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to his close encounter. He suffered serious migraine
headaches in the wake of that sighting.
They left only after he discussed his encounter
with a ufologist. Soon afterw a rd, he deve l o p e d
p s ychic abilities that would come and go errati
c a l l y. They so disrupted his life that his wife,
fearing he had lost his sanity, left him. He und
e rwent out-of-body episodes and found himself
doing automatic writing at a furious pace.
These writings cove red many subjects, fro m
E a rt h’s ancient history to future geological cataclysms.
Much of the material had to do with
the Bible. The writing claimed that the Te n
Commandments we re a kind of universal code
that must be deciphered, then obeye d .
One night in 1993, Preston awoke and
spotted a beam of light going through his
chest. He felt intense pain, then had the sensation
that he was being pulled out of his
body. Two shadowy beings, reeking of evil and
menace, had him by the arms and were forcing
him to a black abyss. This abyss, he
thought, was the entrance to hell. He began to
pray, and the next thing he knew, a beautiful
blue sky surrounded him. A soothing light,
emanating apparently from God, gave him a
feeling of peace and ecstasy. Though he did
not wish to return to his body, something told
him that he must do so, and he did. He lay
awake the rest of the night reflecting on all
that had happened to him, and in the morning
he vowed to find a hypnotist who could
help him fill in the gaps in his memory.
While hypnotized, he recounted the 1977
abduction as well as others. These abductions
occurred in a foggy, dreamlike environment.
Besides Gray Face, there was White Face,
which looked like a carving of an Egyptian
deity. Another entity, this one especially
frightening, wore a mask with a face like a
Mayan or Aztec god. A week after the hypnosis
session, this being appeared in Preston’s
bedroom and removed the mask. Preston was
somewhat relieved to see that it resembled
Gray Face with slightly heavier features.
In each case, telepathic contact occurred,
but it was always one-sided, coming from the
aliens to Preston.
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He also had two encounters, only an hour
a p a rt, with Mr. Brown Robe, as he called a figu
re clad in such a garment. It had no facial feat
u res, but it was able to communicate ment
a l l y. It stressed the importance of Ma t t h ew 24
in the New Testament, the chapter in which
Jesus discusses the events that will take place
just prior to the Second Coming. Preston noticed
that Mr. Brown Robe, Gray Face, and
the others never used the word “Go d” but did
talk of a “u n i versal intelligence.” Still, he
linked his visitors with Bible fig u res. He bel
i e ved Brown Robe, for example, to be a kind
of angel, Gray Face a “Wa t c h e r” from the Ol d
Te s t a m e n t’s Daniel 4.
Preston’s last abduction occurred one night
in 1995 when a group of gray-skinned, largeeyed
humanoids—the classic “grays” of abduction
lore—took him into a UFO, where
he was subjected to an apparent medical examination.
On his return at 2:50 A.M., he
heard a mechanical voice speaking to him. It
said that the world’s governments not only
knew about the presence of extraterrestrials
but also had contact with them. The aliens
warned the governments about the dangers of
nuclear testing and environmental destruction.
By their blundering, humans had unknowingly
caused trouble with forces beyond
their comprehension. One consequence was
that Earth’s magnetism had been altered.
Preston’s contacts ended with that experience.
In retrospect, he concluded that the
aliens had not always told him the straight
truth, that much of what they told him was
not strictly accurate. He thought that some
had been agents of Satan, while others, such
as Gray Face and Mr. Brown Robe, had benign
intentions.
See Also: Abductions by UFOs
Further Reading
Davis, Carolyn, 1998. “The UFO Messenger.” Fate
51, 11 (November): 22–24.
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In Escape from Destruction (1955), which was
later reprinted as Escape to the Inner Earth,