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THIS FILE WAS DOWNLOADED FROM
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MAINBASE BBS (040 - 965819) Malm<6C>, Sweden
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A superb TEXTFILES BBS
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FROM UFO MAGAZINE Vol 3, No 2 1988
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You won't necessarily find Mike Bershad nor many like him aboard
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the bandwagon that salutes benevolent ETs and broadcasts a
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hopeful message about their mission on earth. Mike is "in touch"
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with another form of entity, and if "they" have any mission, it's
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an urgent, overriding necessity to plunder human anatomy with
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speed and calculation.
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The lives of many abductees distill abruptly into issues of
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emotional survival. Few are blithe and unaffected by their
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ordeals in the netherworld, though an individual trauma can be
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offset by the catharsis of "going public"
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Abduction has not yet broken free of its identification with myth
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and hallucination, but the time approaches. For the time being,
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Mike is content with partial memory.
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---
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"This is the first time I've written about my abduction
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experience, although I've been written about (see Budd Hopkins'
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Missing time') My name is not Steve Kilburn (the alias used in
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the book) but Michael Bershad."
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"Many people have told me that they'd love to meet an alien
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or be taken for a ride in a flying saucer. My viewpoint is
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somewhat different."
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"The most terrifying thing I've ever encountered was looking
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into the eyes of one of these 'creatures.' To describe their eyes
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as black, shiny and oval simply doesn't do them justice. it's
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true that the eyes lacked an iris, pupils, eyelids, eyelashes.
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But there was more. I sensed no emotion, no feeling, no
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humanity, and consequently, no exchange of any understanding
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whatsoever."
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"If anyone thinks that an abduction experience is
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enlightening or fun, think again. I was totally powerless, and
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was made to comply with whatever they wanted me to do. My
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slightest thought was monitored, and I was accorded no more
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respect than a laboratory rat. An examination of my body was
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made, and I now understand how a frog in a classroom of biology
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students must feel. But the sheer terror came from the
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uncertainty of what was to come. Would my heart be removed?
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Would they pull off a leg, just to see what would happen? I had
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no way of knowing and they dealt with my questions the way most
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adults handle children, by humoring me with idiotic platitudes or
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simply by ignoring me altogether. It's true that I was not
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physically harmed, but I continue to bear the emotional trauma of
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this experience even today, many years later."
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"I do not know that the creatures I saw were 'aliens' or that
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the object I was taken into was a flying saucer. I simply know
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what I perceived, from the memory of my hypnotic regressions. The
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creatures were most assuredly foreign to me; where they were from,
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I had no idea. The object I was walked into seemed disc-shaped,
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yet I had no way of knowing if it could fly. These aren't mere
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semantic quibbles; if any truth is to be ascertained from
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abductees' stories, the abductees better stick to what they
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actually experienced and leave 'conclusions' and speculation to
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the investigators and science fiction writers. Somebody has to
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bear the responsibility for telling the truth as objectively as
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possible, and it might as well be those who have had 'the
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experience' itself. It's hard enough dealing with the abduction;
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adding bells and whistles only clouds an already muddled issue."
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"I have never claimed with 100 percent certainty that my
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hypnotic memory of events is what actually happened to me. But
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that presents some problems for me, personally."
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"- When I recounted my story to my parents, I expected them to
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be incredulous. Quite the contrary. They reminded me of a UFO
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sighting I told them I had at the approximate time and place of my
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abduction experience. I was amazed, as I had no recollection of
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this at all. They found that strange!"
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"- A licensed polygraph administrator concluded that my test
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results proved that I hadn't made up the story."
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"- A highly reputable neurosurgeon told me, after several hours
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of consultation and examination in his hospital office, that a
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science 'greater than our own' had examined my body. He also
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informed me that he had tried to trick me concerning the medical
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examination that the creatures performed upon me; I was steadfast
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in my recollections when he questioned me and this upset him.
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Incidentally, he didn't believe in UFOs."
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"- The psychologists I dealt with were not convinced that UFO
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beings carried me off. They were convinced that something external
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left an extraordinary impression on me. In other words, it wasn't
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my vivid imagination, as I would have preferred to believe!."
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"Some time after my hypnotic sessions were over, I had an
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experience that bears repeating. My wife and I were at a business
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party in Southampton, N.Y. It was a beautiful summer night, and
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electric terrace lanterns illuminated the patio and house. After
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an hour or so, the lights suddenly went out. We noticed the
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neighbors also were without lights. Most everyone loved the idea,
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and candles were brought out to enliven the festive atmosphere."
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"I suddenly grew panicky, very nervous, and headed for a fence
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at the perimeter of the yard. I became nearly incoherent, mumbling
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wild things to myself like 'they're coming back for me...they know
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I've talked..' etc.
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"I know exactly where to look. Up and off in a distance,
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perhaps a mile away, a huge, glowing ball of light hung above the
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tree line. Fortunately my wife followed me and she, too, saw the
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light. To prove to myself that I wasn't crazy, I insisted that she
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tell me exactly what she saw, and she told me she saw exactly what
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I did. The light slowly dipped behind the trees, and moments later
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the electricity came on again."
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"Did the light have anything to do with the blackout? I have
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no way of knowing. No one else at the party was drawn to the edge
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of the yard, or even saw the light, as far as I know. And my wife
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implored me to 'keep it quiet,' as these were business clients of
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hers."
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"Part of me doesn't want to believe that I was abducted and
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examined by 'aliens'. but as farfetched as this hypothesis seems,
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it's more logical than any of the other explanations I've heard.
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I'm well educated, and I'm aware of what whether balloons and
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satellites look like; I've also never involved myself with alcohol
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or drugs. And sadly, I no longer believe in the Easter Bunny or
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Santa Claus."
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"But before I die, I pray that I get the answer to this one
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question: What exactly happened to me that night on Route 40?"
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