”The lone isolated researcher who knows so much of
this sort of thing and really cannot communicate it to his fellow citizens,
tends to examine himself and wonder if he is really normal or just a stupid
believer of colossal lies… Some categories of the unknown and secretive-lie
modus operandi seems to be amply identified and described in the Holy Bible. We
earthlings are under assault as never before and at this late date we don´t
even know it. Our enemy is making great progress on all fronts. For instance just
one area – the moral and physical destruction of our most precious resource
(our youth) via mind altering drugs and weeds has now reached frightening
proportions.”
This was the dystopian vision and conclusion reached
by American ufologist Donald (Don) Worley, presented in his first letter to me on
March 19, 1981. We continued corresponding until 1995 and Don, very generously,
provided me with lots of data and documents from his many years of field
investigations. John Keel very aptly described Don as ”an experienced student
of the unknown” (The Mothman Prophecies, p. 34). He began his studies of UFO
and paranormal phenomena in 1965, being a member of NICAP and APRO. At the
CUFOS conference in 1976 Don Worley was invited to present a paper on the
relation between UFOs, Bigfoot and paranormal phenomena, titled The UFO-Related
Antropoids: An Important New Opportunity for Investigator-Researchers With
Courage.
To enter the controversial and possibly dangerous
underground world of contactees, abductions, cattle mutilations and Men In
Black (MIB) certainly requires a form a courage. This was the specialized area
of research of both John Keel and Don Worley. In a certain sense they also
arrived at similar conclusions regarding the intelligences behind the
phenomena, although expressed in different terms. Keel used the more esoteric
name elementals, while Worley preferred a mainstream Christian interpretation of
good and evil - angels and demons.
Don Worley (1921- 2018) was born and lived in
Connersville, Indiana most of his life. He was a member of Baptist Temple and
American Legion Post No. 1. Employed at Boeing Aircraft in Seattle and at Roots
Blowers for 31 years. After graduation in 1941, he served in the U.S. Coast
Guard for 3 and a ½ years. On a Patrol Frigate, he was a radioman operating U
boat detection equipment in the North Atlantic, south of Greenland. His active
UFO interest and field investigations began in 1965 resulting in many articles,
lectures, radio and TV appearances. Several of his articles can be found on the
abduct.com website.
Don Worley
Reading the articles by Don Worley is to be
catapulted into a world of sinister forces and entities. Although he did
consider the possibility of benevolent alien visitors his many articles on the
Nordics mostly imply dubious or evil intentions behind their activities. This
is clearly stated in one of his later articles The Nordics Mystery (Contact
Forum, March-April 1995): ”Are these ”love-exuding” entities – who are
directing the lawless, invasive deeds of the greys and other types – simply greys
in ”sheep´s clothing”?... Are the Nordics good, evil or indifferent?At this
time it seems to me, we remain baffled and suspicious, yet hopeful.”
The mystery and possible threat from the Nordics,
human-looking aliens, was a central theme in many of Don Worley´s articles. He
was very serious about this issue and for several years engaged in a sort of
mission impossible agenda to alert all he could reach of his findings: ”I have
tried to ”wake up” congressmen, senators, (they contact the Pentagon which
sooths with the usual lies, newsmen, national editorial writers, national TV
commentators etc. Actually its just like World War Two. The escaping Jews
returned to the gehettos and tried to tell everyone that the Germans were
liquidating them by the millions but the monstrousness of the truth was
unimaginable to the human mind and could not be accepted. After 22 years I have
come to believe that the situation is really that grim. We don´t comprehend the
primordial mind, know what it has done and is doing or what its final aim is.”
(Undated letter from Don Worley 1988).
In a letter May 28, 1985 Don Worley told me he was
working on the manuscript for a book with twelve chapters, cases and documents
from his many field investigations. The title was UFO Ground Phenomena: The
Visible Evidence of Earth´s Hidden Nemesis. Some of the chapters were The
Hidden Deceivers at Work; Analysing the Hidden Enemy; Looking for a Savior. In
the last letter to me November 1, 1995 Don had changed the title to Starships of
Evil, reflecting his increasingly dystopian vision. The book was never
published and I don´t know what happened to the manuscript or his archive.
(Undated letter from Don Worley 1988).
Article by Don Worley in UFO Universe, Winter 1997
Don published many articles in Flying Saucer Review
(FSR), during the editorship of Gordon Creighton. He shared Worley´s doom and
gloom estimation of mankind´s situation, although he favored an
anthroposophical interpretation of the phenomena. A World Under Assault was
published in Flying Saucer Review, Spring 1999: ”An epic, unseen, struggle has
been raging for many years. Large intelligence groups in Earth´s leading
nations and the valiant forces at their disposal are locked in a hopeless
struggle with a foe whose power is unsurpassed. Sleeping humanity little
suspects what lies in its perilous future. It is much like the falsely secure
revellers on the doomed Titanic. If some miraculous help does not finally
intervene it is probably that our cherished values and even we ourselves will
be annihilated.”
There are several ufologists who, after a few years
of field investigation, have reached the same conclusions as Don Worley
regarding the intelligences behind the UFO phenomena. Some of them have completely
abandoned ufology and joined more or less fundamentalist Christian churches or
groups. But Don kept on researching the enigma although with his view of the
situation he must have felt an increasing paranoia. This was somewhat reflected
in a letter to me 1985: ”Here and there in ufology those who got into something
big and got too close to the MIB sometimes end up exiting this life usually by
the heart attack route. ”They” know about me of course , but I don´t think my
book will be stopped. I believe there are forces protecting me that will not
allow this to happen. Others like Keel, Dr. Vallee etc survived and seen their
revelations published… It is amazing how the UFO situation may parallel just
what the Bible has to say about good and evil. You said it was too bad I was
such a pessimist. Facts are facts and I must stick to them but I do in a
limited fashion cover the good guys (angels?) in my book. However its mostly
about those in temporary control now – the great deceivers.”
(Letter from Don Worley, September 9, 1985).
(Letter from Don Worley, September 9, 1985).
One of the reasons Don Worley arrived at the
conclusions above was that he relied rather heavily on claims made by abductees
during hypnosis. Data obtained during hypnosis are exceedingly unreliable and
must be confirmed by clear empirical or circumstantial evidence to have any
value. In the 1980s many amateur psychologists and ufologists made a mess of
the abduction phenomenon by using hypnosis with inadequate knowledge of the
proceedings. Real and physical abduction do occur though but very few have been
witnessesed by those not involved. The most well known is probably the Travis
Walton abduction in 1975. Two abductions observed by independent witnesses are
documented by Dr. Ardy Sixkiller Clarke in her book Sky People, pp. 124 and
286.
With Don Worley´s deep fascination with contactee
cases (Nordics) I find it strange that he never made an indepth study of the
classic contactees of the 1950s: Adamski, Angelucci, Fry, Menger, Van Tassel
etc. Many were still alive and possible to interview in the 1960s and 70s. Such
an investigation could have made him realize that here was evidence of activity
by a benevolent groups of alien visitors and this could have made his theories
more moderate and less gloomy. Don was also bound by his Christian paradigm or
worldview. If he had studied and considered the core Esoteric Tradition
(Blavatsky, Bailey, Laurency) as an alternative hypothesis or paradigm he would
have found some interesting clues to the UFO enigma. But in this respect he
was, like many other ufologists, what Meade Layner and Riley Crabb called a ”metaphysical
illiterate”.
Still I can feel a certain sympathy with Don Worley
as in some respects I share his views, based on my own investigations of
contactee cases. There definitely are some very strange things going on on this
planet and obviously we have both good and bad ”players” in this drama –
whoever they are. Although evil or dangerous space people were often
mentioned by the first generation contactees there are very few references to ”cosmic
evil” in the core Esoteric Tradition. Of possible relevance is one cryptic
reference by the Tibetan to Alice Bailey: ”… the place where another kind of
evil dwells - an evil which is not indigenous to our planet, an evil with which
it was never intended that men should deal.” (Alice Bailey, The Rays and the
Initiations, p. 753). To mainstream scientific ufologists such ideas and scenarios
are simply myths and irrational conspiracy theories. Now suppose you, as a
researcher, would find absolute and one hundred percent personal proof that
there really is a secret war going on for this planet, but you are unable to
prove this publicly. What would you do? How would you react?
Here a few options:
Here a few options:
1. Join the fight, hopefully on the side of the
Angels.
2. Try the mission impossible option of going public
with your knowledge.
3. Write a novel and in fictional form present what
you know.
4. Document your knowledge and preserve it in a
safe-deposit box, to be published after your death.
5. Forget
the whole thing and try to live a normal life.