This video examples my reasoning in the posting below it -- a non-abduction scenario before the abduction fad took hold

 https://youtu.be/JE_ujhcxwHY 

UFO “abductions” – a reality or transferent reality?

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While so-called UFO abduction accounts are, for me, not relevant to the core UFO mystery – I see them as psychological (pathological, actually) in essence – they do represent a core ingredient in UFO circles, studies, and discussions.
 
The abduction phenomenon has been dealt with specifically and peripherally by many UFO enthusiasts and those who call them- selves researchers: Jacques Vallee, our pal José Caravaca, John Keel, John Mack, et al. and writers Albert Rosales, Preston Dennett plus many others.
 
If it’s intrinsic to the UFO enigma, such bizarre activity would in- dicate an alien pathology that should be of serious concern, how- ever I’m presuming the accusations of ET kidnapping are assaults on the human mind rather than an actual physical reality.
 
Persons who actually believe and feel they have been abducted, as opposed to persons who use the scenario for attention or publicity, do actually think they have been assaulted and some notable ac- counts have the ring of truth about them: the 1973 Hickson and Parker Pascagoula event, the probable Travis Walton escapade, and the infamous 1961 Hill episode (mostly confirmed, in my mind, by the hypnotic reaction of Barney Hill), etc.
 
The “reality” lies in a psychological phase that also affects, more dramatically but less alien-like, persons who are said to be schi- zophrenic; that is persons who are subdued by mental, visual, sensory assaults that are so vivid and real to them they are unable to live any kind of normal life.
 
Kidnapped by UFO relaters are affected by a kind of dementia praecox that is related to dementia  but to an odder or lesser degree, a kind of temporary mental confusion that passes in nature but resides in memory as a real event, a “transferent reality” as it were.
 
The delusion(s) are as real as anything actually experienced, but are figments of hysteria, brought about by the ongoing fad of UFO alien abductions and extraterrestrial influx in the public mind, now exacerbated by almost every cultural projection: newscasts, news- paper and magazine stories, TV shows and entertainment offerings, social media input, and water-cooler discussions.
 
That there is no concrete evidence for alien abductions, the ex- perienced memories of such heinous activity has to be attributed to a kind of deliria oneirica or hysterical dissociation, a publicly induced hallucination.
 
I’m suggesting that what abductees (experiencers) go through is as real to them as any actual event, a concrete happening that dissipates but is retained in memory for recall or remembrance immediately afterward or after a period of time depending upon how the episode resonated with the individual.

The experience is “concrete” as it is happening and will fade into a memory, whereas schizophrenic happenings get stuck in the brain or mind for those affected and those horrendous “attacks” are sometimes reduced by psychoactive medicines or psychiatric processes and sometimes so entrenched that affected persons never recover from them and end up residing in the hallucinated images, sounds, or worse.
 
José Caravaca, Jacques Vallee, and serious UFO enthusiasts assert the mental intrusions come from a source – psychic or paranormal in nature – while scientists and psychological and neurological practitioners see abduction accounts as fantasies of a kind.
 
UFO fanatics offer such accounts (of abductions) as absolute records of alien kidnappings, often accompanied by medical examination.
 
I’m in the psychological camp, and find abduction accounts as real for many of those who think they have been so involved, but actually a part of a non-clarified malady of the mind that would in days past be considered as a kind of insanity.
 
The matter is up in the air, as it were, because no one, with a serious mind, accepts such events as real – but they are, in the mental realm, as psychiatrist Thomas Szasz might have put it – not actual but “real” for the person affected.

(Image atop from NPR)
 
RR

Two Google UFO Alerts [12/4] making the rounds. (It also popped up on YouTube the other night)

https://www.latestly.com/technology/science/alien-existence-confirmed-nuclear-submarine-was-buzzed-by-unidentified-object-travelling-faster-than-speed-of-sound-in-late-1990s-reveals-scientist-bob-mcgwier-shares-terrifying-experience-watch-v-4542254.html 

https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/nuclear-submarine-buzzed-underwater-object-28645846

Reading (and responses): Two Books

Alien Universe is one of my Kindle reads, and author Don Lincoln provides details of many UFO incidents that we think we know but has details little known.

An Interesting book, little publicized.

Chris Aubeck left a comment about my slight review of his terrific book.

He was disturbed that I wrote I had set aside the book because he briefly mentioned Kecksberg early on.

I told him I didn't really set aside the book. I had just put it down for a short while because when I see a mention of Kecksberg, Rendlesham, or even Roswell, I am inclined to move on, those three ostensibly UFO episodes are so lousy as UFO accounts that when an author employs material about them my brain shuts down.

Chris is a terrific guy and author, but he did exclude me from his "study group" during the Wonders in the Sky period -- because one of his members didn't like my snarky UFO commentary I think.

That pressure could have come from anyone but I suspect it was Greg Bishop, who proclaimed I was a UFO whore. Interesting.

Anyway, get both books if you are inclined to be well-read and informed.

They will exceed your expectations.

RR

Fascinating Lab 360 video that gives substance to an ET possibility

 https://youtu.be/n5RXLSLv2fo