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Chapter 18 an anonymous letter from a woman who wanted to share her experience with me but who, apparently, did not wish to let me know just who she was nor where she lived. The letter was postmarked from a small town in Oklahoma. She told about her abduction along with that of her four year old son. What follows is a major portion of her long letter: It was really hot. I decided to take my son out for a ride. He had fallen asleep in the back seat when I saw this very shiny object about the size of the bottom of a Coke bottle. It sent a glare into my eyes. Something happened with the steering wheel. It vibrated so that I’m shaking now just writing about it. My thought was, I’ve got a flat. I pulled over to the side of the dirt road but didn’t turn off the engine, I just stopped the car. I knew somehow I was supposed to get out of the car, but I couldn’t move. Everything in my peripheral vision was blurred but straight ahead I could see plainly. The object was in the road. I thought if I could touch that thing I could get the glare out of my face. If I could just go over and turn it over, then I’d be all right. That was my problem, I thought, I was hypnotized by that shiny thing. I thought I was having a heat stroke. All these ideas ran through my mind but I couldn’t say anything and I couldn’t move. Something rustled in the pines. I couldn’t look to my side but I was aware of the noise. I could hear something, 1 tou a1 ut aoroad not a hum, but a sound I can’t pinpoint. I’d heard it once before. These things came toward me and the car died. mm + 44 aoa aoa 1 They looked very much like the things you were showing pictures of, Barbara, but the chin was more rounded, not so 161 A CONSCIOUS WITNESS At about the time of the Gloria Lee incident I received