Krapf reveals that in June 1997, he was taken from his bed aboard an alien starship into a vast room filled with hundreds of examination tables. Slightly built beings about five feet tall attended each table. Rather than being examined, Krapf says he was brought to a boardroom and told that humanity had been deemed worthy of joining an intergalactic federation of sovereign planets.
He claims to have spent three days aboard the craft, receiving an orientation on a planned timeline for formal contact with Earth over the next decade. Hundreds of influential people worldwide, he says, have been given similar briefings. His book, The Contact Has Begun, presents the full account. Art presses him on whether it could have been a delusion, and callers respond with a mix of fascination and doubt.
Key Moments
Krapf is taken up in a beam of light: Retired LA Times copy editor Phillip Krapf walks through the moment of his abduction: woken up at home, he heads for the wall switch, a floodlight fills the room and then narrows into a beam, weight leaves his feet, and within seconds he is being drawn upward through the ceiling.
'No examination for you' - the boardroom meeting: Krapf describes arriving aboard the craft in his underwear, being given a Roman-senator-style toga and slippers, and being walked past examination tables to a futuristic boardroom where a being who introduced himself as Gus told him 'no examination for you' - he had been brought there as a journalist.
32,000 people aboard: Asked by a Hawaii caller whether there were children on the craft, Krapf says he didn't personally see any, but specifies that there were well over 32,000 people aboard the ship and he only came in contact with a handful of them.