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The Siege - Two fear instantly disappeared. They escorted him through the wall and out into the dark yard. A fourth being was waiting there, at the controls of some sort of hovering ‘sled’ device. Ted and the three beings stepped onto the sled and floated away, a few feet above the ground, over the yard and into an open field beyond the tall trees. There he saw a large, silver-gray, circular craft in the field, surrounded by brilliant light. The sled stopped about fifty feet from the object, and Ted was led into the craft. As he approached, he noticed a number of other sleds floating toward him, coming from several homes down the street, and each carried one of his neighbors. They arrived, and Ted and the others were taken into the large UFO, up a ramp into a central room. As they crowded in together, Ted was posi- tioned in the middle of the group. One of the gray beings walked up to him and mentally asked, “Is this correct? Is this what you wanted?” But before he could reply, the craft seemed to rise up from the ground, and at that point Ted blacked out. The next thing he remembered was being transported back to his house in the UFO and seeing the other neighbors each being returned as well. He was fascinated by the process. At each home the craft hovered overhead, and the person being returned stepped onto a grate-type area. From there, a track of light carried the person, along with an accompanying gray being, straight into the mobile home below. The gray entity returned alone, and the craft moved to the next location, repeating the process. Ted was the last person delivered home. When he awoke the next morning, he recalled the experi- ence quite vividly. He even remembered having a conversa- tion with some of the gray beings when he was returned, and the way they touched him and thanked him for doing something. He didn’t know what it was that he might have done, however, for he recalled nothing of the time between his blackout on the craft and his return trip home from the event. Or the dream, if it had been just a dream. Whatever it was, he couldn’t understand what message or information message or Masquerade of Angels 12 The Siege - Two this scenario was meant to deliver. His spirit guides in the past had never done such things, and Ted was truly bewil- dered. “What a dream!” he thought, “I can’t believe it!” And when Bud awoke a little later, Ted recounted the entire bizarre experience. “You know,” he finished, “when they took me into the ship, I had the feeling that these gray beings were almost familiar, like I’d known them before. And they seemed to know me, too. At least, I remember they acknowledged me in a way, and welcomed me.” “Yeah, sure,” Bud joked, “you and your psychic dreams. That’s what you get for listening to those women at the book- store. You all sit around talking about UFOs, and now you’re having dreams about them.” “You’re probably right,” Ted said, gazing out the win- dow. “But you know, I’ve only been over in this part of the mobile home park for four days, I don’t really know the area. Look, over there across the road,” he gestured. “T think that’s where they took me. We can’t see it from here, but if I’m right, there’s a big, open field just beyond there.” Bud stepped to the window and peered out. “No,” he shook his head, “there’s nothing but woods out there, just a lot of trees.” “T’m telling you,” Ted insisted, “in my dream we went through those trees, and behind there is a big, open field. After we have some coffee, let’s go over there and take a look.” Bud agreed rather dubiously to go with Ted, but a rain storm arose, keeping them indoors. Intense wet weather con- tinued for several days, frustrating Ted’s desire to explore the area beyond the trees. A few times he and Bud actually started out, crossing the road and the trailer sites that lay between them and the woods, but there was too much water and mud to allow them passage. When dry weather finally returned, Ted and Bud did check out the area, and sure enough, just as Ted had seen in his dream, a large field lay hidden on the other side of the tree line. Looking around, they saw no sign of a craft having Masquerade of Angels 13