The 3rd and final part of this story is born out of tragedy – the death of Ufologist and friend Kathy Kasten on August 7, 2012. As with parts 1 and 2 of this 3-part article, the origins of what I’m about to share with you could not have been anticipated. As far back as 2005, I had been corresponding with Kathy on matters relative to Roswell and her suspicions that the incident had nothing to do with aliens, but everything to do with post-war experiments on human guinea-pigs. At the time of her death, Kathy was working on a full-length book on her theory – parts of which closely matched the findings I detailed in Body Snatchers in the Desert, which was encouraging. So far as I am aware, no specific or serious attempt was made by Kathy to find a publisher, as she wanted to have the entire, lengthy manuscript completed before submitting it to a publishing house – rather than just hand over a brief synopsis and a sample chapter or two. Time and fate, however, sadly stepped in and prevented the next step from coming to fruition. Perhaps realizing that she was on a time-limit, one which was closing in, in early 2012 Kathy surprised me by emailing me to say that she was planning on handing over copies of her Roswell files to me, in the event that I might want to make use of the material – any of it or all of it – should I ever decide to write a sequel to my 2005 book, which I eventually did: The Roswell UFO Conspiracy.

It was shortly after Kathy died that her family got in touch, as they had decided to donate to me all of Kathy’s research files, correspondence, and much more – and not just her Roswell-based material. Which was, of course, extremely generous of them. A week or so later, a large amount of files turned up on the doorstep, collectively contained in heavy cardboard boxes. To say there were thousands upon thousands of pages of material, dating back decades, would not be an exaggeration. An Aladdin’s cave? Yep. Due to work and what is known as life, it took me several months to go through the entire collection, some of which had nothing to do with Roswell in particular – and nothing to do with UFOs in general, either. Probably a full third of the material was focused on issues relative to mind-control and mind-manipulation, such as the CIA’s MKUltra program of the 1950s. And there was a lot of material on post-Second World War files on unethical experiments on people in the 1940s and 1950s – which certainly was linked and relevant to Roswell.

Kathy’s notes and records show that from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s, she spoke with a few interesting characters, of a somewhat shadowy nature. They advised her that if she wanted to uncover the truth of Roswell, she would be wise to pursue the work and history of a certain William Randolph “Randy” Lovelace II.  That Kathy’s dossier on Lovelace is about five-inches thick demonstrates that she carefully followed the advice of her sources and left pretty much no stone unturned, when it came to the matter of exploring a possible Roswell-Lovelace connection. Of course, for those who aren’t aware of the man himself, there is a big question that needs answering: who, exactly, was William Randolph Lovelace II? Well, let’s take a look.

To say that Lovelace was a fascinating character is an understatement. Born in 1907, he was a physician who graduated from the Harvard Medical School in 1934, and, in 1938, took up a position with the Aeromedical Field Laboratory at Wright Field, Ohio (today, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base). It was at Wright Field that Lovelace undertook groundbreaking research to understand how exposure to high-altitudes could affect the human body and nervous system. Experiments with new and novel oxygen masks and parachutes were of paramount importance, too. A colonel with the Army Air Corps in the Second World War, Lovelace was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and – in 1947 – helped to establish the Lovelace Foundation for Medical Education and Research, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Then, in the late 1950s, NASA invited Lovelace to chair its Special Advisory Committee on Life Sciences. Such were his skills in aviation medicine, Lovelace worked closely alongside the original NASA Mercury astronauts. In 1964, Lovelace was appointed to the position of NASA’s Director of Space Medicine. He died as a result of a plane crash in December 1965, in Aspen, Colorado. Both his wife and the pilot were killed, too.

Strangest of all, back in 2011 I had heard a few rumors of a Lovelace-Roswell connection, but I had largely hit a brick-wall. That Kathy’s family very generously donated all of her files to me in 2012 – and which contained a lot of material on Lovelace and Roswell – allowed me to take my research to a new level. As with parts 1 and 2 of this article, I could never have anticipated how and why such developments could – or would – originate and come together.

Just recently, I wrote an article here at Mysterious Universe titled “Hypnotizing Someone Telepathically: An ‘Eerie, Mystifying, Almost Diabolical Act.'” I thought that today I would share with you another extract from the Defense Intelligence Agency’s “Controlled Offensive Behavior – USSR” document of 1972. As I noted last week: “This one is particularly creepy, as it focuses on the possibility of secretly using ESP to hypnotize people. As you’ll see, it’s a subject that elements of U.S. intelligence were worried about during the Cold War. Maybe, they still are. We’re told the following: ‘According to Ostrander and Schroeder, the ability to put people to sleep and wake them up telepathicallv from a distance of a few yards to over a thousand miles became the most thoroughly tested and perfected contribution of the Soviets to international parapsychology. It is reported that the ability to control a person’s consciousness with telepathy is being further studied and tested in laboratories in Leningrad and Moscow.'”

This matter of using telepathy to hypnotize people makes me think of the disturbing activities of none other than the Black-Eyed Children. If you aren’t familiar with these creepy kids, here’s a bit of background material for you. The phenomenon first surfaced publicly in the late 1990s (although since the publicity began, people have claimed encounters with the BECs going back as early as the 1930s). They’re called the Black-Eyed Children for a very good reason: their eyes are completely black. And, sometimes, larger than normal. That, of course, provokes imagery of the so-called “Gray” aliens that are so well-known in the field of Ufology. There are other weird aspects to the BEC too: their skin is often not just pale, but milk-white. In terms of their ages, they always seem to be frozen in time. By that, I mean I have yet to receive a report that involves a kid less than around eleven and I haven’t come across a case where the kid was more than roughly fourteen. Their clothing is almost always a black hoodie.

Now, we get to the part of the story that relates to the “Controlled Offensive Behavior – USSR” document I highlighted last week. Typically, the BEC arrive on doorsteps late at night. There are some daytime encounters; but, they are definitely in the minority.  There’s usually a loud, slow knock on the door, too. I mention that because in some cases the BEC seem not to understand what doorbells are – which is very strange. Here’s when the high-strangeness really begins. Imagine you’re in the unfortunate position of the people who are confronted by the BEC. The likelihood is that if you saw a trio of black-eyed little monsters on the doorstep you wouldn’t open the door. But, here’s the weird thing: many victims of the BEC do open the door. A number of people have said they felt compelled to open the door. Even though they knew they shouldn’t have. It was, for many people, a feeling of being driven to open the door – a kind of hypnotism, even. The kids claim they are lost and need to use the phone. Or, they are homeless and need something to eat. It’s all about entering the home with permission given.

It has to be stressed that most of the time the hypnotism isn’t strong enough to let the BEC into the homes of the people who are targeted. There are, however, a small number of cases in which the BEC have managed to get into homes – and they do seem to place the people inside into states of mind-control. That’s when things get even stranger: people feel sick, weak, and as if their bodes were crashing – kind of like a diabetic whose blood sugar levels were plummeting. The witnesses describe getting a dose of the shakes, of becoming cold and clammy, and of becoming confused and panicky. It’s as if they are being drained of their energy – which may well be the goal. The most important part of all this, however, is that matter of people feeling under the control of the BEC. That aforementioned U.S. government document makes it clear that as far back as the 1920s research into the field of using telepathic powers to hypnotize people existed. Just maybe, then, it’s not just us, or the Russians, who have looked into this eerie area. Perhaps, the BEC use similar powers – or, identical powers, even – to try and find ways into the homes of terrified people.

I thought I would do something different today (and for the next couple of days). Namely, to demonstrate how the origin of a UFO investigation can be as intriguing as the case itself. Indeed, it’s very often what goes on behind the scenes that really stands out. We’ll begin with my research into the Roswell “UFO crash” of 1947 and how and why I came to the conclusion that nothing of an extraterrestrial nature crashed on the Foster Ranch, New Mexico. I have to admit that up until the latter part of the 1990s, I was – like so many – a believer that aliens died in New Mexico. Things started to change, however, in 1998. That was the year in which my second book was published by Simon & Schuster. Its title: The FBI Files. As the title suggests, it’s a study of the FBI’s investigations into the MJ12 documents, the Contactees of the 1950s, UFO encounters, and cattle mutilations. One of the chapters in that book was titled “The Oak Ridge Invasion.” It was focused on a wave of UFO activity in the late 1940s at the Atomic Energy Commission complex at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It wasn’t long after the book hit the shelves that I got a letter from someone in the United States (I still lived in the U.K. then). It was a letter sent to Simon & Schuster’s offices in London from California. And it was then forwarded on to me.

The letter was written by a woman who wanted to share with me what she knew about Oak Ridge – something extremely controversial. She would only share what she knew in person, however. She didn’t want to say anymore by letter and she wasn’t online. And, she lived in the United States. Well, this made things pretty awkward, to say the least. Indeed, there was no way I could afford to fly all across the Atlantic and onto Los Angeles just to do an interview – an interview that might not even go anywhere. As  a result, things were in a state of limbo until 2001. That was when I moved to the United States to live. I still had the woman’s contact information, and I explained the situation: that I could now meet with her in person and we could have a chat. Well, that chat became much more than that. It was one of the most controversial interviews I’ve ever done. Eventually, there were numerous interviews. The woman was pushing eighty in 2001 and she wanted to share what turned out to be a very dark and disturbing story. She had a wealth of material (mainly of old black and white photos) showing she did indeed work at Oak Ridge in the 1940s. There was much more, though.

I assumed – wrongly – that the woman wanted to discuss the UFO reports at Oak Ridge that I wrote about in The FBI Files. What she did want to discuss, however, was something very different. As we sat in a California diner, with a family member along too, she told me something incredible and disturbing: she knew a great deal about Roswell, but not in relation to aliens from faraway worlds. Rather, she said that Roswell was really a series of top secret experiments that revolved around (a) high-altitude testing in craft that are known as “lifting bodies,” (b) huge balloon arrays, and (c) prisoners and handicapped people who were guinea-pigs used in the grim experiments – which all failed. You can, by now, see where all of this is going. The woman said that the UFO legend was a smokescreen to hide what was arguably an even more controversial situation. Even decades later, she was still very concerned for her safety. She was fearful there might be those in government who still might know where she lived, she told me. Her concerns were understandable. Not only that: she put me in touch with several other old-timers – who she knew of way back in the 1940s and 1950s – and who agreed to speak out.

It was after some time – around a couple of months – that I brought up the issue of writing a book. She was okay with that, providing that her real name wouldn’t be publicly revealed. So, when my 2005 book on all of this – Body Snatchers in the Desert – was published I called her the “Black Widow.” It’s hardly surprising that when the book appeared, there was a great deal of debate online (primarily on the now defunct UFO Updates). And, for a few months, I was the ufological Public Enemy Number One, which I was fine with. From there on, I got more and more material on the “human experimentation” angle of Roswell, to the extent that I wrote a sequel in 2017 called The Roswell UFO Conspiracy. Of course, most people in Ufology didn’t buy into it. Some just didn’t want to deal with such revelations: they couldn’t handle the possibility of Roswell not having been an extraterrestrial event. Too bad. I still get threads here and there that add to the story, to the extent there’s a distinct possibility of me doing a third book on all this. And it all had its origins in a solitary letter sent across the Atlantic by a woman who, for decades, had been quietly sitting on a secret of huge proportions.

Part-2 of this 3-part article is focused on how I was able to write what is probably my most controversial book. Its title: Final Events. It’s a book that looks at the secret activities of a small think-tank group within the U.S. government and which believes that the UFO phenomenon is not extraterrestrial in nature. Rather, the group has come to the conclusion that the mystery is one of demonic proportions. As was the case with part-1 of this article, there is an interesting story as to how and why I came across the story and why I decided to write the book. It all goes back to the final days of 2006. At the time, I was looking for a new story that I could turn into a book. As it happened, the story – that I quickly concluded was the one – practically dropped into my lap. It was in late 2006 that I happened to be chatting with Ufologist and priest Dr. Ray Boeche about the Rendlesham Forest affair of December 1980, which – at the time – I thought might have been a good idea for a book. The reason why I gave Ray a call was because he had done a lot of investigative work into Rendlesham throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s. It was during the course of the chat that Ray told me he had an even better and bigger story that might interest me. So, I sat back and listened to what he had to say.

Back in late 1991, Ray was clandestinely approached by a pair of physicists who were working on a U.S. Department of Defense program to try and contact what the group called non-human entities. Or, NHEs. Ray had a meeting with the pair at Nebraska’s Lincoln Marriott Cornhusker Hotel. Those who worked on the program, Ray said to me, started off believing that the entities they were were trying to communicate with really were extraterrestrials. It didn’t take long, however, for the group to conclude they were actually dealing with nothing less than demons. Not only that, there had been violent deaths in the program. Ray was shown graphic photos of several people – with their bodies in chairs – who had died while, it was assumed, they were trying to contact the demonic things. Even more controversial, the group was doing its best to try and weaponize the powers of those supernatural creatures. The pair was deeply worried about what they had gotten into and wanted Ray’s advice. That made a lot of sense, as Ray had a background in both UFOs and religion.

This was a fascinating story. I began interviewing (and audio-recording) Ray about all of this on January 22, 2007. Not only that, as time progressed I was able to learn more about the group. They used a nickname of “Collins Elite.” On page 42 of Final Events (which was published in 2010) I specifically pointed out that the name was an informal title created by the group. Almost certainly, the group had a highly-classified title. I never did get to learn what that real name was, however. I was able to speak with a number of the specifically retired staff, though. In the process of digging further I discovered that the group had actually been around for a long time – decades, in fact. But, that there were different levels and tiers within the group, which is why the two guys that met with Ray – and who, in 1991, were new to the program – weren’t aware of much that had gone on in the 1970s and 1980s. “Need to know” was very much the name of the game, which is why they were looking for advice from Ray.

How strange that I would never, ever have heard of a group in the DoD that was investigating demonic activity and supernatural powers had I not approached Ray Boeche about his research into the Rendlesham Forest incident of Christmas 1980. Not at all unlike part-1 of this 3-part article, this saga of aliens and demons is one that could not have been foreseen