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Message #4670 "ParaNet Abduction Echo"
Date: 29-Apr-93 20:45
From: Joy A. Ikelman
To: All
Subj: Los Angeles Times article...
From: jai@kryton.ngdc.noaa.gov (Joy A. Ikelman)
Date: 29 Apr 93 13:54:53 GMT
Organization: National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA, Boulder, Co
Message-ID: <1993Apr29.135453.13800@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
Newsgroups: alt.paranet.abduct
A USER'S GUIDE TO WHAT YOU SHOULD DO IF YOU'RE
ABDUCTED BY A UFO
((c) 1993 Los Angeles Times; reprinted locally in Colorado on 4/27/93)
LOS ANGELES: What do you do if you are abducted in your sleep by
a group of scrawny gray aliens with enormous heads, beamed up to a
spacecraft, placed upon an examination table, probed with enormous
needles and lasers, and then returned to your bed?
If you live in Southern California, you form a support group and share
the experience. But the thorny questions posed at these sessions are far
more complex than those discussed at your run-of-the-mill self-help
groups.
How do you determine, one man asked at a recent meeting near Los
Angeles, whether you have been abducted by aliens, abducted by the
CIA or were merely dreaming? When the aliens implant a tracking
device in your body, how do you get it out? After you've been
abducted, what do you tell your employer when you show up late for
work?
If you are concerned about something such as abduction security, you
cannot simply approach your neighborhood watch captain for advice.
And your family doctor might be reluctant to explore the "scoop marks"
left by aliens seeking tissue samples. So abductees from throughout
Southern California meet on the last Sunday of every month and discuss
these common problems, buck each other up and relate abduction
adventures.
During a break in the meeting, Kim Carlson rushes over to the coffeepot
for a caffeine jolt before she will answer any questions. She is
exhausted, she confides, because she has been staying up late every night
to outwit the aliens who have been abducting her in her sleep. Carlson
now will not go to bed until 4:30 a.m.--the time that she has determined
is the alien abduction deadline.
Carlson delivers the same spiel as any other support-group devotee. She
used to feel alone, keeping her feelings bottled up inside. But now that
she has met others like herself, she is open and forthcoming about her
abduction experiences. Although this has done wonders for her
emotional health, it has been tough on her social life. Her boyfriend of
five years recently dumped her, telling Carlson: "When you get through
this UFO business, give me a call." She shakes her head, raises her
palms skyward and says: "Like I really have a choice."
Carlson is a still photographer for the film industry. Like most of the
others at the meeting, Carlson relates even the most outlandish tales with
a heartfelt sincerity.
Many of her abductions, she says, follow a similar pattern. She is
transported by little gray men to their spacecraft and placed on a table,
where the aliens surround her and study her emotions, her sexuality, her
DNA makeup and her hand-eye coordination. She is returned home
after about two hours, she says.
Carlson has become something of an abduction activist. Wherever she
goes, she asks strangers if they have been abducted or had UFO
experiences. Just last week, she says earnestly, while shopping at an
electronics store, she discovered a salesman and a warehouseman who
both had had intimate experiences with UFOs.
Carlson does not know why she and the others at the meeting are the
chosen people--for abduction--but she has a hunch why the aliens are
studying the human race. the little gray men, she surmises, are
attempting to create a new, hybrid race.
During the session, abductees discuss a variety of esoteric subjects.
Snatches of testimony and random comments create a bizarre
conversational mosaic:
"Did your alien have a sense of humor?"
"At first I thought I was in an elevator, but then I realized I was in a
small craft detaching to a larger craft."
"I know it wasn't a dream becasue when I returned, my dog was very
hyper and panting and he usually is very calm."
"There is some sort of work going on between the CIA and an alien
faction to develop a propulsion technology."
Although some of these random comments might seem as if they come
from the lunatic fringe, those who attended the meeting did not seem all
that peculiar. Many of them had the mien of typical suburbanites who
struggle with their mortgages, attend PTA meetings and complain about
freeway traffic. But ask them about UFOs, aliens or extraterrestrial
abductions, and they launch into lengthy monologues that some might
consider more appropriately delivered from a psychiatrist's couch.
The support group meets at the home of Yvonne Smith, a hypnotherapist
who sees many of the abductees as clients. Through hypnosis, she
directs their "regression" therapy," where they can re-experience and
ultimately come to terms with the abduction.
She frequently is asked if the abduction experience is "just a California
thing," because residents seem more open to the unorthodox. But
abductions and UFO experiences, she says, are occuring all over the
United States and the world.