Where there's science fiction, there always seems to be someone named Charlie ...

In Fringe he is an FBI agent and Olivia's partner - killed in this universe - alive in the alternate universe.

In FlashForward, Charlie is a little girl who sees herself in the future.

In the TV series Lost, Charlie is a main character played by Dominic Monaghan, who also starred in FlashForward as a physicist.

In Spielberg's 2001 miniseries Taken Charlie Keys is a main character and Allie's father.

The Time Traveler character is part of a movie called "The Circus" starring Charlie Chaplin.

Why is the name Charlie connected to me?

In April 1954, at age 11, just before I had my UFO encounter in the Nevada desert with my mother, we met a man named Charlie who told me to remember his name. Charlie was about 50 years old, average looking with a mustache, big blue eyes, and a friendly smile, yet he felt scary.

In July 1989, just after I returned from the July 4th MUFON conference in Las Vegas, I met Deja, the woman who did the grid image below. She did not know about my connection to the name Charlie or much else about my background. Deja traveled the "grids" (remote view) to see what had happened to me in 1954, verifying what I remembered. There Deja saw the man named Charlie and our brief meeting along the way, and said he will be connected to my destiny.

To date I have not met a significant man named Charlie. If the man my mom and I met was human, he would long be dead, but if he was something else, he should return soon ... or there is another Charlie who is part of my destiny yet to show up.

My friend Mike suggested that Charlie is a time traveler who I will meet at the end of program. Feels right.