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The Dragon in My Garage
Americans have been abducted, isn't it strange that not one lives
in such a home?
Some women, so the story goes, are impregnated by aliens or
alien sperm; the foetuses are then removed by the aliens. Vast
numbers of such cases are alleged. Isn't it odd that nothing
anomalous has ever been seen in routine sonograms of such
foetuses, or in amniocentesis, and that there has never been a
miscarriage producing an alien hybrid? Or are medical personnel
so doltish that they idly glance at the half-human, half-alien foetus
and move on to the next patient? An epidemic of missing foetuses
is something that would surely cause a stir among gynaecologists,
midwives, obstetrical nurses, especially in an age of heightened
feminist awareness. But not a single medical record has been
produced substantiating such claims.
Some UFOlogists consider it a telling point that women who
claim to have been sexually inactive wind up pregnant, and
attribute their state to alien impregnation. A goodly number
appear to be teenagers. Taking their stories at face value is not the
only option available to the serious investigator. Surely we can
understand why, in the anguish of an unwanted pregnancy, a
teenager living in a society flooded with accounts of alien visitation
might invent such a story. Here, too, there are possible
religious antecedents.
Some abductees say that tiny implants, perhaps metallic, were
inserted into their bodies, high up their nostrils, for example.
These implants, alien abduction therapists tell us, sometimes
accidentally fall out, but 'in all but a few of the cases the artefact
has been lost or discarded'. These abductees seem stupefyingly
incurious. A strange object, possibly a transmitter sending telemetered
data about the state of your body to an alien spaceship
somewhere above the Earth, drops out of your nose; you idly
examine it and then throw it in the garbage. Something like this is
true, we are told, of the majority of abduction cases.
A few such 'implants' have been produced and examined by
experts. None has been confirmed as of unearthly manufacture.
No components are made of unusual isotopes, despite the fact that
other stars and other worlds are known to be constituted of
different isotopic proportions from the Earth. There are no metals
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