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Four Machines from Beyond Time “Tt was shaped like a disk about the size of a boxcar, with a domed top and square red and green windows,” Mrs. Rita Malley recalled. ““And it made a humming sound, something like the vibration of a television antenna in the wind.” Mrs. Malley, a pretty, young blond mother of two, was recounting her science-fiction-like experience of Tuesday, December 12, 1967. She was driving home along Route 34 to Ithaca, New York, with her five-year-old son, Dana, in the back seat. Around 7 P.M. she became aware of a red light that seemed to be following her. “I was speeding slightly,’’ she explained later. ‘‘So naturally I assumed that I was just about to be pulled over by the state police.” She glanced out of the window and discovered that instead of a police car she was being paced by an eerie illuminated flying object that was traveling along just above the power lines to the left of the car. At this same moment, she said, she was horrified to find that she could no longer control the automobile. She shouted anxiously to her young son to brace himself, but he remained motionless. ‘‘It was as if he were in some kind of a trance,’’ she continued. ‘‘The car pulled over to the shoulder of the road by itself, ran over an embankment into an alfalfa field, and stopped. “‘A white twirling beam of light flashed down from the object... and I heard the humming sound. Then I began to hear voices. They didn’t sound like male or female voices but were weird, the words broken and jerky, like the way a translator sounds when he is repeating a speech at the United Nations. But it was like a weird chorus of several voices. “I became hysterical,”” she admitted frankly. ‘““My son would not respond to my cries. I knew the radio wasn’t on. The voices named someone I knew and said that at that moment my friend was involved in a beeeILID 22a dens tee nee) TEA. wnt ee ne ween Va waa 22 a terrible accident miles away. They said my son would not remember any of this. Then the car began to move again, although still not under