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SUBJECT: Excerts from Jimi Hemdrix: Starchild by Curtis Knight
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FILE: UFO2628
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Abelard Productions Inc.
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Wilmington, Delware
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ISBN 0-938294-31-8
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Close Encounters of The Musical Kind
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If a person didn't know him better, I suppose alot of what Jimi
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believed in might be considered a bit strange. But because of
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his background-the things he had to go through while on the
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Earth plane-he had a strong belief in, for example, UFOs and
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what he termed the Space Brotherhood. For Jimi could not see
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the difference between black and white, he saw things in a much
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more universal sense. He didn't believe that one race was
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better than the other, and throughout his career he was, at
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times, at odds with members of the Black Panthers and other
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groups who sought out his support; they could not understand why
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he wasn't willing to play more "racially oriented" music.
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The truth is that Jimi was very much in tune with the
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cosmos. He spoke a great deal in private about UFOs and the
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Space Brothers, superior beings whom he said played an important
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role in seeing that we didn't destroy ourselves, and our planet
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right along with us.
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A number of his songs make veiled references to these
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peace-loving entities from the stars who he felt were here to
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help us through troubled times. In a number of his songs, you
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can hear Jimi disguising his voice as he speaks with a reverb,
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playing the part of an alien to get his message across. Often,
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he sang in the third person as if he were playing the part of an
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outsider looking down upon us (listen to "House Burning Down").
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In several of his numbers, references are made to ships with
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"golden wings," sailing through the air. (in "Castles Made of
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Sand" he tells the heartthrobbing story of a suicidal girl who
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is confined to a wheelchair, and whose life is spared after such
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a sighting.)
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Followed Him About
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Jimi once told a reporter from The New York Times that he
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was from Mars, and I know he wasn't kidding. In David
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Henderson's best seller, The Life of Jimi Hendrix (Bantam), Jimi
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is quoted as having told the author: "There are other people in
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the solar system, you know, and they have the same feelings too,
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not necessarily bad feelings, but see, it upsets their way of
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living for instance-and they are a whole lot heavier than we are
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... And it's no war games, because they all keep the same place.
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But like the solar system is going through a change soon, and
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it's going to affect the Earth in about 30 years."
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Obviously, Jimi was very keenly aware of the prophecies of
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Nostradamus and others on the coming catastrophes and disasters
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to take place by the year 2000, which would be our planet's only
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way of reacting to all the harm it has been put through.
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On several occasions during his musical career, UFOs showed
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up while Jimi was on stage. I remember him telling me about the
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time he was in Maui to do the Rainbow Bridge movie and album,
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and one of the cameramen fell off his perch when a silvery disk
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appeared In the sky directly in back of the stage. A lot of
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fans observed the phenomena, and the local radio station
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received dozens of calls from witnesses who didn't even know
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that Jimi was giving a concert on the island.
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Jimi told me all about the episode. He said the craft had
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come down to put its spiritual stamp of approval on the show.
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He also said that he'd been emotionally and physically recharged
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by the experience, and knew that they were around because they
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"dug on the music," and because he was telepathically linked to
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them.
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Ironically enough as the saucer streaked across the sky,
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Jimi announced to the audience over the microphone, "There go my
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friends!" Little did they know how true his statement was meant
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to be, because the conversation with Jimi about the incident on
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Maui was to trigger recollections of a life-saving encounter
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with a being from another world that had involved both Hendrix
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and myself at the beginning of his musical career.
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The event took place on a cold winter's night near
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Woodstock, New York, in 1965, and if it hadn't been for the
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occupants of this metallic craft, Jimi and I-as well as the rest
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of our band-would probably have frozen to death that night in
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upstate New York.
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It was around 4:00 AM, and we were trying our best to get
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back to Manhattan, which is a drive of over 100 miles. We were
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driving in one of the worst blizzards I can recall. The winds
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were whipping the snow around our van so fiercely that we missed
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the turn-off leading to the state highway that would have put us
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in the direction of the city The next thing I remember is
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getting stuck in a snow drift that reached the hood of our
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vehicle. Soon it got so cold that the windows and the locks on
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the doors froze up. The heater was on full blast to protect us
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from the rawness of the elements, but we were convinced that we
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would soon be turned into human iciclesthat's how bitter it was!
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In fact, we had to make a decision fast-either leave the van's
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heater on and possibly die from carbon monoxide poison, or shut
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the heater off and freeze to death.
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Saved Our Lives
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Suddenly, on the road in front of us appeared this bright
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phosphorescent, cone-shaped space capsule. It landed in the
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snow about 100 feet ahead, and remained there silently for a few
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minutes on tripod landing gear, for all purposes like a prop
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from a science fiction movie.
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At first, we thought it was an apparition caused by the
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cold and our confused state of mind. I mean, we just couldn't
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believe our eyes.
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I prodded Jimi with my elbow and asked him out loud if this
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thing was just part of my imagination, or could he see it too?
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As It turned out, Jimi didn't answer, but he sort of just
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smiled. He seemed to be staring out into the night, his eyes
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riveted on this object resting within a stone's throw.
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At about this point, the other occupants of the van were
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unable to respond, as they were curied up beneath blankets in
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the back. I tried to wake them, but they wouldn't move. I was
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afraid that carbon monoxide, caused by the exhaust fumes and the
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rolled-up windows, might be getting into their lungs (though we
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know today that in alot of close encounters, those involved are
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paralyzed or rendered with no memory of the event).
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I have to admit that by now I was overwhelmed with fright,
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both by our situation and the fact that there was a strange ship
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on the road just ahead of us.
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Then a door opened on the side of the craft and an entity
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came forth. He stood eight feet tall, his skin was yellowish,
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and instead of eyes, the creature had slits. His forehead came
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to a point, and his head ran straight Into his chest, leaving
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the impression that he had no neck.
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The being from the UFO proceeded to float to the ground and
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glided toward the trapped occupants of our van. It was then
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that I noticed that the snow was melting in the wake of the
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creature.
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It was as if its body were generating tremendous heat or
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energy, so much so, that as it came across a small rise, the
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snow disappeared around us In all directions. In a matter of
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what seemed like seconds, the being came over to the right hand
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side of the van where Jimi was seated, and looked right through
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the window. Jimi seemed to be communicating telepathically with
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it-thanking this alien for saving our lives.
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Immediately, the van started to heat up and suddenly we
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were roasting inside moment it had been bitter cold, and the
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next we might as well have been in Haiti. The heat coming from
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this being evaporated the snow enough to free our imprisoned
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vehicle.
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As it glided behind our truck, I saw that the snow drift
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had completely vanished. Turning on the ignition key, I gunned
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the motor and we got the hell out of there. As I looked back
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through the rear view mirror, I could see the road filling with
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snow again. The object was at the same instant lifting off like
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a rocket from a launching pad.
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As far as I was concerned, a miracle had transpired. Yet,
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Jimi never did talk about the incident. He sort of let me know
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at the time that the cool thing to do was not to bring up the
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subject. It was to be our little secret. However, from what he
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did say, I sort of suspect that the object arrived to save our
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necks chiefly because Jimi had been practicing trying to
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communicate with the beings on board. I know this may be hard
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to believe, but I'm putting it to you straight, just like it
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happened.
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Message To The World
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Several years after Jimi's death-on the eve of the
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anniversary of his passing to be exact-I remember we were all
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excited about a warning that was broadcast over a British
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television station supposedly from a being orbiting above the
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Earth in a UFO many thousands of years to come! We, who have
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followed the path of evolution for far longer than you, have
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long since realized this-that atomic energy is always directed
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against life! It has NO peaceful application. Its use, and
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research into its use, must be ceased at once-or you will also
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risk destruction! All weapons of evil must be removed!
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"The time of conflict is now past, and the races of which
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you are a part may proceed to the highest planes of evolution-if
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you show yourselves worthy to do this. You have but a short
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time to learn to live together in peace and good will!"
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