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sudden displacement of warm air or a violent whirlwind. J saw the trees bending as if under a sudden storm, and I was nearly thrown down. Almost simultaneously, there was a strong, blinding white light. | had the feeling something flew through the air very fast, but I saw nothing. Soon everything became calm again. J felt discomfort and nausea. | reached the house of the lock-keeper — and when I opened the door they came toward me and asked me what had happened, because they too had seen a light from their house. The lock-keeper's wife asked me what was wrong. When I was able to speak at last, they told me all the fingers were still deeply marked in the flesh of my face, making large red bars. They applied perocide to the scratches on my legs, and an ointment, and bathed me face with cold water. My hands were badly hurt. After a long lapse of time I started again toward the town to buy a few things, without saying anything to anyone, and I came back home laboriously, by another path. The previous evening, the witness in this case had observed a "kind of shooting star," which stopped abruptly, then appeared to go up and stay among the other stars for a while, then to grow bigger and take on a kind of swimming motion, its light alternately on and off. Suddenly it left, on a curved trajectory, and reached the horizon at very high speed. She had dismissed the incident from her mind at the time. The official investigation got nowhere and was dropped. The case is still 1 + 444 carried as an unsolved abduction attempt. What can we say about such reports? They are neither more nor less believable than other UFO sightings; they are in line with some of the most dramatic stories of older days, which inspired the fairy tales; they are also in line with the visions of the 1897 airship and the incidents that followed it. The records of ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) contain another abduction case that occurred on August 21, 1915. In that incident, which I have not been able to confirm, an entire regiment was posted as "missing." We have now examined several claims of abductions and attempts at kidnappings by the alleged occupants of flying saucers. These episode are an integral part of the total UFO problem and cannot be solved separately. Historical evidence gathered by Evans-Wentz points in the same direction. This sort of belief in fairies being able to take people was very common and exists yet in a good many parts of West Ireland. The Good People are often seen there [pointing to Knoch Magh] in great crowds playing hurley and ball. And one often sees among them the young men and women and children who have been taken. Not only are people taken away, but — as in flying saucer stories — they may be picked up and set down again. A man named John Campbell told Evans-Wentz: A man whom I have seen, Roderick Mac Neil, was lifted by the hosts and left three miles from where he was taken up. The hosts went at about midnight. Reverend Kirk gives a few stories of similar extraordinary kidnappings, but the most fantastic legend of all is that attached to Kirk himself. The good reverend is commonly believed to have been taken by strange beings: I now have several other reliable cases in my files where the beings — and in some cases, the UFO itself — were invisible. Taken by the Wind