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caused a frightening illusion.
    Betty: Their suits look shiny, but because of that dark thing they have on, they look like they don’t have any heads. Look—headless. [
Softly
] “I wanna go back!”

    Figure 27:
June 26
.
    â€œCan you describe those black hoods?” Jules Vaillancourt asked her later.
    Betty: Just black. No shine to it. Just black cloth, because it blended right in with the tunnel so that all I saw was just the silver shining suits.
    Jules: What was the source of illumination in the tunnel? You said it was really dark.
    Betty: Their suits. The suits were the only illumination.
    The aliens’ silver suits glowed in the dark, barely illuminating their way. But the soft glow lighted the tunnel enough for Betty to see that it had been chipped out of stone.
    Betty: I can see things that are chopped out. Oh, my head feels so heavy. I’m still going in that tunnel. I’m just going with them.
    Later, Jules Vaillancourt prompted her.
    Jules: Did it seem like a tube, like the inside of a garden hose, or did it seem chipped like a coal tunnel?
    Betty: Chipped, like a coal tunnel.
    At times they passed openings from intersecting tunnels.
    Jules: How could you tell? It was so dark.
    Betty: Because of their suits. The illumination came from those suits, and we would pass other tunnels, openings. I could tell that there were other tunnels there. As we would pass, I would see, like, a darker hole.
    Jules: Did they seem… Of course, you wouldn’t be able to tell how far the tunnels went in. As you went along, could you feel any temperature change?
    Betty: No, it just was regular coolness, going through.
    Jules: How fast was the speed? Could you see any traffic? Any signs of any other beings?
    Betty: No.
    Ray: You never touched the track? You were always above the track?
    Betty: No, I couldn’t touch anything with my hands or my legs and feet because they were too—uh, heavy, or something.
    Betty wanted to go back, but found herself completely helpless.
    Betty: Oh, my head feels heavy. [
Sigh
] And we’re going, now we’re going
upward
a little bit.
    Abruptly, the track slanted upward. Ahead loomed a shiny, mirror-like obstruction.
    Betty: And we are coming to some kind of a glass-mirror, or glass. [See Figure 28 .]
    She braced herself for a collision, which never occurred. The trio passed through the silvery material without encountering any assistance.
    Betty: And they are going
through
it! We are going through it—through that mirror!
    Betty squinted her eyes as they passed out of the tunnel into a place where the atmosphere was a
vibrating
red color. “The red looked like infrared light,” she later explained. “It vibrated. It was like vibration through the air.” The entities’ silver suits reflected the shimmering color of this new environment.

    Figure 28:
The tunnel. June 26
.
    Betty: I’m in a place where it’s all red. The atmosphere is all red, vibrating red.… And their suits look red. Only their head-thing looks blackish red.
    Later, during debriefing, Joseph Santangelo reminded her, “You said you saw red. Was that the horizon?”
    Betty: That was after we came out of the dark tunnel. It was red all over.
    Joseph: Below you? Above you? In front of you? Behind you?
    Betty: Yeah, everything was red, except for the track that we were on. It was a dark color, like a black, but with the red hitting against it.
    The black track stretched on ahead, between two square buildings with window-like openings.
    Betty: We are going in this place, and there are buildings—square buildings with openings.
    â€œCould you see the structure of the buildings?” Jules Vaillancourt later asked her. “Are they similar to ours?”
    Betty: They seemed as if they’re stucco or cement.
    Joseph: Was it like a landscape, a—
    Betty: In the red part, there wasn’t. There wasn’t any vegetable life.
    Harold: Was