The following is a letter sent to me by Dennis Whitney and includes photos and information on his sightings --

 
Dear Lesley,

    The other day, as I was checking out several UFO sites, and later, while running a Google search, your site appeared with my Elk Grove UFO video. Naturally, I had to take a look. And by the way, I do like the layout, and the ‘Debris Field’ name!

   I then saw a link to the Elk Grove UFO and the photos I have taken over the years, referencing Australia.to’s site. A valuable source to many things paranormal, both for the Aussie’s, and myself. Greg Rogers runs a very good publication over there.

    But as intriguing as your Elk Grove link was, I didn’t find it working. Some friends have told me the same. You may want to double-check it. They can be fickle things to be sure. So, I never did get to see what part or parts of my files you managed to acquire.

     But the point of all this, is that this event was truly extraordinary, and occurred back in 2005. This is only one of many strange and anomalous events I’ve experienced since then, which have led to pics and video that have always seemed to be very close at hand, regardless of where I may be living at the time. Everything I’ve filmed seems to be within a few hundred feet of where I stand, or directly overhead. But having resided in Northern California for a number of years now, this is where much of the activity has been photographed or videotaped. But I’ve seen activity in every state I’ve been.

       A little background on just who I am, though. I have been studying UFOs for a number of years now. But after one night of intense, two million+ candle watt signaling in the farm fields of Lincoln, CA in 2005, things began to come fast and furious. Here is what I first saw over the fields (Note the stationary object overlapping the neon green streak on the top left. This may eliminate the theory of camera shake.):

Now, the Elk Grove video you’ve seen was only one day after signaling several, bobbling craft in the night sky, high above my home. The day after THAT, I was visited by two men in a black suburban at my place of work, as they stared straight at me from their vehicle, for a eight full hours. Just feet away from my front door, never moving but once, only to re-position, then pull into the same spot again, for whatever reason they needed to do that. Just staring. Never even leaving for lunch. I never did approach them, but I certainly wanted to. Unfortunately, the prospect of who they might be, truly frightened my employees. This really shook them up. I regret not having done that to this day.

   And within a week after the actual video was taken, a massive, black, aircraft carrier-looking thing, hovered above the farm fields as I rushed to get my vehicle home (Just a few hundred yards away!), where I could safely park it, and take a picture. There were no other places to pull off! I did a double and triple-take, as I tried to stay on the road. I could not believe what ungodly thing this was floating over the fields, very low, at around 6pm, in the clear sunlight. By the time I had reached my driveway, it had vanished, as if it knew it was time to disappear. Something knew I was watching, and something was watching me. I was convinced of it at this point. But would have given anything for a picture of this thing, straight out of Independence Day! Today, the details of the craft are blurry in my mind, but it was big, and it was there, and it seemed inter-dimensional. Just a guess of mine. Then it was just….gone.

    I should also point out that I had visited with the police in between the sighting of the golden ship in Elk Grove, and the MIB visit, but never filed an actual report. Just looking for answers to the nature of the craft. I did show the video, still on my camera, to the officer on duty, which in retrospect surely sparked someone’s interest. MUFON was also not reported to. That’s regret #2. So here the video sat on my computer, with a number of still photographs to accompany it. Never finding an outlet, until now.

   And this has only happened through the diligence and passion of the UFO subject, through a pilot I met while visiting the ECETI ranch this past May. He has been quite instrumental in getting the footage and pics uploaded to the net. I may have never gotten around to it, to be honest.

      So, as I met James Gilliland that weekend, I also met Pierre (this particular pilot), and his fellow pilot and friend, Nigel. Both whose names can be found on the Australia.to site, and who have had thousands of hours between them, flying commercial airliners. Their testimony as professional pilots and their ability to distinguish what they see in the skies hold profound weight, in my opinion, and for those serious about the subject. And there is much they have shared with me. If what they say is fact, we truly are NOT alone, and there is a very continuous presence alongside our own jets, in our own skies.

   But the Elk Grove video (taken 15 minutes south of Sacramento), and these pictures, have now been discussed extensively on Above Top Secret, your site, and Australia.to. It should be stated, that the strange, golden swirls of light within the still shots, show absolutely no resemblance to the video I took. Yet they were the same event, as I switched between still and video settings on the same Coolpix camera. See pics below:

There is also a dark column of energy (?) below one of the shots (bottom left), that reached the ground. Full, original pics may be supplied, if you like. But many angles of this have been debated.

    So, is it a shaky hand causing the swirls? Not likely, as the metallic, spherical objects within the structure are beautifully defined. Very reminiscent of crop circle footage as sometimes has been captured, as the event occurs. And the luminescent golden craft, shaped much like a blimp, itself also matches the exact description of those broadcast in the ‘Battle of Los Angeles’ in 1942. A very real and strongly documented event in our history.

    And why didn’t I zoom in on the craft in the video? It looks so far away. Well, the video you see was actually NEVER seen as I was filming! I actually thought I WAS taking a crystal clear video of this golden ship, as it filled the display. What actually came forth after downloading it to my laptop, was this OTHER, unknown craft lurking in the background. So there was no need to zoom in. I thought I was zoomed in. And there was no mic on the early version of this camera, so there is no sound. All these aspects to the event have led me to believe this is a holographic image projected by the actual cloaked object set deep in the background. I have not been able to reconcile this any other way. And Nigel and Pierre have each stated, as pilots, that the blinking lights of the object in the video are in no way, in accordance with FAA regulation. This seems to not be one of ours. I’ll buy into that.

    All that aside, I have filmed several craft directly over my home in Mountain View, CA, of which one can be seen on the UFO Hunters episode on ‘Back Engineering’.

   Other photos are taken directly across the street, and over the tree line of a city park where I live. These were unseen, and have been accompanied with a humming sound at times. Also, my two cats were intensely focused on something outside the window during the humming sound! They were transfixed! They didn’t just hear what I heard, they saw something I couldn’t. Just another strange facet to it all. The pics were snapped, and you now see what I refer to as the ‘Unseen Wingspan’. A monstrous string of red light, dotted with bright white spheres, as well as another unseen craft around dusk. Its clarity is poor (center pic), but I assure you, nothing was there when I took the picture. I simply panned the tree line, in the general area I’ve witnessed night time events. They seem to come a bit closer, before settling high in the atmosphere at night!

    And another gold-illuminated, shape-shifting object over these same trees, months later. See below:

And in 2007, while departing to Florida through SFO’s American Airlines terminal in San Francisco, I filmed and photographed what you will also see as the SFO drone pics and footage. Two (again, unseen objects) hovering, then descending directly over the tarmac, in class B airspace, and recorded on two different cameras. I switched from my digital still camera, to a separate video camera, and captured the images on each. Not one traveler on the concourse had any idea what it was that was right in front of us. I do believe I have the only footage of this event, as again, no one had a clue as to what was happening. Here is the one close-up pic of what was filmed, as it slowly disappeared behind the gateway. I will have the video up on the net as soon as I can transfer the format from my original DV tapes to something useable online.

Here is the still shot below. The twisted, teardrop shape is truly eerie.

   So now, as I ponder just why it is I’m so ‘lucky’ to have a constant presence around me, I think back to two more incidents that may suggest this is something much deeper than happenstance. I have also discussed this on several occasions with Jim Sparks, a noted and very credible abductee, with over 90% recollection of his experiences.

    While in Palm Springs, in 2006, I was ‘scanned’ (for lack of a better term), by something unseen, while getting up at 3am to grab a glass of water. I was looking out the patio window on the third floor, as the downtown area slept. Earlier in the evening, while with my family, we watched several craft rise above the San Jacinto Mountains, bobble around a bit, then descend one at a time, behind the peak after about 45 minutes. One first, followed by the next. I guess they saw what they wanted to see in the valley below, and called it a night. This would have been directly in my line of site, from the patio.

      This is the same spot I was standing at 3am, when a vertical, bronze/amber beam, about a foot wide, reaching from floor to ceiling, passing steadily from the back wall to my left, over my body, and across the right side until it disappeared. I was stunned. I stood frozen in that moment. I saw NOTHING in the air, the town was silent, and there was absolutely no traffic or aircraft whatsoever. Absolute silence, in the dead of night. Then it happened again! Almost in a steady, rhythmic and rotational cycle, like that of a lighthouse beacon, the beam crossed over my body in a smooth, fluid motion. I was ready the third time, if it happened again, and it did. With my left side to the back wall, and my right side aimed toward the balcony, I actually watched it start on one wall, move across, and as I looked directly across the patio to the mountains, it passed over my body again. Not a single source of light in the air, or on the ground, or anywhere from which this could have generated. This was the final pass. There may have been only 10-15 seconds between passes. Just three times. I thought then, as I do now, that something or someone may have activated something in me, to begin my ‘awakening’. It was from this point on that my total immersion into the field of the paranormal REALLY began. Elk Grove was the first major catalyst to my interest, but this led me deeper into my study. This had some meaning. How could it not? And why the interest in me?

   And finally, the most invasive, in-your-face event took place, about one year ago (prior to the SFO drone event). I had the most vivid UFO dream one night. We all have them, don’t we? But this was very different. The morning after this powerful dream, which felt so very, very real, left me feeling somehow different. I then found a half inch incision (?) on my right knee. No scab. Just a bright red, blade-fine cut, with no soreness, and which disappeared almost entirely by the following day. But this was not a scratch. It truly looked like a scalpel cut. I’ve never seen anything like it, with all the cuts and bruises I’ve had in my life. And, this would be the same morning I find a very small ‘bead’ of some sort behind my left ear. It moves slightly to the touch, and inflames at times. I can feel it now. In fairness, it’s never been tested, though I have my curiosity. I also now get a steady, deliberate tone that lasts 10-15 seconds at a time, almost daily, and only from that ear. Not piercing, but obvious when it takes place. It doesn’t fade, and cannot be attributed to some medical explanation of ringing in the ears, that I know of. It turns on, then off, like a switch. And always for the same, short length of time. This bead itself, very much matches the description given by Whitley Strieber, whom I have never met, but admire his forthright attitude in speaking what he knows.

    And in between all these events, I have had strange cloud formations that travel with my car, at low altitudes. I’ve lost track of the timing in relation to other events, but it all clusters together in a close-knit time period. These clouds did seem irregularly-shaped, as one would expect. BUT, I have seen the same, identical shape the following day, running with my car at 60-70mph, as it passes so many other clouds that seem to stand still, and cruising only barely above the power lines! Jim Sparks also suggested that this is just one benign form they will usually take to cloak themselves, so as not to shock passersby. This has only happened twice. But it is very, very strange, and just adds to the picture as a whole. Had it changed back to some silvery disc at that speed, I likely would have driven off the road into a ravine!

   So Lesley, am I really just this lucky, and always in the right place at the right time, or is something much deeper happening? If I ever get this object behind my ear tested, I may have my answer.

   But do write if you should have any questions at all, and look to www.Australia.to or www.solarwarden.com (their newly dedicated paranormal section) for future articles of greater detail, in which the publication has been so kind to allow me.

   I may also suggest that if it interests you, I will gladly do a phone interview with you, which may be useful to your site and your readers and listeners in an MP3 format.

    It is also possible for me to gather my pilot acquaintances from Hong Kong, for whom I met in Trout Lake, WA at the ECETI ranch for even better perspective, along with their professional witness testimonies, as to what they’ve seen in the skies during flight. Maybe a 3-way call if we can manage the time differences.

   Pierre’s site is: www.2012changesarenow.blogspot.com and he has several articles and videos on what we witnessed first hand in Washington, a video of me, as well as a wealth of ufological material you may find quite interesting. Check with Pierre, and maybe link your sites together for a broad view of all things supernatural.

All the best to you Lesley, and thanks for your interest in my material.

Sincerely,

Dennis Whitney