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1993: Fire In The Sky – The Taking Of Travis Walton

The following appeared in the March/April [1993] issue of The Georgia Skeptic, the newsletter of the Georgia Skeptics: by Anson Kennedy On November 5, 1975, a 22 year old logger by the name of Travis Walton was allegedly abducted by a UFO near Snowflake, Arizona. Witnessed by six companions, his experience is possibly the most unique and controversial alien abduction tale in the short history of the phenomenon. Now, some seventeen years later, Paramount Pictures has brought this incredible story to the silver screen. On March 12, 1993, Fire in the Sky> opened in theaters across the country. Scripted by Tracy Torme’, who also wrote last year’s CBS miniseries on alien abductions, Intruders, the movie is loosely based on Walton’s book, aptly named The […] Read More

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2004: ALIEN ABDUCTION? JUNK SCIENCE CALLS IT SLEEP PARALYSIS

By Budd Hopkins This is the way the New York Times should have headlined their July 6 science section piece on the poorly understood phenomenon of sleep paralysis. Unfortunately, however, the headline read “Alien Abduction? Science Calls It Sleep Paralysis” [my emphasis], suggesting to the world that the UFO abduction phenomenon has at last been successfully explained away. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Junk Science is the proper designation for the many outlandish, irrelevant and unsupported hypotheses debunkers have employed over the years to dismiss UFO abductions (some of which I will discuss in future articles). Non-junk Science – the real thing, based upon the scientific method – begins by amassing and studying all the accurate, relevant data before any serious hypothesizing […] Read More

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1999: Abductions: The Truth

John C. Thompson Since the modern era of abductions began with the Barney and Betty Hill UFO close encounter of September 19, 1961, in New Hampshire, ufology has never been the same. Before the Hills’ encounter, UFO sightings were investigated in a prescribed, straight forward manner that involved gathering supporting evidence while simultaneously trying to disprove a witness’s account. The Hill’s remarkable experience injected a new element, regressive hypnosis. In the future, entity-related cases hypnosis would often come to be the only means to prove or disprove an alleged encounter with aliens. Hypnotherapy, in short, became a quick truth serum that often eliminated the necessity of independent witnesses and background checks of the alleged abductees. The lack of supporting physical evidence and why abductions, […] Read More