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The beings shone with a silvery glow. Their limbs were long and lanky,<br />
almost anorexic in appearance. I couldn’t see any details, like fingers or things like<br />
that.<br />
I perceived, somehow, that the entity leading my husband away was female,<br />
although I could see nothing suggestive of her sex. It was just an impression I had.<br />
I got up, and like Joan of Arc I ran down a slight incline and charged at the female<br />
entity. I grabbed her arm violently and turned her around. ‘Leave him alone,’ I<br />
screamed at this creature. ‘Don’t you touch him!’ I was full of anger and intense<br />
jealousy, and extremely aware of this creature’s gender.<br />
As soon as I grabbed the entity I seemed to lose consciousness, but then came<br />
to a second later. I felt as if I had snapped out of a trance and was once again seeing<br />
clearly and feeling a crisp conscious awareness, even though I was dreaming. I<br />
found myself on the extreme right-hand side of the field, approximately 200 metres<br />
from my previous position. The craft appeared to be further down the field and to<br />
the left.<br />
I was standing over a body that was quite still, and which at first appeared<br />
to be non-human. But the body slowly changed into a human being, a man. He<br />
looked as though he was dead.<br />
From further down the field, near the craft, a middle-aged woman ran<br />
towards me screaming, ‘Murderess! Murderess!’ I found this word odd, because<br />
it‘s so archaic. The woman was chubby and, by her reaction, I imagined the man<br />
was related to her in some way. I didn’t know her, but I started to panic. All of my<br />
emotions were extreme at this point.<br />
I had no recollection of doing anything except grabbing the arm of the female<br />
being to protect my husband. But there I was, with what I believed to be a dead<br />
body lying at my feet, preparing to fend off an hysterical woman who was accusing<br />
me of murder.<br />
‘I didn’t do it! I didn’t kill him,’ I told myself as much as anyone who could<br />
hear me.<br />
In those few endless moments I was stricken with an overpowering sense of<br />
grief and guilt. I couldn’t remember doing this. I had blacked out, but could I really<br />
have taken another human life? I was mortified. To my way of thinking, this was<br />
the greatest wrong that a person could commit, both against God and their fellow<br />
man.<br />
‘Please tell me I didn’t do it. Somebody please tell me it isn’t true!’ I said,<br />
over and over.<br />
I then became aware of an arm placed around my shoulder and being led<br />
away. Obediently, I allowed myself to be guided — all of my resistance had