Secret life: firsthand accounts of UFO abductions (33 page)

Some adventurous people have used more direct methods of intervention. Risking the possibility of injury, Janet Demerest tied herself to the lamp one night; the only thing that happened was that she succeeded in turning around in her sleep and knocking the lamp off the table and breaking it. Ken Rogers tied his ankle loosely with a bathrobe cord to his bedpost, and although we are not sure if any abduction occurred, he received the distinct impression that for a while the aliens were annoyed at what he had done and then simply slipped the cord off his ankle and continued with the abduction.

Resistance to the aliens’ procedures occurs infrequently because most abductees are so closely controlled, both physically and mentally, but when it does happen it offers us an unusual opportunity to observe the aliens when all is not going according to plan. The most common type of resistance is simply to try to get away. Although all abductees sometimes think that they should run, few have the opportunity to do so. Nevertheless, once in a while an abductee bolts. Generally, the Small Beings run after the abductee and retrieve her. Evelyn Livingston was being taken on board the UFO when she managed to run down a hall a little way before she was stopped.

I get up, and I look, and I start to try to run, I think. Down there’s a hall or something, there’s a passageway, and I start to run away. I’m trying to get away, and I thought I’d see something they wouldn’t want me to see, and then I’d be able to do something. They would take me out, they would let me get out if I did something that I wasn’t supposed to do. I could get away. So I was running.

So you have enough muscle control to do that?

Yes. I get a little way.

Is this off to your right, or… ?

It’s like on the right.

Is this a passageway… ?

Kind of something like that.

This is directly off the room, then, or the area that you kind of came in on your knees?

It’s right in the middle of that part. And it was like we were in a passage.

How far do you get?

I don’t get that far. I get a little ways.… I’m trying to run, and I can’t…. Then I’m up against the wall, because I can’t move. I’m pressing against something. They say, “Don’t be afraid.” And then…

Do they run after you?

Just the one is walking toward me, but he doesn’t even look at me; he says, “Don’t be afraid,” but there’s not any expression on his face. He just is walking toward me….

How many steps did you get, do you think?

Maybe twelve, fifteen.

So you got quite a ways, actually.

I got a little ways down the hall. It felt really good to get away….
What happens next?

He’s walking beside me, in front of me a little bit, and I try the other thing, to go backward, instead of running forward to resist it backward, but it’s even harder to do that. And I push, kind of
kick backward. And kicking against it, I can’t do that either. Just with my right foot, I tried to kick.

Kick the… ?

Kick the force, or whatever it is. It’s like I’m on a… moving along, and I can’t even control it.

(Evelyn Livingston, 19, 1980)

Patti Layne was in the process of being examined when she discovered that she could resist physically more than usual. She used the opportunity to jump off the table and run. Before the regression she had wondered about where she had gotten several “burn” marks on her back and arm.

It seems to me that at some point I got a second wind, then I got up, and I don’t think they wanted me to do that.

While they’re doing the examination?

Mm-hmm, like it took every ounce of will that I had. I got up off the table. I just kind of pushed past them. They’re not physically strong, but there’s some other kind of control they have to use, and I think I was really fighting it.

What was he doing when you got up?

I think he was preparing to look up inside of me, but I think I decided I had had just about enough of it.

Do you see yourself actually getting up off the table?

Mm-hmm. I had to push past a couple of little ones.

Do you swing your legs around and stand up?

Mm-hmm. It was kind of wobbly, but I just had to put forth all of my energy and my will to move.

You pushed past them, then?

Mm-hmm.

Are they heavy?

No, they’re very light. If you punched one you could probably send it flying.

When you push past them, do they fall off balance, or do they just move aside?

They don’t really attack you that much. They just kind of backed off a little. They tried to stand in my way, then they backed off.

… So how far do you go?

Not very far, I start walking across the room. I think I walked out the door and into another area.

Alone?

Well, they were close on my heels, but I was trying to move fast.

You were calling the shots, though?

Pretty much. And I was in another area, another control kind of area where they had the window and the machinery. And there was something in the middle of the room. It was like a big round thing sticking up that was luminous, it was lit up. And there was a little bar that went around it, but I found myself being cornered into it. A couple of ones had left their areas in this room, and they started cornering me, like you corner a cat or a rabbit.… But I got my back against it…. And I just got my shoulders pinned up against it.

You say it had a rail around it.

Yeah, but that wasn’t far away from it, and that pressed into the small of my back, kind of like it was drawing me toward it, pulling me back. Maybe it’s magnetic or something, but I guess there wasn’t any metal on me. But I pulled away from it, I felt like it shocked me or burnt me or something. I kept inching around the rail, but they kept moving in…. I kept inching around and around this rail because they were coming at me initially from one side, but then they just surrounded the thing. They came up, and somehow I felt like something just came over me and I was sitting down on the ground by it. I wasn’t touching it, but my head was where the rail was. And there was one of them doing something to my head again.

How do you mean?

I don’t know, I felt like he was sticking something into my head, like up in here.

And he was touching your head with something?

Yes, he was poking something into it. It didn’t really hurt. It wasn’t like somebody was trying to drill something into your head, but you could feel something sticking in and the initial sting.

This is over up above your ear, or… ?

Up in here [she points to a spot above her left ear]. Come to think of it, I had a bump up here too that I didn’t know where I got it. It was sore for a couple of days.

How does that make you feel, or does it at all?

It felt like there was a flash of light in my head, but then I started to feel kind of soothed and tingling all over, like I had just been drugged. I couldn’t really tighten any of my muscles.… Then they put their hands over me and I just started floating again. They floated me up, and back into the examining room. I couldn’t move really, I felt like Jell-O….

What happens next?

I couldn’t move then, and they were busy putting my feet up in stirrups, little raised areas. And he [the Taller Being] starting doing a very intense pelvic procedure.

(Patti Layne, 26, 1988)

Similarly, Will, during an abduction with his wife, also found him self with more muscle control than usual. He was able to run down a hallway with his wife in tow.

I just grabbed Nancy, turned, and went out the door.

Does Nancy say anything to you?

No, she’s not saying anything to me. She’s not talking to me. But I say, “Come on,” and I’m pulling her and she’s going with me.… I turn to my right, I pull her behind me, and we go out the door opening.… There’s a wall on the right, and then that wall bends back and we’re in the big room now. But I keep bending right, like I’m going along the wall there. And there’s another opening, we go in there. That’s where it’s like another room like the first one but there’s no bed in it, no counter.…

Are you holding on to Nancy?

I’ve got her by the wrist.

She’s cooperating?

Yes, she’s coming with me. I mean, if I pull, she comes. But she’s still not saying anything, it’s like she’s in a trance still.… I keep having the sense that all of this is staged. It’s like they want me to think I’m getting away. Like it’s, it’s like I’m thinking I want to get out of here, and so they’re going to let me think that I can get loose.

Okay.

I don’t know why I’m thinking that, because I keep thinking I’m going to get into this damned room. I don’t even know how the hell to get out of here. They’re going to get me anyway, but it’s like you’ve got to do something. I’ve got to get the hell out of here.…

You go through the big room into…

Well, I go along the edge of the big room, alongside the wall, and I go into the first door 1 find.

What’s in that room?

Nothing. It’s like the room that they had the bed counter in, but there’s no bed in it. It’s just empty. But there’s the same rectangles on the wall and everything. It’s the same thing except for no bed in it.

Is there anybody in this room?

No, I don’t see anybody. But there’s an opening there. I keep thinking it’s like a cellar, it’s all dark inside. It’s real dark. I remember turning to Nancy and saying, “ That’s not a very good idea. I don’t think we can get out of there.”

Does Nancy respond?

No, she doesn’t. She’s not saying anything.…

Do you walk into the room, or do you just look into the room?

I ran into the room.

[Will said he had the sense that aliens were following them. Then two Taller Beings caught up with them in this room and immediately began to exercise control over Will.]

Yeah, there are two tall ones, just two tall ones, that’s all.

Okay. Do they come over to you?

Yeah. They, it’s like I feel myself getting limp, like I’m losing mobility. It feels like, it just feels shitty. I’m losing the ability to move out of there. I have the sense that they’re not amused.

Do they communicate with you?

I have the sense that they were telling me that I could have caused serious problems if I had gone the wrong way. I’m thinking, “What do you mean? This is serious enough.” But they’re saying it was very serious if I had not stopped.

Okay.

They said, “Highly serious.” They said, “You would be no more if you had not stopped.” And they are not happy at all. They are definitely not very happy about it.

What happens next?

They’re up in each of our faces, both of them. And I can’t fight it. They might as well do what they’re going to do….

Do you get a sense of what happens next? Do you just sort of stay there near the edge of this big room?

I don’t really remember that. I just remember kind of drifting off. They told me, “You’re going to sleep.” It’s like they put emphasis on “You’re going to sleep. You’re going.” I’m thinking, “Yeah, but where?” They said, “To sleep.” Now I feel real drained. I feel like I’m a battery that’s been completely discharged, extremely weak. I feel like I’m shutting down.

(Will Parker, 33, 1988)

Another common form of resistance is for the abductee to try to get up from the table when she is lying on it. Barbara Archer tried it, and the aliens handled it by calling over the Taller Being.

I sat up. I don’t want to be there anymore. They kind of looked upset when I did that.

When you sat up?

Yes. And the other one came in.

How do you know they were upset?

Well, they sort of rushed over, and then in a few minutes I guess they told the other one or something, because he was there. I just have this feeling like I wasn’t supposed to sit up.

Do you continue to sit up, though?

I sat up until the other one came in…. The other one came in, and I felt a little bit better. He came over. He touched me.

Where does he touch you?

Well, at first he touched my hand, but then he moved his hand to my head.

Are you still sitting up, then?

Well, when he came over and touched my hand, I lay back down again.

(Barbara Archer, 22, 1988)

One of the most bizarre episodes of resistance during an abduction occurred when Jason Howard was drunk. He had gone to bed having had too much to drink, and then was abducted. The aliens were performing procedures on him when he simply decided to get up off the table. They tried to calm him down and asked him questions such as “How do you feel,” but he would have none of it. He laughed, swung his arms around wildly in mock karate chops, and managed to stand in the middle of the room. The Small Beings immediately backed up against the wall. The Taller Being tried to reason
with him, but to no avail. Then the Taller Being came up to him, stared in his eyes, and the next thing he knew he was standing in his underpants on the grass of his college campus about a mile from where he had been abducted.