The Visit

The Visit

Where do I begin? Many of you do know about my past and to be honest my present. Since I can first remember, in most cases my life has not been like many. I have had a relationship with something non human, strange, scary, beautiful, and even amazing at times that I lived in secret with for much of my early life.

I later learned from my estranged mother and my grandfather that this ran in the family and was the great secret no one talked about. All this happened long before the now famous book by Whitley Stieber Communion would be released to the world to cause a shit storm of response from other people around the globe that had this same secret. Shared this same experience.

Little did I know I would one day meet Whitley and we have been lifelong friends ever since. Yes I have these experiences. I don’t pretend to know exactly what they are in any way. I don’t buy into the folklore or conspiracies about this subject. I only know, not believe, that something is there, it’s intelligent and for the most part unknown.

I have made 5 films to date on the subject. Some mildly Science fiction but always based on my own experiences and knowledge about the subject. I am about to release another film related to this subject named, “A Conversation with my Father”. It is finished but I’m waiting to cut in at the beginning an introduction by Whitley as he has done for 3 of the films in what I call the, “But Something is There” films. The first film and also my book on Amazon are entitled, “But something is There”.

Going back 25 years I was at the height of my visibility on this subject. It was the 90’s and the interest by the media in this subject was at its peak. With shows like “Sightings”, “The Paranormal Borderline”, “The Otherside”, movies, TV specials and more my work and my face were splattered all over other media. Many times alongside Whitley Strieber, Jacques Vallée, Yvonne smith and many other notable people in this field of study.

Many of these shows I was involved in making the practical effects alien puppets for and puppeteering.

I created artwork for many of the shows too. Book covers for writers on the subject, magazine covers, comic books and more. I was the one doing many of the CGI effects for the History Channels, “The UFO Files”. I even made art for the X-files.

That’s the short story. And if you want to know more read my book, “But Something is there” or watch the film. The book does go into a lot more detail. You can read it for free on Kindle.

What all this brings me to is a film I wrote and directed. I worked with my long time friend William Hooper who was one of the most talented filmmakers I have ever known. He was looking at some storyboards I made back in the late 90s and suggested that we make a film together. I had been working on the Fox show “Sightings” and I owned the Grey alien puppets I made for the show. Tony was just getting into Lightwave 3D at the time and we had Adobe Premiere. Tony had a lot of equipment and cameras. I wrote the script. Story boarded the film and we started production.

Once the film was made it was never released publicly. And over the years I lost track of Tony. I rarely hear from him anymore. I wanted to show the film publicly alongside the other films I have made. But I couldn’t get a copy. I did find a DVD he gave me years ago and I did my best to rip a copy from the DVD I’m releasing today.

Tony’s work on this film from editing to his early CGI effects are exemplary. The man is a genius with film and could take footage and make it work in ways few other filmmakers (including myself) could ever do.

Although this was shot in Super 8 video on a high end camera that at the time was about 720 p. And by the time it was encoded for DVD and then ripped to MP4 it had suffered. However in this artist’s opinion the film still works. It is a testament to the tumultuous times of the 90s regarding the UFO phenomenon.

I could go on at great length about all this but I’ll stop here. I’m sure many as they have in the past will laugh at me and any one else that claims their experiences with these things. Go ahead and laugh, it’s OK I’m used to it.

However it should be noted that people in our history who dared to reveal themselves, and their experiences, have brought some of the greatest luminescence to human knowledge, technology, and life than many could have ever imagined.

From Wright Brothers to the scientist that claimed he saw a man ape in the Congo (later known as the Gorilla) they have laughed. May we praise the freaks that dared to be freaks or we’d still be in the caves.

Enjoy the film.