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56 context of Anita’s life-long experiences, they prove to be very typical of abduction patterns. And the third consciously remembered event from her childhood did bring UFOs into the picture. “When | was twelve,” Anita reported, “my brother shouted one night for me to come look out the window. | did, and just above tree level, about a quarter of a mile from our house, was a large band of beautiful lights moving from west to east. They appeared to be all on one craft. My brother was around ten at the time. He said it was a UFO. There was no sound, and we had our windows open.” Anita and others in her family have continued to have UFO sightings from time to time. Her older brother, for instance, who is a long-distance truck driver, has reported a number of sightings especially in the southwest part of the country, although elsewhere as well. “He tells of a time he and his wife had stopped on the highway, somewhere up around Nebraska, to get some sleep,” Anita related. ‘They were awakened by a very bright light shining down on them. They got out to see what it was but couldn’t because the light blinded them. They said it didn’t make any noise, and that is what frightened them. They jumped back in the truck and headed for Scott’s Bluff. Whatever it was followed them all the way.” For Anita, the strange experiences continued into her adulthood. In the 1970s, she lived in Houston for a while, and it was there that a number of events occurred. The most traumatic and terrifying was in 1972, when at age twenty-five, Anita had her second encounter with the man in the red suit. 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