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Abductions Psychiatric Laibow
CLINICAL DISCREPANCIES BETWEEN EXPECTED AND OBSERVED DATA IN PATIENTS
REPORTING UFO ABDUCTIONS: IMPLICATIONS FOR TREATMENT
ABSTRACT: IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT THIS PAPER MAKES NO ATTEMPT TO ASSIGN OR
WITHHOLD EXTERNAL VALIDITY RELATIVE TO UFO ABDUCTION SCENARIOS.
Patients who believe themselves to be UFO abductees are a
heterogeneous group widely dispersed along demographic and cultural lines.
Careful examination of these patients and their abduction reports presents
four areas of significant discrepancy between expected and observed data.
Implications for the treatment of patients presenting UFO abduction
scenarios are discussed.
INTRODUCTION
If a patient were to confide to a therapist that he had been abducted
by aliens who took him aboard a UFO and performed a series of medical
procedures and examinations on him it is not likely that the patient would
find either a receptive ear or a respectful and non-judgemental response from
the therapist. The material presented would lie so far outside the confines
of our personal and cultural belief system that it would seem intolerably
anomalous to most of us. We would probably dismiss or repudiate it using a
few comfortable and familiar assumptions which hold so much obvious wisdom
that they do not require specific examination.
When events which are too anomalous to allow their incorporation
into our world schema are presented to us, we are likely to dismiss them
by using assumptions based in out currently operative world view. This
effectively precludes the open evaluation of the anomaly. Hence, the
"expressible" response of most clinical and lay individuals upon hearing a UFO
abduction account would be an immediate dismissal of even the possibility that
such an episode might occur. Close upon the heels of that determination the
rapid and complete pathologization of the person offering such an account
would follow. Dream states, suggestibility, poor reality testing, outright
dissembling or frank psychosis are customarily offered and accepted as evident
and reasonable organizing models by which the production of this material may
be understood. These are typical maneuvers by which the presentation of
information which challenges schematic assumptions is dismissed or screened
out before the assumptions can be adequately tested for predictive reliability
and accuracy. Such testing is highly desirable, however, because it offers
us the opportunity to apply the scientific method to our current level of
theorital sophistication and thereby refine our understanding of reality
further still. Of course, this process is severely impeded when the new data
is excluded from consideration strictly because it is too anomalous for
assessment.
Westrum has offered a model by which events become "hidden" and
therefore remain anomalous to the perception of society in a circular
process: the hidden event is disbelieved and its disbelief helps to keep it
hidden. Citing the lengthy period during which battered children and their
battering parents remained hidden, Westrum states:
"An event is hidden if its occurrence is so implausible
that those who observe it hesitate to report it because
they do not expect to be believed. The implausibility
may cause the observer to doubt his own perceptions,
leading to the event's denial or mis identification.
Should the observer nonetheless make a report, he/she
can expect to be treated with incredulity or even
ridicule. Since the existence of a hidden event is
contrary to what science, society, and perhaps even
the observer believes, the event remains hidden because
of strong social forces which interfere with
reporting. The actual degree of underreporting is
sometimes difficult to believe, a skepticism which
itself acts as a deterrent to taking seriously
those reports which do surface." (1)
But for the clinician who spends a moment before reaching these
"obvious" and "intuitive" conclusions, several fascinating and potentially
productive questions present themselves. If we refrain for a short period
from dismissing this material out-of-hand, we find that there are at least
four areas of puzzling and important discrepancy between our intuitive sense
of order and the data presented by the patient. These discrepancies force us
to re-examine our assumptions in light of a demonstrated failure of the theory
to account for the observed phenomena. This process, while taxing and
challenging, is nonetheless, the way we systemize our understanding of human
health and pathology. Noting the previously un-noted and using it to refine
our conceptual framework leads to better prediction and therefore to better
treatment.
It is not the purpose of this paper to ascribe relative reality to the
experience of abduction reported by some patients. Rather, precisely because
it lies outside the realm of clinical expertise to assess with certainty
whether these events actually occurred or if they are mere fantasy, it is
mandatory for the clinician to examine the impact of these experiences,
whatever their source, upon the patient. This must be done in a clear sighted
and open-minded fashion so that the impact of the experiences may be dealt
with rather than made into hidden events.
AREAS OF DISCREPANCY
1. ABSENCE OF MAJOR PSYCHOPATHOLOGY: It is intuitively
seductive (and perhaps comfortable) for us to assume that psychotic-level
functioning will necessarily be present in a person claiming to be a UFO
abductee. If this level of distortion and delusion is present, a patient
would be expected to demonstrate some other evidence of reality distortion.
Pathology of this magnitude would not be predicted to be present in a well
integrated, mature and non-psychotic individual. Instead, we would expect
clinical and psychometric tools to reveal serious problems in numerous areas
both inter- and interpersonally. It would be highly surprising if otherwise
well-functioning persons were to demonstrate a single area of floridly
psychotic distortion. Further, if this single idea fix were totally
circumscribed, non-invasive and discrete, that in itself would be highly
anomalous. Well-developed, fixed delusional states with numerous
elaborated and sequential components are not seen in otherwise healthy
individuals. Prominent evidence of deep dysfunction would be expected to
pervade many areas of the patient's life. One would predict that if the
abduction experience were the product of delusional or other psychotic states,
it would be possible to detect such evidence through the clinical and
psychometric tools available to us.
This points to the first important discrepancy: individuals
claiming alien abduction frequently show no evidence of past or present
psychosis, delusional thinking, reality-testing deficits, hallucinations or
other significant psychopathology despite extensive clinical evaluation.
Instead, there is a conspicuous absence of psychopathology of the magnitude
necessary to account for the production of floridly delusional and presumably
psychotic material.(2)
In order to test this startling and anomalous information, a group of
subjects who believe they have been abducted by aliens (9, 5 male, 4 female)
were asked to participate in a psychometric evaluation. An experienced
clinical psychologist carried out an investigation using projection tests
(Rorschach, TAT, Draw a Person and the MMPI) and the Wechler Adult
Intelligence Scale. The examining clinician was told "the subjects were being
evaluated to determine similarities and differences in personality structure,
as well as psychological strengths and weaknesses". All of the subjects
actively refrained from sharing UFO-related experiences with the examiner and
she was unaware of this theme in their lives.
The investigator found that commonalties were not strongly present and
that:
"while the subjects are quite heterogeneous in their
personality styles, there is a modicum of homogeneity
in several respects: (1) relatively high intelligence
with concomitant richness of inner life; (2) relative
weakness in the sense of identity, especially sexual
identity; (3) concomitant vulnerability in the inter-
personal realm; (4) a certain orientation towards
alertness which is manifest alternately in a certain
perceptual sophistication and awareness or in inter-
personal hyper-vigilance and caution.... Perhaps the
most obvious and prominent impression left by the
nine subjects is the range of personality styles
the present.... There is little to unite them as a
group from the standpoint of the overt manifestations
of their personalities.... They [are] very distinctive
unusual and interesting subjects. [But] "Along with
above average intelligence, richness in mental life,
and indications of narcissistic identity disturbance,
the nine subjects also share some degree of impair-
ment in personal relationships. For [some] subjects,
problems in intimacy are manifest more in great
sensitivity to injury and loss than in lack of
intimacy and relatedness. [Ad] "...The last salient
dimension of impairment in the interpersonal realm
relates to a certain mildly paranoid and disturbing
streak in many of the subjects, which renders them
very wary and cautious about involving themselves
with others. It is significant that all but one of
the subjects had modest elevations on the MMPI paranoia
scale relative to their other scores. Such modest
elevations mean that we are not dealing with blatant
paranoid symptomology but rather over-sensitivity,
defensiveness and fear of criticism and susceptibility
to feeling pressured. To summarize, while this is a
heterogeneous group in terms of overt personality style,
it can be said that most of its members share being
rather unusual and very interesting. They also share
brighter than average intelligence and a certain rich-
ness of inner life that can operate favorably in terms
of creativity or disadvantageously to the extent that
it can be overwhelming. Shared underlying emotional
factors include a degree of identity disturbance, some
deficits in the interpersonal sphere, and generally
mild paranoia phenomena (hypersensitivity, wariness,
etc.)" (3)
Her findings demonstrate a uniform lack of the significant
psychopathology which would be necessary to account for these experiences if
abduction experiences do represent the psychotic or delusional states
predicted by current theory.
When the examiner was informed of the true reason for the selection of
the subjects for this evaluation (i.e., their shared belief that they had been
exposed to alien abductions), she wrote an addendum to the original report re-
examining the findings of the testing in the light of the new data. In it she
states:
"The first and most critical question is whether our
subjects' reported experiences could be accounted
for strictly on the basis of psychopathy, i.e., mental
disorder. The answer is a firm no. In broad terms,
if the reported abductions were confabulated fantasy
productions, based on what we know about psychological
disorders, they could only have come from pathological
liars, paranoid schizophrenics, and severely disturbed
and extraordinarily rare hysteroid characters subject
to fugue states and/or multiple personality shifts...
It is important to note that not one of the subjects,
based on test data, falls into any of these categories.
Therefore, while testing can do nothing to prove the
veracity of the UFO abduction reports, one can conclude
that the test findings are not inconsistent with the
possibility that reported UFO abductions have, in fact,
occurred. In other words, there is no apparent
psychological explanation for their reports." (4)
2. CONCORDANCE OF REPORTED DATA: The second point of
intriguing discrepancy follows from this surprising absence of evidence
of a common thread of severe and reality-distorting psychopathology to
account for the patient's bizarre assertions. They claim that they have
been abducted, sometimes repeatedly over nearly the whole course of their
lives, by aliens who have communicated with them and carried out procedures
much like medical examinations. Persons reporting these experiences are seen
to be psycho-dynamically varied. They are also demographically varied.
Reports of this basic scenario, numbering in the hundreds, have now been
recorded. Even though the reporters range from individuals as diverse as a
mestizo Brazilian farmer(5),an American corporate lawyer (6), and a Mid-
Western minister(7), there is a perplexing and intriguing concordance of
features in these reports. Certain details of the scenarios repeat themselves
with disturbing regularity no matter what the educational, national, social,
experiential or other demographic characteristics of the reporter. In the
production of dreams, reveries, poetry, fantasies and psychotic states, while
the general themes of concern may be identified easily between individuals,
the specific symbolization, concretion, abstraction and representation of
those themes is relatively indiosyncratic for each individual. This of course
necessitates careful empathic and attentive listening on the clinician's part
to gather both the general flavor and specific meaning of the elements of the
fantasy state. This careful listening often means that a personal symbolic
representational system can be unraveled and its contents can be rendered less
mysterious to the patient. In the abduction scenarios however, both specific
details and themes repeat themselves with surprising regularity: In general,
the appearance and modus operandi of the aliens, their effect and procedures,
their tools and interests, their crafts and physical features all tally from
report to report with a high rate of concordance. (8,9,10) This intriguing
fact seems impervious to the socio-economic, educational, national, or
cultural background of the abductee. Similarly, whether the individual has
had previous contact with the literature of abduction seems to make little
difference in this vein since the reports of individuals who can be shown to
have had no exposure to abduction literature also contains these common
features. Skilled practitioners and investigators report in these cases that
they are convinced that each of these subjects was being wholly truthful in
his/her report.
The concordance of both content and event in these reports makes
them unlike any other fantasy-generated material with which I am familiar.
Indeed, investigators like Hopkins and others claim they have intentionally
withheld dissemination of certain important, frequently reported aspects of
the abduction scenarios in order to provide a "check" on the material being
presented to them by individuals who may have had access to this literature
since abductees may have been influenced at either the conscious or the
unconscious level by it. In these cases as well, the features which have
previously been published as well as those withheld are both produced by the
abductee (11). In instances in which the patient has read some of the
abductee literature, this previously withheld material may be offered to the
investigator with a sense of personal invalidation, apology and embarrassment.
He often expresses concern that this information is less likely to be
believed than the other material with which he is already familiar. (12)
Jung and others have written widely about the use of archetypes
and the collective awareness of themes and images which are asserted to
present themselves in a world-wide and multi-personal way. The amount of
individual variation and creative latitude demonstrated within the closed
system of archetypes and collected creativity is vast. Those who pose such
universals detect their presence in the complex and highly idiosyncratic
presentations and guises which they are given by the unconscious mind of the
patient and the artist. This disguise is idiosyncratic, they hold, precisely
because a set of available images is being used to work and rework the
personal realities of the individual against the background of the collective.
But the abductee does not seem to be involved in the reworking of personal
mythologies against the canvas of the race's mythology. The details and
contents of the scenarios seem, upon extensive investigation, to bear little
thematic relevance to the issues inherent in the life of the abductee.
Intensive follow up investigation frequently yields no thematic, archetypical,
primary process symbolic meaning to the shape or activities of the abductors
and the scenario of the abduction itself. Instead, therapeutic work in these
cases centers around the issues inherent in the powerlessness and
vulnerability of the individual even is this were not a prominent theme in his
life before the putative abduction. In other words, the customary richness of
association and creativity found in the examination of dreams and other
fantasy material is lacking with regard to the scenario and presentation of
the aliens who abduct and manipulate the patient in the abduction story.
If the abduction material is indeed archetypal or fantasy generated in
nature, this is a new class of archetypes. These archetypes demand rather
exact representation and mythic presentation since the activities and behavior
of the aliens is rather invariant within a narrow latitude regardless of the
other dream and fantasy themes of the patient.
3. ABDUCTION SCENARIOS AND HYPNOSIS. Members of both the lay and
professional communities frequently assume that material referring to UFO
abduction scenarios is retrieved under hypnosis. Since it is generally
believed that people under hypnosis are open to the implantation of
suggestions through the overt or covert influence of the hypnotist it is
concluded that this material reproduces the hypnotists' expectations or
interests. It is further concluded that since the hypnotist "put it there"
the abduction could not be accounted for as material which emerges solely from
the patient's end of dyad.
Thus, the abduction scenarios are commonly dismissed as merely representing
the production of desired material by compliant subjects. The abductees strong
sense of personal conviction that this really happened to him during the
session itself and upon recall of the session is similarly dismissed as an
artifact of the process by which the fantasies were generated.
Several compelling factors mitigate against the facile dismissal of
data in this way. Firstly, about 20% of these highly concordant abduction
scenarios are available spontaneously at the level of conscious awareness
prior to hypnosis. (13,14) These accounts may be enhanced or subjected to
further elaboration through the use of hypnosis or other recall enhancement
techniques, but in a significant number of people producing abduction
scenarios the recall is initially produced without recourse to such
techniques. If their stories were substantially different from the concordant
abduction scenarios produced under regressive hypnosis, a different phenomenon
would be taking place.
However, given the perplexing clinical presentation of similar stories
from dissimilar people who are uninformed about one another's experience, this
presents another highly interesting area of discrepancy.
Hopkins has classified patterns of abduction recall into five
categories:
Type 1. patients consciously recall parts of the full abduction
scenario without hypnotic or other techniques designed to aid recall. The
emergence of this material may be delayed.
Type 2. patients recall the UFO sighting, surrounding circumstances
and/or aliens, but do not recall the abduction itself. Only a perceived gap in
time indicates any anomalous occurrence.
Type 3. patients recall a UFO and/or hominids but nothing else.
There is no sense of time lapse or dislocation.
Type 4. patients recall only a time lapse or dislocation. No UFO
abduction scenario is recalled without the use of specific retrieval
techniques.
Type 5. patients recall noting relating to UFO or abduction
scenarios. Instead they experience discrepant emotions ranging from uneasy
suspicions that "something happened to me" to intense, ego-dystonic fears of
specific locations, conditions or actions. They may also exhibit unexplained
physical wounds and/or recurring dreams of abduction scenario content which
are not fixed in their experience as to place and time. (15)
Examination of the transcripts of hypnotic sessions which yield
abduction material reveals that although subjects are sufficiently
suggestible to enter the trance state as directed by the therapist, they
resist having material "injected" into their account. They customarily
refuse to be "lead" or distracted by the therapist's attempts to change
either the focus or content of their report. The subject characteristically
insists upon correcting errors or distortions suggested or implied by the
hypnotist during the session. Hence it is difficult to account for the
similarities and concordances of these scenarios through the mechanism of
suggestibility when these subjects so steadfastly refuse to be lead by
hypnotists.
In fact, it is even more striking that while these patients feel the
material which they are producing both in and out of hypnosis as
experientially "real", nonetheless they frequently seek to discount or
explain away this bizarre and frightening material. This remains true even
though sharing it regularly results in a significant remission of anxiety-
related symptoms and discomfort. These abduction scenarios are so ego-alien
that they have frequently not shared the material with anyone at all or with
only a highly select group of trusted intimates. In the vast preponderance of
cases patients are reluctant to allow themselves to be publicly identified as
having had these experiences since the perceive that the abduction scenario is
so highly anomalous that they expect to experience ridicule and repudiation if
they become associated with it publicly. It therefore functions like a guilty
secret in the way that rape has (and, unfortunately still does in some cases).
After the material is produced and explored, these subjects often
experience a marked degree of relief. This is true with reference both to
previously identified symptomatic behaviors and other anxiety manifestations
not noted on initial assessment. These other symptoms may remit after
enhanced recall of the scenario and its details takes place. It is
interesting to note that while the scenarios may contain a good deal of highly
traumatic material specifically related to reproductive functioning, these
episodes are nearly uniformly free of subjective erotic charge when either the
manifest or latent contents are examined.
4. POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER (PTSD) IN THE ABSENCE OF
EXTERNAL TRAUMA: PTSD was first described in the content of battle
fatigue (16). Although it may present in a wide variety of clinical guises
(17) PTSD is currently understood as a disorder which occurs in the context of
intolerable externally induced trauma which floods the victim with anxiety
and/or depression when his overwhelmed and paralyzed ego defenses prove
inadequate to the task of organizing unbearably stressful events. In the
service of the patient's urgent attempt to still the tides of disorganizing
anxiety, fear or guilt<18> which accompany the emergence of cognitive, sensory
or emotional recall of these traumatic events, the trauma itself may be
either partly or completely unavailable to conscious recall. <19>...Both
physical and psychological responses to the trauma are profound and pervasive.
PTSD follows overwhelming real-life trauma and is not known to present as a
sequel to internally generated fantasy states.<20>
This fourth area of discrepancy between predicted and observed data is
perhaps the most striking and challenging. Patients who produce alien
abduction material in the absence of psycopathology severe enough to account
for it often show the clinical picture of PTSD. This is remarkable when one
considers that it is possible that no traumatic event occured except that
rooted only in fantasy. These trauma are, in large measure, split off, denied
and repressed as they are in other occurrences of PTSD.
As discussed above, these scenarios frequently appear in individuals
who are otherwise free of any indication of significant emotional and
psychological instability or pre-existing severe psycopathology. On careful
clinical assessment, these memories do not appear to fill the intrapsychic
niches usually occupied by psychotic or psycho-neurotic formulations. The
abduction scenarios do not encapsulate or ward off unacceptable impulses, they
do not define <or defend against> split off affects, they are not used either
to stabilize or to divert current or archaic patterns of behavior nor do they
provide secondary gain or manipulative control for the individual.
Instead, this material, experienced by the patient as unwelcome and
totally ego-dystonic, seems quite consistently to be woven into the fabric of
the patient's internal life only in terms of his reactive response to the
stress inherent in these experiences and the contents of the repressed
material related to the stressful memories. But the extent of this secondary
response can be extensive. It should be noted that PTSD has not previously
been thought to occur following trauma which has been generated solely by
internally states. If abduction scenarios are in fact fantasies, then our
understanding of PTSD need to be suitably broadened to account for this
heretofore unexpected correlation.
In addition, there are significant clinical implications to the
finding of abduction scenario material in a patient who shows PTSD but is
otherwise free of significant psychopathology. Since abduction scenario
material presents several crucial areas of anomaly and discrepancy between
what is known and that which is observed. It is very important for the
therapist to refrain from the comfortable (for the therapist, at least)
description of psychotic functioning to the patient who produces this material
until such disturbance is, in fact, demonstrated and corroborated by the
presence of other signs beside the UFO-related material. It is imperative for
the therapist to adopt a non-judgemental stance. He can attend to the
distress of the patient without attempting to confirm or deny possibilities
which are outside the specific area of his expertise. The clinician should
adopt as his therapeutic priority the alleviation of the PTSD symptomology
through the use of appropriate and acceptable methods specific to the
treatment of PTSD. In addition, the therapist must remember that while he may
have strong convictions pro or con the abduction actually having occurred, it
is not within either his capability or expertise to make such a judgement with
total certainty. Furthermore, as the clinical psychologist who evaluated the
nine abductees pointed out in her addendum, the sophistication of the
psychotherapies has not advanced to the point at which this determination can
be made on the basis of currently available information (21), although the
treatment of post traumatic symptomology is currently understood. Hence, it
is important for the therapist to retain the same non-judgemental and helpful
stance necessary to the successful treatment of any other traumatic insult.
When a therapist labels material as either unacceptable or insane, the
burden of the patient is increased. If the therapist is reacting out of
prejudices which reflect his own closely-held beliefs rather than his
complete certainty, he unfairly increases the distress of the patient.
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS: Although it has long been the
"common wisdom" of both the professional and lay communities that anyone
claiming to be the victim of abduction by UFO occupants must be seriously
disturbed, thoroughly deluded or a liar, careful examination of both the
reports and their reports calls this assumption into question. Clinical and
psychometric investigation of abductees reveals four areas of discrepancy
between the expected data and the observable phenomena and suggests further
investigation. These discrepant areas are:
1. ABSENCE OF PSYCHOPATHOLOGY An unexpected absence of severe
psychopathology coupled with the high level of functioning found in many
abductees is a perplexing and surprising finding. Psychometric evaluation
of nine abductees revealed a notable heterogeneity of psychological and
psychometric characteristics. The major area of homogeneity was in the
absence of significant psychopathology. Rather than consulting a subset
of the severely disturbed and psychotic population, there is clinical
evidence that at least some abductees are high functioning, healthy
individuals. This interesting discrepancy requires further investigation.
2. CONCORDANCE OF REPORTS Highly dissimilar people produce
strikingly similar accounts of abductions by UFO occupants. The basic
scenarios are highly concordant in detail and events. This is surprising in
light of the widely divergent cultural, socio-economic, educational,
occupational, intellectual and emotional status of abductees. Further, the
scenarios themselves do not seem to show the same layering of affect and
symbolic richness present in other fantasy endowed material. Instead,
symbolic and conceptual complexity centers around the meaning of the
experience for the individual, not around the shape, form, activity, intent,
etc., of the aliens and their environment. This is in stark contrast to the
expected complexity and diversity of thematic and symbolic elaboration found
in our fantasy material.
3. RESISTANCE TO SUGGESTION UNDER HYPNOSIS Abduction scenario
concordance is frequently attributed to the introduction of material into the
suggestible mind of a hypnotized patient. Examination of abduction reports
indicates that a significant percentage of these reports emerge into conscious
awareness prior to the use of hypnosis or other techniques employed to
stimulate recall. Furthermore abductees resist being lead or diverted during
hypnosis and regularly insist on correcting the hypnotist so that their report
remains accurate according to their own perceptions.
4. PTSD IN THE ABSENCE OF TRAUMA Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD) has not been previously reported in patients experiencing
overwhelming stress predicted only in internally generated states such as
psychotic delusional systems or phobias. But patients reporting abduction
frequently show classic signs and symptoms of PTSD. Like other kinds of PTSD
it is subject to clinical intervention which frequently leads to substantial
clinical improvement. But in order for this improvement to occur, the patient
must be treated for the PTSD he exhibits rather than the psychotic state he is
presumed to display by virtue of his abduction report. If the abduction
scenarios represent only a fantasy state, then it is worth investigating why
(and how) this particular highly concordant and deeply disturbing fantasy is
involved in the pathogenesis of a condition otherwise seen only following
externally induced trauma. Further, if this is found to be the case, the
nature of PTSD itself should be re-examined in light of this finding.
Alternatively, it may be that the trauma is, in fact, an external one which
has taken place and the post traumatic state represents an expected response
on the part of a traumatized patient.
It is not within the area of expertise of the clinician to make an
accurate determination about the objective validity of UFO abduction events.
But it is certainly within his purview to assist the patient in regaining a
sense of appropriate mastery, anxiety reduction and the alleviation of the
clinical symptomalogy as efficiently and effectively as possible. This is
best accomplished through an assessment the patient's *actual* state of
psycho-dynamic organization, not his *presumed* state. In other words, in
order to make the diagnosis of a psychotic or delusional state, findings other
than the presence of a belief in UFO abduction must be present. In the
absence of other indications of severe psychopathology, it is inappropriate to
treat the patient as if he were afflicted with such psychopathology. It lies
outside the realm of clinical expertise to determine with absolute certainty
whether or not a UFO abduction has indeed taken place. Patients should not be
viewed as demonstrating prima facie evidence of pervasive psychotic
dysfunction because of the abduction material alone nor should they be
hospitalized or treated with anti-psychotic medication based solely on the
presence of UFO abduction scenarios. Instead, they should be assessed on the
basis of their overall psychologic state. Unless otherwise indicated,
treatment should be focused on the PTSD symptomatology and its repair.
The areas of discrepancy which arise from the examination of UFO
abductees between the expected clinical finding and the observed ones
highlight interesting questions which require further investigation into
the nature and impact of fantasy on psycho-dynamic states and symptom
formation.
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(2)Hopkins, B. Missing Time: A Documented Study of UFO Abductions.
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(11)Hopkins, B. Intruders: The Incredible Visitation at Copley Woods.
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(12)Hopkins, B. Personal communications with the author about the more
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(13)Westrum, R. personal communication with the author.
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(14)Hopkins, B. personal communication with the author.
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(15)Hopkins, B. "The Investigation of UFO Reports" in The Spectrum
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(16)Kardiner, A., The Traumatic Neuroses of War. New York,
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(17)van Der Kolk, B.A., Psychological Trauma. Washington, DC, American
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(18)Horowitz,M.J., Stress Response Syndromes. New York, Jason Aronson,1976
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(19)van Der Kolk, op.cit.
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(20)American Psychiatric Association: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
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(21)Slater, op.cit.
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From: dona@bilver.uucp (Don Allen)
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Subject: INFO: Roswell Witness Linkage
Keywords: Roswell UFO USAF Coverup "Weather Balloon"
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This is an article that was posted on Paranet not long ago
and germane to the infamous Roswell case a number of years
ago.
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Message #4515 - INFO.PARANET
Date : 17-Dec-90 2:11
From : Michael Corbin
To : All
Subject : Roswell Witness Surfaces
Here is an article that was contributed by Sandy Barbre regarding an article
which appeared in a Springfield, MO newspaper on December 9, 1990.
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CONTRIBUTED BY: Sandy Barbre
December 17, 1990
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The following was taken from a newspaper from Springfield, Missouri,
dated Sunday, December 9th, 1990. The name of the newspaper I think,
is the NEWS-LEADER and article is in the section called Ozarks Accent.
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TITLED: NOTED EXPERT FINDS ACCOUNT CONVINCING.
BY: Mike O'Brien
What sets Gerald Anderson apart from the thousands of other
American's, including scores of Ozarkers, who say they've seen
UFO's or even insist they've been kidnapped by creatures from
outer space?
Why are Gerald Anderson's childhood recollections stirring
international interest among UFO researchers whose reputations
have been built on healthy skepticism and willingness to
debunk hoaxes?
Because of little things he has to say and how he says them.
Stanton Friedman, a nuclear physicist who has lectured on more
than 600 college campuses about UFOs, describes Anderson as "a
really significant, potentially the most important" witness to
what both men believe was the aftermath of one of two space
craft crashes in New Mexico in mid-summer 1947.
Friedman is co-authoring a book based upon several years of
painstaking investigation into the haunting mystery. He was
startled, upon meeting Anderson for the first time only a few
months ago, to hear the Springfieldian echo details of the yet
to be published research.
"There's no way he could know some of these things unless he
had been there at the time," Friedman believes.
Example: only days before first talking with Anderson,
Friedman coaxed a heretofore reluctant New Mexico mortician
into recounting a run-in he'd had in 1947 with an especially
unpleasant red-headed captain who was heading up a team
recovering bodies from a hush-hush aircraft crash. Anderson,
too, spoke of a red-headed captain with a mean disposition.
Friedman says the descriptions of the ornery officer provided
by the two match precisely, although Anderson and the mortician
never have met.
In sketches of the desert crash scene drawn by Anderson in
Springfield following a hypnosis, a lonely windmill appears in
the distance. When Friedman later arranged for Anderson to
return to New Mexico to pinpoint the long-ago crash site, no
such windmill could be see on the horizon-- until, almost by
accident, the windmill wa spotted behind tress that had grown
up during the 43 years since Anderson was last there.
"I got shivers over that one," says John Carpenter, who has
extensively debriefed Anderson over the past 4 months and went
along on Anderson's return trip to New Mexico in October.
Carpenter holds degrees in psychology and psychiatric social
work from DePauw and Washington universities and trained in
clinical hypnosis at the Menninger Institute. He's in his
12th year of work at a psychiatric hospital facility in
Springfield.
"When Gerald tells his story, it's not just a story -- it's
his life he's telling you, intermixed with his feelings and
his beliefs and all that is Gerald," Carpenter says.
"When someone is spinning a hoax or tale, they only give you
enough to raise your curiosity. Not Gerald. He gives you
everything, in detail, much more than you ask him for. He'd
be setting himself up to be found out if it wasn't true. He's
so confident, he goes so much further than a hoaxer would ever
dare."
Carpenter puts great stock in Anderson's recountings under
hypnosis. "It's what he didn't say that was significant."
Carpenter says, explaining that despite clever prodding,
Anderson never committed a hoaxer's mistake of "recalling"
something that shouldn't be a part of his own memory.
"And when he's under hypnosis, all the bigger, adult words
drop out when he describes events from his childhood,"
Carpenter found. "He relates what he was in child-like
terms."
Carpenter also detected "genuine amazement" when Anderson
heard what had been dredged from his subconscious memory under
hypnosis. "The look on his face was priceless when he realized
he'd produced details he'd forgotten on a conscious level so
long ago."
Most subtle but perhaps most telling, in Carpenter's view, was
Anderson's reaction to being accepted as a viable witness to
an extraordinary encounter with a spacecraft and creatures from
beyond Earth.
"He was so grateful at being taken seriously. You could see
the relief and release after all those years, and the great
hope that other people would take him seriously too, once and
for all."
Ironically, Friedman points to Gallup Poll results indicating
that 60 percent of Americans who have college degrees say they
believe UFOs are real. With such a receptive constituency,
why would government officials persist in what Friedman calls
the "Cosmic Watergate" -- the cover-up and denial of the New
Mexico crashes? Perhaps, some speculate, because it would be
too embarrassing now to admit that some supposedly made-in-USA
technologies actually were plagiarized from confiscated
spacecraft.
Friedman emphasizes that he's not as interested in uncovering
past misdeeds as he is in encouraging future progress.
"I believe we should have an 'Earthling" orientation rather
than nationalistic orientation. The easiest way to
demonstrate the wisdom of this is to prove that life forms
from other planets are coming here. If we can do that, then
everyone will be forced to look at our world differently, as a
part of a galactic neighborhood."
-+-----end.
The second part of the Springfield newspaper, dated December 9th,
1990 is as follows:
Titled: Fact or Fantasy? Springfieldian seeks validation of UFO
encounter 43 years ago.
Written by: Mike O'Brien
ALSO NOTE: the actual newspaper article shows a scene of the UFO
crash drawn by Gerald Anderson and also a sketch of a creature he
believes was a visitor from another galaxy.
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To a 5-year-old kid from Indianapolis, the mountains and mesas
and vast scrubland surrounding Albuquerque seemed an alien world.
"I was in awe" recalls Gerald Anderson of his arrival in New
Mexico with his family in July 1947. "I was in the wild
frontier. There were real, live Indians out there."
Then says Anderson, on his second day in the Southwest he
bumped into real,live creatures from a truly alien world.
There were four -- two dead, on dying, one apparently
uninjured. The creatures were about 4 feet tall, with heads
disproportionately large for their bodies by human measure and
almond-shaped, coal black eyes. They huddled in the shadow of
50-ft-diameter silver disk - a "flying saucer" that had crashed
into a low hillside on the rim of what locals call the Plains of
San Augustin.
Anderson, a former police chief at Rockaway Beach and Taney
County deputy sheriff who now works as a security officer in
Springfield, is adamant about events on the hot midsummer day so
long ago.
"I saw them. I even touched one of the creatures. I put my
hand on their ship. And I wasn't alone - my dad, my uncle, my
brother and my cousin all saw the same things. And so did a lot
of other people. But they aren't talking.
Anderson is talking, publicly, after 43 years of silence.
Among those listening most intently are some of the foremost
researchers into unidentified flying object (UFO phenomena.
These experts say Gerald Anderson appears to be an important link
in a frustratingly fragmented chain of evidence concerning the
most famous - or infamous - chapter in UFO annals: the so called
"Roswell Incident."
No one denies that "something" happened in July 1947 in
central New Mexico, cradle of U.S. nuclear and rocket technology.
However, military authorities insist reports of strange craft in
the sky and bizarre wreckage on the ground were traced at the time
to an errant weather balloon and other manmade or natural
circumstance.
Nonetheless, over the years, persistent whispered rumors grew
into published articles and books, even movies, which fanned
speculation that what actually occurred was a visit by creatures
from another planet - an intergalactic expedition that turned to
tragedy on the high desert and then into a massive cover-up in the
highest circles of the U.S. government.
Anderson says he was unaware of ongoing fascination and
controversy over the strange episode from his childhood until one
evening this past January when he was flipping through channels
on his television set and stumbled across the popular program
"Unsolved Mysteries."
"I wasn't looking for any unsolved mysteries - I have enough
mysteries in my life that are unsolved, and I don't need any
more," Anderson jokes. He is a burly, barrel-chested man
standing 6-4 and carrying a muscular 250-plus pounds, with
reddish hair and a ruddy complexion creased from easy laughter.
"But, bingo! On comes this story, and everything was wrong,"
Anderson recalls of the TV show. On sudden impulse, he dialed an
800 phone number that flashed onto the screen. "I guess I figured
that if people were still interested in this thing, they might as
well get it straight" is the only explanation he can muster for
speaking up after years of keeping mostly mum on the matter.
"These people don't know what they're talking about," Anderson
told the operator on the other end of the long-distance line.
"The shape of the craft is totally wrong. 'And how do you know
that, sir?" she asked. ' I saw it, I was there,' I told her.
"Whoa!" she said. "Thee are some people who will want to talk to
you...'"
Anderson's phone soon was ringing with calls from UFO
researchers around the country. One in particular, Stanton
Friedman, a nuclear physicist and popular lecturer who had
advised the "Unsolved Mysteries" producers, was struck by
correlations between Anderson's recollections and obscure
details Friedman uncovered while sleuthing for a book to be
published next year.
Friedman, who lives in Canada, contacted John Carpenter, a
Springfield professional therapist who in his spare time serves as a
director of investigations for the local chapter of Mutual UFO
Network, a nationwide organization of UFO researchers. At Friedman's
request, Carpenter conducted extensive in person interviews of
Anderson, including sessions under hypnosis.
The results excited Friedman. "Powerful stuff!" he exclaimed upon
hearing interview tapes. Friedman arranged airline tickets for
Anderson and Carpenter to join him in New Mexico to pinpoint the crash
site.
Anderson says the flight was his first return to New Mexico in more
than a quarter-century. After pointing the pilot of a chartered
helicopter to a spot in the desert 75 air miles southwest of
Albuquerque, Anderson gazed at a hillside, strewn with boulders the
size of Volkswagens and dotted with a few gnarled pinion trees, that
he says he saw in the summer of 1947.....
A NEW HOME
The Anderson family arrived in Albuquerque from Indiana on July 4,
1947. they took up temporary residence at the home of one of Gerald's
uncles, Guy Anderson. Gerald's father, Glen, was about to take a job
as a master machinist involved in nuclear weapons design at the
super-secret Sandia base on the outskirts of town.
The next day, another uncle, Ted, struck up a conversation with
Gerald's older brother Glen Jr., who was on leave from the Marine
Corps. Glen Jr. was a rockhound, and his uncle piqued the young
Marine's enthusiasm with talks of gorgeous stones just waiting to be
collected in the desert.
" Ted told my brother, ' I know where there's plenty of moss agate.'
So we all piled into a 1940 Plymouth - Uncle Ted, my cousin Victor
(Ted's 8 year old son), my brother, Glen, my dad and myself. We went
out into this area where the moss agate was supposed to be - followed
two ruts into the desert, bounced along out there for a while, and
ended up on top of a ridgeline. We parked the car and started to walk
down an arroyo (gully) and dry creek bed and out onto the plains.
A STRANGE DISCOVERY
"But we came around a corner and right there in front of us stuck
into the side of this hill, was a silver disc. There were some
remarks like"There's a crash up here! Something's crashed up here! And
then someone saying 'That's a goddamn spaceship!"
"We all went up there to it. There were three creatures, three
bodies, lying on the ground underneath this thing in the shade. Two
weren't moving and the third one obviously was having trouble
breathing, like when you have broken ribs. There was a fourth one
next to it, sitting there on the ground. There wasn't a thing wrong
with it, and it apparently had been giving first aid to the others.
Anderson animatedly acts out the fourth creature's reaction when
the family members approached. "It recoiled in fear, like it thought
we were going to attack it," anderson recounts, covering his face with
crossed arms. The adults tried to repeatedly to communicate with the
frightened creature, Anderson says, but there was no audible response
to greetings spoken in English and Spanish.
A few minutes after the Anderson clan happened upon the bizarre
scene, six other people arrived - five college students and their
teacher. They'd been working on an archaeological dig around cliff
dwellings a few miles away and had decided to hike over after seeing
what they thought was a firey meteor crashing the night before. The
professor, a Dr. Buskirk, tried several foreign languages in
unsuccessful attempts to coax a verbal response from the creature,
Anderson says.
The sun had climbed to a midday peak by this time and recalls
anderson, "to a kid from Indiana, it was hot brother, let me tell
you." He chugged a chocolate flavored soft drink an hour earlier and
the sweet soda pop was churning uncomfortably in his stomach. so he
sought shelter in the shadow of the spacecraft.
"It was 115 (degrees) out there that day. But around the craft,
when you got close to it, it was cold. When you touched the metal, it
felt just like it came out of a freezer."
SOMETHING WASN'T RIGHT
Anderson also touched one of the creatures lying motionless on the
ground - and it, too was cold. In his child's mind, he had thought the
figures looked like dolls. But when he felt the cold skin, " I knew
something wasn't quite right. Yuck!.
Anderson says he ran to the crest of a nearby knoll to take stock. A
pickup truck arrived on the ridge, and a fellow whom researchers believe
was a civil engineer named Barney Barnett joined the curious audience. "I
remember thinking he looked like Harry Truman. In 1947, every kid knew
what Harry Truman looked like," Anderson says.
After a few minutes, Anderson summoned the courage to again creep close
to the strange saucer. It was then more chilling than the surface of the
craft of the skin of the corpse; The upright creature turned and looked
right at me and it was like he was inside my head - as if he was doing my
thinking, as if his thoughts were in my head."
Anderson remembers a mental sensation of falling and tumbling
end-over-end. "I felt that thing's fear, felt its depression, felt its
loneliness. I relived the crash. I know the terror it went through. That
one look told me everything that quickly," he says with a snap of his
fingers.
Other things began happening quickly about this time, Anderson says. A
contingent of armed soldiers suddenly appeared. The creature, which had
calmed down after its initial fright, "went crazy" at the sight of the
soldiers. Thinking back on the creature's plight today brings on the
"awfulest, horrible feeling," Anderson says.
"His situation was hopeless. He knew it. He'd just lived through a
nightmare that most of us wouldn't be able to psychologically stand. He'd
watched two of his crew, his friends or maybe even his family die. He's
watching another one die. He knows there's no chance of rescue, because the
military is here and his people aren't going to be able to get him.
"God only knows how far away from home he was, and he knew he was never
going to see - if they have loved ones - his loved ones again. He was
totally alone on a hostile planet, and the only people who where showing
him kindness were being run off by the military at weapon-point.
"As a kid, I was aware of what being afraid of the dark was like., and
the feeling I got from him was that feeling multiplied a million times. It
was scary. It was terrifying.
SOLDIERS ON THE SCENE
Anderson says he lost sight of the creature as the soldiers swarmed over
the site. The civilians were brusquely shoved from the craft. Anderson
remembers shouts and threats. His uncle Ted threw a punch at one of
the GIs. "Things got very tense, very dangerous," Anderson says.
"The soldiers ushered us out of there very unceremoniously. Their
attitude, to describe it at best, was uncivilized."
Anderson has an especially vivid memory of a tough-talking red
haired Army captain and an equally gruff black sergeant. "They told
my dad and my uncle, who also worked at Sandia, that if they were ever
to divulge anything about this - it was a secret military aircraft,
they said - then us kids would be taken away and they'd never see us
again." It seems an outrageous threat in hindsight, Anderson
concedes. But at the time, he reminds, "These people had machine guns
and you listened to what they said."
Another recollection strikes Anderson as odd today: The soldiers
didn't appear surprised about the otherwordly craft and creatures.
they didn't gawk, slack-jawed and awe-struck as the Andersons had done.
"The soldiers weren't saying, 'Gee, look at that!" They were very
cognizant of what they were looking at. They knew what it was.
And it soon became apparent, Anderson says, that the Army knew what
it wanted to do with the find. "there was a battalion of military, a
real invasion force, when we got back up on the hilltop. There were
trucks, there were airplanes - they had the road blocked off and they
were landing on it. They had radio communications gear set up. There
were ambulances, and more soldiers with weapons."
In the days that followed, all of New Mexico was abuzz with talk of
strange lights in the sky, strange echos on radar, strange doings in
the desert. On July 7, new reports told of remnants of an
unidentified aircraft found by a rancher near the town of Roswell,
N.M. about 150 miles east of the hillside where the Anderson's stumbled
upon the saucer.
Although several witnesses said it was like nothing they'd ever
seen before, military officers insisted the metallic pieces came from
an ordinary weather balloon.....
A WEATHER BALLOON?
Forty three years later, Anderson smiles wryly when reminded of the
Army's pronouncement, "A lot of people wondered why, if it was just a
weather balloon, the military put the pieces under armed guard and flew
them in a B-29 to Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio," he observes.
Anderson believes the wreckage scattered near Roswell and the barely
damaged saucer on the Plains of San Augustin are connected. "There was a
gash in the side of the disc we saw, like it had been crushed in," he says.
"The contour of the craft would fit into that gash perfectly - like another
one of these things had hit it. I think two of these discs had a mid-air
collision. One exploded and feel in pieces near Roswell, and the other
crash-landed where we found it.
With all evidence confiscated and the military steadfastly sticking
by the weather balloon explanation, the story faded from the news by July's
end. And Gerald Anderson says he tucked away the memory as he grew into
manhood. "I learned you just don't go up to the average person on the
street and say, "Damn, know what I saw?" The guy will go, "Get away from
me, fool! Are you crazy?" In later life, he didn't mention it even to his
wife until a few years after their marriage.
Anderson joined the Navy in the late 1950s and served a dozen years in
posts around the globe. He lived for a few years in Colorado, working as a
paramedic and working toward a college degree in microbiology. In 1979, he
moved to Missouri to better raise his daughter away from what he terms the
"druggy" atmosphere of Denver. In addition to his law enforcement posts,
Anderson has worked for two southwest Missouri trucking firms as a driver
and instructor.
Anderson also has been active in the Episcopal Church. He recently was
elected to the vestry at Ascension Episcopal in Springfield and is studying
toward becoming a deacon. A gold crucifix - a cross complete with a
figure of the martyred Christ affixed to it - suspended from a chain around
Anderson's neck is testimony to his faith.
NO CONFLICT IN BELIEFS
Although he concedes his account might make some fellow churchgoers
uncomfortable, Anderson sees no conflict between what he saw with his eyes
and what he believes in his heart: "When you're talking about the concept
of God, you have to be talking in the context of a universal situations, a
deity that built the whole universe. And why should we assume that this
speck of sand in the backwater of space would be the only place that an
all-perfect, almighty God could create life?"
In fact, Anderson says he "wouldn't be one bit surprised to find out
that, wherever this creature came from, there they have a very strong
concept of a supreme being. Because of my contact with the creature showed
a high degree of civilized sophistication, gentleness, compassion - all of
the things we hold as ideals."
Of the five anderson men who ventured into the desert that day in 1947,
only Gerald is still alive. Age, illness and accidents claimed the other
four in recent years. But not only andersons were at the scene, Gerald
says, and he hopes his decision to come forth, albeit belated, will
encourage others to tell what they know and spur official revelations about
the captured craft and creatures.
"I want to see the government stand up and say, 'Look, we're not alone
in the universe.
Let's make a 'Star Trek' really happen. Let's do go out there and explore
the universe. That may be our only salvation. Because with what's doing to
this Earth, we're not going to make it much past the year 2000."
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From: dona@bilver.uucp (Don Allen)
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Subject: INFO:CHAPTER XIII - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
Keywords: USAF Chapter in Training Textbook, long since censored.
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This is considered a *classic* among various UFO text files.
Read and make up your own mind :-)
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CUFON - UFO Information Service Seattle, Washington
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INTRODUCTORY SPACE SCIENCE - VOLUME II - DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS - USAF
Edited by:
Major Donald G. Carpenter
Co-Editor:
Lt. Colonel Edward R. Therkelson
CHAPTER XIII
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
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What is an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO)? Well, according to United
States Air Force Regulation 80-17 (dated 19 September 1966), a UFO is "Any"
aerial Phenomenon or object which is unknown or appears to be out of the
ordinary to the observer." This is a very broad definition which applies
equally well to one individual seeing his first noctilucent cloud at
twilight as it does to another individual seeing his first helicopter.
However, at present most people consider the term UFO to mean an object
which behaves in a strange or erratic manner while moving through the
Earth's atmosphere. That strange phenomenon has evoked strong emotions
and great curiosity among a large segment of our world's population. The
average person is interested because he loves a mystery, the professional
military man is involved because of the possible threat to national
security, and some scientists are interested because of the basic curiosity
that led them into becoming researchers.
The literature on UFO's is so vast, and the stories so many and varied,
that we can only present a sketchy outline of the subject in this chapter.
That outline includes description classifications, operational domains
(temporal and spatial), some theories as to the nature of the UFO
phenomenon, human reactions, attempts to attack the problem scientifically,
and some tentative conclusions. If you wish to read further in this area,
the references provide an excellent starting point.
33.1 DESCRIPTIONS
One of the greatest problems you encounter when attempting to catalog
UFO sightings, is selection of a system for cataloging. No effective
system has yet been devised, although a number of different systems have
been proposed. The net result is that almost all UFO data are either
treated in the form of individual cases, or in the forms of inadequate
classification systems. However, these systems do tend to have some common
factors, and a collection of these factors is as follows:
a. Size
b. Shape (disc, ellipse, football, etc.)
c. Luminosity
d. Color
e. Number of UFO's
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Behavior:
a. Location (altitude, direction, etc.)
b. Patterns of paths (straight line, climbing, zig-zagging, etc.)
c. Flight Characteristics (wobbling, fluttering, etc.)
d. Periodicity of sightings
e. Time duration
f. Curiosity or inquisitiveness
g. Avoidance
h. Hostility
Associated Effects:
a. Electro-Magnetic (compass, radio, ignition systems, etc.)
b. Radiation (burns, induced radioactivity, etc.)
c. Ground disturbance (dust stirred up, leaves moved, standing wave
d. Sound (none, hissing, humming, roaring, thunderclaps, etc.)
e. Vibration (weak, strong, slow, fast)
f. Smell (ozone or other odor)
g. Flame (how much, where, when, color)
h. Smoke or cloud (amount, color, persistence)
i. Debris (type, amount, color, persistence)
j. Inhibition of voluntary movement by observers
k. Sighting of "creatures" or "beings"
After Effects:
a. Burned areas or animals
b. Depressed or flattened areas
c. Dead or missing animals
d. Mentally disturbed people
e. Missing items
We make no attempt here to present available data in terms of the foregoing
descriptors.
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33.2 OPERATIONAL DOMAINS - TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL
What we will do here is to present evidence that UFO's are a global
phenomenon which may have persisted for many thousands of years. During
this discussion, please remember that the more ancient the reports the less
sophisticated the observer. Not only were the ancient observers lacking
the terminology necessary to describe complex devices (such as present day
helicopters) but they were also lacking the concepts necessary to
understand the true nature of such things as television, spaceships,
rockets, nuclear weapons and radiation effects. To some, the most
advanced technological concept was a war chariot with knife blades attached
to the wheels. By the same token, the very lack of accurate terminology
and descriptions leaves the more ancient reports open to considerable
misinterpretation, and it may well be that present evaluations of
individual reports are completely wrong. Nevertheless, let us start with
an intriguing story in one of the oldest chronicles of India...the Book of
Dzyan.
The book is a group of "story-teller" legends which were finally
gathered in manuscript form when man learned to write. One of the stories
is of a small group of beings who supposedly came to Earth many thousands
of years ago in a metal craft which orbited the Earth several times before
landing. As told in the Book "These beings lived to themselves and were
revered by the humans among whom they had settled. But eventually
differences arose among them and they divided their numbers, several of the
men and women and some children settled in another city, where they were
promptly installed as rulers by the awe-stricken populace.
"Separation did not bring peace to these people and finally their
anger reached a point where the ruler of the original city took with him
a small number of his warriors and they rose into the air in a huge shining
metal vessel. While they were many leagues from the city of their enemies,
they launched a great shining lance that rode on a beam of light. It burst
apart in the city of their enemies with a great ball of flame that shot up
to the heavens, almost to the stars. All those who were in the city were
horribly burned and even those who were not in the city - but nearby - were
burned also. Those who looked upon the lance and the ball of fire were
blinded forever afterward. Those who entered the city on foot became ill
and died. Even the dust of the city was poisoned, as were the rivers that
flowed through it. Men dared not go near it, and it gradually crumbled
into dust and was forgotten by men."
"When the leader saw what he had done to his own people he retired to
his palace and refused to see anyone. Then he gathered about him those
warriors who remained, and their wives and children, and they entered their
vessels and rose one by one into the sky and sailed away. Nor did they
return."
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Could this foregoing legend really be an account of an extraterrestrial
colonization, complete with guided missle, nuclear warhead and radiation
effects? It is difficult to assess the validity of that explanation...
just as it is difficult to explain why Greek, Roman and Nordic Mythology
all discuss wars and contacts among their "Gods." (Even the Bible records
conflict between the legions of God and Satan.) Could it be that each
group recorded their parochial view of what was actually a global conflict
among alien colonists or visitors? Or is it that man has led such a
violent existence that he tends to expect conflict and violence among even
his gods?
Evidence of perhaps an even earlier possible contact was uncovered by
Tschi Pen Lao of the University of Peking. He discovered astonishing
carvings in granite on a mountain in Hunan Province and on an island in
Lake Tungting. These carvings have been evaluated as 47,000 years old, and
they show people with large trunks (breathing apparatus?...or "elephant"
heads shown on human bodies? Remember, the Egyptians often represented
their gods as animal heads on human bodies.)
Only 8,000 years ago, rocks were sculpted in the Tassili plateau of
Sahara, depicting what appeared to be human beings but with strange round
heads (helmets? or "sun" heads on human bodies?) And even more recently,
in the Bible, Genesis (6:4) tells of angels from the sky mating with women
of Earth, who bore them children. Genesis 19:3 tells of Lot meeting two
angels in the desert and his later feeding them at his house. The Bible
also tells a rather unusual story of Ezekiel who witnessed what has been
interpreted by some to have been a spacecraft or aircraft landing near the
Chebar River in Chaldea (593 B.C.).
Even the Irish have recorded strange visitations. In the Speculum
Regali in Konungs Skuggsa (and other accounts of the era about 956 A.D.)
are numerous stories of "demonships" in the skies. In one case a rope from
one such ship became entangled with part of a church. A man from the ship
climbed down the rope to free it, but was seized by the townspeople. The
bishop made the people release the man, who climbed back to the ship,
where the crew cut the rope and the ship rose and sailed out of sight.
In all of his actions, the climbing man appeared as if he were swimming
in water. Stories such as this makes one wonder if the legends of the
"little people" of Ireland were based upon imagination alone.
About the same time, in Lyons (France) three men and a women supposedly
descended from an airship or spaceship and were captured by a mob. These
foreigners admitted to being wizards, and were killed. (No mention is
made of the methods employed to extract the admissions.) Many documented
UFO sightings occurred throughout the Middle Ages, including an especially
startling one of a UFO over London on 16 December 1742. However, we do
not have room to include any more of the Middle Ages sightings. Instead,
two "more-recent" sightings are contained in this section to bring us up to
modern times.
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In a sworn statement dated 21 April 1897, a prosperous and prominent
farmer named Alexander Hamilton (Le Roy, Kansas, U.S.A.) told of an attack
upon his cattle at about 10:30 p.m. the previous Monday. He, his son, and
his tenant grabbed axes and ran some 700 feet from the house to the cow
lot where a great cigar-shaped ship about 300 feet long floated some 30
feet above the cattle. It had a carriage underneath which was brightly
lighted within (dirigible and gondola?) and which had numerous windows.
Inside were six strange looking beings jabbering in a foreign language.
These beings suddenly became aware of Hamilton and the others. They
immediately turned a searchlight on the farmer, and also turned on some
power which sped up a turbine wheel (about 30 ft diameter) located under
the craft. The ship rose, taking with it a two-year old heifer which was
roped about the neck by a cable of one-half inch thick, red material. The
next day a neighbor, Link Thomas, found the animal's hide, legs and head
in his field. He was mystified at how the remains got to where they were
because of the lack of tracks in the soft soil. Alexander Hamilton's sworn
statement was accompanied by an affidavit as to his veracity. The
affidavit was signed by ten of the local leading citizens.
On the evening of 4 November 1957 at Fort Itaipu, Brazil, two sentries
noted a "new star" in the sky. The "star" grew in size and within seconds
stopped over the fort. It drifted slowly downward, was as large as a big
aircraft, and was surround by a strong orange glow. A distinct humming
sound was heard, and then the heat struck. One sentry collapsed almost
immediately, the other managed to slide to shelter under the heavy cannons
where his loud cries awoke the garrison. While the troops were scrambling
towards their battle stations, complete electrical failure occurred.
There was panic until the lights came back on but a number of men still
managed to see an orange glow leaving the area at high speed. Both
sentries were found badly burned...one unconscious and the other incoherent,
suffering from deep shock.
Thus, UFO sightings not only appear to extend back to 47,000 years
through time but also are global in nature. One has the feeling that
this phenomenon deserves some sort of valid scientific investigation, even
if it is a low level effort.
33.3 SOME THEORIES AS TO THE NATURE OF THE UFO PHENOMENON
There are very few cohesive theories as to the nature of UFO's. Those
theories that have been advanced can be collected in five groups:
a. Mysticism
b. Hoaxes, and rantings due to unstable personalities
c. Secret Weapons
d. Natural Phenomena
e. Alien visitors
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Mysticism
It is believed by some cults that the mission of UFO's and their crews
is a spiritual one, and that all materialistic efforts to determine the
UFO's nature are doomed to failure.
Hoaxes and Rantings due to Unstable Personalities
Some have suggested that all UFO reports were the results of pranks
and hoaxes, or were made by people with unstable personalities. This
attitude was particularly prevalent during the time period when the Air
Force investigation was being operated under the code name of Project
Grudge. A few airlines even went as far as to ground every pilot who
reported seeing a "flying saucer." The only way for the pilot to regain
flight status was to undergo a psychiatric examination. There was a
noticeable decline in pilot reports during this time interval, and a few
interpreted this decline to prove that UFO's were either hoaxes or the
result of unstable personalities. It is of interest that NICAP (The
National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena) even today still
receives reports from commercial pilots who neglect to notify either the
Air Force or their own airline.
There are a number of cases which indicate that not all reports fall
in the hoax category. We will examine one such case now. It is the
Socorro, New Mexico sighting made by police Sergeant Lonnie Zamora.
Sergeant Zamora was patrolling the streets of Socorro on 24 April 1964
when he saw a shiny object drift down into an area of gullies on the edge
of town. He also heard a loud roaring noise which sounded as if an old
dynamite shed located out that way had exploded. He immediately radioed
police headquarters, and drove out toward the shed. Zamora was forced to
stop about 150 yards away from a deep gully in which there appeared to be
an overturned car. He radioed that he was investigating a possible wreck,
and then worked his car up onto the mesa and over toward the edge of the
gully. He parked short, and when he walked the final few feet to the edge,
he was amazed to see that it was not a car but instead was a weird
eggshaped object about fifteen feet long, white in color and resting on
short, metal legs. Beside it, unaware of his presence were two humanoids
dressed in silvery coveralls. They seemed to be working on a portion of
the underside of the object. Zamora was still standing there, surprised,
when they suddenly noticed him and dove out of sight around the object.
Zamora also headed the other way, back toward his car. He glanced back at
the object just as a bright blue flame shot down from the underside.
Within seconds the eggshaped thing rose out of the gully with "an ear-
-splitting roar." The object was out of sight over the nearby mountains
almost immediately, and Sergeant Zamora was moving the opposite direction
almost as fast when he met Sergeant Sam Chavez who was responding to Zamora'
s
earlier radio calls. Together they investigated the gully and found the
bushes charred and still smoking where the blue flame had jetted down on
them. About the charred area were four deep marks where the metal legs
had been. Each mark was three and one half inches deep, and was circular
in shape. The sand in the gully was very hard packed so no sign of the
humanoids' footprints could be found. An official investigation was
launched that same day, and all data obtained supported the stories of
Zamora and Chavez. It is rather difficult to label this episode a hoax,
and it is also doubtful that both Zamora and Chavez shared portions of the
same hallucination.
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Secret Weapons
A few individuals have proposed that UFO's are actually advanced weapon
systems, and that their natures must not be revealed. Very few people
accept this as a credible suggestion.
Natural Phenomena
It has also been suggested that at least some, and possibly all, of the
UFO cases were just mis-interpreted manifestations of natural phenomena.
Undoubtedly this suggestion has some merit. People have reported, as UFO's,
objects which were conclusively proven to be balloons (weather and skyhook),
the planet Venus, man-made artificial satellites, normal aircraft, unusual
cloud formations, and lights from ceilometers (equipment projecting light
beams on cloud bases to determine the height of the aircraft visual ceiling)
.
It is also suspected that people have reported mirages, optical illusions,
swamp gas and ball lightning (a poorly-understood discharge of electrical
energy in a spheroidal or ellipsoidal shape...some charges have lasted for
up to fifteen minutes but the ball is usually no bigger than a large orange.
)
But it is difficult to tell a swamp dweller that the strange, fast-moving
light he saw in the sky was swamp gas; and it is just as difficult to tell
a farmer that a bright UFO in the sky is the same ball lightning that he
has seen rolling along his fence wires in dry weather. Thus accidental
mis-identification of what might well be natural phenomena breeds mistrust
and disbelief; it leads to the hasty conclusion that the truth is
deliberatly not being told. One last suggestion of interest has been made,
that the UFO's were plasmoids from space...concentrated blobs of solar wind
that succeeded in reaching the surface of the Earth. Somehow this last
suggestion does not seem to be very plausible; perhaps because it ignores
such things as penetration of Earth's magnetic field.
Alien Visitors
The most stimulating theory for us is that the UFO's are material
objects which are either "Manned" or remote-controlled by beings who are
alien to this planet. There is some evidence supporting this viewpoint.
In addition to police Sergeant Lonnie Zamora's experience, let us consider
the case of Barney and Betty Hill. On a trip through New England they
lost two hours on the night of 19 September 1961 without even realizing it.
However, after that night both Barney and Betty began developing
psychological problems which eventually grew sufficienty severe that they
submitted themselves to psychiatric examination and treatment. During the
course of treatment hypnotherapy was used, and it yielded remarkably
detailed and similar stories from both Barney and Betty. Essentially
they had been hypnotically kidnapped, taken aboard a UFO, submitted to
two-hour physicals, and released with posthypnotic suggestions to forget
the entire incident. The evidence is rather strong that this is what the
Hills, even in their subconscious, believe happened to them. And it is of
particular importance that after the "posthypnotic block" was removed, both
of the Hills ceased having their psychological problems.
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The Hill's description of the aliens was similar to descriptions
provided in other cases, but this particular type of alien appears to be
in the minority. The most commonly described alien is about three and one-
half feet tall, has a round head (helmet?), arms reaching to or below his
knees, and is wearing a silvery space suit or coveralls. Other aliens
appear to be essentially the same as Earthmen, while still others have
particularily wide (wrap around) eyes and mouths with very thin lips. And
there is a rare group reported as about four feet tall, weight of around
35 pounds, and covered with thick hair or fur (clothing?). Members of this
last group are described as being extremely strong. If such beings are
visiting Earth, two questions arise: 1) why haven't there been any accidents
which have revealed their presence, and 2) why haven't they attempted to
contact us officially? The answer to the first question may exist partially
in Sergeant Lonnie Zamora's experience, and may exist partially in the
Tunguska meteor discussed in Chapter XXIX. In that chapter it was suggested
that the Tonguska meteor was actually a comet which exploded in the
atmosphere, the ices melted and the dust spread out. Hence, no debris!
However, it has also been suggested that the Tunguska meteor was actually
an alien spacecraft that entered the atmosphere to rapidly, suffered
mechanical failure, and lost its power supply and/or weapons in a nuclear
explosion. While that hypothesis may seem far fetched, sample of tree
rings from around the world reveal that, immediately after the Tunguska
meteor explosion, the level of radioactivity in the world rose sharply for
a short period of time. It is difficult to find a natural explanation for
that increase in radioactivity, although the suggestion has been advanced
that enough of the meteor's great kinetic energy was converted into heat
(by atmospheric friction) that a fusion reaction occurred. This still
leaves us with no answer to the second question: why no contact? That
question is very easy to answer in several ways: 1) we may be the object
of intensive sociological and psychological study. In such studies you
usually avoid disturbing the test subjects' environment; 2) you do not
"contact" a colony of ants, and humans may seem that way to any aliens
(variation: a zoo is fun to visit, but you don't "contact" the lizards);
3) such contact may have already taken place secretly; and 4) such contact
may have already taken place on a different plane of awareness and we are
not yet sensitive to communications on such a plane. These are just a few
of the reasons. You may add to the list as you desire.
33.4 HUMAN FEAR AND HOSTILITY
Besides the foregoing reasons, contacting humans is downright dangerous.
Think about that for a moment! On the microscopic level our bodies reject
and fight (through production antibodies) any alien material; this process
helps us fight off disease but it also sometimes results in allergic
reactions to innocuous materials. On the macroscopic (psychological and
sociological) level we are antagonistic to beings that are "different".
For proof of that, just watch how an odd child is treated by other children,
or how a minority group is socially deprived, or how the Arabs feel about
the Israelis (Chinese vs Japanese, Turks vs Greeks, etc.) In case you are
hesitant to extend that concept to the treatment of aliens let me point
out that in very ancient times, possible extraterrestrials may have been
treated as Gods but in the last two thousand years, the evidence is that
any possible aliens have been ripped apart by mobs, shot and shot at,
physically assaulted, and in general treated with fear and aggression.
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In Ireland about 1,000 A.D., supposed airships were treated as "demon-
ships." In Lyons, France, "admitted" space travellers were killed. More
recently, on 24 July 1957 Russian anti-aircraft batteries on the Kouril
Islands opened fire on UFO's. Although all Soviet anti-aircraft batteries
on the Islands were in action, no hits were made. The UFO's were luminous
and moved very fast. We too have fired on UFO's. About ten o'clock one
morning, a radar site near a fighter base picked up a UFO doing 700 mph.
The UFO then slowed to 100 mph, and two F-86's were scrambled to intercept.
Eventually one F-86 closed on the UFO at about 3,000 feet altitude. The
UFO began to accelerate away but the pilot still managed to get within 500
yards of the target for a short period of time. It was definately saucer-
shaped. As the pilot pushed the F-86 at top speed, the UFO began to pull
away. When the range reached 1,000 yards, the pilot armed his guns and
fired in an attempt to down the saucer. He failed, and the UFO pulled away
rapidly, vanishing in the distance. This same basic situation may have
happened on a more personal level. On Sunday evening 21 August 1955, eight
adults and three children were on the Sutton Farm (one-half mile from Kelly,
Kentucky) when, according to them, one of the children saw a brightly
glowing UFO settle behind the barn, out of sight from where he stood.
Other witnesses on nearby farms also saw the object. However, the Suttons
dismissed it as a "shooting star," and did not investigate. Approximately
thirty minutes later (at 8 p.m.), the family dogs began barking so two of
the men went to the back door and looked out. Approximately 50 feet away
and coming toward them was a creature wearing a glowing silvery suit. It
was about three and one-half feet tall with a large round head and very
long arms. It had large webbed hands which were equipped with claws. The
two Suttons grabbed a twelve guage shotgun and a 22 caliber pistol, and
fired at close range. They could hear the pellets and bullet ricochet as
if off of metal. The creature was knocked down, but jumped up and
scrambled away. The Suttons retreated into the house, turned off all
inside lights, and turned on the porch-light. At that moment, one of the
women who was peeking out of the dining room window discovered that a
creature with some sort of helmet and wide slit eyes was peeking back at
her. She screamed, the men rushed in and started shooting. The creature
was knocked backwards but again scrambled away without apparent harm. More
shooting occurred (a total of about 50 rounds) over the next 20 minutes and
the creatures finally left (perhaps feeling unwelcome?) After about a two
hour wait (for safety), the Suttons left too. By the time the police got
there, the aliens were gone but the Suttons would not move back to the farm.
They sold it and departed. This reported incident does bear out the
contention though that humans are dangerous. At no time in the story did
the supposed aliens shoot back, although one is left with the impression
that the described creatures were having fun scaring humans.
33.5 ATTEMPTS AT SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES
In any scientific endeavor, the first step is to aquire data, the
second step to clasify the data, and the third step to form hypothesis.
The hypothesis are tested by repeating the entire process, with each cycle
resulting in an increase in understanding (we hope). The UFO phenomenon
does not yield readily to this approach because the data taken so far
exhibits both excessive variety and vagueness. The vagueness is caused
in part by the lack of preparation of the observer...very few people leave
their house knowing that they are going to see a UFO that evening.
Photographs are overexposed or underexposed, and rarely in color. Hardly
anyone carries around a radiation counter or magnetometer. And, in addition
to this, there is a very high level of "noise" in the data.
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The noise consists of mistaken reports of known natural phenomena,
hoaxes, reports by unstable individuals and mistaken removal of data
regarding possible unnatural or unknown natural phenomena (by overzealous
individuals who are trying to eliminate all data due to known natural
phenomena). In addition, those data, which do appear to be valid, exhibit
an excessive amount of variety relative to the statistical samples which
are available. This has led to very clumsy classification systems, which
in turn provide quite unfertile ground for formulation of hypothesis.
One hypothesis which looked promising for a time was that of ORTHOTENY
(i.e., UFO sightings fall on "great circle" routes). At first, plots of
sightings seemed to verify the concept of orthoteny but recent use of
computers has revealed that even random numbers yield "great circle" plots
as neatly as do UFO sightings.
There is one solid advance that has been made though. Jacques and
Janine Vallee have taken a particular type of UFO - namely those that are
lower than tree-top level when sighted - and plotted the UFO's estimated
diameter versus the estimated distance from the observer. The result
yields an average diameter of 5 meters with a very characteristic drop for
short viewing distances, and rise for long viewing distances. This
behavior at the extremes of the curve is well known to astronomers and
psychologists as the "moon illusion." The illusion only occurs when the
object being viewed is a real, physical object. Because this implies that
the observers have viewed a real object, it permits us to accept also their
statement that these particular UFO's had a rotational axis of symmetry.
Another, less solid, advance made by the Vallee's was their plotting
of the total number of sightings per week versus the date. They did this
for the time span from 1947 to 1962, and then attempted to match the peaks
of the curve (every 2 years 2 months) to the times of Earth-Mars conjuction
(every 2 years 1.4 months). The match was very good between 1950 and 1956
but was poor outside those limits. Also, the peaks were not only at the
times of Earth-Mars conjunction but also roughly at the first harmonic
(very loosely, every 13 months). This raises the question why should UFO's
only visit Earth when Mars is in conjunction and when it is on the opposite
side of the sun. Obviously, the conjunction periodicity of Mars is not the
final answer. As it happens, there is an interesting possibility to
consider. Suppose Jupiter's conjunctions were used; they are every 13.1
months. That would satisfy the observed periods nicely, except for every
even data peak being of different magnitude from every odd data peak.
Perhaps a combination of Martian, Jovian, and Saturnian (and even other
planetary) conjunctions will be necessary to match the frequency plot...
if it can be matched.
Further data correlation is quite difficult. There are a large number
of different saucer shapes but this may mean little. For example, look at
the number of different types of aircraft which are in use in the U.S. Air
Force alone.
It is obvious that intensive scientific study is needed in this area;
no such study has yet been undertaken at the necessary levels of intensity
and support. One thing that must be guarded against in any such study is
the trap of implicity assuming that our knowledge of Physics (or any other
branch of science) is complete. An example of one such trap is selecting
a group of physical laws which we now accept as valid, and assume that they
will never be superceded.
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Five such laws might be:
1) Every action must have an opposite and equal reaction.
2) Every particle in the univers attracts every other particle with a
force proportional to the product of the masses and inversely as the
square of the distance.
3) Energy, mass and momentum are conserved.
4) No material body can have a speed as great as c, the speed of light
in free space.
5) The maximum energy, E, which can be obtained from a body at rest is
E=mc2, where m is the rest mass of the body.
Laws numbered 1 and 3 seem fairly safe, but let us hesitate and take
another look. Actually, law number 3 is only valid (now) from a relativisti
c
viewpoint; and for that matter so are laws 4 and 5. But relativity
completely revised these physical concepts after 1915, before then Newtonian
mechanics were supreme. We should also note that general relativity has
not yet been verified. Thus we have the peculiar situation of five laws
which appear to deny the possibility of intelligent alien control of UFO's,
yet three of the laws are recent in concept and may not even be valid.
Also, law number 2 has not yet been tested under conditions of large relativ
e
speeds or accelerations. We should not deny the possibility of alien
control of UFO's on the basis of preconceived notions not established as
related or relevant to the UFO's.
33.6 CONCLUSION
From available information, the UFO phenomenon appears to have been
global in nature for almost 50,000 years. The majority of known witnesses
have been reliable people who have seen easily-explained natural phenomena,
and there appears to be no overall positive correlation with population
density. The entire phenomenon could be psychological in nature but that
is quite doubtful. However, psychological factors probably do enter the
data picture as "noise." The phenomenon could also be entirely due to
known and unknown phenomena (with some psychological "noise" added in) but
that too is questionable in view of some of the available data.
This leaves us with the unpleasant possibility of alien visitors to
our planet, or at least of alien controlled UFO's. However, the data are
not well correlated, and what questionable data there are suggest the
existence of at least three and maybe four different groups of aliens
(possibly at different stages of development). This too is difficult to
accept. It implies the existence of intelligent life on a majority of the
planets in our solar system, or a surprisingly strong interest in Earth by
members of other solar systems.
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A solution to the UFO problem may be obtained by the long and diligent
effort of a large group of well financed and competant scientists,
unfortunately there is no evidence suggesting that such an effort is going
to be made. However, even if such an effort were made, there is no
guarantee of success because of the isolated and sporatic nature of the
sightings. Also, there may be nothing to find, and that would mean a long
search with no proff at the end. The best thing to do is to keep an open
and skeptical mind, and not take an extreme position on any side of the
question.
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This is the original Air Force Document.
Thank You
NOTE: Although obviously well written and comphrensive in its treatment
of the UFO phenomenon, it is the opinion of ParaNet Pi that this repute
d
U.S.A.F. Chapter is in fact a cleverly planted hoax, and did not appear
in any Air Force Training Manual as claimed. However, we do not have
any hard proof to support this assessment of its authenticity.
-Tom Mickus 04/24/88
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Subject: INFO: List of UFO Books
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The following is a good starting list of UFO reading material.
I will post another list in a few days with more specifics.
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UFOLOGY BOOKS (REVISION 2.0 332 books)
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The following is a collection of titles known to the author
H. S. Stewart on the subject of UFO's. The list is alphabetic
by author with the year of publication given if known. A "?"
indicates that the exact date of publication is not known but
that it is at least the date given. An "*" preceeding the title
indicates that the author owns a copy of that book. A "#" preceeding
the title indicates that the author of this list has read the book.
If a book has been co-authored then only the first author listed
on the cover is given. In fairness the author has not editted this
list and therefore the books are not all of the same quality.
HOWEVER since everone has an opininion the books whose author's
name is preceeded by an "!" are considered by the writer to be
must read items. If you wish to contact me you can do so via
Tom Mickus's most excellent board Paranet Pi.
Bill Adler * LETTERS TO THE AIR FORCE ON UFOS 1967
George Admaski * BEHIND THE FLYING SAUCER MYSTERY 1961
(FLYING SAUCERS FAREWELL)
George Admaski MANY MANSIONS ?1961
George Admaski COSMIC PHILOSOPHY 1961
George Admaski * INSIDE THE FLYING SAUCERS 1955
(INSIDE THE SPACE SHIPS)
George Admaski # FLYING SAUCERS HAVE LANDED 1953
George Admaski PIONEERS OF SPACE A TRIP TO THE 1949
MOON MARS AND VENUS
Gordon W. Allen OVERLORDS OLYMPIANS AND THE UFO 1974
Gordon W. Allen SPACECRAFT FROM BEYOND THREE 1959
DIMENSIONS
George C. Andrews EXTRATERRESTRIALS AMONG US ?1988
Orfeo Angelucci THE SECRET OF THE SAUCERS 1955
Kenneth Arnold THE COMING OF THE SAUCERS 1952
John C. Baird # THE INNER LIMITS OF OUTER SPACE 1987
Gray Barker GRAY BARKER AT GIANT ROCK 1976
Gray Barker THE SILVER BRIDGE 1970
Gray Barker THE BOOK OF GEORGE ADAMSKI 1965
Gray Barker THE STRANGE CASE OF DR M K JESSUP 1963
Gray Barker THEY KNEW TOO MUCH ABOUT
FLYING SAUCERS 1958
Gray Barker THE SUACERIAN REVIEW 1956
Madelene Barnothy THE EFFECTS OF MAGNETIC FIELDS 1964
Bill Barry ULTIMATE ENCOUNTER 1978
John Baxter THE FIRE CAME BY - THE RIDDLE OF 1976
THE GREAT SIBERIAN EXPLOSION
Robert B. Beard FLYING SAUCERS, UFO'S AND EXTRA
TERESTRIAL LIFE:A BIBLIOGRAPHY
OF BRITISH BOOKS 1971
Chessman Beere USP - PHYSICS FOR FLYING SAUCERS 1973
Albert Bender FLYING SAUCERS AND THE THREE MEN 1963
Albert Bender SPACE REVIEW 1962
Hildegard Bender KNIGHTS OF THE SOLAR CROSS - 1968
MESSAGES FROM OUTER SPACE
Jacques Bergier ET INTERVENTION - THE EVIDENCE 1974
Jacques Bergier ET VISITS FROM PREHISTORY
TO PRESENT 1970
! Charles Berlitz * THE ROSWELL INCIDENT 1980
Charles Berlitz * MYSTERIES FROM FORGOTTEN WORLDS 1972
Charles Berlitz # THE MYSTERY OF ATLANTIS 1969
Raymond Bernard # THE HOLLOW EARTH 1969
Raymond Bernard FLYING SAUCERS FROM EARTHS ?1969
INTERIOR
Truman Bethurum THE PEOPLE OF THE PLANET CLARION 1970
Truman Bethurum FACING REALITY 1958
Truman Bethurum THE VOICE OF THE PLANET CLARION 1957
Truman Bethurum ABOARD A FLYING SAUCER 1954
Otto Billig FLYING SAUCERS: MAGIC IN THE
SKIES: A PSYCHOHISTORY 1982
Otto Binder UNSOLVED MYSTERIES OF THE PAST ?1974
Otto Binder MANKIND CHILD OF THE STARS 1974
Otto Binder FLYINF SAUCERS ARE WATCHING US 1968
Otto Binder WHAT WE REALLY KNOW ABOUT
FLYING SAUCERS 1967
Ted Bloecher REPORT ON THE UFO WAVE OF 1947 1967
Ralph Blum * BEYOND EARTH: MANS CONTACT
WITH UFO'S 1974
Josef Blumrich * THE SPACESHIPS OF EZEKIEL 1974
Yurko Bondarchuk UFO SIGHTINGS, LANDINGS
AND ABDUCTIONS 1979
Charles Bowen ENCOUNTER CASES FROM FLYING
SAUCER REVIEW 1977
Charles Bowen UFO ENCOUNTERS (magazine) 1973
Charles Bowen UFO'S IN TWO WORLDS (magazine) 1971
Charles Bowen BEYOND CONDON 1969
Charles Bowen THE HUMANOIDS - A SURVEY OF 1969
WORLDWIDE REPORTS
Charles Bowen UFO PERCIPIENTS (magazine) 1969
Charles Bowen THE HUMANOIDS (magazine) 1966
M. Bowen FLYING SAUCERS AND OUTER SPACE 1969
Don Boys FLYING SAUCERS: MYTHS, MADNESS
OR MADE IN MOSCOW ?1974
Ronald Bracewell THE GALACTIC CLUB 1975
Eugene Burt UFO'S AND DIAMAGNETISM 1970
Lynn E. Catoe UFO'S AND RELATED SUBJECTS:
AN ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY 1969
Maurice Chatelain * OUR ANCESTORS CAME FROM
OUTER SPACE 1975
Howard Chambers UFO"S FOR THE MILLIONS 1967
Robert Chapman UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 1969
Robert Charroux LEGACY OF THE GODS 1974
Robert Charroux THE GODS UNKNOW 1974
Robert Charroux MASTERS OF THE WORLD 1974
Robert Charroux FORGOTTEN WORLDS 1973
Robert Charroux ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS OF 1971
MANS UNKNOWN HISTORY
Adrian V. Clark COSMIC MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE ?1969
Edward U. Condon SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF UNIDENTIFIED
FLYING OBJECTS 1969
Gordon Cove WHO PILOTS THE FLYING SAUCERS ?1974
William R. Corliss * HANDBOOK OF UNUSUAL NATURAL
PHENOMENA 1977
Douglas Curran IN ADVANCE OF THE LANDING: FOLK
CONCEPTS OF OUTER SPACE 1985
Reilly H. Crabb FLYING SUACERS AT EDWARDS AFB ?1980
Leonard G. Cramp SPACE, GRAVITY AND THE
FLYING SAUCER ?1967
Ellen Crystal INVASION: THEY COME IN SILENCE ?1988
David M. Jacob's THE CONTROVERSY OVER FLYING
OBJECTS IN AMERICA 1869-1973 ?1986
Jay David THE FLYING SAUCER READER 1967
Isabel Davis CLOSE ENCOUNTERS AT KELLY
AND OTHERS OF 1955 1978
Isabel Davis EXTRATERRESTRIALS SUGGESTED
MOTIVES AND ORIGIN 1969
Erich Von Daniken VON DANIKENS PROOF 1978
Erich Von Daniken MIRACLES OF THE GODS 1976
Erich Von Daniken RETURN TO THE STARS ?1974
Erich Von Daniken IN SEARCH OF ANCIENT GODS 1973
Erich Von Daniken # THE GOLD OF THE GODS 1972
Erich Von Daniken * GODS FROM OUTER SPACE 1971
Erich Von Daniken * CHARIOTS OF THE GODS 1970
L. S. DeCamp * THE ANCIENT ENGINEERS 1980
R. L. Dione * GOD DRIVES A FLYING SAUCER 1969
Barry Downing THE BIBLE AND FLYING SAUCERS 1968
Raymond W. Drake GODS AND SPACEMEN THROUGHOUT
HISTORY 1975
Raymond W. Drake GODS AND SPACEMEN OF THE ANCIENT
WEST 1974
Raymond W. Drake GODS AND SPACEMEN IN ANCIENT EAST 1968
Ann Druffel THE TUJUNGA CANYON CONTACTS 1980
George Eberhart UFO'S AND THE EXTRATERESTRIAL 1980
CONTACT MOVEMENT: A BIBLIOGRAPHY 1986
George Eberhart A GEO-BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ANOMALIES 1980
Martin Ebon # THE RIDDLE OF THE BERMUDA TRIANGL 1975
Frank Edwards FLYING SAUCERS HERE AND NOW 1967
Frank Edwards * FLYING SAUCERS SERIOUS BUSINESS 1966
Frank Edwards * STRANGER THAN SCIENCE 1959
Frank Edwards * STRANGEST OF ALL 1956
Robert Emenegger UFO'S PAST PRESENT & FUTURE 1974
Walter Ernsting THE DAY THE GODS DIED 1971
Hilary Evans THE EVIDENCE FOR UFO'S 1983
Lawrence Fawcett # CLEAR INTENT: THE GOVERMENT
COVERUP OF THE UFO EXPERIENCE 1984
Randall Fitzgerald THE COMPLETE BOOK OF EXTRA
TERRESTRIAL ENCOUNTYERS 1979
Parls Flammonde UFO EXIST ?1987
Charles Fort COMPLETE BOOKS OF CHARLES FORT 1974
Charles Fort LO! 1934
Raymond E. Fowler CASEBOOK OF A UFO INVESTIGATOR 1981
Raymond E. Fowler # THE ANDREASSON AFFAIR 1979
Stanton Friedman UFO'S TODAY 1974
Stanton Friedman UFO'S MYTH AND MYSTERY 1971
Stanton Friedman FLYING SAUCER ENERGETICS 1970
Daniel Fry THE WHITE SANDS INCIDENT 1966
Curtis Fuller PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST
INTERNATIONAL UFO CONGRESS 1980
John G. Fuller ALIENS IN THE SKIES ?1970
John G. Fuller * THE INTERUPTED JOURNEY 1966
John G. Fuller * INCIDENT AT EXETER 1966
Judith Gansberg DIRECT ENCOUNTERS 1980
Richard Garvin # THE CRYSTAL SKULL 1973
Gavin Gibbons THEY RODE IN SPACESHIPS 1957
Daniel Gillmor SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF UFO'S 1969
Kurt Glemser FLYING SAUCERS FROM THE FOURTH 1974
DIMENSION
Kurt Glemser FLYING SAUCERS AND THE INNER 1974
EARTH
Kurt Glemser THE MEN IN BLACK REPORT 1973
Kurt Glemser UFO'S: MENACE FROM THE SKIES 1972
Kurt Glemser THEY WALK AMONG US 1970
Timothy Good GEORGE ADAMSKI THE UNTOLD STORY ?1988
Gabriel Green LETS FACE THE FACTS ABOUT
FLYING SAUCERS 1967
Irving Greenfield THE UFO REPORT 1967
Barry Greenwood CLEAR INTENT ?1988
Richard F. Haines OBSERVING UFO'S: AN INVESTIGATIVE
HANDBOOK 1980
David Haisell * THE MISSING SEVEN HOURS 1978
David Haisell THE MISSING SEVEN HOURS REVEALED 1978
! Richard H. Hall * UNINVITED GUESTS 1988
Richard H. Hall THE UFO EVIDENCE 1964
Richard H. Hall CHALLANGE OF UFO'S ?1966
W. A. Harbinson * THE LIGHT OF EDEN 1987
W. A. Harbinson * OTHERWORLD 1984
W. A. Harbinson REVELATION ????
! W. A. Harbinson * GENESIS 1980
Clive Harold THE UNINVITED: A TRUE STORY 1979
Gerald Heard IS ANOTHER WORLD WATCHING 1953
Allan Hendry THE UFO HANDBOOK 1979
James Holledge FLYING SAUCERS OVER AUSTRALIA 1965
Bud Hopkins * MISSING TIME: A DOCUMENTED STUDY
OF UFO ABDUCTIONS 1981
Bud Hopkins * INTRUDERS: THE INCREDIBLE
VISITATIONS AT COPLEY WOODS 1987
Bud Hopkins INTRUDERS AMONG US ?1987
! Allan J. Hynek * THE HYNEK UFO REPORT 1977
Allan J. Hynek THE EDGE OF REALITY 1975
Allan J. Hynek * THE UFO EXPERIENCE A SCIENTIFIC
INQUIRY 1972
Phil Imbrogno # NIGHT SIEGE THE HUDSON VALLEY UFO 1987
D. Jacobs THE UFO CONTROVERCY IN AMERICA 1975
Trevor James THEY LIVE IN THE SKY ?1967
M. K. Jessup THE EXPANDING CASE FOR UFO'S 1957
M. K. Jessup # THE CASE FOR THE UFO'S 1955
! M. K. Jessup THE CASE FOR THE UFO'S 1956
(ANOTATED "VARO" EDITION)
M. K. Jessup THE UFO ANNUAL 1956
M. K. Jessup UFO AND THE BIBLE 1956
Carl Jung FLYING SAUCERS: A MODERN MYTH
OF THINGS SEEN IN THE SKY 1959
John A. Keel THE MAN WHO INVENTED FLYING
SAUCERS 1983
John A. Keel THE EIGHTH TOWER 1975
John A. Keel THE MOTHMAN PROPHECIES 1975
John A. Keel * OUR HAUNTED PLANET 1971
John A. Keel UFO'S OPERATION TROJAN HORSE 1970
C. F. Keil COMMENTARY ON THE OLD TESTAMENT 1966
Major Donald E. Keyhoe * ALIENS FROM SPACE... THE REAL
STORY OF UFO'S 1973
Major Donald E. Keyhoe FLYING SAUCERS TOP SECRET 1960
Major Donald E. Keyhoe FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY 1955
Major Donald E. Keyhoe FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE 1953
Major Donald E. Keyhoe FLYING SAUCERS ARE REAL 1950
K. A. Kichen ANCIENT ORIENT AND OLD TESTAMENT 1966
Gary Kinder * LIGHT YEARS 1987
Phillip Klass UFO'S THE PUBLIC DECIEVED 1983
Phillip Klass UFO'S EXPLAINED 1974
Phillip Klass UFO'S IDENTIFIED 1968
Peter Kolosimo NOT OF THIS WORLD 1971
Dino Kraspedon MY CONTACT WITH FLYING SAUCERS 1959
Alan Landsburg * THE OUTER SPACE CONNECTION 1975
George Leonard SOMEONE ELSE IS ON THE MOON ?1988
Brinsley LePoer Trench SECRET OF THE AGES - UFO's 1975
FROM INSIDE THE EARTH
Brinsley LePoer Trench OPERATION EARTH 1974
Brinsley LePoer Trench THE ETERNAL SUBJECT 1973
(THE UFO STORY)
Brinsley LePoer Trench FLYING SAUCERS HAVE ARRIVED 1970
Brinsley LePoer Trench THE FLYING SAUCER STORY 1970
Brinsley LePoer Trench TEMPLE OF THE STARS 1962
(MEN AMONG MANKIND)
Brinsley LePoer Trench THE SKY PEOPLE 1960
Gordon Lindsay THE RIDDLE OF THE FLYING SAUCERS 1972
Gordon Lindsay THE ANTICHRISTS HAVE COME 1958
Howard Liss UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 1968
Robert Loftin IDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 1968
Gordon Lore Jr. STRANGE EFFECTS FROM UFO'S 1969
Gordon Lore Jr. MYSTERIES OF THE SKIES: UFO'S
IN PERSPECTIVE 1968
Robert W. Loosley AN ACCOUNT OF A MEETING WITH
DENIZENS OF ANOTHER WORLD 1971
Coral Lorenzen ABDUCTED! 1977
Coral Lorenzen ENCOUNTERS WITH UFO OCCUPANTS 1976
Coral Lorenzen UFO'S THE WHOLE STORY 1969
Coral Lorenzen * UFO'S OVER THE AMERICAS 1968
Coral Lorenzen FLYING SAUCER OCCUPANTS 1967
Coral Lorenzen * THE FLYING SAUCER HOAX 1966
Coral Lorenzen (FLYING SAUCERS: THE STARTLING
EVIDENCE OF THE INVITATION FROM
OUTER SPACE) 1966
Duncan Lunan * MYSTERIOUS SIGNALS FROM
OUTER SPACE 1974
Larry Maddock THE FLYING SAUCER GAMBIT 1966
Kenneth c. McCulloch MANKIND CITIZEN OF THE GALAXY ?1988
John Magor OUR UFO VISITORS 1977
Howard Menger FROM OUTER SPACE TO YOU 1959
John Manas FLYING SAUCERS ANS SPACEMEN 1962
Dr. Donald Menzel THE UFO ENIGMA 1977
Dr. Donald Menzel UFO FACT OR FICTION 1967
Dr. Donald Menzel THE WORLD OF FLYING SAUCERS 1963
Dr. Donald Menzel FLYING SAUCERS 1953
Aime Michel FLYING SAUCERS AND THE STRAIGHT
LINE MYSTERY 1958
Aime Michel THE TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS 1956
John Michell * THE FLYING SAUCER VISION 1967
Helen Mitchell WE MET THE SPACE PEOPLE ?1970
William L. Moore THE SPITZBERGEN SAUCER CRASH ?1988
William L. Moore CRASHED UFO'S: EVIDENCE IN THE
SEARCH FOR PROOF ?1988
William L. Moore UFO'S THE MOST HIGHLY CLASSIFIED
SUBJECT 1986
! William L. Moore * THE ROSWELL INCIDENT 1980
! William L. Moore * THE PHILADELPHIA EXPERIMENT 1979
Jim Moseley THE WRIGHT FIELD STORY 1971
Jim Moseley JIM MOSELEY'S BOOK OF SAUCER NEWS 1967
Israel Norkin SAUCER DIARY 1957
Erich Norman GODS AND DEVILS FROM OUTER SPACE 1973
Erich Norman * GODS, DEMONS AND SPACE CHARIOTS 1970
James E. Oberg UFO'S AND OUTER SPACE MYSTERIES:
Thomas Olsen THE REFERENCE FOR OUTSTANDING
UFO SIGHTING REPORTS ?1968
Ray Palmer THE REAL UFO INVASION 1968
Michael Parry CHARIOTS OF FIRE 1974
A SYMPATHETIC SKEPTICS REPORT 1982
T. B. Pawlicki HOW TO BUILD A FLYING SAUCER AND
OTHER PROPOSALS IN SPECULATIVE
ENGINEERING 1981
Ted Peters UFO'S GOD'S CHARIOTS 1977
Ted Phillips PHYSICAL TRACES ASSOCIATED WITH 1975
UFO SIGHTINGS
Randolfo Raphael Pozos # THE FACE ON MARS ?1980
UFO Congress PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST INTER
NATIONAL UFO CONGRESS 1980
Jenny Randles SKY CRASH: A COSMIC CONSPIRACY 1984
Jenny Randles SCIENCE AND THE UFO'S 1985
Jenny Randles UFO REALITY: A CRITICAL LOOK
AT THE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE 1983
Richard M. Rasmussen THE UFO LITERATURE: A COMPREHEN
SIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS IN
ENGLISH 1985
J. Rimmer THE EVIDENCE FOR ALIEN ABDUCTIONS 1984
Edward J. Ruppelt THE REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED
FLYING OBJECTS 1956
Harley D. Rutledge PROJECT IDENTIFICATION: THE
FIRST SCIENTIFIC FIELD STUDY
OF THE UFO PHENOMENA 1981
Margaret Sachs THE UFO ENCYCLOPEDIA 1980
Margaret Sachs CELESTRIAL PASSENGERS: UFO'S
AND SPACE TRAVEL 1977
Carl Sagan OTHER WORLDS 1975
Carl Sagan THE COSMIC CONNECTION 1973
Carl Sagan UFO'S A SCIENTIFIC DEBATE 1972
Carl Sagan INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE 1967
Thierry J. Sagnier * THE UFO REPORT 1983
Frank Salisbury THE UTAH UFO DISPLAY 1974
Ivan Sanderson UNINVITED VISITORS 1967
Ivan Sanderson INVISIBLE RESIDENTS 1970
David Saunders UFO's? YES!: WHERE THE CONDON
REPORT WENT WRONG 1968
Frank Scully # BEHIND THE FLYING SAUCERS 1950
Jean Sendy * THE COMING OF THE GODS 1970
Jean Sendy * THE GODS WHO MADE HEAVEN & EARTH 1969
Jean Sendy THE MOON: OUTPOST OF THE GODS 1968
Robert Sheaffer THE UFO VERDICT: EXAMINING
THE EVIDENCE 1980
Arthur Shuttlewood UFO'S KEY TO THE NEW AGE 1971
Arthur Shuttlewood WARNING FROM FLYING FRIENDS 1968
Arthur Shuttlewood * THE WARMINSTER MYSTERY 1967
MS Smith THE UFO ENIGMA 1976
Warren Smith # SECRET OF THE HOLLOW EARTH 1976
Warren Smith # SECRET FORCES OF THE PYRAMIDS 1975
Garder Soule UFO'S AND IFO'S 1967
John Spenser * PHENOMENON FORTY YEARS OF
FLYING SUACERS 1988
John Spencer # NO EARTHLY EXPLANATION 1974
John Spencer LIMBO OF THE LOST 1969
Gerome Stanton FLYING SAUCERS HOAX OR REALITY 1966
Roger Stanway FLYING SAUCER REPORT - UFO'S
UNIDENTIFIED AND UNDENIABLE 1968
Fred Steckling UFO'S WHY ARE THEY HERE? 1969
Brad Steiger # THE FELLOWSHIP 1988
Brad Steiger * THE UFO ABDUCTORS 1988
Brad Steiger THE STAR PEOPLE ?1988
Brad Steiger REVELATION: THE DIVINE FIRE ?1988
Brad Steiger WORLDS BEFORE OUR OWN ?1988
Brad Steiger * ALIEN MEETINGS 1978
Brad Steiger GODS OF AQUARIOUS 1976
Brad Steiger PROJECT BLUEBOOK 1976
Brad Steiger THE NEW UFO BREAKTHROUGH ?1976
Brad Steiger # MYSTERIES OF TIME AND SPACE 1974
Brad Steiger FLYING SAUCER INVASION - TARGET 1969
EARTH
Brad Steiger ALLENDE LETTERS 1968
Brad Steiger NEW UFO BREAKTHROUGH 1968
Brad Steiger FLYING SAUCERS ARE HOSTILE 1967
Brad Steiger THE FLYING SAUCER MENACE 1967
Brad Steiger STRANGERS FROM THE SKIES 1966
William Steinman UFO CRASH AT AZTEC ?1988
Robert Sheaffer THE UFO VERDICT: EXAMINING
THE EVIDENCE 1980
Jack Stonely * IS ANYONE OUT THERE 1974
Ronald Story UFO'S AND THE LIMITS OF SCIENCE 1981
Ronald Story # THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF UFO'S 1980
Ronald Story GUARDIANS OF THE UNIVERSE 1980
Ronald Story THE SPACE GODS REVEALED A CLOSE 1976
LOOK AT THE THEORIES OF ERICH
VON DANIKEN
Frank Stranges THE STRANGER AT THE PENTAGON 1972
Frank Stranges MY FRIEND FROM BEYOND EARTH 1960
Frank Stranges FLYING SAUCERAMA 1959
Whitley Strieber # TRANSFORMATION 1988
Whitley Strieber * COMMUNION 1987
Leonard Stringfield * SITUATION RED: UFO SIEGE 1977
Leonard Stringfield INSIDE SAUCER POST 3-0 BLUE 1957
Richard Tambling FLYING SAUCERS WHERE DO
THEY COME FROM 1967
Paul Thomas FYING SAUCERS THROUGH THE AGES 1965
Andrew Tomas * WE ARE NOT THE FIRST 1971
James Trevor THEY LIVE IN THE SKY 1958
Jacques Vallee CHALLENGE TO SCIENCE:
THE UFO ENIGMA 1966
Jacques Vallee MESSENGERS OF DECEPTION: UFO
CONTACTS AND CULTS 1979
Jacques Vallee DIMENSIONS: A CASEBOOK OF
ALIEN CONTACT ????
Jacques Vallee THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE ?1978
Jacques Vallee * ANATOMY OF A PHENOMENON 1965
Jacques Vallee UFO'S IN SPACE 1965
Jacques Vallee * THE UFO ENIGMA: CHALLENGE 1966
TO SCIENCE
Jacques Vallee PASSPORT TO MAGONIA 1969
! Renato Vesco * INTRCEPT / UFO 1968
(INTERCEPT BUT DONT SHOOT)
Travis Walton THE WALTON EXPERIENCE 1978
David Webb YEAR OF THE HUMANOIDS 1974
David Wheeler THE LUBBOCK LIGHTS 1977
Dale White IS SOMETHING UP THERE? 1969
P. J. Wilcox THE UFO QUESTION 1976
Harold T. Wilkins FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED 1956
Harold T. Wilkins * FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK 1954
Harold T. Wilkins STRANGE MYSTERIES OF TIME
& SPACE ?1954
George Hunt Williamson OTHER TONGUES, OTHER FLESH ?1988
George Hunt Williamson THE SAUCERS SPEAK ?1966
Dr. Clifford Wilson * CRASH GO THE CHARIOTS 1972
Dr. Clifford Wilson * THE ALIEN AGENDA 1974
Dr. Clifford Wilson UFO'S & THEIR MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 1974
Dr. Clifford Wilson IN THE BEGINNING GOD 1970
Don Wilson OUR MYSTERIOUS SPACESHIP MOON 1975
T. M. Wright THE INTELLIGENT MAN'S GUIDE
TO FLYING SAUCERS 1968
Bob Young FLYING SAUCERS ARE - BOOK TWO 1959
Mort Young UFO: TOP SECRET 1967
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From: jaguar@arkham.wimsey.bc.ca (Jeremy Reimer)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
Subject: UFO articles, and their relevance
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Date: 11 Apr 91 08:54:09 GMT
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This is in response to the various UFO articles posted earlier on this group,
and is not a flame to the author(s) or the person who posted them.
I'd just like to point out: isn't it more than a little strange that virtally
ALL of these reports have featured:
a) Flying spacecraft CONSISTANTLY saucer shaped despite the obvious limitations
of such a design, with "human" characteristics such as "windows", etc.
b) Aliens that are nearly always short, thin, with green/grayish skin and big
heads, who appear (remarkably) to share exactly the same human physiology
and genetic structure save for melanin content, head size and growth rates.
c) Testimonials from people living almost exclusively in rural or nearly
uninhabited areas
...and the list goes on. One of the articles attempts to steer away from this
problem by suggesting that these sightings have been going on for some 50,000
years. I doubt very much if testimonials from the Middle Ages and farther back
in history can be taken seriously. People living at this time were uneducated
and believed very much in the supernatural, which consumed most of their time
for telling tales of "unexplained events" Flying saucers did not figure too
highly in those times. Suddenly, in the twentieth century, not a single year
after the word "flying saucer" is coined, the rate of UFO reports skyrockets
from almost nil to an all-consuming passion.
It seems that people have an inexplicable desire to belive in something higher
than their own existance, and the UFO craze fills that niche. Indeed, in a
poll taken a few years ago in Britain, it was found that more people believed
in "flying saucers" than believed in God.
Tales of abduction must be taken with a grain of salt. Anyone who has watched
even a smattering of science fiction on television knows of the standard
routine where aliens abduct an unsuspecting human, perform some unknown tests
on him/her, than wipe his memory and return him to earth. Yet consistantly
reports of abduction feature exactly this tale. It seems to me to project a
profound lack imagination on behalf of humanity that such reports happen again
and again.
Why is it, that from the thousands of reported abductions, not one has reported
a detailed description of a spacecraft's interior (something of greater
complexity than a typical Star Trek set)? Or retrieved some fragment from a
crashed spacecraft, something that could be easily identified as being of alien
origin? Or described an extraterrestrial that is not human in form (large
heads and big black eyes don't count.) The human form is an accident which
occurred after over a billion years of evolution. The chances of such
"convergent evolution" happening elsewhere are almost non-existant.
Why is it so hard, if as some people would state that UFOs visit the planet
daily, to produce ONE SINGLE PIECE of concrete evidence? Even aliens can make
mistakes. The "crashed spacecraft" story featured in one of the articles is
particularly intriguing. Why was there no attempt made to recover something
from the wreckage? Or take a photograph? Again, all we are left with is one
person's testimony.
As always, alternative explainations abound. Most UFO's are natural phenomena,
and are uninteresting (clouds, artificial lights, etc.) The interesting
phenomena, paradoxically, is never well documented or witnessed by large groups
of people. The human mind being the fragile thing it is, it is much easier to
assume that one person hallucinated (people do it daily, many times illegally)
than to construct an elaborate hypothesis of alien visitation.
A side note: the document from the USAF is obviously false. The Air Force did
a comprehensive study in the 50's called Project Blue Book designed to look
into every report by pilots of UFO encounters to try and see if there was a
basis for such events. The project was abandoned after the reports were
labelled "too inconclusive", and there has been little follow-up since.
I'd be interested to see other people's views on this (no flames on spelling,
writing style, or anything of that nature, please. I haven't taken English
since 1st year, where I did end up with an A, thank-you)... Does anyone on the
net have a personal tale of such an experience? (abduction or otherwise) I'd
be
Have any of you seen the book "Behold a Pale Horse" by William Cooper
I was told it had some UFO connection details, but showed more of the
human activity side of things behind closed doors, as possibly relate
to seemingly malevolent behavior by both human and alien parties in jointly
operated facilities. I would be concerned that any such situation could
backfire against the humans.
