But, lest the omen be
misunderstood, on the next page TIME gives another modern angelic
account, a being seen by Melissa Deal Forth with her dying husband
Chris Deal, comforting him and seemingly communicating to him a
profound sense of peace. When her husband was discovered missing
from his hospital bed only days before his death, she found him in
the hospital chapel “with a man she had never seen before”.
He was tall, dressed rather like Chris usually did, in a flannel shirt, new Levis and lace-up work-boots that appeared as if they, too, had just been taken off the shelf.
He was tall, dressed rather like Chris usually did, in a flannel shirt, new Levis and lace-up work-boots that appeared as if they, too, had just been taken off the shelf.
The clothing of such visitors
in UFO lore also often appear taken ‘directly off the shelf’.
“There was no real age to him,” Melissa says. “No wrinkles. Just this perfectly smooth and pale, white, white skin and icy blue eyes. I mean I’ve never seen that color blue on any human before.”
Students
of MIB cases will recognize the basic fabric of all the visitation
cases here.
