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105 through the kitchen, turned the corner and floated into the back porch. | saw the walls go by, and each detail was as it really is. | began to note the lack of unconscious symbols as in a dream and felt alarm. | became frightened at the moment | felt it was not a dream. | felt suddenly sucked back into my bed -through the wall?!” Amy drew a picture of the scenario as she’d remembered it in 1981. “Of all the dreams I’ve ever had,” she wrote, “I'd say that was not a dream! It seemed real, it looked real, and it felt real. | don’t know how, but | know | woke up exactly at the point | drew in the picture. | remember going through the window in the back door... | remember going up through the tree limbs. That’s all | remember until | felt ‘sucked’ back into my bed.” The details of her “dream” were exactly like those reported in many abduction onsets, and this, coupled with the earlier possible missing-time episode and other indicators, pointed to alien involvement with Amy. She had a conscious UFO sighting the following year, in July 1982, when she was living in the north Texas city where my family and | had also lived-at the same time, in fact, though unacquainted with one another. When she first mentioned this sighting to me in an early letter, she skimmed over the incident, saying merely, “I think I've only seen a UFO (actually five UFOs) once when they flew over my apartment years ago.” | asked her for more details when we met, but her account was not much more specific. She said she was outside in the daytime when she saw the five craft approaching, and that she had called out to a neighbor to look at them, too, and then had walked around her apartment still watching them. But later, Amy told me that “something weird” occurred during that discussion. “| didn’t tell you, but it has bothered me since,” she said. “I remember seeing the UFOs coming toward me as | sat in front of the apartments. Then they flew, slowly and without any sound, directly overhead. That part is still vividly clear. | realized what they were, and | got excited. | yelled at the guy in the apartment nearest to come see them. Then | walked along under them, directly under them...and | never took my eyes off them. “But when | reached the back of the apartments, my memory is all messed up. Up to that point, everything is crystal clear...but after | went to the back of the apartments, | have two sets of memories. | remember watching them fly off slowly, but | also remember getting binoculars or my small telescope and looking at them. | didn’t have binoculars at all. My telescope was still packed away.” Unfamiliar with the screening practices employed during abductions, Amy couldn't understand how there could be differing memories of the same time span. One ‘memory track’ contains the conscious parameters of the event: initial sighting of the UFOs, calling to her neighbor, walking toward the back of the apartments, and seeing the craft fly away. What is missing from this track is the continuity from the point where she sees the UFOs directly over her, to the point where she is watching them depart-a missing-time episode. The second ‘memory track’ apparently provided a filler for that time gap. This memory tells her that she watched the UFOs through either a telescope or binoculars in that interim, which would have necessitated her going into the apartment at some point and unpacking a box to get the telescope, or getting binoculars, and going back outside, where her conscious memory picked up again. But this clearly didn’t happen in reality, no matter what the second memory track told her, for the box was still packed and she did not even own binoculars. Something else happened in the time gap which she was not allowed to recall correctly, which is standard operating procedure in an abduction. The event was confusing to Amy, as were the dreams she occasionally had of waving farewell to a UFO. In one such dream from the winter of 1988, she was with her daughters