Beyond The Stars

It was September 1, 1969, and I, ten-year-old Tommy Warner, was living in the Berkshires town of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, with my six siblings in our family's 1835 homestead. That evening, I was next door, coloring with my neighbor when mental telepathy called me to leave our neighbors house and go home. A historic event was about to occur. All noises disappeared and in an instant, a UFO dropped out of the sky and I was abducted.

I was gone for seven minutes before being put back do...