The Andreasson Affair (12 page)

Betty:
No, there was no thrust. We just stopped—slowly stopped, and that was it. There was no—you know, fast stop.

Fred:
Very smooth?

Betty:
Yeah.

Their stop was brief, and soon they were on the move again. Betty was fascinated as she gazed down upon a building that reminded her of a pyramid. To its apex a sculptured head was affixed.

Betty:
I'm seeing a pyramid. But this pyramid is a different kind of a pyramid—it has one big flat side and the others indent, sort of. We are going over it, high in the sky.

In a later debriefing, Jules Vaillancourt elicited from her a more complete description.

Jules:
Getting back to those pyramids you mentioned—

Betty:
One
pyramid. With a white edge.

Jules:
Where was the white edge? Was it on all three edges?

Betty:
It was like a—okay, let's see if I can explain this. You take a star. You know, if you had a regular star, like this, right? Well, it had the edges, which were just like a star but it was cut off right in the middle, the center, so it was straight across. And then you just had the star.

Jules:
You mean like a painted white edge or a source of illumination?

Betty:
It was white, going down the whole edge.

Ray:
Like if you took a knife and cut off the sharp edge and made it a flat edge all the way down and painted it white?

Betty:
Yes, and then there was the head on the very top. There was no white there. It was just stopped at a certain section, and here was the big head on top—it still came to a point.

Ray:
What was the head? Could you see?

Betty:
It looked sort of like an Egyptian head, and it had like—you know, how they wear those hats? It was just a regular head. It wasn't fat like the Sphinx—the Sphinx has a big fat face. This had 11 cheeks, but it looked sort of feminine, yet male.

Figure 31:
Betty's view of the Green Realm. June 19
.

Jules:
Do you think that you could draw a sketch of it now?

Betty:
Not up close. I couldn't see the features that good. I could try. I'll attempt it, to get it down, but it was feminine-male. It was a combination of the two. [See
Figure 31
.]

I later asked Betty for some clarification on one point.

Ray:
You say you were flying
over
this pyramid. What were you in? You said you were looking down. Have you been up in an airplane before? Was it like being up in an airplane?

Betty:
It wasn't. No. That
thing
just went up into the air, and we just were going over it and able to look down.

Joseph:
This
thing
that you were talking about. Was it like a bus?

Betty:
No.… We're just standing up, that's all. It's just on this thing that we're standing on as we're going along.

Betty was talking about the same black track that transported them through the tunnel.

Joseph:
And whatever that is, does it have any constraints? It just seems like you are out in the open, but that
track
is what is guiding you?

Betty:
That's right.

Ray:
Did you feel dizzy? Like you were going to fall off this thing at any time?

Betty:
I felt dizzy a couple of times, yes, but I didn't feel as if I were going to fall off.

Jules:
Were you breathing normally? I mean, you didn't have any kind of tubes or anything?

Betty:
No, I was breathing normally.

Joseph:
But you could see things below you as well as above you and to the side?

Betty:
Yes, way below.

Ray:
Did you see a horizon, like you were up in a…?

Betty:
No, it was all fog and mist.

In her original description, of course, Betty had cited other buildings as well.

Betty:
By that pyramid there's like a—I don't know if you would call them bridges or walkways, or what they are. And there's water there.

Jules Vaillancourt reminded Betty of this during debriefing.

Jules:
Getting back to the city that you could see at a distance. Were you close enough to see any kind of beings? Any movement? How did you know it was a city?

Betty:
It was definitely a city.

Jules:
Were there high buildings?

Betty:
There were, but they were so—they looked like, you know, a lot like science fiction. Big cities with all these different bridges all around.…

Jules:
Could you see activity?

Betty:
No, I don't remember seeing activity. It was too far away. That was way over to the side there, way over to the side. The pyramid was closer than that. The city was way over to the side. There was a horizon because that was on the horizon and the sky was in back of it, the green sky.

Fred:
Was there anything up in the sky? A sun?

Betty:
No.

Harold:
Was it artificially lit?

Betty:
No.

Harold:
Was there a dome?

Betty:
Yes, there were domes.

Harold:
Was there a large dome that contained this whole area that you were in?

Betty:
No, there were many domes.

Ray:
Where did you see these domes? Overhead?

Betty:
No, off to the side. There were domes in the city.

Joseph:
Betty, if you looked up, what was overhead?

Betty:
Just endlessness of that green.

Betty's journey continued, however.

Betty:
“Where are we going?” My head is so heavy. It feels funny. Still going up, and up—

Directly ahead of them, a bright light source came into view. It reflected off beautiful crystalline structures like giant prisms. Betty gazed in awe at the changing colors. The stark beauty of it all was frightening. (See
Figure 32
.)

Betty:
And I'm coming before a bright light—crystals, bright, bright light, and clear crystals that have rainbows all in it. It is all crystal all around—all forms of crystal. I don't know what it is. I'm afraid! I want to go back! And the bright light up ahead. [
Sigh
] I want to go back. [
Sigh
] They are taking me through these crystals. That bright light is up ahead.… Oh-h-h-h-h, that bright light. We are stopping and the two are getting off the thing. And I'm just there, before the light.

Figure 32:
June 26
.

A vague form in front of the light slowly became more distinct. Astonished, Betty observed a huge bird standing directly in front of the dazzling light source. It was too big to be real, and yet it looked as if it were alive.

Betty:
I'm seeing something like a large bird—huge, huge bird. It is standing with its wings and the light in back of it.

As they approached the birdlike apparition, the temperature became unbearably hot!

Betty:
Whew! It is hot. I'm so hot. [
Panting
] I'm so hot. I feel like I'm burning, I'm so hot!

In the chair, Betty's body began to writhe in agony. The hypnotist immediately came to her rescue.

Harold:
Just relax. I'm bringing you back to the present time, but this thought will remain in your mind where you have left off. And the next time that we conduct this, you will go to this state of mind.

Betty was allowed to recuperate. While she rested, we investigators hurriedly scanned our notes to frame questions for the debriefing period that began shortly thereafter.

Fred:
Do you think that the ship was somehow connected to those places—through some other dimension, or something like that? I'm putting words in your mouth.

Betty:
I think I went for a trip.

Fred:
In the ship, do you think?

Betty:
In the ship. I think I was kept in those glass chairs while we were going.

Fred:
Okay, that's when you think the trip occurred?

Betty:
Yes.

Fred:
Do you think the glass chairs were in the ship?

Betty:
Yes.

Fred:
Okay, and that's when you think the voyage occurred. And then, when you reached the destination, you connected with this red and green place?

Betty:
Yeah. When we reached the destination, we went through the black tunnel.

Fred:
Still in the ship?

Betty:
No, outside of the ship. There were…black tunnels.

Jules:
Did they seem very long?

Betty:
Yes, they seemed long.

Joseph:
Did you have anything over you at that time? Your head felt heavy.

Betty:
It felt like pressure or something on my head. My head was hurting and heavy from it, whatever it was. Even now, my head feels heavy from it.

Jules:
Is this when the pear-head beings had the hoods on? And you didn't?

Betty:
Yes, they had those black hoods. I didn't.

Joseph:
Betty, when you said they put the—something dark over their heads—was that—do you think that was for protection?

Betty:
I think so. That red, to me, that red seemed—they seemed worried about the red atmosphere. Because when they got into the green, they took those hoods off their heads.

Ray:
What did they do with the hoods when they took them off?

Betty:
We were out of the red atmosphere, and I don't know if they laid them to the side or if they kept them on their person.

Harold:
Were these, ah, lemurs—were they on one side of the red atmosphere, or were they intermingled in the same area with the beings without the hoods?

Betty:
No, they were just in one area.

Harold:
There was nothing in the red place. The green place—was there foliage in the green place?

Betty:
Yes. When we went into the green, there was vegetation. There was. I can't explain it.

I glanced at my watch. The debriefing period was about over. (Many of our debriefing questions and Betty's answers have, of course, been interpolated into the foregoing narrative.) Hastily we checked our notes for other questions that we had planned to ask Betty.

Ray:
You seemed to be somehow attached to the track.… Do you think you left this earth and went to another world, or was this all someplace on this earth?

Betty:
Not on top of this earth. I could have been inside the earth, but I went someplace else other than the earth.

Fred:
You don't know whether it was another world then, or whether it was part of this earth?

Betty:
Are you talking about another dimension?

Fred:
No. I'm saying, did you leave this earth and go through space—to another planet? Or did this all happen on this earth?

Betty:
I left this earth, yes, I left this earth. I believe we were in space, and somehow I believe we were in the center of the earth. Now how can you be in both?

Harold:
It may be that this “other earth” that you went to, that the outside of it is like the shell, the housing. Everything that goes on, goes on within—like a large garage. The door opens and you can go in, and then you can leave it.