Status Updates From Dark White

The abductee 'Lucy' is taken by aliens during her nighttime fugues, and gang-raped by men who drag her into Big Black Cars during her daytime fugues.

This 'rape' motif is a long-standing one from her childhood; like Laura Palmer and BOB, she was often borne away to a cabin in the woods by a man called Steven (probably once real: a local boy who was apparently once trusted to drive her to camp for a weekend).

'For a while we were uninterrupted and Budd [Hopkins] spoke of [...] the great cases he had seen, and the great abductees - Charley Hickson from Pascagoula, for example, whose elephant-skinned, lobster-clawed, cone-eared abductors had been transmogrified, on the same black couch on which I was sitting, into the usual big-eyed greys[.] Hickson had a long history of abduction, going back to his childhood in the 1930s.'

Former 'Newsweek' reporter Bruce Lee, editor at Morrow, meets two sinister people - with East Side Jewish accents! - flipping through a copy of Morrow's Communion 'and saying such things as "Oh, he's got this wrong"[.] Through the sunglasses Lee could see a pair of enormous dark eyes [and] those eyes reminded him of the eyes of a rabid dog. They seemed to be telling him to get the hell out of there.'

Chapter 7 discusses a theory I previously encountered in Randles' UFO Reality (I think; strangely all my status updates from that seem to have disappeared): that UFOs represent a ball-lightning-like EM phenomenon caused by geological movements in the Earth, and that their presence generates - via tiny temporal lobe seizures - trance states, hallucinations and periods of amnesia, all of which may later recur.

Onto the abductee era now.

Folklorist and reluctant UFOlogist Eddie Bullard sets up 'an entire motif-index for abduction stories, and found that even apparently minor and superfluous motifs appeared again and again; for instance, dozens of abductees had reported that the aliens didn't like to be looked at directly. They would often force the abductee, telepathically, to avert her gaze, or even to close her eyes.'

'The idea of a flying saucer [...] had surfaced previously not only in old UFO-type accounts, but also in science fiction. Flash Gordon, in the film Flash Gordon's Trip To Mars in the late 1920s, had made the journey in a shiny, metallic, discoidal craft[.]'



Wrong! And it was 1938.

'There were even foreshadowings of the 20th Century UFO enthusiast groups with their hilltop "skywatching" expeditions, for "airship parties" briefly became popular in the Midwest in the spring of 1897 - although, according to local newspaper accounts, they tended to degenerate into very this-worldly activity ("kissing bees") between male and female airship enthusiasts.'

Because who needs the ability to walk home before sunrise paranoia-free anyway?