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So the new website is delayed again and once again just as we were about to deploy it. This is the third time in two years. The first time, within just weeks of deployment it was flooded with malware and had to be started over from scratch. (I have backups, of course) The second group want to move it to Amazon Web Services, which we did. Then, of all the odd things to happen, the machine it was no in Amazon’s vast server farm was physically destroyed! (Hacking AWS is next to impossible, which is why we moved there. But when the site is physically destroy, you have to wonder if you’ve got some kind of problem that is unusual.
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People often ask me if the visitors take an interest in things like warfare and politics. I cannot speak for them, but I can offer my observations. First, they have never given me any indication that they have any interest at all in our political life.

However, they do take a direct interest in two things: nuclear conflict and the environment. I know this because they have appeared at a number of missile sites but in the US and Russian, and possibly in Iran. They have repeated an environmental warning not only to me but to thousands of other close encounter witnesses. In fact, it counts as the one consistent message that they offer.
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I recently drew up a list of all the witnesses who are mentioned in my books. Then I began looking through reviews and media stories for references to their existence. I found none. Not one. Of course, I may have overlooked some, but if the witnesses were ever mentioned, it was a rare event indeed.
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Back in 1985 when I published Nature’s End, my publisher arranged a news conference in Washington. The environmental reporters who showed up mostly scoffed at the warnings in the book. It predicted terrible fires, catastrophic droughts and pollution emergencies among other things, set in the context of a science fiction story. It was set in the year 2020. My co-author James Kunetka and I had called it with heartbreaking accuracy. We were ignored.
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