Carl Nally and Dermot Butler
It is well documented that human beings can display extrasensory abilities. Even though the people who demonstrate these abilities under controlled conditions are few, the fact is that they can be demonstrated. Did we have these extrasensory abilities in our distant past, and have we since lost the knowledge to hone these abilities in our materialistic world?
Or is it that such psychic abilities are a part of our transition into a new age of communication and consciousness? Abductees have experienced extrasensory abilities such as precognition, telepathy, astral projection and psychokinesis.
One young woman told the story of her abduction and the transforming effect it had on her life, as she became involved in areas which previously had been of no interest to her. These interests then developed into psychic events and led to her becoming a spiritual healer. In 1990, a witness support group was set up by British researcher Ken Phillips. Many of its abductees had developed interests in psychic matters and had discovered abilities in this area.
Another young female abductee believed that there was a definite link between her extrasensory powers and her abduction experiences. She said that her abilities peaked immediately after an abduction and then dropped off to her ‘normal’ levels a while later. She also said that this might be one of the main factors behind her experiences, serving perhaps to recharge her psychic senses in some way.
An underlying characteristic of abduction cases, at least those we have come across in UPRI, is that often the abductee or experiencer has had a previous history of paranormal experiences in their lives, frequently long before they become aware of their abduction experience(s). Our files include reports of poltergeist activity, for example, in the homes of UFO witnesses.
In the summer of 2003, we interviewed at great length a young Dublin woman who ‘took months’, in her words, to work up the courage to contact us to tell us of her experiences. We ended up interviewing her for several hours, and her unfolding story was extremely interesting. She lived in the Kilbarrack area of north Dublin, not far from the well-known Saint Anne’s Park. She clearly remembered, as a very young child, venturing out to her back garden to sit on her swing. She sat down – and stared up at the stars in awe. She couldn’t remember why she had felt so full of wonder as she gazed up at the sky.
Apart from that one night, her head was filled with all of the things that would preoccupy any normal eight-year-old child. As we interviewed her, she began looking back at her childhood, and realised that ‘unusual things’ began to happen after that night on the swing. She began to have repeated sightings of a ‘man’ in and around her home. He looked normal, but he never spoke to her. On one occasion, several years later, when she was in her teens, she had several friends visiting her house. She saw the mysterious figure walking into a room and followed him in to confront him. When she entered the room, he had disappeared. He hadn’t passed her by at the door, and the room’s only window was locked.
As a lively teenager, she had a bizarre experience in Saint Anne’s Park one evening while out with a friend. She was familiar with local tales of ‘The White Lady’ appearing to people in the park, but such ghostly tales didn’t faze her. On this bright summer’s evening, her friend suddenly became agitated at what they both thought was the White Lady. It was a large white shape, hovering over some trees a short distance away. Panic set in, and they both ran for home.
A bright light suddenly overwhelmed them. Her home was perhaps fifteen minutes away, but they uncannily found themselves running out through the park gates – in the pitch dark. She couldn’t explain to her parents how it had taken her so long to get home. A journey of about fifteen minutes on foot had now taken one and a half hours. This is the phenomenon of time distortion, or missing time. So, what had happened to her and her friend? Where did they disappear to for well over an hour?
In telling us of her experience, she had always assumed that the ‘White Lady’ was what they had seen, and that it was indeed a ghost. To her mind, for many years, the spectre had somehow caused this mysterious time lapse. The possibility of abduction hadn’t entered her head, as it simply wasn’t in her vocabulary as a teenager. If this witness lapsed into an altered state of consciousness in the park, then what happened to her friend at the same instant? Was this a case of a multiple abduction?
In another incident that involved two people, neither of them, unlike the Saint Anne’s Park event, was in a state of fear or panic as it occurred. The witnesses didn’t know anything was amiss until immediately afterwards. The event occurred one weekend in the spring of 1990, in Waterford City. Gary Hewson (a pseudonym) and his girlfriend, who were students attending a local college at the time, had planned to travel home to Dublin for a holiday. Having had an early night on the Friday, with no alcohol or drugs consumed, Hewson stated that he had set two alarm clocks for 9 a.m. on Saturday.
The early start would give them plenty of time to prepare and eat breakfast, pack some belongings and clothes, and withdraw some cash from a nearby ATM. The bank machine could be reached in thirty seconds or so on foot, as it was just around the corner from their front door. Getting up early would also give them time to make the twenty-minute walk to the local train station, buy their tickets and queue for the train to Dublin.
While getting ready the next morning, they were also keeping one eye on the time. With the alarm clocks and their wristwatches all showing 10:20 a.m., they set off for the quick stroll to the ATM. When they got there, the time display on their watches now showed the time as being a couple of minutes to midday. In the space of under a minute, over one and a half hours of time had somehow disappeared.
As they returned to their flat to collect their luggage, they stared at each other in utter confusion. Both of the alarm clocks also now indicated that it was just twelve o’clock. They had assumed that these clocks would indicate the ‘correct’ time, and that their watches had somehow malfunctioned. They hadn’t. It was definitely midday. They had missed their train, and their experience had become yet another case of missing time. Gary Hewson indicated to us that is was very definitely not a case of the clocks going forward by one hour to mark the start of summertime. Even if he was mistaken on this point, any such change would have taken place in the early hours of Sunday morning, not Saturday. Also, the time indicated on their alarm clocks and watches, whether it was correct or not, still should not have jumped forward to that
extent. It should be noted that no one else had access to their flat in their absence.
Another ‘missing time’ case from the UPRI files involved Linda Best, a resident of Balbriggan, north County Dublin. She told us of a very strange experience she had one night, which involved the sighting of a triangular UFO and time distortion. She provided us with a comprehensive statement about what she experienced, and also a diagram of the object she saw. The events that happened that night – those she could recall – stayed with her for over a decade, until her untimely death in 2004.
One morning at exactly 1:16 a.m., she was indulging in her hobby of amateur astronomy by observing the stars through her bedroom window – she told us that she routinely did this whenever the weather permitted. Suddenly, she noticed two ‘moving stars’ approaching from the north. They came to a stop some distance away, and hovered.
She felt compelled to investigate further, and ran downstairs and out to her front garden. By now, the ‘stars’ were directly over her neighbour’s garden, and a structure between the two became visible. It was an upright, triangular object, which had four horizontal panels across it, but it had no sign of any cockpit windows, etc. Down one side it had a pale yellow strip of light. The ‘stars’ were positioned at two corners of the triangle, with the third corner pointing skywards.
Linda wasn’t frightened, just fascinated. It moved towards the south, and then to the southwest, and then disappeared from view. She returned upstairs, perplexed, and saw that the time displayed by her bedside clock was still showing 1:16 a.m. How could this have happened? According to her statement and interviews, she had spent ‘ten to fifteen minutes’ looking up at the silent, hovering object, but time simply had not moved on.
Completely confused, she telephoned Dublin’s Dunsink Observatory the next morning, to be told that it had received other calls about unidentified flying objects having been observed the night before. However, Dunsink had absolutely no explanation for what the witnessed phenomena were.
Linda Best’s experience occurred in the early hours of 31 March 1993. It happened on the same date and within a few minutes of mass sightings that had occurred in Ireland and Britain. During the sightings Garda (police) officers in Askeaton, County Limerick, and helicopter-borne Irish military personnel filed UFO reports. Their experiences were described in Issue 2 of UFO Truth.
Carl Nally and Dermot Butler upri98@gmail.com
Authors, Conspiracy of Silence: UFOs in Ireland : found here.
States of Denial: The Tuskar Rock Incident and Other Mysteries : found here.
Circle of Deceit: A Terrifying Alien Agenda in Ireland and Beyond : found here.
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