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64 and thin with large hairless heads. Said Sara, “If there’s any hair, it’s underneath this skin-tight—it’s like a ski mask, but it’s almost a part of the skin.” Once inside, the ladies were amazed by the enormous size of the craft. Said Shaw, “The inside of the ship is like one giant room, and there’s a second level above us. It has circular balconies . . . the balcony The craft was very clean and brightly lit. The entities didn’t speak but communicated telepathically. The witnesses were taken to separate rooms, laid out on tables, and given a thorough medical examination. The E-T's seemed particularly interested in an old surgical scar on Jan Whitley’s body. They told the women not to be afraid, that they wouldn't hurt them. The E-T\s said that they had the ability to cure cancer, and that finally, they would meet again. Afterwards, the ladies were returned to their cabin with no con- scious memory of the event. Later on, both would experience further abductions, which spread like a contagion among their close friends. The case shocked the UFO community. At that point in time, only a few other cases were known. The idea that people could go inside UFOs was shocking, even to UFO investigators, and the idea that abductees would not even remember the experience was unthinkable. By far the strangest aspect of UFOs are close encounters of the fourth kind, or cases in which people claim to have been taken on- board an alien craft. There are now thousands of such recorded cases, often called UFO abductions. The UFO abduction phenomenon has been studied extensively. In 1987, folklorist Thomas Bullard analyzed 309 cases and came up with the basic model of a UFO abduction. Ac- cording to Bullard, there are seven main events that occur, including: Capture Examination Conference UFOS AND ALIENS goes all the way around the entire inside.” However, it wouldn’t be long before more cases would occur.’