JAR: Journal of Abduction Research. Issue 1
JAR: Journal of Abduction Research. Issue 1
JAR: Journal of Abduction Research. Issue 1
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A Message From the Editor …
JAR Board of Editors Welcome to the first issue of the Journal of Abduction-Encounter
Research. It’s time for a new endeavor, and we at JAR have decided
Susan Swiatek the time is right for a publication—lively and sincere discussion of the
The Editor implication of UFO visitations and contacts, which show no sign of
Fairfax, Virginia letting up.
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It is fitting to describe the UFO-nauts as “aliens,” as they are most
assuredly alien to our ken. This is not to imply, merely by our use of
John Carpenter, MSW, LCSW the term, that the only accepted explanation of the UFO phenomenon
Board Editor is extraterrestrial. It could be better described as inter-dimensional or
Springfield, Missouri ultra-dimensional. Words sometimes fail as we describe something so
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Suffice to say, the ultimate solution to the ultimate mystery will likely
Elaine Douglass, MS involve some sort of other intelligence; perhaps an all-powerful trick-
Board Editor ster, directing all sorts of mayhem for his own amusement. Or maybe a
Moab, Utah diversity of ETs; each group vying for power over this gem of a planet;
[email protected] some trying to bring us up-to-speed in the intergalactic brotherhood;
some trying to decide how best to dispose of Earth’s occupants as they
Barbara Lamb, MS, MFT, CHT plot their take-over.
Board Editor
Claremont, California Stimulating and thought provoking, the UFO abduction mystery is
[email protected] vitally important. In this issue, Barbara Lamb outlines a primer on the
abduction experience, which she optimistically feels can be transforma-
tionally positive after proper therapy. Helen Littrell, author of the 2005
JAR currently has a Board vacancy. For book, Raechel’s Eyes gives us her very personal perspective on meeting
details, see ad in this issue on page 16. an alien-human hybrid face-to-face. Her complex and poignant case
Interested persons please contact Elaine lends support for the idea there is a population of hybrids somewhere—
Douglass at the email listed above. out there—anchorless and with a deep need for both a real mother and
a real sense of belonging.
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An Alien Agenda Involving Hybrids
by Budd Hopkins
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Abstract: (This article is based on a presentation given
March 3, 2006, at the International UFO Congress held in The Barney and Betty Hill case marked the beginning
Laughlin, Nevada.) Ever since the 1966 disclosure of the Hill of the public’s knowledge of abductions, and it is important to
abduction, researchers have had an abundance of corroborat-
ing cases that point to a systematic human-alien breeding pro- understand that even in this early case there was a reproductive
gram that is producing hybrid beings. Though actual coupling aspect. When I heard about the Hills in 1966, I did not understand
may be forced upon the abductee, most accounts describe that apparently ova were retrieved from Betty Hill’s body by way
harvesting of sperm and ova. Female abductees have reported of a needle put into her navel. What we also did not know at the
seeing hybrid infants and “nurseries.” These hybrids have now time—it was not made public and was seen as too delicate to put
matured and are reportedly driving cars, shopping, and con-
ducting strange “job interviews” while maintaining their alien in John Fuller’s book, Interrupted Journey— was that a sperm
abilities of mind control and telepathy. The interlocking data sample was taken from her husband, Barney Hill.
point to alien infiltration into our world for goals unknown. With the Hill abduction, we should have gotten the point
that the aliens are primarily interested in human bodies, in our
The most recent and perhaps most disturbing aspect of physical properties. As time went on, we found the aliens were
the abduction phenomenon that I’ve looked into is the issue of taking samples of peoples’ tissues in addition to what seemed
hybrid beings. These beings, probably genetically engineered to be in many, many cases, ova and sperm. This alien interest in
with a mix of human and alien characteristics, seem able to ma- the human body is anything but spiritual, contradicts the idea the
neuver in our human world. It is an undercurrent I have noticed aliens are benign beings here to help the human race. Instead,
for a long time, and one I do not think I wanted to face. they seem to have their own agenda, which involves the produc-
Both David Jacobs and I have written about the produc- tion of hybrid beings.
tion of hybrid babies, a program we felt was some kind of basic Dave Jacobs and I also had early reports from abductees
alien agenda. I first began to see it in 1984, some 22 years ago, of beings who looked quite different from the standard grays.
and by the time my book Intruders was published, in 1987, I had They did not have the typical big black alien eyes—some had
uncovered many of these cases. In fact, Kathie Davis, whom I whites in their eyes—and their heads had a more human shape.
wrote about in Intruders, described a small, obviously not-fully I have a series of drawings done in the early 1980s of aliens that
human, child which she was made to feel was her own. (HOPKINS Click to continue on page 9)
Abstract: In her 31 years of psychotherapy and regression work, Barbara Lamb has come to real-
ize that the source of some clients’ trauma is the experiences they have had with extraterrestrial beings.
She prefers to use the neutral term Experiencers to describe this group, as events can run from terrifying
to transformational. Many patterns are very clear in ET contact; the beings fit recurring type descriptions;
Experiencers go through a myriad of common experiences, including involvement with a hybridization program.
Regression Therapy can be very effective in helping this population process their memories and experiences.
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One kid who didn’t buy it
By Derrel Sims, [email protected]
Abstract: This article is an edited excerpt from the au- No speech or communication of any kind comes from
thor’s new book, Alien Hunter: the Evidence in Light, this “thing,” whatever it is. The arms and legs are long and
2006. A very personal account of alien abduction has
been burned into the mind of the author. He brings us
skinny, the body and neck, thin. The bulbous head, like an upside
into the emotionally-charged events, almost frame-by- down teardrop, is cocked slightly to the side. I can see him from
frame. The lifetime of abduction experiences—some head to crotch, and he doesn’t have a “tee tee” or a belly button!
involving his family—takes its toll on the author and Does he have knees? I can’t see them and I want to know what
molds him into who he is today—The Alien Hunter. his feet look like too. He had a strange faint smell. It smelled
awful.…
The very first time I saw the entity, I would not accept
his suggestive command, “You will not remember.” I think it is a he, though I don’t know exactly why. It
Let me start at the beginning with my first conscious sure doesn’t have any mom or lady qualities about it. Suddenly, I
event. The year is 1952. I am between 3½ and 4 years old and realize it has become aware that I am aware and that I am able to
lying in my bed at 1005 S. Kay St. in Midland, Texas. An A/C move. Horror wraps around my small frame as his eyes seem to
unit not quite fitted to the window allows cold night air into the move or rotate. He definitely is now in control of me physically.
room. There is a name on the cooler unit, but I can’t read yet so Suddenly I Am Paralyzed
I can’t tell what it says. I can’t read the name on the brown radio
either. I cannot understand how I was fine (as I always had
been) and now I am paralyzed and overwhelmed with a horrific
My bedroom, at the rear of the house, has a blanket over fear, all while conscious. I wasn’t paralyzed until now! Why? I
the doorway to keep the chill from the rest of the house. The have never felt fear before. This is the moment in time … when
lights are off. Only the small light from the well house outside I suddenly realize there is something wrong with the perfect
comes through my window. Mom has come in to tuck the warm world in which I live. For me, that moment was, “Mommy and
covers snugly around me against the cold night. She always daddy aren’t coming—He is, or they are!” He convincingly
makes sure I have plenty of coverings, and a quilt with square suggests that my parents don’t love me. They are not my parents!
designs lies on top of me so I will sleep nice and warm.
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He also asked all sorts of questions but he focused on almost a weekly basis.
computers. “How does a computer work?” She did not know. “Is I have heard other stories of people seeing a hybrid and
a computer static or does somebody change it?” She did not being required to teach them how to fit into society in a real
know what he meant. He asked, “Does it just stay the same?” She world situation. An abductee and human-stage hybrid go into a
answered that you can replace parts of it, you can put certain department store and the abductee teaches the hybrid how to buy
software in it, you can change it, and you can do all sorts of something: how to pick something out, stand in line at the
things with it. “Why would someone want to do that?” he asked. register, and give the cashier the merchandise. The abductee tells
“What kind of things can you put on it?” These questions the hybrid the cashier will process the transaction and ask for
continued for a while. payment. The abductee instructs the hybrid to give the cashier the
When he was finished, another one came over to her and required amount of money (they usually have it), and wait for
told her she was not going to remember anything (I assume he change. The cashier might say something and they will respond
was doing this because she was a person who had been giving by saying “Thank you,” or, when first coming up to the cashier,
them trouble by remembering events consciously). He carefully saying “Hello.” Then the cashier will put the objects being
and very strongly pounded into her she would not remember bought in a bag and the hybrid can take it out of the store.
these events, especially the location of the “meeting.” I did a Recently, I had a case in which a woman walked into a
session with her the day after it happened and she related to me supermarket and found a familiar late-stage hybrid waiting for
exactly what she was not supposed to remember. This event her there. He told her to go about her normal shopping and he
happened in February 2006, but I have many other events like would watch. She went about shopping and he asked her
this that are happening constantly now. Furthermore, this is questions about each object that she put in her cart. “What are
occurring across the country and almost certainly in other these?” “These are eggs.” “How do you make eggs?” “You can
countries as well. fry them. You can boil them. You cook them in some other way.”
I have worked with many people for long periods of He continued to ask questions of the items and she was required
time. Some of them have been with me for many years. During (JACOBS Click to continue on page 18)
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(JACOBS continued from page 17) making sure everything is all right. One woman, for example,
to answer. At one point she put a loaf of bread into her cart and told me she went into a room that was set up like a cafeteria.
he said, “Do you cook that too?” He was trying to learn. There were about 15 or 16 adolescent hybrids getting food (a
In the last eighteen months I have been hearing these brown, hard substance), and sitting at a table and eating it.
types of accounts from people with whom I have worked for (Before hypnosis, the abductee consciously thought they were
many years. All of these accounts, to put it bluntly, point to a eating hamburgers.)
future in which human-looking hybrids will be here among us. They were adolescents so they were talking with each
The evidence is now so strong I can no longer look at alternative other and playing around, that sort of behavior. She was supposed
motivations for them. Everything I have learned about this to say if everything was okay, and if not, teach them the proper
subject in the past 20 years inexorably points to this conclusion. I methods of obtaining food in a cafeteria. She said that everything
cannot escape it. was not okay. She pointed out one must first obtain a tray. Then
I have heard everything about abductions many times the food must be put on a plate which in turn is placed on the
over in the past 20 years. I have investigated over a thousand tray. One would need eating utensils as well. The hybrids then
abduction accounts. In the standard abduction scenario, asked a number of questions about why one would need a plate,
procedures continue according to a set, albeit flexible, plan. tray, and the function of utensils. They were serious about this.
Therefore, the accounts in which I hear the same thing repeatedly She also said there was too much “horsing around,” and they had
help in building up verification and validation. After one to be quieter. She was a school teacher many years ago, and she
researches abductions in a systematic way and learns what has definite ideas about proper decorum.
happens in them, one finds that the information flow to the So I get the sense we are now in a stage of movement.
researcher proceeds at glacier-like speed. Only about every New things are being reported. A few years back Budd Hopkins,
seventh session would I hear something I have never heard John Mack, and I participated in a symposium put together to
before. It might be a procedure the aliens did a little differently, help publicize the Steven Spielberg-produced TV series, Taken. I
or a new way of doing something, or it might be something else gave my introductory talk about the element of surprise in the
that was related to the standard procedures that I had not heard abduction phenomenon—how it has surprised us at almost every
before. That would keep my interest up and help to propel me turn. In spite of the glacial pace of change, over the years we
forward intellectually. have found enough things that take us aback, that we had never
Now I am constantly thought of before, in terms of
hearing things I have never how the abduction
“We still do not know why this entire program of phenomenon works and is
heard before. All sorts of
people who for many years had integrating into society is happening.” being played out.
been telling me primarily the For example, the questioning
standard abduction procedures of abductees about separating
now tell me new things. And new people with whom I have just out hybrids from humans was something I never expected to hear
begun to work tell them to me too. Furthermore, people with and would never have thought of. Debunkers often accuse
whom I have not had a hypnosis session for many years, come abduction researchers of using hypnosis to lead people into
back and want to have a session so that they can fully remember certain areas of thought and to have them tell us what we want to
the new and extraordinary events that have happened to them hear. In fact, it is the opposite. They have been telling us things
recently. Why is this happening? Is something changing? Are we we could never have imagined, and they are telling me things I
in a new phase now? do not want to hear. Researchers are being pulled along for the
In my research in the mid-1990s, I had heard the aliens ride.
talking about what they called “The Change” when they would All of this is to say that one of the things I am focusing
be here with us. What this meant exactly I was not sure. I was on in my research is the possible process of hybrid insertion into
even less sure when it would happen. They used the term “soon” the society. Originally I thought we might wake up one day and
which is somewhat meaningless. I thought that if this were to “they” would all just be here. That is what popular culture
happen, perhaps it would take 30 years or so to begin. Now I am teaches us. Abductees tell us a very different story. It is much
not sure. Now I think that the evidence indicates “The Change” more complicated and different than we had thought.
might be happening a lot sooner than I had thought. The evidence seems to suggest that it takes a great deal
It was not very long ago, when people would ask me if I of coordination between all sorts of different aliens and hybrids
thought hybrids were walking around in normal human settings, who have been trained in different functions for the smooth
that I would answer, “Of course not!” To me, the evidence had operation of this program. Every one of them appears to have a
never indicated that. And I knew that to answer affirmatively job. They all seem to have their task to perform and so do some
would label me even more fringy than I already sounded. Even abductees. So, what we might be dealing with is a much more
then, however, I would think to myself, “Maybe I am wrong. complicated phenomenon, both for hybrids, for aliens, for
Maybe they have learned how to do a “job interview.” Maybe abductees and, of course, for researchers who are trying to
they are walking around in human society. But I never voiced this discern what is happening. Researchers do not have guides
publicly because the evidence was not strong enough for me. explaining how to do this; everybody is learning on the fly. We
Now what I hear is much more about interfacing with are learning things as they are being revealed to us in bits and
hybrids, and teaching hybrids, and getting hybrids “ready,” and pieces and trying to make sense of them.
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We have gathered an enormous amount of “abductees.” Many of these individuals have some encounters
information about the subject. It is not disparate information; they consider negative (and therefore might be thought of as
it is confirmatory, and substantive. It is rather like putting the “abductees”), and some they consider positive (and therefore
pieces of a puzzle together. We do not have all the pieces, but might be thought of as “contactees”). Since the interpretations
we can see the picture clearly now. Each piece adds to our put upon their experiences by these individuals vary so much, it
understanding. Each piece gives us insight into the motivations seems best to refer to them using the neutral term “Experiencers.”
and goals of the picture’s creators. There are, of course, many
Conducting Therapy With Experiencers
important pieces to fill in. If researchers accept abductee
The field of therapeutic work with Experiencers is a
accounts, then we must ask why people are being trained in
recent development. One of the first ET contact cases went on
crowd control. We do not know what the role of non-abductees
record in 1964 when psychiatrist Benjamin Simon hypnotically
will be in the future. We do not know how the power of neural
regressed Betty and Barney Hill back to their disturbing 1961
engagement will be used on humans once they integrate into the
abduction by unusual beings in New England. Dr. Simon was
society. Neural engagement means they can control us and we
not familiar with the emerging phenomenon of human abduction
cannot control them. We still need to learn a lot more about this
by extraterrestrials, and he concluded the Hills must be suffering
most perplexing and unnerving program.
a “shared delusion.” Later evidence, perspective, and other
Obviously, we do not know everything. Most
people’s experiences validated the reality of the Hills’ encounter.
importantly, we still do not know why this entire program
Nonetheless, most mental health practitioners have
of integration into the society is happening. This lack of
failed to come to grips with the abduction phenomenon, and
knowledge is actually extremely important because if this
in many cases do not believe the phenomenon is real. Thus,
were psychological, we would know why this is happening;
Experiencer clients are often erroneously diagnosed, medicated,
if abductees were psychologically generating all this material,
and treated. This leaves them feeling misunderstood and worse
many, if not most, would generate the ultimate reason for the
than before they sought professional help. Experiencers are
project as well.
also subject to ridicule from family members, friends and
In popular culture, many outer space-themed movies
associates. As a result, they learn not to talk about extraterrestrial
have involved a flying saucer coming to earth, an alien coming
experiences and the sometimes severe anxieties which result, and
out of a flying saucer and saying, “My name is Xabdork. I
therefore receive no help dealing with these experiences.
come from Venus. I have come because you have been doing
The Academy of Clinical Close Encounter Therapists
unacceptable things. You must shape up.” In these movies, we
(ACCET) is a good source of professional psychotherapists and
know exactly who they are, where they are from, and why they
regression therapists to which Experiencers who desire to receive
are here. But this phenomenon does not follow popular culture,
professional help can be referred. ACCET is an international
as skeptics would want us to believe. It has its own internal
organization of professionals who appreciate the challenges
dynamics apart from the abductees and the researchers. As John
faced by individuals who experience extraterrestrial encounters,
Mack said, the phenomenon is what it is. That means it is not
and who are trained in regression therapy. Contact ACCET at
what we want it to be.
[email protected].
Budd Hopkins and I have been doing this work for a
Experiencers may suffer pronounced anxiety, especially
cumulative total of over 45 years. We have interviewed, listened
in certain situations which remind them of extraterrestrial
to, read letters from, and worked with thousands of abductees and
encounters, but most are not inherently medically or
we still do not know why the aliens have initiated this program.
psychiatrically disturbed. This is amazing, considering the
In a sense this lack of knowledge helps to validate what we
intensity of the trauma they have experienced. Most are normal
have learned. Once we know the aliens’ original motivations for
people to whom very unusual things have happened, but they
starting the program, we will have gone far towards answering
may still need therapeutic help to deal with these events.
the ultimate question about abductions. In the meantime, we
Now that the subject of alien abductions is being aired
have greatly progressed towards answering most of the important
in the media, more Experiencers are coming forward. They want
questions about this phenomenon and those answers are both
validation and understanding from persons who know something
surprising and disturbing. They are not answers I had ever
about the phenomenon. Experiencers often attend UFO meetings
expected. They are not answers I wanted to hear. The pieces of
the puzzle form a picture I do not wish to gaze upon.
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any grief process individuals experience these stages in unique Barbara Lamb MS, MFT, CHt is a
ways and in unique order. It is vital the therapist understand these licensed Marriage and Family Therapist,
processes to best help Experiencers proceed through them. Certified Hypnotherapist and Regression
Support Groups for Experiencers Therapist in Claremont, California. She
Support groups are extremely beneficial to Experiencers. specializes in Regression Therapy with
Support groups allow Experiencers to share accounts of people who experience encounters with
extraterrestrial experiences, realize they are not alone in having extraterrestrial beings. Trained by the
these bizarre happenings, feel understood, accepted, and Association for Past Life Research and
“normalized.” It is best not to begin group participation until after Therapies (APRT) she began working
the client has gone through a few regressions, and when they and with ET experiencers in 1991, and has
the therapist have substantial indication of the kinds of things conducted regressions with more than 500 of them, totaling at
that have been occurring. This helps avoid being influenced by least 1500 regressions.
other peoples’ testimonies, which could contaminate their own She has taught workshops for Regression Therapists through
memories. various agencies such as APRT, the Professional Institute
Support groups can provide other resources, such as for Regression Therapy (PIRT) and others. She is currently
suggested reading, conferences, and methods of coping with President of The Academy of Clinical Close Encounter
difficult situations. Even a small support group can help, and Therapists (ACCET). Ms. Lamb has presented numerous
therapists who work with such clients should try to provide a lectures on the ET Encounter subject across the U.S., Canada,
support group for them. Although it is helpful to have therapists England and Belgium, and has been interviewed on numerous
present during support group meetings, the therapist does not television and radio shows.
need to conduct official group therapy. The therapist can guide
Her forthcoming book, Alien Experiences, co-authored
the group in an orderly way to assure each participant has his
with Nadine LaChance, will be available in Spring, 2007.
say on the aspects of most concern to him or her. Some support
Her existing book, Crop Circles Revealed, co-authored with
groups elect to do sky watches together during late evenings or
Judith K. Moore is available through email at barbara_lamb@
overnight camping trips in hope of seeing a UFO. Witnessing
verizon.net.
unusual craft that do not seem to be made by humans gives
Experiencers a sense of validation of their experiences with
extraterrestrials. It helps if therapists attend conferences and talk about
these concerns with researchers and other therapists who work
Considerations for Therapists with Experiencers, form networks with them, and read widely
Not all therapists are willing to work with people about the phenomenon. It can also help to talk with people who
who think they have been abducted by extraterrestrials, since have had these experiences. When feeling more prepared to deal
many therapists do not believe in the reality of such beings with Experiencers, therapists can look for clues a client might be
and experiences. Even therapists somewhat open to this reality having extraterrestrial encounters, and proceed with their helpful
nevertheless may not be comfortable enough to work with therapeutic skills. I encourage all regression therapists to be open
Experiencers. Long held notions of reality could be shaken. The to finding the clues indicating that a client might be an abductee,
material might be difficult to handle, personally and emotionally, and if they are found, to venture forth with an open mind with
and they might not know how to proceed in therapy with this their best therapeutic skills.
kind of material. They might not be trained in regression therapy. It seems an increasing number of people are becoming
Therapists who work with abductees can be strongly affected aware they have had abduction experiences, and more therapists
emotionally by what their clients recall and by the obvious able to work with these individuals are needed. If mass sightings
challenges to their own preconceived notions of reality. Also, of UFOs and extraterrestrials ever occur, it is possible therapists
with abductees, we cannot change the future; they will continue will significantly contribute to public understanding of what is
to be abducted. The source of the trauma will continue, out of going on.
the therapist’s and the client’s control. This is distressing to
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He crawls under the bed, his large head next to mine, In December 1980, my wife, two children and I lived in
and makes his eye contact. “I will not believe this clown. I will a large ranch home on 4 acres near Huffman, Texas. One night
not forget. It is not a clown. It is not a clown! I will not forget!” It I awoke suddenly with a feeling of dread….In the dark, I ran as
gets very dark as I tell myself for the last time that night, “I will fast as I could to the living room, where I stood in horror. There
not forget. It is not a clown.” was my six-year-old son looking out the window. He was not
…in the morning, I am back in bed, and cold. Numerous asleep. He was deep in trance. They had come and, like my own
things tell me what I remember from the night before really dad, I was not there for him…. “Oh God,” I thought, “not my son
happened. The soreness on my back where I hit the floor … the too.”
bed is no longer square against the wall. My covers come only Unknown to me (until years later), my son had rigged
near to my shoulders. (I always had them up to my head to keep a crossbow and a sharp broad-head arrow to automatically
me warm.) The sheets are a mess!…I definitely freaked in the shoot the next uninvited “intruder” into his room. This action of
morning….My parents realized something was troubling me desperation by my son could easily have killed any of us in that
greatly and I found myself in bed between them the next night…. home if we inadvertently opened the door in the night to check
I was grateful. Mom and Dad could protect me now. up on him….
The fact is you can mess with me or abduct me and I can
Can Mom and Dad Protect Me? live with it (I did). You mess with or abduct my son and I will
I was soon to find out differently. They could not come after you. I will protect and even avenge (if that is what it
protect me….I open my eyes to see “him,” the clown from the is?) my children. Now, they (the aliens) have my full attention. I
night before. The difference is he is not in his “clown suit.” am not sure this is what they wanted. It is certainly what they are
He is standing at the end of my parents’ big bed and there is a getting for the trouble. This may have been a serious mistake on
second one with him. They look a lot alike. I can tell them apart their part. Now, I hunt them that hunted me and later hunted my
though….I will never forget this clown. son….I am known as the “Alien Hunter.”
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(DOUGLASS continued from page 6) and I remember being in the army and getting reprimanded for
it. They’d sound the bell in the morning and we were supposed
Paul’s Hypnosis Therapy to get up immediately and stand at attention. I could not get out
Paul’s therapist was a psychiatrist. “For months we of bed until I’d counted to 64, no matter how many times they
simply talked about my life. Then he suggested hypnosis. I reprimanded me for it.
looked up and it was 45 minutes later. ‘When are we going to “My wife tells me I said under hypnosis that I’m
start the hypnosis?’ I asked. He said, ‘We already did it.’ My wife counting to 64 because I see 64 legs and feet and I know I can’t
took notes. This went on for three to four years. I have not read get out of there until they pass. From my perspective, from where
my wife’s notes. I also went to group therapy, but there were too ever I am watching this, all I can see are the legs and feet.”
many people there who saw themselves as victims. I do not want Paul said his therapist was “very professional. He said I
to be in a ‘victim’ mentality!” Paul said. was suffering from post traumatic stress and compulsive disorder.
“My wife says the things I talked about are weird He said, ‘We don’t know if you are remembering anything real,
and somewhat ritualistic. I didn’t actually use the words ‘devil but it is real to you.’ During the time I was in therapy, there
worshippers,’ but there were definitely a number of people was a lot in the news about satanic ritual child abuse, and we
involved in my memories. My wife tells me I said when we were considered things like that. But actually there are not many
in the circle someone would say to my parents, ‘Isn’t that right, proven cases like that at all. When I was a Chaplain in a men’s
Laura and Pete?’ [Paul’s parents’ names] In one case I talked prison, I talked to child abusers and there had not been any
about two little girls who were naked and I was too. I talked satanic element to what they did.”
about taking pictures and flashbulbs and lights.” A Serious Mystery Injury
“In high school I started to wonder, ‘What’s going on?’
One time I called my mother and said, ‘I’m in Park City [two Paul said Star Wars “totally frightened” him, and then
hours away] and I don’t know how I got here! Tell Larry I’ll he dropped a bombshell. When he was 24, he had to have an
bring the car home in time for his date.’ She said, ‘It’s 3 in the operation on both of his arms. “My hands went numb. The
morning! How can you say that about Larry’s date? It’s way too doctors told me my elbows had been extremely seriously injured.
late!’” They used the word ‘pulverized’. They said it would have
“I tried to, and did, required an ‘extreme blunt force’
forget all this until my late to create the kind of injuries to my
40s. Then I started having “He woke in the middle of the night and bones that they found.”
flashbacks. Flashbacks, anxiety found his ex-wife in bed beside him. . .then I didn’t even have to ask.
attacks, just like my twin she dematerialized. At this, my friend rose I knew Paul had absolutely no idea
brother—I get them when I’m in from his bed, shrieking in rage.” how these injuries had occurred.
a group. We remembered a guy There have been other cases of
in our neighborhood who was a injuries to abductees. I have heard
war photographer. Maybe it was him taking pictures…but I never of women with extensive scarring on their reproductive organs.
accused anybody.” I know abductees are prone to high fevers in childhood. I read
about a woman who broke her ankle when she was released from
Paul Remembers Weird Shapes and Atom Bombs in the Sky a craft. JAR editor Sue Swiatek has a case in which an abductee’s
Paul didn’t remember the sleepwalking incident when lungs were very seriously damaged. He remembers a being
Jeff ordered him back in the house. He did describe running saying, “We’re sorry. We made a mistake.” And investigator
the red light and almost hitting a VW with the “guy” beside Derrel Sims says he has a case in which two children drowned
him. Another time was when Paul and Larry were present at a in a swimming pool. And now there’s Paul—with “pulverized”
backyard sleep-out. They saw a “weird shape in the sky” which elbows. How in the world could that have happened? I wondered.
“lit up the whole backyard,” Paul said. “Next morning Larry In the meantime, Jeff dropped his own bombshell. He
didn’t remember a thing about it.” And once, when Paul was in told me his sister, Joan, has a friend who woke up one morning
junior high, and the family was camping at Yellowstone, Paul practically beaten to death.
“ran back to the family and said, ‘Did you see the atomic bomb Another Mystery Injury When I talked to Joan she told me all
go off?’” about it. Because I had no reason to think I would not talk to Joan
Paul stayed in therapy four years, underwent many again, I took no notes. But I did not talk to Joan again. She sent
hypnosis sessions, and never remembered what he said under a message that Jeremiah, her friend, “does not want to know or
hypnosis. Why, I asked him, did you continue to pay for hypnosis remember what happened to him.”
when you could not remember? “After the hypnosis,” Paul told It’s a simple story, really. I’ll reconstruct it from
me, “I would feel relieved, cleansed, less anxiety. I started to feel memory and from what Jeff said. The main thing missing will be
I was not crazy.” a precise description of Jeremiah’s extensive injuries. It seems
“My brother is functioning well today,” Paul said, Jeremiah stays in a wilderness cabin and one morning he awoke
“and I am active too and doing well—though I still get anxiety with injuries he had no memory of receiving and no idea who
attacks about once a month. I don’t like elevators, and I have inflicted the injuries.
another compulsive disorder: when I wake up in the morning According to Joan, Jeremiah awoke that morning with
I have to count to 64. This started when I was in high school,
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(DOUGLASS continued from page 29) I say this even though there is a lot I don’t know about these
broken bones in his leg, arms, ribs and severe injuries to his people, and even though I’m seeing only part of the picture.
skull. There was no telephone in the cabin and Jeremiah’s car I think a lot about Jeff during this investigation, and I do
was parked half a mile away. It was winter with snow on the not find clear evidence he has been abducted. Unlike the others
ground. I shudder to think how desperate this poor man must in this case, I had unfettered access to Jeff on the telephone. He
have been. Somehow, he managed to get to his car and eventually seemed completely candid and I explored his background to
to Joan, who took him to a hospital emergency room. When the some depth. Jeff recalled no missing time, had no flashbacks or
extent of the injuries was discovered, the police were called. other psychological symptoms, his medical history held no clues,
Joan was suspected of inflicting the injuries, but these charges nor did I find areas of past experience he was trying to avoid.
were dropped. It required months before Jeremiah recovered, Furthermore, just because Jeff’s brothers are abductees,
and he still, according to Joan, is not fully recovered. This event and just because Jeff’s parents apparently were, and just because
happened about five or six years ago, possibly in 2001. Jeff saw a “silhouette” in the dining room when he was six,
At some point Joan said she consulted “spirit guides” to and just because he woke up bolt upright in time to stop Paul
find out what happened to Jeremiah, and was told he had fallen from “sleepdriving”—does not mean Jeff is an abductee. If the
out of his loft bed in the cabin. Joan does not believe that. silhouette was an alien manifestation, Jeff’s brothers might have
Jeff remembers there were no tracks in the snow around been the target. And Jeff might have awakened bolt upright in the
the cabin; no broken doors or windows or any sign of forced backyard because he has a strong sixth sense.
entry; Jeremiah is a painter and one or two paintings in the cabin Yet, my attention keeps snagging on the recurring theme
were damaged; Jeremiah’s brothers investigated the scene at of homosexuality in Jeff’s life. He was not susceptible to it. It
the cabin and could find no explanation; when Jeremiah made it was external to him, interjected. I wonder—those “people” Paul
to Joan’s after the event, Joan, according to Jeff, “could barely remembers sitting in the circle with his parents—did they create
recognize him,” so severely was he injured. these homosexual episodes to test Jeff’s psychological makeup?
A Podiatrist with a Broken Back Psychological Testing by Aliens
I wish that was all, but it isn’t. Last summer, a MUFON Psychological testing is standard operating procedure
Utah member and I went for the alien. In my own town is
together to the Denver MUFON an abductee who relates he was
conference. I casually showed her “A man recalled being abducted at age 25. told point blank by the aliens
a draft of this article. “Oh!” she Prior to that abduction he was heterosexual. they were running a long term
said, and told me the story of her After it, he was a homosexual. He said that psychological test on him. “They
podiatrist. Recently her podiatrist during the abduction the aliens changed his told me,” my friend says, “that a
number of individuals were being
sexual orientation.”
had occasion to obtain x-rays of
his upper body. On looking at experimented on because of their
the x-rays, the podiatrist’s own personality type—that they [the
doctor said, “When did you break aliens] understood these people
your back? With such a bad break in your back, you must have well and had worked with them long enough—they would look
extensive symptoms.” at what you wanted most, assist you in getting close to what you
“Huh?” responded the podiatrist, according to the wanted until it got close and then they would rip it from your
MUFON member who told me this story. “Huh? I never broke grasp and study your reaction.” [italics in original].
my back!” The MUFON member has made two attempts to For my friend, the content of the test was soon made
persuade the podiatrist to speak with me. He refuses. manifest. He found himself in the “presence” of his ex-wife, who
This information leaves me dumbstruck. And there’s said, “I’m coming back to you.” More than anything, my friend
more. But first, I review the characters in my mind. There’s Jeff, wants his ex-wife to come back. “You’ve got to understand,” he
the parents Laura and Pete, the twin brothers Paul and Larry, the told me, “they can create anything they want you to see.” I told
sister Joan, her friend Jeremiah, and Jeff’s handsome friend at him I understood that.
Lake Powell. The twins were abducted, I know that. What about Next, my friend reports, he woke in the middle of
the rest? In particular, Jeff. Is Jeff an abductee? the night and found his ex-wife in bed beside him. “I smelled
her!” he says, “I heard her breathing. I touched her!” Then she
A Nest of Abductees? dematerialized. At this, my friend rose from his bed shrieking in
My feeling is I am looking at a “nest” of abductees. By rage, and threw objects around the room. And that, presumably, is
that I mean a group of associated persons, some, in this example, the test result the aliens were looking for.
related by blood, some not, who are abductees and whose Nothing so blatant went on with Jeff. But I wonder.
relationships with each other are being orchestrated behind the I note that each time Jeff had a brush with homosexuality, his
scenes. These individuals are together or are brought together and reaction was atypical. He was molested as a child, but he bears
influenced to behave in certain ways and play certain roles with no psychological scars. In his late teens a friend manifested
respect to each other. In a fluid manner, they pass in and out of an intense romantic interest. Jeff rejected the advance without
each other’s lives, as all humans do, but these humans are being psychological conflict, and without loss of admiration for his
watched, tested, stimulated, and used, over a long period of time.
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(DOUGLASS continued from page 30) functionality, to not be “crazy,” to keep earning a living and keep
gay friend. And it is curious Jeff’s gay friend was so handsome, being a husband and father—and above all, in his eyes—to not
beyond the normal it sounds to me. As for the peak experience be a “victim.” I was on edge during our one hour conversation,
Jeff had at Lake Powell, peak experiences are normal and not keenly aware of what I saw as Paul’s fragility, his desperate
necessarily an abduction marker. Yet investigators know that struggle to find an explanation, any normal explanation for what
when there is a definite abduction event (Jeff’s brothers), then all he remembers and for his compulsions and anxieties.
unusual events occurring to family members of the abductee bear But as much as he wanted to find a normal
close scrutiny. If someone was testing Jeff’s susceptibility, then explanation—child molestation—he never lost his rationality
the peak experience might have been induced, and intended to or his moral sense. “I never accused anybody,” he said. As a
soften Jeff up for seduction by his exceedingly handsome friend volunteer Mormon Chaplain in a men’s prison, he was looking
who was, incidentally, on the boat. for answers, but among the child molesters he counseled “there
Finally, there is Jeff’s UFO sighting. Again, he is the wasn’t any satanic element.” Nor did he weave any complex tale
passive recipient of experience. A complete stranger shows up built on Biblical characters. He might have found an escape there,
and essentially drags Jeff to a place where he is shown the reality because Paul is a religious man, but he hasn’t chosen any of the
of UFOs. Thereafter for the rest of his life, Jeff knows UFOs are escapes a weaker person might. Paul is a heroic and a courageous
real. man who is carrying a terrible burden, a truth so unlikely that, as
If there is psychological testing, manipulation, and a rational man, he cannot bring himself to consider—that his life
orchestration of this family, has a particular role been assigned has been deeply penetrated by extraterrestrial intelligences. Did
to Jeff? Whether “assigned” or not, Jeff has a particular role in I tell Paul anything? Well, kind of. He said he wanted me to tell
his family, at present anyway, and that role is “door opener.” him what I thought, but I knew he didn’t, or else he would have
Although Larry did not speak to this investigator, and Jeremiah read his wife’s notes of the hypnosis sessions. I recommended a
didn’t, Paul did, Joan did. It seems inescapable this contact good book on UFOs by a Mormon elder who is also a scientist.
with the UFO investigator has caused renewed introspection in Homosexual Susceptibility Testing?
these individuals and dialogue
among them—further focusing I’m still wondering if they
“. . .how deep and thorough is the skill the
their attention on one particular tested Jeff for susceptibility
to homosexuality. The aliens
explanation for their predicament, aliens have obtained in their quest to control are deeply interested in human
UFO abduction, as opposed to,
say, satanic abuse. All this has human beings.” sexuality, apparently including
happened because 27 years after homosexuality. According to
a UFO sighting, Jeff decided to an investigator on Long Island,
report it to MUFON. Did some agency outside Jeff’s awareness a group of men there was picked up and told to have anal
stimulate this step? intercourse with one of the men in the group. “He wants you to,”
they were told.
The “Prompting” to Awareness I heard this story years ago, and have kept it tucked
The stimulation and awakening of abductees to away in my mind awaiting additional data. Recently, I got some.
conscious awareness of the abduction experience is well known A colleague related to me a series of phone calls she received
to this investigator. I call it “prompting.” Indeed, the prompting from a man who recalled being abducted at age 25. Prior to that
of abductees through UFO sightings dominates my investigations abduction, he was heterosexual. After it, he was a homosexual.
in Utah at this time. Just today I received a call from a witness The man said that during the abduction the aliens
who said he and his son and his daughter saw the same-appearing changed his sexual orientation and that a female, whom he did
UFO pass 25 feet over their homes in the last six weeks. The not know, was abducted on the same occasion and her sexual
witness’s wife did not see the UFO, but she became hysterical orientation was also changed. The man, probably in his 40s now,
during the night of his sighting. “Of course,” this witness told me said that years after the abduction he actually met the woman
cheerfully, “that isn’t the first time I’ve seen a UFO. When I was (he remembered her, and she him), found she lived not far from
10, my mother and I saw one and there was missing time…” A where he lives, and they discussed the whole matter.
nest. Prompting. Deeply grateful to receive this information, I told my
What about the onset of flashbacks and other symptoms colleague it was a “benchmark.” It marks how deep and thorough
in Larry and Paul some years ago? Was that prompting? Some is the skill the aliens have obtained in their quest to control
will say the onset of symptoms represents simply the spilling human beings. And it certainly makes the notion Jeff was tested
over of dammed up psychological experience too toxic for for susceptibility to homosexuality more plausible, doesn’t it?
the individual to contain. My operating hypothesis is that Conscious Awareness Can Begin a Period of Turmoil
the memory fragments are purposely released into conscious
awareness by the abductors in order to determine how well they Joan asked me, “If Jeremiah remembers the night he
will be tolerated by the abductee. was injured, will it help?” I hesitated. I hesitated because I know
In the case of Paul, the memory fragments which that for abductees the onset of conscious awareness inaugurates
entered his awareness were not well tolerated. Talking with Paul a period of turmoil lasting about two years before resolution is
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(DOUGLASS continued from page 31) locked it), the porch light was off (it was ON at bedtime),
achieved, if it is. Things get worse before they get better. Then and the burglar alarm was turned off (set at bedtime to ON).
too, I don’t care all that much for the “better” most abductees Someone had gotten in, roughed me up, and left without my
achieve. Most come to believe the alien is here to help. That waking up. As to whether I fought back… I had no bruised
is the view I believe the alien wants the abductee to hold, and knuckles and the defensive objects I keep near my bed went
so the process often leaves me feeling as though, in my role as undisturbed [I must have been] gassed, drugged, and/or
investigator, I have assisted the alien in achieving his goal. psychotronically deactivated.
When I think of what happened to Jeremiah I feel real Blame the Government?
fear. What possible purpose could it serve to beat Jeremiah so
severely that even now, years later, he has not recovered? Dark These two individuals believe corrupt persons in the
thoughts enter my mind. Intimidation? Or, I think suddenly, U.S. government have mastered the technology of mind control,
could this be another test? “What will Jeremiah’s mental state be and these persons perpetrate psychic attacks upon abductees who
if we beat him within an inch of his life? How will he feel and are in close communication with aliens and trying to learn from
react? Let’s try it and find out.” the aliens how to achieve higher levels of consciousness. They
believe the U.S. government’s purpose in mounting the attacks is
Internet Postings Tell Tales to appear to be the alien and so discredit aliens in the eyes of the
In my UFO research, the beating of Jeremiah was abductee.
something new. I had heard nothing like it, and it was nothing I The alien has not been discredited, however, as far as
anticipated. I find I anticipate much of what the alien will do, but these two internet individuals are concerned. For them, the result
this was new. Then I ran across something like it on the internet. of the attacks has been to intensify their resentment of the U.S.
An individual posted the following account on a UFO abduction government and cause them to reach out ever more fervently to
website: the alien in an attempt to obtain help.
Last night was one of those aggressively active That’s interesting, isn’t it?
nights where there was no doubt it would be a night of What strikes me is the susceptibility of the reported
battle, starting with the heat, even though it was cold in events (the attacks) to an alternative explanation, namely, that
the room. Round one, I woke up drenched in my sweat, it is the alien who plays all roles in these reported dramas. It is
but it wasn’t that which awakened me. It was the choking, he who perpetrates the attacks, and it is he who plays the role of
not being able to catch my breath, as though an invisible the spiritually-elevated, non-intervening observer, because, after
hand were pressing on my throat. Then the “slam”’ into
the solar plexus, like somebody punching you there over Elaine Douglass is a board member of
and over and over, one blow after another. Then the battle JAR and has been a UFO researcher since
carried to the dream/vision state, where I faced a shape 1985. She is MUFON co-State Director
shifter. This leopard being was all of a sudden stalking for Utah and was State Director for
me. Suddenly, I had a shovel in my hand as it came toward Washington, DC for many years. In the
me, but as it advanced it started to change. The eyes were 1990s she was an organizer for Operation
quite human and its muscles started to transform into Right to Know (ORTK), an organization
those of a human. Then it rose on its two hind legs trying which sponsored public protests against
to lunge forward but the shovel kept it at bay. UFO secrecy. She holds a master’s degree
from MIT in military policy.
This witness believes he was under psychic attack by
persons associated with the U.S. government, and he reports his
efforts to ward off the attack with positive energy and love. Early all, if we subject these events to the test of “Who benefits?” we
in the experience, he reports hearing a voice say, “You will win cannot deny it is the alien who benefits. His yield is an abductee
this war with love,” and he believes this was the voice of an alien who loves and trusts him and who hates human authority.
observing the situation telling him how to defeat the psychic Conscious Awareness vs. No Context
attack by the U.S. government.
The attacks continue, he reports. “Many times,” while There is a difference between the two internet
driving, or sitting at his computer, or in his sleep, he feels “a individuals who were attacked, and the podiatrist, and Jeremiah,
lance of bad energy being thrust into my heart/chest area…” and Paul. The internet individuals are consciously aware of
This communication drew forth a sympathetic their involvement with extraterrestrials—they are past the
response from an internet correspondent, who reported a violent crisis of realization—while Jeremiah, Paul, and presumably,
experience of his own: the podiatrist, are not. So if we imagine that the attacks on the
internet individuals were staged as part of an effort to mold the
Sunday morning I woke up feeling like I had done two loyalties of these individuals, we see it was possible to do that
rounds with Muhammad Ali (in his good days). I was sore and because these two people know about aliens, they know about
felt like I had been multiple-punched in the stomach, sides, the government cover-up—in other words, they have a context in
ribs and kidneys. I could barely walk upright to the kitchen. which the attacks take place and which supports an interpretation.
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program—even simply to prevent UFOs from running into each
But for Jeremiah, there is no context. The attack is out of the blue other—some sort of significant command and control structure
and he, ostensibly, has “no idea…,” at least according to Joan. would be required, an ET air-traffic-control system.
A difference between Jeremiah versus Paul and the podiatrist, In addition, a large number of physical craft in our skies
is that Jeremiah experienced the attack, while Paul and the would presumably be difficult to conceal. Yet, it is not clear that
podiatrist not only have “no idea” who or why, they didn’t even the rate of UFO sightings is in accordance with such a large
know that an attack occurred. If indeed it was an attack, in the number of UFO flights. The volume of UFO traffic suggests
case of Paul and the podiatrist. Maybe they fell down the stairs that the rate of UFO sightings should be higher than it is, unless
in an alien aircraft. But Jeremiah didn’t, and he didn’t fall out of the aliens have some very effective visual and radar evasion
his loft bed either. The fact remains that since Jeremiah doesn’t capability.
have a context, if somebody was trying to teach him a lesson, he We can draw some further conclusions about a massive
didn’t learn it. Nor did I. I can’t apply the “Who benefits?” test to nuts-and-bolts abduction paradigm. The first thing we note is
this dreadful incident, since there’s little to support a hypothesis that it would be necessary to support this large volume of UFO
except possibly to suggest the whole thing was a botched affair traffic with a physical infrastructure to provide logistics, craft
and whoever did it had to withdraw. maintenance, consumables, etc. To estimate just what kind of a
Soon, I hope, hypnotherapists will apply themselves to support effort this would require, let’s make the (very human)
some of these “broken bones” witnesses, and I hope they make assumption that these UFOs would also need some sort of ground
sure they get past the screen memories. crew. If we assume 10 ETs per UFO as “support staff,” we end up
with up to 30-thousand ETs. This would require at least one large
(LANG continued from page 7) base or mother ship, which we can assume would be reasonably
experiencers there. Six thousand experiencers having an average near Earth. This would presumably be massive and difficult to
of one event per year results in six thousand events per year. conceal. At least in principle, it might be detectable to us.
Dividing this number by 365 yields approximately 16 abduction These numbers imply that unless such a vast ET
events per 24-hour period. infrastructure exists, one or more of the following must be true:
Presumably, each event 1) Each abductee has far
Craig R. Lang MS, CHt fewer experiences than we had
would involve a UFO flight. is a Certified Hypnotherapist, Hypnotherapy
Thus, on average, there should be Instructor, and NLP Practitioner. He lives originally estimated.
up to 16 UFO flights occurring 2) The number of abductees
and works in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota is far less than the assumed
each night over a similarly sized – a northern suburb of Minneapolis.
metropolitan area. Thus, on any 0.2%, the most conservative
given night, the skies over my estimates from the Roper poll.
He does both individual and group sessions 3) A significant percentage
own home city should be quite with those who want to explore beyond their
busy with UFOs. of abductions are nonphysical,
present horizons through creative problem thus not requiring a UFO visit.
solving, metaphysical exploration or past life regression, using This would argue (at least in
Global Scope guided imagery and meditation.
If we assume that the part) against a strictly nuts-
abduction rate is approximately Craig conducts research into anomalies such as UFO and-bolts model for abduction,
the same worldwide, then we
b abduction or contact experiences, helping people integrate implying that it may be more
end up with: 6 billion people their experiences into their lives, while shedding more light on metaphysical or paranormal
× 0.2% = 12 million abductees this mysterious phenomenon. in nature. Many abduction
worldwide. With an average rate researchers consider this a valid
Craig is very active in the Minnesota MUFON chapter (www. hypothesis.
of one abduction per year per mnmufon.org), and is past State Director. Contact him at If the nuts-and-bolts model
experiencer, we find that there [email protected].
are roughly 12 million abduction is correct, and our original
events per year. Further, if we assumptions are valid, then
divide 12 million by 365 days per year we get approximately 32 the scale of the effort would appear to be comparable to that of
thousand abductions per 24-hour period. a major global military campaign. This would imply that the
As we indicated above, if abduction is a nuts-and- abduction program must be a vital endeavor and its successful
bolts phenomenon, than each must require a UFO flight to get completion of tremendous urgency to some cosmic society.
the aliens to and from the site. Thus, up to 32 thousand UFO In this article, we have discussed the apparent scope
flights per 24-hour period would be required to sustain this rate and infrastructure required for the number of UFO abductions.
of abductions. Let’s imagine that multiple abductions could be If this massive effort is indeed under way, then we must ask
accomplished per UFO flight—arbitrarily assuming 10 per sortie. why we are so important to them. The answer must have
This would still require 3200 flights during any 24-hour period to profound implications for the future of humanity. Alternatively,
sustain the rate of abductions. if a nuts-and-bolts scenario is not the case, then at least one of
the alternatives must be true. To me, any of these alternatives
What the Numbers Tell Us suggest that we know even less about the UFO and abduction
These numbers reveal what I refer to as the “Air Traffic Control phenomenon than we thought.
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(CARPENTER continued from page 8) we call it? Fairies stealing our children away? Entranced by
leprechauns? Mingling with the Little People? Hellish visits from
John Carpenter demons? Angelic encounters? Higher-functioning insects from
obtained a Bachelors of Arts degree in Andromeda?
Psychology from DePauw University, Researchers also claim differing explanations based
Greencastle, Indiana, and a master’s upon their expertise, background, academic training, professional
degree in Social Work from Washington perspective, as well as personal experiences. Although claiming
University, St. Louis, Missouri. He to be unbiased, they cannot help having a certain angle,
has had advanced training in Clinical perspective, or opinion. They are human beings, and it is human
Hypnosis in order to practice as a nature to do so! They want to solve the mystery and be able
psychiatric therapist and hypnotherapist to explain it to everybody else. Despite citing certain data and
in Branson, Missouri. For nearly 20 years he has counseled deriving “logical” conclusions, they can inadvertently notice
people in Southwest Missouri for every kind of emotional some data more frequently and dismiss, doubt, or minimize other
problem imaginable. His life-long curiosity in UFOs led to his data at the same time. This is not deliberate—just another process
volunteering his services for over 120 cases of possible UFO that human beings perform subconsciously to arrive at solutions.
abduction. Therefore, it can be noted that a researcher always seems to keep
finding data that matches his opinions while another researcher
Using clever interviewing and thorough hypnotic investigation,
may find different conclusions from other data that he continues
he has collected amazing patterns of data which clearly depict
to find. Of course, these researchers will then debate whose
a consistent and coherent scenario of extraterrestrial contact.
conclusions are correct and whose data is best!
He presented six papers at the prestigious MIT Abduction
So what do I conclude? My opinion is … that there are
Study Conference in Boston in 1992. His published papers
no clear answers. We must be very careful when we criticize
have brought him international recognition and speaking
another person’s perspective or belief. Maybe our data points in
invitations on five continents. He has presented at conferences
one direction and suggests a certain conclusion, but do we really
from Australia to England, on national and international
know for sure? How can we ignore certain data—especially if it
radio, television, and film documentaries. He has created and
does not agree with our accepted ideas? Having talked with many
produced seven research videotapes since 1996. Mr. Carpenter
prominent researchers, I know that every one of them has this
also serves as MUFON’s Director of Abduction Research.
“gray” basket in which is tossed the undesirable, less believable,
unpopular kinds of data.
examine me!! I feel raped! Why? Is not every piece of data important and a piece
I hate their guts and want to kill them if I ever see of the puzzle? How can anything in this field of research be
them again.” “too weird”? We need to look at everything and all opinions to
“I am really confused. What do they want from gain a complete and more accurate appraisal. Would that be too
me? Why couldn’t they just explain what they are overwhelming?
doing and why they needed me? Then it would be So be it. That’s reality.
okay.”
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“I feel so special that they have been following
my family over the years and find us interesting and (LANG continued from page 33)
perhaps helpful to their cause.”
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“I have horrible nightmares and wake up a.
screaming! I didn’t ask for this to happen—I don’t Unusual Personal Experiences: 1991 and 1998, National Institute of
Discovery Sciences http://nidsci.org/news/roper_surveys.html
need this in my life.” Discussion of the 1991 and 1998 Roper Poll of Unusual Personal
“They should ask me first! That is my only hang- Experiences:
up over this. They should ask my permission and not The poll asked detailed questions exploring incidents of indicator
just treat me like a stupid little kid.” phenomena in a person’s life. Five phenomena were considered as key
“I don’t really care about this. I know it happened, indicators. These were as follows:
but I’m moving on … okay?” 1. Waking paralyzed and sensing a presence in the room
2. Missing time
“They need to be stopped!! Our military should
3. Feeling of flying
defend us! People, wake up!!” 4. Seeing balls of light
“I believe they have been coming here for 5. Anomalous scars
centuries and probably brought us here. They are our Notes: The stated criterion for being a possible abductee is experiencing
angels, leprechauns, elves, fairies, and little goblins four of five indicators more than once. The overall estimate of the 1998
in legends!” poll is that 0.9% (approximately 1%) of the population fit this criterion.
“We are just their frogs that they are dissecting on Approximately 0.2% of the surveyed population reported experiencing
their high school field trip!” all five indicators.
\b. John Mack [Passport to the Cosmos] and others have argued that the
As one can easily see, the same variety of perspectives UFO abduction phenomenon is most likely global in scope. From this,
and opinions abound from this confusing experience—which we can arguably assume a similar percentage of abductees throughout
has been given the name of “alien abductions.” What should the world.
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