Secret life: firsthand accounts of UFO abductions (18 page)

Why do you think they’re telling you this?

I don’t know, because I think it’s going to happen.

So you’re just sitting in a chair and you’re getting these images, is that right?

Yeah. They’re really bad images.

Now as you’re sitting in the chair what are you looking at?

What’s on the other wall or whatever?

There’s like a, it’s weird, it’s like outer space, stars and…

Are you looking at a window?

Well, it’s kind of a window, but I don’t see the treetops or anything—they’re not there. There are like stars and lines, images, geometric things.

Geometric images?

I guess. They’re like lines and dots, things like that.

And [the Beings] are sort of putting these images in your mind?

Yeah, they keep putting images in my mind, about the destruction of the planet, and time when people will be starving, and there won’t be energy because we’re using up the resources, and they keep telling me these things. And I see pictures of my family struggling to survive and being reduced to beggars.

Are you in this room alone, or is there anybody in there?

They’re with me, two or three of them.

What are they doing while you’re receiving these images?

Well, one was holding the thing on me, on my forehead. That’s where they keep putting stuff is on my forehead.

What does this look like?

Like a telescope, a kiddy telescope, or kaleidoscope, with glass on one side. It looks a lot like the thing they had on my stomach. And they, two of them are looking up, behind me. That’s kind of what they were doing, looking up in the air.

Now, this one that’s holding this sort of instrument to your forehead, what’s he looking at?

My eyes. My eyes are open. He’s bent down looking over at me.

What are you looking at?

Him.

And what is he doing?

Looking, at images in my mind. He looks kind, he really does. He doesn’t look mean. Kind of like a father or a friend, not a friend, but a wise kind of person you dream about. You just want to take away all your problems. That’s what it’s like.

As he looks into your eyes, do you think he’s just looking into your eyes, or deeper?

I think he’s looking into my soul. Looking into what makes me feel and think and believe things….

Does this go on for a while, while he looks into your eyes and holds this thing to your forehead?

Mm-hmm. Longer than that other thing. That other part, he kept me there for a while. And then he was done and told me to forget about this, and that I was going to have a dream about a nuclear war, and I’d be shaken up the next day, and I was going to think about it most of the day. And I did, I remember that. At school I was disturbed, and I was so afraid that we would blow ourselves up.

(Patti Layne, 16, 1979)

Patti had recurring dreams about nuclear war for many years after this episode.

Staging is a combination of abductee envisioning and alien “playacting.” A “drama” may be played out in an abductee’s mind while she visually sees “characters” standing in a staged manner. The abductee must interact in a prescribed way with the aliens who are participating in the staged situation. As with the other mental procedures, the purpose appears to be intended to elicit information about the abductee’s mental reactions.

For example, Karen Morgan was led into an area that contained a couch, a table with a flower pot on it, and a rug. She sat on the couch and noticed that several human “guards” were standing around wearing beige uniforms. Shortly a person to whom she was very attracted was brought into the room, and she was amazed to realize that he was part of the abduction also. He came over to her and was about to kiss her. She distinctly had the feeling that they were going to make love, something that she desired. As she looked around, however, it slowly became clear to her that the “guards” were aliens
standing around. Somebody else was setting on the couch staring into her eyes all the while. Her attractive friend began to dissolve into the alien that he was. As soon as she realized what was happening, the staging was over. The aliens abruptly got her up and took her away from the scene. She had to step down from a platform where the staged scene was being played out. But she remembered that the couch and the table with the flower pot were solid objects.

Patti Layne found herself in an “office” in which her husband’s “boss” was sitting behind a “desk.” In some way she knew that the boss had unfairly chastised her husband, and Patti became angry about it. She heatedly began to yell at the boss for mistreating her husband. As her anger vented, she began to notice that something was very wrong with this scene. She suddenly perceived that the scene was of several Small Beings standing around a special area of the room that was used for this purpose. She then realized that she had more muscle control than usual, and she turned and ran into another room.

Another time Patti was taken into a room where she watched a frightening devillike face on a screen directly in front of her. Before she knew it, three “soldiers” were shooting “machine guns” at the screen. She was terrified. She could “feel” the glass splinters fall on her upper body. One of the “soldiers” rushed forward to “protect” her. She was then led way and a Taller Being stared into her eyes. He said they were interested in the concept of “rescue.”

In one extraordinary staging event that took place seconds before a physical abduction, Charles Petrie, a printer living in Florida, was returning home late at night from the local convenience store, when a child ran out in front of his car. Charles could not avoid hitting him and the injured child scampered into some bushes. Extremely distraught, Charles slammed on the brakes and jumped out the car to help the child. When he looked in the bushes, he found himself staring at an alien. He was immediately floated into a UFO, where a Taller Being performed extended Mindscans on him because, as Charles said, “he’s interested in my guilt.”

Testing is an extraordinary event in which the abductee is given a task to perform and carefully watched while she does it. For example, one abductee described an event in which she was required to
pick out a single alien whom she had seen before from a group of other aliens, all of whom looked alike. Others have been shown an intricate “control board,” or some such apparatus, and told to operate it. The abductee complains that she does not know how to do it, but the aliens insist that she do it anyway. She then goes to “operate” the board and finds that she can in some way do what they want.

Attorney George Kenniston was shown such an apparatus when he was sixteen years old. He felt sure that he had learned to be some sort of a navigator. He carried out the instructions given to him but had no idea about how he knew what to do.

The role I play is navigator.

In other words, is he communicating about himself, or about you?

No, no, I’m saying this is the feeling I get from him. It’s in my mind: I’m a navigator. I can get to the place, whatever it is.

Okay.

I am a navigator. [I] can get there. It’s a testing….

[George described a staring procedure that was also administered to him. I asked him if the alien stopped this procedure.]

No, but it’s like I’m turned over to someone to be tested, and another one leads me over to the panel. Let me see if I can described it. I look at the panel. It’s built in the wall, obliquely down at the end it’s four inches thick, and it’s probably maybe thirty-six inches across, maybe thirty inches high. It is covered with bright lights, and in that sense there are some buttons that are backlit. To my left there’s some level of screen There is some sort of visual line display, I don’t see it clearly.…. Some sort of a ball built into the tabletop, or the panel, that I don’t understand, but it can roll. To my right there’s a series of controlling buttons in columns coming down. There are some sort of readouts, because I don’t see them clearly, in the
panel on the right-hand side. I see two columns, but I get the feeling of extensive definition both in the readouts and in the panel controls. There’s a lot of finite control ability here. They’re… supposed to be able to manipulate the entire panel.

How do you know that?

Because I know. I’m supposed to be able to do this. Your left hand does one thing and your right hand does another thing, and you look at the panel with the readout to your left at one, and you’re watching the panel to your right, guiding something over a long haul. We’re talking hitting an object far in the distance and keeping on track. This would be like driving a highway 200 miles long the dead straight, and just keep it between the lines—that level of competence in steering.

As you’re standing at the panel, where is this other person?

To my right, watching me.

Is he far away from you, or…?

He is just off my right shoulder maybe two feet. Staring Eyes [his name for the Taller Being] is against the wall at the end of the panel table, looking at my face, watching me do this, and I’m very intent doing what I’ve got to do. My hands are moving, I’m watching the screen, I’m keeping it between the parameters… oh, God, don’t let me fuck this up.

(George Kenniston, 16, 1965)

The aliens usually follow testing with staring procedures just as they do in the other visualization events.

Many of the inconsistencies in abduction reports might be the result of the visualization procedures. These mental examinations can strongly affect the abductee’s initial recollection of the experiences because she feels sure that the images she saw in imaging and envisioning procedures were “real.” It is likely that abductees who have
reported disturbing prophecies of destruction and doom, religious visions, or any number of other seemingly incomprehensible images were, in fact, subjected to these visualization procedures. The procedures may also account for the variety of aliens that abductees, without skilled investigation, have described in the past.

Secondary reproductive procedures do not involve reproduction itself, but rather the interaction between abductees and what appears to be the product of the alien breeding program. In these strange encounters, the aliens carefully watch as women, men, and children are required either to observe or physically interact with bizarre-looking “offspring.”

After the primary experiences, the abductee is walked into a special room that I call the incubatorium. Here she sees scores of what appear to be fetuses in the process of incubation. They may be upright in containers floating in a liquid solution, or they may be lying down in either dry or liquid environments. Abductees report as many as fifty to one hundred fetuses gestating in this room. The containers are often attached to an apparatus that is either in the center of the room or off to the side; this apparatus appears to be responsible for the life-support systems. The abductee can hear a whirring or humming sound coming from the apparatus.

James Austino was taken into an incubatorium when he was fourteen years old. As is usual in these situations, the Beings offered no explanation for why they were showing it to him.

Can you get a glimpse into any of them?

There’s like all these tubes running straight up to the wall, liquid or something in them.

Is there anything in the tubes, other than the liquid?

Yeah, I think so. It’s like a machine with twenty or thirty tubes. The whole room is like round with them.

Are these just all in a clump, or are they lining the walls, or… ?

There’s like the machine, and they’re all sitting up on the machine, going straight up. And they line the wall. It’s like a big fish tank or something, each one of them’s a little fish tank…. It’s like blue liquid. There’s lights underneath each tube, shining up straight into it.

Is this guy still with you when you go into this room?

Yes.

Where is he standing?

Next to me. He looks at me. His hand’s on my back.

What happens next?

There’s little things in each of these tubes.

What do these little things look like?

Hamsters.

You mean, they’re animate?

Bald hamsters, just kind of lying in there with wires and stuff attached to it. Looks like hamsters.

Do you stand to watch this, or does he have you sit down?

He just walks me in the middle, tells me to look around, don’t touch anything.

Are all these hamster things the same size?

Yeah, about. But they don’t look like hamsters. They’ve got little black eyes, like curled up, floating in there.

Now you’re saying you’re looking at little black eyes.

Mm-hmm.

Are you looking at babies?

It looks like little ones.

Fetuses?