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DOCTOR SAYS ALIENS TOOK HER ON UFO
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By: David A. Maurer
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of The Progress Staff
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What dr. rauni-leena luukanen saw outside her living room window,
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nearly four years ago, scared her more than death threats and angry
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soldiers waving machine guns at her.
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the sight she now refers to "as the shock of my life," occurred during
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august 1986. she and a friend were enjoying a quiet evening fogether at
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her home on the outskirts of rovaniemi, lapland.
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"in an open field, about 100 meters from my home, i saw a large craft,
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illuminated in a yellow glow, hovering about 20 or 30 meters above the
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ground," she said. "i yelled for my friend to look, and she saw it,
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too." this sighting and the subsequent events that follow have altered
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luukanen's entire perception of the world, she said.
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a physician, luukanen served as the chief medical officer in lapland
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for 13 years. she describes herself as a "very down to earth, no-
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nosense-type person."
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"in my medical practice, i've worked with the boat people in malaysia
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and had machine guns pointed at me and have been threatened with
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death," said luukanen during a visit to a friend in charlottesville
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before attending a conference on unidentified flying objects in
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blacksburg.
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"but, i have never been so terribly shocked and scared before in my
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life," she said. "i think i got so frightened because, when i saw it, i
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knew that i was seeing something from another world or dimension. it
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was very big, about one hundred meters in diameter.
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"it stayed in one place hovering for perhaps fifteen minutes. after it
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was gone, i convinced myself that it was the moon or something, and i
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tried to forget about it."
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before the sighting, luukanen said she was as skeptical as most people
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when it comes to the subject of ufos. but, the following day, she found
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it hard to rationalize what she saw.
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"the newspaper had a story about the sighting the night before and
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about 100 other people had seen it," luukanen said. "two days later,
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officials at the local air force base said that it had been a soviet
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rocket. i really got scared then because a rocket doesn't hover for
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fifteen minutes."
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recorded sightings of ufos go back thousands of years, but the modern
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era of ufo sightings is considered to have began on june 24, 1947. on
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that date businessman and pilot, kenneth arnold, from boise, idaho,
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reported seeing a formation of nine objects flying at a high speed
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around the peaks of the cascade mountains in washinton state.
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he described them as "shiny, disc-shaped craft," and said he clocked
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their speed at about 1,350 mph. this was months before air force pilot
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chuck yeager would break the sound barrier at a mere 741.8 mph.
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when arnold described what he saw to reporters: "they flew like a
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saucer would if you skipped it across water," he inadvertently coined
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the now-common term for ufos-"flying saucers."
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during the following weeks, scores of other sightings were reported,
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not only by ordinary people, but military and civilian airline4 pilots
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as well. these events received heavy coverage in the media and perhaps
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fueled the imaginations of many who reported sightings during the
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ensuing weeks.
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nonetheless, in january of 1948, the u.s. air force began a study on
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ufos that would last for 22 years. the first name for the investigation
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was "project sign." the name was changed to "project grudge," and
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finally to "project blue book."
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by the time the investigative project officially ended in december
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1969,, it had 12,783 cases of ufo incidents on file. of these, air
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force officials said 701 couldn't be explained.
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even more disturbing than seeing a ufo is being taken aboard one. in
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an apparently recent phenomenon, people report that they have been
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abducted by alien beings and taken onto ufos. luukanen numbers herself
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among the hundreds of individuals who say they've been abducted by
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beings from another planet.
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the conference that brought luukanen to virginia was held in
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blacksburg recently and it dealt with these alleged abductions. the
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first conference of this kind was held in connecticut in may of 1989.
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the blacksburg conference was called treat ii-treatment and research
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on experienced anomalous trauma. attendance was by invitation only and
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was said to include physicians, psychologists, psychiatrists and ufo
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experts, among others.
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"in november, 1986, i was attending the annual parapsycology
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conference in basel, switzerland," luukanen said. "during one of the
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meetings, a large group of us were hypnotized, and as soon as i went
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into a hypnotic state, i saw the sky and a ufo coming toward me.
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"i was totally surprised by this, and didn't know what it meant. i
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didn't tell anyone about it because it just seemed too bizarre.
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"that afternoon we were hypnotized abain, and it began to happen all
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over," luukanen said. "after the second time, i told the whole group
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and they were as surprised as i was."
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luukanen said after these two initial revelations, she underwent other
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hypnosis sessions in which she remembered the events in more details.
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"i was on a table like the type you will find in operating rooms,"
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luukanen said. "there were three or four little ones around the table,
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and they looked to be about one meter high. they had no hair, big eyes
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and a grayish brown skin or covering like a diver's suit.
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"i was paralyzed, but i could think and communicate telepathically
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with them," she said. "they worked with hazy instruments that put off a
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white beam of light and also a bluish violet color. at one point, they
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took a long needle-like instrument and inserted it in my lower abdomen.
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as a doctor, i know where they put it would give them access to my
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ovaries."
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luukanen said after she remembered her ordeal, she found a small scar
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she believes was caused by the needle. she said the aliens didn't
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appear to express any emotions and that they went about their task with
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a detachment that reminded her of dissecting rats in medical school.
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"my conviction is that they don't want to harm us or upset us
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psychologically," luukanen said. "i think that's why the memory of the
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episode is taken away. but when most people remember, it's very
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traumatic. one of the main purposes of the conference is to learn how
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to treat and deal with these people who have been abducted."
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luukanen said she is convinced that what she said happened to her
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really did. she said her gut feeling is the earth is being prepared to
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be taken into the largercommunity of the universe.
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"i have a feeling of responsibility now to inform people that we are
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not alone in the universe," luukanen said. "the question in my mind is
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not whether or not they exist, but "how do we deal with them?"
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