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or further evidence of how, in the 1960s, the British military was secretly opening files on those citizens of the United Kingdom who were suspected of being abductees, we have to focus on the intriguingly weird story of a young woman named Diane Foulkes. The year was 1966; the month was November. It was a month in which NASA’s Lunar Orbiter 2 was launched, John Lennon met Yoko Ono for the first time, and Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California. Those historic events all paled against what Diane Foulkes had to endure: a close encounter with a strange craft in the sky and a period of missing time. As the United Kingdom’s Freedom of Information Act has shown, it was our old friends, the Royal Air Force’s Provost and Security Services, who secretly oversaw the investigation into Diane’s trauma-dominated experiences. We would almost certainly be completely oblivious to the facts of the affair today were it not for one significant thing: Diane Foulkes’s family decided to contact the military in an effort to try to understand the nature of her experiences. At the time, twenty-two-year-old Diane—a typist working at a local company—was living with her parents in the old English town of Shrewsbury, in the county of Shropshire. It’s a town which was
