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78 mostly in the ‘bedroom.’ | was disagreeable after a while and they were put out with me. One of them | knew better, and she was the leader. They were about as tall as I. | don’t remember spoken words. At one point | was real disagreeable and tussled with them. They left me in the bedroom and conferred together in the kitchen. “Finally they came out and said they had to go. They began to leave as a group, and | felt bad about what I’d done and asked them to reconsider. They said no and looked put-out. They began to leave, and | watched them go sadly and relieved, too. The leader did all the communicating.” Jane enclosed a number of words in quotation marks, as if to suggest that they weren't what they seemed to be, including “birthday,” “real life,” and “bedroom.” Do they suggest that the purpose of the group’s visit was not her birthday, that they might be familiar from experiences that weren't part of Jane’s normal life, and that the room was not a bedroom? The group’s demeanor is not festive, but rather “purposeful” and quiet. No one speaks but the leader-a curious term for a social visitor. She didn’t remember her activities with the group in the bedroom, nor why she was “disagreeable” and resistant. Whatever occurred was Clearly not a party game. And finally, her feelings about them when they prepare to depart are strangely ambiguous. If these visitors, events, and emotions are put into abduction terms, the parallel is obvious: A group of vaguely familiar visitors arrive and interact with a person in a small enclosure. The interactions are disagreeable to the person, who feels resistant. Only one of the group, the leader, communicates with the person. When the visitors leave, the person has confused emotions and cannot recall all the details of the interaction. Given these parallels, it may well be that Jane’s dream images screened an actual alien encounter. Five days later, however, on December 9, she had a conscious perception of unknown visitors. She awoke from a dream around 5:30 a.m. and realized she was hearing “voices and faint music” downstairs in the living room. She listened in surprise, but abruptly the noises ceased. “Then | could hear someone walking away from the bed toward the stairs and down them,” she wrote. ‘The sound was a loud ‘blue jeans rub’ between the thighs of a man. | listened for several moments when suddenly | caught the black outline of a man slipping past my window. He had a faint light outlining him. He was tallish and in a hurry. He was just a quick flicker and then gone. | was paralyzed with fear. | tried to reach for my gun, but | couldn’t move! | tried so hard, but | was so scared | couldn't move. When | looked at the window, | could move then, and everything was okay.” This intrusion marked the end of a series of events that had begun with the silent blue light near Jane’s house. Other possible UFO sightings continued to occur, not always with concomitant odd activity. She watched two nocturnal lights fly in an arched path on January 9,1993, for instance, and three lights going in opposite directions on April 10. “The lights would fade in, travel slowly, and then fade out or disappear,” she wrote in her journal. “I saw two bright, golden streaking meteors, plus a huge bright flash through the trees southwest of my house. Seemed to be in the woods.” And then on May 16, Jane had a spectacular UFO sighting that was witnessed not only by her mother, who was visiting, but also by several people all around the area of a large lake. That evening, Jane received a phone call from one of the local MUFON members who told her that she’d gotten a report of a triangular UFO near Jane’s location. She asked if Jane would go outside and have a look. Immediately Jane ran out and spotted a light in the sky toward the lake, alternating or rotating with red, green, amber, and white lights. Her mother stepped out and also saw the object, which hovered for about ten minutes before drifting off to the north.