Nearly two years later, in October 1975, a second encounter occurred in woodland near Brantome in the Perigord region of France, and this time Rael was invited aboard the advanced spacecraft and taken on an astonishing revelatory journey. Rael describes this fully in the second section of the book entitled Extra-Terrestrials Took Me to Their Planet, which he also originally published as a separate volume in French in late 1975. In view of the fact that American, Russian, Chinese, and European astronauts are so far known to have succeeded in venturing only into the nearest margins of space - at most into orbit around the Earth and our moon - it perhaps seems outlandish at first sight to accept that without a spacesuit or any other special apparatus, Rael could have been whisked unexpectedly from a wooded European glade to another planet far across our galaxy. But this is what he describes here in those same detached, matter- of-fact terms, detailing many extraordinary experiences on the planet of his hosts who call themselves 'the Elohim'. Having known him now for some 13 years, I have no doubt that he is describing here real and factual experiences. In a third book entitled Let's Welcome the Extra-terrestrials, originally published in 1979 and now for the first time joined with the first two books in this updated volume, Rael answers some of the commonest questions that were repeatedly asked about his original writings in the early years by journalists and others. Very significantly, he also adds in that third book further new amplifying material about his own personal background, which he says he was asked by his informants in 1975 to withhold for three further years. Other equally important writings have followed in successive books entitled Sensual Meditation, Yes to Human Cloning, Geniocracy, and The Maitreya. To get a true and complete picture of his unprecedented revelations and insights it is important to read all of these books. In recounting this brief outline of Rael's story, I have not inserted any customary qualifying words such as 'alleged' or 'reported' which responsible journalists - and especially former foreign correspondents who have reported from Beijing and Berlin among other datelines might rightly be expected to employ to distance themselves from any controversial or improbable information they are conveying. I've done this quite intentionally to underline my conviction that Rael is a man of high integrity describing genuine experiences in a sincere and totally truthful fashion.