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128 all the traumatized people. Hundreds of people came, hoping for help of some kind. Once in awhile we had other speakers in for our meetings and we let people vent their fear and anger within the group. Tulsa, within a month’s time, had had at least sixty cases of abductions. The intruders appeared to have a definite project or plan in mind but we didn’t yet know what it was. Most people who witnessed the barrage of UFO appearances did not have any conscious knowledge that they’d been abducted. Their memories were erased and ea oe 14 many of them were experiencing post traumatic abduction symptoms. At one time the aliens took more than thirty people from one Tulsa neighborhood in a group abduction. People were also being kidnapped and abducted off city streets. The area surrounding 36" and Harvard appeared to be a vortex of some kind for abducting and returning maio4 Tulsa’s citizens. I began to feel helpless, drowning in people who wanted my attention. I felt as though I needed to be doing something for these sufferers but there was really nothing I could do other than ask questions and listen to the answers. I searched for a way to do something, something that would actually offer hope for these abductees. Many of the people who came to the meetings came from long distances, some of them with no plan or preparation for what they would do once they were in Tulsa. I began to feel as though I had to offer food and lodging to these unfortunates. Some days I’d have as many as three or four strangers sleeping in various corners of my house. This was aside from the speakers who, if they were from out of town, were expecting to be put up and fed, sometimes for as long as three days or a week or longer. Finally I called a halt to the meetings. I couldn’t really aid the suffering as I should and I needed to find some way into the psyches of all these people who needed me if I were going to help them. Neither could we afford to Barbara Bartholic as told to Peggy Fielding