An addition to Case No 50: Phyllis and Diane named

What was reported

The mother and married daughter of Case No 50, reported anonymously in September 1993, have since told their story to Shirley MacLaine and John Mack and are now named Phyllis and Diane. Their recall returned over months without hypnosis, yet Hind lists thirteen matches with American abduction reports: no memory of leaving the vehicle, a white mist on entering the craft, a door sealing without trace, mind reading, a sing-song voice, bodily experiments, skin samples, familiar-looking aliens with no fingernails or hair, pupils turning from horizontal to vertical, foreknowledge of their medical problems, predictions, and promised returns that never came. At a recent Johannesburg meeting Phyllis added that the beings came from Tyrone, a planet near the Pleiades, she has visited; its streets have moving walkways; they asked leave to operate on Diane. Diane's haemolytic jaundice has not recurred.

What Hind made of it

Hind, who avoided hypnosis for lack of a qualified practitioner, is struck that abductees far from the American scene reproduce its scenario, and asks whether it is fantasy, and if so where the imagery comes from, or racial memory worth studying anyway.

Explanation offered
Fantasy or racial memory raised as questions; Hilary Evans's psychical-research framing of abductions

In their words

• I keep on having further recall, but not Diane.

• We did not use hypnosis as we knew of no-one sufficiently qualified in this field

• If this is fantasy, then from where does the imagery emanate?

Cross references

• Case No 50, UFO Afrinews No 8 September 1993
• UFO Afrinews No 10 (Diane's jaundice)
• Dark White by Jim Schnabel, reviewed by Hilary Evans, JSPR Vol 60 No 836 July 1994
• John Mack visit, November 1994

Connected

• South African Abduction (Johannesburg 1988): Pat and Debra updateCase fileNamed person

  Pat and Debra become Phyllis and Diane after telling Shirley MacLaine and John Mack; Hind's list of thirteen matches with American reports is compiled here.

• Update: Johannesburg abduction of Phyllis and DianeCase fileHind follow-up

  Adds only the track-suit top on back to front; Hind now calls it the best of very few African abduction cases.

• The Unexplained: From Laura (living in UK), BenoniCase fileSame behaviour

  Pleiades named as origin (Tyrone near the Pleiades; Laura's visitors). Hind cross-references Phyllis and Diane in Laura's case and objects that aliens are usually evasive about origin.

• Brief Encounters: June B.'s lifelong presences and the robed figureCase fileNamed person

  Dr John Mack's November 1994 Johannesburg visit: Phyllis and Diane told him their story; June B. says his acceptance of her account on Radio 702 meant a great deal.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 11 (Feb. 1995), spread 04, 12, 22

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