PART 1


"Alien Abductions in the Gingerbread House"; by Dr. Karla Turner.

World renowned UFO researcher Jacques Vallee has repeatedly
referred to the similarities between UFO and abduction reports and
the stories of folklore and fairy tales. I disagree with Dr.
Vallee on many, many points of UFOlogy, but here I will grant that
there is one fairy tale which does have something important to tell
us about the alien abduction phenomenon. It is not, however, what
Dr. Vallee might think.

The story of Hansel and Gretel presents a lesson that every
abductee should heed. These innocent children, wandering lost and
frightened in the forest, came upon a gingerbread house that seemed
to offer them shelter and sustenance. The owner of the house, a
wizened old woman, was frightening to them at first, but their
hunger pushed the children to accept her offer to come inside and be
fed.

And so they entered the gingerbread house and promptly became
the old woman's captives. Kept in cages, the two children were
abundantly fed. It was not for their benefit, though. In fact,
they were being fattened up for the oven! The deceptive nature of
the gingerbread house and of the old woman's offer of food worked
quite well.

It is the deceptive quality of this story that holds a warning
for humans who are abducted by aliens. Like Hansel and Gretel, we
are initially terrified by our encounter with aliens, but in too
many cases, our fear is overcome by the words of our abductors and
by the thoughts and experiences they present to us.

I, too, am an abductee, and my quest to discover the nature of
my own experiences led me into abduction research over the past four
years. Working with many other abduction cases, I have learned just
how basic the deception of alien actions can be.

My family and I also delved into our own experiences, both past
and present. Barbara Bartholic, a dedicated UFO investigator from
Tulsa, Oklahoma, worked closely with us and helped us fill in the
gaps in our recollections of strange encounters through hypnotic
regression. Ms. Bartholic, by the way, began her own research as an
assistant to Jacques Vallee in cattle mutilation investigations, so
her expertise in ufology is wide-ranging. I have recently written a
book, Into the Fringe, about the startling and often disturbing
results of our personal investigations, and it will be published by
the Berkley Publishing Group in November 1992.

But my interest soon expanded past the merely personal, and for
the past several years I have worked as Ms. Bartholic's research
associate, exploring literally hundreds of sighting and encounter
cases with her. And what I've learned through this work has raised
far more questions than answers. In fact, it has taught me to be
wary of those researchers who do claim to have answers. I have yet
to hear of a single theory or explanation that accounts for all of
the data.

Some researchers have pointed out patterns of events in the
abduction experience, such as the physical examination, the taking of
sperm and ova, and the later presentation of a hybrid baby to the
abductee. Other patterns include the training of the abductee in some
way and the delivery of a warning of some upcoming global disaster.
Yes, these events are frequently reported, as one researcher has said
in boringly repetitious accounts, and it is tempting to think that
the explanation for alien abductions may lie in these patterns.

So the researchers announce that the problem is solved. The
aliens are doing cross-breeding experiments, UFOlogists tell us.
Never mind the overwhelming evidence against the viable
commingling of different species. Or, we are told, the aliens are
here to save us from destroying ourselves and our planet through
violence, drug use, epidemic disease, pollution, and resource
depletion. Never mind that these problems have grown worse, not
better, since the ETs began visiting us.

Or, most infuriating of all, we are assured that there are no
actual aliens, that our experiences spring from our own subconscious
turmoil or from our need for fantasy fulfillment. Never mind that
many abductees are young children, too young to be suffering from
such psychological disturbances. Well, then, the resourceful
researcher counters, the imagined aliens must spring from some
collective human super-psyche that is mirroring our failures and
dangers back to us. This particular theory adores the archetypal
gray ET, because it resembles some sickly fetal form of humanity and
must therefore be an objectified warning of what our species is in
danger of becoming if we don't mend our ways. Never mind that many,
many abductees have no dealing with grays, but instead are
victimized by robust reptoids and insectoids. Not to mention the
totally human-looking blond beauties and black-headed, black-robed
clan with the widow's peak hairline.

No, too many researchers seem to find a theory and cling to it
in spite of data that contradict it. And it is the ideas of these
researchers that dominate ufology. But if the public had access to
the raw data, to the first-hand reports of abductees, especially
those unfamiliar with UFO-oriented books, magazines, and lecturers,
they would find a much less neatly organized set of patterns. These
"virgin" cases--people uncontaminated by ufological literature
supply a staggering picture of human-alien contact events.

What follows here is an overview of these "virgin" reports, a
list of recurrent experiences that taken together gives us a close-up
view of what the aliens are doing here on earth. This data doesn't
tell us for certain just what sort of creatures the aliens are, or
what their purpose here may be. But it does tell us what humans are experiencing and what they are observing in the actions and
capabilities of the aliens. Every detail in the following list has
been reported by more than one abductee, and in many cases the
details have turned up quite frequently.

ABDUCTION "CHECKLIST".

If these reports can be believed--and there is no reason to
doubt the honesty of the reporters--the abduction phenomenon
includes the following details.

-- Aliens can alter our perception of our surroundings.

-- Aliens can control what we think we see. They can appear to
us in any number of guises, and shapes.

-- Aliens can take us--our consciousness--out of our physical
bodies, disable our control of our bodies, install one of their own
entities, and use our bodies as vehicles for their own activities
before returning our consciousness to our bodies.

-- Aliens can be present with us in an invisible state and can
make themselves only partially visible.

-- Abductees receive marks on their bodies other than the
well-known scoops and straight-line scars. These other marks include
single punctures, multiple punctures, large bruises, three- and
four-fingered claw marks, and triangles of every possible sort.

-- Females abductees often suffer serious gynecological
problems after their alien encounters, and sometimes these problems
lead to cysts, tumors, cancer of the breasts and uterus, and to
hysterectomies.

-- Aliens take body fluids from our necks, spines, blood
veins, joints such as knees and wrists, and other places. They also
inject unknown fluids into various parts of our bodies.

-- A surprising number of abductees suffer from serious
illnesses they didn't have before their encounters. These have led
to surgery, debilitation, and even death from causes the doctors
can't identify.

-- Some abductees experience a degeneration of their mental,
social, and spiritual well-being. Excessive behavior frequently
erupts, such as drug abuse, alcoholism, overeating, and promiscuity.
Strange obsessions develop and cause the disruption of normal life
and the destruction of personal relationships.

-- Aliens show a great interest in adult sexuality, child
sexuality, and in inflicting physical pain on abductees.

-- Abductees recall being instructed and trained by aliens.
This training may be in the form of verbal or telepathic lessons,
slide shows, or actual hands-on instruction in the operation of alien technology.

-- Abductees report being taken to facilities in which they
encounter not only aliens but also normal-looking humans, sometimes
in military uniforms, working with the alien captors.

-- Abductees often encounter more than one sort of alien
during an experience, not just the grays. Every possible combination
of gray, reptoid, insectoid, blond, and widow's peak have been seen
during single abductions, aboard the same craft or in the same
facility.

-- Abductees--"virgin" cases--report being taken to
underground facilities where they see grotesque hybrid creatures,
nurseries of hybrid humanoid fetuses, and vats of colored liquid
filled with parts of human bodies.
End of part 1


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