Sedona Conspiracy

AFTERWORD

Sedona Conspiracy is a work of fiction. I made it all up. A couple of restaurant names are real, or close to real, and the food is good. Area descriptions are accurate. I own two timeshares in Sedona, Arizona. I paint, drum and play didj there with friends. It’s one of my favorite places on this planet. It’s also considered by many to be the New-Age capital of the country.

New age culture, including UFOs, angels and aliens, is rich in Sedona. The literature is huge, and ranges from quackery to serious reporting. A lot of levelheaded, no-nonsense people have seen strange things in the Sedona area, and will tell you about it. They’ll tell you how the Sedona Fire Department once went into the backcountry to fight a raging fire and was turned back by armed soldiers in black Humvees. And in my own experience, hiking near the end of Long Canyon one day, I heard what sounded like a 747 taking off nearby. Okay, I’m a professional skeptic, a trained physicist who spent thirty years teaching and doing research in physics, but I’m the first to admit that theories are never proven, only disproved. And the mind must always be kept open to new possibilities.

Sedona Conspiracy started out with a ‘What If’. What if all of it is true? What if there really is a secret military base in the Sedona backcountry, and aliens really are living among us?

The rest was pure fun. Hope you enjoyed it.