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SUBJECT: Dreams that chill ! FILE: UFO2276
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PART 1
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CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE CHILLING KIND. By Tom Keyser. The
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Baltimore Sun, SUN Magazine; April 4, 1993.
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The nightmares wouldn't stop -- the sudden, bizarre, unsettling
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nightmares. They were always the same; they seemed almost real: Lea
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was sitting in a booth in a small, empty room with gray walls. A
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monotonic voice behind her said: "Don't move, or you might be hurt."
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She felt paralyzed. She heard clicking noises, like an X- ray
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machine. Suddenly she was lying on a table. A bright light shone in
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her eyes. She sensed people moving around, examining her.
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Then she was sitting up, facing a short creature so hideous she
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could not look at its face. From a box the strange being removed a
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shiny needle. At the tip was a silver marble. The creature moved
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closer to Lea.
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At that point Lea would jerk awake in her bed, terrified and
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drenched with sweat. Her screams would awaken her parents. But her
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mother, Lea recalls, would always admonish her: "It's just a nightmare.
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Everybody has them. You shouldn't watch all that scary stuff on TV."
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Lea now believes it wasn't just a nightmare. She believes it was
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real. She is one of the people whose stories you might expect to see in
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a supermarket tabloid under the heading "Humans Who Believe They've Been
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Abducted by Aliens."
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Lea is 25, lives in Prince George's County, works at a bank and is
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engaged to be married. She is thin and has blue eyes. She is, in her
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words, average-looking and average in every way. Knowing that most
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people react with scorn and ridicule at the mention of UFOs and
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extraterrestrial life, she asked that her last name not appear in this
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story.
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"I used to think I belonged in a mental institution, to be honest
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with you," she says. "But I don't think anymore that I'm crazy. I go
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to school. I work full-time. I pay my bills like anybody else... I
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think other people think I'm crazy."
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The subject of abductions by space aliens is so far-out, so utterly
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fantastic that most people, even with their wildest imaginations, cannot
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begin to fathom it. Many will not take it seriously. It is
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unbelievable, unthinkable. The subject is also deeply disturbing.
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These are not pleasant stories of people out raking leaves suddenly
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beamed into a UFO, subjected to a little cosmos comedy and sent back to
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their yards chuckling.
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These are chilling accounts of people who say they've been
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kidnapped, confined in spaceship examination rooms, probed, prodded and
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examined by aliens who seem primarily interested in sexually related
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activities. Their stories more resemble reports of rape than they do a
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heartwarming visit by "E.T."
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Around these alien abduction stories, an industry has been
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launched. It soars far beyond the tabloids. There are best-selling
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books, popular films and prime-time television shows. Mental health
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professionals gathered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last
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summer for a conference on abductions. In Maryland and across the
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country have blossomed support groups, where people who believe they've
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been abducted can share their stories -- away from the ears of those who
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might mock, exploit or be titillated by their anguish.
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And, of course, there are the scientists -- from the
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internationally known astronomer Carl Sagan to a Navy physicist from
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Maryland -- and a plethora of researchers, lining up on either side of
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the highly charged issue.
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What's really happening? No one knows for sure. But one thing is
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clear: Something has shattered Lea's and others' calm, secure existence
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on planet Earth. Whether the rest of us accept or reject their stories
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is irrelevant. We cannot assuage their fear: It is palpable. The
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torment is real.
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Lea's began while she was in the fourth grade. She remembers
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clearly: She was outside her apartment in Prince George's County
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playing with her sister and other children. It was dusk. They heard a
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hum, or a buzz, like a swarm of bees. They saw a disk-like object --
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wingless, silver-gray, a row of lights along the edge -- creep at
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treetop level over the apartment complex. It hovered above a parking
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lot between buildings, and then drifted away.
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Lea and her sister ran inside to tell their parents. The girls
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even drew pictures.
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"My father wanted to call somebody," Lea says. "But my mother said
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no, we'd made it up. But all of us saw it. We talked about it for days
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at school."
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Shortly after that, Lea says, the recurring nightmare began. She
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dreamed it on and off for a decade, from when she was 10 until about 20.
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Dreams are only part of her story. When she was 12 or 13, she and
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her sister, who is two years younger, were staying at their
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grandparents' house in St. Mary's County. They were in separate beds in
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the same room when a ball of lighting, as Lea describes it, passed
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through a window and curtain into the room.
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About the size of a tennis ball, it glided between the beds,
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bounced off a door and vanished. A couple of seconds later another
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lightning ball did the same thing, and then another. Lea says there
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might have been 20 in all.
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She and her sister screamed. Five other people were in the house,
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but no one heard them. Lea finally escaped into the hallway. Her next
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memory is of waking up in bed the next morning.
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End of part 1
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