While other people’s first memories are of birthday parties and dental visits, Bill Konkolesky’s first memory is a visit from a strange, little man with giant eyes — an alien. It would be the first of many visits he would receive over the years. And, thanks to MUFON Indiana, (Mutual UFO Network) Konkolesky will share his expertise on encounters and abductions with the public.

Konkolesky spent the last two decades actively investigating these otherworldly phenomenons, trying to make some sense of the bizarre events that have happened to him and others. What he’s discovered is that the truth is far stranger than what he first assumed.

“At our meetings, we have people from all sorts of professions, including pilots and law enforcement, that have seen things but don’t talk about it at their work,” Konkolesky told the Oakland County Daily Tribune.

United States presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, NASA Astronaut Gordon Cooper, actor Jackie Gleason, and former Beatles member John Lennon have all openly discussed their UFO sightings.

“The thing about the phenomena is that many people have the luxury of disbelief. Culturally, you don’t have people talking about it, it’s not in the news, they live their life completely without any need to buy into something like this,” Konkolesky continued. “If you tell someone about it and ask them to believe it, you’re really asking them a lot because then they have to process it —what does this mean to my place on Earth and our place in the universe, what does that mean for my religious beliefs, my political beliefs, or our future. Unfortunately, some people lose that luxury of disbelief when something goes way beyond the point of explanation, and they have to re-evaluate everything.”
In addition to the presentation by Konkolesky, State Director for the Indiana chapter of MUFON, Stewart Hill will speak about technology in his talk “Exoplanets, A Fine Tuned Universe? Physics and the 4th Dimension and Omega 3.” This will be followed by a free screening at dusk of the 1951 film The Day The Earth Stood Still.

The Day the Earth Stood Still is a 1951 American black-and-white science fiction film. In the movie, a humanoid alien visitor named Klaatu comes to Earth, accompanied by a powerful eight-foot tall robot, Gort, to deliver an important message that will affect the entire human race.

In 1995 The Day the Earth Stood Still was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”
The afternoon schedule will go as follows: Konklesky at 1:30 p.m., followed by Hill at 3 p.m. and the movie at 7:30 p.m.

About Bill Konkolesky
Bill Konkolesky is State Director of the Michigan Chapter of the Mutual UFO Network and the author of the autobiographical “Experiencer: Raised in Two Worlds” and his personal abduction experiences have been chronicled in the SyFy documentary “Abduction Diaries,” DVD documentary “Abducted by Aliens: UFO Encounters of the 4th Kind,” and the ABC news special “UFOs: Seeing is Believing.”
He has also served as consultant to the History Channel’s “Hangar 1” and “UFO Hunters,” as well as the Science Channel’s “Uncovering Aliens” and “Close Encounters.”

About Stewart Hill
Hill has been the State Director for the Indiana Chapter of the Mutual UFO Network for the last six years and served previously as the state Chief Investigator and a state section director. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic Engineering and worked for 26 years in the medical diagnostics industry working with state-of-the-art technology and chemistries. Prior to that he worked with commercial and military electronic applications and spent six years in the U.S. Air Force working in airborne navigation. First interested in UFO’s with the 1952 national wave, he lost interest when the subject of “flying saucers” was discontinued in the popular media but regain interest when the Internet became an informational tool in the 1990’s. He has managed, investigated, researched and documented hundreds of Indiana UFO reports over the last sixteen years.

About MUFON Indiana
MUFON Indiana is a dedicated group of MUFON certified field investigators donating their time and expenses to the investigation of submitted reports and to the study of UFOs. Read more about them at: http://indianamufon.homestead.com/