Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact - Above Top Secret

the door, he turned and recieved a "terrible shock": the door was open, and a woman as naked as hewas came in. Her hair was blonde, with a part in the center. She had blue eyes, rather longer thanround, slanted outward. Her nose was straight, her cheekbones prominent. Her face looked verywide, "wider than that of an Indio native." It ended in a pointed chin. Her lips were very thin, nearlyinvisible. Her ears were small but ordinary. She was much shorter than he was, her head onlyreaching his shoulder. She quickly made clear to him what the purpose of her visit was. Soon afterthe sexual episode, a man came in and beckoned to the woman, who, pointing to her belly, smiled,pointed at the sky, and followed the man out.The men came back with Antonio's clothes, then took him to a room where the other crew memberswere sitting, growling among themselves. The witness, who felt sure no harm would come to himnow, carefully observed his surroundings. Among other things – all his remarks here are of interest– he noticed a box with a glass top that had the appearance of an alarm clock. The "clock" had onehand and several marks that would correspond to the three, six, nine, and twelve of an ordinaryclock. However, although time passed, the hand did not move, and Antonio concluded that it was noclock.The symbolism in this remark by Villas-Boas is clear. We are reminded of the tales quoted above, ofthe country where time does not pass, and of that great poet who had in his room a huge white clockwithout hands, bearing the words "It is later than you think." Indeed, it is the poetic quality of suchdetails in many UFO sightings that catches the attention – in spite of the irrational, or obviouslyabsurd, character of the tale – and makes them so similar to a dream. Antonio must have though so,because he reflected that he must bring some evidence back and tried to steal the "clock." At once,one of the men shoved him to the side angrily. This attempt to secure evidence is a constant featureof fairy tales, and we are also reminded of the efforts by Betty Hill to convince her captors to let hertake a peculiar "book" she saw inside their craft. As in the Villas-Boas incident, the men denied herthe opportunity to convince the world that the experience had been real. (She also observed astrange map that we will discuss in a later chapter.)At last, one of the men motioned Antonio to follow him to a circular platform. He was then given adetailed tour of the machine, taken to a metal ladder, and signaled to go down. Antonio watched allthe details of the preparation for takeoff and observed the craft as it rose and flew away in a matterof seconds. He noticed that the time was 5:30 A.M. He had spent over four hours inside the strangemachine.It must be noted that the witness volunteered information about the sighting in general terms when anotice appeared in a newspaper calling for UFO reports. He was extremely reluctant to discuss themore personal aspects of his experience and related them only when questioned with insistence byFontes. Like Maurice Masse, Villas-Boas suffered from excessive sleepiness for about a month afterthe incident.The Sexual EpisodesWhen folklore becomes degraded to a minor literary form, as the fairy-faith was degraded to thefairy tales we know today, it natualy loses much of its content: precisely those "adult" details thatcannot be allowed to remain in children's books. The direct result of the censorship of spicy detailsin these marvelous stories is that they become mere occasions for amazement. The Villas-Boas caseis hardly appropriate for nursery-school reading, but to eliminate the woman from the story wouldturn it into a tale without deep symbolic or psychological value. The sexual context is preciselywhat gives such accounts their significance and their impact. The sexual (and, in some casesmentioned by Budd Hopkins, the sadomasochistic) component of the abduction stories provides anemotional "encoding" that makes them unforgettable.Without the sexual context – without the stories of changelings, human midwives, intermarriagewith the Gentry, of which we never hear in modern fairy tales – it is doubtful that the tradition aboutfairies would have survived through the ages. Nor is that true only of fairies: the most remarkable