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76 sensation and then blacked out. In what seemed like only a few seconds later, they found themselves eight miles further ahead on the road, still in their car. They realized immediately that they were missing more than an hour of time and that something very strange had happened that they couldn’t remember. Afterwards, they suffered from a number of alarming symptoms, including headaches, eye irritation, first-degree burns on their necks, fatigue, weight loss, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Investigators were called in who later put the ladies under hypnosis. Each of them recalled being taken onboard the craft. The interior of the craft was white, blue, and dark green and had three separate levels. There were strange con- trol panels with colored lights. The ladies were separated into different rooms and examined by short humanoids dressed in white uniforms that covered everything except the eyes. Elaine Thomas felt that the E.T's were particularly interested in learning about her “intellectual and emotional processes.” Mona Stafford was told that the E’T:s were testing them to see if they could withstand the gravitational forces of interstellar travel. They told Smith that their own home world was dying and that they were gathering information to see if the E’I\s could survive in the Earth’s atmosphere. They also said that they had but also physically. Because of their physical symptoms, their case gained considerable attention. All three were given lie detector tests, which they passed. Stafford also noticed that her watch was running at twice its normal speed immediately after the abduction. There was other physical evidence: The taillights and brake lights on the car were broken and the paint on the hood was blistered and peeling. Inves- tigators later located other witnesses in the area who observed what appeared to be the same UFO that abducted the three ladies, making the case one of the best-verified on record. UFOS AND ALIENS the ability to control weather patterns. Afterwards, the witnesses were traumatized not only emotionally,