Beyond UFO Abductions By Preston Dennett

The UFO phenomenon is extraordinarily complex, however the main focus is
undeniably face-to-face encounters or the onboard UFO experience. Still, when
people think of these types of close encounters, they often assume that the
experience is a terrifying event during which the unwilling victim is laid out
on a table and examined by emotionless gray-type ET�s. While I believe these
types of encounters do happen, this is only a small part of the UFO experience.
In reality, people experience a much wider variety of encounters. Contrary to
popular opinion, onboard UFO experiences are not always involuntary and
terrifying. Many people experience encounters during which they are actually
helped or healed. There seems to be multiple reasons why people are contacted by
aliens.

My latest book, Extraterrestrial Visitations: True Accounts of Contact
(Llewellyn, 2002) focuses only on those types of encounters which involve
considerable interaction between the witnesses and the UFO. Each case involves
either a face-to-face encounter, missing time or an onboard experience. Although
these cases are among the most extensive I have ever investigated, at least half
of them are not typical and move beyond the standard abduction scenario.

Rescued by Aliens

The following case is a perfect example. Sherry Jamison (pseudonym) worked first
as a real-estate agent, then later returned to school, earned a degree and
became a licensed therapist. She has been married for many years and has a
full-grown child. She is both humble and dignified, with a quick wit and a
positive outlook on life. Looking at her, you would never guess that she has had
many bizarre experiences with extraterrestrials.

Sherry�s first experience occurred when she was only eight. She lived with her
parents in rural New Jersey. One night in the early 1950s, Sherry awoke to find
herself outside her home, standing in a nearby field. She had no idea how she
got there, but looking up, she saw a small, metallic, saucer-shaped craft
hovering above her. It instantly swooped down and sent down a beam of light
directly on her. Says Sherry, "The craft was into a very big craft?but what
happened was, it put its light on me.  I remember running along the fence,
trying to get away from it?.I remember running along the fence, and this craft
was chasing me. I was trying to duck down and this craft was chasing me....I was
running and falling, running and falling."

The next thing Sherry realized, the craft had struck her with a beam of light
and she was lifted aboard. "It was like a flashlight. It was a very strong beam
because I went right up into the craft. My sensation of fear left me. I was so
afraid when it was chasing me."
At that point, Sherry remembered nothing but waking up the next morning. At
first she thought it had been a strange dream, but she realized that she had a
different outfit on then when she went to bed, and her clothes were inexplicably
dirty. Whatever had happened, it wasn�t a dream.

As she grew up, Sherry began to have bizarre nighttime experiences,
half-remembered dreams and recollections of grey-type aliens standing around her
bed. She began to awaken with unusual marks and scars on he body. Over a period
of years, she slowly began to connect her experiences, and wondered if she was
one of those people labeled as UFO contactees.

Of course, this was no sudden revelation. She knew something strange was going
on, but extraterrestrials? It seemed too outlandish to even consider.
Then in the 1960s, Sherry experienced an event which left no doubt in her mind
that she was in contact with extraterrestrials. It remains one of the strangest
encounters I have ever investigated.

Sherry was driving alone in the middle of the night through the Watchung
Mountains of New Jersey when she lost control of her motorcycle and crashed.
Because it was so late at night and the road was totally isolated, there was no
traffic at all. Sherry was totally alone.

Or so she thought.

Moments after the accident, Sherry was startled to see three strange figures.
She instantly recognized them as the figures she had seen before, in her bedroom
at night. Says Sherry, "When I was driving on a motorcycle once in the
mountains, I had an experience�these same people appeared to me. They were like
greys, more detailed, more white, not quite human. I would say like a body suit
on a human figure, a white body suit, not a grey one, but maybe an off-white or
a beige-grey.

"I was riding a bike and I slid my bike. I had bent the kick-stand when I did. I
didn�t hurt myself, but I had bent the kick-stand, and I couldn�t move [it] to
get the bike started. It was very dark. I didn�t see a mother ship or anything.
But again, I call them aliens only now. I always didn�t know what to call them.
They were just my friends. There were two of them. They looked at me and
silently picked up my motorcycle, took the bar and straightened it out into a
kick-stand again. I nodded and kicked it. It was just like, okay. I kicked it;
we didn�t have electric starters at that time. I kicked the motorcycle over and
off I went."

Sherry was astonished by the event. She was already shaken up from the accident,
but the appearance of the figures took her totally by surprise. Says Sherry,
"They were both right there.  They were about a foot and a half away. One looked
at me. They both looked at the one doing it. They were both like "greys" look,
without clothes. They didn�t have any attire on or anything on. They looked like
greys except they were more human-proportioned. Except they did have the dark
eyes, but not as almond-shaped as that. It was the only think dark that appeared
on them.

"And I wish now I could have not been so worried and disturbed, or that I could
have paid more attention. But they weren�t threatening. They just kind of nodded
and went on their way.  They looked almost luminous. So it was kind of strange.
It was very strange."
Although that was Sherry�s most intense face-to-face encounter, she continued to
have a number of other close-up sightings of metallic craft.

Sherry's case is difficult to classify. Although she did experience an apparent
missing-time abduction, she has also had an undeniably positive encounter. She
has no desire to be hypnotized, and is content to call the aliens her "friends."

It took Sherry a long time to conclude that she was having encounters with
aliens because the figures looked almost human, the only real difference being
that their eyes were larger and darker than humans. Sherry is only one person of
many who have moved beyond abductions.

Invited Aboard and Healed

In 1995, retired couple William and Rose Shelhart experienced a missing time
encounter with a UFO outside of Sedona, Arizona. As they drove along an isolated
road, they saw a light following them. It appeared first ahead of behind them,
as if playing a game of hide and seek. Suddenly, the light zoomed down out of
the sky and landed into a field next to their car. The couple promptly lost
consciousness. Their next memory was of stumbling into a hotel hours later.

Realizing they had experienced missing time, they underwent hypnosis during
which they recalled that they weren�t abducted, but were invited onboard. Says
Rose, "We weren�t kidnapped or abducted. We voluntarily boarded and we were
welcome. We sought them out and we climbed aboard, not being abducted as "in
force."

Rose was surprised at the appearance of the ET�s. As she says, "They looked a
lot more like people than some of those sketches do. A lot more. Their eyes were
a little larger than any white person�s big eyes would be, but they were just
not enormous.  They looked like they could pass for us if they wished. And they
glowed with a blue aura which made me feel reassured, kind of on a mental level,
that they were peaceful."

Rose was also surprised by their clothing. "Something like a military outfit,
but not anything I have ever seen, and I�ve been in Europe and here and so
forth. But it would resemble that because they were all alike, but more
loose-fitting, but with belt. Uniforms, but it looked structured more like, "I
mean business."

Another surprise was the lack of technological equipment on board. "Oh, there
were all kinds of lights, but very few actual gizmos like we have on any
aircraft here. [It was] like they didn�t need them. It didn�t look like they
needed too many things. It�s like they almost had mind control to get the thing
going. But there were little lights, I guess for monitors and things."

Rose recalled other details regarding the ET�s place of origin and their
intentions on Earth. William, however, was not a good hypnotic subject and was
unable to recall anything other than the craft landing and them being invited
onboard.

William had experienced an earlier terrifying episode with missing time, so he
was somewhat relieved that their encounter turned out to be benevolent.

Later, William and Rose had another encounter in their isolated home in Hawaii,
which confirmed for them that the ET�s were interested in their welfare. His
first clue occurred upon waking up one morning and finding a strange mark on his
body. Says William, "I woke one morning and I felt an itch on my right foot and
discovered three puncture wounds in a perfect triangle. They were in the process
of scabbing over. I sleep on a waterbed, so nothing could have scratched it. My
wife was the only witness. I felt something itching on my right ankle, and
that�s when I looked. Because there�s no way possible in the night I could have
done this, and that�s when it happened." William was concerned by the marks
because it was obvious that they were not natural. But what could they be�

The answer came about two weeks later when the same incident occurred again,
only this time William was awakened by an unexplained bright beam of light
entering into his bedroom. Says William, "I woke in the middle of the night with
a bright light coming in the back window. It lasted about thirty to sixty
seconds. I froze and could not get out of bed to look outside.  My backyard is a
jungle of coconut trees and plants. As I live in the country, no car could get
there in that time. When the light came in the back window, it was just as
bright as could be. I couldn�t believe it, and there�s nothing in the back.  

There�s no way a car could have gotten in there. I mean, that�s what it looked
like�somebody�s headlight shining right into the window. I remember waking up
and seeing that. This was just kind of shocking thing."

William�s first instinct was to get up and investigate.  Strangely, however, he
found himself paralyzed. Seconds later, he felt himself being put to sleep. When
morning came and he awoke, he immediately remembered the incident that had
occurred in the middle of the night. He could only shake his head in wonder.
Then he looked down to his right arm and received an incredible shock. Says
William, "My right wrist was itching. The same thing happened�three puncture
wounds in a perfect triangle.  I woke up and found those triangular pin-pricks
on my right hand. And this was the hand I used when I carried mail.  

This was in constant use. And they were very fresh, because you could still see,
they had just about scabbed over. I showed them to my wife immediately. I said,
�My God! Look at this thing.  It�s perfect. It�s a perfect triangle."

William had worked for years as a postal worker and had developed severe
carpel-tunnel syndrome in his right wrist, as well as permanent damage in his
left ankle. However, immediately following the two above incidents, he noticed a
dramatic improvement in his health. "I went and got myself a hot tub. I didn�t
everything I could to take some of that pain away. And it wasn�t until after my
incident that things started to get better. I just know that I progressed and
started to get better.  Since thin, I have been 90 percent cured. I am almost
sixty-seven years old and I can hang off a twenty-foot ladder placing the weight
on my right foot and paint with my right hand, day after day. I really don�t
care if people doubt my explanation. I know what I feel."

William and Rose are the perfect example of people who have moved beyond the
typical abduction scenario. Not only were they healed, but they have now become
healers themselves. This pattern has turned up in other cases. Says Rose, "Both
of us have become more and more interested in helping people in alternative
healing ways. Even William, he has this energy in his hands that he didn�t have
before.now.  It�s like I feel this heat coming out that�s really good. And
people say they feel it out of me too. And I say, "Oh, where did I get this
from."  I have a lot of good result stories from the neighborhood. But I�m
grateful, because I think it [the UFO connection] has a lot to do with it."

Six Hours Onboard a UFO

In 1972, when he was 12 years old, Jack Stephens was abducted from his vehicle
in full view of his mother and brother. He was lifted up inside a beam of light
and taken inside an enormous craft the size of a small building. He experienced
a six-hour-long encounter aboard the UFO before being deposited back into the
car.

The stunned family drove home, with most of the event shrouded in amnesia. They
recalled only a powerful light hitting the car, the engine turning off and a
slight floating sensation. Their next memory was the light turning off, the car
engine turning on and six hours had passed. It was a typical missing time
encounter.

Years later, as an adult, Jack bit down on an impacted wisdom tooth. This caused
a flood of memories to burst forth. Jack suddenly recalled everything that
happened.
In most respects, Jack experienced the typical abduction scenario. He recalled
being taken aboard onto the craft. He was laid out on a table and examined. They
poked at his feet, probed inside his mouth. Jack is unable to recall the
appearance of the beings, only that they were short and incredibly
scary-looking.

It�s what happened next, however, that makes Jack�s account unique in UFO
literature.
Investigators� have long noticed that UFOs often hover over electric power
lines, as if they were drawing electricity into their craft. Jack is the first
abductee to witness this exact procedure from the perspective of inside the ET
craft.

After the examination, Jack was floated off the table and into another room. The
beings then placed him in a strange device which allowed him to view the
procedure. Says Jack, "We went straight up above the fog. I could look out. The
next thing, I was down in this thing. It was like a little clear diamond-thing
on the bottom of [the craft.] I�m in this thing and there are like bungee cords
on me. I sat in this clear diamond-shape� actually suspended, it almost felt
like bungee cords, but I could see everything around. I got a 360-degree view. I
could look everywhere. We drop back down and we�re by my farm. We�re literally
down in the pasture above this ditch. And there are some big high voltage power
lines, heavy-duty power lines through there. You can just feel the electricity
coming off.

"Well as we dropped down to this thing, whatever the clear thing I was in, in
the bottom, kind of got smaller. It was kind of like more of a confined space.
It seemed wide open to me before, and yet I was enclosed, in kind of like
plastic or glass."

Jack was in awe. It felt like he was dangling below the craft with a perfect
view of everything around. The room he was in seemed to design specifically for
observation. In fact, the whole room would swivel towards whatever direction he
looked.  "In places it didn�t move at all, like if I just wanted to look one
way, it just stayed there. But if I turned, it would move all over. But if I
just stopped and looked one way, it would stop and look one way."

At this point, the procedure began. "[They] were explaining to me what they were
doing. I don�t know what it was, but we went up to the power lines. And after we
got back down, that little thing I was in seemed to kind of shrink up inside.
[There were] four rotating things on each side of this thing�the diamond or
triangle or whatever it was�there were four lights that started spinning around.
And I could see them from where I was.  And I saw all those beams suck all
together, come into one big beam and hit the power pole, sucking the electricity
out of it. And these were like, I mean, LIGHTS! They all focused into one and
they started sucking electricity out of the power poles.  I can�t describe it
but I could literally feel it going through my body.

"I remember being cold. That�s when they sucked up the electricity. That is the
most vivid part of the whole thing. We were up above it, a telephone pole, maybe
two telephone pole lengths above it. And all those lights focusing into one
super bright light�just pshew! Just literally seeing the electricity coming out
of there, and feeling it. It was just like it drained everything, just took it
all.

"Another thing, when I was up in that thing, we were above the fog, just kind of
floating above this fog. And when they went to go suck the electricity out of
the power lines, that fog just got out of the way. It just opened wide up, just
shew! -- got out of the way, and I could see crystal clear.

"Another thing, I remember my teeth kind of hurting when it was sucking that
stuff up. Just like when you�re chewing on aluminum foil. I remember feeling
like, ?Hurry up, get this thing over with.?"
While Jack recalls several other events, it was the above incident which remains
the most memorable. As can be seen, the aliens seem to have intentions beyond
just an abduction and physical examination.

Taken to an Underground Base

The standard abduction scenario usually involves a person being taken inside a
UFO and examined by grey-type extraterrestrials.  But again, this scenario is
not as common as many might believe.  Consider the following case, in which a
young man was abducted, not by grey-type ET�s, but by praying-mantis-type ET�s.
Nor was he taken inside a UFO. In fact, he recalled being taken to an apparent
underground base!

In 1967, twelve-year-old, Paul Nelson (pseudonym) was visiting the island of
Catalina with his parents. Also along was Paul?s best friend, Michael
(pseudonym.) The two boys decided to go inside their boat and read some new
comic books. Suddenly, however, they both experienced an episode of missing
time. Their next memory was of waking up the next morning. While Paul was unable
to convince his parents that anything unusual had happened, both Paul and his
friend knew that the event was strange.

Two weeks later, Paul was alone in his Reseda, California home when he had
another strange experience. He was alone in his room when the door began to
rattle. He jumped up and threw it open.  To his shock, he saw the shadow of a
small figure running down the hallway. He chased after it, but found nothing.

Paul didn�t know how to explain these experiences and didn�t connect it to the
UFO phenomenon. However, afterwards he developed an interest in UFOs and began
to read up on the subject.

Many years later, he grew up, married, became a doctor and had two children.
Then he had a UFO sighting of a distant object in the daytime sky. This renewed
his interest in UFOs. He began reading about the missing time aspect of UFO
encounters when he realized that he had experienced missing time.

Intrigued, he eventually underwent hypnosis to recover his lost memories. Having
read about UFOs, he expected to find that he had a frightening encounter, during
which he would be examined by grey-type ET�s, aboard a UFO using highly
technological equipment. Instead, it was nothing like this.

As Paul underwent the regression, his first surprise was that he was not aboard
a UFO, but instead appeared to be in an underground base. Says Paul, "I was
taken to a round-walled room. It seemed to me more underground than it did
onboard a ship. The walls had kind of rock-like facet to them. And I was on a
table "Yeah, rock-like walls rather than metallic craft-type walls. It gave the
impression that I was in a cavern [rather] than in a ship.  It was more of an
underground feeling that�s true. That is a little anomalous."

Under hypnosis, Paul recalled his friend, Michael nearby, also being examined.
His next surprise was that the beings were what he expected. Says Paul, "The
beings weren�t the typical greys, they were more the �Praying Mantis� type, as I
later understood.  The eyes were slightly bigger than what is seen in the
typical small grey, and a little more insectoid-like.  They wore tight-fitting
uniforms, I believe. There was even a color to them, but I can�t remember what
the color was tight-fitting jump-suit like things. I think there was one in that
bunch that had a tunic-type thing, more looser fitting over it. I couldn�t tell
how tall they were because they were over me and I was on my back.  So I
couldn�t give you the exact height. They didn�t look particularly tall though."

Yet another surprise was the type of machinery in the room.  Having read a good
deal about UFOs, Paul expected again to see complex equipment. Instead, it all
seemed amazingly primitive.  Says Paul, "The machines looked like typical
military-type computer consoles rather than alien-looking machines. There were
lights and buttons. 

Well, I don�t know if they were buttons, but areas that seemed to be for
pushing. Colored lights�I can�t remember what color off the top of my head."
Paul recalled a very short examination, but otherwise, nothing frightening
happened. Never did he feel any fear. "I don�t remember being particularly
scared about the whole thing. In fact, I was a little intrigued by it. I don�t
remember anything painful occurring."

Conclusions

As the above cases show us, it can be extremely difficult to categorize a UFO
experience. While there are definite patterns, encounters are as individual as
the people who have them.  Witnesses, as a rule, experience a wide variety of
events beyond the abduction and examination. I am currently working with several
people whose experiences with ET�s are typically atypical. One case involves a
southern California woman who has had multiple encounters with grey-type ET�s.
She has several witnesses and physical evidence to support the veracity of her
encounters, which have moved beyond the standard missing-time abductions and
examinations and evolved into fully-conscious encounters during which she has
been healed of various ailments, has been taught how to heal, and has been given
other spiritual information. She reports that the greys are very loving and
emotional. Another case involves a lady who has had multiple encounters with
praying-mantis-type aliens. Her encounters have not been benevolent; her health
has suffered as a result.  

However, on a few occasions, the aliens told her extremely personal information
which proved conclusively to her that they were very concerned with her life.
They not only showed that they had been watching her during her entire
childhood, but they also gave her a series of predictions, several of which have
already come true. Some of the information was so personal, that the witness
refused to even discuss it.

While abductions and examinations appear to be the single most common factor,
there are a vast number of experiences beyond this. Again, the conclusion is
inescapable that extraterrestrials have a deep in humanity. Why else would they
take the time to fix someone�s motorcycle, heal someone of carpel-tunnel
syndrome or dangle somebody below their craft and show how they siphon
electricity from power lines�