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72 streaked across the sky and formed a myriad of electrical bridges between the towers of clouds. The sky was the same as it had been that long ago day in Kirkwood when I was a little child returning from meeting with those strange people. I really hadn’t given that incident any thought, not for years. I smiled in sudden recognition. I had actually been on UFOs from infancy to early childhood. Those “people” had been aliens! I puzzled over the strange mixture of nausea and thrilling intensity which assaulted my solar plexus. Depression intermingled with my joy. It was as if I could foresee all the psychic cases and the UFO sightings and the frightening incidents that lay before me in the future. As Jacques Vallee and I worked together, I noticed other occurrences. Not just those associated with UFOs and Psychic phenomena, but occurrences with numbers. A particular combination of numbers began showing up more and more frequently. Suddenly, automobile license plates, hospital or hotel room doors, airline flight numbers, which would have something to do with me or with him, would all 1 aut 1 At first I kept my observations to myself. Finally, I mentioned the numbers in the spirit of a joke to Vallee and we both laughed. Later, I learned the numerological significance of the numbers. It was the customary belief of psychics, as well as that of many persons of the Jewish and Christian religions that these numbers represented the ma 4 4 Satan and God. I began to associate other happenings with the occurrence of the numbers, happenings which were not always fortuitous. I learned that the appearance of certain numbers seemed to indicate that something important, a profound incident in my life was taking place. In any context, the incidents presaged by those numbers could be good or bad, but always important. I learned to sit up and Barbara Bartholic as told to Peggy Fielding boast these numbers. conflict between evil and good, negative and positive,