“I thought it was a small child at first until he turned the head and he looked at me and… his eyes were not human”…
What follows is the original uncut interview that Stan Romanek gave to me when I was staff editor at the Open Minds magazine, in Tempe Arizona.

Stan Romanek (Photo: Maurizio Baiata)
Maurizio Baiata: What’s your first thought when you wake up in the morning?
Stan Romanek: This is one of the issues with the phenomenon. When I wake up really I’m obsessed with my experiences. It’s a type of post traumatic stress disorder. I’ve used to believe that was because of my disbelief in the subject and it was hard for me to handle. But I wonder sometimes that its because they have done something to me, that I have a mission to accomplish and that’s how I feel it.
M.B.: Stan, when you talk about a “mission” is easy for a “non believer”, or a debunker to say this guy is a space cadet, his mind is flying all over…
S.R.: They can say that because they have never had an experience. And I understand exactly where they’re coming from, because I was the biggest skeptic. So I understand the mindset. Let’s face it. People have this idea of reality. They live in this little world, this little bubble that they think is reality and if anything changes it throws their minds off balance and it scares them a little bit. So, what they do with it? In my case, I had a choice to either accept it, or… what, what I’m going to do, jump off the building?
M.B.: Do you remember when your experiences began?
S.R.: I’m 47 today and I do understand what’s happening, but I was five when it began and as a child you don’t put two and two together at all. I had then some experiences that I couldn’t make sense of. Continua a leggere »