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SUBJECT: ENCOUNTER IN THE DANDENONG FOOTHILLS FILE: UFO2862
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AN EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTER IN THE DANDENONG FOOTHILLS
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By Bill Chalker
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(International UFO Reporter, Sept/Oct 1994, Vol 19, No 5)
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Reproduced with permission of the author.
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As a scientist I am always aware of the maxim that extraordinary
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claims require extraordinary evidence. To date Mainstream UFO
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events have revealed some compelling evidence for their physical
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reality. The challenge for researchers has always been to determine
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if that evidence is consistent with an alien reality. Comparable
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evidence to support the reality of abduction events has been lacking
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Or relatively uncompelling.
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In my two decades of research into Australian abduction claims, it
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has been difficult not to hold the position that abduction cases have
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perhaps told me more about the human condition than they have about
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UFOs. What follows, however, is a report On an affair which may
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amount to evidence for a reality behind abduction reports.
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Kelly Cahill, a 27 -year-old housewife and mother of three children,
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is a pivotal figure in a remarkable episode which may have much to
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tell experiencers and researchers alike. She contacted me on October
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4, 1993, seeking assistance in understanding a bizarre experience she
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underwent near the outer Melbourne suburban housing estate of Narre
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Warren North, in the foothills of the Dandenongs, Victoria, between
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Belgrave and Fountain Gate, during the early hours of August 8, 1993.
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Kelly told me that apart from her husband with her in their car, she
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was aware of another vehicle farther down the hill from their own
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position. That car contained at least two persons, a man and a woman.
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She paid little heed to them at the time because she and her husband
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had their attention riveted on a massive UFO which had landed in the
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field opposite them.
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Because Kelly lived in Victoria and I live in New South Wales, I
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passed details of Kelly's experience on to John Auchettl of Phenomena
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Research Australia (PRA) and urged Kelly to contact him. PRA got on
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the case immediately .
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John Auchettl and PRA can be contacted at Box 523, Mulgrave North,
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Victoria 3170, Australia. Bill Chalker, an IUR contributing editor ,
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coordinates the UFO Investigation Centre (UFOIC). His address is Box
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W 42, West Pennant Hills, New South Wales 2125, Australia.
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By November 17 PRA had located the man and woman Kelly had seen that
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night. It turned out that the couple also had a friend (a woman) with
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them. These witnesses took Auchettl to the encounter site, to a spot
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consistent with Kelly's description. The group's drawings of the UFO
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and entities also closely coincide with Kelly' s.
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Here we have a striking situation. Two groups of persons unknown to
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each other have witnessed the same UFO encounter and entities. They
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also experienced missing time, and each group has been available to
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competent investigators. Independent witnesses have provided
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information which enable cross-checking and correlations to reveal a
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remarkable amount of similar information. The result is a compelling
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case for the reality of the strange events.described. The ontological
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status of the events is further strengthened by a range of apparently
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related physical traces, including ground traces, a magnetic anomaly,
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and effects on some of the witnesses.
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What is perhaps even more extraordinary about this case is that the
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second group described seeing yet another car parked farther back
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down from them. In it was (it appeared) one male who seemed to be
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gazing fixedly toward the encounter site. So we have the situation of
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three cars present: Kelly and her husband in one near the top of a
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hill, the three-person group (Bill, Jan, and Glenda) another 150
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meters down the hill, and the other car, with one visible occupant,
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about 25 to 30 meters farther back.
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The first two cars were parked with their lights off. The other had
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its lights on. This circumstance may explain an apparent anomaly, in
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that Kelly was able to glance down and spot the second car, with what
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to her seemed only two persons (in fact three), but the group of
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three could not see Kelly, her husband, or their car. It was a dark
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and cloudy night. Evidently Kelly could see the second car only
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because it was backlit by the headlights of the third car.
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From the trio' s testimony, investigators could determine the
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location of this third car. The male was looking at the UFO's
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position through a break in the vegetation cover.
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The trio's evidence coupled with Kelly' s allowed for triangulation
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of the encounter site with the UFO. The location was consistent with
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the anomalies discovered (to be discussed later). Unfortunately, this
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potential additional witness has yet to be found.
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Typically witnesses to these sorts of events are known to each other,
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and such relationships often beg the question of whether the
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witnessed events have emerged from shared
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delusions or even collusion. Through Auchettl, Kelly became aware of
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the independent witnesses, but they knew nothing of her existence
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until quite recently. Kelly tried hard to persuade Auchettl to give
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her the other group' s names, but he refused because he wanted to
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maintain the integrity of the testimony. Only when the investigation
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was completed did the three learn what Kelly had been saying. So far
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they have not attempted to contact her. PRA has uncovered no evidence
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of a previous connection between the Cahills and the other group.
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After the encounter Kelly' s recollection faded from conscious
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memory, despite animated discussions about it with her husband in the
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immediate wake of the incident. Her husband remembered at least the
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UFO encounter but not the entities and has not acknowledged the
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missing time. It was her husband' s reference to the August 8 event
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at a barbecue on September 16 that led to Kelly's initial confused
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attempts to reconcile this troubling situation. Kelly found this
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temporary amnesia along, especially since she has vivid memories
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going all the way back to age two.
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Other events began to be seen in a different and bizarre perspective.
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These included a "dream" she had immediately after the encounter,
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upon getting home and going to sleep on August 8, and two "dreamings"
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in September. Each involved (apparently) the same entities as those
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encountered on the road. The latter two "dreamings" had a strange
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physical dimension. A further two "dreamings" followed, one on
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October 23 and the last during January 1994.
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Alarmed, Kelly sought help with little success from universities and
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aviation authorities. The latter gave her two UFO contact numbers,
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one in Victoria and mine in Sydney.
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After getting no satisfaction from the Victorian group, she contacted
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me, and after our preliminary discussion of her experience, the PRA
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investigation commenced.
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What follows is the transcript of an interview Kelly gave to my
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associate Robb Tilley on March 21 of this year.
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The details are consistent with those recounted to me on October 4,
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1993, in numerous conversations with me since then, with the PRA
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investigation, and with a manuscript she is writing about her
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experience.
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THE INCIDENT
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My husband and I were driving to my girl friend's place up in the
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mountains. It was her daughter's . . . birthday.
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It was just after dark, and we were nearly there, about half an hour
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from her place. It takes us about an hour and a half from our place.
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It was just after 7.
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[The area has] little bits of field . . . and then you run right into
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a major shopping centre. . . .
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My husband drives really fast. . . . I'm just busy looking out the
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window . It's turned dark, and I look over towards this field as we
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are going past, and I see a ring of orange lights. It was the first
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time I ever thought I had seen something that wasn' t normal. . . . I
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was going to shut my mouth. I thought, "No, he' s just going to have
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a go at me." But a couple of minutes up the road I said, "I swear I
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saw a UFO." He said, "Don't be stupid! It was probably a helicopter."
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I said, "It wasn't making any noise. It was just sitting on the
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ground. Anyway, after a few jibes at me, he forgot all about it, and
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we arrived at [my girl friend's place].
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When we were there, my friends bring up this conversation, about what
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I thought I had seen. Her father says, "You think you've seen little
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green men or something, . Kelly?" and all this sort of stuff. It was
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turned into a joke, and I just totally forgot about it.
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We went out and played bingo. We came back. We had a bit of a problem
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about what time we left. As far as my husband's concerned, because we
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got home at 2:30 in the morning, it means we must have left atone
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o'clock.
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But that night I think we left at a quarter to 12. We got back from
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bingo at about 1 1, and we didn't stay for very long because [my
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friend's] daughter' s boy friend had just . . . split up with her
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and had gone home with the new girl friend . . . and she was really
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upset and crying, and we didn't want to stay. So we weren't there for
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that long at all.
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THE ENCOUNTER BEGINS
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Anyway, we were driving back down the road in the same stretch. Both
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of us,just me and my husband . . . we both saw this ring, mind you .
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. . in front of us, hovering above the road. It was just something
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sitting there. . . . I couldn't tell what it was. We were at first
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far away, but as you got closer to it was sort of . . . well, it
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wasn't like the orange light in the field. It was a round shape with
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some sort of glass around, or what looked like windows and lights
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around the bottom. Because it was dark, you couldn't really tell at
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first. But as we got closer and closer, there was no noise or
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anything.
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Even my husband's going. "You're right! That's something. That's
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very, very strange." And I swear we saw people in there, and then
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just as I said to him, "I swear there's people in there," it just
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shot off to the left as fast as it could go. I mean it just
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disappeared. Within a split second it had gone.
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We kept driving and about a kilometre ahead, all of a sudden, there's
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this really, really bright light in front of us, and I've got my hand
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up, up above my brow, to look out the window, because it's that
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bright, but I can't see anything.
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I said to [my husband], "What are you going to do?" He said, "l'm
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going to keep driving." From there, that is the last we remembered
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until . . . I knew I was going to see a UFO, you know, I just knew,
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because of what we had seen, I'd seen it twice in one night and he
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had seen it once . . . and the adrenalin is pumping, the heart is
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thumping, I'm so excited. All of a sudden I'm sitting in the car, and
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I'm saying to my husband, "What happened?" And he says to me, "I
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don't know. We must have gone around a corner or something." By the
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time we got home, he was definite of everything, but at that time he
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didn't know what happened either. I said to him, "I swear I've had a
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blackout," because adrenalin just doesn't disappear in a split second
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like that. I mean your heart is going mad! And all of a sudden. . . .
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One thing that really annoyed me was that I could smell vomit. I
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couldn't figure out where the smell of vomit was coming from.
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I argue about this half the way home until it started getting
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ridiculous, and I ended up just shutting up to stop all the fighting
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that was going to come out of it, you know, because we fight like
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cats and dogs. . . .
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As we were getting close to our home, about 20 minutes away from
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where we live (there was no one on the road), I saw a figure standing
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on the side of the road a tall dark figure. It was only for a couple
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of seconds, and I didn't relate it to anything until much later on at
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all. But it made me turn my head. I kept it in my mind, because it
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reminded me of a story I was told when I was a little girl about the
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headless horseman on the side of the road . . . because it was on
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the side of the road. It wasn't headless or anything,just this tall
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black figure. I saw it for only a couple of seconds, and then I
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couldn't see it anymore, but I thought I saw it.
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POST ENCOUNTER FALLOUT
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I get home. That night I actually had a dream about UFOs to top it
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all off, that something happened . . . but a whole lot of it went out
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of my head.
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Kelly and her husband argued about what happened for part of the way
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home. They agree they saw a UFO but cannot agree on the feeling Kelly
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had of experiencing a blackout or missing time and seeing people.
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They also could both smell vomit. Each experienced unexplained
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stomach pain. For Kelly it was like a pain from severe muscle fatigue
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which radiated from her lower abdomen to the upper shoulders.
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Later, after they got home, Kelly experienced menstrual bleeding and
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became quite ill. She had had her period only the week before.
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Eventually she entered the hospital with a womb infection. The
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doctors there said she must have been pregnant; either that, or she
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had had some kind of gynaecological operation. In fact, she had had
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neither in recent times. A strange triangular mark was also found on
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her abdomen along with a scar.
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Kelly elaborated on these matters:
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But when I got home that night, that's when I found the triangular
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mark below my navel, with what I thought was a little laparoscopy
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cut, and I also started bleeding that night. Three and a half weeks
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later I ended up in hospital.
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. . . [The hospital] actually did a laparoscopy, another laparoscopy.
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This was not when I first went in. I went back in later, another six
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weeks after that, because I had a lot of pains in my stomach and just
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wanted to have it checked to see what it was. And I still had the
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triangular mark there. . . .
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They just did a blooming laparoscopy cut right next to it. [There
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was] no comment whatsoever. . . . I have a letter from a friend
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saying that she saw it.
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CONSCIOUS RECOLLECTIONS
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Kelly's recollections did not come from any hypnosis.
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Indeed she had only one session well after the main investigation had
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been completed. It failed to reveal anything of significance. Feeling
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that at best she had been only lightly under, she felt the session
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had been of little value.
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With regard to the August 8 encounter, she recalls crossing the road
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to the paddock, seeing at first one tall black being with glowing red
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eyes, then many. These latter seemed to be approaching rapidly, as if
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gliding. The large group of tall black beings apparently were split
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into two groups, one focused on Kelly and her husband, the other one
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on the other people who had also crossed farther down the road. The
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rest of her recollection is largely confusing and fragmented. She
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experienced voices and blindness.
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Kelly elaborated on how her memory came back:
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We went down to a girl friend's place a little bit later, a few weeks
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later, and the subject of UFOs came up, and her husband was saying,
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"Oh, I don't think they really exist." It was my husband that said,
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"If you had seen what Kelly and I saw, you might change your mind." I
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said, "What are you talking about?" You know, if I'd seen something,
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I'd have remembered it. I didn't even remember that I had seen it
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hovering in the middle of the road. It had been totally blanked out
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of my mind. And I search my head for days, because I knew he wouldn't
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say something if he didn't mean it. He was telling me, "Remember, on
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the way home from [your girl friend's], remember, it wasn't making
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any noise?" And I was just sitting there. I couldn't remember it.
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And a few days later, all of a sudden I remembered it! It hit me! And
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. . . then I remembered going into the light, and then I couldn't
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remember anything else.
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A couple of weeks after that, this started to really bug me, because
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I remembered that light, and I remember arguing with him all the way
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home, but it was all I did remember.
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I went up to [my girl friend's] house again in October, this time for
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her other daughter's . . . birthday, and again we went to bingo. On
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the way home from bingo that night, we went along the same road, and
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as we passed a certain spot I just got this incredible feeling of
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terror go through me, I mean absolute terror. All of a sudden I just
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started remembering, and by the next morning I had remembered just
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about everything that happened, except there's still missing time
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that I can't.
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What we had actually done, we had driven . . . into the light, but
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the road curved, and the light we had thought was in front of us was
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actually to our right-hand side. It was in the field, and it was
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massive. . . . [Estimates put the possible diameter of the UFO at the
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"size of a house" or perhaps close to 5O meters.] So it was very big.
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Why I knew it was very big was because we could have driven for five
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minutes. The road sort of wound around this part.
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You could have driven for five minutes and not had it out of your
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sight the whole time.
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Kelly and her husband had a clear, uninterrupted view of a craft of
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enormous size. It was much larger than the UFO seen a few minutes
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earlier, and it was at ground level in the field at the bottom of a
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gully area.
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I asked him to stop the car, and we both got out. I remembered
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leaning back in, actually on the floor, to pick up my handbag,
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because I didn't go anywhere without my handbag. And that' s one of
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the sort of things that triggered off a lot of these memories doing
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that. The other thing was telling myself, "You are conscious. This is
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real! This is happening! This is real!". . . .
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For a while it was just absolutely terrifying, but you can't help it
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because it sounds really wacky. I mean this is not the way it's
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supposed to happen at all. . . .
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We crossed over the road. We jumped the gutter, and we walked up. . .
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. I looked down the road, and there was another car-a light blue
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car-pulled up. Some people got out and went across the road. I only
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thought it was two, but it was actually three, but I didn' t pay much
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attention. They must have been at least a hundred meters down the
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road from us. When you've got something like that in front of you,
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and you' we got people down the road . . . well, I was more
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interested in what was in front of me than them, so I didn't get any
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detail. . . .
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I'm standing there, and we are looking at this thing [for about 3O
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seconds]. All of a sudden there is a black figure on the field. It's
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about seven foot tall. . . . I knew it was really tall at the time.
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For Kelly this was quite startling. She expected to see a human
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being, but this was not human. Kelly tried to use thought as a means
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of communication. She was immediately overwhelmed with fear. Its eyes
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seemed to turn to a red fire.
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At the distance of about 150 meters, they possessed an extraordinary
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luminosity .
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It started coming towards us, only slowly, and it had big red eyes.
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It sounds stupid, but it had great big round red eyes, like huge
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flies' eyes and they were red like, not like a reflection of red, but
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like burning red, like . . . fluorescent stop lights, I suppose, that
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sort of real burning red.
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All of a sudden I started screaming out [to my husbands. . . . Now
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this has really got me baffled because of the fact that a human being
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doesn't know this, so I don't even know how I came out with this, but
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I started saying, "They've got no souls." And then I started
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screaming, "THEY'VE GOT NO SOULS!" Then all of a sudden there were
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heaps of them in the field, not just one, a whole heap of them, and
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they started coming towards us . . . faster than a man could run, and
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they were gliding off the ground. They got halfway across the field.
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They split up. Some of them went towards the other people [two or
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three, Kelly thought]. and some of them [the rest] came towards us.
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Kelly found herself screaming to the other people down the road,
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"They're evil! They're going to kill us!"
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The next thing I know, I felt this oomph! in my stomach, right across
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here like I was winded, but I was thrown right back, and I was on my
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back on the ground. I sat up, with my head between my knees. Here,
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I'm trying to stay conscious. I couldn't see. My eyes. . . . It was
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all black.
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. . . I'm screaming out to [my husband]. . . .
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Kelly speculated that her "winding" may have been caused by an
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electric fence present at the site. That may or may not be true. The
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fence may not even have been on at the time. Even if it was, the
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power may not have been strong enough to generate the effect she
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described. Nonetheless this possibly prosaic incident led her into
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confusion over whether the forces she was confronting were "good" or
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"evil."
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But the next thing I heard him saying, "Let go of me." His voice was
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all sort of cracked up with fear, and I'd never heard that from my
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husband. He's not frightened or afraid of anything. . . .
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Then this male voice said, "We [don't] mean you any harm." And then
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he said, "Why did you hit Kelly then?" That's the last I heard of [my
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husband]. No one else talked except me. I heard the male voice. Then
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I heard myself saying, "Oh, God, I'm going to be sick." I've got my
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head between my knees, and I just felt, like, violently nauseous.
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Then I must have blacked out for a little while.
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I don't remember being sick. Then I remember hearing talk about being
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a peaceful people, and I started screaming out, I said, "Don't
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believe them! They're going to steal your souls!" I know it sounds so
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ridiculous now, but at the time I was hysterically terrified. . . . I
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had never felt terror like that. Not even in my worst nightmares had
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I experienced terror like that. . . .
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Oh, there's one thing I remember that he said: "I wouldn't harm her.
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She's my daughter." Now when I first saw the-on the way up to [my
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girl friend's] in the field, the first thing I did was pray. And I
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took it as sarcasm straight away. And it sounded like sarcasm. . . .
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It sounded like there was even a small laugh after that. I don't
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know-it just wasn't good to me.
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For Kelly, a strong faith in God often involved an ability to get
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answers to many of life's situations, albeit sometimes in the most
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subtle and unlikely ways. For her the brief observation of a possible
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UFO on the way to her girl friend's place on August 7 was perhaps a
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glimpse of one of life's mysteries, perhaps even a lesson from God.
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So she made a silent prayer which began with "Father." She thought
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for a moment, "Wait for me. I'll be back down this way in a few hours."
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To put this in context, it should be pointed out that Kelly had long
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been on a spiritual quest, anchored in a religious journey and a
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desire to understand the great mysteries.
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Though she had little time for organized religions, she had a deep
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interest in the great religious works and had studied them,
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particularly the Bible, in great detail. Therefore, given her brief
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prayer for clarification of the nature of the UFO event on the way up
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to her friend, as well as the use of the word Father, she got a sense
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of "mockery" when she heard the voice saying, "She is my daughter."
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Anyway, I started screaming and going on about demons trying to steal
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people's souls. . . . I like not to admit that it came from my mouth,
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but it did. . . . But I'm going to tell it the way it is.
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Next thing I hear him saying, "Would somebody do something about .
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her?" And I felt a hand . . . touch my shoulder. It wasn't hard. It
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was quite gentle.That's when I absolutely cracked! I'm still sitting
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on the ground, and I couldn't see a thing, but I made sure that my
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eyes were just fierce. . . . Something snapped in me. Before that I
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was crying. All of a sudden something snapped in me, and I got so
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angry . Then I started screaming out, "How dare you do this to these
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innocent people?" Like it was my fault. Because I was on a big
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spiritual search, and I really got the impression that it was my
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fault. And I thought, why involve other people?. . . I felt like,
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almost like there was a fight for me. Like it was something I had to
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do. . . .
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Anyway, I started screaming out stupid things, told them to go back
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where they came from.
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Next thing I remember I was sitting in the car. I've still got
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missing time.
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When she found herself sitting in the car, her last memory was of
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driving into the light.
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THE DREAM OF AUGUST 8, 1993
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Once she was home and asleep, the night brought a bizarre dream.
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This dream is of interest in that it emerged within hours of the
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encounter and it places Kelly back in the encounter.
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The subsequent "dreamings" do not have this quality about .
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them. Nonetheless they were unusual in their own way, for reasons
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that will shortly be apparent.
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In the August 8 dream she is on the side of the road with her head
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between her knees. She becomes aware that she can see again. A being
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is leading her husband down the slope onto the field.
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Throughout the dream she is unable to see the beings above the level
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of their elbows. Their limbs seem long and thin.
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Inexplicably convinced that the being with her husband is female, she
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tackles it and then blacks out. In the dream she once again regains
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consciousness to find herself on the extreme right of the field with
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the UFO further down the field to the left. Before her on the ground
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is a still body, at first nonhuman, then changing to human. A
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middle-aged woman standing further down the field is screaming at
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her, "Murderess! Murderess!" She is overcome with grief with no
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awareness of having killed anyone.
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Still in the dream, a hand on her shoulder leads her, and she follows
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obediently. Eventually Kelly becomes aware that she is in a small
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room, with only a small table and a being standing before her. The
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being tells her she did not kill anyone and they had to use her sense
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of morality to overcome her fear. Kelly has a profound feeling that
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she knows this being. On a table behind the being is a Bible, one of
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hers, which had disappeared a few weeks before. The being gives Kelly
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a strange choice which deepens her suspicion of the beings' motives.
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She is told she can come but must leave the Bible behind. In the
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dream the being gives her this Bible.
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The dream ends at that point. A few days after the encounter, her
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husband found the Bible in the car.
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The "dreamings" mentioned earlier, first interpreted as something
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like a ghostly episode, take on a bizarre perspective when Kelly's
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recollections flooded back. The first two preceded the point when
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more complete recall of the events of August 8 returned.
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THE "DREAMINGS"
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The first started with a presence which warns her to be calm.
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Then a frightening "sucking" sensation begins as if something is
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being taken from her. She comes out of the dream terrified and is
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confronted by a tall black figure in a floor length hooded cloak,
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about seven feet tall, with glowing red eyes. She screams, and the
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being disappears.
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Initially Kelly interpreted the being as like a "soul vampire" or the
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Grim Reaper. At the time she did not place this incident in a UFO
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context, since the memories had yet to resurface.
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In the second "dreaming" she experiences her legs being lifted and
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drawn out of the bed. She wakes and once again finds the same or
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similar being present, but this time the cloak obscures the eyes.
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When after I did remember it, I had another dream, and these dreams
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seemed very physical. I know I'm dreaming, and I've got to wake up
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out of them. . . .
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In this particular one, I felt as if my legs were being pulled off
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the bed, and it was like I was paralysed from my waist down, and my
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legs were being pulled over to the side; yet I could almost use the
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top of my body. Then I'm grabbing a pillow, trying to hit my husband,
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to wake him up. . . . I'm fighting this. I'm not going to let this
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thing drag me off the bed by my legs. Then I woke up and saw it
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standing there again! This time the hood covered the eyes, and it
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didn't scare me. . . . I was still terrified, but it didn't scare me
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quite as much, because each time it scared me, it was that same power
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like I felt out in the field that night.
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When I was sitting on the ground, it was like something, almost like
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a frequency or a sound vibration or something. And it's getting right
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into my head! And I couldn't get it together. Like I was trying to
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get my logical thoughts together, not logical, almost conscious
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thoughts, and I was fighting it the whole time, which is probably why
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I seemed to remember more than my husband or even the other people.
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The third "dreaming" occurred at a friend' s place on October23 (see
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front cover). By then Kelly had experienced the flood of
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recollections. The two earlier "dreamings" took on an added
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significance, especially given the presence of the beings after Kelly
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had awakened from her "dreamings." This time she wakes from a
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"dreaming" which seems to take the form of a "peak experience" (as
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psychologist Abraham Maslow calls it; Richard Maurice Bucke defined
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it as the sense of"cosmic consciousness"). She sees apparently the
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same creature as before; but unlike earlier manifestations, it is
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naked and leaning over her as if about to kiss her navel area. It is
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tall, with a head much larger than normal, long and thin arms, with
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an abdomen out of proportion to its thin frame, like a child's
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stomach suffering from malnutrition.
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Its skin is like gray-black plasticine. Kelly's screams turn into an
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"uninterrupted stream of hysteria" and words.
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In the morning she insisted that her husband check under the car. She
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had heard a distinct voice during the night urging such a check. He
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ignored her request, but their car subsequently suffered such a
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problem.
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Numerous other "psychic" events and "electrical disturbances"
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followed. Frequently their car started up when no one was inside it.
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The vehicle had a kill switch which rendered these events even more
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startling and curious. Kelly thought she had developed enhanced
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psychic powers. The electrical events apparently ended in January
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1994, as did many of the psychic incidents.
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The fourth "dreaming" occurred in January of this year.
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In the dream the bathroom light is blown. There is a sense of
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presence. Something persistently tries to grab Kelly's right hand.
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Eventually she lets her hand be taken. Immediately she wakes up. Once
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again the creature in the black robe is standing by her bedside. It
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goes away. It turned out that the light had indeed blown and that
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diamond and sapphire rings .
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she wore on her right hand had disappeared. To date they have not
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been found.
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OTHER MATTERS
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Other, earlier episodes, experiences, and issues of possible
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significance: . From July through September 1993 small orange
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fireballs, about the size of tennis balls, frequently hit the windows
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of the house. Kelly, her husband, and her mother witnessed the
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phenomena.
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o About two and a half years earlier, at Lalor, Kelly had a peculiar
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dream in which she moved through a flesh-like hourglass apparatus.
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The same night she experienced a "vision" of opening their back door
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and seeing a light for a few seconds. Then she blacked out. Kelly
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experienced the same sense of power she felt in the field in August
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1993.
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o After the encounter and until July 1994, the Cahill house (built in
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1949) had been the scene of fleeting observations of tall "shadows,"
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seen by both Kelly and her husband.
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o A bad smell occasionally permeated the house and seemed to move
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around.
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THE OTHER WITNESSES
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If the August 8 encounter had revolved only around Kelly, it could be
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argued that the experience may have been some sort of psychological
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episode. But the presence of other witnesses - a married couple and
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their friend, plus a possible other observer in a third
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car-forcefully argues for a real encounter. Indeed, the PRA contends
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that the focus of the incident was not Kelly but the two other women.
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As in Kelly' s situation, the females in the other group seemed to
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play a dominant role. Bill, the male witness in the trio, appears,
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like Kelly's husband, to have had only limited involvement. The two
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women consciously recalled onboard episodes. They remembered the UFO
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and the tall black beings. Their description did not feature the red
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eyes Kelly saw.
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For the trio the experience apparently started when they approached
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the site. All three could hear a strange noise and suddenly felt ill.
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Bill thought he was going to faint. He lost control of the car and
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ran off the road, striking a pole. After checking for damage, they
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drove off. A few minutes later a speeding car with its high beams on
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shot past them. Then another passed. They came to a bridge with a
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sharp turn following it almost immediately. Farther along this
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section the trio stopped. As all this was going on, Bill's vision was
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impaired. Obviously he had Some type of vision as he was driving, but
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he was unable to remember seeing the UFO. The two women with him
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recall the UFO clearly, and their descriptions closely match Kelly's.
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In some unexplained manner Bill was isolated from the central
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experience. He has conscious recall of smells and sounds and
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remembers that a lot of activity was going on. He does not recall
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seeing anything. He subsequently underwent hypnosis, which expanded
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his apparent recollections to seeming onboard components, but once
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again these were through the senses of smell and hearing only.
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The two women did not think of theirs as an "abduction" experience.
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They felt as if they had exercised free will all through it. Yet the
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principal element of their onboard experience was a form of
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examination-not, however, visually remembered. Other parts of their
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onboard experience exist in visual images and conscious memory.
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Hypnosis in their cases appears to have only reinforced what they
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recall already.
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The entities did not speak and provided very little information.
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Neither woman saw the other or any of the others while in the alien
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environment presumably aboard the UFO. Curiously, each was still
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aware of what was happening to her companion, ostensibly through
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psychic means.
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The trio apparently did not have the complex background experiences
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described by Kelly. Their experience seem limited only to the August
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8 encounter.
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There is also some physical evidence. PRA found a possible related
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ground trace and low-level magnetic anomaly at the encounter site.
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COMMENT
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Kelly has gone on to write her own account of the experience and its
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difficult aftermath. In October 1994 John Auchettl and PRA, whose
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investigative thoroughness is to be commended, released a
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comprehensive report on the affair.
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In this emotionally explosive area it is easy for people to get
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caught up in less than satisfactory situations while they attempt to
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understand extraordinary experiences. I hope this event and the
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documentation that flows from it will be of some help to others in
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similar situations.
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The victims of these experiences must not be unrealistically
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encouraged by advocates of an alien presence; nor, at the other
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extreme, should they be ridiculed by the sceptical among us. They
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should be helped to deal with their experiences, whether those
|
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experiences turn out to be prosaic or profound in origin.
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The second part of this report will review the PRA report and examine
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in detail the accounts of the other group of witnesses. It will also
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consider the physical evidence and provide reflections on the nature
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and meaning of this event. +
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John Auchettl and PRA can be contacted at Box 523, Mulgrave North,
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Victoria 3170, Australia. Bill Chalker, an IUR contributing editor,
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coordinates the UFO Investigation Centre (UFOIC). His address is Box
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W42, West Pennant Hills, New South Wales 2125, Australia.
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