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Jerry, a 32-year old clerical worker and a mother of three in Massachusetts, reports of the terror that sometimes comes in the middle of the night. It always starts with her feeling a "ringing" in her ears and a "crackling" energy, that makes her hair "stand up". She then immediately knows that the unwanted, short, bald, "almond eyed" visitors are back.
Jerry estimates that she has been abducted at least fifty times since she was a toddler. "At first I thought they were cute little people," she says, though they did not frighten her until she was thirteen. That was when she claims they started conducting painful gynecological experiments, such as inserting embryos and extracting fetuses. Mary Oscarson, a 33-year old data management specialist in Connecticut, remembers many encounters over the last thirteen years. At times, terrified of being alone, she says she has invited various friends to stay overnight. Four of them, she claims, heard loud noises, saw bright lights and experienced paralysis before waking with scratches on their bodies. Mary has also recorded bizarre non-human sounds she has heard during the night. She also gets a cystlike bump on her arm that tingles, just before she has an encounter, and sometimes she finds puncture marks on her body when she wakes up.
A Brazilian man, Mr Boas, tells the bizarre story about how he was dragged into a spacecraft, stripped off his clothes, sponged all over with aphrodisiacal fluid and had blood syphoned from his chin through a tube. Worse was to follow. Terrified but compliant, he had to endure sex with a beautiful naked female entity and recalls how she afterwards pointed at her stomach and then towards him and then finally towards the sky.
Leah A. Haley's story is of a more complex character. She believes that she has been abducted several times by aliens, and that the US military has been harassing her to frighten her in order to make her keep quiet about her experiences. In 1960, Leah then nine years old, and her brother, then seven, saw what they thought was a spacecraft landing in the woods near their home in Gardendale, Alabama.
Decades later, in July 1990, during a visit to her mother and brother in Gardendale, the family started to discuss extraterrestrials due to a newspaper article. Leah then encountered a very strange, real dream, "I was in a spaceship, in a round room, lying on a platform with small chalky white creatures, with big black eyes doing some kind of medical examination with me," she recalls. After this, the dreams started to increase and Leah contacted John Carpenter, a social worker known for his work with UFO abductees, in the hope of finding some mental disorder that would explain what was going on.
Instead, during 15 sessions of hypnotic regression, she recalled countless specific abductions, starting from the age of three. She also recalled her abduction by the military personnel. She remembers being aboard an alien craft when it crashed near a beach and that she was escorted away from the place by military personnel. Since September 1990, Leah claims, she has been followed by military people in navy blue or white cars, because, as she speculates, the military is very concerned about that she will go public with her experiences.
Leah has also found more than a hundred strange marks on different parts of her body, including injection marks, scoop marks, and red, circular vaccinationlike marks.
Richard Price, 43 years of age, is currently writing a book about his abduction experience. He claims that during the abduction, at the age of 8, a piece of thin, dark material was implanted in his lower abdomen and that it remained there without irritation until August 1989, when it worked its way out through the skin.
A professor, a physicist from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who has been studying the object says that although he has found no evidence that the artifact is alien, he is not sure what it is or how it was produced. There are many stories like Richard Prices', that tell about people having had objects of metal implanted in their bodies during abductions and then, when they later did consult a doctor, found after examinations and x-rays, that they did indeed have a foreign object inside their bodies. But nevertheless, there are still hardly any physical proof, objects that actually have been removed from people's bodies, or even stories like Richard Price's, whose implanted object eventually came through the skin "naturally".
Many psychologists agree that abduction tales spring not from the alien world of extraterrestrials, but from the dark interior of the human psyche.
Professor Baker, professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky does not say that abductees are lying. Rather he thinks that they may read something that reminds them of an experience they believe they have had. Once they contact a UFO investigator, the attention makes them feel important. "And the more the volunteer is observed and interrogated, the greater the motivation is to come up with a cracking good story," he says. Equally, there are psychologists who take the abductees seriously and who really are trying to approach and investigate their stories as professionally as possible.
One of them is professor John Mack, a Harvrd professor, psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize winner. He has for the last four years worked specifically with about 100 people whom he calls experiencers. He says that the experiences of these people are not products of mental illness, but that these people speak genuinely about something powerful that truly has happened to them. He further stresses that while doing his investigations he exhausted all possibilities that could be related to psychological or even psychosocial factors.
Professor Mack emphasizes that the people recounted their close encounters with great reluctance. Many of them did not even want to believe their own memories, but after a two-hour initial interview, followed by hypnotic sessions, the abductees began to feel more comfortable about their experiences.
by HARRY KANTARELIS
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