Alien Intervention? Kerry's recurring craft experience and the grey clawed hand

What was reported

Kerry describes a recurring experience that begins with anaesthetic-like sleepiness and pins and needles as she lies on her pillow. She finds herself in a craft with large curved portholes and a flat bottom flying over the sea towards mountains, feels two hands on her shoulders and cannot move. She is turned and led down a passage of polished silver metal to a door that slides open on a room walled with switches and lights, where a screen runs through pictures of bones and reproductive organs. Turning her head she sees a grey hand with four long spindly claws on her shoulder holding a very long syringe; she shouts no, feels a prick in her left arm and everything vanishes. Her husband noticed black under her eyes and scuffed skin; she felt drugged, wept all morning, her upper arm was sore and a puffed injection-like mark remained. Before visits she smells hot used oil, like an alien body.

What Hind made of it

Hind finds the pre-visit cooking-oil smell impressive and reminiscent of Varginha, and the paralysis under a hand on the shoulder and the four-fingered claw typical of abduction reports, but weighs whether Kerry's heavy reading shaped her account; hypnosis, allowed in Zimbabwe only on a doctor's prescription, may bring a realistic conclusion.

Explanation offered
Dreams influenced by accumulated UAP reading

In their words

• No, this was not a dream. This was real.

• It's a sort of used oil smell. It smells like a body, but an Alien body.

• The factor which is impressive, is the smell of cooking oil prior to the arrival of the visitors.

Cross references

• Varginha case, UFO Afrinews No 15
• Case No 147 earlier experiences
• Kalahari crash TV documentary

Connected

• Alien Intervention? Coloured lights over the farm near Cape TownCase fileSame witness

  Kerry (Case 147): farm lights between Sept 1998 and Mar 1999, then recurring abduction-type dreams.

• Alien Intervention? The Gray in the kitchen and the operating room in a truckCase fileSame witness

  Same witness; Hind explicitly warns about suggestive interviewing of a witness 'in an uncertain state'.

• Trudie's Story: levitation across the floor, the husband's night terror and paired thigh bruisesCase fileSame behaviour

  Abduction template (paralysis or levitation, body marks, medical imagery): Trudie 1997-98, Kerry 1999. Both Puxley, both post-Hopkins/Jacobs; Hind cross-references those books for Trudie and worries that Kerry's heavy reading shaped her account.

Source

Cynthia Hind, UFO Afrinews No 20 (July 1999), spread 09-11

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