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don't carry the fetus full term. At a certain point, a few months it seems of fetal development, the subject is brought back aboard their craft and the fetus is removed, transferred to some kind of incubating apparatus." "Yes. I've read your own recalled description of it when you observed the process on that ‘other woman! in 'The Watchers." "It's very strange. I was disgusted at first; the fetus seemed to be 'impaled' with needles or some type of electrodes, pickled in vitro, the eyelids circumcised...but from the more calm position of recollection, I can understand what they were trying to impart to me at the time. The fetus isn't really being hurt or tortured by these processes; they're just highly advanced, artificial means of cultivating the traits and characteristics that will optimize the powers the beings want them ultimately to have." "Well, I don't know; but I do know that some of the fetuses develop into infant forms that are more humanlike, and some more alien—like; so they seem to be aiming at diversification. They have suggested that they're not just operating on behalf of their own preservation or continuance, but that they intend to introduce quan— tum—leap improvements in the engineering of the human race." "There's a peculiar point about all this that does occur to a lot of people who read of it. I've heard various explanations provided by various 'species' of alien who participate in similar 'womb- borrowings’, and I've read the parallel explanation given in The Watchers; but just for the record, Betty, why in your experience do these aliens, whose genetic composition and form necessarily bear compatible relation with ours, seem to require the bellies of Earth women in which to preliminarily carry these embryos? especially since they seem to be of both more ‘human' and more 'alien' species, why is it that their own 'female' counterparts can't perform the task and thereby spare the trauma that's often visited on the conscious or subconscious systems of the roa + wan Earth—subject?" "Well, the way it was explained to me, their strain has not adapted well to vital or physical forms of continuity—as the stress is placed on their tremendous mind—power, their vital and reproductive processes seem! to suffer corresponding deficiencies; their genetic fatigue is accompanied by the shrinkage of overall womb-capacity: their females seem very phthisic, very slender and wan without nearly the pelvic girdle necessary to accommodate those huge heads*. You've probably seen my drawing of one of the "women" of the species as I recalled her, in The Watchers." Indeed, MT had, and remembered the "female" stickfigure very vividly. He also recalled parallel and overlapping explanations of the vomb—hijacking phenomenon as detailed in such books as Budd Hopkins "The Intruders" he thought of the extended aspect of that phenomenon as reported in very many cases, i.e. the continued post—presentation requirement for the personal tending and care of the exteriorized fetal forms by the bearing Earth—female, often ex— plained by the beings themselves as a necessary if awkward phase of post-natal nurture brought about by their collective developmental estrangement from the forms of creatural love and tactile support such infant—energies still seemed to require. Apparently, Earthwomen persisted in possessing the 'atavistic' emotions of love and care that were inconveniently needed for this stage. "Well, I feel they have this love...but it's not like human love. It isn't identifiable that way. It isn't charged with emotion, the way ours tends to be—in fact they're very bewildered by human emotions, I think, they're very 133 T-Bird_Vs_The_Flying_saucers.htm "And just what are those projected traits?" "You mentioned love before. Do you feel, or believe these beings actually have, the capacity for love or even a love for the human race?"