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Here's an interesting interview . . . excerpted as authorized . . . by Linda Moulton Howe . . . the whole thing is available with drawings etc. at this link:

http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1709&category=Real+X-Files

Interview:
Steve Askew, Water Quality Technician, Spokane, Washington: “We heard this SWISSSSHH! sound over the trees. It was like a strong wind came through, but there was no wind. That noise happened for probably about a second.
Jill and I looked at each other and I said I was going outside to see what it was. I walked about 50 feet up into the meadow for a clearer look at the sky and I could not see anything at first. Then all of a sudden, to my left up on top of the ridge, I noticed this light. It was kind of like a red color. I’ve never seen that red before. All of a sudden it went down and then about a minute later, it came back up and I realized this light thing was huge! It covered almost the whole valley!
HOW HIGH WERE YOU ABOVE THE VALLEY FLOOR?
About 800 to 900 feet. I’m looking up at it about 10 degrees. The UFO was probably 500 feet higher than I was.
HOW FAR AWAY FROM YOU?
Maybe 300 feet away and 500 feet above me. It must have been a half-mile wide.
WHAT SHAPE?
Hard to tell, but what I remember is three lights I could see. There was a yellow one – a color I’ve never seen before. And there was a red light and a blue light in colors I had never seen before. And it was in the shape of a triangle. And I’m guessing it had to be a half-mile wide, filling the sky of the valley!
. . .
1988 remote camp site near Eel River outside Leggett in Northern California.
Steve Askew drew himself in a meadow about 50 feet from the tent between
11 and 11:30 PM as he saw a huge, triangle-shaped aerial craft Steve estimated
to be one-half mile wide that “covered almost the whole valley!”
Illustration © 2010 by Steve Askew.
DOES THE TRIANGLE BEGIN TO MOVE TOWARD YOU?
Yes, it does. It’s moving rapidly and all of a sudden it slowed down to a stop right above me.
WHAT DO YOU SEE LOOKING UP?
At first, I saw this thing that covered the whole sky above me and I’m like, ‘Oh, my Lord! This is it!’ I was scared.The starry sky went instant solid black. And I think I yelled, ‘Jill, come out here!’ She said, ‘No way!’
When that craft came over the top of me in the meadow, that happened within a half second from the time it was at the top of the ridge and then down to where I was – really fast! When it stopped, it was probably within another second to when I couldn’t move. I was paralyzed. My girlfriend was paralyzed – she could not move. But we could yell at each other.

Chartreuse Green-White Beam Surrounds Steve
. . .
Gigantic triangle-shaped craft blocks out the stars above him as a chartreuse green-white
beam about 30 feet in diameter suddenly drops down from the center of the craft around
Steve as he stood in a meadow near the Eel River outside Leggett, California,
in 1988 a little before midnight. Illustration © 2010 by Steve Askew.
I remember a flash from the bottom of the UFO and then within a second or two, a misty, chartreuse green-white beam came down from underneath the middle of the triangle-shaped craft and was around me in microseconds! I figure the length of the beam from the UFO down to me was about 100 feet.
COULD YOU SEE THROUGH THE BEAM LIKE IT WAS TRANSLUCENT? OR WAS IT OPAQUE AND YOU COULD NOT SEE THROUGH IT?
You could see through the beam. You could pick out the silhouettes of trees. I think it was about 30 feet in diameter.
DID YOU FEEL ANY CHANGE IN TEMPERATURE AS THE BEAM CAME AROUND YOU?
All of a sudden, I’m starting to sweat profusely. Since I wasn’t able to move, I was afraid, so I don’t know if it was because I was scared that I was sweating or if it was caused by the beam that enveloped me.
DO YOU REMEMBER FEELING HOT IN THE BEAM?
Yes, I do.

Four Alien Beings Circle Steve in Beam
And then right after the chartreuse beam came down and engulfed me, it might have been a second or two later, these four alien beings showed up in the beam circling around me. They were on the inside of the beam, but near the outside edge of the beam. They were looking at me and I was looking at them. I’m like, ‘Oh, my! They are going to take me.’ Something is going to happen and I could not move. I was scared to death.
DID YOU SEE THE NON-HUMANS COME DOWN THE BEAM?
No.
HOW DID THEY APPEAR AROUND YOU THEN?
I figured they somehow came into that beam like the transformer on Star Trek. They appeared within about 2 seconds – just all of a sudden appeared moving around me - maybe even like a hologram?
WERE THE ALIEN BEINGS MOVING AROUND YOU LIKE A MERRY-GO-ROUND IN FRONT OF YOU?
Exactly.
ARE THEY FLOATING ABOVE THE GROUND IN THE BEAM?
Yes, they are.
HOW TALL WERE THEY?
I figure they were about 5 feet tall because I'm 5-feet-eleven-inches and those aliens seemed to be about a foot off the ground floating around in a circle.
WHAT DID THEY LOOK LIKE?
They looked almost identical. They had long, white hair probably down to their backside. Their face looks like it was from a horror picture. It was kind of like when you look at an x-ray and you see the skeleton all dark and white shades? That’s what it looked like, but still had the long white hair. And they were wearing what looked like black jumpsuits, but the collar was up almost 4 inches and their sleeves were kind of open down to their elbow. I could not tell what they were wearing on their feet because I could not see down. And they were just staring at me.
. . .
Steve Askew also said a nearly exact match to the hair and faces
of the beings encircling him in the chartreuse green beam is the non-human
“Todd” that has white skin and hair played by Christopher Heyerdahl in the
cable TV series, Stargate, on Sci Fi Channel. See Stargate website: http://stargate.mgm.com/view/othercharacter/10/index.html
DID YOU SEE ANY EMBLEM OR SYMBOL ON WHAT THEY WERE WEARING?

No, I did not.
DESCRIBE THE EYES?
The eyes were not as big as the ones drawn for what is called the Greys. Their eyes were more normal human size, but a little bit bigger. They were kind of like Angelina Jolie eyes.
A LITTLE BIGGER THAN THE AVERAGE HUMAN EYES.
Yes. And the nose was sort of flat. The mouth – the lips were narrow. The teeth, I don’t know if they had any. Their necks were normal length of a human. Their arms were average length. The color of their skin was like a creamish-white color.
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Telepathic Transmission
YOU ARE SEEING FOUR DIFFERENT ENTITIES MOVING LIKE A MERRY-GO-ROUND IN FRONT OF YOU. THEN WHAT HAPPENED NEXT?
It’s hard to say how long – maybe as long as 20 seconds – those alien beings kept staring at me. What I remember is that they were talking to me mind-to-mind, mental telepathy. But to this day, I still don’t remember much of what they said except, ‘We’re not here to harm you.’ If they wanted to harm me, they could have real easily!
SO WHY DO YOU THINK YOU WERE SO AFRAID?
Why was I afraid? Because I’ve never seen this before, never heard of it. The beam was around me, I was paralyzed - what is a person supposed to do? It’s a gut instinct that you are going to be scared.
But after a few seconds, I started to calm down because I started to feel better about the situation. I didn’t feel scared after about five seconds. And then about ten seconds later, they disappeared. The beam was gone and the UFO took off straight up.
AS IT TOOK OFF STRAIGHT UP, WAS IT LIKE A JUMP CUT WHERE THE BLACK DISAPPEARS AND THE STARS ARE BACK?
Correct.
COULD YOU THEN MOVE?
Yes, I could. As soon as the beam left, I fell to the ground. And I said, ‘Oh, my God, what happened?!’ And I hear my girlfriend yelling, ‘Are you OK? Are you OK?’
I said, ‘We’re getting out of here in the morning!’ I went back in the tent and we were up all night talking about what happened.
IS THAT WHEN JILL TOLD YOU SHE COULD NOT MOVE EITHER?
Yes, and she could see the greenish-white beam. There was a little screen window in the tent that she could see up in the trees and see the green beam, but she could not see what was in the beam.
IN YOUR EMAIL TO ME, YOU WROTE: ‘THE TIME SEEMED TO GO VERY SLOWLY LIKE I WAS IN SLOW MOTION.’
Yeah, it was like slow motion.
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SINCE 1988, HAVE YOU EVER HAD A VIVID DREAM IN WHICH YOU SAW THE ALIEN ‘X-RAY’ FACES?
Well, about two months ago, I had a dream – really a nightmare – and I woke up paralyzed. I was awake and I could not move and there was Something in my room that was totally pitch dark because I have a smoke detector up on the ceiling that emits a green light and I couldn’t even see that! It was pitch black! And I could tell that Something was in my room and I started saying out loud, ‘In Jesus Christ’s blood, go away!’ I was saying every prayer I could. And I just can’t tell you to this day what that was, but it scared me! Now I have my light on in my bedroom because that’s happened to me a couple of times in the last year.
All of a sudden, the darkness goes away and I can relax and I can move. I get up out of my bed and go out on my deck and sit there and look at the stars and wonder, ‘What is going on?’”
[QUIXICATED EMPHASIS ABOVE IN RED.]
Green Beam and White-Haired Non-Humans
© 2010 by Linda Moulton Howe

: “Right after the chartreuse beam came down and engulfed me,
it might have been a second or two later, these four alien beings
showed up in the beam circling around me.”
- Steve Askew, Leggett, California
. . .

Back in 1988, not long before he entered college, he and his girlfriend then and now wife, Jill, decided to take up his Leggett, California, uncle's invitation to use a cabin near the Eel River. The spot was so remote and rugged, there were no other structures eastward for probably 50 miles. The afternoon the couple arrived, the temperature was near 90 degrees F. without a breeze. So Steve and Jill decided to pitch a tent in a clear spot not far from the cabin that overlooked a meadow in a narrow valley that Steve estimates was a half-mile wide from ridge to ridge. Their tent was about 900 feet above the valley floor.
Dark came along about 9:30 PM and they decided to go in their tent and do some reading by flashlights. A couple of hours later between 11 to 11:30 PM, the first strangeness in a highly strange night began.