Lehi, Utah: Pat Roach and her children report intruder and being taken aboard a spaceship
Around midnight on 16 October 1973, single mother Pat Roach (Patty Price) and her children in Lehi, Utah, reported an intruder and a bright light, and two daughters said a spaceman had taken them aboard a spaceship; hypnosis sessions in 1975 produced an abduction narrative.
Background
Around midnight Pat Roach (Patty Price) was dozing on the couch with her 5-year-old son Kent in an isolated house on the outskirts of Lehi, Utah, when Kent woke up screaming that he had seen a "skeleton"; Roach had a vague memory of an intruder and a bright light. A neighbor called the police at 12:10 a.m.; officers came, found nothing amiss and left. Her daughters Bonnie and Debbie then said a spaceman had come into the house and taken them aboard a spaceship, and Debbie remembered a line of people waiting to board; the family spent the rest of the night at a friend's house. In 1975 Roach contacted Kevin Randle, who arranged interviews and hypnosis sessions with APRO research director James A. Harder, from which an abduction account emerged that included elements little known at the time. Randle now believes that Roach experienced sleep paralysis, was influenced by abduction accounts and was led by Harder's leading questions under hypnosis. The account follows the entry in George M. Eberhart's chronology UFOs and Intelligence (CUFOS) and the sources cited there; it is not an independent determination by From Beyond Space.