Ismael Perez’s alien-contact event ends in trespassing at country club

About 150 to 200 UFO enthusiasts did not make contact with extraterrestrials on the night of Saturday, July 18, on the Oakcreek Country Club golf course.

But they did make contact with Yavapai County sheriff’s deputies, who were responding to resident complaints about the unauthorized “Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind” gathering organized by resident Ismael Perez.

“Ismael will be leading as a galactic ambassador and [a woman only identified as] Monika will be helping in the CE5 protocol just to bring in the Pleiadians and to help tap into their energy and communications,” he wrote, promoting the free event in June on social media.

“CE-5” is “close encounter of the fifth kind,” human-initiated attempt to contact extraterrestrial civilizations with meditation and telepathic projection to establish peaceful, bilateral communication.

Perez instructed attendees to meet at the Village of Oakcreek Association Park for the event that was scheduled to run from 8 to 10 p.m., additionally attendees were instructed to bring chairs and a blanket with a recommended list of items including: A camera, a sweater, a green laser, a high lumens flashlight and crystals.

“The park is open, but we must be respectful as to the noise reguarding [sic] the people who live around,” the event description reads. “We want to work with the benevolent ET beings in our consciousness, and create a meditative experience, followed up with intentions to communicate or show their ships decloaking.”

“I’ve been here at Oakcreek [Country Club] for 16 years, this is new,” said Heather Risk, head golf professional at OCC. “There’s no way that we would let 200 people on our fairway. That’s not what the grass is made for.”

The crowd simply showed up without getting any authorization from the Oakcreek Country Club. And Risk said she learned of the gathering from a phone call from an employee who was heading out to clean the bathrooms that night.

“He said, ‘There’s like 150 people on the No. 1 fairway,'” Risk said.

The group met at VOCA Park around 7:30 p.m. before a mass migration down the No. 1 fairway, according to Risk. Partway through, organizers directed the crowd to pack up and relocate roughly half a mile to another location. Attendees then made their way past the No. 1 fairway, which prompted a resident to call YCSO.

“Just before 8 p.m. deputies responded to a suspicious report of people trespassing on the golf course at the Oak Creek Country Club,” YCSO spokesman Paul Wick wrote. “Deputies located a gathering of an unknown number of individuals. The group exited the property without further incident. YCSO strongly discourages anyone from entering private property uninvited, regardless of the reason.”

“This couple or duo had set up their small, I don’t know if they were drums or something, they were just round things, and they were on a blanket,” said Tom White, a nearby resident. “I asked them what they were doing, and they said they were just hanging out. And I said, ‘Well, you guys are on private property. Plus, you’re right in my backyard.’

“The crowd kept growing as the evening went on,” White said. “Within an hour of that first time I went out, there were over 200 people. They just kept coming and coming, coming down the cart path.”

Risk, who lives in Camp Verde, drove back to the golf course, and said a resident had called YCSO. She pulled her car down the road and aimed her headlights at the crowd, telling them they were on private property and needed to leave. One woman in the crowd yelled back that the club was “semi-private,” Risk said.

“No — the golf is semi-private,” Risk said. “Once you pay for golf, then you can be on the golf course during golfing hours. ‘But the property is actually private, and we have sprinklers coming on, so you might all want to leave.'”

VOCA park itself is also private, owned by VOCA, and renting it for special events such a birthday party requires paying a fee, Risk said, “but no one knew any of this.”

The golf course was also scheduled to spray the next morning for Pythium, a fungal disease that can rapidly rot and kill turfgrass. The crowd walking across the fairway overnight risked spreading it before crews could treat it, according to Risk.

Deputies arrived after dark and positioned themselves at both ends, with YCSO vehicles in the parking lot working to clear people out as rain picked up, White said. The crowd was already thinning.

OCC is not pressing charges, Risk said, and there was no major damage to the grounds because of the gathering outside of some litter and forgotten umbrellas.

“They all left peacefully,” Risk said. “But it took a bit to convince them that they were actually on private property. There were some people that came up to me and apologized that they didn’t know, and they were sorry. And then some were a bit rude and upset with me quite a bit.”

Perez did not respond to a request for comment.