When Mary Carter saw lights flashing outside her home she did not think twice about going to investigate. To her surprise, when she left her living room on Percy Road, Lancaster, and went outside to have a look, she discovered the twinkling lights were coming from a low flying aircraft. A couple of minutes later the lights were gone and she went back into her house. But to her absolute astonishment Mary realised that she had been outside for 50 minutes, not just the two that she thought. Mary, a nurse, could not explain what had happened to make so much time vanish. For years the mystery nagged at her leaving her with a great sense of uneasiness. Visions drifted in and out of her mind. She felt she had been cut, had something placed on her forehead and had floated in the air. She thought she would never unravel the mystery surrounding the events on that chilling Saturday night. That was until she got in contact with supernatural author Peter Hough, who was chairman of the Northern Anomalies Research Organisation. Mary underwent three sessions of hypnosis with Peter by her side. "In some respects this brought elements to life which had previously been vanished."The details these sessions brought to light shocked Peter and left Mary even more uncomfortable and traumatised. During the sessions she talked about small people dressed in silver with slitted eyes appearing before her. She remembered standing on her doorstep then being paralysed, enveloped in a beam of light and finding herself in a strange room lying on a table. She then described a series of medical experiments being carried out on her. Wires were attached to her forehead, blood was taken from behind her ear and her palm print was recorded. While Mary found all of this disturbing, it was nothing compared to what she revealed in the final session.