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39 report in such situations. Instead of reacting with surprise, curiosity, and even consternation, as would a person whose mind was not being controlled, her response was quite passive. “| thought, A mandala, how pretty,” she said, “then | just went back to sleep.” This is apparently a programmed response that other abductees report, and it has proven usually to precede an encounter. If anything else occurred that night with Anita, however, she had no memory, conscious or dream-like, of further activity. The other experience was much more physical and less directly tied to alien intrusion. It has been reported, however, to occur following abduction events in a number of other people’s situations. Anita developed a rash which seemed to have no mundane cause. It rapidly covered almost her entire body, and the doctor she consulted could not give her an explanation. “It looked like | had snake skin,” she described. “It took six weeks to go away.” The pattern of activity in Anita’s life thus far had shown occasional intrusions and sightings, but in the late 1980s the activity noticeably began to increase. The timing may not be accidental, as many abductees “woke up” to the fact of their encounters in 1986-88. Although at the time Anita wasn’t aware of the implications, this new phase of her involvement may have been marked by a possible missing-fetus episode in 1985. When she began experiencing some suspicious physical symptoms, she consulted her doctor and was very surprised to discover she was pregnant. Having already raised a family of three children, and considering her age, she decided to terminate it. But the results of the operation proved to be as surprising as the unexpected pregnancy itself. “I went to have an abortion,” she said, “after my Ob-Gyn assured me that | was pregnant. He performed the procedure and said that he could not find any fetal tissue at all. He was as puzzled as | was.” Whether this was one of the by-now familiar procedures of aliens implanting a fetus and then returning to retrieve it from the host mother, Anita has not been able to determine. But since that episode and up until the present, there have been a number of experiences in which the aliens are clearly involved. She has seen them in conscious glimpses and flashbacks, and remembered events in dreams. She has engaged in telepathic communications with some group of entities, at times generated by them and at times by her. And, as usual, there have been peripheral and confirming external evidence in some instances. Among the types of non-human entities Anita has encountered are the ubiquitous Grays, another group she calls the "Tans,” a blue creature, and an off-white creature whose skin she described as “dry and leathery,” in addition to the humanoids in the red suits. Although she is conscious of a single event involving the Grays, Anita came away from the experience with a definite idea about the creature’s attitude toward her. “As far as the Grays go,” she said, “I have only one memory of an encounter, and it was not pleasant.” In the sketchy recollection, Anita was inside what appeared to be a typical craft. She was being escorted through a corridor, without any sense of the destination or of any preceding scenario. “There was the feeling of dislike on the part of the one [a Gray] who was leading me down the corridor,” she recalled. “I mean, he didn’t like me or just didn’t like humans. It was as if he had a somewhat distasteful function to perform. By the way,” she added, “this dude had a short, squatty-looking blue creature with him. | nicknamed him Grimace.” Like so many others in these situations, with no accurate, authoritative explanations or sources to help them understand the aliens and their activities, Anita has had to invent her