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RIMA E. LAIBOW, M.D.
Child and Adult
Psychiatry
Cerridwen
13 Summit
Terrace
Dobbs' Ferry, NY 10522
(914)693-3081
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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(1)Westrum,
R., Social Intelligence About Hidden Events,
Knowledge:Creation,
Diffusion, Utilization, Vol 3 No 3,
March 1982, p.382
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(2)Hopkins,
B. Missing Time: A Documented Study of UFO Abductions.
New York, Richard
Marek 1981.
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(3)Slater,
E., Ph.D. "Conclusions on Nine Psychologicals" in
Final Report
on the Psychological Testing of UFO Abductees"
Mt Ranier, MD,
1985
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(4)Slater,
E., Ph.D. Addendum to "Conclusions on Nine Psychological"
in
Final Report on the Psychological Testing of UFO "Abductees",
op.cit.
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(5)Creighton,
G. "The Amazing Case of Antonio Villas Boas" in
Rogo,
D>S>, ed., Alien Abductions. New York, New American
Library, pp.
51-83, 1980.
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(6)Hopkins,B.
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(7)Druffel,A.
"Harrison Bailey and the 'Flying Saucer Disease'" in
Rogo, S.D.,
ed., op.cit. pp. 122-137
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(8)Strieber,
W. Communion. New York, Avon, 1987
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(9)Fowler,
R. The Andreasson Affair. New York, Bantam Books, 1979
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(10)Fuller,
J. The Interrupted Journey. New York, Dell, 1966
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(11)Hopkins,
B. Intruders: The Incredible Visitation at Copley Woods.
New York, Random
House, 1987
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(12)Hopkins, B.
Personal communications with the author about the more
than 200 abductees
whom Mr. Hopkins has investigated both with and
without the use of
hypnosis.
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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
of UFO
Research. Proceedings of the Second CUFOS Conference
(September 25-27,
1981), Hynek, M. ed., pp 171-2, Chicago,
J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO
Studies, 1988.
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(16)Kardiner,
A., The Traumatic Neuroses of War. New York,
P. Hoeber, 1941
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(17)van
Der Kolk, B.A., Psychological Trauma. Washington, DC, American
Psychiatric
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(18)Horowitz,M.J.,
Stress Response Syndromes. New York, Jason Aronson,1976
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(20)American
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of Mental
Disorders, 3rd ed. Washington, DC,
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1980
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(21)Slater,
op.cit.
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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.
============================================================
CONTRIBUTED
BY: Sandy Barbre
December 17, 1990
============================================================
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.
-+--------------
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.
-+-------------begin
story--------------
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."
-+-----end of story--------------
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INFO:CHAPTER XIII - UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS
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Training Textbook, long since censored.
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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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CUFON - UFO
Information Service Seattle, Washington
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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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CUFON - UFO Information Service
Seattle, Washington
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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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CUFON - UFO Information Service Seattle,
Washington
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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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CUFON - UFO Information Service Seattle,
Washington
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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.
PAGE ELEVEN
________________________________________________________________
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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PAGE TWELVE
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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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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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The following is a good starting
list of UFO reading material.
I will post another list in a few days with more
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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)
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Subject: UFO articles, and their relevance
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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 very interested to see it.
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Article 3958 of alt.conspiracy:
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Subject: Re: INFO: List of UFO
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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.
from: Wiiliam Cooper
POB 3299
Camp Verde,
AZ 86322
USA $22
or
the book: "MATRIX II" by Valdamar Valerian
it is said to
have a very complete collection of alien related info
as well as goverment
connection factors. I would like some
feedback in
relation to very well tested details as some of you may
have. It could
be a bomb shell or
?
from: Arcturus Book Service
in association with Navada Arial
Research Group in Las Vegas?
POB 81407, Las Vegas, Nevada 89180-1407
Avail from: Arcturus Book
Service
POB 831383, Stone Mountain, GA 30083-0023, USA
$50(?)
It was
suggested that these books would be very VERY informative,
and reveal much
to do with the current world afairs and their movers
at the deepest
levels.
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1/15/92