The Andreasson Affair (26 page)

A number of UFO reports describe
floating
entities associated with the observed craft. The Ririe, Idaho, case (alluded to earlier) involved two UFO occupants gazing down at the witnesses from the object's transparent central dome. One of the humanoid creatures left the hovering craft, and “with a
floating
movement like a bird” descended to the door at the driver's side of the automobile.
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At Brands Flats, Virginia, on January 19, 1965, the witness reported seeing three small beings float down to him from a hovering object. (This case will be discussed further later, as it bears other similarities to the Andreasson report.)

Air Force Sergeant Charles L. Moody is a member in high standing of the United States Air Force's Human Reliability Program. Candidates for this program are carefully screened by psychiatrists for emotional
disorders during the process of selection for this elite group. I mention this because Moody reported to APRO that he was abducted from his automobile outside of Alamogordo, New Mexico, during the early morning hours of August 13, 1975. He said of his dwarflike captors: It's going to sound ridiculous and I hope nobody sends me a straitjacket, but these beings did not walk, they
glided
.

Although Betty did not remark on the glow emitted by the entities' uniforms until later, when she was inside the dark tunnel, other witnesses have reported the same thing under ordinary nighttime conditions. For example, the aforementioned Lehi, Utah, incident also involved small beings with glowing clothes.

Another case involved a young man on March 28, 1967. At about 2:25 a.m., he was returning home to Munroe Falls, Ohio, from the night shift at the Lamb Electric Company in Kent, Ohio, when he spotted a luminescent UFO hovering off the left side of the road. Shocked, he saw four or five small creatures moving extremely rapidly back and forth across the road. They were like little people with disproportionally large heads and no distinguishable features. They were emitting the same colored glow as the UFO.

Yet another report of this type originated in Goffstown, New Hampshire, on November 4, 1973. While investigating another incident in that area that had occurred a few days previously, UFO field investigator John Oswald and I were checking the police blotter for other reports. We came across a file card that read, in part: “Subject called this H.Q. and reported that there were small silver subjects running about his yard.… Patrolman Wike advised that Mr. Snow had seen something and that this was not a figment of his imagination.”
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What did Mr. Snow see? We investigated and found out.

Shortly after midnight, the Snows were startled by a brushing sound against their house. Their German shepherd, Miko, began whining. Mr. Snow got up to let the dog out and was surprised to see light shining under the bedroom door from the corridor outside. Opening the door, he found the light was coming through the kitchen window from the outside.

Miko was crouched on the floor near the door, emitting a low growl. Her teeth were bared and the hair on her back bristled. Mr. Snow told me that his first thought was that there was a fire burning outside. He walked up to the back door, parted the curtains, and peered out. What he saw so amazed him that he just backed away from the door in utter astonishment. Looking out again, he saw that the diffuse white glow was emanating from two
self-luminous
, small silver-suited creatures gathering something from the ground at the edge of the nearby woods.

Another recurring characteristic of UFO Close Encounters is the temporary paralysis of witnesses. On June 15, 1964, in Lynn, Massachusetts, an intermittent roaring sound caused the witness to run outside to investigate. A bare 20 feet away from him, a domed oval object was slowly ascending over the driveway. He stopped dead in his tracks. Concurrently, he felt a tingling sensation that began from his feet and ran upward through his body. He wanted to move but found himself completely immobilized until the object left the area.

Just one day before, miles away in Dale, Indiana, Charles Englebrecht was watching TV. At about 8:55 p.m., a brilliant light source passed by the kitchen window. As he got up to investigate, the TV and house lights went out. Going outside, he was astounded to see a glowing object hovering at the edge of the backyard. As he started to approach it, he abruptly became immobilized by what he described as “being shocked by a small electrical charge.”
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The Leominster, Massachusetts, case described earlier in the chapter involved a similar effect upon the witness as he left his automobile and pointed at a nearby hovering object.

One of the most sensational sightings of this type was investigated by NICAP and actually evoked a visit to NICAP headquarters by a CIA agent requesting information on the case. On January 19, 1965, a man then living in Waynesboro, Virginia, was working by himself at the Augusta County Archery Club off Route 250, near Brands Flats. At about 5:40 p.m., he sighted two silvery oval objects approaching in the sky. One quickly
descended and landed about 50 feet away from him. From it emerged three humanoid beings dressed in silvery suits. As the entities approached him, he found that he could not move a muscle. After looking him over, the creatures reentered the object through a door that appeared to “mold itself into the ship.” The object then ascended and flew off.
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While returning home from work during the early morning hours of November 2, 1973, Mrs. Lyndia Morel also had a Close Encounter while passing through Goffstown, New Hampshire. A UFO paced her car. It came so close that she could see a figure with slanted eyes staring at her from a transparent section of the craft. As she told investigator John Oswald: “I can remember seeing a pair of eyes staring at me and saying, ‘Don't be afraid' [not audibly, but in her head]. I covered my eyes and yanked the wheel. I was petrified.”
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The Sergeant Moody case also contained this peculiarity. He described this mode of communication with the aliens as being almost as if you are thinking something in your own head.

The classic Barney and Betty Hill abduction case of September 19, 1961, near Woodstock, New Hampshire, also involved this type of communication.
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Barney reported that the UFO's occupants spoke to him by mental telepathy from the hovering object: “He's just telling me, ‘don't be afraid.'” Later, when the craft reportedly landed and the entities approached their car, he reported: “the eyes are talking to me… telling me, ‘don't be afraid.'” Betty also stated that she “knew what they were thinking.”

This phenomenon was also an integral part of the already cited Lehi, Utah, case. One of the witnesses described the small entities as having “thought at me with their heads.”

Interestingly enough, some pertinent remarks about this type of communication were discussed at a Military Electronics Conference on Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence held from September 22 to 24, 1965, in Washington, D.C. One of the panel members, Dr. William
O. Davis, director of research at Huyck Corporation (Stamford, Connecticut), stated the following concerning this fascinating subject:

How do we communicate? Well, we have talked about the linguistic approach. We have talked about Dr. Lilly's approach with non-human forms. I think I would like to break the problem down a little more.

There are really three different cases we should worry about.
First
of all is an encounter with a lower order of intelligence than our own. This would be the case if we should land on a planet and find it occupied with life at the level of bees or cows and presumably nonintelligent, or at least not yet at our level. In this particular case, I think that the best we could hope for would be the type of communication we establish with dogs and horses, a symbiosis or—and this is disputable—a telepathic rapport with them. It would be unlikely that we could establish communication at the verbal level or at the level of symbology.

The
second
case is where we find people of precisely equal evolution. Now, this is very improbable.… Even 15 years in our history would make a tremendous difference, either backwards or forwards. If you look at the technological trend curves, for example, you find that by the year 2000 everything is asymptotic, and it is extremely likely that technological revolution per se will have played itself out by that time. Other trends indicate that from here on, increasing emphasis is going to be on understanding the mind and how it operates. Some of the work that Dr. Puharich has done is a little controversial, too, such as studying extrasensory perception with people having extreme talents, which indicates that there are relationships between these ESP talents and other natural phenomena, and indicates that as we go on we may be able to learn how to improve our ability to communicate, at least at the symbolic level, by ESP means. Certainly even today we do a great deal, I suspect, of our communication at the emotional level by extrasensory means.

If we were to encounter somebody of equal intelligence, I think we would have a problem. We would undoubtedly fight them. This, to my way of thinking, is the least probable and the most dangerous of the three cases.

The
third
case is that the
most probable encounter
is with a
higher
form of life, or at least a more advanced form, because these beings would be more likely to reach us first than vice versa. If we assume that they understand more about the mind than we do—and let's say they understand more about ESP or it turns out to be a human-type phenomenon—they should be able to detect us. After all, we know all kinds of fields associated with the physical world, the world of entropy. It is not illogical to assume that life may have as yet undetected fields and radiation associated with it. They wouldn't have to scour the whole universe for us. They would simply focus their life-detecting device. The nice thing about this hypothetical contact is that communication would be their problem. We wouldn't have to worry about it. They would come to us. As a matter of fact, I strongly suspect that the first communication is very likely to be telepathic.
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Sergeant Moody also described an
elevator
in the craft he was taken into, noting that the floor seemed to give way like an elevator. One of the remarkable internal consistencies of this particular case concerned Betty's detailed drawings of things she had witnessed during the reported experience. The amount of detail in these drawings appeared to have been in direct proportion to the length of observing time Betty was allowed during the alleged abduction.

Investigator Fred Youngren performed a fascinating analysis of Betty's sketches of the UFO's interior. Fred has a master's degree in aerospace engineering and holds a managerial position within the defense industry. He obtained estimated dimensions of various segments of the object from Betty, then combined her drawings and narrative data to produce a feasible floor plan of the UFO.
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There are a number of similarities between the physical examination administered to Betty Andreasson and those allegedly given to other abductees. Sergeant Moody, for example, states that he woke up lying on a metallic table—a solid block sitting on the floor. He looked up and saw one of the small creatures standing beside him. His first impulse was to jump up and hit it, but he found that he was being totally restrained by an unseen force.

Betty Hill also reported being probed by long needles, including one that was inserted into her navel for a
pregnancy
test. When she screamed out in pain, the leader of the entities came over, put his hands in front of her eyes, and said that it would be all right and that she wouldn't feel it.

The eyelike lens mentioned by Betty seems to have its counterpart in other cases. On October 11, 1973, Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker reported that two creatures had floated from a hovering craft and grabbed them off a pier at Pascagoula, Mississippi. The creatures floated them into the craft, where Hickson claimed to have been examined by a device that reminded him of a big eye. Betty Hill also described a device that the aliens used to examine her as being like a microscope with a big lens.

The Brazilian newspaper
0 Dia
, of April 22, 1976, mentions a Mario Restier, who reported that he had been abducted by three creatures from a disc-shaped object who communicated with him by telepathic means. After being taken aboard the craft, he claims the aliens ordered him to get into a
glass box filled with liquid
. They explained to him that this was the only method by which the human body could be protected against the effects of their form of travel. Perhaps the immersion chair that Betty was placed in was for this very same purpose. Could it be possible that this strange chair was in reality a liquid-filled high-g acceleration chamber to protect her from the high acceleration involved during the trip to the alien place?

Betty had the distinct impression that while her body was immersed in one of the tanklike seats, the oval craft brought her to an alien place. It is possible that the seat was designed to protect humans from the effects of acceleration and speed beyond our comprehension. Liquid would cushion the pressures by distributing stresses evenly over Betty's body. (Water is also used in nuclear plants as a shield against radiation—which is also known to exist in earth's Van Allen belts.) Lastly, the syrup fed to Betty through a tube seems to have been some form of tranquilizer that made her “feel good.”