Moving from a normal environment to a UFO can be a devastating experience. People are busy with ordinary things when they are suddenly taken out against their will from their environment and taken to the borders of reality. The kidnappers seem to make a conscious effort to take people away when they are not being sought or when their daily routine is not severely disrupted. And this provides a wide range of abduction options.
An unsuspecting woman is in her room, getting ready to go to bed. She lies down on the bed, reads for a while, turns off the light and falls into a peaceful night's sleep. In the middle of the night, she tosses and turns and lies on her back. She wakes up to the light that seems to glow in the room. The light travels to the bed and takes the form of a small "man" with a bald head and huge black eyes. She is terrified. She wants to run but cannot move. She wants to scream, but she cannot utter a word. The "man" approaches her and looks intently into her eyes. Suddenly she calms down and “knows” that the “person” will not harm her.
This is a typical abduction beginning. Virtually all abductees experienced this. From the first seconds of the abduction, nothing else is in the realm of normal human experience. It is an instant dive into the weird and the weird. Technology and biotechnology that are like magic are immediately apparent. Once an event begins, people are powerless to stop it. When it is finished, most victims cannot remember it.
Often, the abductor has a memory "screen" that masks the onset of the abduction events. For example, one of the abductees said that one night she saw a wolf in her bedroom. The wolf was standing right on her bed, looking into her eyes. She clearly remembered his fur, fangs and eyes. Other abductees claimed to have seen monkeys, owls, deer and other animals. Some said they saw an "angel" or "devil." Through the use of hypnosis to reconstruct the details of these events, it was revealed that each of these cases was the beginning of the abduction sequence.
It is common for abductees to invoke out-of-body experiences, or more often that they have succeeded in “preventing” the onset of the abduction. They sometimes recalled that they felt like they were floating out of bed, but they "fought" and were able to return to the bed and interrupt the abduction. When these memories were examined, they turned out to be a combination of the first and last few seconds of the abduction.
Secrecy appears to be critical to aliens in identifying abduction opportunities. They usually occur when the abductor is in a car, stays alone during the day, or is in a small group of people. Victims reported aliens performing procedures on them in their homes without being retrieved anywhere. Most abductions, however, begin at night, when the victim is alone - awake or asleep. There were no reported abductions that would have occurred in a very large group of people or in front of everyone at a public event.
The more the victim is alone and the fewer other people seek her out, the longer the experience tends to last. If a person is alone and is unlikely to be needed by anyone for a long time, then they will experience more events during the abduction. Likewise, the kidnapping of a person who is alone in a secluded place will last longer than a kidnapping that occurs in a small group of people. Most kidnappings last from one to three hours.
David M. Jacobs, Secret Life (1992), excerpt from chapter 3.
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By the way, such "owls" are found not only in bedrooms - see the contact with a 2-meter "owl" by Lake Michigan. If you've come across something similar, share in the comments.