Dr. Jonathan Reed recounts his 1996 Cascade Mountain encounter where his dog Susie was violently attacked by a child-sized, vibrating creature—later dubbed "Freddy"—which he struck, splitting its skull before freezing it in his garage. The body vanished overnight amid suspicious vehicles and ransacked property, leaving only small footprints. Reed’s life unraveled: threats, career loss, and forced isolation followed. With allies like Dr. Lloyd Pye and George Knapp, he’s pushing for open dialogue about extraterrestrial life, sharing details in Link: An Extraterrestrial Odyssey (1-800-905-8367, www.odysseylink.net). His story underscores the terrifying yet undeniable reality of alien contact, demanding humanity confront its implications. [Automatically generated summary]
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This is Coast and Coast A.M. and I'm Art Bell and I thought this music would be most appropriate to open this hour with rather than my theme because folks, this is how it all began.
Somebody sent me a fax which said, Want to take a ride.
And that and the movie, of course, that inspired Wanna Take a Ride with Jodie Foster contact.
Anyway, what we're going to be talking about tonight in the first hour is probably the single most controversial alien contact story in modern times.
Not understated.
That of Dr. Jonathan Reed and the alien in the freezer story.
And that, of course, understates what we're talking about.
But in a moment, in case you've never heard it, we'll get underway, recap, and then tell you what's new.
Yes, that's how it all began.
A fax that said, do you want to take a ride?
Want to take a ride?
And that was sent to me by Robert Race on behalf of Dr. Jonathan Reed, who had the experience.
And Robert, good morning.
Good morning, Art.
How are you?
I am just fine.
And again, I want to thank you for beginning it all with that fax.
As I said at the beginning of the show, this is the most controversial alien contact story of modern times.
There's no question about that.
In the last couple decades, you have the most controversial story to tell.
And I'm going to ask you to do something that is very painful for you, Doctor, in a short, 101 kind of way.
Run through, there are obviously there are a lot of people out there who haven't heard it yet.
So we're not going to be able to do justice to it tonight.
But if you would, from the beginning through the end, in the next 16 minutes, give us the story, and then in the second half hour, we'll catch up with what's new.
Okay.
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Well, my event took place in the Pacific Northwest, Washington State area in the Cascade Mountain Range.
And what happened was in October, mid-October of 1996, I decided that I would take a hike, a day hike, with my dog, Susie, which is a golden retriever.
And we'd take a ride up into the mountains some 60 miles east of Seattle, approximately 15 miles northeast of Snoqualmie Pass.
That's in the Wilderness Lakes area, for a great day hike.
We had done this many times before.
I took a pack with a few day rations, a little dog food, a couple of cameras, because occasionally we'd find wildlife, and it's just a beautiful, pristine area.
And as the barking changed, I decided that if this was in fact a predator, a bear, there are bear in the area and cats, that maybe I better consider the fact that I may have to untangle her with something.
So I dropped my pack and I picked up a branch that was alongside the path, about the size of a baseball bat, and proceeded up to the rise.
And as I reached the rise, I witnessed that my dog was involved with a creature, a being about the size of a small child.
And what I saw was that My dog had a hold of what looked like its arm, but the creature was vibrating just frantically, almost like a paint shaker vibrates, where you can't clearly see the outline.
And in seconds, I saw this thing start to tear my dog apart, ripping her head back completely in half, blood everywhere, and standing there, literally mutilating my dog.
And I screamed at the moment that I saw this for my dog to let go, but it was obviously too late.
And I witnessed my dog falling to the ground, almost imploding into herself, as if a hole opened up in the side of her body, and she started to literally, circularly enter into a void where her body was disappearing in front of my eyes.
It was horrid.
And all my emotions came to bear at that second.
I ran forward, took this branch, and swung as hard as I could.
And I hit this creature in the head, knocking it to the ground.
You know, a lot of people have criticized you for that, for hitting the creature, but I'll tell you right now, a lot of pet owners would have done precisely the same thing without even thinking about it, just reaction to it.
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And there was no question that the sight of my dog, Susie, being literally torn in half without any question was one of the worst things I have ever seen in my life.
Well, unless you're there actually experiencing something like this, I think it's ridiculous to judge anybody in what they should have done or know themselves what they really would have done.
I was not in control of most of my bodily functions.
But to make a short story out of the long, I tried to regain my composure, which took a long time.
And while I had the time to literally lay there on the ground, I had time to look at what I had hit, realizing that it was not a child, realizing that it was not a figment of my imagination, that in fact, it was a being like nothing I had ever seen before.
You got the cuts and you walked up and touched that thing.
unidentified
Yes, I heard this at first.
I heard this sound, this harmonic sound through the woods.
At first thought it was another hiker or camper, and I thought, these guys can help me, because I really needed some help.
Because I was so sick, I could barely move, and I was excited about the fact that maybe this was another camper.
I ran to where this sound was, and I could not find anything at first.
Finally, out of the woods, I saw what looked like a mirage, like a shimmering shape through the trees, where the trees actually looked like they were bending a little bit in the light.
But in fact, what I was looking at was the other side, on the other side of this grove of trees, was this object.
And I finally got strength enough to walk up to it, take a look, and actually fell against this hovering craft.
And as I did so, I burned my hand like you would burn it if you touched a dry ice.
And its consistency was that of like granite or marble, hard as stone, shiny, with almost a fibrous look underneath the shiny surface, but absolutely solid, as I first thought.
And you took photographs not only of this alien with the, we thought, fatal wound, but of the obelisk as well.
And we have those photographs on the website tonight as we have had them before.
And you can see this creature, folks, and you can see the obelisk.
At any rate, you remained there for a period of time.
Finally, you decided to take this creature with you.
Why did you do that?
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Well, at first, what I was thinking is, could I hide this?
Hide it away from the animals that frequented this area so that maybe I could come back and we could take it somewhere and have somebody look at this.
Because it was quite obviously not something that you'd see every day.
And so my intent, out of pure emotion, not necessarily good logic, was to drag it over to the hillside, the body, cover it with a thermal blanket that I had in my pack, Put stones around it to protect it somewhat and then leave and come back.
Well, as I went to move the body, I found out that it was extremely light in weight.
It was approximately 50 pounds, which for its size was extremely light.
I wrapped it up in the thermal blanket, I rolled it up like a sleeping bag, put my packs strap around it, picked it up, and started to look for a place to put it.
Because there were no stones in the area that could actually be dug up, I could not do what I had originally thought to do.
So I started to literally walk back down the trail carrying this wrapped-up body and soon found myself back to where I had left my car.
You also took still photographs of the creature as well as the obelisk.
One question people always have is, how would you have the presence of mind to take photographs of the creature and the obelisk on the scene?
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Well, probably the only thing I can actually say to that is I knew I had my cameras with me.
Photography was a semi-hobby with me.
And I thought, here is this thing I can't move in the middle of the woods, this big stone floating object that I couldn't believe.
And I thought, if I can photograph this, at least I will be able to know that I wasn't going insane.
You know, with many of the very strange things that have happened with extraterrestrials and UFOs, the interesting thing that always fascinates me is when people say, how could you have the presence of mind?
When many of these people would turn around and say, well, gee, if I only had my camera, I would have taken a picture of it.
Oh, worse yet, listen, if it had come out that this was just a story and Dr. Reed said, well, you know, I had two cameras, but I didn't think to take pictures, people would go, oh, give us a break.
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That's exactly it.
One of the things that have really upset and really infuriated the few critics that we have is the fact that we do have so much information and so much evidence, and they can't stand it.
Well, the photographs are what they are, and I've got to tell you, after all this time, Nerry, one person, there have been a lot of complaints, but nobody has shot a hole in it.
Nobody has shot a hole in it.
So we'll finish up this story and tell you what's new coming up next.
My guest is Dr. Jonathan Reed from Parts Unknown and Robert Wraith from The High Desert.
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Yeah, this is something that people don't know about.
It actually shows early evidence that this creature was alive, though it's evidence that even Dr. Reed himself didn't notice until later.
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Right.
The original video that I shot in my house of unwrapping the creature and basically documenting it, I felt was a dead piece of meat at that time.
Somebody brought it to our attention a few days before the Loughland International UFO conference and brought me a tape showing me that in fact that the creature not only blinked, but his head moves, his whole facial muscles move and change shape.
Well, when you've got a camera running, you discover a lot of stuff later.
I mean, that's just the way it is.
Alright, so anyway, how did this creature finally, or did it finally expire?
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What finally happened is through the process of elimination, not necessarily the most intelligent of processes, we tried to find somebody to help us.
We tried to go through the process of calling people and finding out what to do with this thing.
What if you had this?
And we found that our house had been gone through, that we were being followed by infamous vehicles.
We had been run off the road twice.
And through all of this, we were trying to gather some kind Of idea again what to do, and in the end, what happened was my house was torn apart, literally, boards out of the walls and the floors, and holes everywhere, and the freezer taken out of my garage, the door ripped out of the side of my garage to get the freezer out, and no body.
So that creature is in somebody else's hand now, and it may, for all we know, still be alive.
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Well, I think it is still alive, because I had some other evidence that I wrote in our book, that in fact, when I went into the garage, I saw some footprints from this small creature going toward the wall, stopping.
With ongoing problems being followed, with ongoing problems with computers being taken down, people's houses being broken into, people being beat up for talking about my information, I'd say it's an ongoing problem.
Yeah, so would I. Robert, how have you fared through this?
Have you suffered any of the same problems Dr. Reid has?
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Some threats, but a lot of problems with any kind of communication that I have, telephones, cell phones, computer, everything.
When I got back from Loughlin, I found that somebody had taken, had broken into my place, basically, and taken the top of my computer off and messed around inside.
So it's an ongoing problem with these people.
What they're looking for or how they're doing it, it's psychological, and it's done to create such incredible amounts of stress.
Yes, and I've had that analyzed and stored away, and I no longer have control of that item.
I want to make that perfectly clear that I do not have that with me.
But some people think that they can get that information out of me, and they have tried several times.
And again, we have hard evidence, hard evidence that can be viewed, hard evidence that can be seen, that's been looked at by other people, that has been analyzed, that this is some type of a controller of sorts.
You've got a website, and obviously the latest information is going to be up there, and you've finally written a book called Link and Extraterrestrial Odyssey.
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Yes.
Would it be all right if I gave that phone number out?
And again, some of the hierarchy within the UFO community has postured and has questions, and that's perfectly reasonable.
But to deny someone the right to tell their story is not the way to go.
Now, I want to thank Bob Brown from the International UFO Congress who invited us to speak in Laughlin.
He's a very gracious man, and he did a good job to give us a forum to tell our story.
And again, the people have spoken.
They loved the information.
They know it's true.
There have been hundreds of people who have seen other objects like I've seen, you know, seen other creatures like I've seen.
New people are coming together, people like Jonathan and others.
And the idea is to create a unified forum, One conducive to the elements of uncensored communication.
We want to allow for a safe place for people to tell of their events and events happening all around the world without character assassination and things of this nature.
People should not have to have their lives and their loved ones' lives rummaged through simply because people don't understand or they are afraid of the information like Dr. Reed has to offer to them.
And this is what we are going to be doing.
We are gathering a team, a very dedicated team who will help bring my encounter and many others to the world to see, to hear, and to let people witness for themselves what is going on out here.
You know, Art, it's no longer a question in regard to whether alien life or extraterrestrial life exists.
It's absolutely a fact.
And I'm not the one saying it.
You talk to people like, for instance, Daniel Sheen is an incredible, brilliant attorney who spoke in Laughlin and talked about creating a new forum where people can create a new world view and prepare for embracing this idea.
And there's many others, individuals like Ron Russell, who studied and researched crop circles, Dr. Lloyd Pye, Dr. Simeon Hine, Larry Warren, and many, many others.
George Knapp, Jacques Barret, Jaime Massan, Don Ware.
And these are some of the people who have supported me and my issue of taking this to the people.
Art, we are going to go to Japan within the next six months and present this on a world forum.
And you don't know that I was going to do this, but I want to give you an invitation to go with us if and when you feel appropriate to present this truth to the world.
Well, that's ever so kind of you, but as you know, I am retiring.
I know that.
And so I'm really happy for you.
I hope that, and I trust, frankly, that the Japanese will give it the proper exposure.
You may, in fact, if you want to know the truth, you do, you'll be a lot better off with the Japanese media than you will be the American media.
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Yes, I understand that.
It's an unfortunate thing, Art, when it comes to the reality, to truth, such as what's going on in our weather, as you've talked about a great deal in Linda Boltenhow and Jonathan and others.
It's a reality.
But when it comes to the mainstream American media, unfortunately, they attack it.
As I consider your story, I'm not sure that I'm comfortable that it's a warm and fuzzy story, and I'm not sure that I'm comfortable that I should be fearful of your encounter or encounters like your encounter.
I'm not sure which it should be.
I'm not sure what your encounter tells us about how we should feel about them.
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And Robert, let's put it this way, Arts.
In regard to the alien being, which I took to fondly calling Freddy, I was in his presence for hours and hours while he was alive.
He never attacked me.
In fact, he almost playfully gestured to me.
He had the strength of probably three times what I did.
He probably could have torn me apart just with his muscles, but he was extremely gentle.
This was an intelligent creature.
The ones we need to be afraid of may be within our own camp.
And we've got a link on our website right now as well as a photograph and the phone number to get the book, which is the only way I guess you can get the book right now, right?
Art, I want to say thank you so very much for giving me the opportunity to come out from behind the rock, to tell my truth, and for giving me the opportunity to do this with your listeners.