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and gave it to the waitress, who went to get
change; when she returned, they were gone.
When the bellhop saw them, he retrieved
their baggage and stepped into the elevator to
lead them to their room. When the elevator
door opened, though, the family recoiled in
fright and confusion. The bellhop had to assure
them that there was no danger. After letting
them into the room, he turned on the
lights. Suddenly the man began shouting at
him that the light would hurt the children’s
eyes. Suddenly frightened himself, the bellhop
fled without waiting—one suspects futilely, in
any case—for a tip.
The bellhop, the manager, and Simpson
vowed to watch for the little people’s departure
in the morning, but they were never seen
again, though the front door was the only
door they could pass through without setting
off a security alarm. The alarms were checked,
and nothing was amiss. Schroeder interviewed
all five employees who had interacted with the
family. All seemed sincerely bewildered by the
curious series of events.
See Also: Extraterrestrials among us
Further Reading
Schroeder, John E., 1987. “The Strangers among
Us.” The UFO Enigma 7, 7 (June): 36.
Alien DNA
Physical evidence of abduction experiences is
hard to come by, and physical evidence of actual
aliens is all but nonexistent. A case from
Australia may be an exception. Biochemists
were able to analyze, with curious results, a
strand of what was reported to be the hair of
an alien woman.
The events that led to the analysis began
on the night of July 12, 1988, when Peter
Khoury, a Sydney resident of Lebanese background,
was awakened suddenly when he
sensed that something had grabbed his ankles.
A numbness crept up his body from the feet,
and soon his entire body except for his eyes
was paralyzed. To his right he spotted three or
four small hooded figures with wrinkled,
shiny black faces. Through telepathy they as-
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sured him he would not be harmed. Khoury
then saw two other figures on his left. “These
two,” he later told investigator Bill Chalker,
“were thin, tall with big black eyes and a narrow
chin.” They were “gold-yellow in color.”
One of these beings shoved a needle into the
left side of his forehead, and he passed out.
The next day he showed the puncture
wound to his fiancée. Later he showed it to
his doctor, who thought he had walked into a
nail. When Khoury told him what had happened,
the physician laughed at him. He
found that this was a typical response and
g rew despondent and anxious, worried about
the strange nature of the experience, about
the future, about his inability to communicate
with anyone who would listen to him.
Eve n t u a l l y, his fiancée found a copy of W h i tley
St r i e b e r’s C o m m u n i o n (1987), detailing
the author’s personal abduction experiences.
In time he heard about and joined a local
UFO group but left it still unsatisfied. In
April 1993 he founded the UFO Ex p e r i e n c e
Su p p o rt Association.
On July 23, 1992, Khoury had a second,
e ven stranger encounter. He was suffering fro m
the effects of an assault by three men at his job,
and as a consequence he was on strong medication
and mostly bed-ridden. On the morning in
question, he managed with considerable difficulty
to drive his wife—he was now married—
to the train station so that she could get to
w o rk. Once home he crawled back into bed and
passed out, only to awaken a few minutes later.
He was sitting straight up and staring at two
nude women sitting on the bed.
They we re strange-looking, with a we i rd ,
g l a s s y - e yed expression. One looked generally
Asian, something like an East Indian; the
other was blond, with eyes two or three times
larger than normal. Their cheekbones seemed
abnormally high. The dark woman was watching
her companion closely, as if the blond we re
demonstrating something to her. The blond
pulled Khoury tow a rd her breasts, appare n t l y
initiating a sex act. He tried to resist, but she
was too strong for him. As he struggled, he bit
her nipple so hard that he bit it off. He could