This work is based on the author's experience of a five-day UFO conference held at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The book contains interviews with ufologists, psychiatrists, researchers, hypnotherapists, physicists ans folklorists. Interwoven are the stories of abductees, and the close-encounter experiences of two women, whose stories he tells on the basis of their own conscious memories and what was summoned up during their hypnosis, which he himself witnessed.