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77 had turned off the light for the night. “| was lying quietly on my back, thinking,” Jane said, “and my blinds were open. Shortly, just beyond the trees, | saw a flashing blue light. | saw it at the top of my cedar tree, and then it dropped down to the level of the window cross panes. Dogs all around began barking-mine didn’t, they lay asleep-and | thought, They’re here! My whole body tingled, and my mid-section welled up with something. | watched and didn’t see anything else for a few minutes. Then | saw a ‘light bulb flash’ to the right and then left of the window.” Her drawing shows an intermittent light spiraling downward, moving from one side to the other in the window. Inexplicably -or perhaps not- Jane didn’t get up to check on the situation. Instead, she instantly fell asleep. “Il was awake one minute-the next, asleep,” her journal notes. “I guess | was scared.” Two and a half hours later, at 3:40 a.m. on December 3, Jane woke up. She felt instantly awake and alert, as if she hadn’t been asleep at all, and stayed up the rest of the night. Around 6 a.m., Jane happened to look at her back and was surprised to see two fresh scratches on her left shoulder and a scratch and a welt on the left one. She also noticed as the day went on that she was having difficulty discerning right and left directions, something that had never happened to her before. This lasted two weeks, as did an almost total loss of short-term memory. At 7:15 a.m. the house was shaken and vibrated by the loud noise of a helicopter. It flew toward the south, lingered momentarily by the side of the house, and then continued on. Jane was surprised by the helicopter, because even though there had been an unusual number of them flying over her house since the first UFO sighting, she hadn’t seen one in several days. The last one’s arrival had coincided with a UFO, she realized, just as this one showed up only hours after the blue light’s appearance. She wondered if she were imagining connections that didn’t exist, if her increasingly agitated, disoriented, and frightened state of mind was clouding her logic. But the nervous feelings continued, even though she tried to explain them away. "The strobe light scares me because there was no sound,” she noted in the journal, “and the light was too close not to hear if it was a plane or ‘copter. It was a silent light.” A silent light, preceded by an unknown acrid odor, followed immediately by a sudden loss of consciousness, and in conjunction with unexplained scratches, body marks, and disorientation. All that were missing were the memories. On the evening of December 4, Jane found another unexplained injury, a quarter-sized bruise on her right hand. Examining the rest of her body, she also noticed a new addition to a pattern of marks which had been showing up on her forearm. They included two circles and two lines in a V-shape, and now there was also a “cut-line” connected to the larger circle as well as a small red dot near the other circle. The closing lines of her journal entry for that day include a very intriguing final line: “Felt better after | talked to S.L. and | laughed and laughed tonight. | needed it. | feel good, up. I’m not so afraid to see them now. | feel a lot has been connected in my mind.” Two nights later, Jane recorded a curious dream which occurred between 11 p.m. when she went to bed and 1:30 a.m. when she awoke. On the surface, nothing about it seemed related to any of these previous events, but an examination of several details shows a possible screen memory or screened new event. “A group of women arrived at my house for a ‘birthday’ party,” she noted in the journal. “They seemed familiar but didn’t know any of them from ‘real life.’ They were purposeful and quietly determined. We did some [unremembered] things in a small house. | stayed