The Andreasson Affair (18 page)

Figure 39:
June 26
.

Fred:
You couldn't see where a door was until it opened?

Betty:
Yeah, and over to the side was that other place where the bubble was, but we walked over to this side. We went through and it was a thing that swerved up and over, and then went in like that. [See
Figure 39
.] It was dark down in there.… And then, ah, we went over that somehow. I don't know how we got over that, but we got over that somehow and we went into the room where we had entered before. That room where there's a gully.

Ray:
Now afterward—when you last saw Quazgaa, did his face change back to what he was before?

Betty:
Uh-huh. He changed back. And then the door opened.…

The door to the outside flashed open. Betty peered out into a mist-enshrouded night. The edge of her house protruded from a bank of round fog. She was going home! Betty, as usual, took up a middle position between two of her captors. The three of them floated down to the ground, one at a time, and proceeded toward the house in single file. As she later explained it:

Betty:
And, ah, the two beings, rather than Quazgaa, went with me.… We jumped down and then—I saw the opposite side of the house, the flat wall of the house.

Jules:
The left corner? The left rear corner?

Betty:
No, the corner. Here is the corner of the house, right? I mean, here is the porch, and then a wall jutted out. A wall without
windows jutted out. When we jumped out, I was facing that wall without windows, and we just jumped out and went around and just as if we really hadn't even moved!

Jules:
What about the uniforms? Was there any change?

Betty:
No, just the silver uniforms down into the boots.

Her alien companions carried the glowing white spheres.

Betty:
There are only two with me now, and the one in front of me is carrying a round white globe.… And we're going now into the porch. I can see the old porch door. And we're going through it! And I'm following.… And we're going in—we are back in the kitchen.

A later debriefing would add important elements to this account.

Jules:
When you got out of the craft and back on the ground, do you remember the conditions? Clear, bright night?

Betty:
It was still misty. There was fog. You couldn't see off to the side. It was misty all around—you know, fog rising from the ground. But I could see the side of the house.

Jules:
Did it feel cool, cold, or—?

Betty:
A damp feeling.

Ray:
Could you see the stars?

Betty:
No.

Ray:
You ought to check the weather report.

Jules:
I should have gotten that report by now. I'll have to call and find out why.

Ray:
I'm wondering if the mist had something to do with the object, or did the mist have something to do with the weather?

Fred:
You told us about these white balls. Could you show us about how large those balls were?

Betty:
There were two of them, and the one in back was holding it just like this.… He was just holding the small one.

Fred:
The little one, maybe 4 or 5 inches in diameter?

Betty:
About that size.

Fred:
Did it glow?

Betty:
It was light, but it stayed within itself.

Ray:
Did it look like metal or glass?

Betty:
Glass—it looked like glass. And he just held it in back of me like this. And the other one, he had the bigger one in his hand, and he rolled it. It rolled right over his hand and sat on the top of his hand. [See
Figure 40
.]

Fred:
So he could, you say, roll his hand under it?

Betty:
Yeah, it still stayed there, and he held it.

Fred:
How large was that bigger one?

Betty:
Maybe 8 or 10 inches in diameter.

Jules:
Was this the same type of material?

Betty:
Exactly the same as the other.

Fred:
Okay, let's see now. The first ball, the smaller one—when did you first see that?

Betty:
That was in that cylinder place, ah, when we were coming out. The other one went back over—uh, by that chair—that's where they were. They weren't with those balls when they
first
came into the house.

Figure 40:
June 26
.

Fred:
So they took both of these balls when they went with you back into your kitchen?

Betty:
The one in front of me had the larger one. The one in back of me had the small one.

When Betty reached this point in her original session, the hour was late, and she had a two-hour drive ahead of her. This seemed an appropriate place to end the session, so Harold awakened Betty from hypnosis. He gave her explicit instructions to remember where she had left off in the reliving of her unearthly experience, and we made hasty preparations to meet again in a few days.

“Today is the 26th of June 1977, at the New England Institute of Hypnosis. Session 11.” Harold's voice seemed far away to me. June 25 was my wedding anniversary, and I was anxious to return home to be with my wife. Later on, we were going out to supper together to celebrate. This was just one of many occasions where the elusive UFO had interfered with family affairs. As each session got under way, it seemed as if my normal, everyday life was at complete odds with the paranormal world encountered within those four walls each week.

Abruptly, my daydreaming dissipated as Betty was given instructions to continue her account from where she had left off two days ago.

Harold:
I want you now to take yourself back to the point that we left off this past Thursday where you were returned to the kitchen. Do you see yourself there?

Betty:
Yes.

Harold:
Please take over.

Betty:
I'm standing in the kitchen and the—ah, two beings are there, and they're in silver suits. And we stopped. We're inside. And the being is turning and I can sort of…[
Pause
] I think he was on the inside as he turned. He has that ball, white ball in his hand. He's turning toward the right, and he's going over toward the pantry part there.

The alien being glided into the pantry area and stopped near the sink, where a partition divided the pantry from the kitchen. Betty watched him raise the larger white glowing ball before him. She gasped as her father shuffled out of the shadows. The entity had partially awakened him from a state of suspended animation.

Fred:
Was your father in the kitchen?

Betty:
He was in the kitchen, and I didn't see him because there—uh, where the kitchen sink is, there's a partition with an archway. He was over in the corner there, and I did not see him. But the being went over by the sink and raised his hand like this.

Fred:
Is it your impression that your father was there all the time that you were in the ship?

Betty:
Yes, that is my impression.

Evidently the ball the entity carried had some effect on Waino Aho's mental state:

Betty:
He's raising the ball. And he's putting it on the outer part of his hand somehow…made it like, roll, over onto the outer part of his hand—top surface, not on the palm. And he's holding it up and pointing toward the window there. That's my father there! And he's just walking like in a daze—coming out and coming over. “What's the matter with him?” I asked him. He said, “He will be fine.” And he lowered his hand and my father stopped there now. He doesn't look like he's aware of what's happening. He just sort of trudged out of there. And the being still has that round light on the top of his hand. He's like, gliding over and—he's got his hand down, like a—balance or something. He's balancing somehow, I guess, and he's lowering his hands again—lower.… And he's, uh, raising it and going into the other room, and my father is following him.

Betty shouted to her father, but received no response as he followed the little man into the living room.

Betty:
“Are you all right, Daddy? Daddy!” He's not answering me. They're going into the other room, into the other room there. I'm just standing there. I don't hear any noise at all. Just standing in the kitchen. I turned and asked the other one, “What are they doing in there?” He won't answer me. He has that other smaller ball in his hand. He's just holding it out in the palm of his hand. Just standing there, still.

Then the first entity returned from the living room. He was not walking; he glided like a skater.

Betty:
Here comes the other one back in now—gliding, seems like he's gliding. And he says, “Betty, now will you follow us?” And he got in front of me and turned. And he, too, has both hands holding on to it, both palms of his hands have that large ball. And they're walking into the other room.

Betty glided with them into the living room. Startled, she first saw Becky sitting mutely with a smile frozen on her face. All of her family looked like statues. They were completely unaware of her.

Betty:
And they're still all sitting there motionless. Becky's sitting there, and she's smiling and grinning. She seems to be awake! She seems as if she's up, standing up, just smiling at me. Oh-h-h. [
Softly
] Just standing there.… Her expression isn't changing now. She seems to be frozen in that smile. Just standing up there, in the living room.

Betty's thoughts were suddenly interrupted by a voice in her mind.

Betty:
And that one is saying, “Betty, you will have to forget this—you and your family—for the time being.” I just keep on seeing Becky standing there smiling. “There are many other things that we have told you. They will come out at the
appointed time
. The book is over there,” he says. And the book is over there—it's on the stand.

The entity was referring to the blue book that Quazgaa had given Betty earlier in exchange for her Bible.

The entity said, “We are now going to put you to rest.”

“What about all of my children?” Betty asked.

“They have not been harmed,” he answered. “We are just going to put them to rest, and they will be relaxed, and asleep.”

One of the entities then proceeded to take the children to bed. The white glowing spheres seemed to have been employed as control devices.

Betty:
And I see that one taking…[
Pause
] The little ones are standing up. They're standing up! And they're moving, but their faces
seem as if they just don't know what's happening. They're just all getting in line. And they're.… [
Pause
] The being stopped and said he would be back shortly. The kids are just playing follow-the-leader there! They are just marching off, through the hall. And I can hear them on the steps, 'cause our stairs are squeaky. They're all going upstairs, except for me and my mother and father. And my mother and father are sitting on two sides here, and just waiting there.

Betty's eyes lighted on the small blue book lying on the stand.

Betty:
And I turned to the other one and I asked him, “May I see that book while I'm waiting?” He still wouldn't answer. He just held that little ball in his hand. “May I see the book while I'm waiting?” He just won't answer. I don't even know their names. I don't know why Quazgaa didn't come back.

Suddenly the other entity somehow just appeared in front of Betty.

Betty:
Oh! That other one is suddenly in front of me. I didn't even see him come in. He's just there.… He's holding that ball closer to my face.… [
Sigh
] He's taking my mother and father with him. And he's going…into the hall…into my bedroom [
softly
]. He's moving over now and wants to get after me now. And suddenly that one is in front of me again. Oop! Appeared, just appeared! He's raising up his hands.

One of the entity's hands held what looked like a glowing green candle. The other held the white glowing ball. Betty demanded to know who he was: “What is your name? What is your name?”

The entity said his name was Joohop.

“What is this all about, Joohop?”

“You will see as time goes by.”

“And what about that blue book there,” Betty repeated. “Is that for me?”