Posted by: Umberto Visani May 6, 2014 2 Comments 5,058 Views
The following case
from South America in the 1960s and 1970s presents one of the most well
documented and captivating alleged extraterrestrial contact experiences to
date.
The first
contact with the unknown
Enrique
Castillo-Rincon (Credit: Blue Dolphin Publishing)
In June 1963, Enrique
Castillo, a thirty year old man, was working for the power utility company in
Costa Rica to build an observation outpost near the top of the Irazu volcano.
One day, along with two colleagues, he saw two circle-shaped orange objects in
the sky with a diameter of about one hundred and twenty feet that were flying
at eight hundred feet over the crater. As he wrote in his book OVNI: Gran Alborada Humana (UFO: A Great New Human Dawn), one of the two objects was falling out of the sky in
a “falling leaf” movement (many UFOs are reported to fly as if they were leaves
falling from a tree) and changed its color to a leaden hue. Castillo and his
colleagues began feeling a terrible itch throughout their bodies. Suddenly,
some sort of periscope came out of the UFO’s dome. On its top there was a
hammer-shaped object that rotated rapidly and emitted a purple light. After a
few minutes, the periscope was drawn back and the aircraft disappeared at high
speed.
The three witnesses,
despite being puzzled, were totally aware of the fate that awaits those who
tell stories which seemingly belong to the twilight zone; that’s why, at first,
they decided not to reveal anything. In the next few hours, however, they
suffered from strong dizziness and vomiting. Therefore, for fear of having been
exposed to radiation, they went to a hospital in San Jose. However,
no radiation was detected.
Irazu Volcano
(Credit: Rafael Golan/CC3.0)
Disturbing
phenomena
If the Castillo
affair were over at this point, it would be nothing but an interesting sighting
of an unidentified flying object whose proximity produced tangible physical
effects.
On the contrary, the
case is much more complex and multifaceted.
One night, two months
after the sighting, Castillo heard a strange noise echoing in his head. Soon,
he realized that he had heard the weird sound before, the day he and his
colleagues saw the two flying saucers. Moreover, this time the noise was heard
not only by Castillo, but also by his wife, Beatriz.
After these events,
Castillo’s interest in UFO matters increased exponentially and he founded a
group which studied UFO-related phenomena. In 1968, he moved to Brasilia for
work. Five years had passed after the first sighting and the weird events
seemed to have finally abandoned his life. Then, one day the mysterious made
another appearance in Castillo’s everyday life. He was driving from Sao Paulo
to Brasilia when a circular orange ball of light started to fly stationary over
his car for a long distance, causing a lot of vibration in the chassis,
steering problems and radio malfunctions.
This was just the
first in a series of odd events. In 1969, the mysterious incidents continued.
One Sunday, while Castillo was in line at a cinema to see the film
“Barbarella”, a young man introduced himself as Cyril Weiss. He told Castillo
that he was a representative of a wholesale distribution company in Switzerland
and asked him permission to see the movie along with him. Castillo agreed and
after watching the movie accompanied Mr. Weiss to the hotel where he resided.
Mr. Weiss invited Castillo to come to the hotel the next day. During this
meeting the two talked about several issues, and Mr. Weiss said that he
believed the UFO phenomena was just a hoax.
A solid friendship
was born and Castillo started to meet Mr. Weiss often. However, Castillo began
to notice many oddities in his friend’s behavior. The episode that stunned
Castillo most regards a car accident. One day, while driving along with Mr.
Weiss, Castillo ran a dog over. A little child witnessed the accident and
started to cry because his poor dog had died. Mr. Weiss showed an utter
impassiveness, just stating that the boy would soon submit to the inevitability
of what had happened. Castillo reported that Mr. Weiss’ look seemed totally
indifferent, with no room for empathy.
Castillo started to
be puzzled by the Swiss gentleman. He spoke Spanish fluently with no accent,
and during another rendezvous, in evident contradiction with what he had told
Castillo a few days earlier, said that he was sure that there could be
extraterrestrial entities not only on other planets but also in some
uninhabited areas on Earth.
One day, Mr. Weiss
suddenly announced that he would go abroad for a long time. However, as we
shall see, Castillo would meet Mr. Weiss again in the future, in a totally
different disguise.
Contact
The cover of Rincon’s
book. (Credit: Blue Dolphin Publishing.)
It was 1973, four
years had passed since Castillo’s last meeting with Mr. Weiss and everything
seemed back to normal. In the meantime, Castillo had moved to Bogota, Colombia.
One day, he received a phone call from someone named Karen, a Mexican woman who
told him that she had been given his telephone number by some “extraterrestrial
masters” who wanted to contact him.
Castillo, just like
most rational people, thought it was a facetious joke, but still decided to
meet the woman. She turned out to be very persuasive in her assertions and,
consequently, Castillo started to attend meetings held by a group of people who
claimed to be in contact with aliens from Andromeda (a galaxy at 2.3 million
light-years from Earth) who had allegedly conveyed various messages to humans
through automatic writing.
In October, 1973, one
evening, the members of the UFO group had reached the top of a hill and were
waiting for an announced contact with the extraterrestrials. To everybody’s
disappointment, no spacecraft appeared on the scene but some members received a
telepathic communication by a voice which said that everybody would be
contacted at noon the day after.
At that time Castillo
was at home, focused and ready to receive a message, despite being highly
doubtful because, until then, he had not received anything. Suddenly a voice,
loud in his head, called and urged him to write. Castillo began to fill up
several pages, while hearing a disturbing noise that reminded him the one he
had heard ten years before when he and his colleagues sighted two UFOs. The
content of what he transcribed shows strong similarities with the
communications received in those years by other contactees (from George Adamski
to Howard Menger and Daniel Fry, just to mention the most famous and debated
cases). They alluded to a Third World War, future disasters, and the arrival of
“space brothers”.
The messages
continued over the following days until the end of October, when Castillo was
told the date of an upcoming physical contact, set for November 3, although the
exact place had not been communicated yet (Castillo declared it would be near a
lake). At the same time, Castillo’s oneiric activity grew exponentially,
providing him with other clues about the place where the meeting would occur.
On November 3, the
day of the alleged contact, Castillo reached a lake at about 80 kilometres from
Bogota and recognised what he had seen in a dream, a ball placed under the roots
of a tree in the middle of a clearing. He took it in his hands and it began to
emit thin rays of light and, after a few minutes, two flying saucers appeared.
They were similar to those Castillo had spotted in Costa Rica ten years before.
The two UFOs approached Castillo, producing strong orange rays like a
searchlight towards the ground. Two figures in gray uniforms came out of the
light, they wore boots and helmets with visors. Meanwhile, a voice in
Castillo’s head told him not to worry and suggested that he climb on-board.
Despite being a wee bit reluctant, Castillo walked within the range of the
searchlight and then he was lifted on board.
He was forced to
undress and underwent a microbial decontamination inside an empty hexagonal
room. A door suddenly appeared on a wall and two men entered the room. To
Castillo’s utmost astonishment, one of the two men turned out to be Cyril
Weiss, the mysterious Swiss man he had met four years earlier. The “Swiss” said
that his real name was Krishnamerck and accompanied Castillo into another room
where there were other beings, all similar to Weiss (the classic “Nordic
alien”).
Castillo asked
several questions and was always given a reply. The Pleiadians told him that
they had a lot of bases on Earth, that the first contact dated back to
thousands years before Christ and that they have been actively influencing our
technological development. Their spacecrafts could become invisible so as not
to frighten humanity which was not ready yet for the revelation of an alien
presence. Many Pleiadian emissaries, as communicated to Castillo, were already
among the population and aimed to create groups to cooperate with humans.
That was just the
first in a series of physical contacts with the Pleiadians which continued
until January 1975 into a sort of crescendo. Castillo claimed of having been
taken to a base in the Andes where both humans and aliens cooperated together,
as well as to a submarine base in the Mariana Trench at about 5,000 metres
under the sea. On both occasions, Castillo allegedly met extraterrestrial
masters of wisdom who warned him about future disasters and conflicts that
would devastate the planet should a “shift in our consciousness” not occur in
time.
Pros and Cons
From the outset, one
would legitimately think that Castillo invented at most of what he had claimed.
In fact, the only undoubted aspect of the whole story is the beginning, the
sighting that occurred in 1963 with his colleagues and the subsequent physical
ailments. But it would be too easy to dismiss his experiences as mere reveries.
The first
consideration is that anybody who wished to invent a story of alien contacts,
would not include some elements that, even at first sight, tend to appear
totally ridiculous. All the data and information relating to the names of the
extraterrestrial beings, the encounter with three meters tall inhabitants of
Mercury and Venus (uninhabited planets according to the information available
to date), the New Age style messages about nuclear wars and the need to educate
a new generation to make it aware of its role, are certainly elements that can
make you laugh for their extreme banality and/or presumed nonsense, but it is
exactly their banality that should lead us to take into consideration the
possibility that Castillo had merely, and honestly, reported what he was told.
Indeed, if you
carefully analyse the various details of this case you will be probably
inclined to believe that Castillo is not a hoaxer.
First of all, you
should keep in mind that Castillo was not the only one who received these sorts
of messages. Other members in his group and, most of all, members of groups
from all over the world made similar accounts in those years, as if a lot of
humans were told the same story by unknown entities.
Secondly, it is
pretty evident that the entire story shows striking parallelisms with the
Friendship affair, at its peak between 1956 and 1978 in most part of the world,
contacts with alien beings with seemingly peaceful intents, which approached
small groups of humans and started a collaboration.
Not to mention, the
declarations made by Castillo about UFO-crashes, reverse-engineering operations
and mind guided spaceships; all details that nowadays are being discussed even
on TV but that in the 1970′s were not well known or talked about.
Conclusions
Rincon speaking about
his experiences at a UFO conference. (Credit: Exopolitics Institute)
In any case, the big
question does not concern the possible authenticity of what Castillo
specifically reported but, why? In that period of time there was a plethora of
highly homogeneous and similar stories.
None of these
contactees have gained economic profit, nor have they convinced the masses of
the truth of their experiences. They have never contradicted themselves, nor
they have changed their testimonies, despite the general hilarity with which
their reports were received, they have not attempted to convert or deceive
anybody.
But… what if they
were deceived? Who can be sure that that the entities they came into contact
with were sincere in regards to their origins, their looks and their true
intents?
Just keep in mind
that, until seventy years ago, these beings claimed to come from Fairyland, Tir
nan Og, Magonia, or Hell. Now the frame of reference has changed, and these
entities allegedly come from Mars, Venus, Pleiades, Zeta Reticuli. If they are
real, are they telling the truth? Nobody knows.
Selected
Bibliography
BRECCIA Stefano, Contattismi
di Massa,
Nexus Edizioni, Due Carrare (PD), Italia, 2007.
CASTILLO RINCON
Enrique, OVNI: Gran
Alborada Humana,
San José, Costa Rica, 1995
.
GOOD Timothy, Rivelazioni
da Altri Mondi,
Corbaccio, Milan, 2001.
KEEL A. John, UFOs:
Operation Trojan Horse, Abacus Books, London 1973.
VALLEE, Jacques, Challenge
to Science: the Ufo Enigma, Neville Spearman, London, 1977.
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