This special section of UFO Magazine compiles three in-depth articles that tackle the controversial use of hypnotic regression in UFO abduction research. While the technique has been widely used by investigators seeking answers to “missing time” and alleged encounters, these pieces present contrasting views from within the field, examining both the potential value and inherent dangers of the method. The discussion includes perspectives from a well-known abductee and author, one of the field’s most prolific investigators, and a folklorist who brings an academic lens to the issue. Each article contributes to a broader understanding of whether hypnotic regression can truly be trusted to uncover fact — or whether it risks distorting what little is known about these mysterious experiences.

Whitley Strieber – “Technique Out-Of-Control”
In a strongly critical piece, Whitley Strieber outlines his concerns with the use of hypnotic regression in UFO abduction investigations. Best known for Communion and Transformation, Strieber describes how his own experiences led him to seek hypnosis, but quickly warns that the technique is vulnerable to misuse — particularly by untrained or ideologically driven investigators. He writes, “I have seen what I feel are abuses perpetrated by ‘investigators’ who are really nothing more than part-time, unlicensed and unregulated mental health counselors.” Strieber argues that regression, while potentially helpful in therapeutic settings, should not be used to establish factual narratives about alleged encounters. He contends that suggestibility, confirmation bias, and lack of proper oversight have led to a distorted view of what abduction experiences entail. Instead, Strieber urges the community to focus on conscious, unhypnotized testimony and to avoid prematurely shaping narratives around investigator expectations. His warning: unless treated with proper scientific and ethical rigor, hypnosis may do more to conceal the truth than reveal it.

Budd Hopkins – “One Ufologist’s Methodology”
Budd Hopkins, often credited with bringing abduction research into the mainstream, offers a defense of hypnotic regression and lays out his methodology in detail. He began using the technique in the late 1970s after investigating multiple cases that featured missing time and recurring trauma. Hopkins emphasizes that hypnosis is not the first tool he reaches for, but rather one he uses after exhausting conventional interviews and investigative steps. “In roughly one-fourth of the abduction cases I’ve investigated, the subject has recalled virtually all of his or her basic abduction scenario prior to hypnosis,” he writes. Hopkins also stresses the importance of using neutral, non-leading language and notes that the details recalled by abductees—whether hypnotized or not—tend to align. He introduces concepts such as “screen memories,” where the mind masks traumatic encounters with benign imagery, such as owls or deer, to protect the witness. Hopkins maintains that hypnosis, when used responsibly, has helped uncover consistent patterns in abduction cases, including apparent medical examinations, reproductive procedures, and the recurrence of experiences over a witness’s lifetime. He warns against throwing the tool out entirely, stating that “screen memories clearly establish the need for hypnosis if we are ever to know the whole truth about any abduction experience.”

Dr. Thomas Bullard – “Hypnosis No ‘Truth Serum’”
Dr. Thomas Bullard, a folklorist with a Ph.D. from Indiana University, approaches the topic from an academic and methodological standpoint. His article focuses on whether hypnosis can be considered a scientifically valid tool in abduction research. Citing decades of psychological literature, Bullard explains that hypnosis is not a form of “truth serum,” but a complex process that can lead to both enhanced memory and increased susceptibility to suggestion. Bullard compares 104 abduction cases—74 derived from hypnotic recall and 30 based on conscious memory—and finds that the two sets of data are broadly consistent. He notes that “in nearly 3/4 of the time, the results were homogeneous among hypnotic and non-hypnotic cases.” While some traits—such as undressing or implants—appear more frequently in hypnotic sessions, Bullard argues that the overall structure and content of abduction reports are not significantly distorted by the use of regression. He also addresses experiments where non-abductees, when guided under hypnosis, generated fictional abduction stories. Though these raise valid concerns, Bullard concludes that they don’t account for the internal consistency and recurring patterns found across genuine cases. His final assessment: hypnosis has limitations, but when used with caution, it remains a viable tool—one that must be paired with corroborating evidence, multiple-witness cases, and physical data.

Together, these articles offer a balanced and critical look at hypnotic regression and its place in abduction research as it stood in 1989. The technique continues to be a point of contention, with opinions split between those who see it as a doorway to hidden truth and those who see it as a source of contamination in the historical record. As with much in the UFO field, the debate remains unsettled — but this collection adds important context to an issue that sits at the heart of how we investigate one of the phenomenon’s most persistent mysteries.

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Background

In August 1993, 27-year-old Kelly Cahill, her husband and three children were driving home after a visit to a friend’s house. After midnight the Cahills first noticed the lights of a rounded craft with windows around it. It silently hovered above the road. Different colored lights were clearly visible on the bottom of the object.

The following article was posted here, but has long disappeared. The article is reproduced here for archival and research purposes.

AN EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTER IN THE DANDENONG FOOTHILLS

by Bill Chalker, International UFO Reporter, Sept/Oct 1994, Vol 19, No 5

As a scientist I am always aware of the maxim that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. To date Mainstream UFO events have revealed some compelling evidence for their physical reality. The challenge for researchers has always been to determine if that evidence is consistent with an alien reality. Comparable evidence to support the reality of abduction events has been lacking Or relatively uncompelling.

In my two decades of research into Australian abduction claims, it has been difficult not to hold the position that abduction cases have perhaps told me more about the human condition than they have about UFOs. What follows, however, is a report On an affair which may amount to evidence for a reality behind abduction reports.

Kelly Cahill, a 27 -year-old housewife and mother of three children, is a pivotal figure in a remarkable episode which may have much to tell experiencers and researchers alike. She contacted me on October 4, 1993, seeking assistance in understanding a bizarre experience she underwent near the outer Melbourne suburban housing estate of Narre Warren North, in the foothills of the Dandenongs, Victoria, between Belgrave and Fountain Gate, during the early hours of August 8, 1993.

Kelly told me that apart from her husband with her in their car, she was aware of another vehicle farther down the hill from their own position. That car contained at least two persons, a man and a woman. She paid little heed to them at the time because she and her husband had their attention riveted on a massive UFO which had landed in the field opposite them.

Because Kelly lived in Victoria and I live in New South Wales, I passed details of Kelly’s experience on to John Auchettl of Phenomena Research Australia (PRA) and urged Kelly to contact him. PRA got on the case immediately .

By November 17 PRA had located the man and woman Kelly had seen that night. It turned out that the couple also had a friend (a woman) with them. These witnesses took Auchettl to the encounter site, to a spot consistent with Kelly’s description. The group’s drawings of the UFO and entities also closely coincide with Kelly’ s.

Here we have a striking situation. Two groups of persons unknown to each other have witnessed the same UFO encounter and entities. They also experienced missing time, and each group has been available to competent investigators. Independent witnesses have provided information which enable cross-checking and correlations to reveal a remarkable amount of similar information. The result is a compelling case for the reality of the strange events.described. The ontological status of the events is further strengthened by a range of apparently related physical traces, including ground traces, a magnetic anomaly, and effects on some of the witnesses.

What is perhaps even more extraordinary about this case is that the second group described seeing yet another car parked farther back down from them. In it was (it appeared) one male who seemed to be gazing fixedly toward the encounter site. So we have the situation of three cars present: Kelly and her husband in one near the top of a hill, the three-person group (Bill, Jan, and Glenda) another 150 meters down the hill, and the other car, with one visible occupant, about 25 to 30 meters farther back.

The first two cars were parked with their lights off. The other had its lights on. This circumstance may explain an apparent anomaly, in that Kelly was able to glance down and spot the second car, with what to her seemed only two persons (in fact three), but the group of three could not see Kelly, her husband, or their car. It was a dark and cloudy night. Evidently Kelly could see the second car only because it was backlit by the headlights of the third car.

From the trio’ s testimony, investigators could determine the location of this third car. The male was looking at the UFO’s position through a break in the vegetation cover. The trio’s evidence coupled with Kelly’ s allowed for triangulation of the encounter site with the UFO. The location was consistent with the anomalies discovered (to be discussed later). Unfortunately, this potential additional witness has yet to be found.

Typically witnesses to these sorts of events are known to each other, and such relationships often beg the question of whether the witnessed events have emerged from shared delusions or even collusion. Through Auchettl, Kelly became aware of the independent witnesses, but they knew nothing of her existence until quite recently. Kelly tried hard to persuade Auchettl to give her the other group’ s names, but he refused because he wanted to maintain the integrity of the testimony. Only when the investigation was completed did the three learn what Kelly had been saying. So far they have not attempted to contact her. PRA has uncovered no evidence of a previous connection between the Cahills and the other group.

After the encounter Kelly’ s recollection faded from conscious memory, despite animated discussions about it with her husband in the immediate wake of the incident. Her husband remembered at least the UFO encounter but not the entities and has not acknowledged the missing time. It was her husband’ s reference to the August 8 event at a barbecue on September 16 that led to Kelly’s initial confused attempts to reconcile this troubling situation. Kelly found this temporary amnesia along, especially since she has vivid memories going all the way back to age two.

Other events began to be seen in a different and bizarre perspective. These included a “dream” she had immediately after the encounter, upon getting home and going to sleep on August 8, and two “dreamings” in September. Each involved (apparently) the same entities as those encountered on the road. The latter two “dreamings” had a strange physical dimension. A further two “dreamings” followed, one on October 23 and the last during January 1994.

Alarmed, Kelly sought help with little success from universities and aviation authorities. The latter gave her two UFO contact numbers, one in Victoria and mine in Sydney.

After getting no satisfaction from the Victorian group, she contacted me, and after our preliminary discussion of her experience, the PRA investigation commenced.

What follows is the transcript of an interview Kelly gave to my associate Robb Tilley on March 21 of this year.

The details are consistent with those recounted to me on October 4, 1993, in numerous conversations with me since then, with the PRA investigation, and with a manuscript she is writing about her experience.

THE INCIDENT

My husband and I were driving to my girl friend’s place up in the mountains. It was her daughter’s . . . birthday.

It was just after dark, and we were nearly there, about half an hour from her place. It takes us about an hour and a half from our place. It was just after 7.

[The area has] little bits of field . . . and then you run right into a major shopping centre. . . .

My husband drives really fast. . . . I’m just busy looking out the window . It’s turned dark, and I look over towards this field as we are going past, and I see a ring of orange lights. It was the first time I ever thought I had seen something that wasn’ t normal. . . . I was going to shut my mouth. I thought, “No, he’ s just going to have a go at me.” But a couple of minutes up the road I said, “I swear I saw a UFO.” He said, “Don’t be stupid! It was probably a helicopter.” I said, “It wasn’t making any noise. It was just sitting on the ground. Anyway, after a few jibes at me, he forgot all about it, and we arrived at [my girl friend’s place].

When we were there, my friends bring up this conversation, about what I thought I had seen. Her father says, “You think you’ve seen little green men or something, . Kelly?” and all this sort of stuff. It was turned into a joke, and I just totally forgot about it.

We went out and played bingo. We came back. We had a bit of a problem about what time we left. As far as my husband’s concerned, because we got home at 2:30 in the morning, it means we must have left at one o’clock.

But that night I think we left at a quarter to 12. We got back from bingo at about 1 1, and we didn’t stay for very long because [my friend’s]daughter’ s boy friend had just . . . split up with her and had gone home with the new girl friend . . . and she was really upset and crying, and we didn’t want to stay. So we weren’t there for that long at all.

THE ENCOUNTER BEGINS

Anyway, we were driving back down the road in the same stretch. Both of us,just me and my husband . . . we both saw this ring, mind you … . in front of us, hovering above the road. It was just something sitting there. . . . I couldn’t tell what it was. We were at first far away, but as you got closer to it was sort of . . . well, it wasn’t like the orange light in the field. It was a round shape with some sort of glass around, or what looked like windows and lights around the bottom. Because it was dark, you couldn’t really tell at first. But as we got closer and closer, there was no noise or anything.

Even my husband’s going. “You’re right! That’s something. That’s very, very strange.” And I swear we saw people in there, and then just as I said to him, “I swear there’s people in there,” it just shot off to the left as fast as it could go. I mean it just disappeared. Within a split second it had gone.

We kept driving and about a kilometre ahead, all of a sudden, there’s this really, really bright light in front of us, and I’ve got my hand up, up above my brow, to look out the window, because it’s that bright, but I can’t see anything.

I said to [my husband], “What are you going to do?” He said, “l’m going to keep driving.” From there, that is the last we remembered until . . . I knew I was going to see a UFO, you know, I just knew, because of what we had seen, I’d seen it twice in one night and he had seen it once . . . and the adrenalin is pumping, the heart is thumping, I’m so excited. All of a sudden I’m sitting in the car, and I’m saying to my husband, “What happened?” And he says to me, “I don’t know. We must have gone around a corner or something.” By the time we got home, he was definite of everything, but at that time he didn’t know what happened either. I said to him, “I swear I’ve had a blackout,” because adrenalin just doesn’t disappear in a split second
like that. I mean your heart is going mad! And all of a sudden. . . .

One thing that really annoyed me was that I could smell vomit. I couldn’t figure out where the smell of vomit was coming from.

I argue about this half the way home until it started getting ridiculous, and I ended up just shutting up to stop all the fighting that was going to come out of it, you know, because we fight like cats and dogs. . . .

As we were getting close to our home, about 20 minutes away from where we live (there was no one on the road), I saw a figure standing on the side of the road a tall dark figure. It was only for a couple of seconds, and I didn’t relate it to anything until much later on at all. But it made me turn my head. I kept it in my mind, because it reminded me of a story I was told when I was a little girl about the headless horseman on the side of the road . . .because it was on the side of the road. It wasn’t headless or anything,just this tall black figure. I saw it for only a couple of seconds, and then I couldn’t see it anymore, but I thought I saw it.

POST ENCOUNTER FALLOUT

I get home. That night I actually had a dream about UFOs to top it all off, that something happened . . . but a whole lot of it went out of my head.

Kelly and her husband argued about what happened for part of the way home. They agree they saw a UFO but cannot agree on the feeling Kelly had of experiencing a blackout or missing time and seeing people. They also could both smell vomit. Each experienced unexplained stomach pain. For Kelly it was like a pain from severe muscle fatigue which radiated from her lower abdomen to the upper shoulders.

Later, after they got home, Kelly experienced menstrual bleeding and became quite ill. She had had her period only the week before. Eventually she entered the hospital with a womb infection. The doctors there said she must have been pregnant; either that, or she had had some kind of gynaecological operation. In fact, she had had neither in recent times. A strange triangular mark was also found on her abdomen along with a scar.

Kelly elaborated on these matters: But when I got home that night, that’s when I found the triangular mark below my navel, with what I thought was a little laparoscopy cut, and I also started bleeding that night. Three and a half weeks later I ended up in hospital… . . [The hospital] actually did a laparoscopy, another laparoscopy. This was not when I first went in. I went back in later, another six weeks after that, because I had a lot of pains in my stomach and just wanted to have it checked to see what it was. And I still had the triangular mark there. . . .

They just did a blooming laparoscopy cut right next to it. [There was] no comment whatsoever. . . . I have a letter from a friend saying that she saw it.

CONSCIOUS RECOLLECTIONS

Kelly’s recollections did not come from any hypnosis. Indeed she had only one session well after the main investigation had been completed. It failed to reveal anything of significance. Feeling that at best she had been only lightly under, she felt the session had been of little value.

With regard to the August 8 encounter, she recalls crossing the road to the paddock, seeing at first one tall black being with glowing red eyes, then many. These latter seemed to be approaching rapidly, as if gliding. The large group of tall black beings apparently were split into two groups, one focused on Kelly and her husband, the other one on the other people who had also crossed farther down the road. The rest of her recollection is largely confusing and fragmented. She experienced voices and blindness.

Kelly elaborated on how her memory came back: We went down to a girl friend’s place a little bit later, a few weeks later, and the subject of UFOs came up, and her husband was saying, “Oh, I don’t think they really exist.” It was my husband that said, “If you had seen what Kelly and I saw, you might change your mind.” I said, “What are you talking about?” You know, if I’d seen something, I’d have remembered it. I didn’t even remember that I had seen it hovering in the middle of the road. It had been totally blanked out of my mind. And I search my head for days, because I knew he wouldn’t say something if he didn’t mean it. He was telling me, “Remember, on the way home from [your girl friend’s], remember, it wasn’t making any noise?” And I was just sitting there. I couldn’t remember it.

And a few days later, all of a sudden I remembered it! It hit me! And .. . . then I remembered going into the light, and then I couldn’t remember anything else. A couple of weeks after that, this started to really bug me, because I remembered that light, and I remember arguing with him all the wayhome, but it was all I did remember.

I went up to [my girl friend’s]house again in October, this time for her other daughter’s . . .birthday, and again we went to bingo. On the way home from bingo that night, we went along the same road, and as we passed a certain spot I just got this incredible feeling of terror go through me, I mean absolute terror. All of a sudden I just started remembering, and by the next morning I had remembered just about everything that happened, except there’s still missing time that I can’t.

What we had actually done, we had driven . . . into the light, but the road curved, and the light we had thought was in front of us was actually to our right-hand side. It was in the field, and it was massive. . . . [Estimates put the possible diameter of the UFO at the “size of a house” or perhaps close to 5O meters.] So it was very big.Why I knew it was very big was because we could have driven for five minutes. The road sort of wound around this part.

You could have driven for five minutes and not had it out of your sight the whole time.

Kelly and her husband had a clear, uninterrupted view of a craft of enormous size. It was much larger than the UFO seen a few minutesearlier, and it was at ground level in the field at the bottom of a gully area.

I asked him to stop the car, and we both got out. I remembered leaning back in, actually on the floor, to pick up my handbag, because I didn’t go anywhere without my handbag. And that’ s one of the sort of things that triggered off a lot of these memories doing that. The other thing was telling myself, “You are conscious. This is real! This is happening! This is real!”. . . .

For a while it was just absolutely terrifying, but you can’t help it because it sounds really wacky. I mean this is not the way it’s supposed to happen at all. . . .

We crossed over the road. We jumped the gutter, and we walked up. . .I looked down the road, and there was another car-a light blue car-pulled up. Some people got out and went across the road. I only thought it was two, but it was actually three, but I didn’ t pay much attention. They must have been at least a hundred meters down the road from us. When you’ve got something like that in front of you, and you’ we got people down the road . . . well, I was more interested in what was in front of me than them, so I didn’t get any detail. . . .

I’m standing there, and we are looking at this thing [for about 3O seconds]. All of a sudden there is a black figure on the field. It’s about seven foot tall. . . . I knew it was really tall at the time.

For Kelly this was quite startling. She expected to see a human being, but this was not human. Kelly tried to use thought as a means of communication. She was immediately overwhelmed with fear. Its eyes seemed to turn to a red fire.

At the distance of about 150 meters, they possessed an extraordinary luminosity .

It started coming towards us, only slowly, and it had big red eyes. It sounds stupid, but it had great big round red eyes, like huge flies’ eyes and they were red like, not like a reflection of red, but like burning red, like . . . fluorescent stop lights, I suppose, that sort of real burning red.

All of a sudden I started screaming out [to my husbands. . . . Now this has really got me baffled because of the fact that a human being doesn’t know this, so I don’t even know how I came out with this, but I started saying, “They’ve got no souls.” And then I started screaming, “THEY’VE GOT NO SOULS!” Then all of a sudden there were heaps of them in the field, not just one, a whole heap of them, and they started coming towards us . . . faster than a man could run, and they were gliding off the ground. They got halfway across the field.

They split up. Some of them went towards the other people [two or three, Kelly thought]. and some of them [the rest]came towards us. Kelly found herself screaming to the other people down the road, “They’re evil! They’re going to kill us!”

The next thing I know, I felt this oomph! in my stomach, right across here like I was winded, but I was thrown right back, and I was on my back on the ground. I sat up, with my head between my knees. Here, I’m trying to stay conscious. I couldn’t see. My eyes. . . . It was all black.

.. . . I’m screaming out to [my husband]. . . .

Kelly speculated that her “winding” may have been caused by an electric fence present at the site. That may or may not be true. The fence may not even have been on at the time. Even if it was, the power may not have been strong enough to generate the effect she described. Nonetheless this possibly prosaic incident led her into confusion over whether the forces she was confronting were “good” or “evil.”

But the next thing I heard him saying, “Let go of me.” His voice was all sort of cracked up with fear, and I’d never heard that from my husband. He’s not frightened or afraid of anything. . . .

Then this male voice said, “We [don’t] mean you any harm.” And then he said, “Why did you hit Kelly then?” That’s the last I heard of [my husband]. No one else talked except me. I heard the male voice. Then I heard myself saying, “Oh, God, I’m going to be sick.” I’ve got my head between my knees, and I just felt, like, violently nauseous. Then I must have blacked out for a little while.

I don’t remember being sick. Then I remember hearing talk about being a peaceful people, and I started screaming out, I said, “Don’t believe them! They’re going to steal your souls!” I know it sounds so ridiculous now, but at the time I was hysterically terrified. . . . I had never felt terror like that. Not even in my worst nightmares had I experienced terror like that. . . .

Oh, there’s one thing I remember that he said: “I wouldn’t harm her. She’s my daughter.” Now when I first saw the-on the way up to [my girl friend’s]in the field, the first thing I did was pray. And I took it as sarcasm straight away. And it sounded like sarcasm. . . .

It sounded like there was even a small laugh after that. I don’t know-it just wasn’t good to me.

For Kelly, a strong faith in God often involved an ability to get answers to many of life’s situations, albeit sometimes in the most subtle and unlikely ways. For her the brief observation of a possible UFO on the way to her girl friend’s place on August 7 was perhaps a glimpse of one of life’s mysteries, perhaps even a lesson from God. So she made a silent prayer which began with “Father.” She thought for a moment, “Wait for me. I’ll be back down this way in a few hours.” To put this in context, it should be pointed out that Kelly had long been on a spiritual quest, anchored in a religious journey and a desire to understand the great mysteries.

Though she had little time for organized religions, she had a deep interest in the great religious works and had studied them, particularly the Bible, in great detail. Therefore, given her brief prayer for clarification of the nature of the UFO event on the way up to her friend, as well as the use of the word Father, she got a sense of “mockery” when she heard the voice saying, “She is my daughter.”

Anyway, I started screaming and going on about demons trying to steal people’s souls. . . . I like not to admit that it came from my mouth, but it did. . . . But I’m going to tell it the way it is.

Next thing I hear him saying, “Would somebody do something about .her?” And I felt a hand . . . touch my shoulder. It wasn’t hard. It was quite gentle.That’s when I absolutely cracked! I’m still sitting on the ground, and I couldn’t see a thing, but I made sure that my eyes were just fierce. . . . Something snapped in me. Before that I was crying. All of a sudden something snapped in me, and I got so angry . Then I started screaming out, “How dare you do this to these innocent people?” Like it was my fault. Because I was on a big spiritual search, and I really got the impression that it was my fault. And I thought, why involve other people?. . . I felt like, almost like there was a fight for me. Like it was something I had to do. . . .

Anyway, I started screaming out stupid things, told them to go back where they came from. Next thing I remember I was sitting in the car. I’ve still got missing time.

When she found herself sitting in the car, her last memory was of driving into the light.

THE DREAM OF AUGUST 8, 1993

Once she was home and asleep, the night brought a bizarre dream. This dream is of interest in that it emerged within hours of the encounter and it places Kelly back in the encounter. The subsequent “dreamings” do not have this quality about them. Nonetheless they were unusual in their own way, for reasons that will shortly be apparent.

In the August 8 dream she is on the side of the road with her head between her knees. She becomes aware that she can see again. A being is leading her husband down the slope onto the field. Throughout the dream she is unable to see the beings above the level of their elbows. Their limbs seem long and thin.

Inexplicably convinced that the being with her husband is female, she tackles it and then blacks out. In the dream she once again regains consciousness to find herself on the extreme right of the field with the UFO further down the field to the left. Before her on the ground is a still body, at first nonhuman, then changing to human. A middle-aged woman standing further down the field is screaming at her, “Murderess! Murderess!” She is overcome with grief with no awareness of having killed anyone.

Still in the dream, a hand on her shoulder leads her, and she follows obediently. Eventually Kelly becomes aware that she is in a small room, with only a small table and a being standing before her. The being tells her she did not kill anyone and they had to use her sense of morality to overcome her fear. Kelly has a profound feeling that she knows this being. On a table behind the being is a Bible, one of hers, which had disappeared a few weeks before. The being gives Kelly a strange choice which deepens her suspicion of the beings’ motives. She is told she can come but must leave the Bible behind. In the dream the being gives her this Bible.

The dream ends at that point. A few days after the encounter, her husband found the Bible in the car.

The “dreamings” mentioned earlier, first interpreted as something like a ghostly episode, take on a bizarre perspective when Kelly’s recollections flooded back. The first two preceded the point when more complete recall of the events of August 8 returned.

THE “DREAMINGS”

The first started with a presence which warns her to be calm. Then a frightening “sucking” sensation begins as if something is being taken from her. She comes out of the dream terrified and is confronted by a tall black figure in a floor length hooded cloak, about seven feet tall, with glowing red eyes. She screams, and the being disappears.

Initially Kelly interpreted the being as like a “soul vampire” or the Grim Reaper. At the time she did not place this incident in a UFO context, since the memories had yet to resurface.

In the second “dreaming” she experiences her legs being lifted and drawn out of the bed. She wakes and once again finds the same or similar being present, but this time the cloak obscures the eyes.

When after I did remember it, I had another dream, and these dreams seemed very physical. I know I’m dreaming, and I’ve got to wake up out of them. . . .

In this particular one, I felt as if my legs were being pulled off the bed, and it was like I was paralysed from my waist down, and my legs were being pulled over to the side; yet I could almost use the top of my body. Then I’m grabbing a pillow, trying to hit my husband, to wake him up. . . . I’m fighting this. I’m not going to let this thing drag me off the bed by my legs. Then I woke up and saw it standing there again! This time the hood covered the eyes, and it didn’t scare me. . . . I was still terrified, but it didn’t scare me quite as much, because each time it scared me, it was that same power like I felt out in the field that night.

When I was sitting on the ground, it was like something, almost like a frequency or a sound vibration or something. And it’s getting right into my head! And I couldn’t get it together. Like I was trying to get my logical thoughts together, not logical, almost conscious thoughts, and I was fighting it the whole time, which is probably why I seemed to remember more than my husband or even the other people.

The third “dreaming” occurred at a friend’ s place on October23 (see front cover). By then Kelly had experienced the flood of recollections. The two earlier “dreamings” took on an added significance, especially given the presence of the beings after Kelly had awakened from her “dreamings.” This time she wakes from a “dreaming” which seems to take the form of a “peak experience” (as psychologist Abraham Maslow calls it; Richard Maurice Bucke defined it as the sense of”cosmic consciousness”). She sees apparently the same creature as before; but unlike earlier manifestations, it is naked and leaning over her as if about to kiss her navel area. It is tall, with a head much larger than normal, long and thin arms, with an abdomen out of proportion to its thin frame, like a child’s stomach suffering from malnutrition.

Its skin is like gray-black plasticine. Kelly’s screams turn into an “uninterrupted stream of hysteria” and words.

In the morning she insisted that her husband check under the car. She had heard a distinct voice during the night urging such a check. He ignored her request, but their car subsequently suffered such a problem.

Numerous other “psychic” events and “electrical disturbances” followed. Frequently their car started up when no one was inside it. The vehicle had a kill switch which rendered these events even more startling and curious. Kelly thought she had developed enhanced psychic powers. The electrical events apparently ended in January 1994, as did many of the psychic incidents.

The fourth “dreaming” occurred in January of this year.

In the dream the bathroom light is blown. There is a sense of presence. Something persistently tries to grab Kelly’s right hand. Eventually she lets her hand be taken. Immediately she wakes up. Once again the creature in the black robe is standing by her bedside. It goes away. It turned out that the light had indeed blown and that diamond and sapphire rings .she wore on her right hand had disappeared. To date they have not
been found.

OTHER MATTERS

Other, earlier episodes, experiences, and issues of possible significance: . From July through September 1993 small orange fireballs, about the size of tennis balls, frequently hit the windows of the house. Kelly, her husband, and her mother witnessed the phenomena.

o About two and a half years earlier, at Lalor, Kelly had a peculiar dream in which she moved through a flesh-like hourglass apparatus. The same night she experienced a “vision” of opening their back door and seeing a light for a few seconds. Then she blacked out. Kelly experienced the same sense of power she felt in the field in August
1993.

o After the encounter and until July 1994, the Cahill house (built in 1949) had been the scene of fleeting observations of tall “shadows,” seen by both Kelly and her husband.

o A bad smell occasionally permeated the house and seemed to move around.

THE OTHER WITNESSES

If the August 8 encounter had revolved only around Kelly, it could be argued that the experience may have been some sort of psychological episode. But the presence of other witnesses – a married couple and their friend, plus a possible other observer in a third car-forcefully argues for a real encounter. Indeed, the PRA contends that the focus of the incident was not Kelly but the two other women.

As in Kelly’ s situation, the females in the other group seemed to play a dominant role. Bill, the male witness in the trio, appears, like Kelly’s husband, to have had only limited involvement. The two women consciously recalled onboard episodes. They remembered the UFO and the tall black beings. Their description did not feature the red eyes Kelly saw.

For the trio the experience apparently started when they approached the site. All three could hear a strange noise and suddenly felt ill. Bill thought he was going to faint. He lost control of the car and ran off the road, striking a pole. After checking for damage, they drove off. A few minutes later a speeding car with its high beams on shot past them. Then another passed. They came to a bridge with a sharp turn following it almost immediately. Farther along this section the trio stopped. As all this was going on, Bill’s vision was impaired. Obviously he had Some type of vision as he was driving, but he was unable to remember seeing the UFO. The two women with him recall the UFO clearly, and their descriptions closely match Kelly’s.

In some unexplained manner Bill was isolated from the central experience. He has conscious recall of smells and sounds and remembers that a lot of activity was going on. He does not recall seeing anything. He subsequently underwent hypnosis, which expanded his apparent recollections to seeming onboard components, but once again these were through the senses of smell and hearing only.

The two women did not think of theirs as an “abduction” experience. They felt as if they had exercised free will all through it. Yet the principal element of their onboard experience was a form of examination-not, however, visually remembered. Other parts of their onboard experience exist in visual images and conscious memory. Hypnosis in their cases appears to have only reinforced what they recall already.

The entities did not speak and provided very little information. Neither woman saw the other or any of the others while in the alien environment presumably aboard the UFO. Curiously, each was still aware of what was happening to her companion, ostensibly through psychic means.

The trio apparently did not have the complex background experiences described by Kelly. Their experience seem limited only to the August 8 encounter.

There is also some physical evidence. PRA found a possible related ground trace and low-level magnetic anomaly at the encounter site.

COMMENT

Kelly has gone on to write her own account of the experience and its difficult aftermath. In October 1994 John Auchettl and PRA, whose investigative thoroughness is to be commended, released a comprehensive report on the affair. In this emotionally explosive area it is easy for people to get caught up in less than satisfactory situations while they attempt to understand extraordinary experiences. I hope this event and the documentation that flows from it will be of some help to others in similar situations.

The victims of these experiences must not be unrealistically encouraged by advocates of an alien presence; nor, at the other extreme, should they be ridiculed by the sceptical among us. They should be helped to deal with their experiences, whether those experiences turn out to be prosaic or profound in origin. The second part of this report will review the PRA report and examine in detail the accounts of the other group of witnesses. It will also consider the physical evidence and provide reflections on the nature and meaning of this event.

Update (12/6/02) The Cahill case, PRA & openness:

It should be noted that the above “comment” in the 1994 IUR report was prepared on the assumption that the “PRA comprehensive report on the affair” was about to be released. Despite nearly a decade passing, John Auchettl and PRA have not released their report other than a few fragments of information.

As the researcher responsible for passing Kelly Cahill onto PRA in the first place, principally because I am NSW based and the incident occurred in Victoria, I have to say now that that decision was, in hindsight, a mistake.

My comment in my 1994 IUR report: “John Auchettl and PRA, whose investigative thoroughness is to be commended”, was based entirely on conversations with Auchettl and discussions with Kelly Cahill at the time (1993-1994), and in retrospect should have been qualified more accurately. While Auchettl & PRA may well have been thorough in their investigation, in reality there has been no way to absolutely verify this, because of their unwillingness to release their report and data on the case. PRA have offered some seemingly unusual and convoluted explanations for this lack of sharing.

I have long encouraged openness and sharing in UFO research (my web site is in part an expression of my position on this matter). My attempts to encourage PRA in this direction, from my perspective, have been very disappointing, and have instead lead me to not to refer cases to John Auchettl and PRA. Unless PRA changes their apparent lack of transparency and openness, researchers and witnesses should carefully consider the wisdom of cooperating with Phenomena Research Australia (PRA).

Regards, Bill

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Summary

On April 25, 1977 in Pampa Lluscuma (near Putre), Chile a soldier was in shock after a strange, five-day saga with a UFO. Six members of an army patrol saw two bright objects descending from the sky.

Cpl. Armando Valdes, the patrol leader, set out alone to investigate and, according to the men, simply vanished. Fifteen minutes later, they said, he reappeared, tried to speak and passed out.

The date on his watch had been advanced five days, and he now had about a week’s growth of beard.

Incident: “You don’t know who we are or where we come from but we will be back soon.” These are the strange words uttered by Corporal Armando Valdes, leader of a Chilean military patrol. Just some 15 minutes previously he had been subjected to a mysterious UFO encounter at Pampa Lluscuma near Putre in Chile.

The date was April 25, 1977, and the time about 4:00 AM. Putre is 50 air miles ENE of Arica, a larger city in Chile.

Corporal Valdes was in charge of a patrol on routine assignment near Putre in the early morning hours of April 25, 1977. He and his six-man patrol were sitting around a campfire alongside a wall of stones and mud at the secret army post of Pampa Lluscuma.

They were talking and singing quite a while to stay awake.

Two of the men kept watch several feet away. About four in the morning one of the men. Private Rosales, ran back to Valdes to report that two bright violet lights had landed, one of which was in sight and illuminated the whole area. The light approached closer.

Valdes ordered his men to cover up their fire with blankets. The violet light with a red spot at each end withdrew and then returned closer. The patrol was terrified.

There was no sound with the UFO motion. The Chilean high plateau was amazingly silent. Corporal Valdes stated “after praying to God and ordering the light to leave . . . after demanding that it identify itself, I moved a few meters away from my men.”

The corporal moved toward the object. He disappeared for some 15 minutes. When he reappeared, he was shaking and his voice seemed different. The light had been illuminating the whole area.

As Corporal Valdes reappeared he was heard to utter the words at the beginning of this article.

He then became unconscious and was attended by his fellow men till he awoke some two hours later. The UFO also disappeared about this time.

While the unconscious Corporal Valdes was assisted by his patrol, his men made another strange observation. They saw that Valdes had a beard growth equivalent to several days without shaving. He had been well shaven before the incident. As Valdes awoke he exclaimed, “I don’t remember anything from the moment I left you.”

He then ordered, “Get ready to leave because it’s 4:30 in the morning. It was actually about 7 AM. His calendar watch had stopped at 4:30 but the date was five days advanced – to the 30th instead of the 25th.

These are the bizarre circumstances in the case. Many of the details were related some two hours after the incident to Pedro Araneda, a correspondent and lecturer. The presence of UFOs are not a surprise to Corporal Valdes. He, as well as others in the interior of Chile near Arica, often see luminous UFOs moving about the skies.

Valdes states, “The surprising thing was the way it approached us. As soldiers we are trained to deal with any situation. But this phenomenon didn’t seem to have any logical explanation. I would like to regain my memory of those fifteen minutes. I would even like to submit to hypnosis to draw out information about what happened.”

President and Commander in Chief Augusto Pinochet of Chile has prohibited further interviews with the soldiers. Medical, psychiatric and eventually hypnotic tests are planned for member of the patrol to confirm their stories.

Meanwhile more sightings have occurred at Arica, Punta Arenas, Santiago, and other locations up and down the 2700 mile length of Chile. NASA and the University of Chile jointly operate a space tracking station north of Santiago, Chile. Officials of the station could offer nothing to elucidate the facts in this case.

The time fact in this particular case – increased beard growth and accelerated clock time – are elements which make this case exceptional and worthy of further consideration. – APRO, July, 1977

Chile: Controversy Over an Intriguing UFO Case

The Valdés Case – the most paradigmatic episode of Chilean ufology – has been revisited in “La noche de los centinelas” (The Night of the Sentries), an 8-year -long journalistic investigation that looks into background events, locates the protagonists and “uncovers more than one surprise”, according to the author.

It occurred one early morning on April 1977 near Putre, in the Chilean highlands.

Eight young soldiers were keeping watch around a fire when they were startled by the appearance of two ghostly lights of unknown origin in the vicinity of some nearby hills.

One of them disappeared behind a small hill while the other placed itself at the foot of a mountain, flying over the area and engaging in approach-and-retreat maneuvers before the eyes of the disconcerted soldiers.

After three minutes of terror, corporal Armando Valdés, in charge of the squad, walked away from his companions toward the light. The young conscripts watched him vanish from sight for 15 minutes, during which their calls for him and their search yielded no result.

At a given moment, they heard the subofficer’s voice pleading for help, and they saw him walking toward them unsteadily. He had a dense growth of beard despite having been clean-shaven just minutes earlier, and the calendar on his digital watch was five days fast.

The startled conscripts settled him near the fire. And that was when he said, in a strange voice:” “You will never know who we are, nor where we come from, but we will return again.” He then fell asleep.

The case became a journalistic sensation and achieved global notoriety. But within days, its protagonists slipped into obscurity and Corporal Valdés became a legend.

Twenty-five years later, journalist and researcher Patricio Abuselme took up the challenge of reinvestigating the case and interview its main protagonists, an effort which is summarized in his book La noche de los sentinelas, an in-depth journalistic investigation on the incident, which he published in late 2010 under his own publishing house – Terra Incognita.

“This is the case that made Chilean ufology known worldwide. However, no one bothered to conduct a serious, in-depth investigation of the case. I took up the challenge in 2002, and it took me eight years to compile the protagonists’ accounts and reassemble this “impossible story,” says the author.

In less than 300 pages, Abusleme provides a comprehensive view of the case, from the first journalistic dispatches reporting the incident to exclusive interviews with the main protagonists, including subofficer Valdés (Ret.) – unpublished details and conclusions that the author has described as preliminary.

“When I started this investigation, I did so in the secret hope of explaining the whole case in conventional terms. And I thought I was well on the way until the main protagonist of the story debunked the cases most controversial aspects – the growth of his beard and the wristwatch’s date change – by providing conventional explanations.

The problem is that when I tried to corroborate it with the other witnesses, they provided a version that was mutually congruent, but at odds with the one offered by Valdés. For this reason, the book poses a controversy,” says Abusleme.

“If someone is looking for a story of mystics in direct contact with Martians, he or she won’t find it here. What they will find is information, information and more information. The outcome of a detailed journalistic investigation that enables the reconstruction of an intriguing real case that captured headlines over 30 years ago.”

CORPORAL VALDES CONFESSES: “TRULY, I WASN’T ABDUCTED”

TEMUCO, September 26, 2003 – In an exclusive interview with Terra.cl, legendary corporal Armando Valdes claimed that from the start he knew ha had not been abducted. From his home in Temuco, he stated that his story had been misinterpreted, “although the matter of the beard and the wristwatch was true.”

He likewise spoke about his current project: a book that should appear by year’s end in which he retells his version of the events which transpired on April 25, 1977 in Chile’s First Region.

Terra: Recently, you have been engaged in discreet research into your experience. Is this true?

AV: Yes, in fact I’ve been fully involved in developing my book and furthermore, looking into my experience, since I wish to be as factual as possible in my story.

Terra: As a result of this research, have you returned to the scene of the events?

AV: Yes, I went back in November 2002–25 years later… Pampa Lluscuma and the remains of the horse stables where the events occurred. There, in the company of researcher and journalist Patricio Abusleme, we recreated the events and made a series of measurements, gathering very significant background information.

Terra: How did you feel about going back?

AV: As you can imagine, it was shocking. It was the first time I went back after two decades. It was a motivating experience which allowed me, first and foremost, to confirm or recall certain details which were lost with the passing of time.

Terra: While much was said about the “abduction” of Corporal Valdés, there was none. What’s your version?

AV: Truly, I wasn’t abducted. This is the reason for sensitive nature of what I’m putting forth in the book. Some important background details are being released.

Terra: Did you think at any time that you had been abducted or did you always know this wasn’t the case?

AV: Look, it’s really complicated to explain all of a sudden. That’s the reason behind my trip to Putre, my scientific studies and the book I’m writing, because it’s all very complicated.

Terra: But did you think at first that you’d been abducted?

AV: I would say that I knew immediately how things had happened. What I’m explaining in my book [is making known]the reasons for which certain items went off on another track.

Terra: In other words, your initial story was misconstrued?

AV: Indeed. I didn’t think at first that I’d been abducted, although the matter of the growth of beard is true, as well as the subject of my wristwatch. But for this reason I have taken to writing the book to explain the reasons behind all of these things.

Terra: Lately you have been silent in the media. Why is this?

AV: What’s happening is that I’m engrossed in finishing my book. I wanted to work in silence until the task was done.

Terra: When can we expect the book to be published?

AV: In the book itself I say that it’s been a serious mistake to promise dates. Many special situations have occurred–some very strange things–but I’m making an effort to finish it by the end of the year. I’m giving it my all, since I’d like to finish it as soon as possible.

Terra: Any options to publish the book abroad?

AV: Yes, there have been offers from abroad, but I don’t want to entertain them until the book is finished. My greatest desire is for everyone to read it, since I have a message for all humankind in it. Therefore its publication in Chile or elsewhere is unimportant. We will decide where to publish it at some point.

Terra: I understand that you are a [born again]Christian and an evangelical. Is this true?

AV: Yes, I am, and a teacher of the evangelical faith.

Terra: How have your religious surroundings influenced your story? Or rather, how has your story been received?

AV: My story and explanations have been accepted to a certain extent, and I have told them certain things and in a certain manner. There are many who hold points of view different from my own and I don’t have to deny that there are contradictions. But as I said, the story is mine and they have not influenced me at all regarding my book. In fact, there are those who may agree or not agree with my book tomorrow, and will not stop what I’m doing.

Terra: Would you say that the experience you underwent in Pampa Lluscuma was more of a spiritual than a ufological event?

AV: There are mixed items. The term UFO today is contaminated by another type of thing, and I prefer to speak in terms of FANI (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena). I think that in my experience there is a bit of everything–a good measure of paranormal phenomena, strange effects, lights, many things acting in unison and this is what I am showing in my book, although it’s been hard for me to convey on paper what I felt, what I experienced and what really happened.

Terra: Finally, are you in touch with those who also took part in the unusual event and who formed part of your patrol?

AV: Yes, over the phone more than anything. For some reason we haven’t been able to have a closer relationship, but we are in touch by phone and I must say that we currently have disagreements over the events that occurred. Some are telling another story. – Terra Networks Chile S.A

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The Travis Walton abduction is well known to most people reading this. Suffice to say he was part of a logging crew on November 5, 1975 in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest. The abduction site is in the east central Arizona mountains, and is accessed only by old logging roads. After calling it a day, and with the sun going down, the crew of seven got in the truck to head home. As they traveled down the road, a UFO was spotted hovering off to the side. Travis got out, approached it, and was hit by a beam. The crew panicked and drove off, but quickly returned to find Travis missing. He was gone five days, and then reappeared just outside Heber, Arizona. For details on this event, see his site www.travis-walton.com or read Travis Walton’s book “Fire in the Sky”.

Though the event happened 40 years ago, soil samples were collected from the site, along with nearby control samples. It should be noted that besides 40 years of weathering, a massive forest fire occurred in 2002 which devastated the area. Still, it was hoped that if a permanent change was made to the soil due to the UFO’s proximity, it would be detected.

This laboratory is also in possession of wood core samples from the site. The trees were cored 24 years after the event in winter 1998/1999 by Mike Rogers before the forest fire. He sent cores to W. C. Levengood. Levengood passed them along to this laboratory September 2012. The core samples are intriguing because of the tree rings. Wide rings from the site trees show that from the time of the abduction in 1975, and for 15 years afterwards, they experienced rapid growth. Cores of trees just outside the site show no rapid growth. Furthermore it was observed in January 2012 that the wide rings are not concentric around the trunk. That is, they are elliptical and even wider where they faced the UFO. Some testing has been done on selected core samples and is not completed. This analysis will not be addressed in this report.

The objective of this project is to determine whether the analysis of the soils will detect any anomalies which can be related to an unknown craft (UFO). Also it hoped to be informative to other scientists/investigators that may be able to add input and further interpretation to build on what is found. It is also desired that the information and testing serves as a protocol for future testing of soil samples related to UFO events. That is, which procedures and tests should be done.

Note: While this project was personally generated and primarily financed by this laboratory, we must acknowledge and thank our friend and colleague Dr. Sampath Iyengar for discounting and partially donating his services for EDX elemental analysis and XRD characterization of the soil samples and magnetic particles.

Conclusions

• The composition of each the soils consist of primarily quartz, mica and feldspars (microcline) minerals with some humates (organics). Small amounts of metallic particulates are present which contain iron oxide permutations of hematite (Fe2O3), ilmenite (FeTiO3) and magnetite (Fe3O4). Quantitatively the amounts of these components vary between the samples.
• It is revealed that iron containing particulates amounts are higher in the site soils compared to the control soils. Furthermore, there is indication that the levels tend to be higher in the surface soils compared to the sub-surface soils of the site samples. This laboratory speculates that the hovering craft propulsion system has a powerful electromagnetic effect thereby drawing (and concentrating) these iron particulates toward the surface. This has been observed in the analysis of soils from other sites where UFOs landed or hovered close to the ground.1 It was more specifically noted that sample 2 contains less particlulates compared to the other site samples, but slightly more than the controls. Soil 2 is approximately where Travis landed after the beam hit him. Perhaps this suggests that the UFO was not influencing the metal content as much at this location.
•  The exchangeable cations (calcium, magnesium, potassium) are significantly higher in the site samples than the control samples. This would indicate some chemical changes in the site samples. The detection of the differences in cationic activity in the soils is intriguing. However, compositional differences, e.g. such as clay (microcline) content may affect the CEC values.  (The amounts of minerals were not determined.) It very speculative that the effect is due to a UFO, because the samples were collected 40 years after the event. But, it should be noted that this laboratory has analyzed substances from other events which were in proximity to a UFO. And, there is indication that while hovering an electronic force field surrounds the craft, causing an ionizing effect to materials in close proximity. For example, in the famous Delphos Kansas event, a craft was observed depositing what turned out to be mostly fulvic acids which chemilumenesced for almost two days. In Poland, a hovering/landed craft deposited vitrified soil chunks which glowed for months.
• We believe this analysis justifies additional examination of soil samples from the site. It was under sampled and more metal particulates analysis is needed for confirmation of their relation to the UFO effects.

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A specimen which included a small fiber was removed from the back of an Experiencer on April 4, 2012. There is also a crystalline material included with the specimen. The object is to determine the composition of the specimen and crystal, and whether it could be related to an alien implant. Another specimen from the same experiencer was recently analyzed.

Conclusions

• The specimen is a multi-component mixture. In order of approximate concentration these include calcium carbonate (calcite), ester type material (possible glycerol type or sorbitan monooleate) and quartz. Visually noted is a fiber which is a minor part of the specimen. It could not be identified because of the interference of the other components. However, it is speculated to be of plant origin.
• The crystal is identified as sucrose which is commonly known as sugar.
• The specimen and crystal are not related to an alien implant. The above components are very common with many uses. Quartz (possible sand) and calcium carbonate (calcite) are common minerals in soil. There are other uses. The ester appears to be of natural origin, i.e. it’s commonly found in plants, human respiratory products, animals.

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The witness was in the shower at approximately 11:45 a.m. on March 11, 2006. A substance fell out of her nose. It made an arch, then twisted and wrapped around itself. Initially it felt like cloth, then later, like hard material.

The object of this analysis is to determine whether this substance is an alien implant. Microscope photographs of both sides of the object follow.

Conclusions

The substance is identified as a man-made polymer. Specifically its composition is poly(styrene:acrylate ester). This is a common polymer and probably is plastic from some debris around the house. This shows the object is not an alien implant.

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The background as described by the witness follows:

“About a month ago I woke up with a clearish, yellowish substance dried on my stomach and in my belly button. It was not on my nightgown or sheets. It itched, and when I scratched my stomach, it flaked off. I used the Q-tips to clean it up. When I told Richard Lee about this about a week later, he told me to keep the Q-tips, so I rescued them with the other Q-tips in the waste basket. I used 3 of them to clean up the yellowish substance. I didn’t have any signs of infection or other reason for the substance.

The next night I woke up upside down in my bed, like I had been thrown there rather carelessly. I don’t end up that way in my normal sleep. I don’t have any memories of anything happening. The night after that, I woke up with a very small amount of the yellowish substance on my stomach again. I think I cleaned that up with a wash cloth.

After one of these nights I weighed myself and found I was 10 lbs. lighter than I was the night before. I think that was after the 2nd night when I woke up on the bed wrong, but I can’t swear to which night it was. I honestly felt like I’d been given an alien amniocentisus after the first night, and that they had done a follow up on the third night. I did go to the doctor, and I’m not pregnant now so far as I know and they did do the tests. I’m also having problems with a hyperthyroid if that can play into any of this.”

The object is to identify the substance on the Q-tips.

Conclusions

• The analysis shows the substance on the Q-tip consists of an inorganic sulfate and a protein-type material. Specifically, the sulfate may be ammonium sulfate, and its origin is unknown. The protein is from a biological source such as fluids excreted from mammals, which would include humans. This material is similar to materials such as lymph, mucus, perspiration, and blood plasma. The specific identification remains elusive. It is my opinion that the biological material originates from the witness. The substance was noted to fluoresce under UV light.
• It should be noted that a trace amount of long chain carboxylic acid is indicated. This is thought to be from outside contamination.

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A lady, who claims an alien abduction, found a small pellet in her mouth. There is speculation that this may be an implant. The purported implant will be referred to as “the object” throughout this report. The purpose of this analysis is to identify the object, that is, specifically determine whether there is any anomaly which would indicate it is an alien implant.

Conclusions

• The object is definitely not an alien implant. It is positively identified as 7½ lead shot from a shotgun shell. Properties such as diameter, weight, and softness match that of the lead shot reference. Also, polydimethylsiloxane is detected on both surfaces. This material is common and used in the manufacture of the shot. Additionally, lead carbonate is indicated to be on both samples.
• The surface of the object is gray which is typical of lead exposed to the environment. It is coated with predominantly lead phosphate, a moderate amount of lead carbonate, and smaller amounts of polydimethylsiloxane and a protein derived material. The lead phosphate and some of the lead carbonate are speculated to be a result of the firing process, i.e. it has been through a shotgun. The remaining components such as some of the lead carbonate and polydimethylsiloxane, as noted above, are also found on the 7 ½ led shot and are residuals from the manufacturing process. The protein component could be from an animal euthanized by the shell or from the abductee’s mouth.
• Without further background information it is not possible to ascertain how the shotgun shot ended up in the witness’s mouth. One theory is that she ate an animal euthanized by a shotgun. The 7½ size is usually used for smaller game such as duck, grouse, dove and quail. Other sources are open to speculation.

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The background as described by Del Anderson follows:

“A friend of mine who is versed in Ufology had an unusual experience recently, about the middle of Feb. 2005. He lives in SC at present. He was having trouble with a sore nose and when he came out to the living room on the morning following the evening he was having trouble he found a triangular piece of material on the floor, directly below where he sat that previous evening.”

A photograph of the triangular object next to a ruler follows:

The objective is to identify the above material.

Conclusions

• The object found on the floor is identified as a man-made polymer. Specifically the polymer composition is identified as polycarbonate + poly(styrene:acrylonitrile:butadiene). This shows the object is not an alien implant.

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Investigators Billy K. Rachels and Gordon Reeves provided the following background.

“A south Georgia woman (name and location withheld by request) awoke on Monday, June 23, 2003 at 5:30 a.m. to a strange sight. Looking in the mirror she saw a dried blue substance all the way around her neck, a big blob on her hair on the back of her head, as well as some on the pillow case. Upon a closer look, there was a small amount on the palms of her hands, in between her fingers, and on the back of her arms between wrist and elbow. It looked like she had been trying to resist it being put on her. Her husband who had been sleeping right next to her had none on him, and the two small dogs who sleep with them had none on them. Checking the entire mobile home they could not find a source for the blue stuff plus all the windows and doors were still locked. If this is true – how did it get in the house and on her?

I should point out this person has had many paranormal events in her life ever since she was a little girl. Some I have investigated in the past. I have found her to be very truthful. Because of this back history, I think this event is going to fall into the UFO field. Here is my guess on what happened. No. 1 – They beamed into the house and put it on her, or No. 2 – (the one I like best) they beamed her out and did it someplace else. Also let me add, the two small dogs who will bark at the slightest sound slept quietly all night long.

Now to the substance itself; first of all this does not glow in the dark as reported in some abduction cases. Let me tell you what we do know. The stuff did not burn her skin, nor did it stain the skin, and she has suffered no ill effects from it. When it is dry it looks like water color paint, and when it is in water it is a beautiful turquoise blue (reminds me of blue Kool-Aid.) She said it washed right off, so it is not ink. She said it was highly concentrated as a quart washed off of her. She wanted to get it off and get to work and did not save any. But three days later she washed a hair bow she had been wearing that night and got a bathroom sink full of it and saved approximately a half of pint in a clean jay. It had dried on the pillowcase, but was also on the pillow meaning at some point it was wet. She said she dreamed something wet was being put on her, but has no other memory as to what really happened. Is dissolves very easily in water and has only a slight scent to it. It appears to evaporate very quickly on the finger, like it has a drying agent in it. It appears when dry on cloth to burn at a very high temperature. She stated when water first hit it on the hair bow what looked like steam (but was not) came up, indicating some type of chemical reaction.”

The object of this analysis is to identify the blue substance.

Conclusions

The substance is identified as mostly a mixture of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) salts. Disodium copper EDTA (Na2Cu-EDTA) is one of the salts and gives the substance its blue color. The other salts are probably derivatives of sodium and possibly other metals, e.g. tetra sodium EDTA disodium magnesium EDTA etc. There is a small amount of poly(dimethylsiloxane). Also indicated is a trace amount of long chain carboxylic acid and probably ester. These later materials could be contaminants.

EDTA and its salts have a multitude of uses. Some include the following: detergents; liquid soaps; shampoos; agricultural chemical sprays; metal cleaning and plating; metal chelating agent; treatment of chlorosis; decontamination of radioactive surfaces; metal deactivator in vegetable oils, oil emulsions, pharmaceutical products, etc; anticoagulant of blood; eluting agent in ion exchange; to remove insoluble deposits of calcium and magnesium soaps; in textiles to improve dyeing, scouring, and detergent operations; antioxidant; clarification of liquids; analytical chemistry, spectrophotometric titration; aid in reducing blood cholesterol; in medicine to treat lead poisoning and calcinosis; food additive (preservative). Some listings specifically for disodium copper EDTA include: a colorant in cosmetics; a pesticide; fertilizer; for copper deficient soils.

The Analysis

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The background of the abduction event such as exact time, location, and other details were not provided to this analyst. The approximate time of the event was circa late 2003. After the abduction, areas of her body were noted to fluoresce when exposed to a UV lamp. Five samples (four skin scrapings from various areas and one set of fingernail clippings) were submitted for analysis of the material responsible for the fluorescence.

Conclusions

1.) Skin samples were on mending tape, which caused considerable interference with the analysis. One foreign material is present and is speculated to be an alkyl aryl sulfonate. This material would fluoresce. However, it is probably a contaminant. This material is commonly used in laundry detergent.

2.) The fingernail clippings could easily be plucked from the mending tape adhesive before analysis. Therefore, with less tape interference two foreign materials were detected. One is possibly alkanolamide, which is commonly used where detergent properties are required. The other is identified as cellulose nitrate. This material has many uses, such as ”fast –drying automobile lacquers, high explosives, collodion, rocket propellant, print ink base, flashless propellant powder, coating bookbinding cloth, leather finishing, manufacture of “Celluloid.” Both of these components could be contaminants.

3.) The identity of the material causing the fluorescence is not proven. This is not surprising, because it generally only takes a few ppm (part per million) of material for observance of fluorescence or to produce color in a sample. So without a concentration procedure the material is probably at such low concentration to render it undetectable by most tests.

4.) The information provided in this analysis will be compared to residues found after other abductions. This laboratory is already examining other samples from similar events. Perhaps more resolved spectral data will be generated and compare to some of the data suggested in this analysis. It is hoped a pattern will emerge which will provide more information on abductions; perhaps even purpose.

5.) It is suggested that, if possible, any future samples be submitted as scrapings on a glass slide, a razor blade, aluminum foil, or other small glass containers rather than mending tape. The tape severely contaminates the samples to the extent that it is probably at least 100-fold higher in concentration than that the actual fluorescing material. Other sampling techniques are being investigated to isolate/concentrate the fluorescing material for identification. Possibly even swabbings of the skin with various solvents may be employed.

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A possible abduction event occurred on July 19, 2003 in Westland, Michigan. Following is the witness account.

“I found myself sleepwalking outside in my backyard when I gained consciousness. I noticed that there were pod like ships landing all over my neighborhood, and I decided to hide after seeing an older man being chased by something. I hid in what I thought was a triangular shaped tent. The old man ran towards my hiding spot and was knocked unconscious somehow. The next thing I know this “tent” (it couldn’t have been a tent because it was hard and had an acute triangular opening) is surrounded by a soft color blue (but bright) light. Both the “tent” and I start to rise off the ground and the old man falls out onto the ground. The next thing I remember is a blond haired, soft spoken woman calling my name “Rebecca, wake up”. I am lying on my stomach and my lower back is in a lot of pain. I remember mumbling that I was hurting. The room was dark and seemed to have machines or equipment along the wall that was closest to my head. She escorted me out the door and down a fairly narrow hall to a room with bunk like beds for me and 3 blond haired boys who were genetically related to me. Shortly after that I woke up.”

“I wasn’t sure what to make of this but I did remember the boys and knew that they were my cousin Rick’s sons. I have not seen my cousin in over 15 years and did not know that he even had kids or a wife but I somehow knew that they were his sons. I knew their ages, what they looked like and even the name Christian came to mind. Because this disturbed me so much, I decided to find my cousin Rick. My mother got a hold of his wife and discovered that Rick has three sons each about the age I said. They all have blonde hair and look considerably like their father (my cousin) and they all have Christian (very biblical) names like Noah. The funny thing is that I knew one of the kids had a pull-up on and much to my surprise the oldest son has bladder issues and wears them. Finding all of this out confirmed that it more than likely was not a dream and now I do not know what to think.”

A few months later it was noted that there was a ground disturbance at the site where a “pod” was located. “According to the (above) narrative, this is probably NOT a craft ‘touchdown” site, per se, i.e., subject to possible fuel contamination, etc. It is ‘allegedly’ an energy trace which resulted from the presence and “beaming up” of a “tent-shaped” “trap” into which the abductee ran for shelter, only to be transported, “tent” and all, to another aerial location.”

A description of the site area was provided by Chuck Lietzau and Bill Konkolesky. Bill’s notes and a drawing can be found in the appendix. The ground disturbance consists of a bare area with some pigweed, ca. 15 plants per square foot. A photograph follows.

The objective is to examine soil from the formation to see if any unusual chemicals are present.

Conclusions

No unusual foreign material was detected in the ring soils. Also, there is no evidence of an increase in “magnetic drag”. Material found in both the control soils and ring soils are the same and include ammonium nitrate, carbonate mineral, and expected natural products derived from plants, i.e. soluble celluloidal material, humates, natural ester.

It is noted that there is more ammonium nitrate in the bare area than in the control and FG (formation green) soils. Possibly the excess ammonium nitrate may be relevant. An excessive amount could cause a burn out of the vegetation.

Ammonium nitrate is commonly used as a fertilizer, but “Rebecca” says that no fertilizer has ever been used on the lawn. However, ammonium nitrate also occurs naturally in the soils. “Metabolism of humus by soil bacteria makes gaseous nitrogen (N2) in air available as ammonium (NH4 +) or nitrate (NO3-),which the plant takes up.”

However, it is unknown why excess ammonium nitrate would be created in that specific portion of the yard as opposed to the other areas.

It can also be speculated that perhaps an outside energy source may have caused the denudation of vegetation by heat and/or creation of the excess ammonium nitrate. Perhaps the propulsion system of the craft generates a strong ionizing field. This might induce oxygen and nitrogen in the air to form nitrates.

The Analysis

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This famous case is well documented in many publications and on many internet web sites. The reader is directed to these easily locatable literature references for the details. The reader is especially directed to the classic book on the event, “The Interrupted Journey”1, and “The UFO Encyclopedia”2. A brief scenario follows.

On September 19, 1961, Betty and Barney Hill, along with dachshund “Delsey”, were returning home (Portsmouth, New Hampshire) from an extended weekend pleasure trip to Canada. Their itinerary took them to Niagara Falls, then to Montreal, and home. They were traveling south on US Route 3 in central New Hampshire. At approximately 10:15 they noted a “bright star” which appeared to move erratically. They continued to observe it as it apparently paced them and got closer and closer. Barney stopped to retrieve a 0.22 pistol from the trunk. After resuming the drive, both Betty and Barney looked at the object through binoculars. They observed a spinning, flattened circular disk with multicolored lights on the rim. About two miles north of North Woodstock, the object descended and hovered about 100 feet in the air.

No spinning was noted. A blue-white fluorescent glow shone through its windows. The object appeared to be the size of a 4-engine aircraft. Barney stopped the car and got out. He could see several uniformed, human-like figures. He suspected they were about to be abducted, jumped in the car, and raced down the road. Suddenly an irregular beeping sound was heard. The Hills felt a tingling sensation and became drowsy. The next thing they remembered was a second series of beeps as they were passing through Plymouth. The craft was gone. Two hours of missing time were noted. They both felt clammy and dirty, and Barney suffered other physical problems. Hypnosis of both Barney and Betty suggested they had been abducted. Both Betty and Barney were subjected to physical examinations. Further details of what may have occurred can be found in previous cited references. The object of this report is to document the analysis of the dress worn by Betty Hill during the abduction.

Conclusions

1.) The dress fabric is identified as a cellulose acetate knit. The discolored pink/magenta areas of the dress have suffered chemical effects on both the dye and the fiber. These areas also appear to contain more particulate material than a control. The fabric is coated with a biologically derived material which is composed of mostly protein (both water soluble lower molecular weight and insoluble higher molecular weight) and a small amount of natural ester-type oil. There is evidence that this material originally contained moisture. (See Conclusion 2.) This material is predominantly present on the discolored swaths. (Very small amounts are present on the control.)

More of the substance is on the exterior surface of the dress than on the interior for Swaths #1 and #2. This evidence shows the substance originates from an external source. The material has completely permeated swath #3. There is indication that the pH is more acidic than the control. Some of this protein and natural oil may have suffered some degradation. Very small amounts of individual particulates consist of materials one would expect to find on a dress which has hung in the closet for four decades, i.e. house dust, pet hair, and assorted natural and synthetic clothing fibers.

2.) Like the outer fabric, the lining is also identified as cellulose acetate. However, it is woven. The lining is not discolored, but has a few stains. The fiber in the stain area has not suffered damage. The stain material appears to have almost permeated the lining, though there is slightly more on the side facing the outer fabric. The stain contains, in part, components found in the exterior fabric. These are mostly water soluble proteins and a trace of natural ester-type oil. This suggests the stain is a result of “bleed through” of some of the material found on the outer fabric. It also indicates moisture had to be originally present in the substance. No higher molecular weight insoluble protein is present. Thus, the outer dress fabric apparently served as a filter for the higher molecular weight material, as well as some of the natural oil. Finally, after the stain was removed by solvent extraction, it returned to its original color. So, the dye was not affected by the components of the stain.

3.) The above results clearly rule out any natural substances originating from Betty such as urine, perspiration and vomit. This material came from an external source ruling out urine and Betty’s perspiration. Also, no uric acid was detected further eliminating urine. Vomit was easily eliminated because of the location of the discoloration, which occurs behind the dress and on the underarms etc. I would expect considerable solids deposited on the front of the dress. Only microscopic debris typical of a dress which has hung uncovered in the closet for a long period of time were detected. Also, there should have been a significant amount of carbohydrates present. These were not detected. Additionally, there was no bad odor.

The Analysis

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Analysis of Dress for DNA

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Phyllis Budinger Comments, October 2016

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Orange brown colored materials were noted on the hands of an abductee (Ron Stroh, Tinton Falls, NJ) after two different abduction events on June 8, 1998 and February 3, 1999. The materials were collected for analysis in order to characterize them in hopes it will provide information relating to the purpose of the events.

Conclusions

1. The infrared data from the residue identified as “original sample” shows it is a mixture of components composed of primarily protein amide material which compares to references of human skin. Additionally suggested are small amounts of probable tissue paper and carbohydrate. A trace amount of a phosphonic acid ester is suggested, but this is very speculative.

2.) Infrared analysis of the “2/3/99 Right Index” sample shows it is also a multi component mixture. There are significant amounts of protein amide material (probably skin). Additionally, there is some carbohydrate polymer with the following repeating unit.

Also detected is a small amount of long chain glycerol fatty acid ester.

3.) Most of the materials suggested in this analysis can be attributed to biological materials found in the human body, i.e protein amide (skin), long chain glycerol fatty acid ester (lipid), and possible phosphonic acid ester. The carbohydrate is definitely foreign material and has a common structure found in many materials such as corn starch, flour, bread, dehydrated potatoes, corn flakes, a starch polymer known commercially as Pullulan and more. Paper was used to encase the “original sample” and has contaminated it slightly. This analyst can conjecture two possible sources for this combination of materials. The first: there was with so little material available that it could easily be contamination not only with human biological materials, but also the carbohydrate. The second: most of the components in the samples are related to the abduction event. One can speculate that the skin along with the other materials may be residuals from a biological test, e.g. skin scraping and some test ingredients (the carbohydrate).

4.) The component causing the red brown color is unidentified. However, this is not surprising because it only takes a few ppm (part per million) of material to produce color in a sample. So, the colorant is probably at such low concentration to render it undetectable by most tests.

5.) It is noted that a previous TIC (total ion chromatography) test was done by a clinical biochemistry laboratory. This is an inappropriate test for this type of sample because the sample must be soluble in ethanol, ethyl acetate, or other solvents. The predominant materials (skin and carbohydrate which are both polymeric) in this current FT-IR analysis are insoluble in solvents employed in the TIC test. Therefore, the solvent extract analyzed did not contain the sample. It is not surprising that these results were inconclusive. It was also noted in the TIC analysis they report, “This type of analysis is used routinely to identify small amounts of substances that may be present in clinical specimens”. It should be noted, that by using “routine” tests, if the sample doesn’t match the standard profile, then you usually will mot pick up the anomalies.

6.) The information provided in this analysis will be compared to residues found after other abductions. If the same data is generated, it is hoped a pattern emerges which will provide proof for the abductions as well as establish possible reason.

7.) It is suggested that any future samples be submitted in aluminum foil or glass containers to prevent contamination.

The Analysis

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In 1992 an unknown object was found implanted in the body of a man who has had a history of unusual and bizarre experiences involving strange entities. It should be noted that a few years previously this individual had surgery. The object is to identify the object.

Conclusions

1.) The object is totally composed of polystyrene. Very trace amounts of elements such as zinc, aluminum, silicon, gold and copper are suggested.

2.) Polystyrene is a common, man-made polymer with numerous uses. It is speculated that it may be a part which broke off a surgical instrument. The rough appearance of the flat end seems to substantiate this conclusion. The trace elements are contamination.

3.) A seam observed along the side of the 4 by 2.8 mm object suggests it was manufactured by a molding procedure.

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The sample is from a young lady who has had a history of unusual and  bizarre experiences involving strange entities. One strange event occurred overnight, August 31 – September 1, 2000, which resulted in a possible physical trace sample. The object is to identify the sample. Following is an excerpt from a letter accompanying the sample explaining the background behind the sample.

“With no school on Friday, September, (she) was allowed to be outside the home Thursday night until her normal weekend curfew of 12:30 AM. (The parents) … retired shortly before 11 pm and had to  (their) knowledge, an undisturbed, restful night.

(She) arrived home at 12:25 AM to discover a utility truck in front of (the) home. The motion-detecting light above (the) driveway did not turn on as expected. She walked over and spoke briefly with the utility worker, who confirmed that the power was out. [There has been no storm that day or night.] (She) then proceeded inside. Trying a light switch with no success, she found a candle and proceeded to her bathroom.

Minutes later, as she stepped back into the hallway near (the parents) closed bedroom door, she heard a succession of four beeps repeated a few times, with a several-second pause between each sequence. She believed the beeps were coming from (the parents} bedroom, which was in front of her and to the right beyond (the) closed door. [This might well have been in actuality the utility truck backing up repeatedly, though that would make the source of the sounds behind her some 40 feet and to the right.] She also heard the sounds of (the parents] moving on the (the) bed as if restless, and she assumed (they) were getting up. With that, she proceeded downstairs to her bedroom, candle in hand.

Friday morning (she) awoke about 11 AM and came upstairs to the bathroom. She immediately noticed a black smudge on her finger where she had rubbed her nose. Inspecting her nose closely, she discovered that both nostrils were caked with a black powdery substance. In that (her mother) had already left for our cottage, (She) phoned (the father) at his workplace to tell him. He instructed her to use Q-tips to remove the material and place them in a sandwich bag, which she proceeded to do. (She) also commented on the phone that she had found a white powdery substance on the butt of her right palm, but before she could find something to wipe it on, the substance apparently fell off of its own accord.”

Conclusions

1.) The foreign materials detected in the nose sample are primarily carbon, with small amounts of oxidized hydrocarbon and a long carbon chain carboxylic acid salt. The acid salt may be calcium and/or zinc stearate. A trace amount of inorganic sulfate may possibly be present.

2.) There is a high probability that, in part, some of the foreign components (carbon and oxidized hydrocarbon) come from the candle. Fireplace soot as a source is ruled out because of the absence of substances such as humates, etc. in the nose materials.

3.) A long carbon chain carboxylic acid salt (specifically indicated to be zinc stearate) has been found by this analyst in a sample related to a well-known abduction. This analysis is currently on going and has not been reported out yet. This may be a significant find if it is found in more samples from other abduction events.

4.) The use of Q-tip for sampling is not recommended for this analysis. Cotton and polymer from the sides of the Q-tip tend to both mask the foreign components as well as introduce difficultly in isolating the material from the Q-tip.

The Analysis

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Unusual appearing materials dubbed “pseudo crystals” have been found in house hold dust of individuals claiming alien abductions. They are usually in micron sizes and therefore difficult to identify. A recently found material has a similar appearance under the microscope as previously encountered “pseudo crystals”. However, this time the “crystals” are in a larger cluster, and the amount is suitable for infrared analysis. It is the object of this analysis to identify this sample by infrared analysis.

Conclusions

The sample is identified as poly(ethylene terephthalate) i.e. PET. It has the following structure: -[-CH2CH2]x – [O(C=O)-Ø-(C=O)O]z-

This material is a common polyester manufactured under a variety of trade names by many companies. This polymer has many uses such as: blended with cotton, for wash-and-wear fabrics; blended with wool, for worsteds and suitings; packaging films; recording tapes; soft-drink bottles.

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The following case was submitted to UFOs NorthWest, and it is used here with permission. It can not be reused or redistributed without prior permission.

Location of Sighting: Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada
Date of Sighting: May 18, 2016 (Photo Taken on This Date)
Time of Sighting: 7:21 AM CDT (Time Photo Taken)

Witness Testimony: Hi: This is my second time waking up with these marks.

The last time was about 12 to 14 years ago. I went to the doctor both times and had no idea both times.

I do have interesting events that happen when I was younger and still to this day. Feel free to contact me anytime. I would like some answers too.

UFOs NorthWest Note: It is not known what “experience” that the witness is referring to.

I have written to the witness to find out what happened before the marks were noticed. I expect a response in the next few days. Updates will be posted.

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Background

I was doing a little research and came across your site having somewhat similar markings as your readers. I remember some time last year where all of a sudden I had thought I had gotten bitten by an insect near my ankle because of the inflamed irritation.

After several days of constantly itching my ankles I had started to really take a look down at my ankles and noticed 3 red raised marks which later the irritations subsided. It now appears to look like 3 raised scars that are perfectly triangular in shape.

I have had many sleep paralysis moments through my childhood years till present and have seen at least maybe 7 UFO encounters through out my life time. Maybe I might be getting a little paranoid but I’m starting to think something is happening. I have attached an image of my ankle.

Additional Witness Testimony

I believe I first noticed the marks some time in June or July of last year 2015. I thought I had got bitten by fleas and was profusely scratching my ankle. No I don’t recall anything unusual, but I do remember arguing with my significant other the night before and I decided to sleep in my living room instead of my master bedroom. I do recall having sleep paralysis that early morning though while laying on my couch.

It is right besides a large sliding glass door to the balcony. I live right across the way and I’m overlooking the double tree hotel out in the Balcony area and can’t imagine being pulled through my balcony or through ceiling walls as there are neighbors that live above me. There are people out there during odd hours through the morning coming and going from the valet area.

I had just moved into the metro area some time in Mid May. When I was living in Irvine, it was more secluded having an enormous hill facing west of my complex. I used to live right next door to the Verizon amphitheater in Irvine, CA. While swimming late one night I have seen 2 Unidentified Lights hovering in the night skies and later ascending straight up.

Possible Explanations

Note from The Black Vault:  There are some explanations for this, and the obvious one, would be simply they are “moles” that were previously unnoticed, or recently appeared on the body.  There are many instances of abductees exhibiting marks on their body (that look similar) along with other scoop marks, scratches, etc.

Is this one of those cases? The triangle pattern, although interesting, can also be explained by the fact that three dots will always be a triangle, no matter their position, unless they are in a straight line. So, is the fact they are in a ‘triangular pattern’ important for an investigation? Possibly.

I would be interested to hear a dermatologists point of view.

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The following is used, with permission, from BJ Booth and UFO Casebook. 

Reed Family Case Coverage by Debbie Kessler, Paralegal (debbie.kessler57@gmail.com)

Approved by Thom Reed June 2013 (willowlake2012@gmail.com)

The historic UFO case of the Reed Family, was assigned a Valleeclassification of “CE4” (close encounter of the 4th kind), with a case category of 3 (physical evidence). The case has many layers and is deeply entwined and remains one of a few CE4 cases to be mentioned within the walls of the United Nations.

The evidence in this case would include a significant amount of radiation, and strong magnetic fields, and is one of a few to have been collected and documented by those in law enforcement. It includes a history of testimony gleaned from conscious recollections, an abundance of documentation, administrative testing, and official reports, followed by dark consequences. The history involves Marian Burrows, grandmother, Nancy Reed, mother, and the two brothers, Thom and Matthew.

In the quaint town of Sheffield, Massachusetts, in the 1960’s, Thomas, age 6, and his younger brother Matthew, experienced life altering events. Due to their vulnerable age, these encounters had an enormous impact on them, crushing their belief system, and denying the two boys of their reality, normalcy, and spirit.

Both have conscious memories of the lengthy experiences with non-human entities, and being taken aboard a tarnishedcircular looking vessel where an image of a willow tree was displayed, and still remains imbedded in the mind of Thomas to this day. During a fall evening, in Massachusetts, and after a barrage of bright bursts of light, a flash fired through their bedroom window, Thom was engulfed and Matthew was now speaking to an empty bed. An odd stillness accompanied the light, and seemed to be what left their mother, Nancy, and their grandmother, Marian, in a cataleptic state, in an adjacent room.

Matthew ran to his mother, only to find her in this unresponsive state from which he could not wake her. Once she partially regained her senses, Nancy headed to the boys’ bedroom, but before reaching the room, heard a cross between a loud screech and a door slamming. Matthew was no longer beside her.

Now alone in the home with only the grandmother Marian, who stayed at home while Nancy began to franticallysearch their 80-acre horse farm on horseback, where she eventually spotted them from the Appalachian Trail. Thom and Matthew were about 15 feet away from each other, on a wide, dirt path, eyes locked on one another, heavily shaken and in need of care.

According to Nancy, the boys were visibly suffering from shock. She stated Thom was not responding at all. Their mother and grandmother gave them fluids, wiped the boys down with washcloths, and wrapped them in warm blankets.

As they did so, Thom sat staring at a metal bottle top that Matthew was toying with, watching as it reacted strangely to his brother’s touch. The adults watched over the boys, until they dozed off on the living room sofas next to a fire. The later encounter of 1969, involved four members of the Reed family and the night that would finally drive them to sell their home, property and restaurant, the “Village on the Green”.

Nancy, Marian, Thom and Matthew were headed home following a horse show, at about 8:00 at night, when they observed what Marian referred to as a bright “floating strip mall” above the left side of the station wagon. The family spoke of what was felt as some sort of force, and a tingling vibe, running through their bodies, before their car coasted to a stop off to the right side of the road. Only the sounds of stones tapping under the fender walls of their car were heard, followed by a dead silence. A barometric change in pressure was also felt before a deafening eruption of katydids and crickets.

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The following is written by BJ Booth of UFO Casebook, and is used here, with permission. It can not be reproduced in any way without permission.

Preface

The authenticity of UFO cases is usually judged by the respectability of its reporters, especially those dealing with abductions. That being the case, the report of an extraordinary series of events from three women from Stanford, Kentucky is highly regarded.

It would be on January, 6, 1976 that Mona Stafford, Louise Smith, and Elaine Thomas would have a terrifying experience with a UFO and alien beings.

The added strength of a well-conducted investigation make this one of the most quoted events in UFO annals world-wide. This report would include not only abduction, but other validating sightings, physical evidence, animal reaction, and electromagnetic effects.

Not only was this case fully reported and researched, it was followed up on; determining the long-range effects on the health and lives of these three well-regarded women.

January 6 was Mona Stafford’s 36th birthday. She was joined by her best friends Louise Smith and Elaine Thomas to celebrate the event, and just have a friendly dinner together. The three good friends took their dinner plans to the Redwood restaurant, which was located south of Lancaster, Kentucky on U.S. 27, thirty-five miles from their hometown of Liberty.

As the three finished their dinner, they started what they thought would be a nice, pleasant drive back to their houses. Little did they know what lie in store for them in what would be a night they would never… could never forget.

As the began journey, it was 38 degrees, with a south wind of 15 mph, and a visibility of 15 miles.

The UFO

Leaving the Redwood eatery at 11:15, the three women were in a jovial mood as Louise Smith sat behind the wheel of her 1967 Chevy Nova. It should be noted that none of the three had any beer or liquor to drink that night. Leaving Stanford and heading for Hustonville on Highway 78, the three suddenly see a “bright, red” object in the clear, night sky.

The sighting frightened Mona, who thought it was an airplane on fire, and heading for a crash landing. As the glowing object came closer, Smith lost control of the automobile…

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The following video was obtained from Western University, and full credit is given to them for digitizing this material.  It holds the following caption/description in the library:

Jack Webster interviews California resident George Van Tassel, who claims to have been visited by aliens on flying saucers that used anti-gravity technology. During the interview Van Tassel discusses the formula for time travel taught to him on a visit to a UFO, and its relationship to the Earth’s magnetic field. In later years Van Tassel would be known for the Integratron, a large dome-shaped rejuvenation device he only partially completed in the California desert prior to his death in 1978.

Additional information is as follows:

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I am not asking for an investigation of any kind, nor would I want one, but need to tell someone about what happened. I was about 13 years old living in upstate NY around 1977-78. I lived in a two story home, but we only rented the downstairs and another family rented the upstairs. I was awoke one night about 11pm. I had always been afraid of the dark even at that age. I never knew why, but if what happened that night had happened before, it would be explainable. I remember I got out of bed, I don’t remember how I got to the other side of the house as I don’t remember walking through the house. I went out the back door of our downstairs kitchen and there was an enclosed staircase that led from the ground floor up to the kitchen of the second floor.

Normally I would not have entered it at night, especially that staircase, it always scared me. I entered and climbed to the second story landing, but before I could enter the kitchen of the upstairs, my attention was drawn to the window of the second story landing. The window was open as it was mid summer and I looked out and up and there was a large disk that at that age appeared very close, but was probably several hundred yards above the house. A blue light appeared from the very center of the disk and I was suddenly floating out the window and up towards the craft. I don’t remember feeling scared or anything, other than from the height, but not from the fact I was being pulled into a strange craft in the middle of the night.

I don’t remember anything else until I was floating through the second story widow on the front side of the house. I came through the window and floated down the stairway that led to the front porch of the house. It wasn’t until just now writing this that I remember there were 2-3 small beings at the bottom of the stairs. I don’t remember anything else until awaking again in the morning. I don’t recall any more “leaving” incidents for the rest of the time I lived there, but the “return” sequence, through the second story window and down the stairs, always floating, was a regular thing for about 2 years. I tried to tell a teacher about it at school, but he just played it off and told me it was just a bad dream.

I guess after awhile, I convinced myself that he must be right, there wasn’t much talk in our small town about abductions so I didn’t know who else to contact. I didn’t get along well with my mom or sisters and was embarrassed to bring it up to my brother. It wasn’t until years later when I first started using air travel that I found there was something in my lower right leg that would set off the metal detectors. That continued until about 2 years ago and suddenly stopped. I don’t know if it is still there and just doesn’t trigger it anymore, if they lowered the sensitivity, or if it somehow just disappeared. All I know is that the last time I went to the local courthouse, I no longer set off the detector there.

I don’t know of any other people sighting anything in my hometown until years later, my brother-in-law said he had seen one once while driving, but I don’t recall what year he said, possibly about 81-83. I have searched for any sightings around my time period but no luck. Nothing until the mass sighting in the 80’s. Like I said, not looking for any type of investigation, but if you know of any sightings around Dover Plains, NY around my time frame, I would really like to know about it.

Thanks for listening
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Ed

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Witness Has Consented to Use of His Full Name in This Report

Description: Dan Ragan recalls going to bed when he was five years old and instantly seeing the sun come up.  He said that his mother tucked him into bed at 10 PM and in an instant the sun came up and it was daylight.  He said that he never even closed his eyes.  He went into the bedroom to see his mother at the time (8 AM the next morning) and she was sound asleep. 

He was not ill and was not taking any medication.  He recalls nothing of the missing time and his mother or father did not experience anything unusual.  Both parents and himself were in the house at the time of the incident.  He has discussed this experience with his wife over the years and upon seeing the Peter Jennings ABC Special “Seeing is Believing” made him decide to report the experience.  

Investigator’s Notes:  I have spoken at length with Dan and his wife about his experience. 

Dan says that he never forgot this experience and that he discussed it over the years with his parents and his wife.  He has had no problems as the result of this experience, but still to this day does not know what happened.  My assessment of the interview is that Dan is credible and firmly believes that this happened to him. Could Dan have been abducted?  What caused the missing time? 

Why did the sun rise immediately after his mother turned the lights off in his room?  (Ten hours went by in a split second.)  I have checked the National UFO Reporting Center for sightings in March of 1964.  Only two sightings were reported and neither were near where Dan had his experience.  I have also checked the Air Force Project Bluebook files for sightings in this area in March of 1964.  No sightings were reported anywhere in Illinois in March of 1964.

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Description:  The witness is a middle aged woman who recalls a terrifying ordeal that happened nearly 40 years ago.  She made her report via telephone.  She recalls waking up in the middle of the night and feeling thirsty.

She went downstairs to get a drink of water.  At the time her brother and mother were asleep in the house.  She noticed a bright light shining through the curtains in the living room.  She at first thought that a fire may be occurring.  She peered through the curtains and saw a large flaming object hovering over the trees in her front yard.  She immediately felt terrified and had “an electrical sensation” over her body.  (She previously felt this sensation when a lightning strike hit a tree close to her house.) 

No lightning was present on the night of the sighting.  She also smelled a strong “ozone” odor.  She only watched the object for about 20 seconds and ran upstairs quite terrified.  (At the time she was about 16 years old.)  She tried to waken her mother, but could not.  (This is characteristic of UFO encounters where seemingly some people cannot be awakened.)  She did not sleep the rest of the night and the next morning she saw her family at breakfast. 

None of her family members knew that anything happened.  (She was surprised by their reaction.)  She was afraid to investigate the area where the object had been sighted.  She was not aware that anyone else had the same sighting.  (This is not unusual considering that the sighting occurred in the middle of the night in a rural area.) The witness began having dreams (flash-backs) of encountering large grey creatures that would walk through the walls.  These dreams occurred early on and were very terrifying.

Investigator’s Notes: I have had two interviews with this witness. I am impressed with her sincerity and the fact that she recalls the above encounter in great detail after 40 years.  She has only shared her experience with a few close friends and family members for fear of ridicule.  This case occurred around the time of the famous Michigan sightings that Project Bluebook labeled as “swamp gas.” 

Dr J. Allen Hynek later wrote that the “swamp gas” explanation was made to quiet the press.  I believe the witness’s account of her sighting.  I am not sure what happened beyond the actual sighting.  (I don’t know if she really encountered aliens.) 

The electrical disturbances and ozone odor suggest that she was in the vicinity of a magnetic or strong electric field and that ionization was occurring.  Little additional investigation can be performed unless more witnesses step forward with a recollection of the same event.

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