• OMNI ARTICLE: ABDUCTIONS

    From Jim Singleton@RICKSBBS to All on Wednesday, August 19, 2026 15:23:00
    Date: 05-28-91 23:52
    From: John Powell
    Subj: OMNI Article: Abductions

    From the June 1991 issue of OMNI, (Volume 13, #9, ISSN 0149-8711, OMNI Publications, 1965 Broadway, New York, NY 10023-5965, $24/yr.)
    From the Antimatter section, UFO Update: Can UFO researchers prove that
    aliens are tagging and tracking humans with tiny devices in the body or
    brain?

    "But how can anyone know whether a reputed implant is real or not? How, some UFO investigators have begun to wonder, can they authenticate an implant
    should a sample emerge?"

    Here's what a few had to say on that subject:

    "One person addressing this issue is David Pritchard, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. According to Pritchard, no matter how strange the structure or material of an alleged implant, if it is not some
    'out of this world' material like 'heavy metals or quark matter' it won't be possible to convince a lot of people. But, Pritchard adds, there are other ways to skin the cat. For example, researchers could peg an insert as such
    if it worked like a flashlight but was a hundred times brighter than any flashlight on Earth. If the implant sent complex but unrecognizable signals, he says, 'that would be pretty convincing as well.' Finally, Pritchard believes, evidence would mount if investigators found the exact same type of implant in numerous people making abduction claims."

    "The technique [MRI: Magnetic Resonance Imaging] was tapped by reputed
    abductee Whitley Strieber, who says he remembers the insertion of needles in his head. His MRI brain scans, he adds, now show strange white spots. 'Are the unknown objects in my brain an outcome of such intrusions?' Strieber
    asked in his recent book, Transformation. Pritchard says the dots prove nothing: they could be air bubbles. But a statistical argument could be
    made he adds, if researchers can show that professed UFO abductees have significantly more dots than a random control group."

    "...UFO skeptic Phil Klass, who doesn't believe that aliens have ever come to Earth, takes a different tack. First, he says, he would want to know 'where the implant came from,' and would feel more confident if it had been removed
    by a surgeon. Then, if it were something 'that could not form naturally in
    the body,' he would want to know it if could be made with terrestrial technology. If the answer to that is no, says Klass, 'I think you have your proof.'"

    "...Robert Sheaffer, author of The UFO Verdict, who says the whole question
    of UFO abductions is dubious and that the idea of alien implants is
    'certainly rubbish.' According to Sheaffer, the UFO is a slippery phenomenon that always manages to fade away before the evidence becomes too convincing, and alien implants are an example of this. 'Some people might be saying they were kidnapped by aliens for the money,' says Sheaffer. 'Others might be
    doing it because they really believe that they were abducted. But there is
    not a shred of evidence to substantiate this claim. Alien implants are just too good to be true.'"

    "According to UFO abduction expert Budd Hopkins... a number of radiologists
    are privately doing MRI scans on people who claim they have been abducted by aliens -- and that the aliens have inserted devices in their bodies or
    brains. But a neurosurgeon advised him that if, as claimed, implants exist somewhere above the upper nasal passages, then they are near the optic nerve.

    In that case, he says, 'it would be very risky for a surgeon to try to get
    one out.' What does Hopkins say about the prospect of actually validating these weird alien implants? 'It'd have devastating societal impact,' he
    says. 'I am not looking forward to something like this.'"

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    Taken from UFO MAGAZINE Vol 2, No 2 1987

    APRIL 1985. "I've never committed this account to writing
    until now, since it has always seemed very 'personal' to me.
    But before another decade passes I suppose I should enter it
    into the record." Peter Gutilla, metaphysical teacher,
    researcher and psychic in southern California, thus begins his
    moving account of an encounter that portends some sort of
    return visit-by hidden observers who seem to have quite a
    lofty bag-of tricks!

    "It was near 1 a.m. on the morning of April 15, 1975.
    After a meeting in Los Angles, I was driving home alone of the
    Santa Ana Freeway, heading southeast in a small, dark blue,
    1959 Mercedes coupe. The sky was clear and the weather
    moderate. A few miles past the L.A. interchange, I'd just lit
    a small cigar a friend had given me when a very clear voice
    popped into my head, saying: "Is that a weapon?"

    "Before I go on, I should emphasize that after years of
    working with psychics, not to mention my own ESP experience
    since childhood, my reaction to things inward had become more
    than a little casual. So I replied in a perfunctory way, 'No,
    this isn't a weapon' and then went on to describe the act of
    smoking, ending with: 'Who wants to know?'"

    "Immediately I looked to the southwest sky on my right,
    out the front windshield. There, at about a 50-degree angle
    and moving with me at what seemed to be the same speed, was a
    ruby-red light traveling in an up/down, wave-like motion.
    (Mentally I can 'see' that light in my mind as vividly as when
    I saw it that day.) I 'knew' it was a UFO - not an airplane
    or helicopter with a running red light, even though I was
    unable to distinguish an outline that would indicate a solid
    object."

    "Intrigued, I asked: ' Are you following me?' The
    answer came, 'yes.' I slowed to the right lane of the freeway
    and the light slowed immediately, doing this several more
    times as I repeated the maneuver to see if it would follow my
    lead. Although I was calm at this point, I felt a growing
    anticipation which prompted me to urge the light to stay with
    me since I planned to exit the freeway a few miles ahead."

    "The light remained steady in brightness and continued
    its wavy flight alongside my car, seeming to slow down and
    follow my turn as I left the freeway at Valley View Street in
    La Mirada."

    "I drove into an abandoned filling station (closed,
    windows boarded) and parked. Now I could vaguely discern an
    oblate, circular shape surrounding the light, which had
    stopped a few hundred feet above a huge industrial lot, across
    the street from me to the south. The area directly below the
    object was completely dark with no cars anywhere around except
    some sparse traffic on the freeway behind me."

    "The irony of it was that to the object's right and
    below was a restaurant packed with people, their only view
    outside being a large window facing the freeway, in the
    opposite direction from the hovering object. I remember
    thinking, 'If they only knew what's hanging over their
    heads!'"

    "Stepping out of the car, I stood facing the completely
    silent object. I waved my arms several times and the red
    light blinking correspondingly, convincing me all the more
    that it was indeed focusing its attention on me, and
    coincidentally in the same place at the same time."

    "I repeated the mental message: 'What do you want?'
    Here an odd thing happened. For a quick moment I felt myself
    'switch' to the object, and that's the only way I can describe
    it - a switching of positions. In the space of a few seconds,
    I was inside the object looking out of a bubble-like window at
    myself standing near my car! There was no physical sensation
    whatsoever, and I can only compare it to an out-of body
    experience - but one that was clear and obvious - nothing
    dream-like or imaginary about it. Following this, the object
    swayed back and forth several times in a kind of pendulum
    motion, still soundless and in the same position. Here, I
    remember taking notice of a 'buzzing' sound in my head which
    had increased in intensity, to the point of distraction. I'd
    heard this sound before over the years, but never quite as
    intense."

    "I glanced at my watch. About 15 minutes had elapsed
    from the time I'd left the freeway. Mentally, I said 'I'd
    like to see your craft. Can you turn more lights on?'
    Instantly port and starboard lights blinked on momentarily,
    lighting up the entire body of the object. The lights blinked
    on and off for only a few seconds, but it gave me enough time
    to see its disc shape, and that it was grayish in color and
    maybe 45-50 feet in diameter."

    "With the blinking lights off, the red light glowed
    steadily, swaying from side to side. Only a minute or so had
    passed when I heard the noisy clatter of what I assumed to be
    a police helicopter approaching from the west, shining its
    intense spotlight to the ground intermittently. I said to
    myself, 'Oh no - they're going to meet head on and I don't
    have a camera!' As the helicopter approached, I thought for
    sure it was going to hit the object, but strangely, the
    aircraft passed very near the UFO, apparently unaware of its
    presence!"

    "The helicopter flew in a broad circle slightly south of
    the UFO, shining it's spotlight to the ground and seemingly
    taking no notice of the object whatsoever. As the helicopter
    wandered about, gradually fading in the distance, I couldn't
    help but wonder if somehow the UFO occupants were able to
    selectively choose who saw them."

    "I got back into my car, driving around the corner and
    into an industrial lot. The object pivoted slowly as if to
    keep itself oriented to my change of position, a move I could
    see clearly as I entered the darkened area. I stepped from
    the car and sent the thought: 'Can you land? I'd like to meet
    with you.' A few seconds passed and the answer came, 'No, we
    cannot - we are being watched... we will be back'"

    "I recall being both disappointed and confused. Being
    watched? Maybe it was risky for them to come in low over
    populated areas. But why hadn't the helicopter seen them?
    Being watched by whom? Their own people? Were others
    watching from the ground, or could they have been referring to
    radar, etc? At any rate, the object seemed to shrink in size
    to a star-like pinpoint of bluish light. It moved westward in
    the direction of the Pacific and was gone."

    "Over 10 years have passed since the incident, and not a
    day has gone by that I haven't thought about it. It has never
    left me. Although it all took place in a brief span of time,
    I know something significant happened; something simple and
    profound."

    "Since then, I haven't looked at the nighttime sky
    without thinking I can hear a faint humming sound that
    invariably brings to mind those parting words, '...we will be
    back.'"

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    The following was taken from UFO Magazine Vol 2 No 4 - 1987
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    What do ET abductors want? It's been suggested that to
    insure species survival, they're inbreeding genes of emotional,
    self-willed, individuated Earth humans into their own excessively
    mental, regimented race-but perhaps that's projection. What are
    we learning? Self-reflectiveness, perhaps-a keener idea of just
    who we are? Alicia Montell's testimony implies just such an
    outcome.

    "Was I ever abducted? I mused over this question as I put
    down a book I'd been reading, describing a person who through
    hypnosis discovered having had an encounter with aliens at an
    earlier time in his life."

    "I've never doubted that extraterrestrials exist. I have
    always accepted as fact that we are only a small but
    not-so-forgotten planet out here on the fringes of the Milky Way,
    and are visited quite often by a variety of travelers. How could
    anyone possibly ; think that we are the ONLY living, evolving,
    experiencing creatures?"

    "My husband Bernt and I have read with great interest all the
    stories we could lay our hands on, but at times had to smile-we
    clearly saw that people's fear often created a lot of problems
    for them. If instead they had been able to keep cool and
    cooperate with the aliens, their stories would have been quite
    different. They could have had encounters filled with awe and
    understanding of those beings who impinged so forcefully upon
    their lives."

    "Our seeming inability to identify with the fear in abductees
    was somewhat altered by an explanation from our discarnate
    friend, 'Arthur." he told us, 'Your race deeply believes anyone
    entering from outside this planet cannot possibly look like us;
    they MUST look different, they MUST be feared. You cannot see
    these beings for what they really are. When confronted, a shield
    automatically blinds your vision and distorts anything or anybody
    that does not belong on the planet... they most likely are very
    much like yourself'

    'Arthur' went on to describe my inner travels and how I had
    met many strange races outside Earth planet's confines. 'Remember
    what happened when she met reaces similar to her own? She got
    very upset, could not at first visualize their features, because
    it was difficult to accept that others existing out there could
    possibly look like her own race back on earth. Even in that free
    a mental state, the race concept remained...'

    "Now I begin to wonder if I might find fear taking over
    simply because the body reacts naturally, should I someday stand
    in front of an alien. Anyway, I think I am ready to put it to
    the test!"

    * * *

    "After reading the story about abduction, I began to think
    seriously about examining my own childhood, to investigate a
    little 'blank spot' I run across when I've reviewed my childhood
    in order to better understand the roots of my beliefs. How can I
    describe it? I sense a small spot in time that I purposely
    forget when I try to visualize a childhood scene. Sometimes I
    thought it could be a molestation, completely buried yet
    affecting my personal attitudes. But never, never until this
    moment did I associate it with extraterrestrials."

    "I underwent hypnosis. The usual commands were given to
    place me in a deep trance, Bernt suggesting I move to a time in
    my childhood where something out of the ordinary had happened, to
    become that child and perceive all clearly, to answer any and all
    questions..."

    "I find myself going back. the picture I get is weaving in
    and out... I feel small, perhaps five years old. I am playing in
    the dirt next to the driveway...I can feel the heat on my back
    and the soft, powdery dirt in my hands...something makes me look
    up."

    "I see two small men standing right in front of me. They are
    about a head taller than I, very slim with stick-like arms and
    legs with large, dark eyes and dressed in a mottled green
    garment. Fear begins to rise, but in that very moment everything
    becomes completely silent and I can no longer feel the heat."

    "The birds aren't singing and my fear is gone. I am in a
    trance-like state. They must have hypnotized me so I wouldn't
    scream and run away. They each take a hand and lead me along the
    driveway. I walk in a daze. As we near the end of the drive,
    the whole area seems filled with a huge, bulky, silver-gray ship.
    Its rim is far above my head. They lead me up a 'moving walk'
    and we enter a large, round area-sort of an entry hall with doors
    all around and a dome-shaped ceiling. We go through a door and
    down a short tunnel, enter a room with a row of chairs along one
    wall. The opposite wall is full of blinking lights and small
    glowing glass frames."

    "The two small men turn me toward a little old man sitting in
    a very elaborate chair. His eyes are not too different from my
    own. Perhaps the two who brought me in were wearing sunglasses?
    That would explain the large, dark and slanted eyes that caught
    my attention at first."

    "The old man takes my hands in his, and as he does, I can
    hear again. he is pale and full of wrinkles, and has a white
    beard neatly-trimmed to a thin edge from ear to ear. He looks
    like a leprechaun! The ears stand out a bit from his head and
    are slightly pointed. He say something I don't understand and
    as he does a bunch of small 'cubes' start to tumble into my mind,
    where they get neatly stacked up...they don't hurt me, but as
    they enter my mind I become terrified. Instantly a curtain is
    lowered. I am again blank and standing in a soundless state."

    "Our discarnate friend Arthur clarified things later. He
    said the cubes are related to the mind only, that thee are ways
    of depositing ideas into the mind. 'Perhaps she can touch them
    mentally ; and get a slight understanding of what they contain,'
    he said, 'The ideas contained in the cubes are so overwhelming
    that there is no way she can encompass the whole message. But
    she is getting the feeling of it and it is a little
    frightening...Alicia is being prepared for a physical
    confrontation. It could be very traumatic unless conditioning
    has taken place over a period of years.

    "Her early encounter took place physically at the time and
    space she described, and even though her recall projects a
    physical picture, the incident was equally a mental experience.
    The cubes are implanted in order to condition and encourage a
    specific person to strive in a specific direction, because a race
    on its own is very grounded in the planet's vibration is
    therefore not prepared to confront any alien intrusion.'

    You are almost suggesting that we are really never alone of
    this planet of ours, 'I interjected. 'No, you are not. You are
    being watched, used, manipulated-but that is the nature of
    things,' Arthur responded. 'There are always interactions, a need
    and wish to assist others, to make transitions easier..the
    seeds are planted to help you. Without them, you would not
    develop or dream.'

    "We are so used to translating things into purely physical
    terms. We grant acceptance to the physical props we have around
    us, but is it all right to accept our visions and beliefs in
    whatever form we clothe them? And once we stop laughing at it or
    calling it just imagination-UFO sightings and all the
    rest-perhaps then we can accept. Perhaps a lot of these things,
    even more that we are currently willing to accept, are our sudden
    shifts of awareness and vision."

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    FROM UFO MAGAZINE Vol 3, No 2 1988

    You won't necessarily find Mike Bershad nor many like him aboard
    the bandwagon that salutes benevolent ETs and broadcasts a
    hopeful message about their mission on earth. Mike is "in touch"
    with another form of entity, and if "they" have any mission, it's
    an urgent, overriding necessity to plunder human anatomy with
    speed and calculation.

    The lives of many abductees distill abruptly into issues of
    emotional survival. Few are blithe and unaffected by their
    ordeals in the netherworld, though an individual trauma can be
    offset by the catharsis of "going public"

    Abduction has not yet broken free of its identification with myth
    and hallucination, but the time approaches. For the time being,
    Mike is content with partial memory.

    -+-

    "This is the first time I've written about my abduction
    experience, although I've been written about (see Budd Hopkins'
    Missing time') My name is not Steve Kilburn (the alias used in
    the book) but Michael Bershad."

    "Many people have told me that they'd love to meet an alien
    or be taken for a ride in a flying saucer. My viewpoint is
    somewhat different."

    "The most terrifying thing I've ever encountered was looking
    into the eyes of one of these 'creatures.' To describe their eyes
    as black, shiny and oval simply doesn't do them justice. it's
    true that the eyes lacked an iris, pupils, eyelids, eyelashes.
    But there was more. I sensed no emotion, no feeling, no
    humanity, and consequently, no exchange of any understanding
    whatsoever."

    "If anyone thinks that an abduction experience is
    enlightening or fun, think again. I was totally powerless, and
    was made to comply with whatever they wanted me to do. My
    slightest thought was monitored, and I was accorded no more
    respect than a laboratory rat. An examination of my body was
    made, and I now understand how a frog in a classroom of biology
    students must feel. But the sheer terror came from the
    uncertainty of what was to come. Would my heart be removed?
    Would they pull off a leg, just to see what would happen? I had
    no way of knowing and they dealt with my questions the way most
    adults handle children, by humoring me with idiotic platitudes or
    simply by ignoring me altogether. It's true that I was not
    physically harmed, but I continue to bear the emotional trauma of
    this experience even today, many years later."

    "I do not know that the creatures I saw were 'aliens' or that
    the object I was taken into was a flying saucer. I simply know
    what I perceived, from the memory of my hypnotic regressions. The
    creatures were most assuredly foreign to me; where they were from,
    I had no idea. The object I was walked into seemed disc-shaped,
    yet I had no way of knowing if it could fly. These aren't mere
    semantic quibbles; if any truth is to be ascertained from
    abductees' stories, the abductees better stick to what they
    actually experienced and leave 'conclusions' and speculation to
    the investigators and science fiction writers. Somebody has to
    bear the responsibility for telling the truth as objectively as
    possible, and it might as well be those who have had 'the
    experience' itself. It's hard enough dealing with the abduction;
    adding bells and whistles only clouds an already muddled issue."

    "I have never claimed with 100 percent certainty that my
    hypnotic memory of events is what actually happened to me. But
    that presents some problems for me, personally."

    "- When I recounted my story to my parents, I expected them to
    be incredulous. Quite the contrary. They reminded me of a UFO
    sighting I told them I had at the approximate time and place of my
    abduction experience. I was amazed, as I had no recollection of
    this at all. They found that strange!"

    "- A licensed polygraph administrator concluded that my test
    results proved that I hadn't made up the story."

    "- A highly reputable neurosurgeon told me, after several hours
    of consultation and examination in his hospital office, that a
    science 'greater than our own' had examined my body. He also
    informed me that he had tried to trick me concerning the medical
    examination that the creatures performed upon me; I was steadfast
    in my recollections when he questioned me and this upset him.
    Incidentally, he didn't believe in UFOs."

    "- The psychologists I dealt with were not convinced that UFO
    beings carried me off. They were convinced that something external
    left an extraordinary impression on me. In other words, it wasn't
    my vivid imagination, as I would have preferred to believe!."

    "Some time after my hypnotic sessions were over, I had an
    experience that bears repeating. My wife and I were at a business
    party in Southampton, N.Y. It was a beautiful summer night, and
    electric terrace lanterns illuminated the patio and house. After
    an hour or so, the lights suddenly went out. We noticed the
    neighbors also were without lights. Most everyone loved the idea,
    and candles were brought out to enliven the festive atmosphere."

    "I suddenly grew panicky, very nervous, and headed for a fence
    at the perimeter of the yard. I became nearly incoherent, mumbling
    wild things to myself like 'they're coming back for me...they know
    I've talked..' etc.

    "I know exactly where to look. Up and off in a distance,
    perhaps a mile away, a huge, glowing ball of light hung above the
    tree line. Fortunately my wife followed me and she, too, saw the
    light. To prove to myself that I wasn't crazy, I insisted that she
    tell me exactly what she saw, and she told me she saw exactly what
    I did. The light slowly dipped behind the trees, and moments later
    the electricity came on again."

    "Did the light have anything to do with the blackout? I have
    no way of knowing. No one else at the party was drawn to the edge
    of the yard, or even saw the light, as far as I know. And my wife
    implored me to 'keep it quiet,' as these were business clients of
    hers."

    "Part of me doesn't want to believe that I was abducted and
    examined by 'aliens'. but as farfetched as this hypothesis seems,
    it's more logical than any of the other explanations I've heard.
    I'm well educated, and I'm aware of what whether balloons and
    satellites look like; I've also never involved myself with alcohol
    or drugs. And sadly, I no longer believe in the Easter Bunny or
    Santa Claus."

    "But before I die, I pray that I get the answer to this one
    question: What exactly happened to me that night on Route 40?"

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    TAKEN FROM UFO MAGAZINE VOL 4 # 3

    In Vol. 4, No. 1 of UFO, columnist Ron Quinn told of his
    friend
    Sam, who claims he came upon and photographed a UFO alien
    while
    hiking in the Arizona desert. Quinn was able to take a look
    the
    phone and was impressed enough to make some sketches based on
    what he saw.

    The photo-inspired drawing immediately caught the attention of
    William Curtis, a retired gentleman living in Michigan.
    Curtis
    insists he's seen the same alien. He went through an
    elaborate
    abduction, he says, during the course of which he got to see
    the
    'same being' up close.

    Curtis speaks in a measured baritone voice that sounds like
    the
    late 'Duke' Wayne. After seeing Quinn's story and
    accompanying
    sketches he called to tell us what happened to him, spending a
    great deal of time in pensive recollection. 'You can't rush
    this
    thing,' he said.

    At one point, Curtis labored to describe the alien's physical
    characteristics in painstaking detail. Not the regulation
    large
    headed, dark-eyed, assembly line 'greys,' in fact, according
    to
    Curtis this humanoid creature's penetrating eyes had pupils,
    for
    one thing.

    The following is the witness' best recall of the UFO incident:

    "Now this little being that Sam drew, and was seen by Ron
    Quinn-it's the first time I've seen a sure likeness of an
    alien being. There are a few differences from what I saw, but
    the man is telling the absolute truth."

    "The reason I'm telling you this is because you can reach
    the public. Every word I say is the truth. I've been to some
    researchers; they knew I was telling the truth. They wanted
    me to come back for more hypnosis sessions. But, nah, I
    didn't. I had too many other things on my mind. My story
    just sounds too fantastic. I've talked to people who're
    supposed to know that 'they' are here, who've seen them, and
    even they have a hard time believing me. Sometimes a
    psychologist can be the poorest person in the world to talk
    to, especially the younger ones just out of school. They
    think you're crazy! They may be very highly intelligent
    people, but they don't have the experience."

    "I had a recollection in December of 1987 of an abduction
    that took place in September of 1974. I went to see a doctor
    that month because I had all the symptoms of leukemia and
    funny scars all over my back--scoop marks and everything. The
    doctors thought I had cancer, but they found out I had nothing
    wrong. I was cured in a few days, by myself. The doctors
    couldn't understand why I was cured so fast."

    "This is my recollection; it started out when I was in my
    bedroom and suddenly found myself floating. My left arm was
    extended and there were these little beings in front of me,
    but it was just an outline, kin of a grey-white blob.
    Everything was misty. I was laughing. I was in a very jovial
    mood."

    "It was more than a dream; in a dream you lie down and
    see the abstract from the dream. But I was a part of this. I
    got up; I seemed to be moving upwards. I looked around and
    there seemed to be faces around, 14 or 15 faces. They were
    about a dozen feet away. I could see them very clearly and
    started to get suspicious."

    "My emotions just turned from being jolly and everything,
    to being really angry. This emotional change happened in a
    very short time - just boom, boom, boom like that. I thought
    to myself, 'remember you are not yourself.' I tried to reach
    out to this one little individual and grab it by its neck, and
    the next thing I know, I can barely ; move my arm, hands and
    fingers. I wasn't able to touch anything. Something drifted
    up or walked up to my right. I turned and looked into this
    face with black, slanted-up eyes and blue-grey complexion."

    "He had this frown on his face - I could see those black
    eyes just boring into me, and it made me helpless, even more
    so than I was. The women - I say this because of a gut
    feeling, and their size in comparison to the others - I call
    them nurses, and they stand right next to me and are looking
    at me very intensely. I just sensed they were women, I don't
    know. But here's how one abductee can relate to another. You
    know certain things, but you don't know why. You just know
    it. Part of your brain knows it, like mental telepathy."

    "You know Whitley Strieber's picture on the cover of
    Communion? Similar to that, but Strieber's had a more
    elongated face. These individuals appear to have surgical
    caps on their heads. They had me on a table and I seemed to
    go back and forth, back and forth. They seemed to be pulling
    on me, doing things to me, but there was no pain, you see. I
    was just helpless. But there was a feeling they were
    experimenting with me."

    "And in another part of my recollection, I am sitting on
    a stool and some beings is 'constructing' me on a stainless
    steel panel. The stool was hard, I remember, and I had a hard
    time breathing. I complained, I guess. The next thing I know
    - and this is very vivid - I reached out my right hand and I
    feel this cushion under me! And all of a sudden I feel better
    with him. I was making faces at him. I remember putting my
    hands up to my ears and sticking my tongue out at him."

    "Remember, you're not yourself! I was just scorning them
    -'the hell with you' sort of thing. But I had a gut feeling
    that these beings were friendly, these little fellas. I can't
    explain why I know this. Anyway, he opened his mouth and
    wagged his little tongue and it's this teeny little tongue way
    back inside of his mouth. He had no jawbone, no jaw hinge.
    All he could do is open his mouth which formed a circle, and
    there seemed to be little ridges around his gums. I looked
    like a dark burgundy color in there. But I made a face at him
    and he made one back. Isn't that funny? But it's true!"

    "The next thing I knew, someone came into the room and
    said. 'We've decided to take you back home.' And I often
    think, I wonder what the other alternative was -! After this,
    I'm floating. Not one time did I ever feel the floor under my
    feet or did I ever feel any pain - nothing. No sensation at
    all, except for having a hard time breathing."

    "Two little individuals are in front of me and two behind
    me. One of them said, 'Do you remember this place? This is
    where you came in.' I didn't know, but didn't want to tell
    him that - I'm obstinate. They laughed, - no, not laughed,
    but I got the feeling they were amused. They knew what I was
    thinking."

    "Then we go into this circular hallway, on the outer edge
    of the AFM - that's what I call it, 'alien flying machine'
    AFM, not UFO. Something opened up and I got this gulp of
    fresh air. And I started to get afraid. I looked down and
    saw this distorted room. And he said, 'go ahead, jump off' I
    wouldn't do it at first. I believe they came up and touched
    my arm. One in back of me said, 'go ahead, you're safe' or
    something like that."

    "When I feel, it felt like...have you ever been on a
    roller-coaster? That's what it felt like. It took my breath
    away. But I was cushioned about two feed from the roof. I
    could see the distortion of the shingles. And then something
    picked me up, straightened me out and spun me around, and it
    dropped me down right through the roof! They laid me back on
    the bed, grabbed my arms and pulled me up. My arms are folded
    over my chest and the quilt is tucked up neatly under my chin.
    And I'm lying there as if I were in a casket!"

    "This is where the vividness came in. A white light is
    coming through the roof and this little being is going up this
    light. I heard a whirring sound, like a generator coming from
    above. This little being as he went up was kicking his legs
    real fast, and he turned, counter-clockwise, and I saw his
    face. His eyes were going back and forth; he was under some
    kind of pressure. The light became brighter, and pulsated,
    and the noise got louder. He put his hands together, like
    diving, and appeared very agile, but had to coordinate himself
    with that light. He went up into a grey UFO. It seemed as if
    they had pressed a button and wanted me to see this. What I
    saw - the 'AFM' had duct-work underneath it. The light went
    up, the ceiling went into place and that was it."

    "I can describe this being. Ron Quinn had him down
    pretty pat. I'll start with his uniform. It ended at his
    elbows, and was a lead color, with a metallic look, but it
    wasn't metal. It was a material strictly alien to us, but
    well-tailored. It adhered to his body and had a very slight
    triangular pattern in it. I saw a collar, and black boots as
    part of the uniform. I saw a black belt somewhere but I don't
    think it was on him....."

    "This whole recollection took about 1 1/2-2 minutes, like
    they wanted me to see it. Ron Quinn had given him a large
    jaw. Take a little bit off his jaw. He also gave him an
    upsweep on his jaw like a human being. Well, that's wrong.
    It goes almost straight back to his neck, no hinge on his jaw.
    The forehead is right; two furrows, that's what I saw. He had
    a broad forehead, but his head is rounded off more. If you
    took a ruler and started at his tailbone and ran up his
    backbone and ran it straight up to his head, you'd hardly see
    any daylight. That's important."

    "The neck is well-developed. He had muscles like a
    swimmer - long and smooth, not bulging like a weight-lifter.
    Broad shoulders. The body was rather heavy-set, but not fat.
    And it's a man - big in the shoulders and slanted down to very
    slender hips. The eyes are perfect, with colored irises that
    get darker at the outer edge."

    "It's hard to relate this to a person who's never had
    experiences like this. when you're in a position like this,
    you simply recollect what you saw. You aren't telling
    yourself, 'Now, I gotta remember this'... the expression in
    his eyes was one of excitement, not fierceness. The whites of
    his eyes were actually grey. He had a definite eyeball with an
    iris and a black pupil. The nose was a pug nose, just a piece
    of flesh, with nostrils almost straight up and down. The
    nostrils were prominent compared to the size of the nose. His
    ears were just a lump I remember on the sides of his head.
    His arms were long, down to his knees; the only thing on him
    that wasn't proportional. He had four fingers like us and a
    thumb that curved inside his palm."

    "Unlike some others, I haven't been told I'm on a mission
    or anything like that. It's hard for me to accept that sort
    of thing. They are experimenting with us, and in my case it
    was very elaborate. Some people are picked up and forgotten
    about. In this case, they never let me alone. In other
    words, they appeared to let me know they were around. They
    still do. It got so I would run inside the house. I got
    tired of 'em. Most people look for 'em in the sky. Hell, I
    was runnin' away from 'em! I got sick of it."

    "They communicated with me. They said they had their eye
    on me and were watching me for years and years. This is only
    part of the story. You can't rush it. The abductee is as
    much in the dark as someone who suddenly sees and AFM in the
    air and wonders what it is. He calls it a UFO. I believe
    they are extraterrestrial. They are not from our solar
    system. And they're extradimensional."

    "I don't know the rhyme or reason for all this, although
    I do know they are interested in our intellectual and
    emotional precesses. I experienced laughter, suspicion,
    anger, contentment and a feeling of comradeship with these
    little beings. I asked them questions. They were very
    interested in me for reasons I don't know."

    "One guy one time said, off-hand, 'you probably were
    abducted,' and he laughed. I had to laugh, too - I didn't
    know what was going on and I still don't. How could they go
    through the roof? How could they do these things?"

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    FROM UFO Magazine Vol 2, No 4 1987

    For over 20 years Allan Drake has been obediently listening to
    alien messages coming to him telepathically. Though at first
    resistant and disbelieving, Drake has finally come to terms with
    his experiences-and his unseen mentors-enough to recall the
    contact hopefully ;and passionaltely express his dismay about
    general ignorance of extraterrestrial phenomenon. He sounds a
    clear warning that such ignorance must end.

    --------

    "It is difficult for me to describe my feelings. But I feel
    that for me and others the contactee experience has opened up a
    window on the many mysteries that have gone unanswered for many
    centuries."

    "It started in 1959 when I was 14. With my family, I was
    living in a township near East St. Louis, Illinoise. We kids
    used to play in an old, abandoned train depot near the house.

    "One evening while I was alone and looking down the tracks, I
    noticed a glow coming from a distance. At first I thought it was
    a train, but it didn't move and I got curious. I started walking
    down the tracks toward the glow."

    "I got within 50 feet of what looked like a round, metallic
    craft sitting right on the tracks. Three beings stood around it.
    They were about 4 feet tall with rather large heads and no hair.
    Their eyes were larger than normal;the noses were very small.
    They had small mouths. As I approached the beings seemed to
    stare at me, making no moves."

    "I became frightened and tried to hide in a gulley which ran
    alongside the tracks. The beings turned to face me, still
    staring. I could feel their eyes in my head! While watching the
    craft in a prone position, I was struck in the head by a blue
    beam of light from the craft, and rendered unconscious. Later I
    awoke but the craft and beings were gone. I had the impression
    they had done something to me..."

    "Since that time there have been other incidents. About
    eight years ago, while I was taking my son to the movies, my car
    was bumped violently from behind while I was waiting at a stop
    light. There were no other cars near at the time. When we
    looked behind, there was nothing there."

    "When I arrived home I examined the rear of the car. On the
    trunk could be seen five round marks arranged in a circular
    fashion, each about the size of half-dollar coins. The paint had
    been 'erased' in those areas.

    "About two years later, while working as a guard at a local
    college in the hills, I was sitting in my car at the bottom of a
    hill, while another guard was on duty at the top. Later he told
    me he had seen a blue ball of light over my car, and watched it
    while it flew away. He described it as the size of a basketball.
    I was unaware of what was happening, but did have the impression
    my memory was being scanned. Different memories were coming to
    mind, even of childhood times.

    "One night about three years later, I was in the living room
    watching television. It was about 2:30 a.m. Suddenly the TV
    started acting funny, and a kind of static charge seemed to fill
    the room. Then a huge wind hit the house. It felt like it was
    going to tear the house apart! I felt like there was some huge
    object right over the house-I was petrified and couldn't leave
    the chair. It stopped after a few minutes. Later we found the
    TV antennae had been damaged.

    "Recently there have been other strange incidents in my
    house. Knocks come from the walls and roof. Things pop off the
    walls at times. All during this time I have had what I believe
    is telepathic communication with alien beings, who tell me
    they're from the 'Association of Planets' who started life on
    this planet and others. They have mastered what we call genetic
    engineering and can create any life form they please by arranging
    DNA cells. They have powerful mental abilities and can move
    objects by thought alone. They control the human mind by
    implanting suggestions, making a person think an objects there
    when it's not, or making it invisble when it's there! It's done
    by controlling aspects of the brain.

    "It was decided they would build a whole new world on earth.
    Association scientists got together and decided what life forms
    would be here, and arrangements were made to create ones to fit
    in with the various climates on the planet. They wanted a
    balance where no one life form would dominate. One planet
    learder named Lucifer did not agree with this arrangement and had
    a dispute with the High Council...

    "Life was eventually planted on Earth. Scientists
    experimented with different life forms, and some of them didn't
    work out...eventually it was decided that the intelligent form of
    life would be human in appearance. Different races of human
    types in the Association wanted the first humans on earth to
    resemble them. The human races were each allowed to plant a man
    and woman that resembled them in different regions on Earth, and
    a sophisticated civilzation developed, along with advanced
    science.

    "During this time, the Association has also developed life on
    two other planets in this solar system, Mars and a planet known
    as Vulca. It was found during this period that mankind had
    unstable emotions. The one once known as Lucifer-dismissed from
    the Association and called the "Fallen One" after attempting a
    violent takeover-took advantage of this and created friction
    between the various civilizations. As a result, the planet Vulca
    was completely destroyed, and the civilization on Mars also, with
    most of its atmosphere blown away.

    "Civilization on Earth was destroyed too. A few structures
    from that time still remain, such as Stonehenge and the Great
    Pyramids. Mankind on Earth today is what remains of those people
    long ago, and it is feared that the same mistakes of the past
    will be repeated...

    "There are some people who will do anything to keep this
    knowledge covered up. They fear the changes that would result
    from society's full understanding. They want to remain on top of
    the heap, though they should not be. This knowledge is for all
    people, regardless of race, nationality or creed. To our fathers
    in space, all peoples of the world are one people.

    "I realize what I have to say will bring me some ridicule and
    will probably set me back socially-but I am willing to bear those
    burdens! I feel a compulsion to get this information out, no
    matter what the cost to myself."

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    Message #6661 - UFO
    Date : 14-Jun-91 22:30
    From : John Powell
    To : Glenn Devlin
    Subject : Hill Abduction: 1 of 7

    This information should be attributed to Barbara Becker. The file is named HILL.LTR and is in seven parts. This is part one of an examination of the
    book Interrupted Journey by Fuller. -+---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Name: Barb Becker #106 @3466
    Date: Sat Jun 02 02:10:39 1990

    Sometime ago I received a paper form a researcher in Columbia Missouri on the Hill case. I found the paper very interesting but wondered if his conclu- sions were accurate. I decided to contact Mrs. Hill. I told her about the BBS and that I wanted to put the paper on the board, but wanted to let her know what was being said and offer her a chance for rebuttal/corrections. She ac- cepted. What follows is the paper, and then two letters from her. I have used [brackets] to show her corrections.

    ******************************************

    INTELLIGENCE, MEDIA CONNECTIONS IN UFO CASES
    UFOsearch / Val Germann / Columbia, Mo. / 1990

    #2 The Hill Abduction Case, 1961, source: Interrupted Journey

    SEPT. 18-19 [Sept. 19-20] Barney and Betty Hill abducted in the White Moun- tains of New Hampshire. They remember part of the experience but have over 2 hours of "missing time," of which they are totally unaware at first. Barney remembers seeing huge object with "fins with red lights on the ends" and "crew members behind glass" panels at very short range. This object was more than
    100 feet across and hovered 50 feet above the ground only 300 feet away for several minutes Barney watched through binoculars.

    SEPT. 20 Betty Hill calls her sister and tells her part of the story. Sister then calls a local physicist who suggested they check for radiation. Sister also calls local police chief who suggests they call Pease AFB, Portsmouth, N.H. Betty calls the Air Force Base, worried about radiation. The officer who answers was at first "cynical and unresponsive" but finally did ask to talk to Barney. After Barney mentioned the "fins with lights" the officer perked up
    and said the call was being "monitored". Barney felt that the officer was definitely interested. Barney did not mention the figures he had seen behind the glass through binoculars.

    SEPT. 21 Major Paul Anderson, Intelligence Officer for the 100th Bomb Group, Pease AFB, calls back, says he has stayed up all night working on a report of this incident. Asked Barney for the size of the object. Barney says it
    appeared as big as a dinner plate held at arms length. Major Anderson filed a report with Blue Book, #100-1-61.

    SEPT. 23 Betty [Barney] Hill Goes to the local Library and finds one of Major Donald Keyhoe's books on UFOs. Takes down his address.

    SEPT. 26 Betty Hill writes to Keyhoe in Washington, D.C., describing the incident as she remembers it. Fuller reports that NICAP (Keyhoe's
    organization) was getting 40,000 letters a year.

    SEPT. 30 Ten days after the sighting Betty Hill begins to have a series of vivid and awesome dreams, which Fuller does not tell us about. They continue for five days and then stop.

    OCT. 4 Keyhoe is asked to lunch by Robert Hohman and someone named C.D. Jackson, "senior engineer" for a "notable electronics company", name
    withheld. They are supposedly working on a paper about extra-terrestrial contacts that Nikola Tesla, David Todd and Marconi were alleged to have experienced in the early part of the century. Keyhoe tells them about the Hills.

    OCT. 21 Walter Webb, investigtaor for Keyhoe's NICAP and an astronomer [lec- turer] with the Hayden Planetarium, New York, N.Y., comes to interview the Hills. He is there several hours. Betty does not tell him about her dreams. Barney tells of the "captain" and others he saw through the glass.

    OCT. 25? Betty begins to have a series of dreams following an experience in the car. She had panicked as she and Barney had come upon a stalled auto in
    the road with some people standing around it. That night she dreamed of being taken into a UFO and given some sort of examination.

    OCT. 26 Webb's report goes to NICAP in Washington. He had not been contacted by Keyhoe directly but through the mail by Richard Hall, NICAP's secretary. He had been skeptical. He was very much impressed by the Hills, however.


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    Message #6662 - UFO
    Date : 14-Jun-91 22:33
    From : John Powell
    To : Glenn Devlin
    Subject : Hill Abduction: 2 of 7

    This is part two of an examination of the book Interrupted Journey by Fuller. -+---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    NOV. 3 Hohman and Jackson write the Hills asking for an interview. They tell the Hills that they are serious minded men whose interest is in "verifying the origin of these vehicles according to existing scientific theory maintained by Hermann Oberth." Oberth was of V-2 rocket fame. They did not reveal their
    place of employment but permission was granted.

    NOV. 25 Hohman and Jackson come to the house to interview the Hills. "Also visiting that day" is Major James McDonald, a long-time friend of the Hills
    and an Air Force intelligence officer. It appears he asks no questions about who Homan and Jackson are. The Hills had "discussed the case many times with Maj. McDonald." The three of them spend 12 hours talking to the Hills about their experience, including the "men" behind the glass. Major McDonald
    suggests hypnosis but does not know any therapists. The matter rests here for some time. Both Hills begin to be concerned about the incident and the chance they may have been hallucinating.

    MAR., 1962 Betty Hill writes to a doctor recommended by a colleague. The
    Hills see him and tell their stories. The doctor recommends they wait and see if the problem subsides on its own. No therapy is attempted.

    SUMMER, 1962 Barney begins to see a psychiatrist about his anxiety but only briefly mentions the UFO incident.

    SEPT., 1962 The Hills are invited to a "UFO Study Group" to informally talk about their experience. That meeting is taped, by whom Fuller does not say, unknown to the Hills. Betty talked of her dreams, the dream of the physical examination.

    SEPT., 1963 The Hills tell their church discussion group about the UFO inci- dent. That same day Captain Ben Swett, from Pease AFB, was to talk about hyp- nosis, which he had made a personal hobby of his. The Hills are encouraged by Major McDonald to talk to their church friends about their experience and en- couraged by Capt. Swett to undergo hypnosis. Barney is experiencing extreme psychological disturbances as a result of the UFO sighting and abduction. He would die in the late 1960's at the age of 46.


    Television movie THE UFO INCIDENT with James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons. Dr. Simon had been technical advisor on a WWII movie made by John Huston
    called LET THERE BE LIGHT.

    JUNE, 1964 Sessions with Dr. Simon end.

    FALL [Oct.], 1965 Sensational articles run in Boston newspaper about the
    Hills experience. Information taken from tape made at the Sept., 1962 "UFO Study Group" meeting, provenance unknown.

    NOV., 1965 Unitarian Church in Dover, N.H., invites the Hills to talk. Hills meet with Admiral Knowles, NICAP, before they speak. Also on program is a Public Information Officer from Pease, AFB, who is a member of the Church [not a church member] and has helped set up the event. He does not attack the
    Hills. At this time a huge UFO flap was underway in the area and hundreds of people were turned away from the church on a cold and raw evening. The usual attendance for the weekly Unitarian sessions: 40 people.

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    Message #6663 - UFO
    Date : 14-Jun-91 22:35
    From : John Powell
    To : Glenn Devlin
    Subject : Hill Abduction: 3 of 7

    This is part 3 of an examination of the book Interrupted Journey by Fuller. -+---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    AS YOU CAN SEE from the simple chronology above (assembled from John Fuller's book with difficulty) there is more going on in the Hill case than meets the eye.

    WHO WERE "HOMANN and C.D. Jackson?" Who were they really working for? Why was
    a "major electronics firm" paying them to investigate 60-year-old fairy tales about Nikola Tesla? What "scientific theories" held by Hermann Oberth could be of interest to an "electronics firm." What we actually have here is a "cover" for intelligence activity.

    IN ALIENS FROM SPACE, 1973, Keyhoe says that these two "engineers" were
    "aiding NICAP." That is not the impression that is given in Fuller's book. In INTERRUPTED JOURNEY the strong impression is that these two gentlemen simply had an independent interest due to a strange research assignment from their company. This could be accepted in 1966. In 1990 we know better.

    YOU SEE, by the fall of 1963 a gentleman named C.D. Jackson was working for Time/Life Corporation in an executive position. In fact, he was helping to arrange a $25,000 payment to the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald.

    IN CASE YOU HAVE forgotten, Time/Life bought the Zapruder Film for $150,000
    and then made sure it was not shown as a film for many years. Then, when it
    was shown, it had been obviously altered. David Lifton in BEST EVIDENCE says that the film was at the CIA's photo interpretation lab the day Time/Life bought it.

    DOES THE FACT THAT Donald Keyhoe had lunch with C.D. Jackson just after
    getting Betty Hill's letter "resonate" with you? It does with this author. Donald Keyhoe was, in UFOsearch's opinion, running a two-track operation. In the public and with his organization he was not interested in "contactee" stories. But on deep background he was involved with another investigation,
    one connected with the intelligence community. Were they running him?

    CONSIDER THIS. In ALIENS FROM SPACE Keyhoe says that "A well-known journalist, John Fuller, had learned of the case in a confidential talk at NICAP. It was arranged that he should prepare the record using Dr. Simon's taped questions and the Hill's answers." Then Keyhoe says: INTERRUPTED JOURNEY received a surprising amount of serious attention compared to the usual treatment of "contactee stories." How interesting.

    YES--AND THE "abduction story" has become a staple of the UFO investigator. Indeed, the sanitized Hill story became the ONLY abduction movie ever
    made --- before COMMUNION, 1989. And the Hill saga appeared only on the small screen, it never ran in theaters. The same could almost be said for COMMUNION which was not widely distributed and died a very quick death. It will be in video stores by mid-1990 which, I think, is the idea.

    OTHER QUESTIONS: How did it happen that one of the Hill's best friends was an Air Force Intelligence Officer who just happened to be visiting the day that Hohman and Jackson showed up? Isn't it interesting that they were the ones who first made the Hills aware of their "missing time?" Isn't it interesting that they were the ones who suggested hypnosis?

    ISN'T IT INTERESTING that the man finally called in to do the regressions on the Hills was the Executive officer of the Army's main psychiatric hospital during World War II, who did his undergraduate work at Johns Hopkins
    University whose wartime president was a member of MAJESTIC-12 and who was the technical advisor on the major WWII propaganda film made by the famous
    director John Huston? The Hills went through two other therapists before going to Simon. Did they have the money to pay this gentlemen, who must have been very, very expensive? This is something Fuller does not talk about. Did NICAP pay their way?

    UNPLEASANT POSSIBILITY The Hills were "set up" by the people dealing with the so-called "Greys" out in New Mexico. The Hill case was either a deep-cover check on what the "Greys" were doing under the "agreement" or it was an even deeper-cover attempt at "disinformation" to get "abductions" in play--safely.

    END HILL CASE

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    Message #6664 - UFO
    Date : 14-Jun-91 22:37
    From : John Powell
    To : Glenn Devlin
    Subject : Hill Abduction: 4 of 7

    This is a letter from Betty Hill to Barb Becker which speaks to the previous examination of the book Interrupted Journey by Fuller, (previous 3 messages). -+---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Letter from Betty Hill:

    Scientists, working at top level government jobs. Their HOBBY was ufos. As a job protection for them, we agreed not to release their employment, altho it was well known to us. C D Jackson was never associated with Time/Life. We had continuing contacts with them. Jackson, in 1966, was still working in Alabama, at the same employment.
    Most of our friends were officers at Pease AFB. Usually, we all met at the Officers Club every Friday night. Barney's best friend was a Lt. Col. in Intelligence. Jim McDonald was a Major; also a friend who dated one of my best friends. Later they married. We visited each other regularly.
    Jim McDonald suggested hypnosis because our mutual friend, Capt. Ben Swett, officer at Pease, did this. Ben felt his type of hypnosis was not adequate, as he used only a light stage, which is the stage of suggestibility.
    Dr Ben Simon had left military service years before we met him and he was
    in private practice. Dr Stephans referred us to him because he knew he used medical hypnosis, taught in medical school, when Dr. Stephans had been one of his students.
    As for the movie, "Let Their Be Light" dealt with medical hypnosis used by Dr Simon to treat servicemen returning from WW2, and restoring them to good health. A wonderful movie - it should be released to the public.
    As for two therapists; we consulted one, one appointment. Barney was seen
    be Dr Duncan Stephans, but I was not.
    As for the cost of our appointments with Dr Simon, it is true he was very expensive. Our health insurance paid one-half of this. Bill was submitted for "therapy following ufo capture". We paid the remaining half, which was in the thousands of dollars.
    John Fuller did not learn of our experience from NICAP, or Donald Keyhoe. From them, he learned the information which resulted in his book, INCIDENT IN EXETER. He was in this area, gathering information for this, when the Boston newspaper articles were published.
    As for "Unpleasant Possibility" - Pure Paranoia! Nothing "sinister" about our experience or our friends. And the UFO definitely had nothing to do with New Mexico.
    It would be appreciated if you would send me a corrected copy for your computer. Nice to hear from you -

    Sincerely,
    Betty (signed)
    Betty Hill

    P.S. How I know those who captured us were not from New Mexico -- No alien- government base exists there. Apparently this story began when a woman in a light trance of hypnosis told of being taken there.
    Ed Conroy, a writer, and a friend Dora Ruffner did an investigation of
    this. They learned the locations of these so-called bases were located on the reservation of the Jicarilla Apache Tribe, a restricted area. So they met with the tribal leaders and obtained permission to research the areas, with guides and without them. They explored the areas. All they found was an abondoned water tower that had been used in the past when a railroad ran thru this area; also a house habited by an Apache family. No gravel roads, no towers, no government or any other kind of installations.
    Ed Conroy was the first person to research this report - He is a reporter
    on arts and electronic media for the San Antonio Express News. He should be included on your computer network.

    Betty Hill


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    Message #6665 - UFO
    Date : 14-Jun-91 22:40
    From : John Powell
    To : Glenn Devlin
    Subject : Hill Abduction: 5 of 7

    The following is BBS correspondence between Barb Becker and Betty Hill. -+---------------------------------------------------------------------------

    115/157: Betty Hill part 4
    Name: Barb Becker #106 @3466
    Date: Sat Jun 02 02:14:30 1990

    I wrote to Mrs. Hill again and thanked her for her comments and asked if she would like to make a statement for the BBS regarding her experience, the fol- lowing is her response.


    April 2, 1990

    Dear Barbara Becker,

    I think probably the easiest way to answer your questions is to list the events as they occured.
    Let me say first, that in a case like ours, our conscious mind did not re- member all, but our subconscious mind did.
    We considered the beginning of our capture was the time when Barney was standing in the field, watching the craft, when one of the humanoids said something to him, resulting in his panic and running back to the car, yelling they were trying to capture us.
    As we went speeding along the highway to avoid capture, we heard the
    beeping sounds, and the car vibrated.
    When Barney turned into a secondary road, I thought we knew a short cut on our way home, and did not question this. Then we saw what we called the moon setting on the ground. We assumed the moon was setting, and we could see the trees in front of this.
    The next, Barney turned onto a dirt road, in the direction of the setting moon. Before I could question him about this, we saw the men standing in the road, blocking our way - and we could not remember beyond this point.
    We remembered looking for the highway, but before we reached this, we saw the craft again as it passed over the secondary road in front of us.
    When we entered onto the main highway, we heard a second series of beeping sounds. And we came home, looking for the craft all the way and not seeing it.
    At home, Barney's first remark was "It is 5 o'clock, We should have been home by 3 AM at the latest." This time was from our kitchen clock, for both
    our watches had stopped running - this puzzled us, that both stopped about the same time.
    Barney began to unload our belongings from the car. We agreed they should not be brought into the house, so they were left on the back porch for a
    couple of days.
    Then we took long showers, shampoos for we felt "very dirty".
    We agreed that something had happened, we did not know what it was, but we could not talk about it. We would forget about it as quickly as possible.
    The next day I went out to my car, and found highly polished spots on the trunk in a circular pattern. I became very upset, saying maybe we had been exposed to something dangerous - the spots should be checked out. So I called my sister who called a physist who suggested checking the spots with a
    compass, which I did. When the compass was very erratic, I called my sister again to tell her of this. At that time a police officer was at her home, and
    I talked with him - told him about the night before. He said they had orders
    to tell witnesses to call Pease Air Force Base and report this sighting. So we called Pease and told them about the sighting, but ommitted about Barney
    seeing the humanoids.
    Our next step was to return to the Mountains, looking for a secondary road, the dirt road, thinking if we could find these, we could remember what
    happened after we saw the "men in the road". We went back regularly, in all kinds of weather, looking but not finding the dirt road. While we were there, we asked everyone we saw, if they ever saw any strange lights in the sky, received hundreds of reports - meeting with groups of 50 or more at a time,
    who told of their sightings, but none with an experience similar to ours,
    which we did not discuss.

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    * Origin: Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence (Quick 1:19/19.19)



    Message #6666 - UFO
    Date : 14-Jun-91 22:42
    From : John Powell
    To : Glenn Devlin
    Subject : Hill Abduction: 6 of 7

    About six to eight weeks after this experience, we came home one night, and found on the kitchen table a pile of dried leaves. Our first response
    was - someone has been in our home! When I began to clean up the leaves, I found my blue ear rings I was wearing that night. That was panic - how did I lose them and who returned them? And how did they get into our home?
    Next was my dress. The second time I had worn this, and now it was covered with a pink powdery substance. I put it outside, and the powdery substance
    blew away, but it left pink stains all over my dress. Also the hem and some seams were torn - it had a built in lining - badly torn.
    To go back, to ten nights after this experience, I had a series of dreams, for five nights, of being captured, taken on board, given a physical exam. At that time, Barney worked midnight to 8 AM, so he was not here. I typed out these dreams and hid them, never discussed them until the time of our hypnosis with Dr. Simon.
    As for Hohman and Jackson, they had attended some kind of Geological Conference in Washington DC and met Donald Keyhoe there. After the Conference they told him they had a hobby, and interest in flying saucers (the term at that time) He let them read Walt Webb's report of his meeting with us.
    Hohman wrote to us, asking to meet with us. We agreed for at than time, we knew nothing about ufos, and we were quietly seeking some explanation for our expereince. Hohman was from New York, and Jackson was from Alabama, so we needed to wait until these two were together.
    When they were here, Barney told them about the humanoid saying something
    to him, which he could not remember - this was very upsetting to him.
    We told them about the setting moon just before we turned on to the dirt road. They said we could not have seen the moon, for it had already set. Panic by both of us.
    So they suggested we take a road map, and pinpoint our location at
    different times. We knew we had left Colebrook about 10 PM, the restaurant there. We were able to pinpoint the locations and times most of the way, but
    at one point between Plymouth and Ashland was a blank. So they suggested we go back to this general area. Then we talked about time - we could drive to
    Canada in seven hours, and it had taken us seven hours to come home from Colebrook. There had to be an explanation. Later this was called a missing
    time period. But right from the beginning Barney and I knew the trip home was much longer then it should have been.
    We continued to go back to the mountains, looking for the dirt road, asking people about their sightings. Then we began asking if anyone had ever seen the people aboard the crafts. No. No one knew Barney had seen them and remembered this.
    As for a hallucination, I was and am a trained social worker. I know the conditions which must exist for a hallucination to occur - for both people to have the same one, at the same time, does not happen. Dr. Simon confirmed this impossibility.
    As for the car incident, we both became upset at the same time, but I had already had my dreams. We were puzzled as to the reasons we responded the way we did.
    If we had not had all these upsetting events happen, without explanation,
    we would had never have spent thousands of dollars going to Dr. Simon. We went to him, to get rid of our anxieties, not for a ufo capture. He worked with us for seven months, every week. But I learned during these sessions when he was putting our amnesia back so we could not remember, that we must see him every week for him to reinforce the amnesia. If we did not do this, we would
    remember in about ten days - the same length of time, after this experience, that I had my dreams. Now I know I recalled these events, in my dreams, as a result of the lessening of their control of my memory.

    -+- XRS! 4.02+
    * Origin: Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence (Quick 1:19/19.19)



    Message #6667 - UFO
    Date : 14-Jun-91 22:44
    From : John Powell
    To : Glenn Devlin
    Subject : Hill Abduction: 7 of 7

    After our hypnosis, we went back to the area, and went directly to the secondary road, to the dirt road. Found the cleared area in the woods where
    the craft was down.
    Since that time, three labs have tried to analyze the pink stains on my dress without success.
    I agree with you the field of UFOlogy is filled with disinformation. They have done more to cover real activities by ufos than any other group. As for
    my social worker background, I know that insecure people have a terrible time with things they do not understand, and must develop an explanation, satisfactory to themselves, which usually is a fantasy. I dislike the term "missing time" for everyone has missing time. The human brain is incapable of remembering every little detail of our lives, every moment. No one can
    remember everything that happened yesterday.
    I have worked with those who have been captured, and with those who would like to think they were. Five were real captures, reported almost immediately to the police, and in three cases, they were at the emergency room at the hospital within three hours. Then for the others - five were beginning to be mentally ill, were committed, diagnosed, and treated. Later, one became a suicide. Then there are the hoaxes - I walked right thru the wall - how much did it cost for repairs? They call back in a few days, and tell me how they fooled the hypnotist by telling weird tales, which were believed. Finally, there are those who are led astray by auto-suggestion, called hypnosis, by those using it. I can take anyone, and in fifteen minutes, thru a simple exercise can give them a ufo capture. But I am sure that they know it is only
    a "Flight of Fantasy". But it is the same kind of "hypnosis" others are using. It is not the hypnosis we had. We had the kind that is used in surgery. I
    would like to see all those who use the wrong kind, try to do some simple medical procedures.
    So many try to copy my experiences, so Dr. Simon wrote a segment about hypnosis, the types, testing and characteristics. No one apparently read or understood this section, pages 82 thru 85, for they ignore this. Unfortunately it is ruining the field of hypnosis, which does have good medical uses.
    I went to a conference of so-called abductees. One told of her experiences, right out of Star Trek. She took on the part played by Capt. Kirk. Used the same names as in the tv program. Later we told her this, so she went back and had "hypnosis" again and came up with a different capture. Such success. Such fairy tales they tell.
    Thanks for letting me set the record straight. Some times I have heard my experiences told in such a way, I did not recognize it.

    Sincerely,
    Betty (signed)
    Betty Hill
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    Thanks, take care.
    John.


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    * Origin: Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence (Quick 1:19/19.19)

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