Cullen Abduction
It all began with a premonition.
Tim Cullen was a hard working cement contractor from Yuma, Colorado.
He was raised there, and resided with his wife Janet, and 3 daughters.
3 things happened to Cullen in 1978 that changed his life forever.
He suffered a terrible car accident, saw his first UFO, and realized that both events had appeared to him in dreams well before the actual occurrences.
Was he then also psychic?
The events that have happened to me over the past 27 years have had an enormous effect on my life and what I believe, Cullen, a practicing Catholic, mentioned.
In a short span of time in 1978 it was revealed that we are not the only intelligent life in the universe, and it was also proven that God is with us always, without a doubt.
On April 2, 1978 Tim Cullen dreamed that he was in a terrible car accident.
It was so real, in fact , that he was startled and now a little relieved to be back in his own bed, but the images from the bad dream still flickered through his mind.
On April 9, Cullen was driving with his friend, Ken Ruberg, along Highway 34 when he was hit by a realization that this was the same stretch of road from his nightmare a week before.
Memories of that nightmare would often intrude upon his waking hours, like some ominous omen of doom, until a week later, when it would turn out to have perhaps been a glimpse into the future.
It was so shocking in its clarity and sense of foreboding that he immediately thought about stopping the car and turning back, but it was too late.
Even as he panicked at this scene from his nightmare, the car went out of control and rolled 5 times before coming to a stop, leaving him unable to move and with a severely injured neck.
Ruberg had somehow escaped injury and helped his friend out of the vehicle before waving down a passing vehicle and getting Cullen to a hospital, where it was found that he had fractured his neck.
He was put under sedation and underwent surgery, during which he had another vivid dream, this time of a strange light in the sky hovering over his car as he and his wife looked on in amazement.
Things would only get stranger from there.
On May 30, 1978, Cullen went to the hospital to have a check up done on his neck, which was still wrapped in a brace.
The doctor’s visit went smoothly and they headed back home along a lonely stretch of Highway 59 through expanses of hayfields and grassland as far as the eye could see.
He was convinced that the dream, like that of the accident, was a premonition, and instinctively looked around for the light that he had seen.
At first there was only darkness, and then an illuminated object bloomed up from behind a low hill, passed right in front of their car, and then once again dipped below the hill.
Cullen would say of what happened:
It came in under the power and telephone lines and hovered over a pasture.
It was about 100' long and 20' wide, and about 10' high.
It didn’t make any noise.
There were 2 diffused lights that shone at the back of the object, one a pale yellow, and the other red.
We couldn’t see very good.
We sat there and stared at it for a while.
After we looked at the lights for a few minutes I turned to my wife and told her we might as well go on to town.
I remember coming back to Yuma, but not looking at a clock.
I was kind of shocked by the whole thing.
I didn’t really think of looking at a clock.
He knew that he and Janet had experienced missing time in 1978.
Things would get even odder when several years later, in 1980, Cullen had another encounter with a similar craft with 2 diffused yellow lights at exactly the same spot on Highway 59, and this would not even be the end of his UFO experiences.
In 1994 he was driving with his wife and 3 daughters about 40 miles South of Yuma when they all witnessed a dimly lit craft with blue and white lights hover over the road right in front of them.
They stopped the car and watched in for around 10 minutes before it headed off into the night to leave them dumbstruck.
This is all very weird, but he would not put it all together in his head until 1998, when an accident at work would send him further down the rabbit hole.
On this day, Cullen was at work when he smashed his thumb with a hammer.
Thinking his finger to be broken or at the very least dislocated, he went to see a Dr. Mark Hubner at the Yuma Clinic and got an x-ray done.
After the procedure, Hubner was a bit puzzled, because it seemed as if there was a piece of metal in Cullen’s arm.
It should not have been there, as Cullen had never had any sort of surgery to that effect on his arm, making him just as confused as the doctor.
That was when it all hit him at once, the accident, the lost time, the subsequent UFO sightings, it all came crashing back to him, and he was convinced that it all had something to do with that thing in his arm.
He would say of this:
I knew then what had happened.
I knew it was an alien implant from that first encounter in 1978.
There was lost time that night.
I have to assume I was abducted.
Cullen could not remember any actual abduction, assuming that his memory had been wiped, but he was sure of it.
Desperate for answers, Cullen reached out to the UFO community and managed to get put in touch with a Dr. Roger K. Leir in California, who had made a name for himself as being a sort of expert on alleged alien implants and had removed them from several patients.
After a year of correspondence, Cullen made a trip out to a medical facility in Thousand Oaks, CA, in order to undergo surgery to remove the strange object in his arm, and it would be the 9th such procedure that Leir would carry out.
The surgical team, which included Leir and a Dr. John D, Matrisciano, managed to remove a small metal object measuring about 7 centimeters long and 4 centimeters wide and with an array of long proceptors on one end that were reportedly attached to the nerve endings.
According to Dr. Leir, the implant was due to be analyzed, saying of it:
The implant has been turned over to Digital Instruments, here in California for complete analysis.
It seems the more we investigate and learn, the more questions we have.
Digital Instruments has technology to measure and analyze matter,
10 atoms at a time.
We are researching both the biological and metallurgical aspects of Tim’s implant.
Again, the more knowledge gained, the more we need to know.
It is unclear what results this analysis uncovered, and in the meantime, Cullen has become a bit of a champion for other alleged alien abductees who have had implants put into them.
He is remarkable in being so outspoken on the matter, and that he has allowed his real name to be used where so many others like him have preferred to remain anonymous.
He has said of his drive to get his story out there and raise awareness of alien implants:
This could be a huge medical breakthrough for doctors who want to use biological, metal, or implants of other materials, in their patients.
I feel that the American public must learn of this situation.
I feel that the membrane needs to be analyzed and developed, in the public domain, as quickly as possible.
It is a given that it can hide metal in deep tissue, did it in my body for 20 years.
We owe it to ourselves and our children, to do what properly and morally needs to be done.
Several prestigious labs have chemically broken down the make up of the membrane.
With the proper research, funded by large pharmaceutical companies, human body rejection of such implants could save many lives in the future.
I’m coming forward because someone has to put a face to the alien stories, and cause more people to come forward.
The more people we can find with implants, the more evidence we’re going to have.
We can study things a lot more and get things done; get rid of the stigma around it.
The truth needs to come out.
As to why these aliens seemed to have been following him around and shown an interest to begin with, Cullen has mused that they were interested in his psychic ability, which is what had originally allowed him to foresee the initial crash.
According to him, the aliens are curious as to what produces these abilities in humans, and so the implant was put there to monitor this latent ability within him.
In the meantime, it is not clear what has become of Cullen’s implant since then, or what the results of the analysis were, and we are left to wonder just what is going on here.
What happened to him out on that lonely road?
Were these inscrutable forces studying him for reasons we may never understand?
What happened to that implant and why was it put there?
Is there anything to this at all?
It is unsure what the answers may be, but the case of Tim Cullen has become one of the more standout tales of the greater phenomenon that is the mystery of alien implants, about stopping and going back to town but didn't, Tim said.
It was dark, after 11:00 p.m. Tim saw a large dimly lit object pass in front of the car, go behind a low hill, and reemerge then.
It went out a ways, along side, and as he brought the car down to a stop, it came back toward us a bit.
He backed the car up, and the UFO went out to the West of us.
Janet was 5 months pregnant with their first child.
The Cullens have no memory of being taken aboard the craft, nor of any missing time.
He had an odd feeling, but it didn't really register with him.
Then one started blinking, and he stared at it.
This can't be happening. he thought.
Not right here.
The craft kept moving in back of, and out from behind a low hill.
Then it moved slowly away from him.
Figuring they didn't want him to see them, he got back in the car and returned to Yuma.
Again, in 1994, with his wife and daughters, they encountered a smaller craft with a strobe light, about 40 miles South of Yuma.
It hovered off the road in front of us, and we stopped and looked at it for 5 or 10 minutes.
It moved around for awhile and finally went off to the North, he related.
The girls seemed mystified by it, but they were younger and I don't really think they realized the enormity of what they were seeing.
Tim didn't think much about UFOs or abduction before his experiences, and had never heard about alien abduction.
Memories of that nightmare would often intrude upon his waking hours, like some ominous portent of doom, until a week later, when it would turn out to have perhaps been a glimpse into the future.
But after seeing the X-ray, and knowing where the object in the film came from, he started exploring the internet about the subject of UFOs and abduction.
He joined an online encounter group, and learned about a Dr. Roger K. Leir, who removed what were reported to be alien implants.
The 2 communicated for over a year.
The 9th alleged alien implant was surgically removed from the left forearm of Tim on Saturday, February 5, 2000.
The operation was performed at a medical facility in Thousand Oaks, CA.
I know nothing about UFOs or implants, Dr. Matrisciano said after the operation, but I think that's what is needed in this case, to be objective.
Removal of the small, melon seed type implant went very quickly, and smoothly.
The operation was videotaped by The Learning Channel for an upcoming show.
Recently, at a MUFON Board meeting, I saw videotape of the object that was removed, which was shot through a microscope.
The object was about 7cm x 4cm.
It is covered by an amazing reddish/brown membrane and has several long, proceptors which were connected to nerve endings on one end.
A dark area reveals a metal core.
When a magnet was placed a ½" from the object, it literally leapt to the magnet.
As yet, the object has not been sent to anyone for analysis.
An appropriate laboratory is being sought, as are funds for performing various tests of the object.
On returning to Yuma, CO after the implant removal, Cullen told his story to Yuma's local paper, The Yuma Pioneer, and addressed both the congregations of his Catholic Church, and his wife's Presbyterian Church.
He has also been on the Art Bell Dreamland show with Dr. Roger Leir and host.
While at one of the church presentations a woman reached out and touched Tim's sleeve.
My husband and I know exactly what you've been through, she told him.
Tim plans to talk with them.
Another man e-mailed Tim and told him of an experience he had had.
Many have come forward with stories since his return from the implant removal.
A lot of people around here have seen strange lights in the skies, Cullen reports.
Yuma is an agricultural area.
They raise a lot of corn, pigs, and cattle here.
Many of the ranchers have reported cattle mutilations, several within the last few months.
One lost a prize bull.
Understandably, the ranchers are angered and frustrated about these events.
They did not understand why they happen.
Tim does not like not being able to remember what happened to him when the object was planted in his wrist.
He is considering going through hypnotic regression in California to see if his subconscious can reveal any answers, as it has in others.
He now admits he thinks he has been abducted.
Why is he being so open?
Analysis from 7 of the 8 other implants removed have shown that the membrane surrounding the metal objects seems to keep them protected from foreign object rejection.