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33 inflicted, in unusual places. After one particular abduction in October 1993, in which she recalled being in a pool of water with the aliens around her before they took her to an examination room, Lisa found a scratch across her lower left jaw, as well as two bruises on the outside of her left knee. And she has had patterns of bruises which are so commonly reported that we have come to refer to them as “clamp marks” because they appear to have been left by either three - or four- fingered hands grasping the upper arms or the thighs very forcefully. All of these physical effects are very familiar in abduction reports, as are instances of blood found on the abductee’s body or bedclothes after an encounter. Lisa, too, has had this occur, in situations where the blood could not be explained as coming from a bloody nose or some other injury. It is clear, then, that Lisa’s abduction situation has involved most of the “typical” scenarios and events, even including episodes where she has been shown how to operate a craft and has been warned about the physical dangers of touching a craft during certain phases of operation. But she has also experienced several of the less familiar events - less familiar, that is, in terms of abduction research findings which have been made public. Regrettably, much of what abductees have reported has not been publicized, for a number of reasons. In some cases, as with alien-human sexual activity, this may be because so many abductees are unwilling to talk about such intimate things. In other cases it is the researchers themselves who are reluctant to expose some aspects of the events, fearing they will push the credibility of their audience, especially their desired audience of professionals and academics, too far. Some parts of this phenomenon, they fear, are simply not “politically” acceptable, no matter what the abductees themselves insist they have experienced. Lisa and several other of the women whose experiences are reported in this book, therefore, are to be commended for their courage in discussing these aspects. The first highly controversial area is that of sexual activity. It is important to remember, when reading the following journal entries, that the aliens have superb “virtual reality” capabilities and that without external verification it is impossible to know if the memory or dream of an encounter reflects an actual event. This is especially important when assessing reports of sexual activity with the aliens, for in some situations people tell of seeing celebrities, religious figures, and even dead acquaintances. One of the first sexual situations Lisa remembers happened in late 1989, beginning with her conscious awareness of the aliens’ presence. Lying in bed, she woke up and saw a group of aliens, one of which held a wand-like instrument, around the bed. The tallest of the beings was touching Neal’s chest. “| looked at them,” Lisa explained, “and told them not to touch him and to leave him alone. That’s the night | got to see them for a few seconds in an unaltered state. Then they pointed the wand at my forehead, made me feel dizzy, and | was out. | believe that’s the night they made me have sex while they watched.” The sexual interaction involved another abductee. Lisa said the man gave her his name, T. M. Reiss, which he spelled for her. “He told me they had been abducting him since he was a child,” she said. “He was very sorry.” In a couple of the sexual scenarios, Lisa recalled interacting with creatures of some sort. These types of bizarre reports turn up less frequently in the research, but they are not unheard of. She recalled the first episode as a dream-event, in which she and a gorilla-type creature were sexually engaged. Lisa woke up after having this ‘dream’ when the sound of a “breathing device” brought her to consciousness.