I have to say this article doesn't do the subject matter any justice and is why so many people are skeptical. There's much better info on this incident, suggest a good online search, and it may in fact be real - google the 'Shanti Devi' incident as well, and read the book 'Transformed by the Light' by Melvin Morse M.D. with Paul Perry, and pay close attention to Chapter 6 as it provides much more scientific based evidence that strongly suggests that at least some of these encounters (if you will) are real, but the phenomena as yet is still very much an unexplored mystery.