Over the course of my life, poems have been essential and they have been formative. They are interwoven with my close encounter experiences, because it is only in the ideas and feelings evoked by poems–both dark and light–that I can find sufficient complexity and resonance to enable me to think meaningfully about this greatest of all human events, the contact experience.

My hope is that, as time gradually causes mankind to awaken to who we really are and where we really are, and who our visitors are, that little deposits of meaning such as I have tried to make here will offer a useful resonance.
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Scientists now confirm that there is a high probability that the universe harbours an abundance of habitable planets.

NASA’s Kepler telescope has provided information to indicate that one in every five sun-like stars is orbited by planets comparable to Earth. In broad terms, this means that there could be billions of planets capable of supporting life in our Milky Way galaxy alone. The findings were published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and aired at a special news conference in California.
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A beautiful change of pace for Unknowncountry.com subscribers.

This week in Whitley’s Room, Whitley Strieber reads poems that have been his favorites over the course of his life, and tells why each one affected him and became a favorite because of his close encounters and other powerful life experiences. He includes two poems he wrote himself when he was young–one in the year before he had his major childhood encounters, and the next in the year after. The difference between these two poems, first published in his high school literary anthology, will shock you.
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Linda Moulton Howe has been waiting almost her entire career to be able to tell this incredible story.

A firsthand witness from Ellsberg Air Force Base finally speaks out, revealing that long-heard rumors are true: UFOs used to regularly shut down missile bases, as often as six or seven times a year from the 1960s. He also recounts the chilling and extraordinary story of a security guard who was abducted, then on his reappearance quickly transferred from the base and, within a year, discharged from the Air Force.
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