As the hall emptied I shared a cigarette with abductee Mike Smith, who didn't want to be photographed.
Talking at the London premiere of her new film Maleficent, the actress said that responsibility doesn't solely lie with the abductees, but also with our "culture of impunity".
"With alien abductees, I'm never going to have to deal with the criticism that it might have actually happened".
Kim Toogood, of International Alert, an NGO working with former abductees in Borno, said the experiences of abducted women were varied.
His visions seem to have a peaceful aesthetic totally at odds with other abductees, more Fantasia than Alien vs Predator.
Here are some of those drawings, coupled with brief interviews I conducted with the "alien abductees".
The symbolic equivalent of a visit with the abductee families would be for Secretary Clinton, when in Beijing, to meet with families of Han Chinese killed in the street violence in Lhasa a year ago.
If, as in the case of Howoulduno, this picture better comports with an abductee's own experience than the picture given elsewhere, the sense of singularity is reduced even further.
"The North Koreans have come to an understanding that the Japanese can't become a participant in nuclear talks with the abductee issue outstanding," Frank Jannuzi, a Senate Foreign Relations Committee aide, said here on Thursday, after a week of meetings in Pyongyang.
