Secret life: firsthand accounts of UFO abductions (21 page)

For many abductees, seeing the features of the baby can be traumatic and frightening. Many women do not want to see the baby. They may claim at first that they only saw the top of the baby’s head. Others say they held the baby so close to them that they did not get a good look at it. But in fact they do see the baby. It has a very large head for its body. It has large eyes with some white showing. Even for a baby it has small ears, a small nose, a small mouth with thin lips, and a pointed chin. Its body is long and thin. Its hands and fingers are long and thin. Its pale-white or grayish skin is almost translucent. Its hair may be within the normal spectrum of hair colors, but very often it is “white” and is usually described as sparse and thin. The baby is not chubby with baby fat. It does not look like a baby alien, nor does it look like a baby human.

Abductees universally state that the baby does not have the normal human reactions of a human infant. It is almost always listless. It does not respond to touch as a normal baby would. It does not squirm; it does not have a grasping reflex with its hands. It is lifeless, yet it is not dead. Most women think that there is something terribly wrong with the baby. They feel that they must hold the baby to help it survive. After holding the baby for a while, women report that the baby seems “better.” It appears to have a bit more energy or to be thriving slightly.

The baby does not communicate with the woman as a normal
baby would. She may speak to the baby as a mother would to her child, but the baby does not respond by vocalization or by movement. Yet the baby’s eyes may have a hypnotic quality to them. Some women say that they are unable to stop gazing into the baby’s eyes, which hold a fascination for abductees far more than an ordinary infant’s eyes. Some women say that the baby appears to be a “wise baby,” that it has some sort of “knowledge”—that it can “communicate” on an almost mystical level.

It is so important to the aliens for the woman to touch the baby— and to
want
to touch the baby—that they will do anything to instill a bond between the woman and the baby to facilitate that touch. But child-bonding is difficult. The woman does not have a familiar connection to the baby. The woman does not feel like its mother—she has not carried it for nine months and “given birth” in the conventional sense. Furthermore, the baby does not look fully human, and it might just as easily repel a woman as attract her to it.

The aliens try to facilitate child-bonding in four ways. First, they try to instill in the woman the idea that the baby is a “nice” baby, a “beautiful” baby, a “good” baby. It is as if the very act of saying it can make the woman believe it. In fact, many women, because of the extraordinary qualities of the situation, feel that they
want
to hold the baby. The communication serves to reinforce what they already feel. When they do not want to hold the baby, the message makes them less hesitant.

The second manner in which the aliens encourage women to hold babies is related to envisioning procedures, making the women visually aware that the baby looks “normal.” Women report that they were told the baby was beautiful and when they looked at the baby, it was beautiful—at least that is what they were then seeing. They know, however, that the baby is at the very least “different-looking” and perhaps frightening. The fear is bypassed in favor of the aesthetically pleasing and less-frightening image placed in their minds. Sometimes the abductee will be horrified at how the baby looks and will watch it change into another visage before her eyes.

The third way that the aliens bond the woman to the baby is to tell her that the baby is her baby—and there is reason to believe that this may very well be true. Women report that they feel a genuine bond between them and the baby. The baby’s hair might be the same
color as theirs—red, for instance—or they might instantly recognize in some other way that the baby is theirs. This might be another sort of mind manipulation, but enough evidence exists to suggest that women are being shown babies that are the products of their eggs. Knowing this increases their desire to hold the baby. They want to love it and nurture it. They can become extremely depressed and anxious when the baby is taken away. They want the baby to stay with them, and taking it away can cause severe stress.

The last and even more bizarre method of ensuring the bonding between mother and child is also the rarest: the dummy birth. There have been reports, for example, of aliens arranging a “delivery.” The aliens take the abductee into a room and place her on a table. The aliens communicate to her that she is about to have a baby, and she realizes that she has been placed in a “birthing” position. Suddenly she can “see” herself giving birth in a movielike image in her mind. Sometimes she “views” another woman giving birth. She can see the head and shoulders of a baby coming out. It is a neat, uncomplicated, painless, and generally bloodless birth. While she is “seeing” these images, she is puzzled about what is going on. She was not pregnant before and she knows that she is not giving birth now. After the image of the birth stops, the aliens suddenly produce a baby from between her legs. Usually the baby that is “delivered” is not a newborn. The Beings are happy. They say, “Isn’t this a beautiful baby? Isn’t this a beautiful baby? Here is your baby. Hold your baby.” They place the baby in her arms. The woman holds the baby, but she is puzzled about what has just happened. It is as if the aliens think that the form of the act of birth has as powerful a bonding effect on the woman as does an actual birth. (This procedure should not be confused with the primary fetal extraction procedures, wherein abductees report that a fetus has actually been removed. It is also possible that this might be an envisioning procedure.)

The fact that baby presentations do not occur during each abduction suggests that it is not crucial for the offspring to have ongoing contact with their mothers. Any human contact may be sufficient. When Melissa Bucknell refused to hold the baby, instead of forcibly holding her arms up to cradle the baby, the aliens simply gave it to her brother, who had been abducted with her, and he held the baby.

In 1988 Barbara Archer found herself in a baby-presentation situation in which the aliens compelled her to feed the child.

And then they told me that I could hold one. And they sort of pointed me toward this one baby. And I think that it was a girl baby.

Was this one of the more active ones, or less active?

She seemed fairly alert, and she wasn’t terribly active. She wasn’t kicking or anything. So they asked me if I wanted to pick her up. I felt kind of scared to pick her up at first, but the nurse woman handed her to me. I kind of liked holding her, but I was so afraid, she was so fragile-looking.

Was she heavy?

No, she wasn’t very heavy at all.

Do they want you to hold her in a certain way, or just hold her?

Well, at first they let me hold her the way I want to, and just sort of… she had big eyes, but they weren’t like theirs, they weren’t really ugly.

Could you see whites in the eyes?

I think so. I don’t really remember, but I think so. I think there are, if any, though, just a little bit. They were sort of shaped like theirs, but not as big and ugly.

Are her eyes open, I guess?

Yes.

Does she just sort of look around?

Yes. She’s just kind of hanging out, or whatever.

I guess what I’m asking is whether the baby looks at your eyes also, or…?

Well, she sort of looks at me, I mean, she doesn’t…

She doesn’t focus…

No.

So you hold the baby the way you want to?

Yes, just holding her. I felt like I should hold her close to me. This may sound strange, but I felt like I needed to protect her. I felt very, I wanted to take care of her. I was kind of afraid for her.

Maternal?

A little bit. I mean, I didn’t really, I sort of felt… I can’t really explain it, I mean, I felt that way toward her. I don’t know if I just felt that way toward her, or if I felt that way toward all these little babies. But I felt worried because she felt so delicate.

I guess you’re saying concerned and protective?

Yes, I felt really protective. Then I felt kind of silly because everyone was kind of standing around there watching me with this baby.

You mean the two who brought you in, and…?

The nurse. One of the other two told me to feed her, and I told them that I can’t do that. And I think that they encouraged me to try, or something. I remember this happening from before too. It’s still as stupid as it was then for me to be doing this…. But I just tried for a few seconds. They didn’t force me to or anything.

Did the baby have a sucking mechanism?

I think it did. I mean, I think it tried to.

Some babies, normal, healthy babies, have a very strong sucking mechanism, there’s no mistaking it.

Right. I felt that this baby knew what it was supposed to do, but it wasn’t, it wasn’t as strong an instinct…

You didn’t sense the baby was used to this?

No. No, I didn’t. I felt like I didn’t want to give her to them.

Did you put the baby up to one breast, or both breasts, or…

Just one. Just my left.

You sort of don’t want to give the baby up?

No. I’m sort of worried for her a little bit.

Sure.

But then they took her. They said I had to give her to the nurse. I think that I asked them if I could see her again.

What do they say?

I don’t think that they gave me an answer at all.

You mean they just took the baby and put it back and that was the end of it?

I think so, yeah. And then I said something like, “I want to see her again,” and I don’t think they answered me. I feel like maybe I will, but I don’t know if they’ll let me. I mean, they didn’t say yes or no, they didn’t say anything. I think that they said “It’s time to go.”

Do you see them put the baby back…?

Yeah. I feel really bad leaving her there….

(Barbara Archer, 21, 1988)

Karen Morgan’s experiences with babies have been quite complex. For example, she was asked to play with a baby. This play period might be in a large room where Karen will see several other naked women engaging in the same activity. The women hold the babies up in the air, tickle them, and make baby sounds to amuse them. The babies do not respond. They do not laugh or smile, and they do not make sounds in return. Sometimes Karen and the other women might be told to “wash” the baby. A baby lies in its holder, and the woman must take a “sponge” and wipe the baby with it. Once again, the object might be to touch the baby as opposed to actually cleaning it.

Frequently the offspring that the aliens tell the woman to hold is a child who appears to be between two and ten years old, or even older. Like the babies, the child is light in weight and listless. He has a larger than usual head, large eyes with small whites, a small nose, a small mouth with thin lips, small ears, and thin hair. His body is unusually long and skinny. He is semiresponsive and appears to be sickly by human standards. His eyes might have a hypnotic quality to them. These offspring are usually dressed in white “smocks” or loose-fitting gowns, but some wear a black, skin-tight garb. They are silent and not very active, although they are sometimes curious about the human.

Sometimes the aliens will bring out one small child for the abductee to see. At first, the child hides behind the alien as if it were shy. Sometimes the child is preoccupied with something. One woman observed a toddler dressed in skin-tight black garb intently manipulating a large toy block. After a short time the offspring interacts with the abductee. The child will sometimes touch the human and quite often stare into her eyes. Both men and women report that when they see the small child they have an instant rapport with it; they “know” that in some way the child is profoundly connected to them.

On other occasions, the abductee will be required to physically interact with six or seven offspring as each child waits its turn to come up to her and be hugged. Or the abductee will play with the children, which entails much touching and holding. The Beings observe the abductee closely while she is holding or hugging the children.

When Janet Demerest was nine years old, she had an experience with a child that included staring procedures and touching. An alien
led her through what she perceived to be a large warehouselike room over to where a woman abductee and a young, odd-looking girl were waiting on a “cot.”

And then the man told me to play with the little girl.

Now can you describe the little girl?…

She doesn’t look real, she looks like the man who brought me there.

Does she have small eyes, or medium eyes, or big eyes?

I don’t know.

What color is her skin?

She looks like a shadow, like the man, sort of grayish black…. She’s thin, but you can’t see her bones.

Does she have long arms, or short arms, or medium arms?

They look like they’re thin, and that makes them look long.

Can you describe her hands and fingers?

Her fingers are long and thin.

Are they tapered at the end—or something else?