The Andreasson Affair

by Raymond E. Fowler

  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.

  Phase IV

  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

  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.

  Betty

  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.

  Becky

  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.