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case where a physician has documented that a fetus has disappeared in relation to an abduction. Many abductees have noted that electrical or electronic devices—tele- vision sets, radios, electric clocks, telephone answering machines, electric lights, and toasters—malfunction in relation to abductions, or simply when the experiencers are nearby. But it is almost impossible to prove that these disturbances are related to the abduction process, or even that they have occurred at all. Abductees are frequently convinced that some sort of homing object has been inserted in their bodies, especially in the head but other parts as well, so that the aliens can track or monitor them, analogous, the abductees themselves will observe, to the way we track animals with various devices. These so-called implants may be felt as small nodules below the skin, and in several cases tiny objects have been’ recovered and analyzed biochemically and electromicroscopically .... I have myself studied a 1/2- to 3/4-inch thin, wiry object that was given to me by one of my clients, a twenty-four-year-old woman, after it came out of her nose following an abduction experience. Elemental analyses and electronic microscopic photography revealed an interestingly twisted fiber consisting of carbon, silicon, oxygen, no nitrogen, and traces of other elements. A carbon isotopic analysis was not remark- able. A nuclear biologist colleague said the “specimen” was not a naturally occurring biological object but could be a manufac- tured fiber of some sort. It seemed difficult to know how to proceed further. sets, can or John E. Mack, M.D., is professor of psychiatry at the Cambridge Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of T.E. Lawrence, A Prince of Our Disorder.