UFOs are no longer dismissed as a subject for fringe researchers. The Pentagon has publicly acknowledged unidentified aerial phenomena, and NASA has also begun studying reports of unusual objects in the sky. Neither development proves alien visitation, but extraordinary UFO stories have circulated for decades. Nancy Tremaine of Michigan says a childhood sighting led to a lifelong relationship with a reptilian being.
Tremaine was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1949. She is the middle of five children and grew up in Novi, where her father worked as a hydraulic engineer in the aerospace division of Vickers Sperry Rand. A World War II veteran, he ran a strict household. Tremaine later wrote about her alleged experiences in Symbiosis: A Love Beyond Space and Time, which describes the being she calls “Mr.” and her alleged involvement in an alien hybrid project.
Her story begins in July 1961, when she was twelve years old. Tremaine and her friend Cindy were playing inside Cindy’s house when Cindy’s father urgently called them outside. Hovering over a tree between their homes was an enormous silver flying saucer, which Tremaine described as bigger than a three-bedroom house and almost twice as tall. Red, green, and white lights flashed around its middle. Cindy’s father had a telescope, and neighbors gathered to watch the silent object.
Tremaine said a car soon approached along Meadowbrook Road, directly beneath the UFO. A beam of light emerged from the craft and slowly moved toward the vehicle, which allegedly stopped the moment the light touched it. She began jumping and shouting, while Cindy begged her to stop. According to Tremaine, the ship tilted in her direction and communicated three words to her: “We see you.” She remembered grabbing a police officer’s arm and asking him to do something, only to see fear on his face.
What happened next was even more confusing. Tremaine said she suddenly found herself back in her kitchen, where her father was kneeling on the floor and holding her tightly. The clock showed ten minutes to nine. She could not explain the missing time. Her father reassured her, then grabbed her arms and warned her never to discuss the incident, even with her mother.
For the next fifty years, the incident remained a secret. Tremaine said she sometimes stood on the headboard of her bed and looked toward the tree where the UFO had appeared, hoping it would return. She and Cindy stayed in touch but avoided the incident. Tremaine described years of anxiety, depression and panic attacks despite seeking therapy.
It was not until 2011 that Tremaine approached former Michigan MUFON state director Harry Willnus. With the help of a regression therapist, she underwent a series of five hypnotic sessions in which she says she recovered memories of being taken aboard the craft. She later showed Cindy illustrations made from those recollections. According to Tremaine, Cindy recognized some of the images and recalled that Nancy had disappeared during the incident. Those recollections became central to her story, although hypnosis cannot establish their accuracy.
Tremaine recalled being inside the ship, looking through windows that ran around its circumference. She stood on tiptoe to see outside. When she expressed amazement at being aboard a flying saucer, the being near her corrected her and called it a ship. Tremaine argued that ships belonged on water, to which the being allegedly replied that this craft could travel through water too. That exchange, she explained in 2018, was how she began calling him “Mr.”
She also recalled being placed naked on a metal examination table while Cindy watched from a transparent cylindrical chamber. Small Grey beings, which she described as about three and a half feet tall, carried out procedures on her body. Tremaine believed they were collecting her reproductive eggs, although she said the beings told her as a child that they only wanted to look inside her. A smooth cylindrical object was placed in her hand, which she believed transferred information and prepared her to become an ambassador.
Not every figure aboard the craft frightened her. Tremaine described a female being with humanlike eyes and thin, straggly hair who treated her with kindness, helped her dress, and escorted her back toward the pilot. Tremaine said she later questioned Mr. about why he had allowed the examinations to hurt her. His response, as she remembered it, was that her pain had been a matter of perception. She believed they were teaching her how fear changes perceived reality.
Her most unusual claim, however, predates the Novi sighting. Speaking at the 2018 Ozark Mountain UFO Conference in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, Tremaine said she first saw Mr. when she was only three years old. She described him as a reptilian approximately seven to eight feet tall, covered in greenish-brown scales, with amber eyes, a heavy tail, alligator-like feet, three fingers and a thumb. His body, she said, was relatively lean rather than heavily muscular, and his mouth appeared as little more than a slit.
In that childhood memory, she was sitting beside him on a concrete bench on what looked like a balcony high above the ground. Below was a tank divided into three sections containing frightening aquatic creatures. Mr. allegedly told her to choose one section and swim across it, even though she was only three and could not swim. She chose the least frightening creature, imagining it as a goldfish because of its orange coloring.
Tremaine said Mr. then told her the danger was only a vision. She interpreted the experience as an experiment to understand human fear, particularly why a person would choose one threat over another. She said this was the only time she saw Mr. in reptilian physical form. She attributed later contact and communications to him.
Tremaine has described Mr. as her friend, teacher, and sometimes lover. She believes he is respected by other beings and that their relationship is symbiotic, meaning both receive something from it. She rejects the image of reptilians as uniformly dangerous, arguing that appearance does not establish whether a being is evil. She also said she received messages from Mr. and a group she calls the collective, many of which dealt with consciousness, compassion, and the idea that all living things are connected.
The most sensational part of Tremaine’s story involves a pregnancy she claims occurred at the age of 62, not at 30 as sometimes reported. In January 2012, she began dating a man she described as a tall prison guard, and she said the relationship was unusually intense. During the following months, she visited hospitals several times because of a racing heartbeat and other symptoms. She said doctors carried out numerous tests without finding a clear explanation, but never gave her a pregnancy test because of her age.
Tremaine claimed she was pregnant from February 2 until April 15, 2012. She displayed a photograph of her swollen abdomen at the conference and said the developing child was removed when she was about ten weeks pregnant. According to her account, the beings completed his development aboard their craft rather than allowing a normal birth. She called the child Drax and described him as a three-way hybrid created using her biology, that of the man she had dated, and Mr. Neither the pregnancy nor the removal has been medically verified.
Two months later, in June 2012, Tremaine said she encountered Drax aboard a ship. A beautiful woman was holding the baby, who had a large, misshapen head and a hunched back. At first, she admitted, she was so disturbed by his appearance that she did not want to hold him, fearing that a telepathic child would sense her reaction. She later begged for another chance to hold him. She identified the woman holding Drax as Faylene, a daughter she associated with what she had previously thought was a false pregnancy during the late 1980s.
According to Tremaine, Mr. explained that Drax’s unusual appearance was intentional and that he had been created to become a thinker, someone capable of making wise decisions. She said he was meant to serve as a kind of judge in a future society on what she called a “new Earth.” The beings, she claimed, were creating several different groups of hybrids for this future population, and thinkers were only one of those groups. Drax, in her account, had a role in a civilization yet to exist.
She also presented photographs of other alleged signs of contact. In October 2012, Tremaine said she noticed raised red marks on her body that looked like scratches but had no sensation when touched. She called them holographic and claimed they disappeared within hours. Then, on January 28, 2013, she discovered unusual, nearly circular impressions in the snow outside her home. She filmed the tracks and associated them with a visit from Drax, although the marks themselves do not establish who or what made them.
There is another part of Tremaine’s story that does not depend entirely on her recollections of beings and spacecraft interiors. Former Novi Police Chief Lee BeGole acknowledged that police dispatch received reports of an unusual object in the sky in 1961. He said an off-duty officer and other residents reported seeing something overhead. BeGole did not personally witness the craft, and these reports cannot establish that an abduction occurred, but they indicate that Tremaine was not the only person describing an unusual sighting that evening.
During her 2018 presentation, Tremaine gave more details about her later conversations with BeGole. She said he identified Officer Martin Cone as the man in the unmarked vehicle that was allegedly stopped near the UFO. She also claimed BeGole told her that investigators connected with the Air Force had come from Arizona or New Mexico to interview witnesses after the incident. According to her account, the investigators wanted to question people without causing panic, but her father refused to allow them to interview her. Her account of these conversations did not independently establish an official investigation.
Tremaine recalled another uncomfortable moment at BeGole’s ninety-fifth birthday celebration in July 2015. She said retired police officer Dick Faulkner, whom she believed had been on duty during the 1961 sighting, reacted when the UFO incident was mentioned. According to Tremaine, he said, “We buried it,” which she interpreted as an admission that people had deliberately avoided discussing the matter. She also said she located an old church notice from Novi referring to a sermon about the possibility of life on other planets. These accounts became part of her attempt to reconstruct that night, but do not prove a cover-up.
Tremaine also shared a peculiar claim involving her father, who worked in aerospace. She claimed he once told her the government held a captured alien nicknamed “Skinny Bob.” The same name later appeared in controversial alleged alien footage, though neither claim establishes that such a captive existed.
Cindy remained an important figure in Tremaine’s story until her death in August 2015. Tremaine said Cindy had also undergone regression and that the two women struggled for decades with memories they associated with the childhood encounter. After Cindy died, Tremaine described receiving what she believed was a message from her friend about men coming to Nancy’s house and her father threatening them. She regarded the experience as further support for her account.
In the later part of her 2018 presentation, Tremaine explained why she believed the reptilians were interested in humans. She described them as scientists, geneticists, teachers, and researchers who were studying human evolution. According to her, they investigated emotions such as fear, anger, love, anxiety, sexual pleasure,e and empathy, and she claimed they could study these responses through her pineal gland, which she associated with the so-called third eye and the seat of consciousness. These claims are not established science.
She further claimed that Mr. and the collective had communicated something unusual about their origins: they were not newcomers from another planet because they had always been here. In 2015, she said she experienced a vision aboard a craft involving different groups of beings who appeared to be working together to protect Earth. She regarded some of them as angelic and believed they were attempting to help humanity change. This was the opposite of the frightening image of reptilians common in many alien-abduction accounts.
The idea of reptilian beings is not limited to modern UFO stories. Ancient cultures have myths involving serpents, dragons, ns and snake-like gods, and some UFO researchers have attempted to connect these traditions with modern encounters. Researchers such as John Rhodes have argued that alleged reptoids might be native to Earth rather than visitors from space, while other accounts involving remote viewing and altered states of consciousness describe similar figures. Neither mythology nor personal testimony proves that a hidden reptilian species exists.
Tremaine says her understanding of the encounters changed over time. She initially regarded herself as an abductee, then as an experiencer, and finally as a participant who believed she had agreed to help the beings. She felt her task was to encourage people to overcome their fear of the unknown and become more open to experiences they could not easily explain. That belief also explains why she publicly defended a reptilian entity she considered loving, despite the negative reaction she said she received from other UFO enthusiasts.
Her story remains an unusual mixture of a reported 1961 UFO sighting, memories recovered during hypnosis, a claimed relationship with a reptilian being, and extraordinary accounts of hybrid children and a future Earth. BeGole’s acknowledgment of calls to the police makes the original sighting worth examining, but it does not verify what Tremaine says happened aboard the craft or during later encounters. At the 2018 conference, she insisted these beings were not monsters but intelligences she believed had been involved with humanity for a very long time.
