by Wendelle Stevens

Apolinar (Paul) A. Villa, Jr., (born 24 September 1916), a mechanic by trade, of 601 Niagra, N.E., Albuquerque, New Mexico, holds a unique privilege in the annals of Flying Saucer research. He has had prearranged meetings with Space People for the specific purpose of taking pictures of their craft.

Apparently, contacts of one kind or another with Space People are not new to Mr. Villa. He says that he has been taught telepathically by extraterrestrial intelligences since he was 5 years old.

Although he did not complete the tenth grade of school, he seems to have a good knowledge of such subjects as mathematics, electricity, physics, and mechanics, and has an unusual “gift” for detecting defects in engines, generators, etc.

Villa says that prior to photographing his first series of saucer pictures in 1963, he had seen about five Flying Saucers in the previous five years, and that he had talked with a spaceman previously. He said that his first picture-taking contact was his second in-person meeting with the extraterrestrial beings.

The first was in 1953 while he was working for the Department of Water and Power in Los Angeles. While on the job one day in Long Beach, he had a strong urge to go down to the beach, a feeling he did not then understand. There he met a man about 7 feet tall. At first Villa was afraid of him and wanted to run away. But the man called him by name, and told him many personal things about himself. Villa realized that he was communicating with a very superior intelligence, and he then became aware that this being was a spaceman. “He knew everything I had in my mind and told me many things that had taken place in my life,” Villa says. “He then told me to look out beyond the reef. I saw a metallic-looking disc-shaped object that seemed to be floating on the water. Then the spaceman asked me if I would like to go aboard the craft and look around, and I went with him.”

He said the saucer occupants were entirely human looking in appearance, although better looking in general then Earth people, as they were definitely more refined in face and body, also they had an advanced knowledge of science, as evidenced by their craft, and by their talk with him.

They told Villa that the whole Galaxy to which our Earth belongs is as a grain of sand on a huge beach, in relation to the unfathomable number of inhabited galaxies in the entire universe. Because of their technological advancement, their spaceships can penetrate the Earth’s radar detection system, so that they are picked up on our radar detection screens only when they choose to call attention to their presence in our skies. It seems that their craft are constantly active over our surface, and that they plan more sightings and landings in order to increase public awareness of their existence. They said they were here on a friendly mission to help our people; and they have bases on our Moon; that Phobos, one of the two Moons of Mars is hollow and is artificially constructed; and that there is a Superior Intelligence that governs the Universe and everything in it.

For his first series of pictures, Mr. Villa says that his space contacts told him telepathically, to drive his pickup truck on June 16, 1963, to the meeting place, alone. There he saw a landed saucer which he estimated to be about 70 feet in diameter. There were 9 people aboard that ship: 4 men and 5 women. They disembarked through a hermetically sealed door. These beings, he says, ranged in height from 7 to 9 feet and were all well proportioned. Some were blond; some were red-headed (like polished copper); and some had black hair. They told him they came from the galaxy of Coma Berenesis, many light years distant. They were able to speak many languages, as well as to communicate telepathically.

Villa was told the craft operated as a mother ship for its 9 remotely-controlled monitoring discs which were 14” in diameter, and were controlled from the instrument panels in the mother ship. They could pick up pictures and sounds from any area to which they were directed, and could then relay them back to TV panels aboard the mother craft.

They permitted Villa to take photographs of their ship which they posed and hovered close to the surface between 2:00 and 4:00 P.M., while he took various shots of the craft framed by the trees in the foreground. He used a Japanese-made Rokuoh-Sha camera with an f stop of 4.6, 75 mm lens, loaded with 120 Kodacolor film. Two of the photos show the ship in a vertical position, on its side, to indicate that the Space People have created an artificial gravity within the craft, and thus are completely comfortable no matter what position the ship is in, relative to a planet’s surface.

Soon after these photos were released to us, there was a rash of saucer-sighting reports in the newspapers. They began on April 24, 1965, when Socorro, New Mexico, policeman, Lonnie Zamora, saw a landed egg-shaped object take off from the gully and speed away. Soon after this account, other sighting and landing reports came from several western states simultaneously. So much new interest was stimulated in the saucer subject, that we felt it appropriate to release Mr. Villa’s photos to the wire services. Bob Flora, local United Press International photographer, was so impressed with the authentic look of the photos that he put three of them on the UPI wires. They were subsequently printed in hundreds of newspapers throughout the world. The Los Angeles NBC News program also ran the pictures on their color TV newscast for three nights in a row.

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