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19 Polly’s letter listed several UFO sightings and alien-encounter incidents in her family’s experiences, and most of the details were familiar from my research with other abductees. The list included, “interactions with ‘Elves’; a creature that seemed to slosh through physical objects as if they were water; the usual zigzagging lights; lights that appeared outside my window every night at about the same time and watched me for several hours; maddening poltergeist activity; and many, many vivid ‘abduction’ dreams.” “| make no claim for them,” Polly wrote, “but | know how they felt, a sense since young childhood that something was in my head to keep track of me, a squealing sound sort of in my head which seems associated with contact, and bedroom visitors which my dog, my son, and | all saw.” Polly had merely listed these events, but as a researcher | was interested in the details. | was also interested in the person who was trying to cope with this phenomenon. Replying to her letter, | asked for more information about her experiences and offered to be a good listener, both as an abductee and a woman. Although | had no recollection of any sexually oriented encounters myself, | had learned much from others who had been through such events. And my husband Casey, whose full account is related in INTO THE FRINGE, had himself experienced a sexual scenario with what appeared to be a hybrid alien female when he was a very young teen. Such events, | knew, were real in terms of their sensations and aftereffects, and any understanding of these scenarios would shed important light on the overall abduction agenda. | explained these two concerns when | answered Polly’s letter, and she agreed to share her information with me as part of my ongoing research. Through letters, phone calls, and taped discussions, | learned much about Polly and the things she and her children had experienced. A tall, fair, striking woman in her mid-forties, Polly’s ethnic background is European, primarily Celtic, and Scandinavian. She is an excellent artist, but much of the time in supporting her family she has worked at rather physical jobs. Polly was born in 1946 in New Jersey and grew up in the Southeast. Widowed, she now lives with her children in the Adirondacks. In addition to the various UFO sightings they had witnessed in this area, it soon became clear that her youngest son, Sam, was also having current alien encounters. In his taped communications and the drawings and reports to Polly which were shared with me, Sam showed unusual maturity and insight for an eleven-year-old. Everything they told me came strictly from their conscious recollections which, concerning any given event, were very incomplete. Polly relegated some of her experiences to the “vivid dream category, acommon response of many abductees. The statement, “I make no claim for them,” meant that she could not objectively verify these events as part of our “usual” reality. ”