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38 As in the initial meeting, this occurred in the daytime while Anita was conscious, but as in most abductions her state of mind was soon altered as the strangers intruding into her home took control of the situation. She was lying on the living room couch when she became aware of presences there with her, and instantly her mind was clouded. She saw aman who appeared “human looking in every way” bending over her. “| have never experienced such terror in my life,” Anita said. “It was like a dream in that | knew the human was raping my body, but | did not feel anything at all.” The rapist had not come alone. “| could see maybe three others,” Anita reported, “standing by the table, but it was like seeing them through frosted glass. | could make out their bodies and the red suits but could not really see any details.” She has no idea, therefore, if the other figures were human-looking, like the rapist, or alien. She does remember that after the forced intercourse, the red-suited man spoke to her about something, but the only communication that stayed with her consciously was his statement, I'll be there to help you. Anita doesn’t remember what may have happened after that, but as soon as she was aware that the men were gone, she reacted in a very conscious state of mind. “| was so terrified,” she said, “that | grabbed my children and got out of the house immediately.” The trauma of the event had disturbing effects on Anita for a very long time. “It is very embarrassing to say this,” she confided, “but after that experience | started wearing a tampon twenty-four hours a day so they couldn't do it again. As if that would stop them.” Not long after the assault, Anita experienced a relocation event, presumably with the congruent missing time. At one moment, she was conscious of being in a certain location, and then at the next moment, without any sense of having lost consciousness, Anita found herself returning to awareness and being in a different place. “| was on my way to the grocery store,” she recalled, “and came to a stop sign. There were no other cars in sight in any direction. | started to turn the corner. The next thing | remember is snapping out of ‘mind blank’ and being [in a different location] on West Road. looked in my rearview mirror, and there was a car parked on the road that wasn’t there when | had stopped at the sign moments before.” Although the location was different, she did not notice a time loss. n 1977, while still living north of the Houston area, Anita had a UFO sighting that was witnessed by one of her friends. “| was outside late one night talking with a friend,” she said, “when | glanced up and saw a large orange globe to the north.” Her friend, who was in his car, took off in pursuit of the object and reported on his return that he had eventually lost sight of it near a state highway. t was also during this period that Anita had two other experiences that are frequently reported by abductees. One of these is the presence of small lighted objects in the home, usually near a wall or the ceiling, that seem to function as some sort of remote probe or monitor. This first event occurred during the middle of the night, when something woke Anita. “Looking around,” she recalled, “Il saw a multicolored triangle moving against my bedroom wall.” She could see that the object had a device or design in its center, where pink, orange, and other colors were moving around. Her reaction to this strange sight reflects a maddening yet typical response that abductees