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we are going up those stairs. Looks like I can see something down there. We’re all going around the stairs and…we are going up around, and this door goes down. [See Figure 11 on page 48 .]
    At this point, the hypnotist turned over the recording tape.
    Harold: Betty, I now want you—to just remember where you are. You said, “This door leads down.”
    When she was asked to continue her account, Betty quickly corrected him:
    Betty: The door
goes
down. It doesn’t
lead
down. It disappears down somehow. And now they are going into that room.

    Figure 11:
Interior of the craft. May 25
.
    Betty, still positioned between the two silent beings, was perplexed at what she saw as she moved into a circular room.
    Betty: I see that—ah, box, or that desk and, ah, see something else. It’s, ah, red and black. It’s black, outlined with red. And it’s some kind of mirrors, I think. [
Softly
] I don’t know. Seems like there are, ah, in that circular room, big ripples like windows. [See Figure 12. ] They are leading me still [
sigh
] and they are bringing me over to that further edge—are bringing me further over there. And now they’re stopping and I’m standing there.… And the two are withdrawing. They are saying that I’ll be all right here for a time.
    â€œHow come I have to stay here?” she asked them. An unseen force held Betty firmly in place. Paralyzed except for head movement, she feltdeserted and helpless. As she relived the episode, we saw the terror reflected on her face before us. Her pulse quickened, and the hypnotist quickly reacted.
    Harold: Betty? This is Dr. Edelstein. Just relax. Are you getting apprehensive right now?
    Betty: They are leaving me alone in there!

    Figure 12:
The “ripple-like” windows. May 5
.
    At times, Dr. Edelstein suggested that he was
with
the witnesses to give them moral support.
    Harold: All right, Betty, just relax. This is me. I want you now to feel myself being with you to back you up. You’ve got nothing to fear. You can feel the fear leaving you, can’t you? I’m by your side constantly. Continue—go ahead. You have nothing to fear.
    Now substantially calmed, Betty tried to describe a variety of totally alien objects that she could see from her vantage point. But their utter strangeness prohibited her from describing them except by comparing them with things already familiar to her.
    Betty: Okay, I’m standing there and looking around on the side, there—on the wall, there is a leaf motif, and, ah, there’s a thing up top there, like a—it looks like a railing, but it isn’t. And the room is sort of dome-shaped…there are leaf motifs to the right there…raised buttons on it, and there are shields…and different symbols—and the desk is to the side and…and—I don’t like feeling so held down in my body. I just seem to be able to move my head to look. They seem like they’ve controlled my body somehow so I’m fixed, like in one place, and, ah…
    Harold: Are you becoming apprehensive?
    Betty: No.
    Harold: Fine, I’m still with you.
    Betty: Can
you
see the things?
    Harold: No, I can see them only through your eyes. Continue.
    Betty: I’m trying to see what else is there. I can’t see way in back of me. There are those golden, ah, those golden things—the cord and, um, some type of a scroll.
    Betty, in the meantime, had waited impatiently and wondered what fate had in store for her when the alien beings returned.
    Betty: I wish they’d hurry up. I’m tired of waiting here. It’s getting brighter. They are getting it brighter now in here.… [
Softly
] What is that? I see something like a—wonder if it’s coming from the wall or is—what?… They’ve opened something, pushed it out, and it’s something like a camera works. [See Figure 13 .] [
Softly
] I don’t know what it is, but