Meet the Aliens: Inside One Man’s Extraordinary Claims of Alien Contact
Most books about extraterrestrial life begin with a familiar question: Are we alone?
Meet the Aliens: A Practical Field Guide to Contact begins somewhere much more interesting.
Author Mitch Colbert writes from the perspective that contact may already be happening—and that some people may be experiencing far more than unexplained lights in the sky.
Based around Colbert’s own reported encounters, the book explores UFO sightings, communication experiences, and what he believes are interactions with extraterrestrial intelligence.
But this isn’t presented as just another collection of strange stories.
Colbert wants readers to pay attention to the patterns behind these experiences and consider what contact might actually look like if it happened to them.
And that makes Meet the Aliens a particularly intriguing addition to the growing world of contact literature.
- Follow Mitch Colbert's account from a black triangle over Canberra to later close encounters
- Explore the patterns he sees in UFO sightings, nighttime experiences, and apparent communication
- Read his field-guide approach firsthand and compare it with other contact stories
It Begins With a Massive Black Triangle
Colbert’s story starts with the kind of sighting most UFO enthusiasts would never forget.
While in Canberra, Australia, he says he witnessed an enormous black triangular craft moving silently above a suburban backyard.
According to his account, the object was roughly 50 metres across and displayed unusual behavior, including rotation and changes in color.
Black triangle sightings have long occupied a fascinating place within UFO reports, but for Colbert, this encounter became far more than an isolated sighting.
It marked the beginning of a series of increasingly unusual experiences.
Further sightings followed.
Then came nighttime experiences, apparent communication, unusual mental effects, and additional encounters that Colbert eventually came to understand as direct contact with non-human intelligence.
For someone interested in the contact phenomenon, that progression may sound familiar.
Many experiencer accounts describe contact not as a single dramatic event but as something that unfolds over time.
That appears to be an important part of Colbert’s story.
This Is Where the “Field Guide” Part Comes In
The most interesting thing about Meet the Aliens may be that Colbert doesn't simply recount what happened to him.
He attempts to make sense of it.
The book is presented as a practical field guide, suggesting that there may be recognizable stages, signs, and patterns associated with contact experiences.
That immediately separates it from the typical UFO memoir.
Rather than saying, “Here is the strange thing that happened to me,” Colbert seems more interested in asking:
What if these experiences follow patterns that other people can recognize too?
That is an intriguing idea, particularly for readers who already follow experiencer accounts.
Many people who report contact describe unusual events occurring before or after a major sighting—vivid dreams, synchronicities, telepathic impressions, strange lights, altered perceptions, or the persistent feeling that something is trying to communicate.
Colbert places his own experiences within that broader territory.
Whether every reader interprets those experiences in exactly the same way is less important than the questions they raise.
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- Compare recurring themes across different experiencers' stories
- Read Mack's interpretation directly and decide how persuasive you find it
What Happens When the Phenomenon Responds?
Seeing an unidentified object is one thing.
Feeling as though it is interacting with you is something else entirely.
That distinction seems central to Meet the Aliens.
The book moves beyond the question of mysterious craft and into the more personal side of the phenomenon: communication and contact.
This is where UFO research becomes particularly fascinating.
A distant light can be observed.
A photograph can be examined.
Radar data can be studied.
But an experience involving apparent communication becomes much harder to separate from the person experiencing it.
What did they perceive?
What did they feel?
Did information seem to arrive without ordinary communication?
Did the experience repeat?
Did other unusual events happen afterward?
These are the kinds of questions that have surrounded contact and experiencer reports for decades.
Colbert’s book adds another first-person account to that conversation.
It Goes Well Beyond UFO Sightings
Anyone expecting the book to remain focused entirely on unusual aircraft should prepare for something considerably broader.
According to the book’s description, Colbert discusses nighttime communications, unusual cognitive effects, further sightings, and encounters taking place while flying at high altitude.
Eventually, his experiences lead him to believe he is dealing directly with extraterrestrial beings.
That shift—from observing unidentified objects to interacting with an intelligence behind them—is likely to be one of the book’s biggest draws for readers interested in contact.
It also raises one of the most compelling questions surrounding the UFO phenomenon:
What if the craft themselves are only one part of the story?
For decades, much of public UFO discussion has focused on hardware: objects, propulsion, radar signatures, photographs, and possible crash retrievals.
Experiencer literature looks in another direction.
It asks whether consciousness and communication could be just as important.
Meet the Aliens appears firmly rooted in that side of the subject.
- Compare UFO encounters with recurring patterns in folklore and contact stories
- Explore Vallee's alternatives to a straightforward visitors-from-space explanation
- Broaden your reading beyond any single sighting or abduction case
A Personal Approach to the Alien Question
This isn't a conventional scientific exploration of extraterrestrial life.
You won't be spending most of your time discussing radio telescopes, habitable zones, or the chemistry of distant planets.
Colbert is dealing with something much closer to home.
His focus is personal experience.
For readers who follow UFO encounters, CE-5 discussions, consciousness research, telepathy, or accounts of non-human intelligence, that may be exactly what makes the book appealing.
There is something fundamentally different about asking whether life exists somewhere in the universe and asking whether that life might already be interacting with people here.
The first question is astronomical.
The second is personal.
And Meet the Aliens is very much concerned with the second.
What Are Readers Saying?
Because Meet the Aliens is a recent release, there still isn't a substantial collection of independent reader reviews available.
That makes it difficult to say whether a broader consensus is developing around the book.
For now, most publicly available information centers on Colbert’s own description of his experiences and what the book promises to explore.
That will likely change as more readers discover it.
And considering the subject matter, it should be interesting to see how the book is received by people who have had experiences of their own.
Contact literature often resonates differently with experiencers than it does with readers approaching the phenomenon purely from the outside.
Sometimes a seemingly small detail in one person's account can feel remarkably familiar to someone who has lived through something similar.
Who Should Read Meet the Aliens?
If you're fascinated by close encounters, UFO contact, non-human intelligence, telepathy, consciousness, or experiencer accounts, this book is clearly speaking your language.
It may be especially interesting to readers who believe the UFO phenomenon cannot be understood solely by studying objects in the sky.
Colbert's central idea pushes toward something bigger: that contact may involve an interaction between humans and another intelligence, and that learning to recognize those interactions could be important.
You don't necessarily have to interpret every experience exactly as Colbert does to find his story valuable.
The real appeal lies in comparing his experiences with the broader contact phenomenon and asking whether familiar patterns begin to emerge.
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- Read a foundational abduction narrative that influenced decades of UFO culture
Because perhaps the most interesting question isn't simply whether extraterrestrial intelligence exists.
It is what contact would actually feel like if it happened.
Would it arrive dramatically for the entire world to see?
Or could it begin much more quietly—with an unusual object overhead, a strange experience in the night, or the unmistakable feeling that something out there has noticed you?
Meet the Aliens explores that second possibility.
And for anyone already watching the skies, that's a difficult idea to ignore.
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