Whether Charley's Encounters Were Real or Not?

All his encounters involved a telepathic element, and many of his later encounters were purely telepathic. He could have imagined that aliens were talking to him - maybe the we don't mean you any harm. If charley was deliberately hoaxing these messages, he likely wouldn't make a prediction that would be so quickly falsified within 12 months. I thus conclude that charley's telepathic messages were likely a product of innocent imagination, rather than deliberate hoaxing.