Sally: "I was just clinging to any little piece, little scrap of life. Any kind of shelter, if I could hide in a corner, if I could get away from them somehow. I didn't want to know what they were about, what they were going to do, what they wanted to do with me — I just wanted out. Get me home. That's it. I make no claims to being brave. I was not brave. I said often that I felt like Fay Wray. I was screaming and passing out. I don't care about evolution, I don't care about your spaceships, I don't care about anything. just let me out of here. Of course there were times when I was less frightened and I looked around. But when they were there, no. Most of the time I was angry or terrified. That was it."

Fred: "I still am surprised, despite all the books I've read, I find more out here at this group that makes sense to me personally than I do from any books."

Whitley: "Sam, you're just sitting over there—"

Sam: "My experience happened to me a couple of years ago. I guess it isn't much different than anybody else's." (He had a particularly startling experience, especially for a scientist.) "I find it's easier to sit here and talk to other people about it and listen to other people's experiences than to sit in a quiet corner and get into my mind, and what happened.

It's very difficult, almost impossible, for me to close my eyes and go through the experience.

I can't do it.

Sally: "It's too scary. It's much too scary alone. I did a self-hypnosis thing actually, I —"

Fred: "My God, you've got guts!"

Sally "Well, I did. I went to sleep. I started to relive the actual abduction. I was in my apartment building going up the stairs. Then I got past a certain point and I said, 'Oh, no, this is too real.' 'Cause I was actually remembering more details than I had under the actual hypnosis. I said, 'Oh, no, this is not going to be able to work.' I stopped."

Sam: "When I get to thinking about it alone, by myself, I get a little angry, and I begin to think, Who the hell do they think they are that they can jest do what they want to us, as though we're nothing. And that really disturbs me, so I turn it off, and I don't want to look at my own experience, and I don't even want to think about what's happened to others, because that disturbs me, too."

Budd: "Mark, if you have anything you'd like to say at this juncture. You've gone up and down about your feelings about it and how real it was. Curious to hear you talk about that."