Leslie Shaw was born in downtown Los Angeles in 1959. She has been writing, drawing and painting since childhood.
She attended El Camino College part time for a few years. She majored in fine art with a minor in art history, including ancient art history studies.
She transferred to the prestigious California Institute of the Arts. She graduated from CAL ARTS with a bachelor’s degree in experimental animation.
Leslie worked in motion control camera effects for movies and television for five years, then in television for nine years doing computer animation.
After moving to the high desert she began doing computer graphics for the Hi-Desert Star and then moved into the editorial department where she worked as a journalist and paginator for 17 years. She is now semi-retired but still works for the newspaper part time.
Leslie is a lifelong science fiction fan, and is very well read in this genre. Throughout her life, she has had a keen interest in ufology and has spent many years of reading and research in this field.
She has written news articles, poetry and has now completed her first book, “Who They Are, and What They’re Up To,” in which she expounds on her theories about UFOs and the beings who are flying them.
She and her husband Stephen now reside in Desert Hot Springs in Southern California.
Sometimes the family’s strange events would come in clusters. There was one very bizarre week involving all the members of Stephen’s immediate family in January of 1979...
I will be releasing Stephen and his family’s strange alien abduction stories here every day for the next week or so from our book, “Who They Are: And What They’re Up To,” “My husband and his family had years of strange experiences. The following is Stephen telling his story."
Stephen and I will be panel guests and moderators of the session titled “Desert Dreams and Cosmis Realities: Exploring UFO Literature and the Psychedelic ‘Saturation 70’ Film” from 6:15 to 7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 28, Community Center - Freedom Plaza 6547 Freedom Way, in Twentynine Palms.
We made what I hoped was a fairly complete list of mass UFO sightings in the US in our book, “Who They Are: And What They’re Up To,” but we missed an important one that most certainly should have been included.
I think most people who believe in alien abductions, think aliens are taking DNA samples for scientific reasons. They are explorers visiting our world from another solar system and they are just interested in our species. It’s all just about curiosity and scientific knowledge.