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He just sat there. He wasn't looking out at the object. His head wasn't turning. His eyelids weren't moving. "The object was hovering at a height of probably three or four telephone-pole lengths. It extended a white beam of light from underneath - and it just completely took right over the controls of my car. My car stopped moving when it stopped. "My first thought was to grab Dana and get out of the car and run. Then I thought: what good is to to tun. This object, this thing has got complete control of me. I was shaking. "[ just didn't know what to do, what was happening. I became hysterical. I couldn't scream. My throat felt tight. And it was dry. The situation was weird. This was the first time I had ever been right-out scared. If you've ever been really scared, you'll know how I felt. My eyes started hurting, started burning. And I couldn't swallow. I think that was from being so scared - and shocked. "And I turned away from the back seat because I just couldn't get any response at all out of Dana. My uppermost urge was to get him out of there as fast as I could. But even if I picked him up and got out of the car and ran like mad, there just wasn't anybody around to run to. I saw the small lights of a house way off in the woods, but to reach that house I would have to run more than a mile across a wide open field. "While I was thinking these wild thoughts, I kept stamping on the accelerator - but the car wouldn't move forward. And the red and green lights on this object - it was disc-shaped - were going off in all different directions. Suddenly I realized that I was moving sideways. The thing was taking me off the road. I twisted and turned the steering wheel in the opposite direction, but no matter what I did - I even tried using the brakes to stop - my car gradually moved sideways and took me under the shoulder of the road. My front right wheel and my back right wheel were sitting in the alfalfa. The shoulder of the road must be 10 feet off the highway - and I must have been another five feet beyond that. "On the other side of the road, my left side, the object was still hovering over the wires of the telephone pole. It was maybe 120 feet high and now about 180 feet away. The lights inside my car went right down to nothing. The headlights had slowly dimmed to where I could hardly see anything ahead of me. Only red and green flashes from the thing over the pole. "I have an automatic gear-shift in my car. It was in drive. But the motor had stopped. It went down below an idle, which is hardly turning over. I was trying all the tricks I knew to get the car started. I even started pulling the light-switch back and forth - but I got nowhere. "Meanwhile, I became aware of a strange noise from this thing, this object. It sounded almost exactly like a TV antenna vibrating in a wind. It was that same low humming noise. The hum at first sounded like a whole swarm of bees, a cluster of bees. Have you ever stumbled into a bees' nest? You know, screamed at him: 'Dana, Dana! Are you all right?' I think that's what I yelled anyway. "His response was-nothing. He didn't say a word to me.