GETTY•JONAUSTIN Warning signs around Area 51 with Mike Oram (inset)

Mike Oram who has penned the kids' books The Strange World of Jimmy Hayes and The Zen of Ben claims he and wife Fran Oram were "taken" when they visited the mysterious US military top secret base Area 51 in Nevada. Mr Oram told a conference to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Warminster mass UFO sightings he was a so-called alien contactee. In 1965 the Wiltshire country town made global headlines and became a destination for UFO hunters following a huge amount of sightings of flying saucers, lights and eerie noises that "stopped cars" and "killed birds". Mr Oram, a speaker at the commemorative event, said: "I have had contact since I was a child and it still goes on." The Cockney claims to have a "space brother" an alien who watches over him like the so-called "spirit guides" which psychic mediums claim to contact. He said he and his wife once saw an enormous "UFO mothership" on the border of Essex and London. But the musician and landscape gardener claimed the most terrifying experience they suffered was after visiting the outskirts of Area 51 in the Nevada Desert during 2004. Area 51 is a top-secret US military base, where UFO conspiracists claim the authorities conceal evidence of aliens visiting Earth from the public. Mr Oram said their "ordeal" began after they approached the edge of the top security base and photographed it despite warning signs prohibiting this. They were then allegedly tailed by a truck which mysteriously disappeared in the desert after they thought it shot at them, puncturing a tyre.

JONAUSTIN Mike Oram recounts his experiences at the conference

GETTY The Extraterrestrial Highway where Mike Oram says the ordeal began

He claims to have "lost" about two hours, and later under regression - when "an abductee" is hypnotised in order to remeber the experience - discovered the pair were taken through by sinister military-dressed beings through a "portal" to another dimension and experimented on in a bizarre medical suite. But his space brother came at the eleventh-hour and ordered their captors return them to their vehicle. Referring to his space guide, he told the conference: "They rescued us in Area 51 and it was so bad Fran said she would never ever set foot in America again." The couple ended up at a mobile home park after changing the tyre, where a doppleganger of Mr Oram was staying next door. He claims to have gone missing for an hour after feeling sick with a ball of light above his head and then spent nearly three days sicking up white powder. Under the subsequent regression, he claimed to discover he was taken on board an alien space craft where his space brother put him through a detox to save him from the horrific earlier abduction. Mr Oram told the conference it was the only time he was abducted by malevolent beings, and that most of his "contact" has been with good aliens keen to use him as a conduit to warn the powers that be on Earth how to save the planet. At Warminster, he claimed to have often seen lights and UFOs that would respond to torches flashing on and off and even fire down projectiles.

GETTY The mobile home park where Mr Oram "went into a space craft"

GETTY A satellite view of the vast Area 51 complex

They rescued us in Area 51 and it was so bad Fran said she would never ever set foot in America again. "Alien abductee" mike Oram

He said: "People ask me 'why do you see so many objects when you come to Warminster. "I see things, I get thought impressions, you can call it telepathy, and they tell me to open a certain door, look out a certain window, to go for a walk somewhere or drive somewhere." He described being visited by a crew of "beautiful men" who landed in a UFO at Star Hill in Warminster in 1970. "Once I was told to go to Star Hill at a certain time. Within 10 minutes of arrival these lights came down and it landed on the hill. 'It was a glowing sphere and out of it stepped two beautiful-looking men with shoulder-length silver hair and dressed in shiny silver clothing. "The taller one held up his hand with the palm open and fingers pointing towards the sky. I heard in mind 'welcome' and did the same thing," he said. He said they told him: "Open your mind before it is too late. "Energies are approaching from somewhere in thge centre of your galaxy that will give you the possibility for change the possibility to shift your awareness and your eternal self into a higher dimension, a higher frequency. "We are here this evening in answer to your calling and to warn you of the damage your planet faces in the upcoming years." Mr Oram said he was later informed by good aliens there were two hostile alien races intent on creating havoc on Earth and he should team up with them to help prevent this. He signed off telling the conference that he had written a number of books on his encounters which were available online. Many similar claims of alien abductions, involving losses of time and memory, medical examinations, and even things being implanted have been made before.

MIKEORAM Mike Oram larks about during a 1970s Warminster UFO hunt

MIKEORAM Star Hill "where good aliens warned Mr Oram of threats to Earth"

MIKEORAM One of Mr Oram's children's books