User:Van Man
About
Van Man
Real name is Timothy.
Was born on May 30, 1977.
Lives in California.
Joined The Acorn Cafe on January 9, 2005.
Fan-Fiction
A video about the Acorn Cafe will be coming in 2012.
Transportation
A van.
Van Man in the UFO
Van Man reported to Dale that after approaching the UFO near the work site, the last thing he remembered was being struck by the beam of light. When he woke, Van Man said he was on a reclined bed. A bright light shone above him, and the air was heavy and wet. He was in pain, and had some trouble breathing, but his first thought was that he was in a normal hospital.
As his faculties returned, Van Man says he realized he was surrounded by three figures, each wearing a sort of orange jumpsuit. The figures were not human; Van Man described them as similar to the so-called Greys which feature in some abduction accounts: "shorter than five feet, and they had bald heads, no hair. Their heads were domed, very large. They looked like fetuses ... They had large eyes — enormous eyes — almost all brown, without much white in them. The creepiest thing about them were those eyes ... they just stared through me." Their ears, noses and mouths "seemed real small, maybe just because their eyes were so huge."
Afraid for his safety, Van Man says he got to his feet, and shouted at the creatures to stay away. He grabbed a glasslike cylinder from a nearby shelf and tried to break its tip to create a makeshift knife, but found the object unbreakable, so instead waved it at the creatures as a weapon. The trio of creatures left him in the room.
Dale finds this portion of the narrative troublingly inconsistent, noting that "despite his 'weakened' condition, 'aching body' and 'splitting pain in his skull', maladies for which no cause is suggested, he has no trouble jumping up from his operating table, seizing a conveniently placed glasslike rod, and, assuming a karate 'fighting stance', frightened them with this display of macho aggression, enough at least to cause them to run away." However, if Dale accepts Van Man's story, an adrenaline rush might account for his quick recovery from his pains.
Van Man then left this "exam room" via a hallway, which led to a round, spherical room with only a high-backed chair placed in the room's center. Though he was afraid there might be someone seated in the chair, Travis says he walked towards it. As he did, lights began to appear in the room. The chair was empty, so Van Man says he sat in it. When he did, the room was filled with lights, similar to stars projected on a round planetarium ceiling.
The chair was equipped on the left arm with a single short thick lever with an oddly shaped molded handle atop some dark brown material. On the right arm, there was an illuminated, lime-green screen about five inches square with black lines intersected at all angles.
When Van Man pushed the lever, he reported that the stars rotated around him slowly. When he released the lever, the stars remained at their new position. He decided to stop manipulating the lever, since he had no idea what it might do.
He left the chair, and the stars disappeared. Van Man thought he had seen a rectangular outline on the rounded wall — perhaps a door — and went to look for it.
Just then, Van Man heard a sound behind him. He turned, expecting more of the short, large eyed creatures, but was pleasantly surprised to see a tall human figure wearing blue coveralls with a glassy helmet. At the time, Van Man said, he did not realize how odd the man's eyes were: larger than normal, and a bright gold color.
Van Man says he then asked the man a number of questions, but the man only grinned and motioned for Van Man to follow him. Van Man also said that because of the man’s helmet he might have been unable to hear him, so he followed the man down a hallway which led to door and a steep ramp down to a large room Van Man described as similar to an aircraft hangar. Van Man says he realized he’d just left a disc-shaped craft similar to the one he’d seen in the forest just before he’d been struck by the bluish light, but the craft was perhaps twice as large.
In the hangar-like room, Van Man reported seeing other disc-shaped craft. The man led him to another room, containing three more humans — a woman and two men — resembling the helmeted man. These people did not wear helmets, so Van Man says he began asking questions of them. They responded with the same dull grin, and led him by his arm to a small table.
Once he was seated on the table, Van Man says he realized the woman held a device like an oxygen mask, which she placed on his face. Before he could fight back, Van Man says he passed out.
