The "missing time" phenomenon seems to take several forms
as presented in various accounts. First there is the missing
time where a person suddenly realizes, usually while traveling,
that they are at a location that could not be explained by the
amount of time they believe has transpired. Then, there are the
missing time accounts where the person who is missing time
doesn't realize anything is amiss except that they are informed
by someone that they have been inexplicably missing for a period
of time. Third, there are the missing time cases where the
person doesn't discover anything is out of order until some form
of hypnotherapy is used in an attempt to reconcile some type of
problem.
There are many examples of the first type of missing time.
In one case a flight from Las Vegas to Dallas arrived about 45
minutes late. However, the passengers had no indication that
they were behind schedule and believed themselves to be right on
schedule. To their dismay, the passenger's watches were 45
minutes behind the real time of day as if time for them had
stopped for 45 minutes of the flight where they made no progress
toward their destination. Where was the flight for those
missing 45 minutes? No one seems to know.
In another case a man left his house in the evening to
drive to the store. It was a foggy evening and he was traveling
a rural road. In just a few minutes he realized his
surroundings were unfamiliar as he noted the lights from a gas
station he had never seen before. He pulled in and asked the
clerk when this new station had been built and discovered it had
been around for years. Then he found out that he was hundreds
of miles from where he believed himself to be. He had traveled
only a few minutes from his house yet it took him the rest of
the night to get home. In this case the man had traveled a
great distance in what, for him, was an abnormally short amount
of time.
In a similar situation a few years ago, two women were
driving from northern California to a conference in Las Vegas.
During the trip they were in contact by amateur radio with a
well known radio talk show host with whom they were acquainted.
As they talked, the radio show host had to excuse himself from
their conversation for a few minutes; letting them know he would
be right back and would give them a call on the same frequency.
The women drove on for a few minutes and soon heard their friend
calling over the radio. Answering him, they were questioned
about where they had been for the last hour or so. At first
this made no sense to them because they believed they had only
talked to their friend just a few minutes earlier. Finally,
they realized they were no longer on the same road they had been
on when they had last talked to him. In fact, they had
apparently already gone through a town that they believed was
still ahead of them. They were where they should be, but had no
idea how they had gotten there or where the time had gone.
In one of those cases where a person just seemingly
disappeared for a while, a wife saw her husband enter the
bathroom in the master bedroom of their house. After the
husband had been in the bathroom for an abnormally long time,
his wife called out to him out of concern. Then she got angry
when he didn't reply and went into the bathroom to look for him
but he wasn't there. Thinking he was pulling a prank on her she
searched the entire house and got her daughter and son to help
search too. They called out for him, they looked in every room,
in all closets, under beds, the garage and even in the backyard
where the dogs would have given away his presence if he was
there. His pickup was still in the driveway but he was nowhere
to be found. Later, his wife saw him come walking out of the
master bedroom into the hallway and acting surprised that she
was angry with him for hiding out for so long. He claimed that
he was in the bathroom for the usual amount of time, then came
out, but never heard anyone calling out for him.
In a somewhat similar situation an older couple paid a
visit to a convenience store. The husband got around with the
aid of a wheel chair, so he chose to stay in the car while his
wife went in to quickly buy something. Returning to the car,
she was surprised to find that her husband was not in the car.
She looked around and noted that his wheelchair was still in the
car but he was nowhere within sight. Thinking that he had
somehow gone into the store she went back in, looked around and
finally enlisted the aid of the clerk to search for him. He was
nowhere in the store so they went back out to check the car
where he was still not to be found. For a few moments they
stood near the trunk of the car looking up and down the street
where there was still no sign of the husband. However, as they
turned around the woman's husband was sitting in the seat of the
car exactly where she had left him earlier. The husband
insisted he hadn't gone anywhere and had not seen them looking
for him.
One of the more famous cases where hypnotherapy was
involved in recalling a missing time situation concerns Betty
and Barney Hill. This couple didn't even immediately realize
they had a period of missing time. It was only after seeking
the aid of a hypnotherapist to try to get to the root of
nightmares they were having did they discover they were missing
time during a long road trip. Eventually they recalled under
hypnosis that they were abducted by aliens. In fact, quite a
number of missing time cases seem to have some form of alien
connection with people recalling that they have been subjected
to some type of physical examination or the implantation a
device or object.
Because there are cases where aliens seem to be associated
with missing time, it is often supposed that the aliens and
their abduction process are the cause. However, perhaps the
cause has been confused with the effect.
If we assume for the moment that there are aliens from
other worlds that are visiting the earth, one has to consider
the reason why they would do this. Do they need something that
earth possesses? This seems unlikely. Earth is really not all
that unusual in terms of available minerals. In fact, almost
any mineral present on earth could be more readily found
elsewhere on an uninhabited planet, asteroid or comet. To think
an alien species finds it necessary to travel any great distance
for what we have just does not add up. Yet, there is a
recurring theme in reports of alien abduction relating to
missing time.
The recurring theme is that the abductees report being
physically examined, poked, prodded and at times have been left
with alien implants to show for it after they are released.
This seems odd, but why should it? Human beings, right here on
earth, every day, do exactly the same thing to other species.
We capture all varieties of animal life across the planet,
subject them to various physical examinations, tag them and
sometimes attach tracking devices so we can track or re-capture
them again at a later time. We do this for a variety of
reasons, but mostly it is because we are trying to learn
something.
Recently I watched, "March of the Penguins" and was
particularly fascinated by the use of the "Penguin Cam" that
allowed researchers to learn how the penguins fed while under
the ice. By attaching the camera to the back of wild penguins
they learned that penguins feed in much the same way as birds of
prey. However, with penguins, they lurk near the bottom while
watching the area immediately under the ice. When they see
their prey under the ice near the surface they rise quickly and
snatch it before it even sees them coming. Prior to the use of
the Penguin Cam scientists had believed the penguins were
feeding on the bottom and were diving on their prey. Not
surprisingly, the scientists had been wrong. As I watched all
of this I imagined two penguins having a conversation about what
was happening to them.
"Then this large alien with all these funny appendages at
the end of its flippers attached something to my back. I don't
know what it was, but then it let me go. It must have been some
kind of tracking device though because the aliens caught me
again later and removed whatever it was,” Penguin Smith said
with all seriousness.
"Smith! You been eating bad fish again? I declare.
You're some jokester you are, but I'll tell you what. If you
can prove these aliens exist under controlled conditions I'll
give you a million sardines!" Penguin Randi exclaimed.
So, could it be that aliens are doing the same thing with
humans to find out about something that intrigues them? If so,
what could it be?
Indeed aliens have been associated with the missing time
phenomena, but what if this is an effect rather than a cause?
That is, the aliens are not causing missing time but they show
up on the scene because they detect a time slip taking place.
What if we humans are doing something amazingly unique in the
universe and the aliens seriously want to know how we are doing
it.
There are many reports of UFOs appearing to shift shapes or
simply disappearing from sight. This plus the possible distance
they might have traveled, if we assume interstellar craft, would
indicate that alien technology involves dimensional travel.
However, if they are accomplishing this with technology, they
might have very serious interest in the possibility of doing
these things without technology.
As humans, we have the technology to dive to great depths
yet we continue to study creatures that dive to great depths
without technology. We can also fly to great heights with our
technology but continue to study creatures that don't need
technology to do the same thing. It isn't too much of a stretch
to consider we may be accidentally doing something without
technology (i.e., time-slipping) that technology dependent
aliens would really like to be able to achieve. If this is the
case we might be a serious frustration to the aliens simply
because we don't even know how we do this nor do we apparently
have active control over it. As a result, the aliens may have
had to resort to detecting time slips, intercepting those who
are slipping, perform examinations, and implant tracking,
telemetry or recording devices to try to understand how we do
what we do.
So is this what is really happening? It's hard to say.
However, when good answers to questions just are not appearing
sometimes the problem is that we are asking the wrong questions.
