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i 63 jtaken Onboard On March 22, 1953, Sara Shaw and Jan Whitley were asleep in their cabin in a remote location in Tujunga Canyon, California. It was around 2:00 a.m., when they both woke up to find the interior of the cabin illuminated by a bright, eerie blue light. They jumped up to inves-tigate, and then suddenly lost consciousness. When they woke up, two hours had passed and the strange light was gone. Knowing something very strange had happened to them, they fled the cabin in a panic. Unfortunately, at the time, UFO abductions were unheard of. Not knowing what happened, or whom to tell, the witnesses kept the event a secret for more than 20 years. Then in 1975, after several other simi- lar cases had surfaced, they went under hypnosis to investigate the two hours of missing time . To their shock, they remembered being struck by a beam of light and floated onboard a UFO that had landed outside their cabin. Under hypnosis, Sara Shaw described her experi- e nce: “I’m on the beam of light. I’m standing on it and it’s angled . . . it’s about the same angle as an escalator would be, except it doesn’t have ridges or steps. It’s just a very smooth, solid beam, and you just kind of stand in it.” Shaw described one of the entities as being “not ugly to look at, or f unny-looking, but they’re kind of funny in a way . . . his head is elon - gated. It’s like an egg, but one that isn’t really wider at the top or the bottom.” She noticed that the entities were basically humanoid—tall 4