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SUBJECT: Dreams that chill ! FILE: UFO2277
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PART 2
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None of this made sense. She says her sister remembers the balls
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of light, as well as the UFO over their apartment building years before.
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But her sister, Lea says, won't talk about it with strangers.
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For a long time afterward, Lea feared she was losing her mind. But
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then, five years ago, she and a friend were at a mall outside a
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bookstore. Lea spotted a display of books, the covers of which featured
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a drawing of a grotesque creature with big, black, almond-shaped eyes.
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The book was "Communion," the writer Whitley Strieber's account of
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his abductions by aliens. Lea pointed at the drawing and screamed:
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"Oh, my God! Oh, my God! That's them! That's them!"
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They were the creatures in her nightmare.
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"That's when it registered," Lea says. "That's when I said: 'Wait
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a minute. Something's going on here.'"
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It was the first she had heard of abductions by space creatures.
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She read the book, and then a couple of others on the subject. She
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became convinced that the terrifying events -- the nightmares, the night
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of the lights, perhaps other unexplained events as well -- had been
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abductions.
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Lea's not alone. Some researchers estimate that thousands -- if
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not millions -- of humans have been abducted and studied by aliens.
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They base that estimate on a 1991 survey of 5,947 Americans by the Roper
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polling organization. The survey was commissioned by believers in the
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abduction phenomenon.
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The survey asked 11 questions, including: Have you ever woke up
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paralyzed and sensing a strange presence in the room? Have you ever
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"lost" an hour or more you can't account for? Have you ever felt as if
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you were flying? Have you ever seen balls of light in your room? Have
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you ever found scars on your body you could not explain?
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Two percent of the respondents answered yes to at least four of
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those questions. From these results, the poll sponsors concluded at 2
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percent of adult Americans may have been abducted by aliens.
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David M. Jacobs was a sponsor of the poll. The author of "The UFO
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Controversy in America," published in 1975, is an associate professor of
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history at Temple University. In recent years he interviewed 60 people
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who believe they've been abducted, and last year his book about them,
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"Secret Life," was published. From his office in Philadelphia, Mr.
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Jacobs says:
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"This subject is as far-out as it gets. It just seems too crazy,
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too out of the question. The skeptics say: 'This could not be
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happening; therefore it is not happening.' But you have to go where the
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evidence takes you, even though kicking and screaming while en route."
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Evidence? Budd Hopkins, another of the poll sponsors, says he has
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interviewed witnesses and has found physical evidence, such as
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unexplained body scars and mysterious burn marks on lawns where
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spaceships may have landed. But primarily, he and other researchers
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rely on the abduction stories -- stories told by people of different
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races, all ages, both sexes; police officers, psychiatrists, scientists,
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lawyers, entertainers, nurses, journalists, farmers, an Army colonel, a
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golf pro.
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Mr. Hopkins, who is a painter and sculptor in New York City, became
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interested in aliens after seeing a UFO in 1964. Eleven years later, a
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72-year old friend told him of watching a spaceship land in a New York
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park, and of watching about 10 alien passengers take soil samples. Mr.
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Hopkins found others willing to tell their stories, and since the
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mid-1970s he has been at the forefront of abduction research. He has
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studied more than 400 cases and written two popular books, "Missing
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Time" and "Intruders," from his interviews with people who claim,
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sometimes while under hypnosis, to have been abducted.
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"The overall patterns in these cases are so remarkably consistent,
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often down to tiny details, and people reporting these experiences are
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often so inherently credible that the phenomenon simply cannot be
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dismissed," he wrote in "Intruders."
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Most abductees report being taken first as children, when a small
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implant, which could be remembered as a marble at the tip of a needle,
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is placed deep into the ear or nose, the researchers say. The implant's
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function is unknown, but these researchers say it might serve as a
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locator so the person can be abducted again later.
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The aliens described in the stories are small, no more than 4 feet
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tall, and extremely thin. They are light-colored, often gray. Their
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heads are oversized, yet their mouths and noses are tiny; they have no
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ears or hair. Their eyes are large and black.
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Nearly all the stories involve spaceships parked on the ground or
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floating in the air. The victims are examined in a room resembling a
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hospital operating room. The methodical creatures use a variety of
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devices to examine humans from head to toe, occasionally leaving scars.
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But the aliens, it seems, reserve special interest for the human sexual
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organs.
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Here is where the story, if it hasn't already, "will almost
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certainly strain your credulity to the breaking point," Mr. Hopkins
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wrote in "Intruders."
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Through interviews with people who report abduction stories, Mr.
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Hopkins and Mr. Jacobs came to believe that these aliens are -- and have
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been for several decades -- conducting some sort of breeding experiment
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with human beings.
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This involves the taking of sperm and egg samples; the implanting
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of a genetically altered embryo into women; the extraction of the fetus;
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and, finally, the external incubation of the fetus. Women have
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sometimes reported they were presented hybrid babies and expected to
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nurture, even breast-feed, them.
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End of part 2.
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