>Paul Garratt was a housepainter who nearly died in a car crash
in San Francisco in 1969. After the ambulance raced him to the hospital, his
heart stopped. As doctors struggled to revive him in the ER, Garratt had an
NDE involving UFOs. It began with Garratt having the sense that he was,
not rising out of his body, but falling very fast into a dark and bottomless
abyss.866 Then, he found that he had landed on a beach with light blue sand,
which stretched for as far as he could see, and which was covered by naked
human bodies writhing and screaming in agony.867 Above the bodies,
streaking across a purple sky, were hundreds of UFOs shaped more or less
like classic flying saucers, but pulsing and throbbing as if they were
themselves sentient beings, like metallic mantas or technological
stingrays.868 Garratt said that he got the impression that they were akin to
soldier ants dutifully carrying out tasks of vital importance as they zipped
back and forth at high speed.
These UFOs sent beams down to bathe each of the bodies in a sickly
green glow, at which point the luminescent orb of that person’s soul would
be extracted from their body as they screamed for the last time. Garratt
somehow knew that these balls of light sucked up into the UFOs were being
used as something like fuel for the craft and/or the intelligence piloting
them.869 The soul-harvested bodies all eventually went dead silent, but then,
all of them suddenly stood up, and marched together like zombies into a
huge black hole that had opened up on the horizon of the beach.870 At this
point, Garrattt was successfully revived in the ER. After this NDE, Garrat,
who had never had UFO experiences before this, began to have late night
Close Encounters, and he was left with the impression that he was being
monitored because he had witnessed something he was not supposed to see.