ABSTRACTS
Richard H. Hall - Fifty Years of UFO Politics and Discomfort Zones
The author has been intrigued by UFO reports and involved in their investigation and study for the better part of 50 years. His focus always has been on gathering and studying empirical data, rather than on theorizing. He presents an overview of his experiences, and commentary on the political and social barriers to acceptance of UFOs as something real and important.
Eve Frances Lorgen, M.A. - Alien Orchestrated Human Bonding Dramas
Alien abductions extend beyond the physical medical exams and presupposed "alien/human" genetic hybridization breeding programs hypothesized in current UFO abduction literature. Alien orchestrated human bonding dramas in numerous abduction cases suggest an alternative factor in understanding the motives of the extraterrestrials interaction with humanity. These bonding dramas consist of alien instigated, "staged" relationship manipulations, and emotional and sexual bonding arrangements between two targeted abductee partners, which often result in dramatic love obsessions in one or both partners. Several case studies will be presented demonstrating the characteristic signs, symptoms and patterns of alien-directed relationship bondings and manipulations. An alternative explanation and motivating factor of these orchestrated dramas will be presented.
Beverly J. Trout - Talking Back - to Aliens and to Humans
Alien abduction needs to be seen for what it is so that the public response will be consistent with the reality. From my experiences and investigations, I offer essays pointing to what is, at present, an extremely unbalanced relationship where everything is essentially beyond the abductee's control when the alien presence. I pull no punches in assessing both alien and human mistakes. My criticism of the aliens' manipulative presence is only matched by my criticism of myself and other humans in "enabling" the alien manipulation/domination. I warn against papering over our feelings of helplessness and emotional desperation by either deifying or demonizing the alien presence. I make clear that what I want from the aliens, as well as from the humans, is a non-worshipful, non-deifying balanced interaction, devoid of manipulation. My challenge to the reader is to recognize our need to bring about a meeting of the alien and human minds. I point to the need for abductees and non-abductees alike to look at the phenomenon for what is, not what we would like it to be. In our research into the general subject of UFOs and the abduction phenomenon, we need to toss gullibility out the window; take nothing for granted, question everything; then question some more.
Budd Hopkins - A 1961 Car Levitation UFO Abduction Case
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Jenny Randles - A Walk on the Weird Side
As a British researcher who has traveled quite extensively I have been able to judge different approaches to UFO investigation. Contrary to many I do not believe that any single way is the right way and feel that it can be beneficial to look at how others study the evidence in perhaps unexpected ways. In the UK cases that might elsewhere be regarded as too 'weird' for consideration are given serious debate. As a result a surprising philosophy about UFO reality has developed. The reason for this liberal approach is that researchers claim to have evidence that UFO encounters, alien contacts and abductions may, in fact, be just a part of a continuum that also includes what others regard as unrelated paranormal episodes. These include time slips, near death experiences and apparitions. In this paper I seek to explain - through personal case studies - what lessons can be taught by these phenomena that stalk the borderline between differing states of reality. Should they be regarded as separate from the hard core of UFOlogy as represented by most research? Or do they, in fact, offer valuable clues that might otherwise be missed and that demonstrate the surprising depth of the UFO mystery? Is the close encounter just one example of a UFO state of consciousness that can manifest in many different ways?" Or are there grounds to suspect that a hidden dimension - another form of reality itself - might exist out of which can emerge quite extraordinary phenomena?
S. Peter Resta, Ph.D. - Alien Abduction: Perception and the Mental Health Establishment
Many ufologists and/or "alien abductees/experiencers" have voiced frustration about the attitude of mainstream mental health professionals as regards the abduction enigma. This paper provides insight into why those in the mental health and behavioral science fields are often skeptical or critical of purported abductees and ufologists. Commonalities and parallels between alien abduction syndrome and various psychological/psychiatric conditions and issues are examined. The problems at hand include such controversial concepts as recovered memory, satanic ritual abuse, and multiple personality.
Bruce S. Maccabee, Ph.D. - Immediate Saucer Alert! The Mystery of December 6, 1950
For an hour the United States military was under a condition of national emergency during the morning of December 6, 1950 . Two days later the FBI was informed that the Army's Counter Intelligence Corps had been placed on Immediate High Alert for any information related to flying saucers. Were these two documented events related? This paper contains a discussion of the possibility that a flight of saucers caused the emergency and that the crash of one of them near the Texas-Mexico border on or about December 6, 1960 caused the immediate high alert.
Robert P. Swiatek - Acceptance of the Incredible: The 1952 Washington National Airport Sightings
On two occasions in July of 1952, a series of spectacular nighttime radar-visual UFO events occurred over the Washington , D.C. metropolitan area. Objects were seen in the sky by expert witnesses, and radar tracked the antics of these objects as they cavorted through restricted government air spaces and bedeviled pursuing jet interceptors. This paper briefly reviews the events of these nights, highlighting several of the more outstanding encounters between man and anomaly. The aftermath of the whole situation is explored, including the Air Force's press conference on 29 July 1952 and subsequent attempts by critics to affix prosaic explanations to the visual and radar reports. Lastly, rebuttals to the critics' positions are set forth.
Stanton T. Friedman, M.S. - Star Travel? Yes!
The most common objection to the notion that some UFOs are alien spacecraft is that star travel is impossible. It supposedly would take too much energy and/or, too much time. These conclusions in turn are based on a whole host of false premises. For example, such straw men as the following have been put forth:
• One must think in terms of distances of thousands of light years to the nearest civilization, across our galaxy or even to the nearest galaxy, a million light years away.
• One must assume as the maximum speed, that of our fastest chemical rockets, less than 100,000 mph
• The rocket must itself provide all the energy required for the trip
• No planet began its technological development much earlier than we did
• No other life bearing planet is any closer to another solar system than the sun is to its nearest sun-like neighbor.
In fact, a far more scientific evaluation, based on an understanding of the solutions to engineering problems of flight, reveals the real world. In short, many engineering studies show that trips to nearby stars are feasible with round trip times shorter than the average life-span without inventing new laws of physics, taking advantage of the fact that at 1G acceleration it takes only about a year to get close to the speed of light. At 99.99% of the speed of light, it takes only six months to go thirty-seven light years taking advantage of Einstein's laws of relativity. The stars are indeed within reach.
Betty Ann Lucas - Watchers/Elders Physical Make-up, Syndromes, and Message Reviews
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Kelly Cahill - Are Multiple Witnesses & Scientific Anomalies Enough Proof of a UFO Reality?
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Thomas E. Bullard, Ph.D. - What's New in UFO Abductions? Has the Story Changed in 30 Years?
The apparent consistency of UFO abduction reports from one abductee to another remains a key argument for abduction being a genuine mysterious phenomenon. Critics see many examples of deviation and argue that any consistency owes its existence to influences of culture and investigators, or phenomena like sleep paralysis and hallucinations. The historical dimension has received little attention in this dispute. To redress this neglect, the current study compared 437 abduction reports, divided into 52 cases published between 1966 and 1977, 131 from the period 1978-1986, and 254 from 1987 to the present. Of the 64 content features examined, 42 appear in approximately the same proportions in all three periods while 12 change significantly, though only four of these offer strong support for the hypothesis that abduction reports have altered over time. So little change belies suppositions that cultural influences like Close Encounters of the Third Kind or Whitley Strieber's Communion revolutionized the abduction story, and reinforces the hypothesis that abduction reports are consistent because they have an experiential basis of some sort. Such a finding challenges the political agendas and intellectual comfort zones of critics, but it also raises disquieting issues for proponents.
Joe Firmage - The Truth
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