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35 The encounter in the new body was followed by a more familiar situation, in the exam room. “A doctor and a nurse were giving me an examination,” she recalled, “and telling me | had hepatitis. But they were giving me some sort of vaginal exam. | told them to leave me alone, that they weren’t my doctors, [but |] don’t remember more.” In addition to the sexual encounters and the alleged cloning capabilities of the aliens, a third controversial topic avoided by many researchers focuses on military involvement with aliens and abductees. For Lisa, as is so often the case with abductees, the first memory of a possible encounter with the military surfaced in a dream. “| was being interrogated by the military,” she said, “pushed and made to lie crouched on the ground. In the back were some trucks, and beside them were guys in black uniforms standing watching me. The men asking questions were in regular military clothes. They held me down with the butts of their guns. They told me to give them the knowledge, and they said ‘at any cost.’ | told them | didn’t know what they were talking about, and they just repeated themselves.” Since that dream in August 1993, however, Lisa has had other memories of this particular ‘event’ come to the surface. The most detailed recollection came as part of a situation which closely fits the definition of the VRS dream discussed earlier. On the night of December 19, 1993, Lisa had several dreams of a very ordinary sort. But in the midst of these regular dreams, she suddenly found herself in a situation and environment that had quite a different ‘feel’ to it. “All of a sudden I’m surrounded by military men, some in black clothes and some in green,” she noted. “I was being made to walk hurriedly on the grounds of some installation. | don’t know how | got there or left. The soldiers were rude to me. | told them to stop pushing on me. “Then we went into an office of some type that seemed plainly decorated. It looked like white walls and no pictures, and the desk and chair were plain. A man was sitting behind the desk. He was a little heavy and looked slightly balding, but his hair was short. He had on green clothes and no medals or name as | could tell. He started asking me questions, about what | felt on the aliens. It seemed like he was wondering about how to get the public prepared. “| told him that a lot of the public was already aware, and some would never accept it. | asked him how he could expect that, since we don’t all agree on other things. We talked, | believe, a little about religion and politics. | believe there were other people in the room. ‘Then | think they brought me something to drink. | don’t remember more. | just know this man looked bewildered and concerned. | believe the alien issue has gotten out of control in his opinion. | expressed to him that | was tired of the game-playing.” For Lisa, then, the abduction phenomenon’s parameters include witnessed UFO sightings; conscious perceptions of lights, probes, and aliens in the house; conscious telepathic communications; bizarre external physical reactions from inanimate objects in her environment; conscious perception of missing-time episodes; unexplained physical marks on her body; and a number of virtual-reality/dream scenarios involving both human and alien beings. In a nutshell, this is an accurate general definition of the phenomenon as reported by numerous abductees. But as the eight representative accounts here demonstrate, the details of that scenario are highly bizarre, variable to an absurd degree from case to case, invariably intrusive, sometimes physically painful, spiritually ambiguous, ingeniously deceptive, and, at every level, deeply disturbing. The first, which she recalled in a dream state, began inside an unknown facility. “l was on a table,” Lisa said, “and it looked like | was being pushed down a hall with bright lights. They [her attendants] were quickly strapping my feet down with straps that looked like velcro. | | probably wasn’t allowed to look. Three experiences Lisa has recently reported will make this point very clearly.