People on the planet's surface would be kidnapped using a small capsule ""placed at will in space. It shot out a large bubble, the being would grab at the bubble or strike at it and be sucked at once into the capsule. Then the capsule would be retracted into an aircraft."" A victim was implanted for up to six months and the Helatrobans would ""fix him on a post in a big bunch of stuff ... put him on a post and wobbled him around and ran him through this implant of goals on a little monowheel . Little monowheel pole trap. And it had the effigy of a body on it."" ("State of OT").