Alien Psychology

by Roderick R. MacDonald

  A large percentage of the abduction claims are probably made by nutters. This sounds rather derogatory but in calling them nutters, I'm not referring to people with mental health problems. These people are sane, well, sort of, but carry on in an idiotic way just for the sheer hell of it. Examples of the fools at the racing mentioned earlier, maybe their lives are inadequate or maybe they just like to monkey around. Most probably have limited intelligence. Fuelled by stories of UFO's, aliens and abductions, they probably think it's a great jape to claim that they've been carried away, experimented on and even seduced by aliens. Should they get publicity in the newspapers or on TV then so much the better. Often people for whom the truth is a matter of fiction, they are able to spin fantastic, and illogical, accounts of their experiences. When it comes to the pub on a Friday night, there's no hiding in the corner for them; the jokes, cheers and jeers from their compadres make them the centre of attention which is just what they've always wanted.

  With this lot shoved out of the way, you would think we could get on to consider the matter more seriously. Unfortunately, the nutters by their actions make a mockery out of the subject. Nobody believes the nutters and consequently many, seeing the ludicrous nature of their claims, don't give any credence to alien abductions. With the subject so tainted, many with genuine experiences are very, very reluctant to come forward.

  There are people with mental health problems, such as schizophrenics, uttering claims of alien abduction. This is unfortunate for the people concerned. With alien abduction being a so-called nutter subject, should a person with a mental health problem claim abduction, it will automatically be treated as a delusion. Perhaps this would be a correct diagnosis but, there again, perhaps not. There are many such people living in the community. They are certainly not all locked up in institutions as in the “Cuckoo Nest"—this is a cruel stereotype. Using drugs or psychotherapy, most people with a mental health problem can live in the community without difficulty. They can work and socialise just like everyone else but ... should they report that they've been abducted by aliens then you can imagine the doctor's reaction. Ahem, well ... yes! The chance of them being believed is about one in ten billion. Curiously, the abduction experience may have been the original cause or trigger of the mental health problem.

  Drugs and drink will also have an effect. I've known people to see all sorts of things after taking a whisky too much and no doubt drugs, especially the hallucinogenic type, produce weird and wonderful effects. Most people know not to trust their senses in such circumstances but there are obviously those, addicts or alcoholics, for whom the difference between reality and make believe is difficult to tell.

  However, when people not of the nutter specification experience something unusual, maybe like an alien abduction, do they report it? Chances are, no. For such people, the fear of being ridiculed is very strong. Imagine someone reporting an alien abduction case only to be the centre of jokes from thereon. Rather like the old air force pilot in the film “Independence Day", the stigma of admitting something like that could go on for years. Imagine, everywhere someone went, cries of “Alien", “Spaceman", would follow. Enter the pub and receive endless taunts and jeers. It could even affect professional life. Imagine a boss finding out that an employee in a responsible, trustworthy position, probably involving the public, had mentioned he had been taken away by aliens? Although it would probably be illegal to sack someone merely for this, there are ways of surreptitiously pushing the undesirable out of the workforce.

  It probably comes as no surprise to discover that people claiming to experience alien abduction tend to be found in the less professional types of employment. It may be the case that those with high profile jobs wouldn't dare admit to something of this nature and, as found on the Internet, there are many cases of people in these circumstances using a pseudonym for fear of personal ridicule and damaged employment prospects. This gives the phenomenon less credibility for all the wrong reasons. Somehow people listen more to those apparently in authority. Should a professor, a judge, a police inspector or someone of this ilk make a statement, they would be believed by the general public to a greater degree than if exactly the same statement was made by a dustman, a supermarket shelf stacker or a builder's labourer. This shouldn't really be the case but it seems that credibility increases with social status and employment (all except politicians of course whom nobody ever believes) and if the majority of people coming forward with alien abduction experiences come from the “lower” strata because the others are too afraid to publicise their stories, it's no wonder that the stories aren't received as they should.

  Right or wrong, this is the way things work. There was, in fact, a Nazi German labour minister in the 1930's called Robert Ley who was a complete buffoon in every way apart from one poignant quote which said, “A scientist will spend a lifetime devoted to the study of one bacterium while the road sweeper will shovel billions into his sack at any time."

  Ridicule is a terrible thing for most people to bear. Especially in a small community where everyone knows everybody, this can have a detrimental effect on health and morale. Not connected with aliens but similar, I once knew a teacher by the name of Lamb. For thirty years, everywhere he walked about the school, sounds of “Meh” and “Baa” could be heard. Eventually he refused take it any more and left to do another job, this time in a zoo. Now, this was a rather silly matter perpetrated by juveniles so consider how much more difficult it would be to admit to alien abduction?

  To recap, we therefore have a situation where the number of alien abduction cases is claimed to be high but is consequently cut down because of the physical impossibility of the task and also by the questionable nature of some of the people involved. It is then brought back up again when we consider that many people are unlikely to publicly mention their experience. The number of cases will still be pretty high but, as discussed, if extraterrestrials come here as suggested in this book, the real figure will be low and the excess must be misinterpretations or delusions. What would make someone falsely think that they'd been abducted by aliens?

  Many abductions apparently occur when people are asleep. To my mind, this is the type most open to question. We all experience strange occurrences while sleeping but the most curious time of all is that strange boundary between being awake and falling asleep and also on awakening from a deep dream. Many of the experiences verge on the surreal. Some combine fantasy with reality and others take on a curious logic of their own, the odd logic that we experience in dream land. There's nothing supernatural or psychic about all of this: it's a completely natural phenomenon involving transfer between the conscious and subconscious minds.

  There's a curious condition called sleep paralysis which some people experience at times in their lives. This usually occurs when the subject is tired and resembles being asleep and awake at the same time. There is a feeling throughout the body of paralysis. Being unable to move, there is often a heavy feeling over the chest or other parts, making it feel as if a weight is pressing down. The mind isn't entirely lucid on such occasions, giving rise to hallucinations or merely depressing thoughts.

  Fortunately this condition doesn't last long, no more than a couple of minutes and sometimes only for a few seconds. Centuries ago, people thought they were being oppressed by devils which translates to aliens in modern times. Sleep paralysis can often lead to the feeling that time has gone missing. This is a frequent report in cases of alien abduction.

  Another idea sounding stupid but which could explain a small minority of incidents—blame it all on the cat. Especially if it's cold, some cats have the habit of sitting on their owner's chest. Once there, getting rid of them is difficult. Cats are persistent devils. In the U.K., there are approximately eight million cats and fifty six million people. I'm sure there are many examples of sleep paralysis where the sufferer stares directly at the cat's face as it sits on their chest. Cats have large oval eyes, a small nose and a slit—like mouth, making them, in darkened condit
ions, resemble the alien Grey. It's not beyond the bounds of probability that in special circumstances, cats are taken for aliens. In fact, I know some people who think cats are aliens; quietly observing everyone and everything, they take notes, make assessments and report back at night to headquarters where plans are being made for the invasion. I'd think twice about being cruel to cats and would even advocate treating them kindly for, who knows, once the invasion comes we don't want to be listed in their black book, do we?

  More seriously, reports of alien abduction that happen at night when the subject is in bed often involve levitation, flashing lights, passing through walls and other experiences where the body appears to be taken away somewhere else. Hypnotic regression allows some to relate tales of alien creatures, interiors of spaceships, experiments and even sex with aliens or other abducted humans. There are reports of electronic implants being put into people but there's never been an example where one of these was scientifically analysed let alone one being recovered at all. With no evidence for their reality, implants must be regarded as extremely spurious.

  Alien abductions that are said to happen during the night when the subject is asleep can only be believed with a large amount of faith and little scepticism. It's likely the case that considering all the strange things that can happen to minds during the sleep phase, such examples of alien abduction are caused by something else. Levitation and passing through walls has more to do with dreams than reality which is probably where most of these experiences reside. However, abductions that are said to happen when the subjects are awake and even travelling in automobiles take on a new dimension of credibility. They are more perplexing and leave one to think that in a small number of them, perhaps alien abduction really happened.

  There are many case studies of alien abduction appearing in books, magazines and on the Internet. The latter is especially useful: all you have to do to get started is type in “Alien Abduction” into a search engine and you're bound to get results. From these, there are usually links to other sites which expands the field even further. Reading the many and varied cases, you can make your own mind up about their true nature. I'm not going to list any in this book apart from two which occurred in my own area of Scotland.

  August 17 1992. Approximately 10 p.m. (darkness descending)

  location: A70 from Edinburgh to Carnwath.

  Gary Wood, an ambulance chief, plus friend Colin Wright in car.

  They encounter a black domed object about 30 to 35 feet across hovering about 20 feet up. Light bathed the road. According to Gary, he found himself in a black void. A few seconds later, he was back in the car again but on the opposite side, up on the banking. Going on to a friend's house, they discovered that they'd lost ninety minutes. Both independently described the object.

  Gary suffered from headaches and flashbacks, preventing him from sleeping most nights. Almost nine months later, both went for hypnosis and described an alien abduction scene consisting of medical experiments. Gary also saw a terrified girl in the same place—someone he's been unable to identify since.

  In 1996, also on the A 70 road from Carnwath to Edinburgh not far from the village of Tarbrax, two people discovered a large silver disk hovering above them on the road. They slowed down and passed under the disk, feeling dizzy at the time. The one-hour journey apparently took three hours. Following hypnosis, they concluded that they'd been abducted and experimented on.

  Two examples on the same stretch of road within four years of each other. I would question the happenings at so called abduction scenes. The common procedure is that people, travelling along in a car, encounter a flying object. From this point, the vehicle stops usually because the electrical systems are nullified. This may result from the presence of a very strong magnetic field which some claim to be the propulsion unit of extraterrestrial vehicles. The subjects then experience a lapse lasting an hour or two, only to find themselves back with the vehicle. The common trend is that only by hypnotic regression does the story come out. Stories vary, but mainly involve alien Grey type beings performing medical experiments on those abducted.

  Claims of this nature must be rigorously examined but even after going through such a process we remain essentially with a story which can either be believed or not. In the above cases, you would laugh and say, what would aliens be doing around a place like that? There are many other more interesting sites. If abductions are taking place, this argument is totally spurious. Where would the aliens be expected to go to provide a more interesting site? Princes Street in Edinburgh, Murrayfield rugby stadium or even Loch Ness? Some sites are too popular while others offer an opportunity only for monsters and I don't think aliens would wish to abduct something out of the Loch. Mind you, it would make a good headline—"Aliens Abduct Loch Ness Monster". One quiet area is as good as any to a flying saucer intent on nasty deeds. While the A70 is not a particularly quite road, it does have periods when little traffic is present, so dictating that aliens must have the ability to survey the road for miles around and to act quickly when the moment arrives.

  What happens to the car? I mean, a vehicle of considerable weight is stopped and the occupants taken away. Is the car taken into the ship as well? I can't somehow see a Ford Escort being taken up into a UFO so is it abandoned in the middle of the road? If the occupants are away for a couple of hours, I can't see this happening otherwise the abandoned car would cause an accident or a hold up at the very least. When the aliens returned with their experimental subjects, they could be confronted with the police! Perhaps the car is placed to the side of the road? Strangely enough, after looking into this matter, it's not all that uncommon to see cars on grass verges or embankments. Most assume that these vehicles were stolen by joyriders and subsequently abandoned but, who knows, other causes may be possible.

  Presumably the car stops because the electrical system is nullified by the strong magnetic field from the UFO. Diesels wouldn't be stopped—they work on compression rather than petrol igniting from an electrical spark. To nullify a vehicle in this way would take a magnetic field of enormous proportions. What about local phone wires, electrical cables, and households? This would mean that if a UFO passed over a house, it would knock all electrical systems out for a while. It may also be the case that certain cancers are caused by strong magnetic fields. Is there an increase in cancer in those claiming abduction compared to the normal population?

  Anyway, it appears that the occupants are swiftly removed from the car and taken, equally swiftly, away in the UFO. How is this accomplished? Aliens must have this act perfected. Having scanned the area, they would know exactly where the nearest vehicle was to enable them to do the act before anyone else came on the scene. In most cases, the memory of the subjects has been erased so that they don't recall what has happened to them in the UFO. If the aliens go to this length, why don't they erase the memory of the initial contact? In this way, the poor subjects would only remember going along a road, stopping, and then starting again, the time gap being the only evidence that something awry has happened. And, hypnotic regression? How accurate is this? Many psychiatrists say it leaves a lot to be desired.

  These arguments, of course, don't rule out the reality of alien abduction: they just make it more difficult to understand. It should certainly be a possible manoeuvre for extraterrestrial beings possessing a high level of technology. Using the Exordican scenario, the number one priority for them would be to remain undiscovered and if they have ships, dark ships, capable of moving through all earth's detection systems, picking up a couple of people from a car would present no difficulty at all. Presumably, while the experiments are going on, the ship is hovering somewhere in the vicinity. The crew of the ship must include someone to pilot it, someone to look out for possible detection from other sources, a heavy mob to sort out the abductees in case things get nasty, and finally, the experimenters. Augmented by machinery and electronics, maybe eight to ten extraterrestrials would be involved. Remember too that beings like the Exordican
s would possess a huge amount of experience when dealing with humans and their physiology; they would know exactly what to do.

  The victims of alien abduction seem to undergo stress after the event. According to reports, Gary Wood experienced severe medical problems following the event and his life was turned completely upside down. Ridicule has been his companion for the last ten years, not something he would have wished upon himself. Was this a prank, an unknown phenomenon or a case of alien abduction? We'll never know for sure but many believe that this case, out of a huge number, represents the closest to the truth that we'll get. I'm not totally sure but, scepticism aside, I would be inclined to believe the story.

  Perhaps many other cases are real too but it's impossible to tell. If aliens like the Exordicans are here, then they will probably abduct people for reasons explained earlier in this book. The number of abductions will be much smaller than popularly believed and the evidence will be, in accordance with the psychology of the aliens, extremely scanty in nature. They don't want us to know that they're here! UFO's that appear as bright, shining disks don't therefore convince. Also, if abductions occur as stated in the examples, the experience must be frightening to the point that, despite efforts of alien physicians to do otherwise, someone could die of shock. Speaking for myself, although having no history of heart complaints, I'm sure I'd have a heart attack if I ended up as an experimental subject in a UFO. Perhaps here is a clue—although they themselves would insist that this has never been the case at any time during their life, some claiming abduction may have indeed experienced a heart trauma. It is now possible through various medical tests to show that a heart attack or seizure has occurred. If this person has no recollection of such an occurrence and also thinks that they've been abducted by aliens, this could point to the truth. Others more unfortunate, who actually died during an abduction, would just disappear. Every country has many, many examples of disappearing people—they leave a life with no apparent problems, a family, occupation and friends and simply vanish into thin air. You could perhaps understand why some disappear because of terrible social and financial problems but others disappear for no apparent reason that anyone can fathom. Maybe a small fraction of these could be due to abductions that went wrong?