So long ago and still my initial investigation into the abduction experience of Betty Andreasson in 1967 remains fresh in my mind. At that time in 1977, I was 42 years of age. Now, at the age of 80, I find myself writing an epilogue to yet another edition of The Andreasson Affair. So where do I begin? The best place would be where the book left off with Betty’s 1967 experience with the Phoenix. At that time she was told in no uncertain terms that she had been chosen to tell the world about the alien entities that had abducted her. How has this come to pass since that terrifying encounter? Let us see.
Her experiences were first revealed in the original publication of The Andreasson Affair by Prentice-Hall in 1979, which made the New York Times Best-Seller List. Soon after that the book was reprinted by Bantam in 1980 and again in 1988. Bantam sponsored a two-week nation-wide book tour during which Betty and I appeared on radio and TV throughout the United States. The Andreasson Affair was reprinted in several foreign countries and movie rights were purchased by Universal Studios, which still holds the rights.
This certainly was a good start to informing the public about her experiences, but it did not end there. The information obtained from the original investigation documented in this book was just the tip of the proverbial iceberg of Betty’s startling experiences revealed during my follow-on 17-year investigation into the UFO and paranormal experiences of Betty and her family. These were documented in my four follow-on books that were published between 1982 and 1995. Now here we are again with yet another reprint of The Andreasson Affair and also the beginning of negotiations with Universal Studios to obtain the rights for a movie. So much, so far, for Betty’s experiences being made known to the world. The rest of this epilogue is a summary of what Betty and her family have gone through since her 1967 experience. It will be divided into four sections that encompass the four phases of my overall investigation of Betty’s and Bob Luca’s families.
After Betty’s divorce, she temporarily moved to Pompano Beach, Florida, in the fall of 1977, where she purchased a small house at Pompano Beach and took a job at the Clock restaurant as a waitress. Betty’s abrupt decision to go to Florida ended my Phase I investigation and I decided to write a book about Betty’s experiences, which culminated in The Andreasson Affair.
Betty met Bob Luca while working at the Clock restaurant. Their meeting was highly synchronistic. Bob, like Betty, had a UFO experience in 1967 with a period of missing time. Betty told him about our investigation and he decided to undergo an investigation to probe his missing time experience. During the investigation, Betty married Bob in 1978 and moved into a house in Meriden, Connecticut.
In the meantime I spent most of 1978 writing The Andreasson Affair, keeping track of Betty by occasional letters and phone calls. Betty temporarily moved back to Ashburnham, Massachusetts, in the fall of 1978 to sell her house. During that time she told me about a number of strange things that happened in the house: poltergeist phenomena, unexplained noises and voices, and small floating balls of light. I was curious about how a small object had been removed from Betty’s nose during her 1967 abduction and about her mentioning a “big door” by the aliens. Also, I was most interested in looking into Bob’s UFO/missing time experience. A team of investigators was again put together and the new Phase II investigation was launched. Both Betty and Bob underwent 13 audio-taped hypnosis sessions.
We started with Bob first on March 17 and 24, 1980. When asked under hypnosis to describe his first UFO experience, we expected to hear about his missing time experience. Instead Bob described in a childlike manner, a UFO experience as a 5-year-old in 1944. At that time he was living with his grandmother in Meriden, Connecticut. While playing on a swing placed in a field behind the house, a disk-shaped object suddenly appeared. Two small, gray entities could be seen in a clear dome on top. A beam of light from the object hit and paralyzed Bob. A message was given to him telepathically. A brief excerpt follows:
They’re telling me things. Telling something, be good when I am older.… I can’t say that yet.… They visit other people, and, ah, they’re going to visit other people too.… Prepare us something good. Going to be for mankind.… In time people in the light will be back and the people that have seen them before will not be afraid when they come back.
Again, under hypnosis, Bob recalled his adult UFO sighting in 1967 while driving to a beach in Connecticut. On the way he noticed workers at a railroad track looking up at the sky. He stopped the car and got out to look. He saw two silver, wingless cigar-shaped objects. Each released a smaller disk-shaped object, which flew off in different directions. Amazed at what he saw, he then continued on to the beach.
On the way to the beach, he was shocked to see a domed disk-shaped object appear and approach the car in a falling leaf motion. A red beam from the object hit Bob and he found himself with a small gray entity entering the craft. He was made to undress and was placed upon a table where he was examined by several other aliens. They looked identical to the type Betty had encountered in 1967 except they were dressed in red rather than blue tight-fitting suits. The next thing he remembered was being back in the car driving to the beach and arriving two hours later than planned.
On the following day, March 25, 1980, Betty was placed under hypnosis. She also relived a UFO experience at age 7, at Leominster, Massachusetts, in 1944. While in a playhouse waiting for her girlfriend, a bright marble-shaped object flew in and affixed itself to Betty’s temple. She felt faint and fell back as she heard a voice in her head. She was told:
They have been watching me.… I’m coming along fine…good progress.… I was going to be happy very soon.… Other people were going to be happy.… Getting some things ready to show me.… It wouldn’t be until I would be 12.
During several hypnosis sessions in April 1980, Betty was regressed to age 12. At that time Betty was living in Westminster, Massachusetts. While walking in the woods she encountered a small gray alien in a strange suit. A glowing ball was released from an orifice on the suit. It affixed itself to her temple and a voice was heard that stated:
She’s got another year.… They are preparing things for her to see…that it may help people in the future.
Our team found this fascinating. It seems that aliens were waiting for Betty to mature sexually. Also was the fact that both Betty and Bob had been abducted as children in 1944 and as adults in 1967. We wondered if Bob’s abrupt decision to travel to Florida may have been controlled by the aliens.
Strange events experienced by Betty’s family occurred all throughout my investigation over the years: men dressed in black clothes observing her house and black unmarked helicopters flying over her home and car. (One even hovered directly above her as she worked in her garden.) Such strange things even occurred during one of our hypnosis sessions. Betty saw an alien appear and fade out in the room during the April 21, 1980 session. Then a ball of light the size of a dime appeared in the room. It was witnessed by one of our investigating team members, a lieutenant in the police force.
The glowing ball was resting on a curtain as if observing the session. He sat for a few minutes trying to figure out its source. He first thought it to have been an outside light shining through a window behind the curtain. He got up to investigate and as he did the light blinked out. When he pulled the curtain back, there just was a blank wall! During this session and follow-on sessions in May, Betty was regressed to age 13 and relived experiences that rivaled the tale of the Wizard of Oz. A summary follows.
Betty had gotten up early in the morning for a walk through the woods to Crocker Pond. As she climbed some stairs to a field she saw what looked like a moon in the sky moving toward her. Suddenly she found herself in a craft with the typical gray entities who told her that they would bring her home to see “The One.” This indeed did occur and will be summarized, but first, what else happened?
Betty was examined by aliens in a number of strange ways. She experienced some remarkable sights including being taken through a glasslike forest with trees and life-forms composed of clear crystal. When she touched a butterfly it came to life momentarily before becoming a tiny ball of light and returning to its crystal form. She was put aboard a craft. The aliens placed a device that kept her tongue clamped down. Then she was placed on a round, cushion-like bed where she felt herself being pressed down. The craft flew to an icy installation reached by an underwater journey. After disembarking from the craft, Betty and the alien entities walked through an icy corridor. They passed what appeared to be rows and rows of upright clear-faced cubicles containing what appeared to be mummified people from different times and cultures—literally a museum of time!
To visit “The One” she was made to lie in a coffin-like device, which transported her to a place that had a huge glass door. She found herself coming out of her body and confronted by tall blue-eyed human-like entities and a small gray entity. Betty was commanded to enter the Great Door. She did and experienced someone or something or both that she was not able to describe because of its beauty and secrecy imposed upon her. It seemed to be identical to what is called a near-death experience.
The hypnotist tried every way he knew to extract what Betty had seen during the Great Door experience but to no avail. A summary of what he could extract follows:
1. Everybody is nice. They are just growing.
2. Everything fits together. Everything is one.
3. Those without love have nothing.
4. Love is the answer to all things.
The best description that Betty would give to us of what lay behind the Great Door was: “It is the entrance into the other world. The world where light is.”
After the Great Door experience, Betty again was placed back in the same device. It transported her back to where she had been previously. There, she was examined again. This included her being placed before a TV-like monitor where she observed balls of light and symbols, having her spinal fluid tapped, and a very traumatic operation that removed her eye. After it was removed, a tiny implant was placed behind it. (An implant was taken from Betty’s nose during her 1967 abduction experience.) Betty was then flown by a strange craft, with tubes mounted on its top, which landed near Crocker Pond, where she had set out for that morning. She was placed beside the pond and made to forget what had happened to her. When Betty came to, she thought that she had walked to the pond as planned.
The last hypnosis sessions of our Phase II investigation took place on May 29 and June 11, 1980. During the session, Betty relived an experience at age 24 that took place at Westminster, Massachusetts. She was drawn by a strange force that led her to leave her house and walk up to some woods. In the woods she was confronted by a tall gray entity that telepathically spoke the following message to her:
1. I am not to fear. The Lord is with me.
2. I am going to go through many things. Love will show me the answers.
3. Many things will be revealed to me. I shall grow naturally.
4. My faith in the light will bring many others to the light.
5. For every place there is an existence. Everything has been formed to unite.
6. To keep my faith for the Lord Jesus is with me.
7. I shall understand as time goes by and not to be anxious.
Our plans to continue hypnosis were dashed. Every attempt to do so caused Betty to experience pain when asked to relive her next experience.
The Phase II investigation came to an abrupt halt. I wrote up a 477-page report of our findings and another book entitled The Andreasson Affair—Phase Two.1
I continued off and on to have contact with the Lucas but was disappointed not to probe their experiences further because many of them matched phenomena experienced by myself and my family. These also included UFO abductions and all sorts of paranormal phenomena. Later I compared them in my book entitled The Andreasson Legacy.2 However, this was to occur years away.
Meanwhile Betty and Bob went through a difficult phase of adjustment. They shunned public discussion about their encounters with UFOs. They became modern-day nomads. They sold and moved from one house to another, perhaps trying to escape a host of paranormal phenomena that plagued them. These included more periods of missing time, out-of-body experiences (OBEs), and sightings of UFOS. I carefully monitored these events and periodically asked if they would like to continue an investigation using hypnosis, but this was always rejected.
Later, much to my surprise, Betty and Bob decided to talk publicly about their experiences. They solicited media interviews and Betty made papier-mâché models of the alien beings. She began painting very realistic scenes from her experiences. Soon after, the break to the deadlocked investigation came about in a totally unexpected manner. It began with a troubled phone call from Betty in 1987.
Betty said that she was experiencing flashbacks and dreams of a woman’s face. The eyes of the woman literally cried out for help. The contorted face haunted her so much that she felt compelled to undergo hypnosis to discover the woman’s identity. I agreed to help and initiated a Phase III investigation into the ongoing Andreasson Affair.
New hypnosis sessions were conducted on January 23, February 7, and February 10, 1988. These sessions were the most important carried out during my investigations because they revealed why the aliens were abducting people.
Amazingly, Betty underwent hypnosis easily without pain when asked to describe her next UFO encounter. Her memory moved to the year 1973, during which she and her husband, Jim, lived in their new home in Ashburnham, Massachusetts. She relived awaking in bed to a bright light that shone through the windows. She attempted without success to wake Jim. The light seemed strange. Frightened, she crawled under her covers with one arm hanging out. Then, something grabbed her arm and pulled off the covers. She looked up to see four gray aliens standing around the bed. Jim seemed to be in a state of suspended animation and was unaware of what was happening.
The gray entities took Betty out to the field near her house. A craft hovered above and shone a light upon them. It beamed them up into the craft, where Betty was placed upon some kind of a chair. She suddenly felt heavy and squished as if experiencing strong G-forces. She felt sick. An entity placed something in her ear and she felt better. She was removed from the chair and brought into a room where aliens were standing around a woman lying on a table. The following are brief excerpts from the hypnosis sessions.
There’s a lady lying on a table over there. And they’re bringing me toward that person and she’s looking at me. She looks so-o-o-o-o afraid. She looks like she’s crying out for help to me. And I feel I can move my hands and everything up to my waist. But the bottom part of me is like, like stone. That poor lady. She seems so afraid. And I’m calming her down.
Betty recognized the woman’s face. It was the woman of her dreams and flashbacks. It was made known that she was there to comfort the woman while the aliens were operating on her. Betty watched one of the aliens place his hand on the woman’s head. She seemed to go to sleep.
They’re taking something from her. Looks like a fetus. [Betty was visibly shaken and became terrified.]
Two fetuses were removed. Their eyelids were quickly circumcised. One fetus had normal white eyes but the other had big black eyes like the alien entities. The one with the white eyes was placed in a bin of liquid. The one with the black eyes was placed in a strange tank filled with liquid, which was attached to a cylindrical thing. Needles were placed in the soft spot of its head and in the ears. Betty was terribly upset with witnessing such a thing and asked why they were doing it.
And they’re telling me that they’re doing this because the human race will become sterile by the pollution and the bacteria and the terrible things that are on the earth. They’re telling me that they have to extrapolate and put their protoplasma in the nucleus of the fetus and the paragenetic. [Betty stops and sounds completely frustrated.] I don’t understand them. Something like the paragenetic will utilize the tissue and nutrients to—I don’t know—transfer the creature or something like that.… They said they’re Watchers…and they keep seed from man and woman so the human will not be lost.… Man is going to become sterile.… They are the same substance as Man.… The fetuses become them.
Who could ever have imaged such things? Their very improbability adds to the probability of their truth especially when hundreds of other abducted females report fetuses being taken from them. They also report seeing fetuses being kept in artificial womb-like tanks. If we take their reports at face value, they provide logical answers to the key question of the UFO phenomenon. In other words, they fit the missing piece of the puzzle.
Betty and the woman were made to strip and take a shower of a substance that would protect them from static electricity when the craft landed to take in water from a lake. At the lake another craft landed and Betty saw a naked man in a floating-walking movement taken from it. After the water extraction, Betty was taken aboard the craft again. While on board she was brought to a huge biosphere that housed tiny alien entities. Some had eyes like humans and others had large black eyes like Betty’s captors. She was then returned to her home at Ashburnham and, as usual, was programmed to forget her experience. The hypnosis sessions continued between February and July 1989. A summary of Betty’s experiences follows.
Several bedroom encounters took place between 1975 and 1977. At age 38, an alien appeared and told her that it was time to remember her experiences. At age 39, one of the strange entities again appeared by her bedside and told her that marital difficulties would end but that there would be hardship. This, of course, happened when her husband left her with the house and outstanding bills to pay.
At age 40, a gray alien awoke her and told her of the impending death of her two sons and that they could not interfere to save them. Betty did not remember this consciously until it was revealed through hypnosis. However, the day before her sons were killed in an automobile accident, she phoned to tell me that she had a premonition that something terrible was going to happen. She was in tears and asked if she could travel from her home in Connecticut to where I lived in Wenham, Massachusetts, to talk about it. When she and Bob arrived, I did the best I could to calm her fears before they left for home. The next day her sons had their fatal accident.
In 1978, Betty and Bob heard a whirring sound above their house. Concurrently, both were lifted out of their bodies and, along with others, entered a huge round amphitheater-like enclosure. They were greeted by tall, robed human-looking entities. They found themselves on a high walkway that surrounded the enclosure. Bob was separated from Betty. He was told that he was not as spiritually advanced as Betty and was held to wait for her. During that time he received answers to many questions that he asked an alien who guarded him. Betty, on the other hand, was allowed to participate with a number of light beings in a fantastic procedure that changed her and them into balls of light and back to their light-being form.
During this abduction, Betty glanced down to the floor below and gasped. She saw two daughters and Bob’s daughter on tables being examined by aliens. She was so troubled by what she saw that the hypnotist had her temporarily forget what she saw. They were returned to their bodies and had no idea of what had just happened to them.
The hypnosis sessions continued. In 1981 and 1982, strange figures were seen momentarily in their bedroom at night. In 1984, Betty saw shadowy figures in her kitchen while watching TV. She became paralyzed and blind, and felt something penetrate her head. In 1986, while reading her Bible on a couch, an alien suddenly appeared. Betty came out of her body and was taken to a strange place.
In 1987, a punch biopsy–like scoop mark appeared on the calf or her right leg. Three similar marks forming a triangle appeared on her right arm on August 14, 1988. I mention the specific date because on August 17, 1988, I received the same type scoop mark above the shin of my right leg. My personal physician was puzzled by its appearance and sent me to a dermatologist. He at first dismissed it as a recent punch biopsy and wondered why I had come to him. When I explained to him that I never had a punch biopsy, he, too, was puzzled. He told me that it looked like one and that the mark was made recently. I would add that these scoop marks are typically found by abductees after their abduction experience. The night before mine appeared, I dreamed that someone was operating on my leg!
The importance of bringing the Phase III experiences to the attention of UFO researchers and the public set me to writing yet another book about them. I entitled it The Watchers.3 The revelation that other members of Betty’s family were also being abducted in one way did not come as a surprise. The abduction phenomenon now is well known to be a family affair perhaps taking place over many generations. I hoped that, sometime in the future, I would be able to look into their experiences.
After the Phase III investigation, I knew that there was much left undone. During my earlier enquiry, Bob refused further hypnosis after reliving his 1944 and 1967 experiences. These memories had terrified him. In fall 1992, Bob finally agreed to be hypnotized. Betty and Becky (Betty’s daughter) also were agreeable to hypnotic regression sessions so another follow-on investigation was launched.
Hypnosis sessions with Bob took place between November 6, 1992 and April 1994. The sessions with Betty, Bob, and Becky took place between November 1993 and February 1994. Summaries of their experiences follow.
Bob had written a letter to me about having a memory of being up in the sky looking down at scenery below him. Under hypnosis Bob remembered being in sixth grade in 1950. He was in bed, having stayed home from school because of a cold. He heard a buzzing sound and a light appeared in the darkened room. A small gray alien in red clothes appeared. He was taken out of his body and floated above the ground to a craft in the sky. They entered the craft through an opening in the bottom. He was returned the same way.
During follow-on sessions Bob remembered his mother telling him that she once saw a strange craft on the ground and remembered being inside. She was adamant about not being hypnotized. She did not want to know anything more about the incident. This was most interesting because Bob’s next abduction experience included his mother and father. It took place at night from his bedroom. While awake, he heard his parents shut off their TV and suddenly found himself with his father in a strange, empty room. Then he spotted his mother. He watched as gray entities examined his parents. Then he remembered himself and his parents going down a dark hall, and he suddenly found himself back in bed.
Bob’s next remembered encounter took place at night in winter 1989 at Laccochee, Florida, while visiting friends. He awoke suddenly when a bright red light shone through the bedroom window. His bed shook. One of the gray entities in a blue, skintight outfit appeared. Bob became very agitated. He could not move. The entity forced Bob to drink some liquid, which calmed him. He was then taken right through the wall to a craft. He was brought to a white, bright room and made to lie on a table. His eyes were examined by a pencil-shaped object that projected a bright, blue light. A helmet was placed on his head. It projected a picture of the earth with dark spots on the planet. They asked if he understood what this meant. Bob did not but was told that he would understand in time. He then was floated from the craft through the wall of his friend’s house and placed back in bed.
Bob also told us about a dream that he had in 1993 where he was abducted to meet an alien-like child. When told to go back to the source of his dream, he found himself back in the craft where he had been abducted in 1967. During Bob’s initial hypnosis he had forced himself not to remember several additional things that had occurred. One was that the red-suited entities had extracted sperm from Bob, which left a rash that his doctor could not explain. The other event was a strange-looking child being brought to him and being told that it was partly his.
“It was short.… He didn’t have any hair…and had gray skin…and a little, small nose.”
Bob became very emotional while gazing at the child. It looked at him longingly as if it wanted to go with Bob. Bob felt very sad when the aliens then took the child away.
During the November 6, 1992 hypnosis session Betty was drawn out of their trailer against her will. Outside she saw a large, hovering ball of blue light and suddenly found herself inside of it. Next she found herself in a room with three gray entities. One had a clear hood on his head. A similar hood was placed on Betty. It covered her head and shoulders. She was made to stand on a round area of the floor containing orifices. A liquid bubbled out of the orifices and filled the room. The hood allowed Betty and the alien to breathe. Betty found her head feeling heavier and heavier. The liquid emptied and Betty was brought to another room. A tiny blue light that had accompanied Betty initially appeared once again. The hood was removed and her head felt normal again. Betty was taken out of the craft with the blue light following her. It was misty outside. She was amazed to find herself back in the Crystal Forest that she had experienced during her abduction at age 13. Betty was placed in the large blue sphere again and taken to a landed round metal craft. She was told that she was going to be taken to a very high place.
It was a very high place. Betty was standing near a one-way window and saw a pitch-black sky dotted with tiny lights. The two aliens that accompanied Betty informed Betty that she was going to meet someone who wanted to talk with her. During the hypnosis session, Betty suddenly stopped talking and gasped. Even with her eyes closed, the expression on her face showed utter amazement. We wondered what in the world she was looking at. We soon found out that what she saw was definitely not in the world—far from it.
“Ah-h-h, it’s a thing up in there in the darkness, and it’s huge. Oh, we’re coming up to something that is big—really, really big hanging in space. We’re just moving closer and closer to this long thing.”
Later, Betty drew a picture of what astonished her. It depicted a gigantic tube-shaped vessel floating against a jet-black backdrop punctuated by hundreds of stars. It dwarfed the craft that carried her! The huge ship had a metal-capped transparent enclosure in front that contained many red and white lights. Within the enclosure Betty could see three protruding, tongue-shaped tiers. The ship itself was girdled by three rotating rings.
As they approached the front of the craft, Betty described something that opened to let them in. She found it similar to the sectioned diaphragm that let out steam in an appliance used to steam vegetables. It reminded me of a camera’s diaphragm that opened to let in light to expose film and then closed. Other small craft could be seen resting in indented bowl-like berths on the tiers. The craft Betty was in flew inside to rest in one of them.
Betty gazed in amazement out the one-way looking window. She saw a tall, human-like person with long white hair to his shoulders. He was dressed in a long white robe and approached the craft. This type of entity was called an Elder. She had seen such persons during her teenage experience just before she entered the Great Door to see The One. Betty was taken out of the craft and the tall, Nordic-appearing person called an Elder motioned the trio to follow him. Betty was surprised that she was actually walking, as usually she was floated along.
During her time in the huge mother ship, Betty learned the use of the red animals that she had seen in a red-lit enclosure during her 1967 experience. The worn-out eyes of the gray Watchers were replaced by newly grown eyes removed from the red creatures. She was also told that the tall Elders could see through the eyes of the gray Watchers, which were in effect living monitors for them.
Betty was privy to many sights on the huge mother ship. At one point she was shown a TV-like device, which had recorded a childhood scene from her past at church. She also witnessed a strange ceremony performed by Elders, a trip to earth with an Elder in an out-of-body state. There she saw how Elders secretly helped mankind while in this invisible state of being.
The crowning event of this particular abduction experience was being brought again to the Great Door and entering to see The One. But, again, the hypnotist was not able to persuade Betty to describe the beauty and love she experienced behind the door.
Afterward she was again placed in the round craft that had brought her to the mother ship. The craft returned to earth. Betty was placed back into the blue-glowing orb, which descended to the ground just outside the trailer. She entered and went to the bedroom where Bob was sleeping. She was shocked to the core when she saw her physical body in bed before she entered it. Betty had no idea how her physical body got back to the trailer while she was still in an OBE state of being.
A few other curious things were revealed under hypnosis. One involved a 1988 incident in their car while on their way home from a drive-in movie. For some reason they took a lonely route home. As they passed an apple orchard, something hit the car. A bright light enveloped it. Bob became paralyzed at the steering wheel. Amazed, Betty found that the car had been taken up into a craft into a large, open garage-like area. Another car was seen parked nearby. There appeared to be some kind of an altercation among some gray entities, which was dispersed by one of the tall robed Elders. Apparently they were not supposed to have been taken. They were returned to their car and later curious about the 45 minutes of missing time.
A 1989 abduction was most interesting because it involved Betty’s daughter, Becky. Betty suddenly awoke and saw a multi-pronged object come through the window. It sprayed out streaks of light. Betty came out of her body and found herself beside a gray entity in a room aboard a craft. There, she was shocked to see Becky working at some kind of a console that had strange hieroglyphic-like writing on it. She rushed to Becky. When Betty’s hand touched Becky, her hand passed right through her. An alien told Betty that they had been training Becky in “the letters” since she was a child but did not tell Betty why.
Betty was then placed in a blue sled-like machine, which traveled along a track. They disembarked and went into another room. On the way they passed a pie-shaped section, where Betty saw a naked woman lying on a table. She looked again and realized it was her own physical body lying there! The tall Elder had Betty enter her body. Betty was told that her physical body had been prepared for future OBE abductions. She was made to stand on a platform. Bright light surrounded her and she found herself back home in bed.
This ended our Part IV sessions with Betty and Bob. This session revealed that their children also were being abducted. As mentioned, several were seen being examined by small gray entities by Betty during her 1978 OBE abduction. This new information instigated an inquiry into what Betty’s other family members may have experienced. Unfortunately, only Betty’s daughter Becky agreed to undergo hypnosis. Other members of her and Bob’s family refused. They wanted no part of an investigation.
The earliest hint of Becky having been abducted occurred when a neighbor knocked on Betty’s door. She asked if she knew Becky was outside playing with no clothes on. Betty rushed outside and picked Becky up. She could not understand how Becky got out of her crib into the yard through a locked door. Also, she had diapered Becky before putting her to bed. Now she was naked. This event remained a mystery to Betty and later to Becky for years. A hypnosis probe was conducted on February 5, 1994. Becky was regressed to being in her crib that night. She relived what happened in detail. Brief excerpts from the session follow.
“It’s, it’s dark and there’s light shining through and a pretty person (robed Elder) is there, smiling, looking at me.…And I’m lifted up—held—I’m being held.… I’m going right up…like an elevator…It’s dark out…going toward the trees…and we’re in a room.… There’s a seat. It’s, ah, like an L shape.… The pretty person is sitting me down there and spraying me with air, misty air.…Putting on a T-shirt—looks like a T-shirt—getting down.… I’m walking over to my left.”
Becky was delighted to see that there were two other small children in that place with her: a little black girl who said her name was Nadine Freyberg, and a little boy who said his name was P.J.—Peter. The other children were playing with what seemed to be strange toys and bubble-like objects in the air. It was difficult to visualize the equipment that Becky was describing. Some had liquid inside, others whitish sand-like material, and others were clear, like Plexiglas.
The floating, glass-like bubbles had a hard surface and a little symbol could be seen inside them. However, her visit was for more than fun and games. One of the Elders placed an instrument, which tingled, on each of the children’s ankles. Two other Elders arrived. Each carried a child to a section where they were surrounded by bright light. Becky found herself on the ground behind some bushes near her house.
It is interesting to note that Bob’s son, Tony, and my younger brother Ricky were also found outside locked doors early in the morning by neighbors. In fact, the commonalities between our two families were so great that I made a detailed comparison between them in my last book, The Andreasson Legacy. However, this incident in Becky’s life was just the beginning of multiple experiences with the alien entities. It was decided to discover if Becky had been abducted prior to this. There was still time to continue the session, and Becky was brought back to 1957 at age 2 1/2 when she lived in Westminster, Massachusetts. She was in a carriage in the yard and heard her name called three times. This seemed to be a prelude to what happened that night.
Again, Becky was in her crib. She heard a ticking noise just prior to the room being filled with light. A “pretty person” appeared and removed her pajamas and diaper. He placed her in his arms and both were elevated in light to a glowing craft. She found herself in a room where a bench like an ironing board came out from the wall. A human-like woman dressed in white appeared. She seemed familiar to Becky. The young woman had green eyes and curly hair. The woman sprayed her with a misty substance. Then something like a hat was placed upon her head, which made a whirring sound. Then her nightclothes were put back on and she was transported back to her crib.
When Becky was regressed to age 5, she remembered being taken care of by her grandfather, who told her that he had to leave her for a short time. Becky had never been left alone before and was very frightened, but remembered that a lady dressed in green had appeared to comfort her. Under hypnosis the woman told Becky that her name was Ishta. She held and rocked Becky in her arms, often walking to the window and looking out. She put Becky down and disappeared when Betty arrived to find Becky left alone. Betty was so upset with her father that she never let him babysit again.
The next strange encounter took place in 1961 when Becky was age 6. Becky was outdoors near some woods sitting on a favorite rock with some kittens when she heard her name being called. The same green-clothed woman named Ishta appeared. She smiled, lifted up Becky’s left hand, and shone a bright light from a ring-like object on her finger onto Becky’s finger. Then she turned and walked into the woods followed by two of the cats, which were never seen again. This was not the last appearance of Ishta.
At age 7, Becky walked to a pond and was dipping her bare feet in the water when she heard her voice being called. Abruptly, a circle of blue light struck the surface of the pond and began spreading out. A bluish object like a bubble appeared. When she reached out to touch it, she felt a painful tingling sensation. Becky quickly put her hand in the water and the object slipped off her finger. The blue light dissipated. Her finger was bleeding. She wiped it off and found a bump like a blister on it. Frightened, she started running home to tell her mother but strangely changed her mind and watched other kids playing nearby until the bleeding stopped.
One of the weirdest experiences suffered by Becky took place in 1962 at age 7. Under hypnosis, Becky recalled suddenly waking up at night and being floated out of bed inside a blue light. She was terrified to see a frightening dog-like creature in the corner of the room. A voice told her to stay in the beam of light. The light floated her downstairs and blinked out. She found herself in the dark and called for her mother. Betty brought Becky back to her room and showed her that there was nothing there. She sat with her for a while until Becky went back to sleep.
The next memory would be familiar to readers of The Andreasson Affair. Becky was regressed to age 11 and found herself at her South Ashburnham home in Massachusetts during the family’s 1967 experience. She recalled the aliens bringing her out of suspended animation to see her mother with the gray entities. She remembered being kept conscious and left with one of the gray entities, named Jessup, during Betty’s abduction. The gray being had Becky make a ball attached to a stick move by using her mind. Such mind games with children have been reported before.
Our probe into Becky’s multi-faced experiences proved to be an embarrassment of riches. Like many other abduction reports, they seemed to be part of a never-ending story. She continued to report many inexplicable occurrences throughout her early life. At age 12, she remembered a number of experiences. She awoke to see a gray entity sitting on her brother Todd’s bed. Another time she awoke to see a blue ball of light in her bedroom. At age 15, she was awakened by a blue light that shone on her and heard a voice telling her to remember some numbers. At age 16, she awoke to see a yellow-glowing entity by her bed that quickly disappeared. At age 20, she awoke to find herself paralyzed and one of the gray entities by her bed watching her. At age 24, she heard a buzzing noise that got louder and louder before a blue light shone into her room. She was told to step into it. When it started pulling her, she broke away from it and escaped into her sister’s room. At age 29, she was terrified by blinking red eyes seen outside her bedroom window. At age 34, she awoke to find two entities at the foot of her bed. They pulled her leg out from under the covers and ran an egg-shaped instrument up and down her leg. It felt as if they were drawing a hot line from her foot, up to her knee on the inside of her leg. Then the two entities that reminded her of Quazgaa and Jessup turned and left right through the window.
The hypnosis sessions continued until 1995. Becky relived many experiences at ages 31, 33, 34, 38, and 39. These included abductions, apparitions, poltergeist phenomena, disembodied voices, and a phone call from a dead friend. But perhaps the most significant experiences were recalled during her regression at age 34. She revealed that she had been taken often by the gray entities to a “learning center.” There she was taught on TV-like consoles to learn and write an unearthly language and how to measure light that exists in physical bodies. (Betty had observed Becky operating one of these consoles during an OBE abduction.) The OBE abductions of the Luca family instigated me to write yet another book: The Watchers II4, which compared OBE abductions to OBES reported by persons during a near-death experience.
In closing, I should mention that Becky is continuing the otherworldly revelations first made public in The Andreasson Affair. She is co-hosting a hit radio show entitled Supernatural Girlz (www.supernaturalgirlz.com) with paranormal researcher Patricia Baker. The show airs every Saturday night from 9 to 11 p.m. EST and features interviews with leaders in the paranormal field.
In the meantime, other phenomena continue to haunt Betty and Bob, including the clock in their basement going backward, strange lights and symbols in their hallway and bedroom, and black unmarked helicopters flying over their home. Although retiring from the public eye in 1995, both have decided to go public with their experiences once again upon the publication of this newest edition of The Andreasson Affair.