The Betty Andreasson UFO Abduction Case

It began around 6:35 p.m., January 25, 1967, at the home of Betty and James Andreasson in South Ashburnham, Massachusetts. At the time, husband James was in a nearby hospital recovering from injuries sustained as a result of a recent automobile accident. So at this time both of Betty’s parents, Waino and Eva Aho, were at her home helping her to care for her seven children, ages 3 to 11, when the lights flickered and then went out. It was foggy outside and the sudden stillness seemed eerie. A strange pink light was shining into the house from the outside. Betty’s father looked out a pantry window and was some startled to observe strange “creatures” in the backyard that jumped “just like grasshoppers” and made him think of “Halloween freaks” who had a “funny kind of head-dress imitating a moon man.” Betty had been in the kitchen when this all initially happened, and as her frightened children ran to her she ushered them all into the livingroom for safety.

Then the next thing Betty knew she was waking up and it was the next morning. All seemed well, but there was a kind of disquieting sense within that something peculiar and out of the ordinary had transpired the night before. Her daughter Becky, 11, had remembered having a bad dream. Over the years that followed, Betty began to have periodic flashbacks it seemed of what appeared to be memories of alien humanoid beings and of a strange realm not of this earth.

In August 1975, Betty Andreasson wrote a letter about her disturbing memories to Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a noted astronomer who had in years past served as a consultant to the Air Force’s Project Blue Book. Hynek forwarded the letter along to the Mutual UFO Network’s Humanoid Study Group, several of whose members (Raymond Fowler, Jules Vaillancourt, and David Webb) in fact lived in Massachusetts. Utilizing the services of Harold J. Edelstein, director of the New England Institute of Hypnosis, several hypnotic sessions with Betty Andreasson were conducted in 1977.

Under hypnosis, Betty described how five humanoid beings, all about four foot tall, mysteriously entered the house through a closed front door. Everyone in the house, except for herself, was suddenly frozen in place, “as if time had stopped for them.” The strange beings had gray skin, oversized heads with large, slanted eyes, but only holes where their nose and ears would have been. Their mouths appear slitlike, and their hands were gloved, with only three digits visible. On the left shoulder of each entity there was some kind of emblem that resembled a bird with outstretched wings. Though their appearance was definitely alien, they seemed friendly and spoke with her telepathically. The leader, who was slightly taller than the others, identified himself as something sounding like “Quazgaa.”

Betty got the impression that they were hungry and so she went into the kitchen and proceeded to cook her alien guests something to eat. However, they informed her that was not their “kind of food.” They stated: “Our food is tried by fire, knowledge tried by fire. Do you have any food like that?” Betty, a Christian fundamentalist, then led her guests into the livingroom and produced a Bible. Quazgaa then handed Betty a blue book. Betty stated: “...the leader put the book [Bible] in his hand...And he waved his hand over it, and other Bibles appeared, thicker than the original. Then he passed it to those beside him and they took the books and each one was spontaneous. They somehow flipped it, page by page, and looked down. Each page was pure white, luminous white. And then they stopped­and I started to look in the little blue book.”

Next Betty was seemingly reliving a forgotten experience from age 11, and there were little “clay” men with her mother, and one of them was holding on to a “blue book.” As to the pages of the book, Betty remembered little, except that the first three pages were “luminous white” and that some of the other pages contained images that she would later encounter as her experiences unfolded.

Betty claimed that the alien’s told her that they had “come to help...because the world is trying to destroy itself.” They requested she “follow” them, and assured her that no harm would come to her or her family. Quazgaa instructed Betty to stand behind him, and then as if by “suction” she was pulled through the closed door and, as if weightless, floated outside to a landed disc-shaped craft. Quazgaa allegedly remarked, “See, you can trust me. Look over at the ship.” At this point, the lower portion of the craft became transparent and Betty could see “rotating crystalline globes” inside that reminded her of something she had seen in the “blue book.”

Next Betty and the aliens floated inside the craft. She was soon instructed to change into a white garment and next was floated onto a kind of examination table. Quazgaa waved a fan-shaped object over Betty and remarked, “You are not completely filled with the light.” Betty replied in protest, “I believe I am filled with the light!”

Next Quazgaa inserted a long silver needle up into Betty’s left nostril. She experienced intense pain as it seemingly penetrated into her head. Quazgaa placed a hand on Betty’s forehead, at which time the pain was alleviated. When the needle was removed, there was a “little ball with little prickly things on it.” She surmised that this tiny object had been inside her head and that Quazgaa had removed it. Then a needle was inserted into Betty’s navel, and again a hand placed to her forehead stopped the pain. Later when Betty was complaining to Quazgaa about the pain experienced during the examination, he allegedly replied: “I’m very sorry. It needed to be done.”

Then Betty was allowed to change back into her personal clothing and then she, Quazgaa and others floated into a corridor that resembled a subway tunnel. They entered a room with eight glass chairs. She was placed in one whereupon a transparent cover was secured over her. Cold seemed to envelope her entire body, and she felt as if moisture was being drawn out from it. Then she was placed and sealed in another chair. This time she had tubes placed in her nostrils as well as a tube inserted in her mouth as a gray liquid poured in and immersed her, during which she kept her eyes closed, as she had been instructed. During this procedure Betty was also instructed to swallow a sweet-tasting liquid that was delivered through the tube connected to her mouth. Betty also felt soothing “vibrations”pulsing through her body.

Eventually the vibrations ceased and the liquid drained out. When Betty opened her eyes she seemed to be somewhere else. Two beings with what resembled black hoods over their heads approached her. Removing her from the chair and placing her between them, they floated through a door into a dark tunnel. Betty stated that they were moving above a kind of track, and described how the walls were chipped (“like a coal tunnel”). At first the only illumination was that cast by the soft glow of the silvery suits worn by her escorts. Then the tunnel curved slightly upwards where there was a mirrorlike obstruction that contained an “infrared lights” that “vibrated.” They passed through it with no resistence and entered a realm where everything was illuminated with a red light. They passed between two square buildings on which strange creatures climbed “like monkeys.” The creatures had skinny arms and legs, and instead of a head had “two eyeballs” on the tips of stalks extending up from the tops of their bodies. Again the track curved upward and the trio passed through a circular entrance into a realm of green colors. She said that this place was “beautiful,” and described how they seemed to be gliding down a very narrow passage of land. Off to the side she saw a kind of haze and creatures that seem to resemble a combination of fish and bird. Then the track took them up and over a pyramid with a sphinxlike head on it. Then there was a bright light ahead of them that Betty discovered was composed of geometrically shaped crystalline prisms that reflected beautiful colors. They passed through the crystals and then approached another light beyond. When they reached it Betty was shocked to see a 15-foot-tall birdlike creature, resembling an eagle. From behind the bird rays of light grew in intensity, the temperature became unbearably hot, and then a fire erupted where the huge bird stood. The light had become blinding and Betty had to temporarily close her eyes. When she opened them the bird was gone. In its place was a pile of ashes. As she continued to watch, Betty noticed that the embers had cooled down and watched in awe as a glowing coal dimmed and became more gray, and then was transformed into a “big fat gray worm just lying there.”

After this, a booming voice asked Betty if she understood what she had seen and heard. She replied that she did not. Betty asked the voice if it was God. “I shall show you as time goes by,” it replied. Then she asked, “Are you my Lord Jesus,” to which the voice was said to have replied, “I love you. God is love, and I love you.” Betty then asked why she was there, and the voice responded, “Because I have chosen you.” The “voice” also added that Betty’s faith would be one day rewarded, at which point Betty made a very emotional declaration of her Christian faith, to which the voice stated, “That is why you have been chosen.” Additionally, it mentioned her fear and that “...you must release yourself of that fear through my son.” Betty then broke down sobbing and praising God, because she felt that the reference to “my son” indeed meant Jesus.

After this, Betty was taken back through the green and red realms, again seeing the same sights she had seen before. She was again placed in the chair that filled up with the liquid and again drank the sweet fluid. She noticed that her humanoid escorts seemed to treat her now with a “lot more sympathy.”

In a departing conversation with Quazgaa, Betty stated that he placed his hands on her shoulders and stared deeply into her eyes. “Child, you must forget for a while,” he said. Betty found his gaze hypnotic, and said that it seemed as though his eyes grew, one even turned white, and his head became beelike. Meanwhile, Quazgaa conveyed to Betty that he and companions loved humans and that they had come to help, and that the human race could be healed of their self-destructive impulses if they would study nature and seek spiritual knowledge. Then two smaller beings, each carrying a luminous globe, escorted Betty from the ship and back inside her home. Once inside the two beings, using the globes apparently as some kind of control devices, gathered the others who were still standing around the house like statues, and escorted them to their respective bedrooms. Then one of the beings approached Betty and informed her that she could keep the blue book for ten days. “There is writing that will be discerned only through the spirit,” this being stated. “And it’s the writing of light.” Then Betty was led upstairs, she crawled into her bed, and soon it was over.

Under hypnosis, Betty described the alien loaned book as containing some 40 pages of thin paper. She described some of the pages as luminous. There were numbers, symbols, and also some kind of “strange writing” in it. “It was a book of initiation of mysteries of everything that is,” Betty explained to investigators. “The written meaning to it cannot be written by our words.”

Raymond Fowler came to write three books on his investigations into the “Andreasson affair,” as it had become known. These books were The Andreasson Affair (1979), The Watchers: The Secret Design Behind UFO Abduction (1990), and The Watchers II: Exploring UFOs and the Near Death Experience (1995). Fowler’s investigations over the years uncovered details and apparent memories of a good number of earlier incidents going back to childhood, as well as ongoing encounters.

Recommended reference: The UFO Encyclopedia, The Phenomenon from the Beginning, Vol. 1: A- K, by Jerome Clark. 2nd Edition, 1998. Omnigraphics, Inc., Penobscot Building, Detroit, MI 48226. ISBN: 0-7808-0097-4.