Most discussion here correctly focuses on military encounters, sensor data, and crash-retrieval claims. I’d like to put one additional category of material on the table: a contact narrative that has already reached a mass audience outside the United States and that makes a clear distinction between different levels of non-human intelligence. Thiaoouba Prophecy (Michel Desmarquet; English edition distributed by Simon & Schuster / Inner Traditions) has sold millions of copies in China and Taiwa...

Reading all the declassified reports and watching the videos, it rings home a book I read many, many years ago as a teenager called "Thiaoouba Prophecy". It's a now popular, out-of-this-world book that the author (now dead) wrote in 1986 and published with over 1 million readers to date, which describes an alien-abduction encounter: (PAGE 6) About 100 metres from us was an enormous sphere, from which emanated a bluish Aura. I later learned that it measured 70 metres in diameter. The light was...