & roosters & ranchu.
My favorite flavor ice cream is French Vanilla.
My favorite dogs are Cocker Spaniels.
My favorite singer is Serj Tankian.
My favorite musician is Liberace`.
My favorite guitarist is C*C*DeVille.
My favorite food is veggie & rice stir fry.
My favorite pizza is black olive, mushroom, spinach, cheese, dill pickle, & lima bean, with no sauce.
My favorite fruit is grapes.
My favorite place to shop online is Kyoto Antiques.
My favorite non-fiction book is The Self-Publishing Manual by Dan Poynter.
My favorite book is Retief and the Warlords.
My favorite series of books is The Retief Series by Keith Laumer.
Image Hosted by ImageShack.us























Hey, you know what? I sell Avon! I'm an Independent Avon eRepresentative and that means you can buy Avon from me, 24 hours a day, from your computer, from anyplace in the world, and Avon will ship it to you.






Check out these great lenses...

lens image
Creating a Fantasy Realm
Are you writing a fantasy novel? Have you joined NaNoWriMo and don't know what to do next? Do you need to know where your characters live? Need help creating that new world? You can find help here! On this lens are some things that I do when creating... view lens
lens image
The Top 5 NaNoWriMo Tools
Every November thousands of writers gather together to take part in the world's largest writing contest: The National Novel Writing Month 50,000 Words in 30 Days Contest also known as NaNoWriMo. Myself, I've been doing the contest every year since 20... view lens
lens image
NaNoWriMo: Reaching 50,000 using EelKat's Methods
NaNoWriMo 2009 will be my 5th year at NaNo. So far I've had 4 years and 3 wins and this year I'm going for my fourth win. I failed my first year (2005) ...did like 2,000 before I got bored with my plot. I did 183,000 my second year (2006) ... kind... view lens
lens image
EK's Lensography For Writers
This is a list of all of my lenses for writers. Oh, and for those wondering: What's with all the waterfalls? I do a lot of my writing outside in my garden or in the forest behind my yard, and there is a brook going through my yard. Now whenever I s... view lens
lens image
Wendy C. Allen - Avon Representative
You have reached the business profile of Wendy C. Allen - Independent Avon Sales Representative of Old Orchard Beach, Maine since 1996 view lens

 

If you can't see the Module Settings box here, try reloading the Lens Workshop...

ClickBank Ads Module »

by EelKat



I am Wendy C Allen, Doll Maker and Independent Avon Sales Representative.
I love Eels. I love Bobcat. I am a Giant Squid and a Squid Angel.
I am an...

(more)

Related Topics

Create a Lens!