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this face as carefully as I could. I could see it in amazing detail, moving
closer and then farther back, observing fine points such as the faint dusting
of white, powdery fuzz that seemed to cover its cheeks and forehead, making it
feel, I would imagine, to the touch ,as smooth as the downy head of a baby.
The nose was not very prominent, but the end seemed sensitive, almost like the
end of a finger.
As I watched, the image moved its nose, revealing that this was obviously a
sensitive organ both of touch and smell. The mouth was not straight, but
rather one of those rich and complex lines that come to a human mouth with the
advance of years. Centered in this mouth was a remarkable expression, the
outcome, it seemed to me, of implacable will leavened by what I can only
describe as mirth. Ted Jacobs tried especially hard to capture that elusive
quality, and succeeded brilliantly although the final result, on the cover
of this book, is a bit more human than was actually the case. Specifically,
the mouth was nothing more than a line, albeit a complex one. There were no
lips at all. And the cranium was a good bit larger than the cover portrait
would suggest.
The chin was strong, very pointed, and there was a general impression that the
skin was stretched over a plated bone structure.
By far the most arresting feature in this face was the eyes. They were far
larger than our own eyes. In them I once or twice glimpsed a suggestion of
black iris and pupil, but it was no more than a suggestion, as if there were
optic structures of some kind floating behind those wells of darkness.
It was those eyes that I saw staring down at me on October 4, those eyes that
gleamed so furiously in the faint night light. I remember them from December
26, too, and from the summer of 1957, and from the experience with the
fogbank.
Ted asked me many questions about the eyes. When he asked me how they looked
closed, I got another shock: The image closed its eyes. I saw the huge, glassy
structures recede and loosen, becoming wrinkled, and the lids come down and up
at the same time, to close just below the middle of the eyeball.
I described this to Ted, but he wanted to know more. How about a profile view?
Had I
ever seen a profile? As I sat there staring into the darkness of my own mind.
I saw the image obediently turn its head.
I could hardly believe what I was observing. Was this a phantom? What was it?
My research thus far has not uncovered any specific paradigm of this
experience. I will not assert finally that it was a mental phenomenon as yet
unidentified, but at the moment this remains a distinct possibility.
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While the image stayed with me, it remained exactly the same as it was when I
first saw it. I could observe any part of the body from the top of the head to
the tip of the foot. I could do this again and a again, and see the same thing
each time. On March 1. I made a complete physical description on tape. On
March 23 I repeated the description again, then compared the two tapes. There
was no difference. The image was unchanged.
Beyond the face, I was able to see the figure's back, the sides of its head,
its arms and hands, its feet, torso, abdomen every part of its body. Under
close scrutiny, its surface was smooth but did not seem to have a layer of fat
under the skin, which was stretched tight over the bones. The structure of the
knee and elbow fonts reminded me of the knees of grasshoppers or crickets. The
hands were very long and tapered when in repose, with three fingers and 'in
opposable thumb. When pressed down, the hands became flat, suggesting that
they were more pliable than our hands. On the fingers were short, dark nails
of a more clawlike appearance than ours.
Overall, this did not appear to me to be a highly developed body , but rather
a very simple one. There was a general lack of complexity shat suggested few
bones and not much flesh.
I do not know how to explain this image. If it was not created by the powerful
effect of
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