From: John Velez <johnvelez.aic@verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 02:06:32 -0500
Fwd Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 08:24:27 -0500
Subject: Question About Missing Time


Hello All,

I had always associated the term 'missing time' with the memory
blackouts that heavy-drinking alcoholics or drug addicts often
report. What has happened to me and to many others is 'something
else' however. The 'missing time' that I refer to is not
related/correlated, to a state of intoxication.

What started me thinking about this was an old video interview
with a British police officer (Alan Godfrey) who reported being
abducted while on duty. He was driving in his patrol car when he
encountered a 'UFO' in the middle of the road. He reports that
as he was observing the object he grabbed a pad and began to
make a pencil sketch. He says that at one point he looked down
at the pad and suddenly, without any sensation of time having
passed, found himself driving along a stretch of road that was
past the point he had encountered the UFO. He hit the brakes and
looked around but the UFO was nowhere to be seen.

In the late 70's while walking home from a friends house I
encountered a UFO (in uncomfortably close proximity to me) and
after a few seconds of observation, I started to run like hell
away from it. When I got about 15 feet from my front door
(again) without _any_ sense of time having passed, I found
myself sitting bolt upright in my bed and the room flooded with
morning light.

One second it's night-time and I'm running for dear life
(half-out of my wits with fear) and the very next second (no
gaps) I'm sitting up in bed and it's morning. Hours of 'missing
time.'

This kind of 'missing time', the kind that I experienced and
that Godfrey and many others have reported, is entirely
different from the 'missing time' that most of us are familiar
with. (The 'alcoholic blackout' kind.)

Does anybody know if the UFO/abduction kind of missing time has
ever been reported under 'other' circumstances? According to my
own admittedly limited knowledge, other than in abduction
reports, I have never before heard of 'this kind' of missing
time.

I honestly think that the phenomena of missing time as I
described it above is unique to UFO abduction reports. Does
anyone have information to the contrary? I'm curious if the kind
of missing time I'm talking about _is_ in fact, unique to
abduction reports.

Thank you in advance for any info/insight you may be able to
provide.


Regards to all,

John Velez