There has been so much misinformation passed around by less than well informed self-styled UFO "experts" who have not been to the contact sites, have never talked to the witnesses, or the photographic laboratories who processed the original pictures, or the agencies who analyzed the recorded sounds of the spacecraft, or the laboratories who examined the physical specimens, or anything else in this case, that I have decided to release my notes in this preliminary report.
The organization is roughly chronological covering the five years of my involvement in the order that I experienced it and showing the surprises as I encountered them. There were surprises all right, and there were other developments that one who has examined a number of UFO cases comes to expect but which are extremely bizarre to the witness when he experiences them for the first time.
Like all UFO cases, without exception, there are very strange aspects to this long-term on-going series of contact events, evidence for which is highly elusive. We have tried to deal with the evidence that could be examined and tested in an objective manner, always keeping in mind a sincere conviction that a given item of evidence demonstrably valid does not make the rest valid any more than a false lead makes it all false. We have encountered spectacular truths as well as spectacular misperceptions and misunderstandings all in this one case.
If anything in particular could be said about this case that sets it apart from all others, it would be the great amount of evidence available for testing and the unusually large number of participating witnesses to these events as they unfolded.
I feel as qualified as any outsider to report this very extensive UFO contact case because I have maintained a very close contact with it and all the principals involved for five years, and have lived with them on their property for over 71 days in all.
