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by David M. Jacobs


  Appendix B

  The Abductees

  Below is a list of thirty-nine abductees with whom I investigated two or more abductions, and whose testimony appears in this book. In addition, twenty-two other individuals explored only one abduction experience with me.

  Name, year born

  Occupation

  Number of hypnotic regression sessions

  Barbara Archer, 1967

  Newspaper reporter

  6

  James Austino, 1966

  University student

  5

  Melissa Bucknell, 1960

  Real estate management

  30

  Rick Caulfield, 1951

  Bartender

  4

  Elaine Corrello, 1955

  Dance instructor

  2

  Anita Davis, 1958

  Transcriber

  4

  Janet Demerest, 1954 (Karen Morgan’s sister)

  secretary

  13

  Alan Edwards, 1950

  Commercial artist

  4

  John Franklin, 1966

  University student

  4

  Andrew Garcia, 1955

  Alcohol rehabilitation counselor

  4

  Cindy Goldman, 1957 (Lydia Goldman’s daughter)

  Registered nurse

  4

  Lydia Goldman, 1932

  Secretary

  8

  Ruth Grossinger, 1943

  Interior decorator,

  4

  former nurse

  Richard Heyward, 1956

  Clerk typist

  3

  Jason Howard, 1959

  Corporate insurance consultant

  8

  Marvin Josephson, 1966

  Accountant

  2

  Gloria Kane, 1943

  Cardiologist

  14

  George Kenniston, 1949

  Attorney

  2

  Tracy Knapp, 1957

  Musician

  2

  Patti Layne, 1962

  High school teacher

  24

  Evelyn Livingston, 1962

  Graduate student in English

  5

  Michelle Mason, 1942

  Apartment maintenance

  2

  Lynn Miller, 1955

  Waitress

  11

  Laura Moore, 1948

  Secretary

  2

  Karen Morgan, 1949 (Janet Demerest’s sister)

  Owner of public relations firm

  26

  Linda Nichols, 1957

  University student

  10

  Will Parker, 1955

  Radio announcer

  9

  Lucile Perino, 1940

  Homemaker

  5

  Charles Petrie, 1951

  Printer

  13

  Jill Pinzarro, 1948

  Minister

  7

  Marva Roberts, 1954

  Systems engineer

  2

  Ken Rogers, 1961

  Professional bicyclist

  16

  Jason Sandburg, 1956

  Graduate student in physics

  10

  Grant Sawyer, 1932

  High school teacher,

  3

  former army colonel

  Belinda Schiffrin, 1951

  Music teacher

  2

  Helene Thomas, 1950

  Real estate sales

  4

  Steve Thompson, 1950

  Apartment maintenance

  8

  Rodney Walker, 1959

  Graduate student in urban planning

  8

  Victor Young, 1949

  Computer programmer

  2

  Appendix C

  Diagraming the Abduction

  After studying abductions for several years I began to realize that the procedures I was uncovering fit together into a graphic form. This matrix represents the results of my investigations into diagraming the structure of the common abduction. All of the physical, mental, and reproductive experiences are linked together through the primary, secondary and ancillary experiences. By examining this matrix, we can get a visual sense of the continuity of these remarkable events. What is extraordinary is that there is a structure, and a fairly tight one at that. The existence of this complex structure suggests a greater sense of the purposefulness in the alien abduction program, and lends support to the theory that reports of abductions have a nonpsychological origin. Although most of the abductions that I investigate verify what is already in the matrix, I expect that as researchers learn more about the abduction phenomenon, the categories will be filled in and expanded upon.

  I also expect that new categories will be added that shed further light upon alien activities. We are continually learning and continually being astonished.

  COMMON ABDUCTION SCENARIO MATRIX

  Primary

  Secondary

  Ancillary

  Examination

  Machine

  Miscellaneous

  Tissue Samples

  Enveloping

  Surgery

  Physical

  Implants

  Scanning

  Pool

  Light

  Cures

  Miscellaneous

  Pain

  [Proto-People]

  Staring

  Visualization

  Miscellaneous Mental

  Mindscan

  Imaging

  Media Display

  Mental

  Onset

  Envisioning

  Knowledge

  Calmative

  Staging

  Information Transfer

  End-Pain

  Testing

  Sexual Arousal

  Urological-Gynecological

  Child Presentation

  Sexual Activity

  Egg-Sperm Collection

  Incubatorium

  Involuntary-Compulsive

  Reproductive

  Nursery

  Embryo Implanting

  Baby

  Humans

  Fetal Extraction

  Toddler, Youth

  Hybrids

  Adolescent

  Notes

  Chapter 2: Sightings and Abductions

  1 Cf. Armando Simon, “The Zeitgeist of the UFO Phenomenon,” in Richard Haines, ed., UFO Phenomena and the Behavioral Scientist (Metuchen, NJ: The Scarecrow Press, 1979), pp. 43-59.

  2 For a more complete analysis, see David M. Jacobs, The UFO Controversy in America (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975); Edward Ruppelt, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects (Garden City: Doubleday, 1956); Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist! (New York: Putnam, 1976). For current government activity see also Lawrence Fawcett and Barry Greenwood, Clear Intent (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1984). See also Timothy Good, Above Top Secret (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987).

  3 Edward U. Condon, in Daniel S. Gillmor, ed., Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects (New York: Bantam, 1969), pp. 1, 5.

  4 William Hartmann, in Daniel S. Gillmor, ed., Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects (New York: Bantam Books, 1969), p. 407.

  5 Coral and Jim Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants (New York: Signet, 1967), p. 54.

  6 John Fuller, The Interrupted Journey (New York: Dial Press, 1966).

  7 Travis Walton, The Walton experience (New York: Berkeley Books, 1978).

  8 Leonard Stringfield, “The Stanford, Kentucky Abduction,” The MUFON UFO Journal, January 1976, pp. 5-15.

  9 Ray Fowler, The Andreasson Affair (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1979); The Andreasson Affair, Phase Two (Englewood Clifis: Prentice-Hall, 1982); The Watchers (New York: Bantam, 1990).

  10 Berthold E. Schwarz, “Talks with Betty Hill: I—Aftermath of Encounter,” Flyi
ng Saucer Review, vol. 23, no. 2, 1977, p. 19n; Ann Druffel, The Tujunga Canyon Contacts (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1980).

  11 Budd Hopkins, Missing Time ( New York: Marek, 1981).

  12 Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery (Mount Ranier, MD: Fund for UFO Research, 1987).

  13 Budd Hopkins, Intruders: The Incredible Visitations at Copley Woods (New York: Random House, 1987).

  Chapter 8: The Abductors

  1 Richard Hall, Ted Bloecher, and Isabel Davis, UFOs: A New Look (Washington, DC: National Investigations on Aerial Phenomena, 1969), p. 5.

  2 Once in a while an abductee will report that the aliens appear to be much clumsier than others report. They claim that the aliens have trouble unbuttoning and removing their clothes.

  Chapter 9: Exploring the Evidence

  1 Ron Westrum, “Post Abduction Syndrome,” MUFON UFO Journal, December 1986, pp. 5-6.

  Chapter 11: Answers

  1 See David M. Jacobs, The UFO Controversy in America (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1975), chapter 5, for a discussion of the contactees and their effect on UFO research. Several of the contactees either confessed that their stories were untrue or were exposed by investigators.

  2 For a discussion of hysterical contagion, see Neil J. Smelser, Theory of Collective Behavior (New York: The Free Press, 1962); Ralph L. Rosnow and Gary Alan Fine, Rumor and Gossip: The Social Psychology of Hearsay (New York. Elsevier, 1976).

  3 Nahum Z. Medalia and Otto N. Larsen, “Diffusion and Belief in a Collective Delusion: The Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic,” American Sociological Review, vol. 23, 1958, pp. 180-186.

  4 Alan C. Kerckhoff and Kurt W. Back, The June Bug: A Study in Hysterical Contagion (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1968); Alan C. Kerckhoff and Kurt W. Back, “Sociometric Patterns in Hysteric Contagion,” Sodometry, March 1965, pp. 2-15.

  5 Ronald Seigel, “Long Day’s Journey into Night,” Omni, December 1988, p. 88.

  6 Philip J. Klass, UFO Abductions: A Dangerous Game (Buffalo: Prometheus Press, 1989).

  7 Thomas E. Bullard, “Hypnosis and UFO Abductions: A Troubled Relationship,” Journal of UFO Studies, n.s. 1, 1989, pp. 3-40.

  8 Alvin H. Lawson, “Hypnosis of Imaginary Abductees,” in Curtis Fuller, ed., Proceedings of the First International UFO Congress (New York: War ner Books, 1980), pp. 195-238. One woman related some details about the examination and the aliens that were closer to abduction accounts. It is possible that she was an abductee and that neither she nor Lawson realized it.

  9 Michael Capuzzo, “Exploring the Claims of UFO Abductions,” Philadelphia Inquirer, March 8, 1987, p. 8-L.

  10 One must be clear, however, that mentally disturbed people can also have abduction experiences. The ability of these people to describe and analyze what has happened to them is limited. Competent investigators usually refuse to work with them and refer such people to mental health professionals. One young woman with whom I worked in the course of writing this study fell prey to mental illness and was hospitalized. The factors leading to the breakdown were not related to the abduction phenomenon, and at no time did the abductions become involved with her thought disturbances.

  11 Ted Bloecher, Aphrodite Clamar, and Budd Hopkins, “Summary Report on the Psychological Testing of Nine Individuals Reporting UFO Abduction Experiences” (Washington, DC: The Fund for UFO Research, 1984).

  12 Michael Persinger, “Contribution of Temporal Lobe Factors to Visitor and Paranormal Experiences,” paper, Society for Scientific Exploration, Cornell University, June 1988. Persinger has also suggested that geophysical events can precipitate temporal lobe instability.

  I have worked with an abductee who had temporal lobe epilepsy. She took medication to stop her seizures. Once she was given medication that had been recalled by the manufacturer; instead of preventing seizures, it caused them. Within five days, she had 125 seizures before her epilepsy was brought under control. During that time, she did not have an abduction, imagine abductions, or think about abductions. Three months later, she forgot to take her medication and had a seizure while recounting an abduction event to me under hypnosis. She felt the onset of the seizure, asked to be brought out of the trance, and then had the seizure. At that time she did not confabulate, imagine other abduction events, or have vivid memories of the abduction event she had been describing. She experienced no sensory stimulation of any sort, nor did she think about the abduction event. In fact, the seizure prevented her from recalling the event and it added nothing whatsoever to her account. None of the other abductces with whom I have worked have had any type of epilepsy.

  13 Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1969); Jacques Vallee, Dimensions (Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1988); Robert Bartholomew, UFOlore (Stone Mountain, GA: Arcturus Book Service, 1989); Thomas E. Bullard, “Why Abduction Reports Are Not Urban Legends,” International UFO Reporter, July/August 1991, pp. 15-20, 24. See also Edoardo Russo and Paolo Grassino, “Ufology in Europe; or, What Is America Coming To?” International UFO Reporter, March/April 1989, pp. 4-7; Jerome Clark, “Two Cheers for American Ufology,” International UFO Reporter, March/April 1989, pp. 8-12; Jerome Clark, “The Fall and Rise of the Extraterrestrial Hypothesis,” MUFON 1988 International UFO Symposium Proceedings (Seguin, Texas: MUFON, 1988), pp. 58-71; Thomas E. Bullard, “The American Way; Truth, Justice, and Abduction,” Magonia, October 1989, pp. 3-7.

  14 Carl G. Jung, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky (New York: New American Library, 1959).

  15 Ibid., p. 17.

  16 Alvin H. Lawson, “A Touchstone for Fallacious Abductions: Birth Trauma Imagery in CE III Narratives,” in Mimi Hynek, ed., The Spectrum of UFO Research (Chicago: The J. Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies, 1988), pp. 71-98.

  17 Ann Druffel and D. Scott Rogo, The Tujunga Canyon Contacts (New York: New American Library, 1988) (updated version). Rogo later felt that the mass of abduction evidence had weakened this theory.

  Chapter 12: Questions

  1 Jenny Randles, Abduction: Over 200 Documented UFO Kidnappings (London: Robert Hale, 1988).

  2 Michael Swords, “Extraterrestrial Hybridization Unlikely,” MUFON UFO Journal, November 1988, pp. 6-10; David M.Jacobs, “Hybrid Thoughts,” MUFON UFO Journal, February 1989, pp. 10-11.

  Acknowledgments

  This book could not have been written without the help and encouragement of those who have been subjected to abductions. They were supportive and gave freely of their time and energy. Not only did I learn about the abduction phenomenon from them, but I also learned lessons about the human spirit in the face of adversity that have made me proud to have had our lives intertwine.

  No study of this nature can be done in a vacuum. Dr. Thomas E. Bullard, folklorist and abduction researcher; Jerome Clark of the Center for UFO Studies; writer Michael Fare; Dr. Stephen Greenstein, psychologist; Dr. Charles W. Hieatt, Anglia College, Cambridge; Dr. Roger Keeran, Empire State College; art historian April Kingsley; Dr. Michael Swords, Western Michigan University; and Dr. Ronald Westrum, Eastern Michigan University, gave much of their time and offered invaluable comments on the manuscript.

  Fred Hills and Daphne Bien of Simon & Schuster were extraordinarily helpful in shaping the final outcome of this book. They expended much time and energy editing the manuscript, and their work has enhanced the quality of this book immeasurably. I am in their debt.

  Without Budd Hopkins this project would never have begun. His encouragement, advice, and critique of my work has helped me to clarify my thoughts and to work steadily toward my goal. Our countless hours of discussion provided me with an outlet for my thoughts, and he patiently suffered through the earliest days of this study when my ideas were just beginning to take shape.

  My wife, Irene, has put up with the enormous disruption and turmoil that the research for and writing of this study have caused in our lives and the lives of our children. In spite of this, her sage comments, her clarity of vision, and her
steadiness have kept me on the intellectual straight and narrow in the face of tremendous obstacles. Her thoughtful editing of the initial drafts of the manuscript strengthened it tremendously.

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