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Keith’s house. David and Corinthian did not
keep their appointment.
In the days and weeks that followed, Macdonald
experienced a series of unusually vivid
dreams. One night he dreamed that he had
been accepted back into the military. To him
this symbolized his role as a Warrior of God
about to “fight.” Another night he dreamed
that he was on a college campus, knowing
where every building, every door, every room
was. He heard professors lecturing and knew
every word they were saying. He understood
that he had “graduated” to a level more advanced
than college. In yet another dream, he
was gazing over a crowd of hundreds of people,
seeing deep inside each and recognizing
each one as a fellow Warrior of God, brother
and sister Habanas who would be coming
together in the great events yet to occur as
Earth met its cosmic destiny. A voice inside
the dream told him that this was a “reunion.”
A blinding light cut through the dream, and
when Macdonald sat bolt upright in bed, it
continued to shine. It was so bright that he
had to put his arm over his face.
Strange, ominous events seemed to point
to the imminent Lifting. Twice on the evening
of October 23, as Macdonald and Owen were
talking, the phone suddenly disconnected,
each time with a peculiar squealing sound. It
happened just as they were discussing key
points about Landanian objectives. Macdonald
saw odd lights both inside the house and
in the sky. Landanians appeared with increasing
frequency, but only Macdonald could see
them. They were invisible to his wife. Macdonald
tried to capture them on film, but all
that the resulting photographs showed was
the interior of the house, nothing more.
Early in December, the date of the San
Francisco earthquake that was to prefigure the
Lifting appeared before his eyes in brilliant
light: DECEMBER 22. He could not only see
the date but also experience the sensations of
being in the quake. As the days passed, the vision
of the date recurred along with scenes of
devastation. When December 22 came and
went with no earthquake, David told Keith
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that the real date was January 3; the twentysecond
was the date on which the craft would
begin to show themselves. David said that
Macdonald should always remember, “There
is more than one meaning to a sentence.”
The failure of assorted prophecies never
entirely diminished Keith Macdonald’s belief—a
palpably sincere one—that people
from Landa were communicating with him.
He learned, however, to be cautious about
their predictions, including promises of inthe-flesh
meetings prior to the Lifting. In the
years that followed, growing health problems
forced Macdonald into retirement. In his last
years, he spent considerable time in the hospital.
During that period contacts occurred
more often in unusually lucid dreams than
they did via channeling.
See Also: Abductions by UFOs; Channeling; Contactees;
Keel, John Alva; Sprinkle, Ronald Leo
Further Reading
Clark, Jerome, 1986. “Waiting for the Space Brothers.”
Fate Pt. I. 39, 3 (March): 47–54; Pt. II. 39,
4 (April): 81–87; Pt. III. 39, 5 (May): 68–76.
Owen, Ron, 2000. Private communication to
Jerome Clark (January 6).
Dead extraterrestrials
Claims that the bodies of extraterrestrials have
been found in the wreckage of spacecraft are
older than the post–World War II UFO age.
As long ago as 1864, a French newspaper (La
Pays, June 17) reported the discovery, by two
American geologists, of a hollow, egg-shaped
rock. Inside it were various odd artifacts. They
also found the mummified remains of a tiny
humanoid—about three feet tall—with a bald
head and an elephantlike trunk growing out
of its forehead. On October 13, 1877, a
provincial paper in Argentina set the identical
tall tale in that country, adding the detail that
the discoverers had taken the body and artifacts
to a local saloon to put on display.
In 1897, during a wave of UFO (or, in the
terminology of the time, “airship”) sightings,
ships crashed and Martians died in Illinois
and Texas. In the latter instance, the pilot was
reportedly buried in a cemetery in a small