Geoff Blackmore wrote:
> A Personal Breakthrough: A Huge Question Answered
> Thursday October 16th, 2003
> By Whitley Strieber
> http://www.unknowncountry.com/journal/
>
> Ever since I realized that something strange had happened to me on
> December 26, 1985, I have held the question open of what that might
> have been. In Communion, I was careful to preserve this question
> throughout the book, and I have always stayed loyal to this question,
> no matter how much pressure I have been under to resolve it in one
> way or another.
>
> However, I have also always believed that it is essential not to
> cling to questions after they have been answered, and this one has
> been answered. I know what happened to me on that night, and I know,
> if not who did it, then certainly who did not. I also know that the
> United States government is actively engaged in a process of
> debunking the truth about the situation, and the ‘why’ of that.
>
> It has taken me nearly twenty years to reach these conclusions.
> Oddly, the change in my position has not been a slow process but a
> relatively quick one. Let me tell you how it came about.
>
> In 1989, I was in anguish. I knew that something truly extraordinary
> was happening to me, and also that our degenerate culture was
> laughing it off with rectal probe jokes. I am a very private man, and
> on a personal, sexual level very conservative, and I found this not
> only humiliating but depressing. It was depressing to see that the
> amazingly rich and complex experience that I was having was being
> rejected. But I also knew that there was no historical record of
> anything similar. I had made a very special sort of a breakthrough
> that could have been a rich source of new scientific knowledge, but
> it was being treated as a joke.
>
> In those days, radio and television shows, eager to be as cruel to me
> as possible for the entertainment of their audiences, used to try to
> obtain copies of my second hypnosis tape. They wanted to get a laugh
> out of a man describing how he had felt while being raped.
>
> I would sometimes send them copies, if they were especially vicious
> in their threats of how they would treat me on the air if I didn’t,
> but I would remove from the copies everything about the ‘rectal
> probe.’
>
> Then I stopped altogether even taking calls from the media. I
> confined my media appearances to book tours only. But then, as I was
> publishing Confirmation, Parade Magazine suddenly published a false
> article stating that I had admitted that I had temporal lobe epilepsy
> and had become a celebrity supporter of the Epilepsy Foundation.
>
> This was completely false, literally made up out of whole cloth, and
> I was able to force Parade to print a retraction as prominent as the
> original article. The editor confidentially told me that the source
> of the story had been Parade’s publisher. I soon discovered that he
> was a prominent U.S. Air Force personality, a general in the
> reserves, and an Air Force loyalist.
>
> I have always believed that this story was concocted as part of a
> debunking effort being carried out by the Air Force. Also as part of
> this effort, the U.S. intimidated agents, film studios and television
> outlets into not doing anything with Communion, even though it was a
> tremendous bestseller and would obviously make a highly successful
> movie. As a result, no studio would touch the book, and the film was
> made independently on a tiny budget and was hardly distributed at all.
>
> Finally, I quit writing about my experiences so that I wouldn’t have
> to go on book tours. Art Bell took me in like a orphan in a storm,
> giving me a frequent voice as a guest on Coast-to- Coast AM, and
> eventually giving me Dreamland. So I still had an ability to tell
> people what I was doing, but without exposing myself to the
> humiliation, willful ignorance and rabid lying of the general media.
>
> Long before the publication of Confirmation, I had become unable to
> listen to the second hypnosis tape. In fact, I lost it. All I had
> were a couple of copies of the edited version. The last time I
> listened to the whole tape was in late 1986, to transcribe it for
> Communion. I all but sweated blood during that process.
>
> Until about two weeks ago, I thought that the tape was gone forever.
> Then I had the experience that I described in my last journal entry,
> “The Capture House.” The tape reappeared. It showed up in the drawer
> of my bedside table. I am too careful to claim outright that it
> hadn’t been there all along, because I cannot prove that, but
> frankly, I have looked in that drawer hundreds of times in the years
> it has been beside my bed, and I never saw the tape.
>
> A few days after I found the tape, I received an e-mail from a reader
> of this website that proved to be of tremendous, even epochal,
> importance in my life. The reader theorized that I had been the
> victim of something called electroejaculation. This involves the
> insertion of a probe into the rectum, and the application of an
> electrical current that stimulates muscles to erect the penis and
> cause an ejaculation. It is used in animal husbandry and in sex
> clinics.
>
> I had never heard of such a thing, but a little research quickly
> revealed that the machines exist and have been around for years. In
> listening to the tape again, it became obvious that I was describing
> being electroejaculated. First, I describe the insertion of the probe
> into my body. A moment later, I express surprise that I have suddenly
> gotten an erection, then react as I am aware of my ejaculation. I
> remember one of the creatures who were doing this to me running off
> with it in a little container.
>
> The innocent confusion on that tape is eloquent. I was being
> subjected, back in December of 1986, to a clinical procedure that I
> did not even known existed until October of 2003. My description of
> what was happening to me is an exact description of the procedure.
>
> To me, this has closed the door on any possibility that what happened
> to me that night was in any way imaginary or illusory. It was a real
> event, and I do not believe that it was done by people in disguise,
> but by nonhuman creatures of unknown origin. The reason that I am so
> firm about this second part is that I believe not only my own eyes,
> but the testimony of hundreds of thousands of people, and most
> especially, the recent British Columbia abduction case of “Cynthia,”
> which is the best documented case of this kind in history.
>
> Cynthia was not alone when she entered the initial phase of the
> encounter. She was with another witness who shared her perceptions
> and her experience, exactly as people do in normal life. Not only
> that, both women suffered physical after- effects, and the other
> witness experienced a mysterious burn above her coccyx that was
> severe enough to require medical attention. In addition, researcher
> Brian Vike has identified witnesses who observed unusual lights in
> the sky in the area where Cynthia and the other witness were having
> their encounter, at the time that it was taking place.
>
> Even if I did not have thousands of other abduction cases to point
> to, I would have to be very thick-headed indeed to continue to
> entertain the idea that there was anything imaginary or false about
> this. It is real experience. It involves abduction by creatures that
> do not walk the streets here on earth, and it is concerned with the
> taking of tissue and/or sexual material from the victims.
>
> Not only that, the United States government is engaged in a ferocious
> coverup of this activity. I say ferocious because I believe that a
> lot of the debunking that goes on is carefully designed by
> professional sociologists. What was done to me in Parade Magazine
> showed sophistication and skill, and did immense damage to me. If I
> could ever obtain proof, I would certainly sue the United States,
> although I have no doubt that they would claim that it had been done
> legally, in the name of national security.
>
> And they would be quite right to make this claim. The Air Force
> doesn’t have a vendetta against me. It is evidently charged with
> controlling public acceptance of the UFO phenomenon, and is simply
> carrying out orders.
>
> But why? Why not warn us that somebody might enter our bedrooms in
> the night and steal our most precious contents from us? Why not
> attempt to protect us instead of seek to make it easier for them to
> do this?
>
> The conclusion is inescapable that the government is making sure that
> the public remains passive and thus vulnerable. The U.S. government is
> proactively assisting the creatures that are attacking us. If there
> was general public knowledge, people would take steps to protect
> themselves. Ways and means could and would be found. If this was not
> true, if we were indeed helpless, then there would be no reason for
> the secrecy. The creatures would simply come and do their will in an
> open and obvious way and that would be that.
>
> Government secrecy is a weapon. It is being used against us. When the
> Air Force debunks and lies about UFOs and close encounters, it is
> attacking the American people with a powerful and brutal weapon. When
> the CIA lies and says it knows nothing about this, it is striking a
> blow against the country it is supposed to serve.
>
> They aren’t doing this out of hatred of the American people or the
> people of the world. They are doing it out of fear that, if they
> don’t do it, we will suffer even worse consequences.
>
> What might they be? What danger would be great enough to turn a
> government against its own people—indeed, its own species and its
> world? My uncle, Col. E. M. Strieber, told me that he was aware of
> the arrival of materials from the Roswell crash at Wright Field in
> the summer of 1947. He also told me that he’d understood that the
> secrecy initially came from concern that they might represent a new
> type of Soviet craft, but later that there was a threat, if the
> secret of the presence of these intruders was not kept, to destroy
> the earth in an instant.
>
> General Arthur Exon, who was for many years my uncle’s commanding
> officer, told me that he had been a member for the Air Force of a
> committee that studied this situation for many years, and indeed, as
> late as 1988, was still attending meetings at Wright-Patterson. He
> said that his belief was that the secrecy was for a more positive
> reason, which was that we would be culturally destroyed if we were
> exposed to much higher visitor knowledge, much as primitive
> civilizations have been destroyed on earth when exposed to
> scientifically advanced cultures.
>
> As I have written in these columns before, I also believe that there
> is another possible reason for the secrecy, which is that official
> admission of the reality of the visitors might be a sort of trigger
> that enables them to come swarming into our world—to actually make
> our world part of theirs.
>
> Certainly, in dealing with an unknown as toxic as this one is on so
> many different levels, any government would be extremely cautious. If
> it found that it had to give up a little of the dignity of a few of
> its people, and perhaps a few lives, in return for not causing the
> collapse of civilization or worse, the total destruction of the
> planet, then there is no question that it would decide to sacrifice
> the lives.
>
> Unfortunately, I cannot tell you where the truth about these various
> dangers lies. I can only tell you this: the visitors are entirely
> real and they are here taking sexual material and tissues from human
> beings. I am sorry that it has taken me so many years to feel that I
> can make this statement unequivocally, but I am not given to
> asserting things that I don’t think I can back up. I can back this
> up. The evidence is sufficient.
>
> In addition, the U.S. government is actively covering up the
> activities of whoever is doing this, denying that they exist and
> seeking to destroy the reputations and credibility of anybody who
> makes an efficient effort to convince the public otherwise. I think
> that the operation that was carried out against me in the pages of
> Parade magazine is sufficient evidence of this. But that is really
> such a small part of the overall picture, it hardly even qualifies as
> an iceberg tip. The evidence of coverup and official lying is
> literally vast. It has been addressed elsewhere by many others, and,
> except insofar as it concerns my own personal experience of it, is
> not the subject of this journal entry.
>
> So, what is to be done? Should people continue to press for official
> disclosure, even suspecting that the consequences could be extremely
> dire?
>
> This is a powerful and important question, but it is one that I am
> not yet prepared to answer. I do not have enough evidence, but I do
> have some building ideas that I intend to work on. Chief among them
> is a need, that strikes me as quite urgent, to understand what the
> motives of our visitors might be. Why are they taking this material
> from us?
>
> If we make that our next key question, then I think that we will also,
> inevitably, gain knowledge of whether or not the coverup is a valid
> means of protecting mankind, or another lie in a tissue of lies that
> is designed not to protect us, but to make us vulnerable to somebody
> who needs us a good deal more than we need them.
>
> Subscribers to Unknowncountry.com can listen to my second hypnosis
> session in the subscriber section of this website. It can also be
> stolen from there and spread widely, and passwords to this section
> can be given away, as is being done, in order to reduce our income
> from the website and thus our ability to keep it going.
>
> But, if you do this, please reflect on the importance of what you are
> doing. You are helping the visitors and the government to accomplish
> a task they must very much want to accomplish, which is to see my
> voice silenced. Do you really want to help the rapists of mankind?
>
> In my next journal entry, I will get into the question of why they
> don’t simply kill people like me and Budd Hopkins and the others who
> are presenting credible and believable evidence to the public. We are
> oppressed by the masters of the lie and their minions, no doubt of
> it, but there is good out there, too, as we shall see, and it comes
> from a very surprising direction.

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