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The Trigger of Alien Abduction
Betty Andreasson's alien abduction and NDE
One of the most documented and believable cases in UFOlogy is the experience of
one woman's abduction aboard a UFO. Her name is Betty Andreasson Luca who is
a devout Christian. During her abduction, she was taken before a being of intense
light and love called "the One." This description of this being is remarkably similar to
descriptions of the so-called "Being of Light" encountered in near-death experiences.
Her first abduction occurred during her childhood and culminated with an abduction
experience that involved her whole family. Led by a number of teams of
highly-credentialed investigators, her experience is one of the most thoroughly
investigated cases ever reported in the annals of hypnotherapy. This page is mainly
focused on her experience as a child with the Being of Light she calls "the One." The
following are excerpts from Raymond Fowler's book, The Andreasson Affair: The Documented Investigation of a
Woman's Abduction Aboard a UFO. Raymond Fowler is also the author of the book The Watchers and his excellent
follow-up book The Watchers II: Exploring UFOs and the Near Death Experience. For even more information about
the connection between the NDE and UFO phenomenon, read the article by Dr. Kenneth Ring entitled Near-death
and UFO Encounters as Shamanic Initiations: Some Conceptual and Evolutionary Implications.
The Abduction of Betty Andreasson Luca
On the evening of January 25, 1967, Betty Andreasson was in her kitchen at South Ashburnham, Massachusetts.
Her seven children, mother, and father were in the living room. At about 6:35 p.m., the house lights suddenly
blinked out for a moment. Then, a pulsating reddish-orange light shined in the kitchen window. Betty calmed the
frightened children while her father rushed to look out the kitchen window. He saw a group of strange-looking small
creatures approaching with a hopping motion. Five small humanoid creatures entered the house, passing right
through the wooden door.
Betty's family was immediately placed into suspended animation. One creature went over to her father. The leader
of the other four established telepathic communication with Betty.
The leader was about five feet tall. The others were about four feet tall. All had large pear-shaped heads, wide
catlike wraparound eyes, and diminutive ears and noses. Their mouths were immobile slits that reminded Betty of
scar lines. Each wore a coverall blue uniform adorned with a Sam Browne-type belt. An insignia of a bird was
affixed to their sleeves. Their hands had three digits. (Later, on the craft, they were gloved.) They wore boot-like
attire on their feet. They floated rather than walked.
Betty's initial fright was immediately calmed by an overpowering sense of friendship. When she displayed concern
for her family's welfare, the creatures temporarily released her eleven-year-old daughter, Becky, from this strange
state of unawareness to assure Betty that she was all right.
Then Betty was taken outside and brought on board a small craft resting on the side of a hill that sloped into the
back yard. The machine was about twenty feet in diameter. It looked like two saucers, one inverted upon the other,
with a small superstructure on top. The small craft accelerated and apparently merged with a larger parent craft, in
which Betty was subjected to the effects of strange equipment and a physical examination. Then she was taken to
an alien place and given a bizarre object lesson that caused her to undergo a painful yet ecstatic religious-like
experience.
Later that night, a 10:40 p.m., Betty was returned home by two of her alien captors. At home, she found her family
still in a state of suspended animation. One being had stayed behind to watch over them during her absence. Then
the beings put the family - still under some type of mind control - to bed, and the aliens left.
Several times, the aliens had told Betty that certain things had been locked in her mind. She was instructed to
forget them and her UFO experience until the appointed time. She consciously remembered only a fraction of the
strange encounter; the power failure, the colored light flashing through the window, and the aliens entering the
house.
Betty, a devout Christian, interpreted the creatures as religious or angelic in nature. The subject of UFOs was
largely unknown to her. Her education had been limited to ten years of schooling, her basic interests included
family, church, and community-related activities. Not until much later did she think of her experience as a possible
UFO encounter.
In 1975, Betty responded to a local newspaper story about UFO researcher Dr. J. Allen Hynek, who was soliciting
personal UFO experience information from the public. Betty's letter contained such few data, however, that it was
filed and forgotten until an investigation in January 1977. The investigating team consisted of a solar physicist, an
electronics engineer, an aerospace engineer, a telecommunications specialist, and a UFO investigator. They
employed the services of a professional hypnotist and a medical doctor trained in psychiatry. During a
twelve-month investigation, they conducted an extensive character-reference check, two lie-detector tests, a
psychiatric interview, and fourteen lengthy hypnotic regression sessions. Under hypnosis, Betty and her daughter
relived a consistent, detailed UFO experience with genuine physiological reactions. Their three-volume, 528-page
report led to the conclusion that the witnesses were reliable and sane individuals who sincerely believed the
experience had really occurred.
Her Experience With the Being of Light
The following are the exact transcripts from her hypnotic regression when Betty was regressed to her childhood
during one of her first abduction experiences and her encounter with the One. Betty's words are in blue. The
hypnotherapist's words are in white.
We're coming up to this wall of glass and a big, big, big, big, big door. It's made out of glass.
Does it have hinges?
No. It is so big and there is - I can't explain it. It is door after door after door after door. He (the alien leading her) is
stopping there and telling me to stop. I'm just stopping there. He says: "Now you shall enter the door to see the
One." And he says, "Fear not."
[Then Betty appeared to undergo an out-of-body experience!]
And I'm standing there and I'm coming out of myself! There's two of me! There's two of me there!
Are you looking at yourself?
Uh, huh.
Okay. Do you see the One yet?
The One? No.
Okay, go on.
I'm coming up to the door, and the little person is saying: "Now you shall enter the Great Door and see the glory of
the One." And I'm standing face to face with that door.
[Betty now stood before the strange door. Again she described its appearance and her out-of-body experience.]
There's a big door there, and it is big, but it is strange. It is like deeper and deeper and deeper. And it's bright,
really bright. And I have to stand before the door. But, before that, I came out of myself. I was just standing over
there, and I was standing over here. There were two of me, but that one over there was stiff.
Have you tried to talk to your other self?
That won't work, because I'm over here, and that one is over there.
She looks exactly like you? Is she making motions to show you she is alive, like breathing, moving her arms?
No.
Would you say she looks like a wax museum piece or something?
No, it looks just like me.
All right, go on.
I was told to come forward. I went in the door, and it's very bright. I can't take you any further.
Why?
Because.
What do you mean, because?
I can't take you past this door.
Okay, I'll tell you what. You go past that door alone then for a few minutes, okay?
[Time and again, the hypnotist tried in different ways to induce Betty to tell him what was behind the door - all in
vain.]
Sometime maybe, if you change your mind, would you tell me?
I can't change my mind. It is set.
What would happen to you if you did tell me?
I can't tell you. I'm sorry.
Okay, let's proceed to the first thing you can tell me. Fair enough?
Oh! [Betty's face glows with joy]
What's happening now?
I'm coming out of that door, and it was wonderful!
Did the One say something exciting?
I can't tell you. I'm sorry.
Would you say that the One was God?
Do you really know what God is?
I don't know. I was hoping that you had seen him and could therefore tell
me.
I can't tell you about that.
Okay, let's proceed. What's happening now? You just came out of the
room, and you feel great.
I come out of the door, and there is a tall white-haired man standing there
and he's got on a long nightgown.
[The next session took place on May 15, 1980. Determined to find out
what lay behind the Great Door, the hypnotist again brought Betty back
in time to where she was standing before it.]
Where are you?
I'm before this huge great big door. It's glass. Layers and layers of glass.
What are you standing on?
Glass.
Let me ask you now: You're going to see the One now, right?
Yeah.
Why are you going to see the One?
Because it is time for me, they said, for me to go home to see the One.
All right, in other words, does this imply that the One is someone that you have seen before?
I don't remember.
Okay. Do you know why it is time to see the One? Why haven't you asked questions?
They haven't been there very often. Those little people haven't been there very much for me to ask.
Yeah, but they are asking you to do a lot of things, shall we say.
I know. But, I'm in their place. I can't do anything.
Okay. In a moment you're going to see the One, right? We don't want to waste the experience. We want to get the
most out of it. So when you see the One, I want you to ask yourself: "What am I getting out of this? Why am I here?
And, what will this mean to me later on in my life?" It's like any big experience a person is allowed to have. Okay? I
want you to progress to where the door is open and you are seeing the One.
Oh!
[At that very moment, an indescribable smile came over Betty's face. The only adjective that the investigators could
think of to describe it is rapturous. This expression of pure, unrestricted happiness remained on Betty's face as the
hypnotist continued to question her.]
You seem happy. Why are you so happy?
It's just - ah, I just, I can't tell you about it.
All right. I know you can't tell me, but I want you to do a few things. I want you to ask yourself why you are being
shown that which you are being shown. In other words, you weren't given this trip just for a free ride, so to speak.
They want you to see what you are seeing. Does that make sense?
Yes.
All right. Now that you're there, ask yourself: "What am I getting out of this? Why am I here? What am I supposed to
think about after I leave here?"
Oh, it matters not what I get from it.
What do you mean?
It's - words cannot explain it. It's wonderful. It's for everybody. I just can't tell you this.
You can't? Okay, why can't you?
For one thing, it's too overwhelming and it is - it is indescribable. I just can't tell you. Besides it's just impossible for
me to tell you.
All right. Are you capable, when looking around you, to tell yourself?
I see it.
Right. That which you can see, you have a grasp of even if you don't
understand it.
I understand it. I'm sorry. I'm just sorry. I wish I could share it with you.
Were you told not to share it with me?
It is like even if I was able to speak it, I wouldn't be able to speak it. I can't.
I'm sorry.
Were you specifically told not to speak it?
Partly, yeah.
How was it expressed to you?
I can't tell you those things. I'm sorry.
All right. Can we let the beings speak through you? Suppose you just relax,
and I'll put my hand on your shoulder and with each number you will go
deeper and deeper. When I reach three, you will just relax and allow the
beings to speak through you. One, two, three.
[Betty began speaking in a strange tongue.]
Okay, Betty, can you explain to me so that I could understand what you
have just said?
[Betty begins crying] Father loves the world so very much.
Yes?
And so many reject him.
Uh huh, okay. You said a lot of words. Can you explain more of what you
said?
They will be felt by those who believe and have faith. They will feel the
love radiating from them.
Okay, where are you now?
I'm where there is light.
And what do you see?
I cannot tell you this.
Okay, that's all right. Let me ask you.
Do you feel much love, the same love,
or any different degree of love now than you have before?
It's a greater love.
Okay. When will I understand all of the words that the being
said through you?
When you allow the Spirit to come upon you and you are
filled with that love.
Do you understand all the words that you have said?
I understand them, but they will not come forth.
Okay, I'm trying to understand. I'm not trying to ask you to divulge anything, all right? You understand them, but
you can't express them?
They're in my heart.
More like a feeling than a concept?
They're in my heart, in my mind, in my body.
Okay, could you explain this to your children?
What children?
[During this hypnotic session, Betty was regressed to a childhood experience when she was single with no children.]
If you have children someday. The words that you spoke, while they had a message of love in them, did they also
have a warning?
Yes. Those that do not have love have nothing. Love is the answer.
[Again the hypnotist failed to elicit the information that he sought regarding
what Betty had experienced while behind the Great Door. With endless
patience, he tried yet again.]
Okay. You've seen the One. Do you feel different about anything now than
you did before?
Everything is so wonderful!
Is there anybody that you don't like?
No.
There are some people, shall we say, that aren't as nice as other people,
right?
No, everybody is nice. They are just growing, that's all. If one doesn't
understand another one, they are just growing, that's all.
Okay, just relax. You've been to see the One and now everything is a little
nicer, right?
I understand that everything is one.
What do you mean?
Everything fits together. Everything is one. It's beautiful! No matter what it is!
[Betty's experience with the One ends here.]
UFOs and the NDE
by Joseph Kerrick
Betty Luca's description under hypnosis of her experience of the One in the preceding page is instantly
recognizable as the same type of experience reported by many experiencers, and even in many cases the same
IDENTICAL experience. It is a very basic kind of spiritual experience, which has also been consistently reported
throughout history by saints, mystics, and various types of ecstatics.
The similarities between UFO abduction and NDEs have been explored by a number of writers and researchers,
the most famous and credentialed of which is undoubtedly Dr. Ken Ring. Dr. Ring did an extensive series of clinical
studies on the NDE and published his results in Life at Death and Heading Toward Omega. Then he did a follow-up
project in which he studied UFO experiencers (primarily "abductees"), and specifically compared this phenomenon
to that of near-death. His full report can be found in The Omega Project; he found strong similarities between the
two types of experience, and hypothesized that they may actually be two variants of a more basic underlying
phenomenon.
Ring also quotes other commentators, who make the following remarks:
According to polls, we live in an age where now most people believe that UFOs are real and that 'people like us live
on other planets.' In that context, since angels and demons are out of style, they now dress in the costume of our
own epoch's archetypal figure - the extraterrestrial alien - whom we can see precisely because we can now
CONCEIVE of him; he conforms to and expresses our current ideas of possibility.
Abductions may represent a contemporary form of shamanic journey - one that fits and is phrased in terms of a
highly technological society which has already turned its imaginative attention to star flight ... Perhaps the (ancient)
otherworld journey motif is 'camouflaged' in the modern lore of space travel which, like the fantastic voyage legends
of the past, exemplifies what might be called the lure of the edge.
These ecological and millennial themes have been part of the canon of the UFO world and its literature for a long
time, and many persons have already commented on their quasi-religious character. Indeed, in an age where
secular thinking has come to be the standard but from which the religious impulse has never disappeared, it is
psychologically very understandable why traditional religious images of salvation have come to be projected onto
the screen of a universe where, for some, it is easier to believe in ETs than in God.
Betty Luca does believe in God very strongly, being a devout Christian; yet a striking difference between her
experience and that of near-death experiencers is that she was escorted to it not by dead relatives nor Christian
spiritual figures, but by small gray bug-eyed space aliens. Yet, at the end of this first event, which occurred when
she was only 13 years old, there appeared figures of a different type: a number of entities who were human-looking
except for their size, being about seven feet tall; they were dressed in long white robes, had pale-colored skin, and
hair that was blond to white. In a word, they looked exactly like the Christian image of angels, except that they had
no wings. Betty called these beings "the Elders," after the Christian term used especially in the Book of Revelation,
denoting the angelic beings surrounding the throne of God. (Note: Experiencers have also reported being brought
before a Council of Elders to have a life review).
After some three decades of further experiences, reported in a total of four books by researcher Raymond Fowler,
there came a point when the Elders seemed to completely take over Betty's encounters.
All the earlier events, including her first experience of the One, took place in mysterious locations which seemed to
be underground, or else on or near the surface of the earth. But now, as reported in the last of Fowler's books,
The Watchers II: Exploring UFOs and the Near Death Experience, the small Grays came again for Betty in a saucer,
and for the first time took her into outer space, where the small craft docked with a huge cylindrical mother-ship.
This was the domain of the Elders, who apparently commanded the Grays in a symbiotic relationship. This journey
climaxed for Betty in another ecstatic experience of the One, though this time the events leading up to it were very
different.
Betty asked why she was here with the Elders, and they said:
"Don't you remember your blessing?"
She didn't know what they were talking about, and in response they used a machine to show her a scene from
earlier in her life. It was at a church service, and what happened was this:
Betty stood up and gave testimony and pledged to use her talents for the glory of God. This was probably not
unusual for this type of service. But then the minister suddenly began speaking in tongues. His wife jumped up, ran
down the aisle to Betty, put her hands on Betty's head, and began speaking in tongues herself. Then the minister
interpreted his wife's tongues; it was a message for Betty:
"You have given all that you have ... thou shalt be blessed above women ... "
This was evidently the scene as Betty remembered it from when she was younger. But now in the strange replay on
the mother-ship, she noticed some differences. Some of the people had a light around them - these included Betty,
the minister, and his wife. And two Elders were present in the room, unseen by the congregation. One of the Elders
stood behind the minister and put his hand on the man's shoulder - and this is when he began speaking in
tongues. Then the Elder whispered in the ear of the minister's wife, and this is when she jumped up and
administered "the blessing" to Betty. Evidently the whole scenario had been orchestrated by the Elders.
After being shown this scene from the past, Betty witnessed live what clearly seems to have been an act of ritual
magic performed by the Elders. Three of them stepped into a circle drawn on the floor, subdivided by straight lines
into six equal parts.
They touched their hands together, and then, as they concentrated, beams of light came out of their foreheads,
and formed a triangle. At length, in the center of this triangle, there appeared a ring of light, floating in the air.
Three more Elders stepped into the circle, and they all began chanting "Oh." Three more beams of light appeared,
forming a perfect hexagram. A larger circle of light formed around the heads of the Elders. Then this light-ring
moved upwards, shrank to the same size as the ring in the center, and floated down and interconnected with it,
forming a revolving spherical object which finally condensed into a beach ball-sized orb of lavender-purple light.
This was then taken and placed in a four-pronged stand which had obviously been designed specifically to hold
such spheres.
The term "Elders" is Betty's name for these beings. When on an earlier occasion she had asked them who they
were, they had answered that they are "the ambassadors of Oh, masters of rings, cycles, and orbs." Now, after
witnessing the creation of this magical orb, Betty asked an Elder:
"Who is Oh?"
He replied that Oh is "the internal, external, eternal presence."
The next thing that happened, to Betty's extreme startlement, was that the Elders induced an out-of-body
experience in her. This is similar to what happened in her experience at age 13, before she entered the Great Door
and saw the One. Now, on the mother-ship, as soon as she emerged in her subtle body, one of the Elders handed
her the orb of purple light, and another led her through a portal made of rippling waves of energy.
On the other side of the portal, Betty and the Elder seemed to be on earth, in a woods at night. Some hobos were
sleeping on the ground. One of them awakened and approached the two visitors; he glowed with light. The Elder
wore little rings of light on his fingers. He allowed the hobo to take some of them, and they turned into a single tiny
ball of light, which the man kept. Meanwhile, the larger orb in Betty's hands changed color momentarily, evidently in
resonance with the transaction. Every once in awhile, Betty's attention was drawn into the ball:
"Oh," she said, "it's just so beautiful! Something in it keeps on moving ... "
Now the Elder touched Betty's shoulder. There was a little explosion of white light, and then they were in a different
place: a hospital room, where a very old man lay in a bed, with a nurse keeping vigil beside him. And there was
more: two small entities which seemed to be made of darkness where tugging at the man, as if trying to pull his soul
out of his body - this was Betty's impression. But there was also present a light-being; this was a type of entity Betty
had encountered before in her experiences - it had no visible human features, but appeared as a bodily form made
of white light. This being was also tugging at the dying man; it was clearly a battle for his soul between these
opposing entities. The Elder resolved the conflict: he threw two tiny balls of light at the black entities, and they flew
away.
The Elder and Betty next transported to a woods again, where a small saucer and two of the Grays awaited them.
They went on board, and evidently flew up into the sky. Betty asked where they were going now, and the Elder
replied that they were going to see the One.
Betty had to give the purple orb to one of the Grays; she was very reluctant and sorrowful to give it up. The craft
came to a stop, and they emerged into a place filled with bright light. Above them was the Great Door, which was
the source of the light. The Elder touched one of the Grays on the shoulder and spoke to him, and he came along
with the Elder and Betty as they walked toward the Light. Their walk turned into a run, as they moved swiftly into the
pure radiance. Betty was overwhelmed with the ecstasy of the One, which she re-experienced on the hypnotist's
couch, and the several people in attendance were all profoundly moved by the visible effects of her transformation.
Betty, the Elder, and the Gray all turned into light-beings as they went into the One. Each was a different hue: the
Elder's light-body was pure white, the Gray alien's was light blue, and Betty's was golden.
Betty said: "Oh, there is such love ... Oh, there is such peace ... I'm just engulfed in light and blending into that
light. Oh! ... Oh, this is everything, everything, everything ... I cannot explain the wonder and beauty and love and
peace."
And then came a heartbroken cry as Betty realized that she would have to leave this beatific state of Oneness:
"Oh, I'm going to have to go back. I have to go back for others so that they too will see, will understand and know ..."
And Betty, the Elder, and the Gray emerged back out of the Light, turning back into their normal forms in the
process.
The Elder gave three of the tiny balls of light to Betty; then she was escorted into the saucer and taken home by
the Grays. She found her physical body sitting up on the side of her bed next to her sleeping husband, and
re-entered it. The experience had ended.
Raymond Fowler's follow-up book is entitled The Andreasson Affair Phase Two: The Continuing Investigation of a
Woman's Abduction by Alien Beings. He is also author of the books The Allagash Abductions: Undeniable Evidence
of Alien Intervention and UFO Testament : Anatomy of an Abductee.
(C) Copyright 1997 Joseph Kerrick
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Betty Andreasson's alien abduction and NDE
One of the most documented and believable cases in UFOlogy is the experience of
one woman's abduction aboard a UFO. Her name is Betty Andreasson Luca who is
a devout Christian. During her abduction, she was taken before a being of intense
light and love called "the One." This description of this being is remarkably similar to
descriptions of the so-called "Being of Light" encountered in near-death experiences.
Her first abduction occurred during her childhood and culminated with an abduction
experience that involved her whole family. Led by a number of teams of
highly-credentialed investigators, her experience is one of the most thoroughly
investigated cases ever reported in the annals of hypnotherapy. This page is mainly
focused on her experience as a child with the Being of Light she calls "the One." The
following are excerpts from Raymond Fowler's book, The Andreasson Affair: The Documented Investigation of a
Woman's Abduction Aboard a UFO. Raymond Fowler is also the author of the book The Watchers and his excellent
follow-up book The Watchers II: Exploring UFOs and the Near Death Experience. For even more information about
the connection between the NDE and UFO phenomenon, read the article by Dr. Kenneth Ring entitled Near-death
and UFO Encounters as Shamanic Initiations: Some Conceptual and Evolutionary Implications.
The Abduction of Betty Andreasson Luca
On the evening of January 25, 1967, Betty Andreasson was in her kitchen at South Ashburnham, Massachusetts.
Her seven children, mother, and father were in the living room. At about 6:35 p.m., the house lights suddenly
blinked out for a moment. Then, a pulsating reddish-orange light shined in the kitchen window. Betty calmed the
frightened children while her father rushed to look out the kitchen window. He saw a group of strange-looking small
creatures approaching with a hopping motion. Five small humanoid creatures entered the house, passing right
through the wooden door.
Betty's family was immediately placed into suspended animation. One creature went over to her father. The leader
of the other four established telepathic communication with Betty.
The leader was about five feet tall. The others were about four feet tall. All had large pear-shaped heads, wide
catlike wraparound eyes, and diminutive ears and noses. Their mouths were immobile slits that reminded Betty of
scar lines. Each wore a coverall blue uniform adorned with a Sam Browne-type belt. An insignia of a bird was
affixed to their sleeves. Their hands had three digits. (Later, on the craft, they were gloved.) They wore boot-like
attire on their feet. They floated rather than walked.
Betty's initial fright was immediately calmed by an overpowering sense of friendship. When she displayed concern
for her family's welfare, the creatures temporarily released her eleven-year-old daughter, Becky, from this strange
state of unawareness to assure Betty that she was all right.
Then Betty was taken outside and brought on board a small craft resting on the side of a hill that sloped into the
back yard. The machine was about twenty feet in diameter. It looked like two saucers, one inverted upon the other,
with a small superstructure on top. The small craft accelerated and apparently merged with a larger parent craft, in
which Betty was subjected to the effects of strange equipment and a physical examination. Then she was taken to
an alien place and given a bizarre object lesson that caused her to undergo a painful yet ecstatic religious-like
experience.
Later that night, a 10:40 p.m., Betty was returned home by two of her alien captors. At home, she found her family
still in a state of suspended animation. One being had stayed behind to watch over them during her absence. Then
the beings put the family - still under some type of mind control - to bed, and the aliens left.
Several times, the aliens had told Betty that certain things had been locked in her mind. She was instructed to
forget them and her UFO experience until the appointed time. She consciously remembered only a fraction of the
strange encounter; the power failure, the colored light flashing through the window, and the aliens entering the
house.
Betty, a devout Christian, interpreted the creatures as religious or angelic in nature. The subject of UFOs was
largely unknown to her. Her education had been limited to ten years of schooling, her basic interests included
family, church, and community-related activities. Not until much later did she think of her experience as a possible
UFO encounter.
In 1975, Betty responded to a local newspaper story about UFO researcher Dr. J. Allen Hynek, who was soliciting
personal UFO experience information from the public. Betty's letter contained such few data, however, that it was
filed and forgotten until an investigation in January 1977. The investigating team consisted of a solar physicist, an
electronics engineer, an aerospace engineer, a telecommunications specialist, and a UFO investigator. They
employed the services of a professional hypnotist and a medical doctor trained in psychiatry. During a
twelve-month investigation, they conducted an extensive character-reference check, two lie-detector tests, a
psychiatric interview, and fourteen lengthy hypnotic regression sessions. Under hypnosis, Betty and her daughter
relived a consistent, detailed UFO experience with genuine physiological reactions. Their three-volume, 528-page
report led to the conclusion that the witnesses were reliable and sane individuals who sincerely believed the
experience had really occurred.
Her Experience With the Being of Light
The following are the exact transcripts from her hypnotic regression when Betty was regressed to her childhood
during one of her first abduction experiences and her encounter with the One. Betty's words are in blue. The
hypnotherapist's words are in white.
We're coming up to this wall of glass and a big, big, big, big, big door. It's made out of glass.
Does it have hinges?
No. It is so big and there is - I can't explain it. It is door after door after door after door. He (the alien leading her) is
stopping there and telling me to stop. I'm just stopping there. He says: "Now you shall enter the door to see the
One." And he says, "Fear not."
[Then Betty appeared to undergo an out-of-body experience!]
And I'm standing there and I'm coming out of myself! There's two of me! There's two of me there!
Are you looking at yourself?
Uh, huh.
Okay. Do you see the One yet?
The One? No.
Okay, go on.
I'm coming up to the door, and the little person is saying: "Now you shall enter the Great Door and see the glory of
the One." And I'm standing face to face with that door.
[Betty now stood before the strange door. Again she described its appearance and her out-of-body experience.]
There's a big door there, and it is big, but it is strange. It is like deeper and deeper and deeper. And it's bright,
really bright. And I have to stand before the door. But, before that, I came out of myself. I was just standing over
there, and I was standing over here. There were two of me, but that one over there was stiff.
Have you tried to talk to your other self?
That won't work, because I'm over here, and that one is over there.
She looks exactly like you? Is she making motions to show you she is alive, like breathing, moving her arms?
No.
Would you say she looks like a wax museum piece or something?
No, it looks just like me.
All right, go on.
I was told to come forward. I went in the door, and it's very bright. I can't take you any further.
Why?
Because.
What do you mean, because?
I can't take you past this door.
Okay, I'll tell you what. You go past that door alone then for a few minutes, okay?
[Time and again, the hypnotist tried in different ways to induce Betty to tell him what was behind the door - all in
vain.]
Sometime maybe, if you change your mind, would you tell me?
I can't change my mind. It is set.
What would happen to you if you did tell me?
I can't tell you. I'm sorry.
Okay, let's proceed to the first thing you can tell me. Fair enough?
Oh! [Betty's face glows with joy]
What's happening now?
I'm coming out of that door, and it was wonderful!
Did the One say something exciting?
I can't tell you. I'm sorry.
Would you say that the One was God?
Do you really know what God is?
I don't know. I was hoping that you had seen him and could therefore tell
me.
I can't tell you about that.
Okay, let's proceed. What's happening now? You just came out of the
room, and you feel great.
I come out of the door, and there is a tall white-haired man standing there
and he's got on a long nightgown.
[The next session took place on May 15, 1980. Determined to find out
what lay behind the Great Door, the hypnotist again brought Betty back
in time to where she was standing before it.]
Where are you?
I'm before this huge great big door. It's glass. Layers and layers of glass.
What are you standing on?
Glass.
Let me ask you now: You're going to see the One now, right?
Yeah.
Why are you going to see the One?
Because it is time for me, they said, for me to go home to see the One.
All right, in other words, does this imply that the One is someone that you have seen before?
I don't remember.
Okay. Do you know why it is time to see the One? Why haven't you asked questions?
They haven't been there very often. Those little people haven't been there very much for me to ask.
Yeah, but they are asking you to do a lot of things, shall we say.
I know. But, I'm in their place. I can't do anything.
Okay. In a moment you're going to see the One, right? We don't want to waste the experience. We want to get the
most out of it. So when you see the One, I want you to ask yourself: "What am I getting out of this? Why am I here?
And, what will this mean to me later on in my life?" It's like any big experience a person is allowed to have. Okay? I
want you to progress to where the door is open and you are seeing the One.
Oh!
[At that very moment, an indescribable smile came over Betty's face. The only adjective that the investigators could
think of to describe it is rapturous. This expression of pure, unrestricted happiness remained on Betty's face as the
hypnotist continued to question her.]
You seem happy. Why are you so happy?
It's just - ah, I just, I can't tell you about it.
All right. I know you can't tell me, but I want you to do a few things. I want you to ask yourself why you are being
shown that which you are being shown. In other words, you weren't given this trip just for a free ride, so to speak.
They want you to see what you are seeing. Does that make sense?
Yes.
All right. Now that you're there, ask yourself: "What am I getting out of this? Why am I here? What am I supposed to
think about after I leave here?"
Oh, it matters not what I get from it.
What do you mean?
It's - words cannot explain it. It's wonderful. It's for everybody. I just can't tell you this.
You can't? Okay, why can't you?
For one thing, it's too overwhelming and it is - it is indescribable. I just can't tell you. Besides it's just impossible for
me to tell you.
All right. Are you capable, when looking around you, to tell yourself?
I see it.
Right. That which you can see, you have a grasp of even if you don't
understand it.
I understand it. I'm sorry. I'm just sorry. I wish I could share it with you.
Were you told not to share it with me?
It is like even if I was able to speak it, I wouldn't be able to speak it. I can't.
I'm sorry.
Were you specifically told not to speak it?
Partly, yeah.
How was it expressed to you?
I can't tell you those things. I'm sorry.
All right. Can we let the beings speak through you? Suppose you just relax,
and I'll put my hand on your shoulder and with each number you will go
deeper and deeper. When I reach three, you will just relax and allow the
beings to speak through you. One, two, three.
[Betty began speaking in a strange tongue.]
Okay, Betty, can you explain to me so that I could understand what you
have just said?
[Betty begins crying] Father loves the world so very much.
Yes?
And so many reject him.
Uh huh, okay. You said a lot of words. Can you explain more of what you
said?
They will be felt by those who believe and have faith. They will feel the
love radiating from them.
Okay, where are you now?
I'm where there is light.
And what do you see?
I cannot tell you this.
Okay, that's all right. Let me ask you.
Do you feel much love, the same love,
or any different degree of love now than you have before?
It's a greater love.
Okay. When will I understand all of the words that the being
said through you?
When you allow the Spirit to come upon you and you are
filled with that love.
Do you understand all the words that you have said?
I understand them, but they will not come forth.
Okay, I'm trying to understand. I'm not trying to ask you to divulge anything, all right? You understand them, but
you can't express them?
They're in my heart.
More like a feeling than a concept?
They're in my heart, in my mind, in my body.
Okay, could you explain this to your children?
What children?
[During this hypnotic session, Betty was regressed to a childhood experience when she was single with no children.]
If you have children someday. The words that you spoke, while they had a message of love in them, did they also
have a warning?
Yes. Those that do not have love have nothing. Love is the answer.
[Again the hypnotist failed to elicit the information that he sought regarding
what Betty had experienced while behind the Great Door. With endless
patience, he tried yet again.]
Okay. You've seen the One. Do you feel different about anything now than
you did before?
Everything is so wonderful!
Is there anybody that you don't like?
No.
There are some people, shall we say, that aren't as nice as other people,
right?
No, everybody is nice. They are just growing, that's all. If one doesn't
understand another one, they are just growing, that's all.
Okay, just relax. You've been to see the One and now everything is a little
nicer, right?
I understand that everything is one.
What do you mean?
Everything fits together. Everything is one. It's beautiful! No matter what it is!
[Betty's experience with the One ends here.]
UFOs and the NDE
by Joseph Kerrick
Betty Luca's description under hypnosis of her experience of the One in the preceding page is instantly
recognizable as the same type of experience reported by many experiencers, and even in many cases the same
IDENTICAL experience. It is a very basic kind of spiritual experience, which has also been consistently reported
throughout history by saints, mystics, and various types of ecstatics.
The similarities between UFO abduction and NDEs have been explored by a number of writers and researchers,
the most famous and credentialed of which is undoubtedly Dr. Ken Ring. Dr. Ring did an extensive series of clinical
studies on the NDE and published his results in Life at Death and Heading Toward Omega. Then he did a follow-up
project in which he studied UFO experiencers (primarily "abductees"), and specifically compared this phenomenon
to that of near-death. His full report can be found in The Omega Project; he found strong similarities between the
two types of experience, and hypothesized that they may actually be two variants of a more basic underlying
phenomenon.
Ring also quotes other commentators, who make the following remarks:
According to polls, we live in an age where now most people believe that UFOs are real and that 'people like us live
on other planets.' In that context, since angels and demons are out of style, they now dress in the costume of our
own epoch's archetypal figure - the extraterrestrial alien - whom we can see precisely because we can now
CONCEIVE of him; he conforms to and expresses our current ideas of possibility.
Abductions may represent a contemporary form of shamanic journey - one that fits and is phrased in terms of a
highly technological society which has already turned its imaginative attention to star flight ... Perhaps the (ancient)
otherworld journey motif is 'camouflaged' in the modern lore of space travel which, like the fantastic voyage legends
of the past, exemplifies what might be called the lure of the edge.
These ecological and millennial themes have been part of the canon of the UFO world and its literature for a long
time, and many persons have already commented on their quasi-religious character. Indeed, in an age where
secular thinking has come to be the standard but from which the religious impulse has never disappeared, it is
psychologically very understandable why traditional religious images of salvation have come to be projected onto
the screen of a universe where, for some, it is easier to believe in ETs than in God.
Betty Luca does believe in God very strongly, being a devout Christian; yet a striking difference between her
experience and that of near-death experiencers is that she was escorted to it not by dead relatives nor Christian
spiritual figures, but by small gray bug-eyed space aliens. Yet, at the end of this first event, which occurred when
she was only 13 years old, there appeared figures of a different type: a number of entities who were human-looking
except for their size, being about seven feet tall; they were dressed in long white robes, had pale-colored skin, and
hair that was blond to white. In a word, they looked exactly like the Christian image of angels, except that they had
no wings. Betty called these beings "the Elders," after the Christian term used especially in the Book of Revelation,
denoting the angelic beings surrounding the throne of God. (Note: Experiencers have also reported being brought
before a Council of Elders to have a life review).
After some three decades of further experiences, reported in a total of four books by researcher Raymond Fowler,
there came a point when the Elders seemed to completely take over Betty's encounters.
All the earlier events, including her first experience of the One, took place in mysterious locations which seemed to
be underground, or else on or near the surface of the earth. But now, as reported in the last of Fowler's books,
The Watchers II: Exploring UFOs and the Near Death Experience, the small Grays came again for Betty in a saucer,
and for the first time took her into outer space, where the small craft docked with a huge cylindrical mother-ship.
This was the domain of the Elders, who apparently commanded the Grays in a symbiotic relationship. This journey
climaxed for Betty in another ecstatic experience of the One, though this time the events leading up to it were very
different.
Betty asked why she was here with the Elders, and they said:
"Don't you remember your blessing?"
She didn't know what they were talking about, and in response they used a machine to show her a scene from
earlier in her life. It was at a church service, and what happened was this:
Betty stood up and gave testimony and pledged to use her talents for the glory of God. This was probably not
unusual for this type of service. But then the minister suddenly began speaking in tongues. His wife jumped up, ran
down the aisle to Betty, put her hands on Betty's head, and began speaking in tongues herself. Then the minister
interpreted his wife's tongues; it was a message for Betty:
"You have given all that you have ... thou shalt be blessed above women ... "
This was evidently the scene as Betty remembered it from when she was younger. But now in the strange replay on
the mother-ship, she noticed some differences. Some of the people had a light around them - these included Betty,
the minister, and his wife. And two Elders were present in the room, unseen by the congregation. One of the Elders
stood behind the minister and put his hand on the man's shoulder - and this is when he began speaking in
tongues. Then the Elder whispered in the ear of the minister's wife, and this is when she jumped up and
administered "the blessing" to Betty. Evidently the whole scenario had been orchestrated by the Elders.
After being shown this scene from the past, Betty witnessed live what clearly seems to have been an act of ritual
magic performed by the Elders. Three of them stepped into a circle drawn on the floor, subdivided by straight lines
into six equal parts.
They touched their hands together, and then, as they concentrated, beams of light came out of their foreheads,
and formed a triangle. At length, in the center of this triangle, there appeared a ring of light, floating in the air.
Three more Elders stepped into the circle, and they all began chanting "Oh." Three more beams of light appeared,
forming a perfect hexagram. A larger circle of light formed around the heads of the Elders. Then this light-ring
moved upwards, shrank to the same size as the ring in the center, and floated down and interconnected with it,
forming a revolving spherical object which finally condensed into a beach ball-sized orb of lavender-purple light.
This was then taken and placed in a four-pronged stand which had obviously been designed specifically to hold
such spheres.
The term "Elders" is Betty's name for these beings. When on an earlier occasion she had asked them who they
were, they had answered that they are "the ambassadors of Oh, masters of rings, cycles, and orbs." Now, after
witnessing the creation of this magical orb, Betty asked an Elder:
"Who is Oh?"
He replied that Oh is "the internal, external, eternal presence."
The next thing that happened, to Betty's extreme startlement, was that the Elders induced an out-of-body
experience in her. This is similar to what happened in her experience at age 13, before she entered the Great Door
and saw the One. Now, on the mother-ship, as soon as she emerged in her subtle body, one of the Elders handed
her the orb of purple light, and another led her through a portal made of rippling waves of energy.
On the other side of the portal, Betty and the Elder seemed to be on earth, in a woods at night. Some hobos were
sleeping on the ground. One of them awakened and approached the two visitors; he glowed with light. The Elder
wore little rings of light on his fingers. He allowed the hobo to take some of them, and they turned into a single tiny
ball of light, which the man kept. Meanwhile, the larger orb in Betty's hands changed color momentarily, evidently in
resonance with the transaction. Every once in awhile, Betty's attention was drawn into the ball:
"Oh," she said, "it's just so beautiful! Something in it keeps on moving ... "
Now the Elder touched Betty's shoulder. There was a little explosion of white light, and then they were in a different
place: a hospital room, where a very old man lay in a bed, with a nurse keeping vigil beside him. And there was
more: two small entities which seemed to be made of darkness where tugging at the man, as if trying to pull his soul
out of his body - this was Betty's impression. But there was also present a light-being; this was a type of entity Betty
had encountered before in her experiences - it had no visible human features, but appeared as a bodily form made
of white light. This being was also tugging at the dying man; it was clearly a battle for his soul between these
opposing entities. The Elder resolved the conflict: he threw two tiny balls of light at the black entities, and they flew
away.
The Elder and Betty next transported to a woods again, where a small saucer and two of the Grays awaited them.
They went on board, and evidently flew up into the sky. Betty asked where they were going now, and the Elder
replied that they were going to see the One.
Betty had to give the purple orb to one of the Grays; she was very reluctant and sorrowful to give it up. The craft
came to a stop, and they emerged into a place filled with bright light. Above them was the Great Door, which was
the source of the light. The Elder touched one of the Grays on the shoulder and spoke to him, and he came along
with the Elder and Betty as they walked toward the Light. Their walk turned into a run, as they moved swiftly into the
pure radiance. Betty was overwhelmed with the ecstasy of the One, which she re-experienced on the hypnotist's
couch, and the several people in attendance were all profoundly moved by the visible effects of her transformation.
Betty, the Elder, and the Gray all turned into light-beings as they went into the One. Each was a different hue: the
Elder's light-body was pure white, the Gray alien's was light blue, and Betty's was golden.
Betty said: "Oh, there is such love ... Oh, there is such peace ... I'm just engulfed in light and blending into that
light. Oh! ... Oh, this is everything, everything, everything ... I cannot explain the wonder and beauty and love and
peace."
And then came a heartbroken cry as Betty realized that she would have to leave this beatific state of Oneness:
"Oh, I'm going to have to go back. I have to go back for others so that they too will see, will understand and know ..."
And Betty, the Elder, and the Gray emerged back out of the Light, turning back into their normal forms in the
process.
The Elder gave three of the tiny balls of light to Betty; then she was escorted into the saucer and taken home by
the Grays. She found her physical body sitting up on the side of her bed next to her sleeping husband, and
re-entered it. The experience had ended.
Raymond Fowler's follow-up book is entitled The Andreasson Affair Phase Two: The Continuing Investigation of a
Woman's Abduction by Alien Beings. He is also author of the books The Allagash Abductions: Undeniable Evidence
of Alien Intervention and UFO Testament : Anatomy of an Abductee.
(C) Copyright 1997 Joseph Kerrick
MilkyWave7@aol.com
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