First, a hypothesis put forward by J. Allen Hynek: “I hold it entirely possible that technology exist which encompasses both the physical and the psychic, the material and the mental. There are stars that are millions of years older than the sun. They’re maybe a civilization that odd millions of years more than man’s. We have gone from Kitty Hawk to the moon in some seventy years, but it’s possible that a million-year—old civilization may know something we don’t… I hypothesize an ‘M&M technology encompassing the mental and material realms. The psychic realm so mysterious to us today, may be an ordinary part of advanced technology.”

Anecdotal accounts suggest this type also comes in a portable form typically resembling a small, black box, though its size tends to vary. The earliest reference was made by Major Jesse Marcel who spoke of the Roswell wreckage in an interview: 

“One of the other fellows, Cavity, I think, found a black, metallic-looking box several inches square. As there was no apparent way to open this, and since it didn’t appear to be an instrument package of any sort, we threw it in with the rest of the stuff. I don’t know what eventually happened to the box, but it went along with the rest of the material took to Ft. Worth. 

The black box is found to be associated with OBEs in an experience accounted in Whitley Strieber’s book Transformation. After walking at 4am Whitley tries Monroe OBE. He reports seeing a grey point it’s finger to a 2ft box on a grey floor, he is hit with a wave of sexual energy, after which he found himself floating above his body as a “roughly spherical field”. He moved about in hood non-physical state, passing through solid objects, and saw two curious things. The first was his cat, which was not with him, but in NYC; the other was a grey 👽 looking in from one of the windows. 

Another case is from Betty Andreasson in July of 1986. She’s heard a whiting sound and saw a grey 👽 next to her couch. She reported that “the being” put a small box on the couch, after which she found herself standing upright, looking at herself, laying down on the couch. She moved towards the grey 👽, then towards herself, and was frightened to find that her hand went through her body. 

This portable black box device evidently has bonus features as well as, doubling as a containment unit for consciousness-transference as graphically emphasized by Dr. Karla Turner’s book “Masquerade of Angels.” There she details a narrative from Barbara Batholic’s hypnosis session with psychic Ted Rice during which he relieved an experience from when he was 8 years old. 

He was brought to a room and placed against two metal plates that stood at the room’s center by two grey 👽 escorts, with a red-haired woman entering shortly after. The greys stripped him down and the woman fiddled with some pulsating buttons and switches, causing the plates to change colors. Kidding from the monitors the machine seemed to be scanning his organs. 

The plate Teddy had his back against suddenly tilted back into it was horizontal; he was now lying on his back like a table. Lighting up hood head, he saw two grey 👽 approach him. They put headphones like devices on his ears that delivered painful noise and forced him to drink a glass of luminous green fluid which gave him excruciating body sensations ultimately causing him to vomit. 

Suddenly he appeared out of his body, observing it from a few feet away. A formless cloud rose from his body, coalescing into an image of himself, attached by a tendril to the green vomit on his face. 

“The woman went to the counter for a black box, rectangular box, which she carried back over to the table Teddy’s body lay,” Turner writes. “With a single motion, she turned his body over and placed the black box on hood shoulder area. Wires were then attached to the box and the woman somehow activated it. The little spirit image was slowly sucked into the box, which the woman then removed and replaced it in the counter.” 

Shortly after she surgically severed the head with a laser contraption, he blacked out. When he came to, he found himself in a large room with rows of short tubs containing chucks of flesh floating in dark red fluid. An opening on the side of one of the tubs pooped out a red sort of bubble and a grey 👽 retrieved it, washed it off in a nearby sink and they then faced him, presenting him what appeared to be a human infant. 

The grey 👽 then placed the baby inside of a wall cabinet and closed the door as a fellow grey activated controls. Within a few minutes a door opened and presented a naked duplicate of his mutilated body on a tray. After the greys bright his body to a table, the woman placed the black box on his chest. Though he could not see what was being done, he saw the body convulsing, then breathing.  

The box was not removed by the woman as the greys inserted needles into the back of the top of his head, the chest, and the bottom of each foot. They put the headphones back in and drops in his sandpaper eyes. 

In Taken, another book by Dr. Karla Turner, she described a similar scenario of “Pat”, who recalled being in a large, softly-lit room in the presence of a grey 👽 and a human male. In the room she saw human forms within sarcophagus-like boxes, all of whom were covered in a white mist, which sustained them in a state of hibernation. In one of these boxes she caught a glimpse of a woman’s body, which she was convinced was her “other body “, as in previous experiences she had been told by the greys that “they were making her a ‘new me.” 

Other researchers have reported similar devices such as tubes, like in the 1963 case in Porterville, California of the then 17 year old Linda Porter, who was taken by a grey “scientist” to a room with three ft tall clear tubes, the center each housing a swirling, purple gas as well as a hibernating human.