The Demon-Haunted World_ Science as a Candle in the Dark - Carl Sagan [93]
• I don’t know if these people are some sort of demons, or if they really don’t exist. My daughter said she had sensors put in her body when she was small. I don’t know... We keep our doors locked and bolted and it really scares me. I don’t have the money to send her to a good doctor, and she can’t work on account of all this... My daughter is hearing a voice on a tape. These go out at night and take kids and sexually abuse them. If you don’t do as they say, someone in your family will be hurt. Who in their right mind would harm little children? They know everything that is said in the house... Somebody said long, long ago somebody put a curse on our family. If somebody did, how do you get the curse off? I know all this sounds strange and bizarre, but believe me it’s scary.
• How many human females who had the misfortune of being raped had the foresight to take from their attacker an ID card, a picture of the rapist, or anything else which could be used as evidence as to an alleged rape?
• I for one will be sleeping with my Polaroid from now on, in hopes that the next time I’m abducted I can provide the proof needed... Why should it be up to the abductees to prove what’s happening?
• I am living proof of Carl Sagan’s claim of the possibility that alien abductions occur in the minds of people suffering from sleep paralysis. They truly believe it’s real.
• In AD 2001 Starships from the 33 planets of the Interplanetary Confederation will land on earth carrying 33,000 Brothers! They are extraterrestrial teachers and scientists who will help to expand our understanding of interplanetary life, as our own earth planet will become the 33rd member of the Confederation!
• This is a grotesquely challenging arena ... I studied UFOs for over 20 years. Finally I became quite disenchanted by the cult and the cult fringe groups.
• I am a 47-year-old grandmother who has been the victim of this phenomena since early childhood. I do not - nor have I ever -accepted it at face value. I do not - nor have I ever - claimed to understand what it is ... I would gladly accept a diagnosis of schizophrenia, or some other understood pathology, in exchange for this unknown... The lack of physical evidence is, I fully agree, most frustrating for both victims and researchers. Unfortunately, the retrieval of such evidence is made extremely difficult by the manner in which the victims are abducted. Often I am removed either in my nightgown (which is later removed) or already naked. This condition makes it quite impossible to hide a camera ... I have awakened with deep gashes, puncture wounds, scooped out tissue, eye damage, bleeding from the nose and ears, burns, and finger marks and bruises which persist for days after the event. I have had all of these examined by qualified physicians but none have been satisfactorily explained. I am not into self-mutilation; these are not stigmata... Please be aware that the majority of abduct-ees claim to have had no interest in UFOs previously (I am one), have no history of childhood abuses (I am one), have no desire for publicity or notoriety (I am one), and, in fact, have gone to great lengths to avoid acknowledging any involvement whatsoever, assuming he or she is experiencing a nervous breakdown or other psychological disorder (I am one). Agreed, there are many self-proclaimed abductees (and contactees) who seek out publicity for monetary gain or to satisfy a need for attention. I would be the last to deny these people exist. What I do deny is that ALL abductees are imagining or falsifying these events to satisfy their own personal agendas.
• UFOs don’t exist. I think that requires an external energy source, and this