There has been very little written about the interior sections of the alien craft. Given the circumstances of most abductees (who obviously had more pressing concerns on their minds) this is understandable. Still, a few details from reports over the years have trickled down. What we have been able to research and interview for so far has been compiled and posted here. We welcome any additional information you, the reader, can provide in the form of books, magazine articles or even firsthand accounts. Because abductees rarely see the entire ship and often have selective and partial memories of the incident anyway, we have broken the interior descriptions down by section type based on function. What the aliens actually call these rooms is something we may never know, but we named them according to their evident function.
In the course of my (This is Vincent talking, yet again) investigation, I have received a great deal of support and input from a number of sources, including Elizabeth London, a repeated abductee who has been generous enough to share details of some of her encounters with me. I have added her verbatim accounts where appropriate, as they add a fascinating insight into the whole phenomenon and have been added in italics.
Nearly all abductees find themselves in this room at one point or another during their ordeals. examination rooms are described as oval in shape with many entrances and having a domed ceiling. The impression most abductees give is one of the room being in the center of the ship, with all the halls radiating outwards from the room. Whether they are at the center of the ship has yet to be proven, but the rooms obviously are constructed to handle a lot of traffic in and out of them.
The examination rooms are usually well lit, with a low bluish or yellowish light eminating either from light bars that run along the middle of the walls. The latter can increase in intensity to near painful levels for the abductees, who are often positioned right under it.
The examination room is often filled with equipment that is mounted to the floor or in the walls. In fact, little evidence has been shown to support that there are many independent platforms of equipment in the room (hand carts, for example). Much of the examination equipment is mounted in a large box or cirular housing from which various medical devices extend by means of jointed robotic arms or telescoping necks. Devices range from everything from long needles and scalpals to occular lenses and scanners that run the length of the occupantÕs body. The housing itself seems capable of lowering itself from the ceiling and having some ability to position itself above the abductee.
Likewise, the examination table, or tables in some cases, are mounted from the floor by a single thick pillar that runs to the center of the table. The table seems to have many of the same characteristics of a conventional operating table, such as the ability to pivot on its mounting and tilt up or down. The table has been described as metallic in look but not in feel. As with many alien tools, the table feels more like some kind or smooth stone to the touch. The tables look slick, with no grooves apparent in the surface, but seem to hold the occupant from slipping quite well. In some cases, leg and arm clamps are noted extending from the sides of the table to hold the occupant in place.
The examination room was very sparsely furnished. Walls were white and the room was well lit, with no visible light fixtures. I found myself sitting on an exam table facing the door to the hallway or whatever was on the other side. My feet were hanging off the side of the table. I was dressed in my nightgown. (I had just previously been taken from my bedroom after being innoculated on my left arm). The exam table was a dark color. It reminded me of a regular hospital exam table in that it was covered with what looked like leather or vinyl. I can't remember very much about it...I was too focused on the contraption on my head. Covering my head was what looked like a beekeeper's hat. The top section (forehead/up) was made from some type of light(c)weight metal with electrodes or wires attached. They were attached to the top of the hat, but not attached to any other part of the room. Connected to the metal part of the hat was a very light-weight, dark mesh material or screening that hung down over my face and to the bottom of my neck. The mesh encircled my whole head. I had the impression that the mesh was made from some type of woven, synthetic metal. It was very thin and I could see through it. I got down off the table and began walking toward the door. I wanted to find my way out. I noticed that the only visible furniture in the room was the exam table. I don't remember seeing any type of movable table, but I seem to remember seeing drawers flush to the wall.
Hand devices used by the aliens for the examination process are usually kept in cabinets mounted flush with the walls. These cabinets have three or more glass-like shelves each and all the tools are grouped according to size and apparent purpose, being arrainged side-by-side on the shelves. The shelving does not appear to have any kind of door on it. Tools are removed from the shelves and placed on small, block-like tables that are positioned next to the examination table. As with the shelves, these tools are arrainged side-by-side as one would expect on a surgical tool tray.
The walls in some reports also have small, plain benches extending out from them. Abductees are often made to sit on these benches while other abductees are being examined, and most abductees describe this furniture as hard and uncomfortable to sit on for extended periods of time.
Most areas of the ships do not seem to have had comfort in mind when they were built, and this is certainly the case with the theater room. The theater is a large domed chamber that looks much like the examination room in form, only much larger. Abductees are brought to this room to view a series or images, often holograms, though traditional screen-type displays have been reported.
Abductees are led into the center of the room and simply stand or in some cases are confined to a chair for the entire show, which can last many hours. The "show" is really nothing more than a series of images, usually not very clear. As the seemingly random images appear, the audience is asked telepathically questions like if they know what the image is or what they think about it. Some abductees report the theater also acts as a planetarium of sorts, showing the galaxy and in many cases the alien's home world.
Moving through the decks of the craft is often reported in one of two ways. The first is a simple vertical passage that runs through many decks. The sides of this large tube are smooth, with no ladders or handholds to speak of. Witnesses describe aliens and abductees as using either the zero-g conditions in the ship or some kind of anti-gravity technology to simply float up and down between decks. Witnesses describe this as being very disorienting and many feel they would drift out of control if the aliens were not around to control their ascent or descent.
The other method is the often described elevator. These modes of intership transportation seem to fit what the average person would expect of an elevator, except that most abductees describe them as being very small, usually with enough room for only one or two occupants. These elevators have been described as either an all-glass tube or a solid metal box that has no windows.
I then found myself in a narrow, round, tube-like elevator, with only enough room for maybe one more person. The elevator had push buttons for the different levels of the ship. As the elevator began to descend, I realized that the floor was divided into 3 equal sections, almost like the petals of a flower. The floor was in constant motion while descending (two sections would stay in place under my feet, while a third section hinged and came up under the other two sections). This kept repeating while the elevator was in motion. (This movement reminded me of the game kids play when they put their hands one on top of the others). Even though I could feel the floor moving, and I was quite amazed, at no time did I feel like I was going to fall. The elevator floor made a banging noise each time a section of the floor moved around and came into place.
The direct results of the breeding experiments, the hybrid aliens, are housed in this room. The room almost resembles what most people think a nursery should be, complete with small furniture, toys and in some cases stuffed animals. The room is better lit than the rest of the ship, usually quite bright. Other ÔtoysÕ or distractions reported include light crystals, holographic displays, light panels and in some cases classical music.
The Nursery is often where abductee women are brought to see their hybrid children, in many cases years after the women have been impregnated and had the fetuses removed after several months. Abductee women report that they are allowed supervised extended visits with 'their' children in this area.
From most accounts, this room seems to be in or near the center of the ship, or certainly in a more secure, less travelled area. Given the purpose of the nursery, this would seem logical.
There are many different descriptions of this are, yet its purpose seems to be clear in all accounts. The storage hold or area is designed to contain abductees after they have been taken. Those witnesses that do report being in these holds claim often that the other abducted humans are all asleep or in some kind of trance. Thus, it is likely that most abductees are held in this area but do not remember being there, most waking up in the examination room or other area of the ship.
In many cases, humans are not the only cargo in this area. Animals, even large ones like horses, have been reported, again asleep or in a trance of some kind. Cargo does not seem to be limited to live beings either. Several reports place any of a myriad of objects like tools, clothing, paper products, furniture, trash, glassware and food. Apparently the aliens do not differentiate between live cargo and inanimate cargo.
Exactly how this cargo is stored is something of a conflict among witnesses.
The top floor held a large store that provided clothes, accessories, etc. (Reminded me of a department store). There was a large contoured glass door that slid into contoured walls. The store did not stay open all the time, and the doors would close when the store closed. The lighting in the store was incandescent and gave off very soothing pastel pink, very subtle and very soothing. The store was void of other people, and there were no such positions as "sales clerks." All the merchandise was coded. If you selected an item, the coded tag on the item was to be put on some sort of small scanner.
Many witnesses report being in a large, honeycomb-like chamber many levels tall. Each person, animal or object is placed in a separate hole with a seemingly random method. Occupants of these honeycombs are held in place by a "shrinkwrap" type of membrane, a series of arm and leg braces or nothing at all depending on the account.
Some chambers can best be described as laboratory-like. In these types of storage chambers, abductees are placed in large circular test tubes suspended in clear liquid. The tubes are ceiled with monitoring equipment on both ends. Stangely, abductees all report the liquid as being some kind of Òliquid oxygenÓ that they can somehow ÒbreathÓ despite the fact that they are completely submerged.
Some abductees report being placed in large circular rooms. These rooms have examination-type tables placed vertically side-by-side along the wall of the chamber, filling it with as many as 200 tables. Abductees are then strapped to these tables and have a cleat view of the room. This room is almost always accessed by a hatch or iris valve-like opening in the center of the ceiling or floor.
The dressing room -- plain and simple -- is perhaps the most common type of storage area encountered. Many abductees report they are lead to simple, small rooms where they are instructed to undress for an examination. The rooms are usually not much bigger than a small closet, with room for one or two humans at best. The clothes are simply left in piles on the deck while the examination takes place. Upon returning, the abductees are told to get dressed.
A simple account, yet this is one that adds some dimension to the abduction experience. Some reports have two or three of these rooms on the ship. but in each case the room or rooms are adjacent to the examination area, a clear indication of their rather utilitarian purpose.
Of interest in many accounts is a section of the ship (though in some reports, like Whitely Streiber's, such rooms are not necessarily on the ship at all) where abductees are brought to be "taught" various ideas and messages. Many witnesses describe a fairly small room with a number of uniform chairs, which may or may not have desks.
Many cases of abduction involve large classes filled with up to 40 or so hybrid aliens, who the abductee is brought in to teach. Abductees report that some kind of projection screen at the center of the classroom (nearly approximate to where a chalk board is positioned in a conventional classroom) where a number of images ranging from farm animals to household items and even vehicles and other machines are displayed in a seemingly random order. Hybrid "students" then ask the abductee to tell them all about the item.
Little has been revealed about how the aliens live aboard the ship. Given the fact that the visitors seem extemely interested in finding out about humans but not in revealing much about themselves, this seems only logical.
Still, an occasional report has trickled through about what kind of life the aliens live aboard their vessels. Abductee reports place such living areas away from the center of the ship, and usually describe large, barracks-like rooms containing up to 30 sets of bunk beds. Such beds are small, stacked up to four or five beds high, and are described as simple mattresses with no blankets or pillows.
No closets in the conventional sense are seen, but reports sometimes place a large dispenser for the hospital-gown type of clothing the hybrids wear. Dispensers are usually large and cylindrical, mounted into the walls and have a small slit at the bottom where the flat folded gowns are removed. Where soiled clothing is disposed of has not been mentioned in any known accounts.
Food is not ingested in any form of galley or kitchen. According to most reports, Gray aliens do not ingest food and only the most human looking hybrids eat food in the conventional sense.
Rather, large chambers have been reported that contain tanks filled with a brownish liquid. Aliens, using an ability or technology akin to transporting, move into these tanks to bath in the tanks and absorb the fluid through their skin. When sated, the aliens simply leave the tanks by the same ability.