The Andreasson Affair (11 page)

Betty:
Their suits look shiny, but because of that dark thing they have on, they look like they don't have any heads. Look—headless. [
Softly
] “I wanna go back!”

Figure 27:
June 26
.

“Can you describe those black hoods?” Jules Vaillancourt asked her later.

Betty:
Just black. No shine to it. Just black cloth, because it blended right in with the tunnel so that all I saw was just the silver shining suits.

Jules:
What was the source of illumination in the tunnel? You said it was really dark.

Betty:
Their suits. The suits were the only illumination.

The aliens' silver suits glowed in the dark, barely illuminating their way. But the soft glow lighted the tunnel enough for Betty to see that it had been chipped out of stone.

Betty:
I can see things that are chopped out. Oh, my head feels so heavy. I'm still going in that tunnel. I'm just going with them.

Later, Jules Vaillancourt prompted her.

Jules:
Did it seem like a tube, like the inside of a garden hose, or did it seem chipped like a coal tunnel?

Betty:
Chipped, like a coal tunnel.

At times they passed openings from intersecting tunnels.

Jules:
How could you tell? It was so dark.

Betty:
Because of their suits. The illumination came from those suits, and we would pass other tunnels, openings. I could tell that there were other tunnels there. As we would pass, I would see, like, a darker hole.

Jules:
Did they seem… Of course, you wouldn't be able to tell how far the tunnels went in. As you went along, could you feel any temperature change?

Betty:
No, it just was regular coolness, going through.

Jules:
How fast was the speed? Could you see any traffic? Any signs of any other beings?

Betty:
No.

Ray:
You never touched the track? You were always above the track?

Betty:
No, I couldn't touch anything with my hands or my legs and feet because they were too—uh, heavy, or something.

Betty wanted to go back, but found herself completely helpless.

Betty:
Oh, my head feels heavy. [
Sigh
] And we're going, now we're going
upward
a little bit.

Abruptly, the track slanted upward. Ahead loomed a shiny, mirror-like obstruction.

Betty:
And we are coming to some kind of a glass-mirror, or glass. [See
Figure 28
.]

She braced herself for a collision, which never occurred. The trio passed through the silvery material without encountering any assistance.

Betty:
And they are going
through
it! We are going through it—through that mirror!

Betty squinted her eyes as they passed out of the tunnel into a place where the atmosphere was a
vibrating
red color. “The red looked like infrared light,” she later explained. “It vibrated. It was like vibration through the air.” The entities' silver suits reflected the shimmering color of this new environment.

Figure 28:
The tunnel. June 26
.

Betty:
I'm in a place where it's all red. The atmosphere is all red, vibrating red.… And their suits look red. Only their head-thing looks blackish red.

Later, during debriefing, Joseph Santangelo reminded her, “You said you saw red. Was that the horizon?”

Betty:
That was after we came out of the dark tunnel. It was red all over.

Joseph:
Below you? Above you? In front of you? Behind you?

Betty:
Yeah, everything was red, except for the track that we were on. It was a dark color, like a black, but with the red hitting against it.

The black track stretched on ahead, between two square buildings with window-like openings.

Betty:
We are going in this place, and there are buildings—square buildings with openings.

“Could you see the structure of the buildings?” Jules Vaillancourt later asked her. “Are they similar to ours?”

Betty:
They seemed as if they're stucco or cement.

Joseph:
Was it like a landscape, a—

Betty:
In the red part, there wasn't. There wasn't any vegetable life.

Harold:
Was there any foliage in the red portion?

Betty:
Nothing.

Joseph:
You were like in a red cloud?

Betty:
No, it was—uh, there was land and there were buildings, but there was no vegetable life. Just land, and buildings.…

Evidently, the scene was distant and none too distinct:

Betty:
All you can do is make out the forms of things. And now we are passing—oh, boy, we are coming to where there's some beings!

Betty gaped in horror at what she saw crawling on the buildings. (See
Figure 29
.)

Betty:
And these beings are—got two eyeballs…and there are loads of them. Oh, they're scary! And they've skinny arms and legs and kind of a full body. And their eyes can move every which way, and they can climb just like monkeys. They can climb up quickly and swiftly and down and around and in and out of windows. They are all over the place!

The weird creatures were headless. They had two large eyes located on the tips of stalks that emanated from the top of their bodies, and the stalks moved independently of each other.

Figure 29:
The lemur or monkey-like creatures. June 19
.

Betty became very agitated as they passed by the frightful animals. “Who are these? Who are these?” she cried. The entities wouldn't tell her.

Betty:
But they are all around us, everywhere! They are all around and they keep looking at us.

“Was there animosity between the beings and these lemur [monkey] types?” Dr. Edelstein later asked her.

Betty:
The beings just had the hoods over them.

The creatures' huge eyes gawked at Betty and her companions as they glided by. When they passed by without mishap, Betty breathed a sigh of relief.

“Was there anything else in the red place?” Dr. Edelstein later asked.

Betty:
Just the buildings and those beings.

The track swept them forward.

Betty:
We are in this red place. We are still going on this—I don't

know if it's an escalator or what. It just seems like we are going along—further and further on…and we're coming to…

The threesome approached a circular membrane and passed through it without resistance into a place with a
green
atmosphere. (See
Figure 30
.)

Later, Joseph Santangelo asked her, “When did it change to green? I mean, did it change suddenly, or…”

Betty:
No, we went a distance, and I seen those
things
[the monkey-like creatures]. And then it started to change.

The track curved upward. This new area was vast.

Betty:
It's beautiful here. Oh, it's so beautiful here, and we are still along the thing. And now that we are in the green atmosphere, they are taking off those black hoods. And…going along and it seems like mist or sea or something off to the side there. Beautiful. And we're like on a narrow, narrow passage of land and we're gliding across it. And off to the side, I see—I don't know if they are fish or what. It looks like a combination fish and bird. And it seems like it's haze all over, and fog, and yet it's light so I can see it. And we are going someplace. I don't know where it is, up ahead, but it seems that we're going someplace.

Betty peered down upon strange plants, mist-enshrouded water, and a distant complex of buildings. The sheer vastness of this alien realm overwhelmed her senses. Where was she? What place was this? It reminded her of some legendary underground kingdom.

Betty:
It's getting brighter green and beautiful. Oh, it's so beautiful. That one in front of me told me, “See, I told you not to be afraid.” There's a lot of different stuff I'm seeing, but I can't describe it. It's just unusual and different. Plants are different. It's like, uh—long stems that come out in loops and the
different
colors. But they are green!

Betty sounded puzzled and frustrated at not being able to describe verbally what she saw.

Figure 30:
The circular entrance between the red and green atmospheres. June 26
.

Betty:
I don't know how that can be, unless I'm just
feeling
or
thinking
the colors. Because it's green all around, and yet I can see the color in it. It's all green.… We are coming.… [
Pause
] Must be to a city or something, because there seems to be—buildings or something up ahead. It's just…[
pause
] I don't have the words to be able to explain it.

All of a sudden, Betty and her bracketing companions coasted to a halt. Other similar elevated tracks crisscrossed the area. They stopped to let something go by. Betty just watched, dumbfounded. Later she found nothing in her vocabulary to describe it.

Betty:
We are stopping because there is something white there. There is something white. I don't know what it is! It is something like—I can't ever explain it. [
Sigh
]

“You mentioned starting and stopping,” Fred Youngren reminded her later. “Could you feel yourself speed up and slow down? You know how in a car or train you can feel acceleration? Could you feel that?”

Betty:
Yes.

Fred:
Yes, but when you stopped, could you feel yourself being thrown forward? And when they started up, could you feel yourself being thrown backward?