David Hamel (1924 –) is a carpenter and inventor inspired by the extraterrestrial, living in Ontario, Canada with his wife. Hamel claims to have been contacted by aliens, from a planet called Kladen, which is "located three billion miles from our Earth", and to have been in continuous contact with them ever since.[1] According to Hamel and his wife, after alien contacts "mystical flower buds", which David says have been left by the extraterrestrials as a sign of hope, appear everywhere — some of which Hamel has kept in a plastic bag and claims to have stayed green for over 20 years.[4]