“My father was abducted by aliens, and we all laughed at his stories, but now I’m not so sure who was right.”
A very good article by David Riedel appeared in HuffPost. David’s father, Patrick McGuire, had been the subject of journalists’ attention for decades because he believed he had seen UFOs and had been abducted by aliens. David and other relatives, friends, and neighbors constantly mocked his father for such revelations because back then, that sort of thing was completely ridiculed. Who believes in “little green men”? Only psychiatrists. That was the societal view. But now, with UFOs making regular appearances in news headlines, discussed seriously not only by politicians but by heads of state, with former military personnel who were granted access to secret bunkers on military bases recounting the alien technologies they witnessed… Now David is unsure what to believe—what if his father had been right all along?
Unfortunately, his father, Patrick McGuire, passed away in 2009 at the age of 67 from cancer. Before that, he had lived in utter poverty for many years, losing his farm and struggling to find stable work (possibly due to society’s prejudiced views). An old video of Patrick, which can be found online today, shows him recounting what he saw and experienced. He talks about how the aliens who landed on his farm killed and mutilated his cows: “We came across a dead cow. Its nose was cut off, its tongue was torn out, and its reproductive organs were missing,” he says, then goes on to describe seeing a “cosmic ship” that landed on his ranch and abducted several cows from his herd. The terrified animals scattered far and wide across the prairie.
David doesn’t specify the exact reasons his father lost his farm, but it happened soon after UFOs began visiting the area and mutilating animals. David recalls that they lived in extreme poverty, with his father literally having to scavenge his neighbors’ trash to find something edible. Other children mocked David for this. Patrick McGuire’s rundown ranch. They lived in a small town in Wyoming where everyone knew each other, and it was impossible to hide from society’s prying eyes. “He was normal, caring, and composed. But that was before the ‘stars knocked on our door’,” David recalls.
David first began to consider the possibility that his father might have been right when, in 2003, he read a newspaper article stating that intelligence officials had revealed the U.S. government had acquired “non-human origin” technology. “I can see him now, wearing his black cowboy hat, tilted to the side, his face tanned and weathered from the intense sun, saying, ‘Well, who’s laughing now?’ I don’t laugh anymore, not because I know what was said in the headlines is the absolute truth, and the evidence is right around the corner, but because I realize I should never have laughed in the first place,” David reflects.
Since then, David has been seeing more and more reports about UFOs in articles from serious newspapers. Now, these objects are officially being referred to as UAPs (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) rather than UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects). It’s almost as if the authorities were in a hurry to acknowledge that mentions of UFOs would inevitably lead to mockery and disbelief in society. Then, one after another, whistleblowers started to appear, including David Grusch, one of the most famous UFO “whistleblowers”. Over and over, they claimed that the authorities were deliberately concealing the truth about UFOs, hiding the remains of alien spacecraft and extraterrestrial bodies. In recent years, what once seemed like a mere precursor to another series of “secret materials” has become front-page news, attracting the attention of serious, rational, institutional, and scientific circles.
“It’s strange to be here at this moment. I think many people, to one degree or another, feel the same. Whether it’s true or not, it’s strange to read that U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (Democrat from New York) is calling for the disclosure of information on a subject that, just ten years ago, would have been considered political suicide. And reading statements from former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo, who says, ‘I personally believe there is very compelling evidence that we may not be alone,’ is truly surreal. And even stranger to read about government agencies studying UFOs and ‘black money’ in The New York Times.”
Back in the time of Kenneth Arnold, who casually referred to UFOs as “flying saucers,” the entire UFO topic quickly turned into something very “tabloid” and “sensationalist,” leading to jokes about anal probes and other clichés. After that, everyone who claimed to have seen UFOs or been abducted by aliens and subjected to torment became the subject of ridicule and satire on TV, in newspapers, and in magazines. “Abductees were mocked on Saturday Night Live and in popular beer commercials. Even famous Harvard psychologist Richard J. McNally once claimed in his clinical study of the abduction phenomenon that ‘sometimes [researchers] had to make several attempts to properly record these accounts of [abductions]. Sometimes he would get frustrated, trying to record these stories with the necessary solemnity.’ Ridicule and mockery so badly obscure this topic that NASA recently stated during hearings that ‘the stigma associated with UFO sightings and the following investigations into them may prevent efforts to determine their origin.’ I know that stigma very well—I’ve experienced it myself from both sides.”
“My father was born and raised in Wyoming and was a farmer, like his father and grandfather. He lived in a Western community where claims about cattle were taken seriously, where discussions about the regularity of rainfall were normal, and the topic of pasture quality was not something discussed openly. My father saw UFOs more than once, many times in fact. In 1981, my father’s story attracted national attention when he was hypnotized on the NBC show ‘This is Incredible’ and shared details of his abduction and the demands the aliens made regarding his life. (That video is the only one available online of Patrick McGuire today).”
On March 5, 1980, on the ABC program “Eyewitness News,” he reported that UFOs had landed on his ranch about 25–30 times, and witnesses confirmed they had seen “two or three of them land at different times… [and] we stayed and watched the sunrise, and we saw two of them hovering in two different spots in the daylight.” The headline in National Enquirer on March 24, 1981, read: “Farmer says aliens use his ranch as a landing pad.” The article reported that “local reporters and TV stations had also seen strange lights flickering above McGuire’s ranch.” UFOs had been seen by other witnesses, but that didn’t stop society from mocking him and labeling him as a liar or fantasist.
Patrick McGuire underwent several sessions of regressive hypnosis with the famous UFO psychologist R. Leo Sprinkle and, under hypnosis, recounted how “Star People” had abducted him and taken something from him as part of their “plan for humanity.” They also told him that humanity was facing an apocalypse. After these sessions, several years passed, and Patrick and his family ended up on the streets. He believed the government had done this to him as retribution for…
