from Chapter 21

The Extraterrestrial Photographed

 

[From notes in Prof. Hernandez' Diary for March of 1979]

After our lengthy and substantial conversations, LYA left in me a change, a longing to begin to search into the vastness of the Universe which surrounds us. I began to carry my photo camera with me in my automobile. I wanted to have objective proof of her existence, a photograph of her or her ship.

I asked her that day in March of 1979, if she would permit me to photograph her. She looked at me, not into my eyes, but directly at my forehead. 'Immediately in my eyes I felt a vacancy.

"Why?" She asked me delicately... sweetly.

"LYA, If perhaps some time I would want to give publicity to that which we have talked - if for some reason I would want to transmit the message you have brought me, they are going to ask for proofs..."

"who will ask you that?"

"Well, perhaps the editor, perhaps the people who will read about it... finally."

"Professor, when I came down to your world I needed to do it suitably protected; not only for me, but also for you.¹

1.There are a number of such instances of concern for possible infectious germs from space being introduced into our Earth environment. The Ummites (UFO CONTACT FROM PLANET UMMO) described their methods of decontaminating their ships which enter our ambient atmosphere, and their beings who get out and walk our planet, in considerable detail. Many Earth abductees who have been taken aboard ET ships have described a process of decontamination of them and their clothes and equipment as they board the ET vessel.

 

'I am surrounded by an antimagnetic and antigravitational halo.²

2.The Pleiadians visiting Switzerland described a protective field that surrounds their ships in our atmosphere and the cosmonauts themselves when they get out of their ships in our environment. (See UFO CONTACT FROM THE PLEIADES by Stevens.)

 

'Before, decades of years ago, this halo could be seen by simple sight. Because of this, many of the apparitions of my congenerates were taken as divine. I have mentioned this to you before, but now we have overcome this.³

3.The so-called divine beings in all the religions of our world are usually characterized as being surrounded by light, or of having a radiant appearance about them. Sometimes they are painted with a halo of light around the crown of their head.

 

To get myself around in your terrestrial space, I must be suitably equipped. my anti-magnetic field many times nullifies that which moves in your world with common energy. The battery in your watch,⁴ for example exploded and was destroyed; Your car at times will not start, will not crank as you say. Imagine what could happen upon taking a photograph. The bulb will not flash. It is useless."

4.In the investigation of UFO cases we frequently encounter electromagnetic effects on electrical watches of witnesses (UFO CONTACT FROM UNDERSEA), failures of automobile, boat and other vehicle engines, lights and electrical systems (UFO CONTACT FROM PLANET IARGA by Denaerde and Stevens), failure of house lights and even blackout of whole electrical systems (UFO CONTACT FROM RETICULUM by Stevens). We also frequently detect the presence of strong magnetic fields, including elevated residual magnetism for some time afterward (UFO ABDUCTION AT MIRASSOLby Dr. Walter K Buhler).

"I had thought of this many times. Nevertheless I continued carrying my camera. I never knew when she would return. I had full conviction that it was going to be soon. And finally it occurred. Some days later I came to see her very near Tlatelolco. I saw her in the full light of day, in the fullness of her extraordinary beauty, which I thought was certainly worth the effort of trying to take her photograph. She, upon sensing my intention, took one step back from me, of about a meter, because her body is highly aesthetic and elastic. She advances or walks with great steps with surprising ease. I followed actuating the camera shutter several times. She stopped not very far away, but I could tell that she advanced a meter or more with each step.

She looked at me and smiled, slightly moving her head in the negative.

"It will not come out, Professor... and it is not that I have denied you the opportunity to do this. I must descend to your world protected. Without it, if I came close to you with the germs that are brought from space, your people would die. You have no antibodies to repel the germs of space. I have already spoken to you of this."

"Look into the camera, and I will carefully guard the picture in my portfolios."

I fervently desired that someone or something would appear in the photograph. I myself developed the roll of film in my house. This would be no fake. There appeared a being in only the first photograph. I analyzed it carefully. It was, though anthropomorphic, a phantom, luminous, and in proportion greater than LYA herself. I could not be deluding myself -- it was her. Nobody is going to believe this, but myself, yes. I had photographed a luminous halo that surrounded and protected her. My hands trembled. I developed it carefully and studied it before drying and mounting it. I marked the date on it and put it away in safekeeping. There were no images on the rest of the roll of film. It was the only image that appeared and the rest of the film showed no trace.⁵

5.The rest of the film appeared unexposed because the electrical shutter release failed to operate on the near dead battery in the camera, and did not open the shutter when the button was depressed.

LYA knew that... that our cameras are really primitive...one might say archaic before their great advances, and only if they desire it, can they be photographed. I really needed to have a proof. I remained suspended between fear and intrigue. I wanted to demonstrate to myself that she existed. I had jealously guarded for such a long time the secret of our meetings and I was…

it was driving me crazy. I wanted to fill myself with equanimity. I knew that a change was taking place in me, but I myself did not know what confronted me. I tried to explain this to myself through science, but I must admit to being afraid at times. The nights I waited stood out clearly, imprisoned in my own subconscious. I was tied to something I did not understand, which was and is something, something that could be true or not entirely true. The photograph that I had taken was a form of proof -- though not absolute -- of that which was real.. though it was only to convince me myself.

Sett evt inn bildet

Foot NOTES

 

 

1. There are a number of such instances of concern for possible infectious germs from space being introduced into our Earth environment. The Ummites (UFO CONTACT FROM PLANET UMMO) described their methods of decontaminating their ships which enter our ambient atmosphere, and their beings who get out and walk our planet, in considerable detail. Many Earth abductees who have been taken aboard ET ships have described a process of decontamination of them and their clothes and equipment as they board the ET vessel.

 

2. The Pleiadians visiting Switzerland described a protective field that surrounds their ships in our atmosphere and the cosmonauts themselves when they get out of their ships in our environment. (See UFO CONTACT FROM THE PLEIADES by Stevens.)

 

3. The so-called divine beings in all the religions of our world are usually characterized as being surrounded by light, or of having a radiant appearance about them. Sometimes they are painted with a halo of light around the crown of their head.

 

4. In the investigation of UFO cases we frequently encounter electromagnetic effects on electrical watches of witnesses (UFO CONTACT FROM UNDERSEA), failures of automobile, boat and other vehicle engines, lights and electrical systems (UFO CONTACT FROM PLANET IARGA by Denaerde and Stevens), failure of house lights and even blackout of whole electrical systems (UFO CONTACT FROM RETICULUM by Stevens). We also frequently detect the presence of strong magnetic fields, including elevated residual magnetism for some time afterward (UFO ABDUCTION AT MIRASSOLby Dr. Walter K Buhler).

 

5. The rest of the film appeared unexposed because the electrical shutter release failed to operate on the near dead battery in the camera, and did not open the shutter when the button was depressed.

 

[Note: The extraneous marks on either side of the head of the image in this color slide appear to have been made by earlier analysts picking at the emulsion with a sharp instrument. They do not appear to have been a part of the original image. They were obviously made after the original color slide was developed.]