Abductees - a film by Paul Vester

ABDUCTEES from PAUL VESTER on Vimeo.

Mac Tonnies liked this little film. I remember him saying it was very creative.

This short animation features Budd Hopkins in live action as well as voice over. The punk rock singer Helen Wheels is featured near the beginning. She speaks about the alien telepathy at the 00:30 time count. Linda Cortile (featured in Budd's book Witnessed) speaks at about the 1:45 time-count.

This video has been on youtube in one form or another for about a decade, but sadly the quality was very poor. The good news is that the version above is excellent.

I contacted the film-maker, Paul Vester, and asked about the production. It was made for BBC Channel 4 TV UK in 1994. The genesis of the project was the actual drawings done by the abductees themselves, these are shown as slides on a light-box in the film. Budd was very supportive of the project and would show the video to his subjects, and they liked it.

I was illustrator and animator in New York in the 1980s though the early 90s, and I could have easily worked on a something like this. So I feel a kinship of sorts to the production.

screen image (meaning a screen-grab) of owls and 123

NOTE: Look what shows up at the 1:23 time-count. This number sequence has been associated with some VERY powerful clues in my life.

ONE MORE NOTE: We had a plumber at the house as I was finishing up this post. He said he saw a big owl in the bushes near the front door—this would have been about the time I posted the cartoon owl image above.  I went out in the hopes of seeing the owl, but it wasn't there. I walked around the house and saw a large owl fly off and into the woods. I only saw it flying away from me, but the plumber was right, it was big! By the coloring and size, I am assuming it was a barred owl.

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Cartoon game app for your mobile device!

Despite the headline
this is not a pushy advertisement!
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One of many hundreds of illustrations from Cartoonacy.
(click on the cartoons for a HIrez view)

this is a puzzle, describe the cartoon with a two-word phrase

There is a long-ago chapter of my life where I did cartoon illustrations for toy advertising. I was living in New York in the 1980s with a career as an illustrator. Somewhere in the mid-1990's I drew a series of cartoons for a proposed game. It was to be a card game, with each card featuring a drawing that showed a simple two-word phrase. The game was never sold, I got paid for my work and it was pretty much forgotten.

Yet now, over two decades later, in the digital era, it's re-emerged as a mobile device app.

  Free download of the game app HERE  

This is a cute little game of puzzles, and its free!

But how does this tie into the UFO field? The game designer is Jay Bacal, who was also the creative director for the animated TV series THE TRANSFORMERS. Remember, that's the story of an ancient race of aliens here on earth. Well, Jay worked with a fellow named Paul Davids, who later went on to be the executive producer of the 1994 television movie ROSWELL. So, there's that!

what two-word phrase describes this cartoon?

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some suggested chapters

380 pages of owls and UFOs

I’ve done a lot of audio interviews over the last year promoting The Messengers. Recently, one host sent me a note after receiving a book. She basically said, “I’m too busy to read this big book, can you just suggest a few chapters?” I said sure, and made up the short list below. 

I counted up the pages in this suggested list, and it totals up to about 130 pages. That’s about one third of the book. If you want an even shorter list, then just read the chapters with a star (or more correctly, an asterisk) next to the number, that's about 86 pages.

         CHAPTERS:  

      … the Introduction (or listen HERE)

* 1. Owls at Sunset

* 2. Owls as Screen Memory (just skim this, you’ll get it)

   4. Owls and the UFO Abductee

* 9. Back to Back Reports (my favorite chapter) - 

   12. Owls as Archetypes (or listen HERE)

   19. Owls and Death 

   21. Highly Charged moments

   24. The Touch of an Owl's Wing

* 25. The Messengers

       … and the Conclusion

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