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Cynthia later described him as best resembling a ' ' Greek ath足 lete . " A t this point i n the procedings the entity opened his arms
wide like someone playing charades and miming a TV screen.
Subsequently images appeared in thin air within the space that
he had marked out. These showed to Cynthia scenes from Gharnasvarn. The "TV images"
also depicted UFOs and
atomic explosions. From the notes about this event written by Dr. Dale in early
1 958, one is left with the realization that Cynthia is describing a moving three-dimensional image or bologram. But there is a problem. Cynthia cannot have seen one of these. Indeed holograms had not been invented when the psychologist penned this report, and it was some years before a working prototype was demonstrated. When the being finally disappeared (fading away just as he arrived), Cynthia noted that he had been standing on a piece of discarded newspaper. This had a scorch mark upon it. Ac足 cording to John Dale it resembled a lightning strike or small electrical discharge.
RETU R N VISIT I t i s easy t o see from this account why the case is presented by UFOlogists as an alien contact. When it is discussed by them this first encounter from November 1 957 is usually all that they report. By itself it seems to have little relevance to MIB cases. However, it cannot be taken by itself, for this was only one of eight visits that Cynthia Appleton was to receive from this entity. On the second encounter, which happened on 7 January
1 958, the man arrived in this same pyrotechnical fashion足 literally appearing in her living room. This time he had no helmet and wore blond hair to shoulder length. With him was a similar colleague with shorter, curlier hair. On this occasion more was explained about her " special brainwaves " which facilitated the contact. Cynthia was also advised that their ap-