Secret life: firsthand accounts of UFO abductions (28 page)

Humans use the nose, in part, to inhale and perhaps to heat air for breathing, to sense gases, and to trap particulates floating in the atmosphere for odor registration. The lack of a nose on an alien suggests no need for these functions and is therefore consistent with the speculation that they do not use the atmosphere as we do. The same is true for their lack of eyelids. They apparently have no need to keep the outside of their eyes free from dust and other particulates.

In addition, abductees do not report seeing an expansion and contraction of the chest as if the aliens were inhaling and exhaling
air. Nor do they feel the rush of air on their faces from exhalation during the extremely close Mindscan procedures. All this leads to the possibility that the Beings do not breathe air, at least not in the manner that we are aware of, and do not interact with the atmosphere as we do.

“Do aliens eat or drink?” The evidence seems to suggest that they do not. Abductees never see aliens eat. The aliens do not appear to have a moveable mouth, teeth, saliva, or tongue. The throat is a narrow tube with no indication that it contains a complex apparatus for swallowing or ingestion. The lack of a jaw further supports the notion that if the aliens eat, it is not accomplished through mastication. Lack of a nose suggests that the sense of smell is not involved with the important (human) function of taste. If that is the case, the ingestion of “food” might be very different, if it exists at all.

There is no evidence of a stomach. Also, all the Beings appear to have the same bodily frame, with no evidence in weight differentiation as if one were eating more or less than the other. There are no discernible buttocks or solid and liquid waste elimination apparatuses. In fact, abductees do not report water as part of the experience. They see no water basins, no spouts or faucets, no cups or glasses for drinking water. The aliens never offer food or drink to the victims other than a liquid for some specific physical procedure. They never wash their hands, at least within sight of the abductees.

A cursory examination of alien morphology, then, leads to the conclusion that these Beings are very different from humans. They do not appear to breathe or to ingest food and water, which means that at least two major human physiological systems are missing or are organized completely differently.

The technology and science that the aliens possess suggest that they have logical thought processes with a great capacity to learn and understand. The achievements they have demonstrated depend on cooperation among the aliens, and this would probably entail a hierarchy of work and divisions of labor; the differentiation of tasks that abductees report suggests this as well. Furthermore, the Taller Being’s behavior lends evidence to a hierarchical structure not only of work but of command and knowledge.

The Taller Being appears to be in control of the abduction. He usually makes his appearance after the abductee has been examined. He directs the operations of the Small Beings. He conducts what might be considered the more specialized procedures—Mindscan, gynecological procedures, and sperm collection—rather than the more general ones, such as the physical examination.

In addition to executing the Taller Being’s orders, the Small Beings have their own specific tasks to perform. They retrieve abductees, oversee clothes removal, situate the abductee on the table, and help perform the physical examination. They often maneuver machinery and take the abductee to various stations. Yet they are not simply “robots” with no independence. Most of the time they act in concert to carry out their assignments. On occasion they will discuss a problem and agree upon a solution. For example, one time when Karen Morgan was taken on board the UFO, she felt extremely “out of it” as she lay on a table in an entrance room. The Small Beings apparently saw this, and Karen could “hear” them communicating about the fact that she was not ready for the examination. They decided that the best course of action was to wait. So they waited until Karen began to feel a little less groggy. Then they took her into the room for the examination.

The “female” Being usually looks more like the Taller Being and performs many of his duties along with other tasks. She interacts with both men and women, but she more often reassures males, performs Mindscan and bonding, and extracts sperm. The “female” Beings attend to the babies and nurseries. They bring the children out to be held, hugged, and nursed, and then take them back after the abductees are finished with them.

The aliens are generally cooperative with one another, and abductees report no instances of conflict among them, although there may be differences of opinion about how to proceed when something unusual occurs. The Taller Being may be irritated when the Small Beings have not done something to his liking, such as not taking an abductee’s clothes off fast enough.

He told me that I had to get undressed. He seemed kind of annoyed that I wasn’t already.

You mean, annoyed with you?

Well, annoyed at them. I felt like he was mad at them. He said something to them; he just was unhappy.

Did he turn around and say something?

Yes, sort of off to the side.

Did you happen to pick up a little particle of that discussion?

For some reason I think he said something like, “This isn’t the way this is supposed to be done.” And then he said something about me supposed to be undressed already, or why wasn’t I undressed already, or something like that.

What happens then?

He turned back to me, and he looked at me again, and I knew that he’d be back, and he went out of the room again…. I guess they just took my clothes off when I was lying there…. He came back after a few minutes…. He looked at me again, and he said, “This will be over in a minute.” I started to feel scared again, too.

(Barbara Archer, 21, 1988)

The aliens’ demeanor is businesslike. They do not waste time; all their actions are deliberate and economical. Abductees get the impression that they are part of an assembly-line process. They are received, processed, and returned as fast as possible so that the aliens can move on to the next victim.

The aliens seem to respond to human needs with a certain amount of compassion. The reassuring nature of their conversation suggests that they appear to understand human fear and aversion to pain (although they sometimes conduct pain procedures). They comfort the abductees by telling them that they will not be hurt, that there will be no pain, that they should not be frightened, that it will not last long. They may have evolved this line of communication because human fear is a constant factor in nearly all abductions.

On the other hand, telling newly pubescent young girls that they
should “breed” or “mate,” as if they were animals in a biological experiment, suggests that the aliens are either unaware of or indifferent to human emotions and psychological responses. The aliens act as if the process of making babies involves only the physical uniting of sperm and egg.

They do not seem to understand why humans resist them. The Taller Beings often seem puzzled when someone tries to resist. When an abductee attempts a modicum of physical resistance, the aliens simply enforce their wishes. When the abductee does not mentally cooperate or when she silently cries out against the aliens, they disregard it. They ignore accusations that they are hurting the abductee or ruining her life. If she pleads with them to stop, they answer, “We can’t stop.” If she threatens them with finding a way to put a stop to it, they answer, “You can’t stop us. We won’t stop,” or something similar. Patti Layne reported a very short but typical exchange with the Taller Being.

He looks in my eyes and says, “How do you feel?” And I say, “Not good, why did you bother me?” And he didn’t answer. He just stared at me too. “I’m going to get rid of you guys somehow.” And he said, “Okay, you do that.” But that’s all I remember.

(Patti Layne, 17, 1980)

When resistance occurs, the aliens do not seem to become angry. In fact, anger does not emerge as a significant feature of their psychological makeup. They may seem perturbed, exasperated, stern, or annoyed, but they do not manifest anger, even when pushed. They have no outbursts, and they display no uncontrollable behavior. Similarly, abductees report no violent or aggressive physical behavior.

In their efforts to try to get abductees to do what they want, the aliens display a curious substitution of form for content. During child presentations, for example, the aliens sometimes insist that the baby is “beautiful” even though the woman might be repelled by the sight of it. They insist that a woman hold a baby to her breast even though she might not be lactating.

In general, the aliens are evasive in their communications. When asked direct questions not relating to the experience at the moment,
they often ignore the question. In fact, most abductions take place with little or no communication whatsoever between alien and abductee. If a telepathic dialogue does take place, it is usually with the Taller Being and it has limits. The Taller Being will ask a question of the abductee related to her physical state, especially if he has found something about her that he has not seen before. She replies and then he might ask a few more questions. Or the Taller Being may sometimes ask a casual question, such as “How are you?” Instead of answering, often the abductee will ask the Taller Being why he is doing something. His answer is evasive. If the abductee persists, the Taller Being will remark about how the victim is asking too many questions and tell her to relax.

The Taller Being and the Small Beings silently communicate among themselves. Usually the Taller Being initiates the conversation and the Small Beings respond. Once in a while abductees report a situation in which the Taller Being explains something about human physiology to the Small Beings, as if he were a teacher and they were students. He will point his finger at various areas of the abductee’s body, the Small Beings will look at the areas, and the Taller Being will communicate with them about it. Abductees often report that they are able to “tap” into communications between Small and Taller Beings. Invariably they are discussing something about the abductee’s body or the procedure they are about to perform on it. Sometimes the Small Beings stand around and communicate with one another, but idle conversations between aliens and abductees are rarely reported. At times the Beings seem pleased or almost happy, especially when the victims have cooperated fully with them in all their procedures.

Abductees rarely describe humor or lightheartedness in any of the aliens, although we do have one reported episode. The Beings had just cut off a lock of a young girl’s hair. The Taller Being then put the hair up to his head and showed it to the other Beings. This apparently was amusing. In the main, however, abductees say that the Beings do not express a sense of fun.

Virtually all conversation revolves around the experiences that are taking place. There is no discussion about the lives of the abductees or of the aliens apart from the abduction scenario. (It must be remembered that the telepathic and nonsyntactical quality of most conversations means that abductees must interpret the correct meaning from the impressions that they receive.) The Beings express
absolutely no interest in anything about the abductee’s daily life apart from physiology. They express no interest in her personal, social, or family relationships, except as they bear upon the breeding program. They express no interest in politics, culture, economics, or the rich and extraordinarily complex tapestry that makes up human relationships and societies. They do not ask even idle questions about this. They do, however, express interest in birth control, smoking, and health problems that might directly relate to childbearing for women.

For example, when Barbara Archer was sixteen, she suffered from anorexia and had lost a considerable amount of weight. This greatly concerned the aliens.

I feel nervous now because he’s angry with me for something.

At this time, were you in the middle of your anorexia problem, or at the end of it, or just beginning?

Toward the end.

So you were sort of at a lower weight, then?

Yeah. But I don’t think that that’s the problem. I don’t know. I feel that he’s concerned about the weight, but he’s more concerned about other stuff, too.

What do you think he might be concerned about?

Well, I think that’s he’s concerned about what losing the weight has done. He’s concerned about the problem, but I think that it’s not really the fact that I’m real skinny, it’s just that I think that he knows that my period stopped.

Did your period stop for a long time, or… ?

I guess it was about eight months. Maybe a little bit more than that. Not fully a year, I don’t think, but kind of a long time…. And [the Taller Being and the Small Beings) sort of talk or something. They sort of are in the corner of the room, and I know they’re talking about me.

Can you sort of get a sense of what they’re saying… ?

Well, I think that they’re saying, this is the feeling that I got, I feel that they know that I stopped menstruating, and they think that… I’m also so skinny they think that I’m sick or something. The taller guy seems annoyed again because I’ve lost weight. They keep saying I’ve lost weight. They don’t know why because they can’t see anything wrong. I’m not sick as far as… I don’t have any sickness, you know. They don’t understand why I lost all this weight. But all they do know is that I lost all this weight and it stopped my period…. They kind of left, I think, and it was just the taller guy.

What does he do?

Well, he comes over to me, and he wants me to, he wants to know why I lost all this weight. And I just said, “Because I want to be thin.”