Thu 7 May 92 19:38
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ARIZONA DAILY SUN, Volume 46, No. 266, May 7, 1992

Headline: HAVE ALIENS NABBED YOU? FOR $75, YOU MAY FIND OUT
By: Karin Schill, Sun staff reporter

SEDONA - Being abducted by space aliens can change your life, says
Sandra Bowen.

People who were bought on board spaceships may not remember
afterwards what transpired; they're just left with feelings of fear and
confusion. That's why people like herself are on a mission of mercy,
the 49 year-old Sedona psychic consultant syas.

"I have an agreement to teach people," she says.

A year and a half ago, Bowen moved from the San Francisco area to
settle into a comfortable home in Sedona, surrounded by the red rocks
that have made the town famous.

To Bowen those racks are more than just a pleasure to the eye,
however. They also attract a large number of Unidentified Flying
Objects to the area, she says. This is where she can remain in daily
contact with those she calls her extraterrestrial friends.

People who suspect they've had an encounter with a spaceship pay
Bowen $75 per hour for a reading in Bowen't living room. A reading may
consist of regression, or hypnosis, during which Bowen says abductees
are able to remember what they think are visits to UFOs.

About a year ago, Bowen also ran support groups for people with space
ship experiences. People would get together to compare sotries and feel
tonnected to one another.

Some who consult Bowen are tourists who find her flier in the Chamber
of Commerce or local hotels. Others are members of the crystal-clad New
Age crowd that has taken to Sedona in recent years. And some are just
people with unusual experiences, like businessmen.

"The businessmen often have problems with thier digestion. They come
in and say they have these strange feelings they can't understand,"
Bowen says.

They all come to Sedona, drawn by the town's magic aura, she says.

"Everybody in Sedona opens up to it. Dreams, for instance, are more
vivid here."

Bowen's realization that she can communicate with extraterrestrials
beings came when she did a regression in 1980. She syas it helped her
remember how, a week earlier, two aliens had taken her away, up to
their spacecraft.

She describes a ramp leading up to a podium on the ship. There they
made her lie down on an examination table.

She said the aliens were "very tall and iridescent and vibrated. They
had long arms, their eyes were large and round, but they didn't have
much of a mouth or nose."

Another thing she says she noticed was that the aliens had no feet,
but floated a few inches above the floor.

"Then they said they would put light into me," she says.

The light, Bowen says, is the ability to communicate with the many
spaceships that hover up in the sky, though not always visibly.

Crystals and crystal skulls, supposedly planted on Earth by the
aliens, also play an intricate part, Bowen says. She has many in her
home and one in a ring on her finger. It grounds her to the Earth, she
says.

In 1988, Bowen co-authored a book entitled "Mysteries of the Crystal
Skulls Revealed." Crystals are important because they indicate what's
going to happen to the Earth, Bowen says. And that's where the UFOs
come in.

"They've come to help us because we're destroying the Earth," Bowen
says.

At the Fund for UFO research in Washington, a non-profit group, Don
Berliner takes such a conclusion with a grain of salt.

Space aliens are interested in humans solely for their research, he
says. Their project is extensive, though nobody knows exactly what
they're after.

"Bizarre abductions are popping up all over the place," he claims.
"It's been estimated that over 2 million Americans have had experiences
with spaceships already."

Whatever the motives of such encounters are, and whether or not they
really happen at all, the interest in visitors from other planets seems
to be picking up.

CBS has scheduled a four-hour prime-time mini-series on the topic.
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