By KEN KORCZAK
A cult-classic, highly controversial UFO story of an alien-human hybrid attending college in California may be more fact than fiction
In the course of publishing more than 1,000 book reviews, mostly on UFO and paranormal topics, more than a few readers have asked me to take a look at Rachael’s Eyes. I’ve known about the book for a long time, but somehow never got to it.
That changes today!
I want to thank a reader, Anthony, for most recently suggesting that I read Rachael’s Eyes. It’s a book I dare say has a certain cult following within the UFO community.
Note: A search revealed that this book is available free on the Internet Archive site. I was intrigued when I saw that the authors had issued a second, follow-up book titled simply, “Raechel’s Eyes, Volume II.” Both volumes were published in 2004 and are available on Internet Archive.
But wait a minute! Just before I was ready to post this story, I was doing a routine fact check and discovered that yet a third volume of this book has been released. This final offering is titled “Raechel’s Eyes Unveiled.” This final addition is only about 50 pages, but it reveals vital details and seeks to answer key questions that left readers confused or curious about certain elements of the story. More on this in a bit, but first:
WHAT IS THIS BOOK IS ABOUT?
Raechel’s Eyes is billed as a true story of an astonishing situation. It’s so “out there” that even the most “UFO-forward” folks (like me) might have difficulty believing it is true — or, at least, maybe not the “whole truth and nothing but the truth.”
It’s the narrative of a young California college freshman, Marisa, who comes to believe that her new roommate is not human — at least not fully human — but actually an alien-human hybrid.
Apparently, Marisa was determined to be “a perfect” candidate as a roomy for an odd-looking alien hybrid female. That’s because Marisa happened to be blind. Although not blind from birth, Marisa lost her eyesight as a teenager due to complications of diabetes.
Marisa was not totally blind. She could see lights, colors and vague shapes. With great effort, she might accomplish a tiny bit of reading using a powerful magnifying glass, eking out one letter at a time.
HOW THIS SITUATION CAME ABOUT
Marisa was a high school senior, but her home life was a domestic hellscape. That was caused by constant, often violent, physical altercations between her mom and dad.
Her father was a police officer trainee who headed to a bar at the end of each day and drank into the night before returning home. Marisa’s mother, Helen Littrell (her real name and the author of this book), was kind and supportive of her daughter. However, Helen was so embroiled in her toxic relationship with an abusive husband that Marisa’s life became collateral damage, so to speak.
Thus, Marisa plotted her escape. Despite her blindness, she applied for admission to a local community college. This was American River College in Sacramento, California.
Marisa did not tell her parents. Once accepted, she sought the help of a school counselor/social worker to secure an apartment near the college. Marisa then made her escape — moving out when her parents were away at work. She left a note for her mother that told her only that she loved her, but now she was gone.
Because she could not afford rent, the counselor searched for a roommate for Marisa to share housing costs. As it happens, the counselor was also working with a mysterious United States Air Force officer who is identified as Colonel Harry Nadein, most likely not his real name. Anyway, he also had a special-needs daughter. Her name was Raechel.
In this case, “special needs” meant that Raechel was “extremely weird.”
Raechel was an awkward, cadaverously thin teenager who needed to wear special, very dark, wrap-around sunglasses, even indoors. A vague reason given was hypersensitivity to sunlight. This also required Raechel to wear a scarf around her head, indoors and outdoors. The scarf covered the sides of her head, concealing her ears (or lack thereof), and was tied under her oddly pointed chin.
Raechel favored just one style of clothing, a one-piece “jumpsuit,” of which she had several in various colors. She never wore anything else. Raechel displayed an unusual speech impediment. She spoke with an outlandish, halting tone, enunciating each word succinctly but in a forced, stilted robotic fashion.
But there is even more: Raechel could eat only a special kind of food, a greenish paste-like “baby food.” She also could not drink ordinary water. All her food and water in bottles were supplied to her by a mysterious delivery service. Raechel’s sustenance arrived at her apartment door every two weeks like clockwork.
Despite the unusual situation, Marisa and Raechel hit it off well. Marisa was an extremely caring, empathetic person, especially toward others who might not “fit in.” Her challenges with diabetes, blindness and an unstable family life imbued her with a heightened compassion for others who are troubled or just “different.”
Thus, Maria and Raechel became fast friends in addition to roommates. However, Marisa could not help but notice some peculiar aspects of her weird roommate’s lifestyle and personality.
For example, Raechel didn’t make any new friends like a normal college freshman. She had also never listened to music, and she never heard of any of the popular acts or bands. She had never seen any movies and knew nothing about popular TV shows. She seems to have never heard of “sports.” She seemed to have no interest in “boys” (or girls).
And yet, all this was minor compared to the strange visitors who came to see Raechel once or twice a month. It was three men, all dressed in black suits, black fedora-like hats, white shirts, and black ties.
They always arrived in a vintage luxury-brand vehicle, a huge black sedan that looked like some foreign model from a bygone era. Furthermore, these three figures projected a sense of menace; their demeanor was overtly cruel, as if they nurtured a universal contempt for people.
Yea, verily — it seems that Raechal was undergoing regular debriefings by classic MIBs. Men in Black!
HER COVER GETS BLOWN
Then, one day, a freak mishap resulted in Raechel’s exposure.
Marisa had since reconciled and reconnected with her mother and invited her for a visit. Her mother, Helen, meets Raechel at the apartment and immediately finds her to be “odd” in an unsettling sort of way, yet Helen couldn’t put her finger on what was so “off” about Raechel.
On a subsequent visit, Helen is standing by the door and speaking with her daughter. Raechel is walking toward the door to leave, but as she approaches Marisa and her mom, Raechel slips on something and begins to fall forward. Helen reacts instinctively and grabs Raechel’s forearm to break her fall.
This caused Raechel’s sunglasses to fall onto her nose. Suddenly, Helen gets a full view of Raechel’s alien eyes. They are unusually large and teardrop-shaped. They slant upward at the ends at a 45-degree angle. Raechel’s pupils were a vivid “avocado green” with narrow, vertical black slits, something like huge cat eyes.
Helen also saw and touched Raechel’s bare forearm. The sleeve of her jumpsuit had been pushed up as Raechel nearly fell. Helen immediately knew it was not normal human skin. It was slightly orange-green in color, cool to the touch, and had “the texture of mushrooms.” (Note: In Book 3, Helen reveals that Raechel had just four fingers and no fingernails!)
With that brief encounter, Helen’s worldview was instantly shattered. She realized that Raechel’s eyes could not be human eyes, not even the eyes of someone with a rare deformity. It was more than just the appearance of her eyes, however. They evinced a strange sort of penetrating power, as if Raechel’s eyes themselves could convey gestalts of information telepathically.
So, now, Marisa and Helen are confronted with a reality so impossibly exotic they struggle to accept it. An instant notion that came over Helen upon gazing into the eyes of Raechel might be summed up as:
“This can’t be true, yet it must be!”
So, what now? What happens going forward — after Helen discovers her daughter is rooming … with … with … what? An extraterrestrial?
Well, I will not reveal any more because:
a) I don’t want to spoil the story for those who have not read the book and,
b) I need to move on to a discussion of Raechel’s Eyes, Volume II, and the Volume III addendum before I can offer my final thoughts and analysis on this extraordinary story.
RAECHEL’S EYES VOLUME II
A GENERATIONAL BREEDING PROGRAM?
Ifthere had not been a Volume II, I might have concluded something like the following about the first book:
“Raechel’s Eyes reads more like an intriguing, although not highly original, science fiction novel. The premise of a college freshman (or any normal person) discovering that his/her roommate is an alien — who is trying hard to “just fit in” — is hardly a new SF plot.
Dozens of SF novels explore this scenario. Just a few examples are “Quozl” by Alan Dean Foster, “A Half-Built Garden” by Ruthanna Emrys, and “The Only Alien on the Planet” by Kristen Randle — and many more.
It’s also a frequent plot for TV, mostly sitcoms. Some examples are My Favorite Martian (1963), Mork & Mindy (1978), Aliens in the Family (1996), Alf (1986), Solar Opposites (2020), Resident Alien (2021), and many more.”
Thus, I was ready to conclude that Raechel’s Eyes was probably a typical example of a UFO-related story “with a grain of truth but heavily embellished and partially fictionalized.”
NOW I’M NOT SO SURE
But then I read Volume II. I was surprised that the follow-up book was mostly pages of transcripts from months of hypnotic regressions undergone by Helen Littrell, Marisa’s mother. In other words, it was not a fictional-like prose format as was Volume I.
What we learn from the regression transcripts is that Helen, not Marisa, emerges as the primary figure in this possibly true, albeit sensational case.
As it turns out, Marisa and Raechel’s rooming situation is an outcome of a complex series of events that was generations in the making. However, in a sense, Helen Littrell is the linchpin around which this entire, bizarre saga turns.
But wait a minute! At this point, you may be wondering: “What about Marisa herself?” Like me, you may be eager to know what Marisa had to say about this extraordinary situation, which was, after all, her own lived experience.
Be aware that the events described in Book One take place in the early 1970s. Helen did not start hypnotic regression until 1999, and the book was first published in 2004.
Unfortunately, we don’t get Marisa’s view for the very reason that Marisa tragically died somewhere in the 1990s from complications of diabetes. She was just 38. Her mother began hypnotic regression in 1999, several years after her daughter’s death.
As it turns out, Helen realized that she had been harboring a lifetime of bizarre, inexplicable, highly paranormal experiences that went back to her early childhood. Uncovering the truth about Raechel was the trigger that caused the floodgates of memory to open.
Even though she recalled much without hypnotic regressions, she had been consciously suppressing numerous bizarre and frightening memories for decades simply because she did not understand what was happening to her and what it all meant.
For example, when she was a girl, Helen would often visit a secluded spot in a wooded area near her home where she could be alone to enjoy the quiet of nature and get a break from being around people.
However, her solitude was often intruded upon by a strange blue light that seemed intelligent. Associated with the blue light, inside the blue light, were also odd, short, diminutive “people.” They asked her odd questions, the most memorable of which was:
“Do you want to have a baby?”
Helen was just 13 at the time. She scoffed and told the “strange beings” that she was too young and could not “have a baby now … I need to go to school.” The “blue light beings” did not pressure her. They acknowledged her wishes but said they would ask her again later about having a baby.
And so, you probably can see where this is going.
Helen’s hypnotic regression memories reveal that her mother, Marisa’s grandmother, had also been visited by mysterious beings. Several members of her family also reported an unusual number of UFO sightings. It seemed Helen’s extended family was “a magnet” for UFO sightings and encounters, although it was generally “an unspoken family rule” never to speak about it. Helen said her mother’s sister, Helen’s aunt, was also ensnared and played a key role in the alien breeding program.
In fact, Helen reveals in Book III that she believes her aunt was her real mother. This was also due to the mischief of the aliens, but I’ll just put this complicated factor aside for now.
Thus, A picture emerges of a situation in which aliens appear to have been working diligently over the past 100–150 years (at least), to effect a genetic manipulation “breeding program” among the Helen Littrell family line.
Helen’s mother was genetically manipulated, Helen herself was “tweaked” and “selectively bred,” and then Helen gave birth to Marisa, who also harbors the “DNA adjustments” of an alien manipulation program.
A question one might ask is: “Were three generations (at least) of the Littrell family carefully modified with subtle DNA “tweaks” all just so that, one day, the blinded Marisa could serve as an unwitting host for an alien hybrid roommate — or was this situation just one artifact of a much broader and deeper overall “grand scheme?”
Is your head spinning yet?
A MASSIVE CONSPIRACY REQUIRED
To believe this story is true, we also must accept the existence of an extremely complex, massive, detailed and intricately coordinated conspiracy that involved:
1. At least three generations of a California family.
2. The United States Air Force & U.S Government.
3. Extraterrestrial beings working in cooperation with the U.S. government.
4. Ancillary figures, such as the Men In Black.
5. Local health care facilities where Helen claims a human but “alien associated” doctor “with a German accent” worked. This doctor was assisted by another woman who lived in Helen’s California community.
Via hypnotic regression, Helen fleshed out an elaborate framework that resulted in her daughter living with an alien roommate. The overarching impetus of this situation, Helen said, was driven by the fact that the U.S. government/military was cooperating with alien entities to run a sprawling, global program called “The Humanization Project.”
The purpose of this program was to introduce hybrid aliens into the fabric of Earth’s population, allowing them to live seamlessly and side-by-side with regular Earth folks, with the goal of establishing a permanent alien foothold on our planet.
Helen also provides details about a secret Air Force base located somewhere in the deserts of the American Southwest. She called this base “Four Corners,” which is apparently a fictional name. This base was located in an area where UFOs landed on a regular basis but sometimes crash-landed.
It was from one of these UFO crash retrievals that Raechel was rescued and nurtured back to health. Raechel then spent several years at the Four Corners secret base, where she was taught to speak and coached in other aspects of living in human society.
The outward appearance of Four Corners was a dilapidated old barn and a few ancient-looking sheds. However, these buildings concealed the entrance to a vast underground base replete with modern laboratories and all manner of military hardware. It had barracks for hundreds of military personnel and more. Helen said extraterrestrial beings also occupied the underground base and worked side-by-side with humans.
Bizarrely, Helen claims she was once “drugged” by Raechel’s father, Colonel Nadein, who drove her out to the Four Corners base personnel for reasons she did not understand. Colonel Nadein was the commander of Four Corners.
“THE AVERAGE PERSON LIVES IN A FANTASY WORLD”
AsI said at the beginning, several people have asked me to read Raechel’s Eyes over the years, but they also ask: “Ken, do you think this is a true story, or is it bullshit?”
Here is what I will say:
Like I said, my first notion was that Raechel’s Eyes seemed a heavily fictionalized account, replete with hyperbole that leveraged a sort of “poetic license” method to fabricate elements of the tale to make it read like a coherent story — yet the central element of the story might be authentic.
Then, after reading the hypnotic regression transcripts of Helen Littrell, I began to drift more toward a notion that this remarkable saga might hold “more truth than fictional creation.”
Then I read the third book, the 50-page addendum called “Raechel’s Eyes Unveiled.” What struck me most about the final offering is that Helen Littrell wrote this last bit when she was 80+ years old.
You may disagree, but for me, I find it difficult to believe that an 80-something woman — who is cognizant that she is nearing the end of her life — would continue to insist on fabricating an elaborate and mind-blowing false narrative such as this and foist it on the public as if it were the truth.
For what reason, exactly? Just to make a few extra bucks by selling some sensational books to gullible UFO boffins? Or maybe because she simply enjoys spinning lies for whatever psychological payoff it might deliver to her own troubled ego? Is Helen delusional, schizophrenic, or prone to hallucination? No doubt, these are the theories skeptics would be eager to offer.
BUT NOW CONSIDER THIS:
Iam reminded of testimony given by a former U.S. intelligence official, Matthew Brown. He recently came out as a whistleblower and rolled out an elaborate story about our government’s deep and decades-long interactions not just with UFOs, but a wide range of activities that range from reverse engineering recovered UFOs, the recovery of “alien biologics,” and interactions with an array of nonhuman intelligences.
Brown summed it up this way in a recent interview with George Knapp and Jeremy Corbell:
“The average person lives in a fantasy world. They have no idea about what is really going on … what I have learned is that we live in a dream, a carefully constructed reality. We make use of a science that is tightly constructed and suppressed and controlled and distorted
Brown described Americans as being “dangerously ignorant of a greater reality with profound implications” for the human race and our planet writ large. He suggested that if ordinary people knew the extent and depth of what our government’s interaction with “aliens,” they would be “stunned” at the level of knowledge that is hidden from them.
Other whistleblowers have said much the same, such as David Grusch and, more recently, Jeff Nuccetelli, a former U.S. Air Force intelligence & security specialist who worked at top secret military launch facilities. Both men testified under oath to a Congressional panel last year. Nuccetelli said in a recent interview with the Sol Foundation that “Reality is classified.” He added:
“… it seems that reality is classified. We are not allowed to look into the sky, and we’re not allowed to look into space. And if you happen to just stumble upon ‘something’ and then we speak about it, your life is destroyed. This is the pattern that keeps playing out over and over.”
Other whistleblowers also continue to come forward. Based on what they have to say, it seems increasingly likely that gigantic and fantastic things are happening behind a massive veil of secrecy.
Jeff Nuccetelli makes it easier to understand how our government has been able to maintain impenetrable secrecy for decades, keeping the whole of mainstream society in the dark. After all, keeping even huge secrets from the public is a highly refined art. The Manhattan Project is just one example.
Skeptics maintain that it is impossible to keep “big secrets” because, eventually, something would leak or some whistleblowers would speak out. But even highly-motivated, rogue leakers and whistleblowers are only a minor problem for government secrecy agents simply because they know few people will believe “people with crazy stories” anyway.
The late ufologist Stanton Friedman was correct when he said that “it is not only possible for the government to keep massive secrets from the public — in fact, it is easy to do so.” The reality is that keeping the biggest, most sensational secrets is not exactly rocket science (no pun intended). Again, it’s easy. Nuccetelli describes it this way:
“If the people knew how deep and dark and terrifying the retaliation (against whistleblowers) is, the American people would be outraged, they would be shocked, and they would be demanding that Congress act now.”
Nuccetelli said government retaliation against leakers and whistleblowers includes:
· Direct threats
· Harassment
· Break-ins to people’s homes
· Medical malpractice
· Professional malpractice
· “Darker, darker things” (Nuccetelli said he is not comfortable talking about — but this probably includes assassinations of people who make too much trouble or know too much.)
Thus, the testimony of whistleblowers like Grusch, Brown, Nuccetelli and several others provides at least a rational scenario or explanation for how our government conspired to place an alien/human hybrid among students at a small California college in an experimental attempt to see if it was possible for her to “blend in” with the human race seamlessly and without “creating waves.”
Considering this, I think it’s possible that Helen Littrell’s story might be mostly true.
(Final Note: In Volume II of Raechel’s Eyes, the author provides a letter from American River College stating that a student named Raechel Nadein was indeed enrolled there in 1972.)
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