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134 In fact, she feels that the aliens have hidden, in a way, behind their contacts. “We're not seeing the true intelligence behind all these scenes,” she once said. Polly says that when she considers all she has been told, she concludes that in reality, ‘They have told us nothing.” And Amy has complained that in spite of all she’s been told and taught, the aliens “don't give [practical] information.” Angie has come to be suspicious of much of what she has been told. "There’s no reason | should trust those aliens,” she wrote, “any more than | would trust my own kind.” And Anita has echoed that feeling. “I’m always amazed when | get any information from them at all,” she said. “I really don’t know if someone who would abduct a person could be trusted to give a truthful answer to any question.” The second issue focuses on alien technology as observed by the abductees. Besides the various instruments used in examinations, most of which are completely foreign, it is curious to note how often the aliens employ quite familiar equipment, especially needles and injections. Indeed, some researchers have said that this use of mundane technology argues against an alien force and toward covert human activity. Angie, Beth, and Polly all report getting shots, and the other women have sometimes found injection punctures without remembering how they got them. But the most common technological devices are not at all human-like: the probes. Their descriptions are often very similar-small balls of light floating or bouncing through the house-but in Amy’s case the probe was rather more “spidery” in appearance. As mentioned earlier, there is a strong interest in human brains evinced by the aliens’ activities. Amy, Angie, Beth, Lisa, Pat and Polly all reported having some operation performed on their brains, and they often used the exact same descriptions, of feeling as if their skulls were opened and their brains temporarily removed. But by far the most alarming evidence of alien technology concerns the “new” bodies and “clones” they manufacture. Whether these are really bodies for a future human “resurrection,” as Pat was told, remains to be seen, for other explanations have been given. In a case privately reported, for instance, a man was told that a duplicate of his body could be used to “replace” him if he didn’t “cooperate” with the aliens. Lisa, too, was told that other people wouldn’t be able to distinguish her cloned body from the original, if they chose to replace her. And Angie was shown the cloned infants as part of a “novel breed” the aliens are producing. Polly has a different take on what may be going on with the baby presentations. “What's the point?” she asked. “Not to nurture this crossbred infant, not to teach the ETs about emotional love and physical bonding, but to blow our goddamn minds. They use our bodies to get to our minds and emotions.” She doesn't believe they care anything about our bodies, “except that WE care very much, so that is why our bodies are important to them: to get at our caring.” This view is echoed by Angie. When she was shown one of her “hybrid” offspring, she felt that the presentation was a test of her rather than anything to do with the baby itself. “From that particular experience, | learned that the hybrid presentation liturgy is not a bonding exercise,” she concluded. “In reality it is an act of scrutiny against the mother’s measure of courage and understanding. It has a lot to do with mental pain and how the mother deals with it.” Angie has come to be suspicious of much of what she has been told. "There’s no reason | should trust those aliens,” she wrote, “any more than | would trust my own kind.” And Anita has echoed that feeling. “I’m always amazed when | get any information from them at all,” she said. “I really don’t know if someone who would abduct a person could be trusted to give a truthful answer to any question.” The second issue focuses on alien technology as observed by the abductees. Besides the various instruments used in examinations, most of which are completely foreign, it is curious to note how often the aliens employ quite familiar equipment, especially needles and injections. Indeed, some researchers have said that this use of mundane technology argues against an alien force and toward covert human activity. Angie, Beth, and Polly all report getting shots, and the other women have sometimes found injection punctures without remembering how they got them. But the most common technological devices are not at all human-like: the probes. Their descriptions are often very similar-small balls of light floating or bouncing through the house-but in Amy’s case the probe was rather more “spidery” in appearance. As mentioned earlier, there is a strong interest in human brains evinced by the aliens’ activities. Amy, Angie, Beth, Lisa, Pat and Polly all reported having some operation performed on their brains, and they often used the exact same descriptions, of feeling as if their skulls were opened and their brains temporarily removed. But by far the most alarming evidence of alien technology concerns the “new” bodies and “clones” they manufacture. Whether these are really bodies for a future human “resurrection,” as Pat was told, remains to be seen, for other explanations have been given. In a case privately reported, for instance, a man was told that a duplicate of his body could be used to “replace” him if he didn’t “cooperate” with the aliens. Lisa, too, was told that other people wouldn’t be able to distinguish her cloned body from the original, if they chose to replace her. And Angie was shown the cloned infants as part of a “novel breed” the aliens are producing. Polly has a different take on what may be going on with the baby presentations. “What's the point?” she asked. “Not to nurture this crossbred infant, not to teach the ETs about emotional love and physical bonding, but to blow our goddamn minds. They use our bodies to get to our minds and emotions.” She doesn't believe they care anything about our bodies, “except that WE care very much, so that is why our bodies are important to them: to get at our caring.”