Shooting of Jonathan Reed

File:Reed bullet wound video.mp4Video documenting the entry and exit wounds from Reed's alleged shooting, with annotations.

In March 1999, approximately four to five days after contactee Jonathan Reed first presented his account of the Jonathan Reed forest incident in person at a UFO conference in San Diego, he was allegedly forced against his car at gunpoint and shot in the shoulder by an unidentified assailant while walking back to the vehicle in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The San Diego talk had been his first in-person disclosure of the encounter, following his earlier appearances on Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM from November 1998. Reed, and his co-author Robert Raith — who gave the first detailed account of the attack on the air in December 1999 — characterized the shooting of Jonathan Reed either as an attempted murder or as an intimidation attempt aimed at silencing his disclosure of the forest incident, including the evidence he had presented concerning the being Freddie, the levitating obelisk, and the Link bracelet; Reed aligned this reading with the Men in Black and The School intimidation patterns he described elsewhere.

The attack was described publicly in detail only on the broadcast of 9 December 1999 — over a year after Reed began speaking about the forest incident — and rests on the testimony of Reed and Raith. Reed framed it as one strand of a sustained campaign that had targeted him since the forest incident — erasing his records, surveilling his associates, and pursuing those who had helped him.

The shooting

On the 9 December 1999 broadcast, Raith introduced the attack to listeners — "It is not a rumor that, yes, Jonathan was shot... shot as in shot with a bullet from a gun" — and then narrated it in detail. Because Reed was not on the line at that point, Raith told the story in the first person, leaving it ambiguous whether he was recounting Reed's experience as a proxy or describing his own involvement in the same event; he later reverted to the third person — "He's been shot" — again attributing the attack to Reed.

In the account, the victim had returned from San Diego to Canada and, the next day, walked out for breakfast and a newspaper; as he came back to his car, a man forced him against the side of the vehicle at gunpoint, the gun pressed to his chest. The assailant — a man in his early thirties dressed in a track suit, also called a "jogging suit" — said nothing. As the man pushed him back, the victim grabbed the gun and forced it away from the center of his chest, up and to his left, and it discharged into his shoulder. The shooter then recovered his composure, holstered the weapon inside his jacket, looked around calmly, and walked away without attempting robbery or further assault. The victim did not immediately realize he had been hit — "I thought it had maybe missed me at that moment" — until a passerby noticed blood and alerted him to the wound. He did not go to a hospital.

Wound and documentation

Wider view of the apparent exit wound and surrounding area from the footage documenting Reed's alleged shooting.

No police report, hospital record, or independent witness to the attack has surfaced in the public record; the wound was instead documented within Reed's own circle. Cole Larson, who became involved with the case after meeting Reed in San Diego, said he traveled to Vancouver two weeks after the shooting and viewed firsthand the shunt draining the wound in Reed's shoulder. Independent investigator Daniel McEvoy stated that video footage existed documenting the wound, showing Reed bare from the chest up with a small entry wound in the soft tissue of the shoulder and a corresponding larger exit wound, and characterized the shooting as harassment and intimidation rather than an assassination attempt: "It would be easy to kill him. If you killed him, who would ever know he existed but us?"

Aftermath and suppression campaign

Reed returned to the shooting in his April 2000 Coast to Coast AM appearance, presenting it as one element of a continuing pattern of harassment — "A year ago, I was shot in a parking lot after giving a lecture in San Diego a few days before" — alongside ongoing surveillance, computer intrusions, and house break-ins, and said the "ongoing problems" had "lessened some" since he went public but had not ceased. Raith reported similar intrusions on the same broadcast: after returning from the International UFO Congress at Laughlin, Nevada, he found that someone had broken into his residence and opened the top of his computer — incidents he tied to the broader pattern surrounding the deaths of Rodger Haggitt and Michael Wessels. McEvoy said the same activity reached him after he went public on Art Bell in March 2001: he was followed and watched at his home in Delaware by vans bearing "US Government" license plates, and found that two people had entered his house through a second-story window while he was traveling.

Reed had described comparable prior intimidation in LINK: An Extraterrestrial Odyssey (2000), co-authored with Raith, in which agents of the organization he called The School had visited his home and warned him to cease his disclosure activities; he cited the shooting as part of the same campaign he said had begun after the forest incident.

See also

• Seattle UFO-Paranormal Group
• Harold Chacon

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