“Two weeks with aliens: Is the New Zealander’s statement real?” — Marketa Frydrychova (Medium)
Source: Marketa Frydrychova, “Two weeks with aliens: Is the New Zealander’s statement real?”, Medium (2025). A balanced secondary that weighs Newald’s claim. URL: https://medium.com/@markeetafrydrychova/two-weeks-with-aliens-is-the-new-zealanders-statement-real-0906edbba501 Captured: 2026-06-27 via trafilatura. What this is: a measured account that includes Newald’s own words (“I was paralyzed… a ton of bricks”; “I can’t say I’m hypnotized, quite the opposite”; “I had never thought about UFOs before, and I wasn’t even under the influence of drugs”) and the skeptical readings (attention-seeking, mental illness), and a useful caution from researcher Vladimir Siska: genuine experiencers tend to be reluctant to confide such experiences at all, let alone to go to the media — whereas Newald gives interviews regularly and wrote a book, behavior atypical of the sincere-experiencer profile. Analysis: newald-coevolution-contactee.
Two weeks with aliens: Is the New Zealander’s statement real? Reports of UFO abductions occasionally come from all over the world. Alec Newald from New Zealand recently recalled his experience from 1989, when he was supposed to spend several days with aliens. Is he telling the truth? It was supposed to be a day like any other. New Zealander Alec Newald drives from Rotorua to Auckland in northern New Zealand in February 1989, expecting the journey to take about three hours. But when he arrives at his destination, he feels unusually tired and confused. He then discovers a shocking thing. It’s not Monday as he expects, but Thursday of the following week! As Alec later allegedly recalls, he was with the aliens for those 10 days. Are we alone in space? The words of a man from New Zealand will cause an uproar. The reason is that it completely changes our current knowledge of the world and our place in it. If Newald is telling the truth, then we are not alone in the universe! “I was driving the car the other day when I suddenly felt like a ton of bricks had fallen on me like someone had poured cement on me. It felt like I was being pushed into the seat. I was paralyzed,” recalls Newald of the fateful moments. Even today, he talks about them completely openly, gives interviews regularly, and even wrote a book about his encounters with beings from another planet. Can he be trusted? Newald was said to have lost consciousness that day and subsequently allegedly saw a total of three aliens… Essential insights “One of the beings was very tall, the other a little smaller, and the third was very small. None of them had a nose and ears,” says Newald. At the moment, he is said to be in some kind of strange space full of flashing neon blue lights. For a while, he thinks he is dead. But then he realizes that he has met aliens. “I can’t say I’m hypnotized, quite the opposite,” says Newald. According to him, the aliens are friendly, and no need to fear them. “My experiences have profound consequences for all of us on Earth,” Newald asserts. What actually happened? “I had never thought about UFOs before, and I wasn’t even under the influence of drugs,” Newald points out. Even so, some people don’t believe him. According to them, he makes things up because he likes to be the center of attention. Alternatively, he may be mentally ill. But are similar speculations appropriate? “Although Alec Newald’s story shows some features of the well-known phenomenon of ‘UFO abduction experiences’, I would be cautious. I know from experience that people with similar experiences have a problem confiding such experiences to anyone at all and are very far from appearing in the media and describing the details of such experiences,” says Czech researcher Vladimír Šiška from the Záře project, which deals with records, exclusively for ENIGMU and research into UFOs and other unexplained phenomena. So how is it? Will we ever know what really happened in February 1989 in New Zealand?