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Encounter Phenomena Defy "Set Pattern"; by Karla Turner.

(UFO, Vol. 8 No. 1 1993, Copyright 1992 by California UFO, 1536 S.
Robertson Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90035, published bi-monthly with a
subscription rate of $21/yr.  Offices: UFO, PO Box 1053, Sunland, CA
91041-1053 818-951-1250)

     It is a myth that alien abductions of humans follow a set pattern
or agenda.  Perhaps the best-known proponent of this theory is Budd
Hopkins, who in his books made the genetics and cross-breeding scenario
familiar to the public.  Yet when you read back through those books,
you'll notice that several of the alien encounters seem to have very
little apparent connection to an interest in breeding or DNA.  And even
Hopkins, in the past couple of years, has had to expand his theory to
include a definite alien interest in some other things, such as pleasure
and pain in humans.
     Other well-known UFO researchers also harbor restrictive theories
about the abduction phenomenon.  Jacques Vallee, David Jacobs, Whitley
Strieber, Brad Steiger, John Lear, Raymond Fowler, Jenny Randles, Kevin
Randle, John Keel and other writers hold a diversity of intelligent,
often ingenious, theories, yet each makes the same error.  They ignore
parts of the abductions evidence--whatever details don't support their
ideas.

INADEQUATE THEORIES.

     Yet it must be clear that any present theory which cannot account
for all the known evidence is not acceptable.  At best, it can be
misleading, especially for victims of abductions who turn to these
prominent researchers seeking answers.
     A case in point occurred during a conversation I had with a
prominent researcher in 1989.  In his lectures, this researcher always
said that he had certain ways of testing the validity of potential new
abduction cases, and one of those ways was the presence of particular
scars on the victims' bodies.  I questioned him about a different kind
of scar, one which I knew often appeared on abductees of my own
acquaintance, and the researcher denied that such a mark showed up in
his cases.
     "Are you sure?" I asked incredulously.  "This mark is pretty common
around here, and I'd think it would show up in other places, too.  In
fact, I know it has.
     "No," he insisted, shaking his head, "the only marks I find are
like the ones I've already described."
     "And this other mark hasn't shown up at all?" I asked.
     "No," he repeated.
     "Not even once?" I persisted.
     "Well," he said reluctantly, lowering his voice, "there have been a
couple of instances.  That child I talked about tonight, she had two of
those marks, and I think there was another case. But they're so rare
that I have to ignore them.  When you have two hundred cases with Scar A
and only two cases with Scar B, you go with numbers."
     And that was the message he delivered, to an audience where anxious
abductees were made to wonder if their anomalous marks meant anything
after all, or if, as so many of their friends seemed to think, they were
delusions of a troubled mind.

'NO SINGLE PATTERN'.

     In truth, however, although there are recurrent events in the
abduction phenomenon, there is no single pattern or structure.  And
until we know what all the events mean, we can't afford to ignore any of
them.
     What is one to make, for instance, of an ET-human encounter in
which two of the four aliens assisted the abductee in preparing a roast
for dinner?  Granted, other events occurred in this case, but the dinner
was indeed cooked, served and eaten by the abductee's family less than
two hours after the ETs departed.
     Other details of this encounter included the manipulation of the
abductee's neck, "for the purpose of instruction," and a discussion of
genetically-stored memories and knowledge that can be tapped open in
humans.  But there was no medical exam, no cross-breeding activity, and
no warnings of coming catastrophe, all of which are events that have
been used to construct abduction theories.  I know this to be true,
because it happened to me.

HUMAN DUPLICATES.

     Another anomalous event involves the duplication or replacement of
the human by an alien counterpart.  In one instance, a young man and his
fiancee were in their car when a "shimmering force" enveloped him.  He
passed out, but moments later he began to move, acting and talking
entirely different. His fiancee became terrified when he tried to drag
her out into the dark back yard, where he told her "Something wants to
see you there."  And only when a friend drove into the yard did the
young man return to normal, with no memory of his aberrant behavior
during the past ten minutes.
     Under hypnotic regression, the fiancee described the young man as
being kept in the car while the "other one" took his form and tried to
control her.  She called the "other one" a "hologram" and consistently
referred to it as "it," not "him." In fact, she said she struggled to
get away from "it" and back to the car where "the real" young man was
still waiting.
     Under separate regression, the young man recalled his version of
the evening and said that at a certain point he was "turned off" and
"unplugged," yet he couldn't say what sort of power was then operating
his body.
     An even more bizarre event happened to a woman in the Southwest
during her encounter.  She said she was "removed" from her body and
stored in some inexplicable way, still aware, however, and able to
communicate with her captors.  They told her that another entity was now
using her body, that it was going through all her regular activities,
and that no one would be able to tell the difference.  The day after the
abduction when she returned to her job, she found that her body had
indeed been at work, even though she herself was somewhere else.

'INTERDIMENSIONAL BEING'.

     These alien intruders apparently can behave and appear in a variety
of ways.  In one man's experience, a human-looking woman often appeared,
although she claimed she was an interdimensional being whose real
appearance was not what the abductee saw.  At times she would be
"completely there" and very three-dimensional, but at other times only
her head would be visible, or her head and hands.
     The evidence from several cases also shows that the aliens have an
odd interest in our animals, yet this is hardly mentioned in standard
abduction research.  During a period of intense ET activity in my
family's life, for instance, our dog was somehow moved one night from a
fenced back yard into a locked garage. And the same dog, conversely,
woke us up one morning barking in the back yard, when it had been put in
a locked garage the night before.  In both cases, there was no sign that
either the gate or the garage door had been opened.  The old dog was
quite blind, at any rate, and would have had trouble getting anywhere,
even if both passageways had been clear.

PET PUZZLER.

     Transporting dogs turned up again in the case of a UFO researcher.
Her dog slept outside, yet in the middle of the night she was awakened
by his wet tongue on her face.  She and the dog were in her bed, but her
bedroom door was still locked, as was the outside door, and there were
two other doors closed in between them.
     Horses also have been moved, leaving their abductee-owners to track
them down in corrals far distant from where the animals had been locked
away for the night.  It's hard to imagine the purpose of such events,
yet they are part of the larger phenomenon and must have some relevance.
     There also seems to be a connection between abductions and the
disappearance or appearance of possessions and other objects. One of the
more humorous episodes occurred when a researcher was visiting another
city and staying as a guest in our home.  The day had been spent in work
with other abductees, and that evening the group ordered Chinese food.

PREFERRED UTENSILS APPEAR.

     As we sat eating the food, the researcher remarked that she
preferred eating Chinese food with chopsticks, but we didn't have any.
After the meal, the researcher went to her room then returned moments
later with a very puzzled expression.  "I thought you didn't have any
chopsticks," she told my husband. "And I certainly didn't mean for you
to go out and buy them!  But thank you anyway for being so thoughtful."
She held out a pair of chopsticks wrapped in paper and smiled.
     "Where did you get those?" he asked in amazement.
     "They were on my bed," she replied.  "Didn't you put them there?"
     "Of course not!" he exclaimed.  "There aren't--weren't--any
chopsticks in the house, I promise you.  And I haven't gone anywhere!"
     Other objects have appeared out of nowhere, such as metal balls
falling from abductees' bodies when they rose from their beds the
morning after an encounter.  In another instance, a mother saw what
looked like a white book floating horizontally in her son's bedroom, but
when she went in, there was no book to be seen.  In one abductee's home,
a fish disappeared from their aquarium, and then it reappeared ten days
later, twice as large as it had been.  Within 24 hours, however, it
died, as did all the other fish in the tank.

WOMEN IN DISTRESS.

     Perhaps the most remarkable and disturbing set of cases concerned
two women I know but who are unacquainted with each other.  The first
woman awoke one morning to find her bed soaked with blood.  It was
during her menstrual cycle, yet she was surprised to have bled so
profusely as to soak through the tampon she had inserted before going to
bed.  When she went to the bathroom to clean up, she could find no
tampon to remove. Frantically she searched her bed, the bedroom, and
finally her entire apartment, but the tampon had disappeared.  A few
days later, she related the incident to me, but neither of us knew what
to make of it.
     A month passed, and I received a call from the second woman, who
lived far away from me.  She was perplexed by an event of the previous
night and wanted to tell someone about it.  This woman was having her
menstrual cycle also, and the night before had put on a sanitary pad
before going to bed.  Several hours later, she woke up and decided to go
change the pad, as she was an unusually heavy bleeder.  In surprise,
however, she found the pad was spotless, and then she felt something
inside her.  She told me that she removed the tampon, but couldn't
understand how it had gotten there.  "I haven't used tampons in ten
years," she said, "so this doesn't make any sense."

ANOMALIES IN 'TYPICAL' REPORTS.

     Anomalies have turned up in some cases that might otherwise seem to
follow the "typical" abduction sequence of going into the "ship,"
undergoing an examination and being returned with little or no memory.
Sometimes, for instance, the surroundings in the "ship" are described as
messy or dirty, with foul odors and signs of sloppy housekeeping.
Sometimes the interior is said to be crowded, buzzing with numerous
entities engaged in rapid, inexplicable movements from place to place.
     Even more unusual are those accounts of abductions to inner space
rather than outer space.  In these cases, abductees tell of being taken
into large underground complexes, and their descriptions very often
include earthly--perhaps military-- apparatus as well as the presence of
both humans and aliens working together.  These underground areas are
reached through long vertical or corkscrewing tunnels, the abductees
say, and in one case the place looked like a movie set of an old Western
town.

'BATHROOM SETTINGS'.

     A third anomalous episode, which may have taken place aboard a
craft or in an underground setting, involves abductees taken into
"bathroom" settings.  There they are made to get into "stalls" with or
without toilets, and in most cases the abductees are thoroughly
frightened by the events that occur in these surroundings, often having
to do with examination of their sexual organs.
     Most of these anomalous details have come from a relatively small
group of abductees, yet similar cases are known elsewhere. In the
instance of the odd scar, which began this discussion, there are cases
of the triangular pattern turning up all over the world, yet no
prominent researcher has acknowledged this.  The scoop marks and
straight-line cuts are well known, but just as frequent are less
permanent scars and marks.  Single, double and multiple puncture marks
appear on abductees' bodies, as do wide paths of subcutaneous purplish
smears, triangles and other shapes made by skin discoloration rather
than punctures, and long claw- mark scratches, usually numerous,
accompanied by even longer welts of unbroken skin.

CHALLENGE TO 'POSITIVE' THEORIES.

     As to researchers who claim that the ETs are here to help us evolve
some higher consciousness or that they are here for some other positive
purpose--saving our plant, promoting world peace, etc.--I challenge
those researchers to incorporate anomalous data into this view.
     What about those people who suffer total breakdowns after their
experiences?  What about those who undergo wild personality changes, who
find themselves obsessed with deviant sexual behavior they never had
before, often leading to the breakup of marriages and friendships?
These things have happened numerous times, but no researcher has yet
explained the higher purpose behind such results.
     Particularly disturbing are those cases where previously healthy
individuals have an ET encounter and then develop debilitating or
terminal illnesses.  It is well known that many women suffer
gynecological problems after their experiences, often leading to
hysterectomies.  But other instances have shown the development of
severe fatigue, horrible swelling and itching, and even cancer.  Where
are the positive effects in these cases?
     Theories are starting places for research, not proven conclusions,
and UFO researchers must be willing to expand and alter their pet
theories according to the data they uncover.  It would be wonderful if
we could shape ET experiences into something positive, but until the
details of abduction encounters--all the details--are given serious
consideration, I think it's dangerous to cling to theories that ignore
data that will not fit.  We owe it to ourselves to seek the whole truth.

(Karla Turner, Ph.D. received her doctorate in English studies from the
University of North Texas and was a university teaching fellow for over
a decade.  Author of the recently-released Into the Fringe, she has
researched the UFO phenomenon and worked with abductees since 1988.)

"Alien Abductions in the Gingerbread House"; by Dr. Karla Turner.

(UFO Universe, Vol. 3 No. 1 Spring 1993.  Copyright 1993 by Charlotte
Magazine Corp., Inc.  1700 Broadway, New York, NY 10019.  Published
quarterly with a subscription rate of $14/yr.  815-734-1103.)

     World renowned UFO researcher Jacques Vallee has repeatedly
referred to the similarities between UFO and abduction reports and the
stories of folklore and fairy tales.  I disagree with Dr. Vallee on
many, many points of UFOlogy, but here I will grant that there is one
fairy tale which does have something important to tell us about the
alien abduction phenomenon.  It is not, however, what Dr. Vallee might
think.
     The story of Hansel and Gretel presents a lesson that every
abductee should heed.  These innocent children, wandering lost and
frightened in the forest, came upon a gingerbread house that seemed to
offer them shelter and sustenance.  The owner of the house, a wizened
old woman, was frightening to them at first, but their hunger pushed the
children to accept her offer to come inside and be fed.
     And so they entered the gingerbread house and promptly became the
old woman's captives.  Kept in cages, the two children were abundantly
fed.  It was not for their benefit, though.  In fact, they were being
fattened up for the oven!  The deceptive nature of the gingerbread house
and of the old woman's offer of food worked quite well.
     It is the deceptive quality of this story that holds a warning for
humans who are abducted by aliens.  Like Hansel and Gretel, we are
initially terrified by our encounter with aliens, but in too many cases,
our fear is overcome by the words of our abductors and by the thoughts
and experiences they present to us.
     I, too, am an abductee, and my quest to discover the nature of my
own experiences led me into abduction research over the past four years.
Working with many other abduction cases, I have learned just how basic
the deception of alien actions can be.
     My family and I also delved into our own experiences, both past and
present.  Barbara Bartholic, a dedicated UFO investigator from Tulsa,
Oklahoma, worked closely with us and helped us fill in the gaps in our
recollections of strange encounters through hypnotic regression.  Ms.
Bartholic, by the way, began her own research as an assistant to Jacques
Vallee in cattle mutilation investigations, so her expertise in ufology
is wide-ranging.  I have recently written a book, Into the Fringe, about
the startling and often disturbing results of our personal
investigations, and it will be published by the Berkley Publishing Group
in November 1992.
     But my interest soon expanded past the merely personal, and for the
past several years I have worked as Ms. Bartholic's research associate,
exploring literally hundreds of sighting and encounter cases with her.
And what I've learned through this work has raised far more questions
than answers.  In fact, it has taught me to be wary of those researchers
who do claim to have answers.  I have yet to hear of a single theory or
explanation that accounts for all of the data.
     Some researchers have pointed out patterns of events in the
abduction experience, such as the physical examination, the taking of
sperm and ova, and the later presentation of a hybrid baby to the
abductee.  Other patterns include the training of the abductee in some
way and the delivery of a warning of some upcoming global disaster.
Yes, these events are frequently reported, as one researcher has said in
boringly repetitious accounts, and it is tempting to think that the
explanation for alien abductions may lie in these patterns.
     So the researchers announce that the problem is solved.  The aliens
are doing cross-breeding experiments, UFOlogists tell us. Never mind the
overwhelming evidence against the viable commingling of different
species.  Or, we are told, the aliens are here to save us from
destroying ourselves and our planet through violence, drug use, epidemic
disease, pollution, and resource depletion.  Never mind that these
problems have grown worse, not better, since the ETs began visiting us.

     Or, most infuriating of all, we are assured that there are no
actual aliens, that our experiences spring from our own subconscious
turmoil or from our need for fantasy fulfillment. Never mind that many
abductees are young children, too young to be suffering from such
psychological disturbances.  Well, then, the resourceful researcher
counters, the imagined aliens must spring from some collective human
super-psyche that is mirroring our failures and dangers back to us.
This particular theory adores the archetypal gray ET, because it
resembles some sickly fetal form of humanity and must therefore be an
objectified warning of what our species is in danger of becoming if we
don't mend our ways.  Never mind that many, many abductees have no
dealing with grays, but instead are victimized by robust reptoids and
insectoids.  Not to mention the totally human-looking blond beauties and
black-headed, black-robed clan with the widow's peak hairline.
     No, too many researchers seem to find a theory and cling to it in
spite of data that contradict it.  And it is the ideas of these
researchers that dominate ufology.  But if the public had access to the
raw data, to the first-hand reports of abductees, especially those
unfamiliar with UFO-oriented books, magazines, and lecturers, they would
find a much less neatly organized set of patterns.  These "virgin"
cases--people uncontaminated by ufological literature--supply a
staggering picture of human-alien contact events.
     What follows here is an overview of these "virgin" reports, a list
of recurrent experiences that taken together gives us a close-up view of
what the aliens are doing here on earth.  This data doesn't tell us for
certain just what sort of creatures the aliens are, or what their
purpose here may be.  But it does tell us what humans are experiencing
and what they are observing in the actions and capabilities of the
aliens.  Every detail in the following list has been reported by more
than one abductee, and in many cases the details have turned up quite
frequently.

ABDUCTION "CHECKLIST".

     If these reports can be believed--and there is no reason to doubt
the honesty of the reporters--the abduction phenomenon includes the
following details.

     --   Aliens can alter our perception of our surroundings.

     --   Aliens can control what we think we see.  They can appear to
us in any number of guises, and shapes.

     --   Aliens can take us--our consciousness--out of our physical
bodies, disable our control of our bodies, install one of their own
entities, and use our bodies as vehicles for their own activities before
returning our consciousness to our bodies.

     --   Aliens can be present with us in an invisible state and can
make themselves only partially visible.

     --   Abductees receive marks on their bodies other than the
well-known scoops and straight-line scars.  These other marks include
single punctures, multiple punctures, large bruises, three- and
four-fingered claw marks, and triangles of every possible sort.

     --   Females abductees often suffer serious gynecological problems
after their alien encounters, and sometimes these problems lead to
cysts, tumors, cancer of the breasts and uterus, and to hysterectomies.

     --   Aliens take body fluids from our necks, spines, blood veins,
joints such as knees and wrists, and other places.  They also inject
unknown fluids into various parts of our bodies.

     --   A surprising number of abductees suffer from serious illnesses
they didn't have before their encounters.  These have led to surgery,
debilitation, and even death from causes the doctors can't identify.

     --   Some abductees experience a degeneration of their mental,
social, and spiritual well-being.  Excessive behavior frequently erupts,
such as drug abuse, alcoholism, overeating, and promiscuity.  Strange
obsessions develop and cause the disruption of normal life and the
destruction of personal relationships.

     --   Aliens show a great interest in adult sexuality, child
sexuality, and in inflicting physical pain on abductees.

     --   Abductees recall being instructed and trained by aliens.  This
training may be in the form of verbal or telepathic lessons, slide
shows, or actual hands-on instruction in the operation of alien
technology.

     --   Abductees report being taken to facilities in which they
encounter not only aliens but also normal-looking humans, sometimes in
military uniforms, working with the alien captors.

     --   Abductees often encounter more than one sort of alien during
an experience, not just the grays.  Every possible combination of gray,
reptoid, insectoid, blond, and widow's peak have been seen during single
abductions, aboard the same craft or in the same facility.

     --   Abductees--"virgin" cases--report being taken to underground
facilities where they see grotesque hybrid creatures, nurseries of
hybrid humanoid fetuses, and vats of colored liquid filled with parts of
human bodies.

     --   Abductees report seeing other humans in these facilities being
drained of blood, being mutilated, flayed, and dismembered, and being
stacked, lifeless, like cords of wood. Some abductees have been
threatened that they, too, will end up in this condition if they don't
cooperate with their alien captors.

     --   Aliens come into homes and temporarily remove young children,
leaving their distraught parents paralyzed and helpless.  In cases where
a parent has been able to protest, the aliens insist that "The children
belong to us."

     --   Aliens have forced their human abductees to have sexual
intercourse with aliens and even with other abductees while groups of
aliens observe these performances.  In such encounters, the aliens have
sometimes disguised themselves in order to gain the cooperation of the
abductee, appearing in such forms as Jesus, the Pope, certain
celebrities, and even the dead spouses of the abductees.

     --   Children abductees sometimes show a new and obsessive interest
in their own genitalia after alien encounters, saying that their
abductors who come at night have been touching these parts of their
bodies.

     --   Aliens perform extremely painful experiments or procedures on
abductees, saying that these acts are necessary but giving no
explanation why.  Abductees' eyes are painfully removed from the
sockets, allowing the aliens to scrape the area or implant devices into
the area before the eyeballs are replaced, for instance.  Some abductees
are subjected to painful constrictions, often around the head, chest and
extremities. Painful genitalia and anal probes are performed, on
children as well as adults.

     --   Aliens make predictions of an imminent period of global chaos
and destruction.  They say that a certain number of humans- -and the
number varies dramatically from case to case--will be "rescued" from the
planet in order to continue the species, either on another planet or
back on earth after the destruction is over.  Many abductees report that
they don't believe their alien captors and foresee instead a much more
sinister use of the "rescued" humans.

     In every instance from this list, there are multiple reports from
unrelated cases, confirming that such bizarre details are not the
product of a single deranged mind.  These details are convincing
evidence that, contrary to the claims of many UFO researchers, the
abduction experience isn't limited to a uniform pattern of events.  This
phenomenon simply can't be explained in terms of cross-breeding
experiments or scientific research into the human physiology.

SPIRITUALLY ENLIGHTENED?

     And it becomes clear from these details that the beings who are
doing such things can't be seen as spiritually enlightened, with the
best interest of the human race in mind.  Something else is going on,
something far more painful and frightening, in many, many abduction
encounters.
     There is a theory current in ufological research that says
abductees who perceive their experiences in a negative way only do so
because they themselves aren't spiritually or psychically advanced.
Persons with higher cosmic development have positive alien encounters,
so the theory goes, and those who have painful or frightening
experiences are merely spiritual Neanderthals. This is a pet theory of
researchers who claim that aliens, whether objectively real or not,
serve as "mirrors" of our spiritual nature, on an individual or a
species-wide basis. Strieber has voiced this theory, for instance, in
Majestic, where he says, "In the eyes of the others [the aliens], we who
met them saw ourselves.  And there were demons there."
     Having worked with so many decent, honest, positively oriented
abductees, however, I believe this theory is wrong.  It is worse than
wrong--it is despicable, as despicable as blaming a rape victim for the
violence committed against her.  This attitude leaves many abductees
feeling doubly violated, first by the aliens who took them and then by
the UFO researchers to whom they turn for explanations and help.
     But it is easy to understand why such a theory would be so popular.
Humans have a deep need to believe in the power of good.  We need for
the aliens to be a good force, since we feel so helpless in their
presence.  And we need for some superior force to offer us a hope of
salvation, both personally and globally, when we consider the sorry
state of the world.
     I think the aliens know this about us--they know that we want and
hope for them to be benevolent creatures--and they use our desire for
goodness to manipulate us.  What better way to gain our cooperation than
to tell us that the things they are doing are for our own good?  But
looking at the actions, the results of alien interference such as the
long list above.  There is a great discrepancy between what we desire
from them and what they are doing to us.
     Not all abduction reports are filled with frightening or painful
events, of course.  Many people say that their alien encounters felt
benevolent, that their abductors treated them kindly or at least with a
scientific detachment.  Some abductees recall being told that they were
"special," that they were "chosen," and that they have an important task
to perform for the benefit of humanity.
     Given such a positive message, the abductees may ignore the fear
and the pain of their encounters and insist to themselves and to others
that a higher motive underlies the abduction experience.  And, in some
cases, all that an abductee remembers is a benevolent encounter and so
has no reason to assume any negative action has occurred.
     But intensive research shows that at the core of the human- alien
interaction there is a clear pattern of deception.  We know, for
instance, that "screen memories" are often used to mask an alien
abduction.  Such accounts abound, in which a person sees a familiar yet
out-of-place animal, like a deer or owl, a monkey or a rabbit, and then
experiences a period of missing time.  The person often awakens later to
find a new, unexplained scar on his body.
     Uneasiness about the encounter will persist, however, and far
different memories may start to surface in dreams or flashbacks, and
then the person seeks help to explain the uneasiness.  Quite often,
hypnotic regression is used to uncover the events behind the "screen
memory," and that is when a typical alien abduction surfaces.

     The most recent research in which I've been involved has turned up
yet a second sort of screening process.  If it turns out to be accurate,
then thousands of abduction cases are in urgent need of re-examination.
     The typical scenario of undergoing the regressive hypnosis usually
results in penetration of the initial blocked memories.
     The abductee then recalls an encounter, hitherto unremembered, such
as undergoing a physical examination of some sort, perhaps having body
tissues removed or having a gynecological exam.  Other typical reports
include the taking of sperm and ova, of being told of an important task
to be carried out, or of receiving a warning of upcoming disaster.
     And in most cases, both the abductee and the investigator come away
from the hypnosis session feeling that they have discovered the truth
about the experience.  Rationalization leads them to believe that the
aliens' purposes must be scientifically objective or benevolent.  The
less threatening and more benevolent the hypnotically recalled event
seems, the more satisfied are the investigator and the abductee.  "That
wasn't so bad, now, was it?  These beings are our friends, or at least
they are not our enemies."  And everyone goes away with a sense of
relief.  I have yet to hear of a researcher who actually questions the
uncovered scenario.
     But from several recent cases, it is apparent that these recovered
memories may well also be yet another screen, masking events that are
much more reprehensible.  I will explain one such case, to make the
point clear.

A STRANGE REPORT.

     A man in his late 40's came to us to explore several alien- related
events in his life, and in the interview he told of a strange, although
not apparently alien-oriented, episode that had haunted him since
childhood.  When he was ten years old, his grandmother came to visit in
his home, and since the house was small, she shared his bed on the first
night of her visit.
     During the night, the boy was awakened by a loud male voice. He
couldn't understand what the voice was saying, but it sounded angry and
was addressing the grandmother lying beside him.
     The next morning, he asked his grandmother, "What was that voice in
the bedroom last night?"
     His grandmother, with tears in her eyes, pulled him tightly to her
and said, "That was the devil."  She said nothing more about the
episode, but she did insist that her son take her back to her own home
immediately.  It was an unreasonable request, and her son tried to talk
her out of it.  But the grandmother was adamant, and finally her son
agreed to take her home the following day.
     The entire family made the trip of over a hundred miles back to the
grandmother's farm, and within an hour of their arrival, the grandmother
suffered a massive stroke and died.  Ever since that event, the man had
felt a heavy burden of guilt associated with his grandmother's death.
Yet there was no conscious reason for him to have felt that way.  The
entire event was poignant and mystifying, but in all the alien
encounters he had subsequently undergone, he had felt that the aliens
were his friends and were helping him by expanding his psychic
abilities.
     A regression session was arranged, and in the course of the
hypnosis, he was asked to look at that childhood experience. What he
recalled was an abduction in which he and his grandmother were taken to
a spacecraft in the company of reptilian aliens. He remembered the
aliens telling his grandmother that they were interested in learning
about her knowledge of medicinal herbs.
     And they offered to exchange medical information of their own.
     They gave the boy and the grandmother a liquid to drink, explaining
that it was beneficial and would make the grandmother feel young and
attractive again.  So both of them drank the liquid, and the man
remembered seeing his grandmother indeed looking much younger.  That was
the extent of his recollection.
     Both he and Ms. Bartholic, who was conducting the regression, were
puzzled by this, because there was nothing in the episode to account for
the guilt he had felt about the grandmother's death.  So Ms. Bartholic
deepened the man's trance level and asked him to look at it again, with
much clearer vision.  And what he then recalled was much more
disturbing.

     The abduction, at first, followed his initial recollection. But
when the liquid was drunk, he now remembered a very strong feeling of
change in his body.  And he saw that the grandmother didn't actually
look younger.  Instead, she was placed on a table and approached by one
of the reptilian aliens who wanted to have intercourse with her.  The
liquid had acted as an aphrodisiac, yet the grandmother resisted and
said that since her husband's death she would not have sex with anyone.
The reptilian laughed and disappeared from the room momentarily.  When
he returned, he was accompanied by a man who looked exactly like the
dead husband.
     At this point, the grandmother agreed to have sex, but as the act
was in progress, she suddenly realized that the image of her dead
husband was a cruel illusion.  It was actually the reptilian on top of
her, and she cried out in great resistance for him to leave her alone.
Once he was finished with her, he lifted up the little boy and placed
him on top of the grandmother, forcing another sex act upon the both of
them.
     Then the grandmother was removed from the table and the little boy
was victimized himself by the reptilian, forced to have anal and oral
sex.  The grandmother protested violently, pushing the reptilian away
from her grandson and interposing her body between them.  "By Jesus,"
she shouted, "you will not touch this boy!"
     That must have been the wrong thing to say, because the reptilian
became very angry and threatened her.  "You will die for that!" he told
her, and the two people were returned to the bedroom from which they'd
been taken.  The next morning, the grandmother told the little boy that
the devil had been there the night before, and that was when she
insisted upon being taken home.  And, as it turned out, she did die
immediately thereafter.
     This, then, was the cause of the man's lifelong sense of guilt
about her death.  He had been forced to have sex with her, and her death
had followed shortly after.  But none of this story would have emerged
if Ms. Bartholic had done as most investigators do and stopped the
regression after uncovering the story about the exchange of medicinal
knowledge.
     There are other cases in our files that show a similar deception at
work in the initial hypnotic recall.  We cannot trust that first memory,
it is clear, for like so much else in the abduction experience, there
may well be further maskings of events.
     Before we allow ourselves to believe in the benevolence of the
alien interaction, we should ask, do enlightened beings need to use the
cover of night to perform good deeds?  Do they need to paralyze us and
render us helpless to resist?  Do angels need to steal our fetuses?  Do
they need to manipulate our children's genitals and probe our rectums?
Are fear, pain and deception consistent with high spiritual motives?