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72 had seen humans, some of them military, but she had no clue as to what any of them were really doing. The agenda behind these events has remained unknown, and Beth has continued to struggle with her questions and her fears, because the events continue to occur. In January 1993, for instance, when she was staying in a Miami apartment with her son and daughter, Beth experienced another missing-time episode, and this time she discovered artifactual evidence afterward. The event was preceded by a number of odd but minor occurrences involving each member of the family. On Wednesday, January 27, they had all gone to bed by midnight. Beth awoke at 4:39 a.m. and went to the bathroom. On her way back to bed, she suddenly felt a compulsion or instruction to go into the kitchen and pull up the window. She became afraid and fought against the urge, but still she walked to the window and opened it without looking out, before returning to her bed. As she lay down, Beth glanced at the window and thought, | don’t want to see. She began to turn over to face the other direction, and at that moment she heard something that sounded like a train, followed by the sound of an electronic door closing. Rolling on over, she glanced at the window again-and saw that it was daylight outside. The bedside clock read 6:45. Two hours had disappeared in the time it took her, consciously, to turn over in the bed. The realization startled her, and Beth got up in great agitation. She went to the kitchen to make coffee and tried to figure out what had happened, but without success. Then she went to take a shower, and that was when she noticed that both of her knees were coated with a chalky white substance, as if she’d been kneeling in the unknown powder. But she couldn't imagine where she might have been, for the substance was unlike anything in her house. In spite of her agitation, the morning’s activities had to go on, so Beth woke up her children to get ready for work. Before he left, her son remarked that something might have happened to him during the night because he’d discovered a puncture on his forearm that he couldn’t explain. When they returned in the evening, Beth told them about the events of the previous night: the strange sounds, the missing time, the white substance, and the apparent fact that she must have been out of the house temporarily. But her son, who'd slept at the foot of Beth’s bed in a sleeping bag, said he didn’t think that was possible. “She was sitting in bed last night,” he told his sister. “She acted afraid, talking to someone. | saw a figure in the doorway,” he added, but at the time, he said, he couldn’t get up and apparently fell back asleep. Everything about the event remained a mystery. In this final account from Beth’s ongoing experiences, an event occurred which had identical details to a bizarre report | had learned about from a close relative. Beth’s parallel story confirmed that it wasn’t the imaginings of a single mind. Either the aliens were actually doing these things, activities that were not familiar from other abduction accounts, or they were creating the same virtual-reality scenario for at least two unrelated abductees. Beth was in Miami when the experience occurred, staying with a friend and sleeping on his couch. One night, she awoke and watched in amazement as “a rectangle of light, like a very thin page of paper” came in through the window. She could see an area in the center where white, pink, and purple lights were moving about.