Villa's photos first came to light when some of them were published by Gabriel Green in his "UFO International Journal" in October, 1965. The complete spread from that long ago publication is reproduced here in its entirety and is a charming bit of UFO history.

At the time, Villa's photos were greeted with some suspicion, even within the UFO community. Coral Lorenzon, who co-founded with her husband Jim the now defunct Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO), visited Villa at his home and asked him pointblank how he had faked the photos.

Villa responded sarcastically, "Well, my dear lady, you just make yourself a model and toss it into the air and photograph it."

Stevens adds that such a deception is not easily carried out. In fact, he tried doing it himself and by the third photo, his model was ruined. It was also impossible to get the model in the correct attitude and angle simply by tossing it up in front of the camera.

The working process and history of some of Villa's more dramatic photos is described in detail by Stevens, and his text is at all times both intelligent and cautious. But the real appeal of "The Secret Life of Paul Villa" is the photos themselves. The twenty pages of full color reproductions are breathtaking to look at and do appear to show actual flying saucers set against lovely desert scenery. Numerous black and white photos are also included throughout the book. There are different types of ships from photo to photo, which is a fact consistent with UFO witness accounts since the 1940s that has led some analysts to think we are being visited by several different alien races and civilizations. That theory also accounts for the many types of occupants reported, from the grays to the reptilians to the Nordics.

The notoriety that came with being "chosen" to take the photos did not make life easy for Villa, however. He suffered many instances of harassment, including an incident that happened when he stopped off at a local tavern on his way home from work and ordered a beer at the bar. As he was sipping it, a complete stranger walked up to him and said, "So you're the nut that is said to be talking to some Spacemen?" and punched Villa in the nose, drawing blood. Villa never forgot that moment of true violence. He was often forced to move his wife and household to new locations after such incidents, which included neighbors attacking his mobile home and even some very frightening visits from the dreaded Men-In-Black.

But perhaps, as Villa began to have face-to-face encounters with the ships' occupants, it was all worth it in the long run. For Villa, the aliens were entirely human-looking, though more uniformly attractive than Earth people and definitely more refined in face and form. They took Villa on a tour of one of their saucers and confided in him that the whole galaxy to which Earth belongs is a grain of sand on a huge beach compared to the unfathomable number of inhabited bodies in the entire universe. They said their craft are constantly active over our planet and that they are here on a friendly mission to help Earth people.

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