At 1:15 a.m.
August 13, 1975, Air
Force Sergeant Charles L. Moody in the
desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, to observe a meteor shower,
allegedly
observed more than he had bargained for. A silver glowing object
separated itself from the brilliant flashes far above and began to
descend to the desert floor. At a height of twenty feet or so, the UFO approximately
the size of a city bus and now emitting a high pitched whine began to
move in his direction. Frightened he desperately tried to start his car, giving up after repeated attempts produced no response. The strange craft finally stopped a few feet from the hapless Moody and hovered menacingly, shadowy figures vaguely visible through a rectangular widow. Frozen with fear the serviceman felt a numbness steal through his body followed by a sense of lethargy.
The next thing he remembered was the object rising back into the heavens and disappearing.
Terrified Moody frantically twisted the ignition key all the while pumping the gas, this time the automobile responded and with a roar the engine exploded into life. Skidding and sliding the car grabbed for traction and within minutes was hurtling down the desert highway in the direction of home. Upon arrival he was astonished to find it was 3 a.m., an hour and a half was missing.
Over the following few days physical complaints began to manifest themselves, lower back pain and a lower body rash. His physician believing it to be psychosomatic, possibly stress related, advised him to try self hypnosis/hypnotic regression as an aid in remembering the missing time.
Evidently the advice met with some success, Moody remembering the events that followed the UFO's descent and the numbness and lethargy that followed its approach.
Two beings about six feet in height had approached his car and rendered him unconscious, when he awoke he was inside the craft, on his back and paralyzed; standing next to him was an alien