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Chapter Four It was the night of Thursday, April 15, 1993. At the time of the appointment (Pat was caring for an ill husband and needed to come at a time when her kids would be home to look after his needs), it began to storm terribly. I was sure she would not come out in such rain and We went through the normal pre-session interview, and then talked a bit about the event again. I wanted to get the times and details down about her general life situation, so I would have clues about areas of possible family conflicts that might be at the root of such a drama. Pat was a real estate agent and also owned a medical reports business working under government contract to transcribe social security records. She talked a bit about her children and her disabled husband, who was dying. I was sure the stress of caring for him was an exacerbation of her problems. Nothing was said about “aliens” at any point whatsoever. I carefully inquired about her interests. She had never been interested in metaphysics, much less aliens. She was a formerly devout Catholic who was now in a state of doubt about her religion. She was sure that I was not going to be able to hypnotize her. I decided to make a videotape of this session rather than the usual audiotape. I wanted a record of my “proof” that the “alien abduction phenomenon” had another explanation! I instructed Pat to go back to the time when she was driving the route of their return from the funeral. It was snowing so hard that they turned onto another highway, trying to find better driving conditions. She described seeing the light in front of what she thought was a billboard. She described it as iridescent blue, a pale oval of baby blue, and the oval is hanging there in front of the billboard. It made no sense to her, and she began to rub her eyes, firmly in the memory, saying that she must be imagining it. But, the light wouldn’t go away and, still fully in the memory, she asked her son if he could see it. He couldn’t, and she was confused even more. What was more, as she continued to describe it, the light At this point, Pat was alarmed because she felt something taking over the control of the car. She claimed that she wasn’t driving anymore, Then the skip. All the drama and build-up to some dramatic climax just ends and she said: “I wish that damn light would change." expected a cancellation; but surprisingly, she showed up. She was a good subject and quickly went under. just kept getting bigger. something was driving the car, and the light was getting bigger.