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74 ancestry. She is a sixth-generation Texan residing in the central hill country. Jane was a nurse for many years, until arthritis prevented her from working, and she has also been a journalist, photographer, and a vocational archaeologist. She is divorced, with no children, and lives with several dogs, including her favorite buddy, “XZ,” in a rural setting near a large city. Compact, independent, and perky, Jane enjoys sky-watching and music, including voice recitals. In addition to her professional talents, Jane has also demonstrated psychic abilities. “| was tested for over two years on a regular basis,” she reported, “by two research foundations in San Antonio... for psychic abilities.” Among them were telepathy, precognition, psychokinesis, remote viewing, and clairvoyance, with the tests showing positive results. And since the UFO activity had started, her psychic senses seemed to have increased. “Lately my psychic abilities have intensified to the point that it’s hard for me to be around groups any length of time,” she said, “without feeling mentally ‘assaulted and battered’.” These abilities may be part of the reason why Jane’s flashes of memories have come so often while she has been conscious, rather than only through dreams. Her UFO involvement began in the summer of 1992 with a multiple-witness sighting, and a number of strange events soon followed. “Something deep and profound has been occurring to me since July ‘92,” she said in our first correspondence. “If you ask me if I’ve been abducted | have to honestly say | have no absolute memory per se. | can only point to my scars and say | think something has happened but | cannot remember, only flashes of things, and I’m not sure | can trust the flashes.” Like Polly and several others, Jane was not eager to claim abductee status, nor that her experiences would be confirmed as ‘absolutely’ real by an outside observer. In fact, she made no claims at all about what these events and the alien agenda might be, but she did hope to find answers. And when she realized the possible implications of several events, Jane approached the phenomenon from an investigative point of view. This involved keeping scrupulous journal entries, not only of sightings, flashbacks, dreams, and odd events, but also of her physical and emotional responses to these things. She filed sightings reports with the local MUFON group and hosted several parties of sky watchers on the property. Further, Jane attempted on many occasions to photograph the UFOs, as well as the helicopters and odd planes - sometimes invisible ones, however - which over flew her home. From these research records and my investigation, the following account emerged, showing the presence of an abduction history. In Jane’s case, several things are noteworthy. For one, the frequency of her UFO sightings is well above that of the typical abductee, and several of them were multiply witnessed or photographed. Also, while Jane has not recalled a conscious full-blown encounter, most of her memories have come from conscious flashbacks rather than dreams. Her dreams, by the way, are vivid and frequently recalled, but they seem only occasionally to contain alien-related information, and this is usually in a screened form. Finally, Jane’s experiences have involved a number of telepathic communications and sudden “knowings” of messages or information. She marks the date of her involvement from the August sighting, but for a couple of months before this, Jane sensed something different in her environment. She said she felt as if she were being watched, and thinking in normal terms that the watchers were human, she became very cautious and alert. For a while she resorted to carrying a gun, so certain was she of an unseen presence. And then she saw the UFO on August 12, 1992, with a witness, and her reality began to