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.During this same period, some of us also beganmy body, the first I'd had in quite a while.On the side of myto "see things" that weren't there.Sandy glanced out theknee was a red scraped area about half an inch long, andfront window and saw two men standing in her drivewaybelow it three more smaller scrapes formed a triangle.one day, but when she went back for a second look onlyAlthough I didn't realize it at the time, this was themoments later, there was no one in the yard or on the street.beginning of a twelve-day period in which I would receiveAnd there were other cases where people kept "seeing"a total of twelve new physical marks that I couldn't explain.something move in their peripheral vision field, somethingBesides a number of bruises, single punctures, andthat was often described as dark and the size of a rabbit orscratches, I also found the triangle described above, a groupa large rat.No such animal, of course, was ever actuallyof four punctures arranged in an arch, and a small trianglefound.The incidents genuinely didn't seem merely to comecomposed of four punctures with a fifth puncture af thefrom poor eyesight or vision problems, and, like the hearingtriangle's apex.By the end of the twelve days, I no longerof voices in the summer of 1989, the "invisible rabbits"doubted that Fred's frequent scars were as inexplicable towere a transitory phenomenon.him as mine were to me.The theory that such scratches andIt was also during this time that my brother and his familybruises result from natural, unnoticed accidents was dis-made their first visit back home in over a decade.Theyproven to me then.stayed at my parents' home, located on a private lake in aNow with over four years' experiences to evaluate, I amrural area, where their two teenaged sons took full advan-certain that the physical marks come from a source othertage of the fishing.One night, when my brother was fishingthan the victim.During this time, we have scanned ourwith them until almost 1:30 A.M., the lake suddenly becamebodies twice a day, morning and evening, noting everycompletely calm.Paul said it was so still and mirrorlike thatbump and cut we inflict upon ourselves and comparing themwhen he flipped a cigarette butt into the water, there waswith the marks we find.The unexplained marks have210 Karla TurnerInto the Fringe 211absolutely no ripple.Even the insects had stopped buzzing.When the second year had passed, I wondered if ourPaul told the boys to pack up their gear, since the fish hadinvolvement would ever end.It seemed unlikely, as mystopped biting, but as they stood up to leave, the oldest boy,contact with UFO researchers who studied abduction casesRichard (pseudonym), pointed up to the sky and asked,showed the phenomenon was spreading.And so was the"What kind of plane is that?"media interest in UFOs and ETs, to judge by the increasedHaving been in the Air Force, Paul was familiar withnumber of reports in newspapers and, most noticeably, onmost types of aircraft, but he couldn't identify the formationtelevision.In 1988, after we became aware of the phenom-of lights that were flying low in the sky above them.All ofenon's presence in our lives, we began to pay attention tothe lights were orange-yellow, and a single light led anthe media's references to UFOs and aliens.amorphous group of several others.The lights covered aIt first struck me when I saw the Canon camera commer-relatively large patch of sky, so Paul assumed that the craftcial televised during the summer Olympics coverage, wheremust have been flying quite low, yet there was no sound.an alien who looks very much like a typical Gray uses theThe three of them watched the lights for a few moments andcamera in his spacecraft.And then other advertisementsthen left the lake.As far as any of them remembered,began playing on the alien theme, from Tropicana Twisternothing else happened.to Levi's Dockers and Tide detergent.Through 1988 andBut two days later at a family reunion, I noticed that the1989, UFO sightings and abduction stories turned up inolder boy, Richard, had several V-shaped scratches on hisgreater and greater numbers on the television talk shows,chest.I asked him how he had gotten them.and the tabloid news programs such as "Inside Edition,""I don't know," he shrugged."I didn't know they were"Hard Copy," and "Current Affair" aired reports onthere until I took off my shirt a while ago."sightings and encounters around the country.Even chil-Intrigued, I asked my younger nephew if he also haddren's television had its share of ETs.Gumby and Dennisfound any strange scratches lately, and I was surprised bythe Menace were both abducted by Grays, and a Saturdaythe look on his face and by the way he reached backmorning special showed a cartoon version of the bookinstinctively to shield his rear end.Grinny, an evil alien android here to conquer and enslave How did you know?'' he asked.humanity
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