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it’s getting brighter in here—uh, much brighter now. What’s that? There’s somebody coming now for me. They said, “Would you follow me, please?” And they stopped in front of me.
    Harold: Betty, is this Quazgaa who is telling you this?
    Betty: No.
    Harold: All right, I want you now to lock this point in your mind. Lock this point, and when we start next time, you will carry on from this point in time. You will remember where you left off. Do you understand what I’m saying to you?
    Betty: Yes.
    Harold: You will store this particular spot in your subconscious mind, and when we start the next time, you will start from here and continue to go further.

    Figure 13:
May 5
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    At this point, Betty recovered from hypnotic trance.
    The investigators awaited each following session with burning curiosity. What would happen next? But two weeks passed before we met again with the witnesses in the offices of the New England Institute of Hypnosis.
    It was a hot, sultry June day. The steady drone of an air conditioner pervaded the otherwise-silent atmosphere that soon enveloped the room as Dr. Edelstein prefaced the session by speaking into an activated tape recorder.
    Harold: Today’s date is the fourth of June 1977. The time is 12:21. This is a continuation of the session we made two weeks ago. Betty, I want you now to induce hypnosis into yourself. Very good. Now deepen this hypnosis by relaxing. Let yourself relax. Let yourself relax. When I touch your shoulder, let yourself go into the deepest point of relaxation you have ever been. Deeper and deeper—deep, deep, relaxation. I want you now to take yourself back to the last session that we had. You will go back to that point. Tell me you are there. Are you there now? Fine! I want you to continue.
    We were amazed at how, week after week, the witnesses would pick up their accounts at the precise point where Dr. Edelstein had left off on the week before. Deep trance hypnosis, properly administered by a skillful hypnotist, can produce near-total recall of everything a subject has ever experienced. In this trance state, a person must tell the truth, as he or she believes the truth to be. Betty and Becky were turned off and on like biological tape recorders! It was fascinating to see a practical demonstration of the mind’s remarkable facilities for storing memory.
    Betty: The lights are getting brighter, and—that door opened again. And there is somebody coming. I’m glad they are coming, ‘cause it seemed like a long time in there.… They’re sort of gliding toward me, not moving their legs, but gliding. And it’s one of the beings, ah, it’s two of the beings. They are waving their hands and telling me to follow them. I’m going over with them.… And, ah, they are taking me over to the center of the room. One is in back of meand one is in front of me. I asked them, “Where are we going now?”… And they said, “You will come over here.” I went over to the center of the room, and I stood there. And the one in front of me turned and looked at me.

    Figure 14:
Lightning and rushing wind from the hatch. June 17
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    Again, Betty was instructed to assume the familiar follow-the-leader stance between the two entities. Abruptly, she found herself sinking through an opening in the floor.
    Betty: I’m standing there, and we are slowly, slowly being lowered through a tube. It looks like a—silvery tube… slowly lowering down. We are going down…we are going down. We are stopping. And one of the beings tells me to get in back of him again. I’m getting in back of him, and the other one’s in front of me. And the door is lifting up—couldn’t see the door before. The door just looked like a tube—clear, straight-through tube. I’m going out into another room that looks—looks like a hatch or something on top there. Looks like lightning spears coming out of it.