| Robbie Williams into Aliens |
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Robbie
Williams disappeared from view at the end of 2006. Since then, he has
become obsessed with UFOs and extraterrestrials. To gather evidence, he
and Jon Ronson headed deep into the Nevada desert
On
December 18 2006, Robbie Williams played the last of 59 stadium shows
in a row, announced he was going to spend Christmas at his home in Los
Angeles, and then basically disappeared. He was hardly seen at all in
2007. He briefly checked into rehab. He spent quite a bit of time
hiking and playing football (he owns a football pitch on Mulholland
Drive). Then he stopped hiking and playing football. His record
company, EMI, announced he had no plans to release an album in 2008.
Today he unexpectedly calls me to ask if I want to go with him to the
desert in Nevada to meet UFO abductees.
"I've been spending so much time at home on the internet on sites like AboveTopSecret.com,"
he says. "I want to do something. I want to go out there and meet these
people. I want to be a part of this. I want to do something other than
sit in my bed and watch the news. And it starts with the UFO conference
in Laughlin, Nevada, on Thursday. We can hear people's testimony about
being abducted by aliens. There's an entire family of abductees going
to be there, apparently."
I log on to the conference website. It's taking place at the quite down at heel-looking Aquarius hotel and casino. The conference slogan is Educating The World One Person At A Time, which makes it sound as if there won't be many people attending. The speakers will include Ann Andrews, from Lincolnshire, who claims her son Jason has had "disturbing experiences at the hands of many different alien species", and a surgeon, Dr Roger Leir, who claims he has extracted from patients 15 metallic implants that are not of earthly metal. "I wonder if he'll bring the implants along," I say. "So you can see with your own eyes whether they're earthly or not?" Robbie asks. "Yes," I say. "According to Jon," Robbie says. He seems a bit disapproving of my scepticism. I tell him that my problem with spaceships is this: if they exist, why do they reveal themselves to the human race only in ambiguous ways? "I think maybe they're making mistakes," he replies. "I think the shield comes off by mistake and they were there all the time." He pauses. "I don't want to hear any debunking because I want to believe."
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