Are You . . . Experienced?

By Skylaire Alfvegren

LA Weekly: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 - 12:00 am

Perched upon folding chairs in a convention hall in Mesquite, Nevada, a blister of a town located 75 miles north of Las Vegas, an army of truth seekers — ponytailed dolphin-communicators, walking conspiracy-theory encyclopedias in fatigues, cyberdelic technophiles, and skittish-looking women in natural fibers — has gathered for one of the country’s largest UFO conferences. Pen and paper in hand, they are transfixed by the statuesque platinum blond who has taken the stage before them. Her rhinestone-encrusted lizard lapel pin dances under the spotlight as she tells of a personal journey of extraterrestrial contact, humanity’s reptilian origins and the transcendental power of music.

Pamela Stonebrooke is a professional jazz singer who happens to be in touch with higher beings. Her resonant contralto has been described as a more aggressive Billie Holiday, chased with Shirley Bassey, and has a language unto itself. Inspired by Holiday (whose birthday she shares), Stonebrooke assembled her first rock band at 16, and put herself through Kent State by singing six nights a week at Salem Topless Lounge in Akron, Ohio. After a sojourn through the cabarets of New York, Stonebrooke moved to Southern California in 1975. Soon after, she was invited to open the Playboy Club in Roppongi, Japan, which led to performances with the country’s top jazz musicians for the next eight years.

Returning from Japan to Los Angeles, Stonebrooke carved a reputation for herself within the local jazz circuit. Not yet cognizant of her otherworldly visitors, she subconsciously expressed the experiences in her music, performing as Lilith in Exile (her dark, one-woman project named for Adam’s heretical seductress) and as one half of Incubus, an atmospheric, jazz-inflected beat-box hybrid named for reptilian supernatural beings that materialize in the night to seduce humans.

"Reptilians are not a politically correct species in the UFO community," she says. Their visits are often marked by sexual liaisons and telepathic communication with humans. Many UFO researchers believe that the reptilians, while both sinister and calculating, are the ancient guardians of humankind, interdimensional beings — deified by the cultures of Babylonia, Sumeria, India, Japan and Central America — that genetically manipulated man in prehistory and have been making return visits ever since.

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