From: titan@sys6626.bison.mb.ca (Titanium Knight)
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Subject: * Tour of a UFO
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File: omni-7.art
 
 
Filename: Omni-7.Art 
Type    : Article
Author  : Paul McCarthy
Date    : 00/00/00
Desc.   : Inside a UFO
 
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The  following article was originally published in the science magazine 
OMNI.    It is reproduced here exactly as it appeared in  its  original 
form, without so much as a misplaced comma, period, or question mark. -
 
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>From "OMNI"--December 1990 
 
 
                             TOUR OF A UFO
                            by Paul McCarthy
 
 
  Ever wonder what an alien craft might look like inside? If the if the 
information  collected  by Temple University historian David Jacobs  is 
correct,   it may now be possible to know.  After interviewing 50   UFO 
abductees who say they have been whisked off some 275 times, Jacobs has 
pieced together a picture of what's under the dome. 
    
  It's incomplete, says Jacobs,  because the atmosphere aboard a UFO is 
all  business and no one is offered a guided tour.  Abductees are there 
for a physical exam, he says, and they only see as much of the craft as 
is neccessary to get the job done.  That's why they invariably describe 
spartan,  efficient,  and sterile surroundings with virtually no luxury 
features at all. 
    
  These  are clinical-looking rooms with domed ceilings,   skylightlike 
windows,  and gray or white walls, Jacobs explains.  And the aliens are 
good housekeepers.  "It is clean and neat. We have had some cases where 
people vomited and it was cleaned up immediately." 
    
  Despite these broad similarities, Jacobs adds, there are at least two 
types  of craft,  "with the typical large UFO checking in at about  two 
hundred  feet in diameter and its smaller cousin at  about  thirty-five 
feet.  If the craft is on the ground,  abductees climb a staircase that 
is  lowered from the object.  But if the vessel is hovering,  they  are 
floated up." 
    
  Accidental tourists find themselves in a hallway with metallic  walls 
that are usually bare but sometimes contain a floor-to-ceiling  window. 
Usually they are ushered along a curved corrider,  which gives them the 
feeling  that  they  are  walking around the  perimeter  of  the  ship, 
although no one makes a complete loop, says Jacobs. Eventually they are 
led  to  the vessel's center,  the "medical arena,"   where  unpleasant 
physical examinations occur. 
  
  Virtually  all  medical zones are illuminated by a  mysterious  light 
source  that  abductees  cannot locate,  Jacobs says.   But  they  have 
pinpointed  the  position of voluminous medical equipment--attached  to 
walls  and  ceilings,   in drawers,  or on rolling carts.  As  for  the 
examination table,  Jacobs says,  it's generally "hard with very little 
give," and contains lighted, armlike devices snaking up from its sides. 
  
  In many cases,  Jacobs notes,  the examination room resembles the hub 
of  a  wheel.  The spokes,  or hallways,  lead from the  hub  to  other 
chambers,   revealed  only  to  some abductees after  the  exam.   Also 
circular,   with  domed ceilings,  white or gray walls,   and  built-in 
benches, some of these seem to be "visiting rooms" in which human-alien 
hybrid babies are touched, held, or viewed. 
    
  Finally,   abductees  may  pass through a control  room  that  sounds 
nothing like the bridge of the starship ENTERPRISE.  There is a console 
with lights, an unpadded seat, and no windows. 
    
  While all this is fascinating,  equally interesting is what abductees 
don't report,  Jacobs says.  His witnesses are remarkably consistent in 
not  describing  living areas and other details expected to pop  up  in 
fabricated  or  imagined accounts.  "Of course,"  Jacobs  says,   "that 
doesn't mean they don't exist in other parts of the UFO." 
    
  Ever wonder what an alien craft might look like inside? If the if the 
information  collected by Temple University historian David  Jacobs  is 
correct,   it may now be possible to know.  After interviewing 50   UFO 
abductees who say they have been whisked off some 275 times, Jacobs has 
pieced together a picture of what's under the dome. 
    
  It's incomplete, says Jacobs,  because the atmosphere aboard a UFO is 
all  business and no one is offered a guided tour.  Abductees are there 
for a physical exam, he says, and they only see as much of the craft as 
is neccessary to get the job done.  That's why they invariably describe 
spartan,  efficient,  and sterile surroundings with virtually no luxury 
features at all. 
    
  These  are clinical-looking rooms with domed ceilings,   skylightlike 
windows,  and gray or white walls, Jacobs explains.  And the aliens are 
good housekeepers.  "It is clean and neat. We have had some cases where 
people vomited and it was cleaned up immediately." 
   
  Despite these broad similarities, Jacobs adds, there are at least two 
types  of craft,  "with the typical large UFO checking in at about  two 
hundred  feet in diameter and its smaller cousin at  about  thirty-five 
feet.  If the craft is on the ground,  abductees climb a staircase that 
is  lowered from the object.  But if the vessel is hovering,  they  are 
floated up." 
    
  Accidental  tourists find themselves in a hallway with metallic walls 
that  are usually bare but sometimes contain a floor-to-ceiling window. 
Usually they are ushered along a curved corrider,  which gives them the 
feeling  that  they  are  walking around the  perimeter  of  the  ship, 
although no one makes a complete loop, says Jacobs. Eventually they are 
led  to  the vessel's center,  the "medical arena,"   where  unpleasant 
physical examinations occur. 
    
  Virtually  all  medical zones are illuminated by a  mysterious  light 
source  that  abductees  cannot locate,  Jacobs says.   But  they  have 
pinpointed  the position of voluminous medical  equipment--attached  to 
walls  and  ceilings,  in drawers,  or on rolling carts.   As  for  the 
examination table,  Jacobs says,  it's generally "hard with very little 
give," and contains lighted, armlike devices snaking up from its sides. 
  
  In many cases,  Jacobs notes,  the examination room resembles the hub 
of  a  wheel.   The spokes,  or hallways,  lead from the hub  to  other 
chambers,   revealed  only  to some abductees  after  the  exam.   Also 
circular,   with  domed ceilings,  white or gray walls,   and  built-in 
benches, some of these seem to be "visiting rooms" in which human-alien 
hybrid babies are touched, held, or viewed. 
  
  Finally,   abductees  may  pass through a control  room  that  sounds 
nothing like the bridge of the starship ENTERPRISE.  There is a console 
with lights, an unpadded seat, and no windows. 
  
  While all this is fascinating,  equally interesting is what abductees 
don't report,  Jacobs says.  His witnesses are remarkably consistent in 
not  describing  living areas and other details expected to pop  up  in 
fabricated  or  imagined accounts.  "Of course,"  Jacobs  says,   "that 
doesn't mean they don't exist in other parts of the UFO." 
 
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Titan|um Knight 
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