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61 And the import of the phrases is clearly similar. Even the grammar is incorrect in both cases. As with most abductees, Anita cannot explain even to herself just what the aliens are doing with her. And she certainly doesn’t accept all the communications and encounters as objectively real. “| suspect that a lot of these encounters are alien-induced dreams,” she commented, “for the purpose of making you feel comfortable with them. As for the controlled free-falling, | think they were creating an enjoyable flying experience for me because | have a horror of flying and it may be necessary in the future to ‘fly’ with them when the planet tilts in order to save my life.” Her reference to the planet tilting comes from a scenario she has been shown involving future global catastrophe. Such scenarios are so common among abductees that this type of information may well be part of the widespread programming included in the alien agenda, designed to serve some purpose which is not yet clear. And most of the abductees who are told about a coming destruction also report, as does Anita, feeling that they will have a job or task to perform in conjunction with this catastrophe. “It is like | have always known that these things [UFOs, aliens, and the predicted destruction] are coming,” Anita told me, “and that | must try to convince people, and also learn things that would help not only with my own survival afterwards but | must also be able to help other survivors. For instance, | was told as a child, The children must be protected.” Anita, then, admits that at least part of the alien programming has had an effect on her, but she doesn't let herself accept everything they tell her or show her. “I’m always amazed when | get any information from them at all,” she said. “I really don’t know if someone who would abduct a person could be trusted to give a truthful answer to any question.” She is aware of their possible deceptions, just as she realizes that the aliens are capable of creating unreal scenarios for humans during encounters. This awareness has served Anita well, for it has allowed her to push the alien activity away from her a little, as it were, in order to analyze and assess the events to which she has been subjected. And it also has kept her from jumping to conclusions about some of the things she has remembered. One recent possible event, for instance, Anita describes as a regular dream, in spite of the presence of UFOs in the scenario. “| dreamed last night that | was standing in my back yard and looking up into the night sky,” she told me. “I saw a rectangular UFO sitting poised about five hundred feet above the house. It had rockets on the side and started firing at a line of trees fairly close to the house. | ran inside, and my doorbell rang.” She said the next segment of the dream involved a scene in which she and | were together, discussing the book project, but after that a very different episode occurred. “Next,” she said, “I was visited by some military sorts who were trying to get me to tell them about the UFOs, and | refused. | kept saying, ‘| know nothing, | know nothing’.” Anita dismissed this scenario as a mundane dream, which it may well have been, probably in part because of my presence in one of the segments. What she didn’t know, however, was that | in fact had seen a rectangular UFO at very close range in the winter of 1992, so my own curiosity was aroused by her description. Even more interesting was the fact that several other people in this book project-Lisa, Angie, and a member of my family- have reported very similar situations to the military interrogation. And in these other cases, there was reason to believe they were not normal dreams at all. For Anita, however, the evidence of the dream’s reality was not very strong, which is indicative of her tendency not to overreact to possible or actual alien encounters. As a result, she has managed to keep a good sense of mental balance, neither overly exalting the creatures in her mind, making gods of them, nor being overwhelmed by terror as if