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A very forgotten and bizarre experience that happened during a moonlit walk more than 20

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years ago.

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First time suddenly slipped away in the blink of an eye.

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Then there were three bright orange lights in the sky.

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Was it a trick?

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A hallucination?

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Well the questions went unanswered until Karen saw a recent sighting to report on alien

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abduction and something about the story struck a resonant chord.

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Memories of that moonlit night in 1975 were incomplete but strangely compelling.

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An engaged couple on a family vacation steal away for a quiet drive through the north woods

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of Wisconsin.

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There's something strange about that ride that they can't figure out yet.

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Back at the cabin the couple stroll down to the lake.

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The night is clear, there's a bright star, but then it moves and they realize this is

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no star.

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There was one star-like object, it was a little bit brighter than a star, kind of an orangey

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color that seemed to stand out from the others a bit.

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It really didn't sit, think anything of it at the time, but my focus kept going back

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and forth to that particular object.

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And after a while I noticed some odd things about it.

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This bright orange star that was along the horizon of the trees on the other side of

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the lake zipped right to the top of our heads and we looked up.

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The stargazing couple were Karen Klinger and Dennis Moroske and what they saw would haunt

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them for more than 20 years.

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I think the best way to describe the flight is like that of a dragonfly.

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It was just, it would zip, pier, stop, zip, pier, stop, zip, zip, zip, zip really fast

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and like what are we watching?

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I had, I was fascinated by it, I just, I didn't want to stop looking at it, I was just glued

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to it and we finally started calling my folks down from the cabin so they could watch and

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my mother was a little scared.

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The whole family got down to the lake in time to see the single light split into three,

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and rejoin as one.

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It was a fascinating spectacle that drove one family member to try something illogical.

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Dennis' sister's boyfriend went into the house and got a large beam flashlight and

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flashed at the UFOs three times.

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Suddenly they just completely disappeared.

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And about maybe a couple of seconds later they flashed back at us the same amount of

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times as we had flashed at it.

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After a few minutes of this strange communication everyone reached the same impossible conclusion.

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By this time we knew we were watching something that we had no explanation for, it was really

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strange and definitely appeared to be intelligently controlled.

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The bizarre communication went on for half an hour.

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Then in less than the blink of an eye the UFO was gone.

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The encounter had a profound effect but Karen and Dennis wouldn't know just how profound

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were another two decades.

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By then they had married, had a son, and an acrimonious divorce.

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In fact in 1994 they were barely speaking when Dennis and Karen met to exchange custody

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of their son.

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While this particular evening he got out of the car probably for the first time that

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he'd talked to me face to face in a year and he knocks on the window of the car.

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And the first thing that comes out of his mouth was have you ever considered hypnosis?

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And I said to him I said you saw that program.

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The program was sightings and our report on the abduction experience of four men camping

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in the Alegash wilderness of northern Maine.

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They too had seen a UFO in the sky.

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Like Karen and Dennis they had used a flashlight to signal the spacecraft and most importantly

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of all the Alegash four had missing time.

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A roaring fire they had left just minutes before was now nearly out.

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Karen and Dennis divorced and barely speaking watched the report in different homes but

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had the same revelation at the same moment.

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They too had had missing time.

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Both Karen and I remembered the night of this incident that as we were driving around the

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lake which is exactly a four mile radius, doesn't take very long to cover at all, that at one

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point we looked up and the moon was directly in line with the rear view mirror of the car.

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And by the time we got back to the lake which shouldn't have been very long, the moon was

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setting.

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It never occurred to me until that moment that there could possibly be some missing

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time involved.

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I felt sick.

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I felt, I mean I literally felt nauseated at the thought of it.

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But what happened during that missing time?

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This asked Karen if she would consider hypnotherapy as a way to find the answer.

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I think that the nature of a repressed memory is that there is no conscious access to this

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memory.

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It's not something that somebody remembers once or occasionally and then sticks back

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in a locked vault someplace in their mind.

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Dr. David Clayton agreed to hypnotize Karen.

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He had no faith in the abduction experience but as he worked with Karen he realized that

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she was not unlike other patients who he'd seen relive past trauma under hypnosis.

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Karen was recalling a very intense white light that approached the vehicle that she and her

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former husband were in at the time.

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And when this white light approached the side of the vehicle it was so intense I think

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Karen at that point felt that she had fainted.

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Under Dr. Clayton's watchful eye Karen revealed traumatic contact with extraterrestrial beings.

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Something Dennis couldn't or wouldn't recall.

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But their descriptions of the craft were nearly identical.

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We compared notes later.

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They corroborated very closely with some of the points that Karen had brought up under

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hers.

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We both got these images of a grid-like pattern.

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Almost a primitive type structure, almost like a dirigible or something.

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Independently Karen and Dennis insisted that the purpose of the abduction was not to hurt

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them but to help all humankind.

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They each felt compelled to deliver the same message.

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The fate of Earth is intertwined with alien worlds throughout the cosmos and earthlings

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are not doing a good job of taking care of our part of the universe.

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It's a message that abduction support group leader Mary Kerfoot hears a lot.

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As far as the phenomenon in general some people's experiences can truly be described as abductions.

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They are taken kicking and screaming, struggling against their will.

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Others evolve over time as they understand what is happening to come very cooperatively

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and become associated with the beings that they're working with in a participatory role.

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The Chicago Center for Encounters support group was formed in 1993, so abductees and

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experiencers would know that they are not alone.

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It's enormously exciting for the members of our support group to compare experiences

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because as soon as you find someone who has some aspect that is similar exactly like yours,

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you feel much more validated.

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At first, abductees were pariahs, oddballs, inventing a new mythology.

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But after three decades, the phenomenon is not going away because abductees insist alien

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contact is a reality.

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If you feel that this has happened to you, by all means do whatever it takes to uncover

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the information because it's worth the risk.

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Just as she was reassured after watching our Allagash Abduction Report, Karen Klinger hopes

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that her personal story will encourage more people to come forward or at least to seek

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help from a certified professional hypnotherapist or from one of the hundreds of support groups

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forming around the world.