Category: The Secret of the Saucers

Chapter V   THE PAST IS NEVER DEAD! The Christmas holidays arrived with their gay, festive spirit and usual bustling excitement. By then things had settled back to normal and I had experienced no further contacts. Flying saucers seemed to have vanished from the skies; practically no accounts of sightings appeared in the newspapers. Although I had completed the manuscript for The Twentieth Century Times, I couldn’t get up the courage to have it published. Mabel kept saying: “Orfie, if you publish that, people will think you are completely crazy. Why don’t you just forget it! Nothing good can ever come of it. Everything is going along so smoothly now; we’re both working and the boys are happy – let’s just leave it that way.” “But, […] Read More

Chapter IV  “WE CAN APPEAR AND FUNCTION AS EARTHMEN, ORFEO!” At first I told no one of my strange meeting with Neptune, for I knew only too well that my new story would meet with even greater disbelief and ridicule. But I immediately set to work writing down my further experiences. I had already placed my first experiences with the saucers in manuscript form and planned to publish it as the first edition of a small personal newspaper, The Twentieth Century Times; but I had experienced difficulty in finding a publisher. Now I was glad the paper was not yet in print, for I could include my most recent experience with Neptune. I worked hard on the manuscript in my spare time. But the emotional and […] Read More

Chapter III    MY MEETING WITH NEPTUNE Following the emotional shock of that profound and bewildering trip in the saucer, I went about in a veritable daze for weeks. I continued on the job at Lockheed and resumed the routine of my daily affairs; but I was like an automaton – a dweller in two worlds and at home in neither. It is almost impossible to explain my state of mind But the great spiritual illumination I had received in the saucer left me something of a stranger to my own planet, Earth. I longed to tell the world, to blazen out the truths of my discoveries; yet I knew that for the greater part I must forever remain silent. Among other glimpses of reality, I […] Read More

Chapter II   I TRAVEL IN A FLYING SAUCER I spent nearly all day Saturday in bed. The shock of my fantastic experience was so great that I found it difficult to get back to actualities. I kept having the feeling that the world I knew was a phantom world inhabited only by shadows. It was not until Sunday that I could bring myself to tell my wife what had happened to me. I was afraid she would think I had lost my mind. Thus it was with relief I heard her say: “If you say it happened like that, Orfeo, I believe you. You’ve always told me the truth. But this thing is so strange and frightening – and you looked so deathly white when […] Read More

Chapter I    THE DISK FROM ANOTHER WORLD Friday, May 23, 1952, was an ordinary day in Burbank, California insofar as I was concerned. I got up at my usual time, worked around the yard for a few hours and later stopped in at the Drive-In snack bar. After several cups of coffee and an exchange of good-natured banter with some of the customers, I left and went to my job at the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation plant. Things went along well enough during the earlier part of the evening, but about 11 o’clock I began to feel ill. An odd prickling sensation was running through my hands and arms and up into the back of my neck. I had a slight heart palpitation and my nerves […] Read More