Make or break.  Last chance saloon.  One last desperate throw of the dice in the attempt to see Chris Bell realise his dream of getting abducted by aliens.  In the last episode ufologist Michael Soper took Chris on a skywatch, but they drew a complete blank, despite Michael's vast array of scientific equipment.  So that left James Basil, the abductee.  I'd suggested him and Michael previously, because picking two people with very different backgrounds and beliefs seemed like the best way to maximise the chances of success - and his approach certainly seemed very different from Michael's.

I've met James Basil a couple of times.  He's what you'd call a repeater - a serial abductee, as it were.  This tends to happen.  People who report these experiences seldom report a one-off abduction, but a lifetime of experiences.  It's also been suggested that these experiences run in families, leading some ufologists to the conclusion that this is all part of an extraterrestrial breeding programme, with certain bloodlines being monitored and selected.  James recalls that his experiences began at the age of 6 and encouragingly for Chris, he believes he can summon the aliens, using a combination of crystals and meditation.

First it was Trevor Wooding and Lars, then Michael Soper, now James.  For the third time in the series, Chris finds himself on a hill, at night, looking for aliens.  James describes how he attempts to make contact by imagining a beam of light projecting outwards from his mind, into space, with a triangle at the end.  "Like the Batman signal", he explains.  Chris asks whether he's feeling anything.  "On an astral level, yeah", James replies.  Sadly, that won't really help Chris and nothing more tangible emerges.

So that was that.  End of the series and end of the line.  Failure to launch.  Chris took it well enough and then made an interesting point: we've really only scratched the surface here.  There are thousands of people who claim to have had alien abduction experiences and there are many people we didn't get a chance to meet: the doctor who claims to have removed alien implants from abductees, the ex-CIA man who says that he can hunt down aliens, scientists who use radio astronomy to search for signals from extraterrestrial civilisations.  So there's more to see and more to try.  If Chris is up for it, maybe his quest can continue.  If that's the case, I'm happy to help and advise and will do my best to ensure that Chris gets his wish and goes on the journey of a lifetime.