"Close Encounters of the Fatal Kind" by Nick Redfern

Everyone has heard of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but what about close encounters of the fatal kind? The field of ufology is rife with unsettling examples of suspicious deaths, accidents that may not have been accidents, and conveniently timed heart attacks!

We here at the Crypto Blast love Nick Redfern's engaging books. He's one of the leading paranormal authors out there. In fact he may even overshadow Cryptozoologist Loren Coleman.

Four years ago Nick wrote "Close Encounters of the Fatal Kind" where he talks about a poor man who was melting from being to close to a UFO, Secretary of Defense James Forrestal's strange death, missing pilots and their connection to UFOs, and the sudden deaths of UFO investigators.

FLYING INTO OBLIVION

Mysterious Skies

At about 9:30 a.m. on November 10, 1953, Karl Hunrath and Wilbur Wilkinson, two friends originally from Wisconsin but at the time living in California, hired a small airplane and took to the skies of Los Angeles. It was the last time either man was seen alive. It was the last time the aircraft was seen, too. Maybe they crashed shortly after takeoff and died fiery deaths. If so, where was the wreckage? Where were the bodies? No one, including the emergency services that launched a hasty search and rescue operation when it became apparent that something was awry, could find a single piece of telltale evidence of such an accident anywhere. It was almost as if Hunrath and Wilkinson had been abducted by aliens. In fact, that may have been precisely what happened to them.

When news of the pair's vanishing act surfaced, many of California's UFO researchers voiced their suspicions that Hunrath and Wilkinson had been whisked away to a faraway world by benevolent aliens—the so-called Space Brothers that dominated so much of the West Coast world of Ufology in the 1950s. Others researchers took a far bleaker approach to the whole thing and pondered the possibility that deadly aliens had lured the pair to their deaths somewhere in the mountains of California. Such thoughts were not at all unreasonable ones. Hunrath and Wilkinson were big players on the Los Angeles UFO scene at the time and, in the weeks and months leading up to their disappearances, were making it widely and loudly known that they had made contacts'with at least two races of extra-terrestrials—via ESP, drugs, and Ouija boards, no less. But how had the two men become embroiled in the UFO controversy in the first place? The answer is a strange one.

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