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20 These began very early in Polly’s childhood. “When | was four years old,” she told me, “I saw the skinny being who appeared in silhouette against my window shade. It was night, but a bright light, perhaps orangish in color, shone from the other side of the shade. The room was dark except for the illumination outside the shaded window. The being turned to approach me. When | get to this point in the memory, | start shaking my head and saying, ‘No, no’ and then the memory stops. | tell myself if the memory comes over me again, | will get beyond this point and find out what happens next, but | never do.” This was also the age, probably not coincidentally, at which she began having the sexual fantasies of “intrusive unfamiliar instruments” used on her. Additionally she reported, “About age four, | had a sense of something having been put behind my left ear.” The next event possibly related to alien activity occurred around the age of fourteen: the onset of an obsession with understanding “the workings of the universe.” She explained, “It was like | awakened to a sense of cosmic mission and to an apocalyptic sort of sense of human destiny. | felt | must understand the universe. It became a constant undercurrent of striving which persists even now.” Given the reports of other abductees, some of which will be presented later, it was interesting that she related this “job and task on earth” to “Armageddon.” When she was in her late twenties, living in a different location, the next event took place. “Outside the cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains,” she said, “very loud stomping, like several men in work boots, suddenly began on our front porch after no sound of approach. We saw shadowy figures accompanying the very loud stomping. But | don’t remember it stopping. | recollect we went to sleep in the midst of all this commotion, which of course makes no sense if we were