UFO “abductions” and other crazy stuff

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I think my pal Claude Falkstrom is no fan of UFO abduction tales. We know he’s no fan of hypno- sis, the main “tool” used to get more information from experi- encers (abduction “victims”), and I agree with him – that “tool” is flawed for a number of reasons, although I accept the idea that a qualified person (psychiatrist, for example) might be able to use hypnosis to some good end, as was the case with the Betty/Barney Hill escapade.

As for abduction stories, I was removed from interest, again, by a History Channel Ancient Alien (Astronaut) repeat airing Friday night [4/24/20].

Nick Pope on an AA panel asked audience members who thought they were abducted by ETs to come forth and tell their stories,

What a sad  state of “remembrances” – one guy enfolding a story so fictive in nature that I wasn’t surprised when Nick cut him off, shorning his fiction of finality.

A hypnotic session was presented with a seemingly sensible practitioner performing the session rather professionally.

However, the person hypnotized – a man – provided his account in normal voice and without hesitation, both not aspects of a true hypnotic “patient.”

The story related was like the earlier tale: full of clear memories and details that smacked of a sci-fi concoction, whereas a true hypnotic account is flush with hesitations and storylines (memories) that are almost surreal, as in dreams.

And I was about to order, from Amazon, Preston Dennett’s book Onboard UFO Encounters but after reading the online blurb I pulled back. The book seems to be a recounting of episodes like those presented at the AA Con, vignettes with the flavor of a contrived sci-fi fable.

Presenting persons with bizarre tales they wish to unburden themselves of, as was the case at the AA Com or used by Mr. Dennett for a book is fraught with mischief or worse.

But, since such stories, in one guise of another [the succubus and incubus accounts, for example] have been recorded long before the current UFO kidnapping episodes took their place, one has to place some kind of credence in the possibility that persons relating such stories are not making them up – some of them anyway.

I, like others, think there is a truth in UFO abduction incidents.

 Something odd happens to people in their sleep or during moments when they are awake but summoned to sleep (unconsciousness) by a neurological event or experience a momentary or time-delayed mental seizure of some kind as yet to be classified by science or neurologists and psychologists, something John Mack was about to pursue until he was killed by a drunk driver.

Abduction tales, while overlaid by experiencers with a UFO aroma, they are not really part of the UFO phenomenon itself, just an adjunct that takes us further from what UFOs really are.

So my buddy Claude and other pals of mine in the UFO community who eschew UFO abductions in their pursuit of a UFO explanation are taking the sensible road toward a flying saucer denouement.

RR