Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact - Above Top Secret

sudden displacement of warm air or a violent whirlwind. I saw the trees bending as if undera sudden storm, and I was nearly thrown down. Almost simultaneously, there was a strong,blinding white light. I had the feeling something flew through the air very fast, but I sawnothing. Soon everything became calm again. I felt discomfort and nausea. I reached thehouse of the lock-keeper – and when I opened the door they came toward me and asked mewhat had happened, because they too had seen a light from their house. The lock-keeper'swife asked me what was wrong. When I was able to speak at last, they told me all the fingerswere still deeply marked in the flesh of my face, making large red bars. They appliedperocide to the scratches on my legs, and an ointment, and bathed me face with cold water.My hands were badly hurt.After a long lapse of time I started again toward the town to buy a few things, withoutsaying anything to anyone, and I came back home laboriously, by another path.The previous evening, the witness in this case had observed a "kind of shooting star," whichstopped abruptly, then appeared to go up and stay among the other stars for a while, then to growbigger and take on a kind of swimming motion, its light alternately on and off. Suddenly it left, on acurved trajectory, and reached the horizon at very high speed. She had dismissed the incident fromher mind at the time. The official investigation got nowhere and was dropped. The case is stillcarried as an unsolved abduction attempt.What can we say about such reports? They are neither more nor less believable than other UFOsightings; they are in line with some of the most dramatic stories of older days, which inspired thefairy tales; they are also in line with the visions of the 1897 airship and the incidents that followedit.I now have several other reliable cases in my files where the beings – and in some cases, the UFOitself – were invisible.The records of ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) contain another abduction casethat occurred on August 21, 1915. In that incident, which I have not been able to confirm, an entireregiment was posted as "missing."Taken by the WindWe have now examined several claims of abductions and attempts at kidnappings by the allegedoccupants of flying saucers. These episode are an integral part of the total UFO problem and cannotbe solved separately. Historical evidence gathered by Evans-Wentz points in the same direction.This sort of belief in fairies being able to take people was very common and exists yet in agood many parts of West Ireland.The Good People are often seen there [pointing to Knoch Magh] in great crowds playinghurley and ball. And one often sees among them the young men and women and childrenwho have been taken.Not only are people taken away, but – as in flying saucer stories – they may be picked up and setdown again. A man named John Campbell told Evans-Wentz:A man whom I have seen, Roderick Mac Neil, was lifted by the hosts and left three milesfrom where he was taken up. The hosts went at about midnight.Reverend Kirk gives a few stories of similar extraordinary kidnappings, but the most fantasticlegend of all is that attached to Kirk himself. The good reverend is commonly believed to have beentaken by strange beings: